Creative brainstorming

My tiny apartment has not yet recovered from the holidays.

I live in a small 850 ft.² flat in suburban San Diego with my husband, two teenage sons, and our German Shepherd dog. So you can imagine how cramped we are in this tiny space, but I am slowly starting to weed through things to narrow down the amount of stuff we have. While I do that, I am attempting to beautify it and finally make things feel a little more permanent. We have been in this unit now for just over a year, so I feel as if I can finally relax enough now to make our space feel a bit more personable.

So with that in mind, the projects I am thinking of working on include:

Introduction

It's time to put on the pretentious hat and talk about myself for a few paragraphs. I'm terrible at introductions, and I probably should have done this as a first post, but that shows how much of a socially awkward being I tend to be at times.

More after the jump, and the full monty is also posted on the About Me tab up above.

Hello, 2012!

I am a slacker.

At least when it comes to updating this thing, indeed I am. I have been busy otherwise, with baking and cooking, working on my first quilt (ran out of cloth and still need to buy batting), sewing other projects (I made my first dog collar last night and it's adorable!), and putting away all traces of the 2011 holidays.

I still need to learn how to edit photos from mobile uploads but I suspect I'll end up using my DSLR more often since the picture quality on my phone is terrible. It's very grainy, vintage 70s colouring with faded tones in the wrong spots and that's without even trying to make it look that way, ala retro photo apps and editing.

I also ordered business cards from VistaPrint. Not that I plan on using this site as a business, but simply so that when I gift something I make, I can stick one of those cards in with the package. I think I picked a design that's playful and whimsical enough to match the intent of what I'm doing here, and soon I'll update the banner and background to match. Oh, and I made a Twitter account for this site as well.

I guess I'm making this official then. But there is so much to do, so much to update, blog pages to create, css sheets to design for the functionality of this site. That's also not counting everything I'm trying to keep up with in my offline life.

One thing at a time.