Silly Panda as a business.

It’s going to happen. Moving towards that goal, I made business cards.

What do you think?  Is it weird that I kept the contact info strictly digital?  I figured since I designed them I could have different versions; one for Twitter people, this one, one with traditional info, etc.

Birds of Change

Here are the birdies I made for the exchange. This picture is my attempt at making them look like they’re outside without me actually having to GO outside. It’s figgin cold out! I mailed them to Regina yesterday. They should get to her by this weekend.

You can check out all of the birdies in the exchange over in the flickr group.

Contest!

Here is the 6th birdie I made for the Birds of Change Exchange, and I’m giving it away right here! Just comment below with a change you would like to see happen, (could be personal, could be for the country; anything goes!) and I’ll randomly pick someone next Tuesday.

PS: There was a dumpster in the office yesterday. WTF??? I can’t wait to move into the new building. The people here just don’t care anymore. I tried to “jump” into it, but after I hit my head on the ceiling, I decided posing was fine.

Aaaaaand, we’re back.

For those of you who didn’t hear, last week was a pretty rough week for everyone over here at Clear Channel. After it was all over, we lost about 24 people. While my job is fine, my friend Jessica’s was not. That hit me pretty hard, so combine that with the general crummy mood of everyone in the building, I just didn’t feel like blogging last week.

I tried to keep going as though nothing had happened. Life moves on and what-not. I went to knitting on Thursday with my friend Marya, and I had a fantastic weekend. I got everything I wanted done, and the weather was lovely.

Tomorrow I’m going to do my Birds of Change giveaway, even though it’s a week late. Last Tuesday was just not a cheery day. I couldn’t even enjoy the inauguration. So sad.

The pictures above made knitting night really memorable. While we were looking for other knitters, some guy came up to us and gave us those pez dispensers. At first we thought the redheaded dispenser-guy was super creepy, but Sarah told us later that he was from a movie. :-/ Still weird looking.

And we saw that store in the second picture on the way home. Ok, I guess I can see why someone would want to wear pantie-thongs, but… WHAT IS THAT THIRD HOLE FOR? I almost think that the thong-thing broke, but wouldn’t someone have noticed?

Sarah’s cat, Sally, really liked looking for my yarn. She literally DOVE into my purse.

Vote for my design!

I entered “The Office” t-shirt design contest, and so far I’ve gotten really good feedback about my submission. So I wanted to show it to you guys, and ask if you could rate/vote for my design. On the website, under the design, there are stars. Just rate it 1 to 4. Giving it a 4 would be awesome, but I’m not going to force you to.

And here is the link to go straight to my design: http://tinyurl.com/vote4bobblehead. Thanks!

If you want, I wouldn’t be against you spreading the link around, lol.

Adventures in Downtown Vol. 2

Even though it was probably way to cold for me to go out and enjoy a walk, I had to buy lunch today, so I decided to go on another Lunchtime Adventure downtown. I took another suggestion that I got when I asked my Tweeple where I should eat and went to Orange Blossom by The Little Theatre. (Thanks Lindsay!)

The place was liiiiitterally next to the Little, lol. I almost missed it! It’s this tiny little whole in the well restaurant. But so cute! And they’re having a gallery opening tonight, so if you can make it out – go look. When I got there, it looked like they were moving chairs and things around for the opening. I looked at the menu and asked the girl behind the counter if I should get the poultry burger or the chicken enchilada. She said enchilada. So I did. And it was delish!

I didn’t eat it there because I wanted to let them get back to working on the place for the opening, but the restaurant was so cute. I’m not usually an orange person, but it really worked for them. And so, I headed back to work with my meal.

WHY IS IT ALWAYS SO MUCH COLDER WALKING BACK??? Is it because the excitement of the adventure is over and I’m just going back to work? What?!  The above are a couple shots I took while walking back. Is that salt or glass in the picture? You decide.

Chicks with Sticks, Week 2

I went to Chicks with Sticks again and it was fun. Although, I guess noone actually calls it “Chicks with Sticks,” but rather “Knitting Club” so I guess I will adapt and start calling it that too.

I’m terrible at names, and only two of the women were also there last week, so the only one whose name I remember is Jenna and I think the other regular was…Kim? I think Kim.

But it was fun. I drank hot coccoo with a straw because they put too much whipped cream on top, and we talked about “The Office” and other shows that we all watch.

It was funny, only one of us didn’t have a creative job. There was an art teacher (Jenna), a photographer (Kim?), a webmaster (me), some-other-creative-job-I-can’t-remember-done-by-a-woman-who-
is-getting-married-but-whose-name-I-can’t-recall, and a law clirk. XD

Post #101

Holy cow, that last post was my 100th post! Who woulda thunk it?!

I was working on the birdies tonight so I thought I would update you guys on what I’ve knitted, modeled by Dune:

I made this for John to wear over his mouth when he goes running. (The cold makes it hard for him to breathe, so I thought this might help.) I made it wide so he could fold it over, but doing so made the scarf shorter than I’d wanted. He can still tie it though… I think.  I only had one thing of yarn that I bought at a garage sale, so there wasn’t any way I was going to match the color.

In case you were wondering, yes this is the yarn that I brought to Chicks with Sticks. I’m going to go again tomorrow. Anyone going?

Here is the first thing I ever knitted…and you can tell. Boy oh boy. These pictures don’t really show it, but the edges are not even remotely straight lines. I started out making the …loops way too tight, so I would split the loops in half without realizing it and add another loop to the mix. So it just kept getting wider and wider.

I’m not sure that made any sense. Sorry.

OH! I just remembered another thing I made but didn’t take photos of! Ah well, that will have to be for another time.

Colleen is Creative (dot com)

Hey guys.

Sorry I missed the update yesterday, but I don’t feel guilty about it. Why not you ask? Because my time was put to good use.

I ate lunch at my desk working on it, and even worked on it when I got home. On what, you ask? (What’s with the 20 questions, huh?) Answer: ON MY WEBSITE!

www.colleeniscreative.com

I have been wanting to have some webspace outside of this blog for a long time now, and I finally got around to finishing that resolution and getting it done! Now I have something to send to people if I see a freelance project I’d like to work on, etc. So exciting!

And for you webmasters out there, I would like to share the wonder that is Sprout. It is a fantastic widget creator, and while I wish they had an option to make a video gallery, you can include videos, so I was able to create something of a video gallery.

So that’s what I spent my weekend up until about 15 min ago on. Eventually I’ll be moving my blog over to there too. I’ll let you know when I do so you can change your bookmarks/links.

Bye!

PS: I’m pretty sure I checked it all, but let me know if you find any bugs. Thanks!

Adventures in Downtown

My usual lunch buddies haven’t been here this week for various reasons, so I’ve been on my own. Usually I spent lunch at my desk or in a meeting, but the weather was GORGEOUS today and I refused to stay indoors.

So I asked my tweeple (Twitter friends) where I should go and Kristen recommended Byblos Cafe on Main Street. When I looked it up on Google Maps, I saw that I could walk there in about 9 min. So I grabbed my camera and headed out for my downtown adventure.

The walk wasn’t bad, and it wasn’t too cold. One of my co-workers saw me walking while she was driving home and pulled over to ask me if I wanted a ride. I said that I wanted to walk and asked if she wanted to join me, but she said no b/c she was going to meet her boyfriend for lunch. We might be going on a double date to The Comedy Club tomorrow though, which that would be fun.

I found the cafe, no problem, (go me!) and proceeded to go inside and get confused by their ordering system. I didn’t know you had to order by the guys making the stuff and was waiting in the paying/cashier line for no reason. Heh.

The place was cool though. I ordered a pita pizza, and it was pretty good! Not something I would normally order, but hey – this was supposed to be an adventure, right?!

The walk back was much colder though because the sun was hiding behind buildings and the wind was coming straight at me. I just huddled dramatically over my pizza box and hurried back to Midtown.

Larger versions of these photos (& others!) can be found in my flicker.

I survived my downtown adventure. THE END! : D