Check it out! My first video tutorial. In this tutorial I create the following image while demonstrating rounded rectangles and tiled clones in Inkscape, as well as text, masks, pasting into masks, and some shortcuts in GIMP. It’s taken me a week to find the right way to compress this video to a reasonable size […]
Design
Friday visits and expressions
I can’t believe Saturday is almost over! Nan update On Friday Gran, Mum and I visited Nan (the grandma I mentioned before, who has cancer). I think we were expecting her to be awake, not feeling so great, possibly in bed, but capable of getting up and around. It was quite a shock when we […]
Square peg in a round hole
We’ve been trained to change ourselves to make ourselves fit into the cars that drive us to the buildings where we work in the jobs that we study for so that we have the right skill sets. And we wonder every day if who we are is good enough to be there. It’s the dilemma […]
James Squire Brewhouse
Went out to James Squire Brewhouse on Friday night. I had thought a quiet night at home would be in order since I’d gotten up at 5:30am (very out of character for me), but I was a bit buzzed after handing in my essay and wanted to do something different. So, I met hubby at […]
iLT Wallpaper
The I Love Typography wallpaper that I made is up at iLT now. Hope ya like it! It was inspired by a phone theme that I made, Ampersand, which was inspired by Sunday Type. Note: there’s a bit of a dodgy artifact where I was masking, I’ve fixed it up and hopefully John will update […]
Wooshka T-shirts
Wooshka! Lookee what came in the mail yesterday… Me doing some magnetic poetry in my new Wooshka shirt, and being silly with the merch. My new Wooshka t-shirt. Last week Wooshka had a $1 sale. So this t-shirt cost me $1+$5p&h. I’m pretty impressed with the quality, material feels nice and it’s a pretty good […]