Living the Creative Life

I found this cool infographic about salaries in the design world. So fascinating! I can't wait to get back to school (just a couple more weeks!) and learn some more stuff. It's all just so interesting to me!! ;D Find design jobs and careers at HOW Design .

Since this is a holiday week here in the US, I am postponing our next edition of my summer blog series until next Thursday. Instead I'd like to introduce you to Caro, who I met over on Etsy a few weeks ago. She's a kindred spirit and has quickly become an email-pen-pal of sorts. Let's listen to her tell her story about how sometimes the best creative inspiration can happen entirely by accident! Hello! I'm Caro. You can find me normally over on Quirky Oak Artisan Jewelry , so come on over and say hi! Occasionally friends or customers ask me how I came up with the idea for one of my jewelry pieces, and they seem seriously surprised when I tell them it was just by accident. Of course it’s not always by accident, but some of my favorite pieces wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for something going wrong in my process. The truth is a lot of ‘creative processes’ are simply a result of someone doing something wrong while trying to do something right. Every day we encounte...

This one's even more mesmerizing than the other ones I found earlier. So beautiful! NYC - Mindrelic Timelapse from Mindrelic on Vimeo .

Is it possible to be in love with a city that I've never been to? The rhythm and vibe of New York City is so utterly fascinating to me - I just want to explore every inch of it!! new york city. from James Ogle on Vimeo . And here's another pretty awesome NYC video by the same photographer. This one gives a little more personal spin on the city. 2010. from James Ogle on Vimeo .

I'm excited to share with you my latest custom blog design! Jenn was really fun to work with and her style was very fresh and inventive. Jenn is a solider in Afghanistan, due to come home here in a few weeks! What a great way to start a new chapter in her life than with a new blog design!! View this design in action ***** Are you looking for a new blog design? Hire me !

via #1 -- Stop avoiding stairs. Stairs are my new best friend. #2 -- Drink more water. American's are way more dehydrated than we realize. #3 -- Read more. A happy mind is a less-stressed-out mind. #4 -- Eat more veggies and fruits. Especially local varieties. #5 -- Eat smaller portions of a higher variety of foods. Boredom of the tastebuds leads to overindulgence. #6 -- Stop using the computer in bed. Beds are for sleeping in, not working in. #7 -- Go outside more. I hear there's this new invention out there called fresh air. #8 -- Stop stressing about my shops so much. Make what I love and people will follow. #9 -- Make an effort to get to church every week. God loves meeting me there. #10 -- Clean / throw away stuff more often. Dustbunnies clutter the mind as well as my living space. #11 -- Make more art. For fun, not for profit. #12 -- Eat less processed "food". Because it's not really food anyway.

This book sounded so good which I picked it out, but I don't know how much more of it I can read. I have pushed myself to get through chapter 7, largely because this is a review copy and I feel like I owe them at least that much. I mean, this is about a secret society in a NYC high school! -- this should be a really intriguing topic -- but so far it hasn't delivered. Most of the action is seen through the eyes of a whiny school-news producer, Val. We see her eating dinner, fighting with her sister, sitting in class editing her stories, fighting with her classmates... really I promise there isn't much more to the story than that so far. Definitely not what I would've expected from a book about a mysterious secret society. I haven't decided if I care enough to finish this book yet, but it seems to me that if it can't grab my attention by chapter 7, it's probably never going to. Truly, this book is painful to read. That's all there is to it. The storyli...