feeling pretty smart!

My blog images have been looking terrible lately, the program seems to be downsampling them quite a bit and they look so pixelated. Fed up, I googled it and after reading a few articles, found out how to go in an edit the code to fix 'em up. Want to do it too? Go into the Edit Html tag and change the numbers right before your image name from  /s400/sampleimage.jpg to /s800/sampleimage.jpg. 

Easy!

the latest

For Mya, and parents-to-be Kelly and Jeff. 

to font or not to font?

There is a beautiful font I have wanted to buy for a while. It is the font created specifically for Martha Stewart Living and is now available for the masses to purchase. Great, right? Well sort of. I was pretty close to adding it to my cart this morning while working on a design for our Christmas card for '09. This close. But then THIS pop up ad appeared on my screen:

The type looks suspiciously similar to Archer... Kinda ruins it.

love this!

www.myparentswereawesome.com

"Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome."

I just love this site. I have always spent time thinking about my parents when they were my age and obsessing over old photos: photos of my grandparents as teenagers, my mom's yearbook, my dad's scrapbook. Some genius put all that nostalgia online. Just one more thing to take up time, but at least there is a little less snark involved than a lot of internet nonsense.

Goodness, it's late.

how to...

fail a test with dignity. Courtney just sent me this in an email along with the note, "Just like HS math." Which yes, for me would be accurate.

Enjoy! Hilarious.

part 2

the Barbie shoe!

all our pics are self portraits, the beach was pretty deserted.

freckles! a.k.a. sun damage :)

crabs!

I have been bad about documenting our travels this year, here are a couple pics from a weekend in Baltimore at Kyle's Crab Fest '09. All the family bonding, baby holding and Old Bay seasoning I can take in one weekend!

We had fun running around helping K and K get ready for the party and of course, admiring their gorgeous house. The new bathroom was unveiled that weekend and my jealous heart about burst! Katie, mom and I had a fun trip to K Mart for some necessities and found crab flavored crackers and hula hoops. Brett had fun with the neighborhood rugrats, especially the ones with bikes and skateboards. Rad. I got my fix of babies, there were 16 kids under 8, including two sets of 14 month old twins! I met a sweet baby named Deacon and stole him from his mom for a few hours. Heaven :)

Here is a picture of the handsome birthday boy, and a shot of the souvenir koozies. A great weekend. I think I ate about 8 crabs, I just had to do my part...

um, pass the Yuengling, please.