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March 24, 2012

Time Crunch

I’m doing some design work for a client who is presenting a demo of their web product for investors next month, so we had a meeting today to go over some of the work I’ve done thus far.

They are under a huge time crunch to get everything ready before the demo, so I’ve been working my butt off to finish my work so they can integrate it into their product. It just figures that the week when C is extra clingy is the week that I need to have a bunch of work done. Doesn’t life always go that way? There’s never enough time for everything…

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January 18, 2011

More time

Note: emotional venting ahead.

You know what’s frustrating? Staying up late to work on finishing a project for someone, NOT finishing said project even though you’re behind deadline, working on it the next day and the entire next day, and making zero progress. Not to mention being completely exhausted, since you haven’t gotten any sleep in two days. Then your husband soothingly says, “It just needs more time.” To try to excuse away the lameness of your work.

I don’t have more time! The deadline has passed. I have already failed on that count. Plus, I don’t know how to make it better. I can’t just throw something together and call it “good enough.” But I don’t know what else to do.

End emotional venting. (Unfortunately, not the end of my problem.)

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November 19, 2008

Great expectations

Have you ever thought something was going to be easy, and then you get into it and realize it’s not? That’s where I am.

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November 12, 2008

Wednesday. Nuff said.

For the record, Joey seems to be doing okay today. I called the vet, and they said to watch him for 24 hours. If he keeps coughing, I should call them and probably bring him in. But since coughing is a normal part of his recovery, although it can indicate something serious, he’s probably okay. He’s been coughing a little bit today (like when someone rang the doorbell and he started barking), but I’ve been trying to keep him calm and I think he’s all right. Hopefully. :) It’s hard not to worry, because he can’t tell me if he feels bad or if something is wrong…it’s basically just a guessing game for me. I’ll just err on the side of caution as far as calling the vet goes. They’ve been very nice to me so far…telling me to call if I have ANY questions, calling me every couple of days to see how he’s doing, etc. So I feel good about that. :)

We had Bible study tonight, which was nice. I made a chocolate cake (Delicious Death, anyone?) that I had left from the stash I bought for the play. Heh. It was nice to get together and talk about the Bible and pray together and just hang out for a while. :) I have wonderful friends.

I’ve also been working on a new site design for CT, and I had promised that I would at least send something for them to look at by today. I’m a perfectionist, though, and I hate sending things until I feel good about them. It’s especially true with designs, I think, because people tend to get stuck in a rut after they’ve seen something one way. If I know I’m going to change something, I don’t really want to show it to anyone until I’ve changed it. But I just sent what I had, even though it was hard for me, and hopefully we’ll be able to talk through everything that was unfinished. Of course, Tom went to bed while I was finishing things up, which makes me sad, but I guess there’s nothing I can do about that.

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August 13, 2008

Freelancing

I’ve been doing a lot of design work these days, and it’s kind of fun. (When I say “a lot,” it’s not really a lot…just more than I’ve done at one time before.) I’ve had some projects for my church (youth group and a couple of other random things), some things for my brother-in-law (which I really need to finish!), and someone emailed me yesterday to say that they saw and liked my work and wanted to know if I could do some things for them.

It’s kind of exciting.

I’ve been meaning to put together a portfolio site of sorts so I can get more freelance work, but I keep waiting to do it until I’ve finished all my projects. It doesn’t really seem like that will happen anytime soon, so I might just have to work on it when I have time.

But it’s encouraging to know that even though I don’t have any real qualifications or don’t think my work holds a candle to most “real” designers, I still can do a decent job and make people happy. Especially people in ministry. I like being able to bless people and make their ministries look better. Just because we’re Christians doesn’t mean that we have to look bad! :)

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted if I actually do get a portfolio site together.

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June 20, 2008

Change a nation

I designed a booth display for CT to take to a large music festival, and it arrived in the mail this week. Today I went over to their office to see how it came out. It’s really BIG.

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April 17, 2008

A loss for words

Since I haven’t been blogging consistently lately, I’m having a hard time coming up with things to write about now. I’d love to blog…I have lots of time, and it’s so nice out that it makes me feel like writing. (Yes, I’m weird like that.) But I can’t think of things to say.

My mom and I went to a rummage sale this morning, and I got a few toys and books for J. We went out for lunch and walked around town, too, which was really nice. It’s finally starting to feel like spring! My daughter is barefoot with jeans and a t-shirt on, and is starting to look springy and very much like a toddler. She makes me smile. :)

I’ve been working (some) on a new logo for the youth group at my church. I’m trying to make something clean yet trendy so the teens will like it. It’s called Outbreak, and I used an image of flames to go along with my initial designs. When I met with the youth pastor and assistant and we discussed the initial designs, I felt more strongly that fire is a good description of what they want to accomplish as a youth group. However, one of the people felt that flames are overused and wasn’t a huge fan of the idea. I’ve been playing with some other thoughts/ideas during the past couple of days (now that the play is over). Any thoughts? Stick with the flames but make them edgier? Ditch the flames and do something else? But then what else? We talked about arrows, but that’s also overused. Argh. Making logos is hard!

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