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This is a picture of our mantel from a year or so ago, shown here for demonstration purposes. Last night I had a fire going and all the sudden, out of nowhere, the picture came [...]

Categories: Home Sweet Home

Here are 5 things I learned in Photoshop this weekend from either an online tutorial, by asking Jef, or by accident, that will change my entire experience with the software. This also solidifies my desire to take a class to learn more.
1. How to “stroke” an image (which sounds way dirtier than it is). [...]

Categories: Buster · Learned Something New · Tech-ish

Jef and I stayed in Austin this year for Thanksgiving. Until a few days ago I wasn’t mentally prepared for the holiday season. I went to the store, bought the usual ‘fixins’, but it’s hard to get in the mood for turkey and stuffing when it’s 82 degrees outside.
Well, low and behold we got [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Friend-ish

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Lisa and I went to the Empty Bowl Project this weekend. We’d gone two years ago, but missed last year. My has this event GROWN. I re-read the blog post I made two years ago [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Crafty · Friend-ish

I made some minor updates to the site this weekend. Nothing hugely noticeable, but let me know if your see anything funky. Changes are:
New header image. I loved the chairs, but they didn’t really match the color palette of this template
Added RSS and Wordpress icons to the sidebar (because they’re nice)
Added a ‘Photography‘ page to [...]

Categories: Tech-ish

My dad is a Tool Pusher on a drilling rig in Colorado. I got an email from him with three pictures attached. You don’t have to understand drilling to get the gist.

We ran 2000′ foot of 9″ casing yesterday, the bottom of it plugged and we had to bring it back out and lay it [...]

Categories: Giggin' · The Fam

In case you missed me, this is what I’ve been up to lately (ala Not Martha).

Drinking:
Folger’s Cinnamon Swirl coffee.
Not really ‘hip’, but it’s damn tasty. I go back and forth between plain and flavored coffees, adding this is on my list of regulars.

Loving:
BADgal Blue mascara in deep blue violet.
On a whim mom and I [...]

Categories: Lately

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Mark from the Austin American Statesman came to Bulldog Solutions today to take our HR Manager, Kim’s, photo. She was interviewed for an article about Social Networking and I got to be included in the [...]

Categories: Austin-ish · Giggin' · Shutterbuggin'