Haunted by Halloween!

Oh yeah. I have been meaning to post the logo I created for the Townhouse of Terror, which is what we branded our Hallowe'en party with, but I kept forgetting to.

Life's been busy!

So here's a low res version of the logo this year. It was a blast!

It was a great turn out, with tons of great conversations and it was a great mix of people. I think we're growing up, it was almost a cocktail party! With crazy costumes, that is. I went as a clairvoyant this year. Contacts are a riot.

My mind has been completely filled with everything social networking and beyond lately. It's incredible how much things have changed in this new digital age, and how many opportunities there are to reach out to audiences if you want to put the effort into it. My gears are turning and the creativity is flowing; I hope to have more to share with you soon!

Trying to appear athletic..

Spending a lot of time shopping for other people this year for Christmas has had me stumble across this beauty:

 And OMYGOD I neeeeed it! Oh, imagine how cute it would be to carry my lovely camera in. MUCH better than the lunchbag-looking one I currently possess. Santa, I've been very good this year!

The camera bag is by ACME MADE out of San Fran, and I think they're kinda brilliant!

I have a coupon code, even (psstt "MILLER50") for 50% off (which applies to all their products, shoppers!). We'll have to see how Christmas goes this year. This may be something I'll have to get myself! :)

Subliminal Messaging

My coworker showed me this video of subliminal messaging and how it works, and I thought it was so neat, I just had to share it! So, please enjoy this video!

Click here to go to youtube, sorry, it won't let me embed it)

This is Hallowe'en, Everybody scream!

I can't believe it's been so long since I posted. My daily design challenges have become very un-daily, but I am definitely working on getting some time to myself to it again. Or at least once a week!

I've got some stuff in motion, because Hallowe'en approaches, and we're excited to be hosting the "Townhouse of Terrors" at our place this year!

So.. here we go - branding, invitations, etc. I'm getting very excited about all the ideas that I am waiting to put into motion.. let's see what we can accomplish this year.

Dollar store, here we COME!

Better Together

I am so excited to share with you the project I have been working on for Family and Childrens' Services. It was a capital campaign called Better Together, and I got the wonderful job of branding it in its entirety - from logo to print pieces.

This brochure can also be found here, as an online .pdf

Unfortunately, life's been busy so I haven't had a chance to photograph these pieces for you and the computer mock-ups just don't do it justice, but I'd like to share with you anyway!

It's called Better Together, because it's based on the concept that families operate when they can learn together. They want to build a family center, so instead of splitting up families, they can enable and encourage everyone to work together as a team, with classrooms and courses - to give families tools to stay together and create healthy environments. It's pretty awesome. Click here for more details about it!

If you're looking to make a donation, this is such an excellent cause, and such a wonderful team. I can't wait to see the completed building. It was such a pleasure to work on something that is so wonderful.

I don't know how to do 'jumps' on a blog yet, so I'm sorry to drive you bonkers as you wait for these to load, but here are a couple more pieces:

Signing off!

Last Fling

My lovely friend, Di, is getting married - as one of my other 'daily' design challenges shows. So, I've decided to throw her the bachelorette party, which I am super pumped about!

So, today, I created this - in order to come up with the theme and colours of the party - based on the birch theme that she and her fiance will be using for their wedding.

Love you, Di! This is sure to be a blast!

Smize!

Oh man, am I a lucky girl or what? My brother and my Nana (awesome, awesome lady) decided that for my birthday, a week ago, they would get me a Wacom Tablet!!!!!. I have to be honest. I thought I would pick it up and voila, I'd be a regular Monet in no time, but it's quite a bit more difficult to adjust to than I had thought, which made things very intimidating, and ended up with me letting it sit on my desk this week, for fear of failure!

I like to be able to pick things up quickly, this was not going to happen overnight!

So today I figured I'd try that graffiti application on facebook with it, and voila:

I've got a ways to go, but I'm starting to get more of a feel for it. This could quickly become an obsession.

In other news, I am also now the proud owner of a Schwinn Veracruz:

TheGuy decided to spoil me. I'm tricking it out, so imagine it with a wicker basket and some pink streamers - more to go, but that'll come! So I've been ripping around town, and I can't even tell you how much FUN I've been having with it! What a summer it's been so far - keeping me away from my own design challenge, but I'm getting fresh air and sunlight, and lots of laughs, so I think it's okay!

Stay tuned - hopefully I will have more wacom delights to share with you soon!

I wish I invented this

How freaking cool is this?

I'm going camping this weekend and stumbled across this little beaut. How COOL is this? So small, it can be towed by a small car - can hold up to 800 lbs of stuff.. everything folds and packs away making this a terrific trailer for towing ATVs and stuff like that - also, bike racks can be mounted on top. And there's room for a King and a half sized bed in there  - mattresses can fold down, or two singles - plus they're flip to be a table! What a sweet little trailer for a couple of camping enthusiasts! I love the look and design, and I love how spacious it is inside!

But.. sigh, money doesn't grow on trees, and so, this won't belong to me any time in the near future. But still, so cool. Y'know?

Wanna read more? Click here and you'll see pics of it, too!

Braceface

I always thought it would be cool to come up with a line of cards that are for the not-so-everyday occasions. I figured it would be ten thousand years before it was possible, but with this zazzle business, I can get to work on it right now!

Braceface by pattiatti
Browse all other greeting cards available at zazzle

So, there's the first - a congratulatory card for new bracefaces - whether it's from a family member or from a dentist, I think it'd be pretty handy. More stuff is floating around this head of mine, so we'll see what the outcome of that is.


In other news, it is hotter than blazes here today - I've just been laying low, sipping lots of water, trying not to generate any body heat. Ah, summer. All I need is a pool, and life would be perfect!

Can you say no to adair?

So, I'm really making an effort here, people. Really trying to get into the blogging groove again. So I thought I'd share something that I did for my brother earlier this month - or maybe it was last month.

He decided that he was going to run for co-president of his highschool (in the name of being politically correct, there's no head girl / head boy anymore. It's co-prez). He really liked that my blog is called 'Can you say no to Adair' and he wanted to use that as his catch phrase for his highschool. So, that part was done. It was just making it a little fun and wacky for the highschool students to gobble up.

So there it is. I used the graphic from my blog because that was easy peasie. And there's good ol' Tim on the front. The best part? He won. He will now get to spend his last year of highschool as top dawg. woof woof, Tim. Congrats.

Back to it!

Well, I've been a pretty crummy blogger for the last few months. Moving has just inspired me in different ways and, let's face it - this weather just begs a person to stay outside and soak in the sunshine.

That being said, I've been newly inspired by this whole Zazzle business. The idea of having my work printed on tees, notecards, etc. is just too exciting for words. So, I've gotten my mojo back. More ideas that I can create at the moment, which is super, super awesome! So I've got two goodies to share with you today, as a way to be all like "yo, I'm back - please keep checking this pathetic excuse for a blog". I hope that you enjoy them.

The first is all abut a little song that all-to-often gets stuck in my head. Maybe you'll like it (it'd make a conversation piece of a tee, wouldn't it? (sorry about the linking to the goods.. I'd just like to sell some stuff, but feel free to ignore!)

The second is a big 'holla' to all those lovely moms out there who have, are going to, or are, popping little human beings out while being gorgeous femme fatales at the same time.  

Yummy Mummy

Stay tuned, there's more up here in this wackadoodle brain of mine!

Razzle Dazzle a little Zazzle

Uh-oh. Addiction ensues.

the hem of your garment...

Get it as a t-shirt!

Zazzle.com

I think this might be the beginning of an addiction!

J-E-L-L-O

Bill Cosby would be proud.

Strange where inspiration can come from. That was a whole lot of weird and oddness - thought I was going crazy. Our web programmer just calmly said "oh, it's an earthquake" and hasn't said anything since.

Ack. 2012 is getting closer....

Love, love, love.

Today is theGuy and my 10 year anniversary! Pretty exciting if you ask me! He sent this pretty bouquet of flowers to my work - I feel special!

It's been a while since I've posted, but I assure you I have been working hard! I have some stuff to post to share, I've just been super busy. Not to mention the fact that I got a new scanner and can't figure out how to get it and my computer to talk to each other. Guess they're not the match that theGuy and I are.

Happy day to everyone!