Making things happen for yourself
Mar 3rd
I find it difficult with to deal with a certain type of person.
The kind who complain that nothing good ever happens to them, but all they do, is complain that nothing good ever happens to them, and then they wonder whose fault that is.
You can either suck on the lemon that life hands you and be sour about it, or you can make freakin’ lemonade people.
Yes sometimes it’s hard, yes sometimes you want to give up, yes sometimes it feels unfair, but come the heck on people!
Use your talents and find something to do! Stop moaning about it! Be positive. Draw positive people around you! Stop being so USELESS.
If you don’t know, figure it out!
If you need help, ASK, but don’t take advantage of somebody’s generous nature.
Make a plan!
Get it done!
Take responsibility for your life!
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3 Hours Sleep
Feb 25th
6 new clients, 8 major new projects taken on and I am operating on 3 hours of sleep right now.
Somebody hand me the caffeine please!
It really feels like I need a week in my study without interruptions so that I can just jump right in with the proper planning required for handling this kind of work load.
Tempting too, to day dream of getting a motorhome and criss-crossing the USA, as some kind of digital nomad, earning and travelling at the same time.
There are a group of bloggers out there, their name escapes me know, I think it’s termed as “Location Independent”, but it’s really interesting to read about how provided you are in a place with fast and cheap broadband, you could work from virtually anywhere. Nice idea. Not sure about the details though.
Image Courtesy of Renee V on Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
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Cars
Feb 25th
Image Courtesy of peasap at flickr, under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence
I’d probably keel over if I ever wore pink…purple maybe, but pink? No.
But on the flipside I’m not really tom boy either, at least not so much that I understand cars. Computers yes. Cars no.
Even the financing of cars I have to continuously look to my husband for advice for this sort of thing, earning me many a stern look from the woman who raised me, for daring to depend on a man for such a thing.
I wonder if this driver below had an extended service plan?? Or at least decent car insurance!
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Word a Day
Feb 19th
Has anyone out there ever heard of tazorac?
It might sound like an Eastern European city, but apparently it is a new ‘miracle cure’ for acne which is making a few waves. I have heard many conflicting reports on what works for acne and what doesn’t, but then I suppose it also depends on what kind of acne you have.
The subject interests me purely because I developed spontaneous acne on the back of my neck and shoulders with both my pregnancies, obviously owing to the influx of hormones, and it cleared up by itself rather quickly after each subsequent birth, but it really bothered me when I had it, because it just felt like there was nothing I could do about it.
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Diets vs Fads
Feb 19th
There are some dieting techniques that never seem to go out of style.
While diets like Atkins, South Beach, Low Fat, No Fat, You are What you Eat and other catchy names might come and go, there is one buzz word that seems to always crop up and that is the word, “detox”. Now some of us have tried the dreaded detox by cutting out caffeine (sob!) and other things developing headaches and withdrawal and other ghastly symptoms in the process.
I have heard that there is a way to give yourself a herbal colon cleanse by actually ingesting a product, and well it sounds less far-fetched than some products I’ve seen which includes sticking pads to your feet, and then voila! Amazing the next morning you pull them off and they’re all discoloured and whammo! You’re detoxed! But as with any diet related product that affects metabolism and nutrition, I’ll believe it when I’ve tried it for myself.
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Affiliate Marketing vs Niche Marketing
Feb 19th
Affiliate marketing and niche marketing are the same, and yet different, depending on your approach.
If you are selling your own product, that tends to be niche marketing, if you are selling another persons product in exchange for a commission, then that is affiliate marketing. At the moment both of these areas are hotly contested, with people jockeying for position to find the next great untapped niche.
I reckon the money will always be good with pharmaceuticals, because if you have a blog with a colonix review on it, you will probably draw a lot of traffic, so best you throw in some contextual advertising, as well as affiliate links…
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Oh Dear
Feb 19th
So I just finished my last line of decent facial products and I’m on the look out for the best wrinkle serum known to man that is able to erase the last 5 years of my life. I am just 34, so not old by any means (if you’re reading this and you’re 17 just move along and keep your opinion to yourself. Holy smokes.
I just realised that 17 year olds are exactly half my age….and poof…yes, there appears another wrinkle. As I was saying, it’s not so much the aging that has caused the wrinkles but the lack of sleep, and poor diet that comes with having kids.
So yeah, I’m taking suggestions!
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Spontaneous Purchase or Constant Reviewer?
Feb 17th
Are you someone who likes to buy things spontaneously? Or do you rigorously do online research, chat to friends and so forth before making a purchasing decision?
I tend to do a combination of both. When it comes to technology, I tend to be ahead of my friends and family though, in adopting technology early on, so I rely on online forums and reviews to make decisions.
How ever when it comes to things like food, new stores or diet products, I’m generally turning to friends and family for advice. Everyone has at least read up on some diet pill reviews in a magazine or online before me. So then I tend to go with their advice, and then check stuff out for myself.
I have yet to find that weight loss miracle though, but, when I do, you can be sure that I’ll tell you all about it here.
That is the only downside to being a freelancer…easy access to the fridge, and the distraction of the constant peeeeyoooo peeeeyoooo peeeeyooo of your four year old son who is off sick from school, and playing star wars on the computer next to you.
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Turmoil
Feb 16th
I am exceedingly grateful to be a work at home/freelance graphic designer.
Last week, my father passed away (rather expectedly, aged 81 from cancer). His funeral was on Friday.
The ensuing family feud (courtesy of my stupid brother) took place shortly after.
By the weekend I was over it, and getting on with my life. I took it slowly, and decided to really get ’stuck in’ to work on Monday. Except that in the early hours of Monday morning Reebok started running a fever. Monday night he decided to wake up just shy of midnight with mild croup.
Today, I had a major deadline, that I managed to keep.
There is no way, that I would have coped with the stupid stresses of the past 7 days if I was in some dead end corporate job somewhere in a dingy grey building, stuck in high heels all day.
I am convinced that being able to work in my bunny slippers is the ultimate gift!
Had I been prone to breakouts of eczema due to stress, then no, last week would not have been pretty.
However, I think that the light at the end of the tunnel is drawing near.
So despite my limbs feeling like lead, and trying to curb an overwhelming desire to pack my macbook, and camera and run away to Amsterdam, I’m doing okay.
Thanks for asking.
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Baby Shower Invitations
Feb 15th
There are a number of things to note when designing things like wedding invitations, and baby shower invitations. For one, they are intensely personal items that people (particularly women) have been daydreaming about, and doodling for, for decades possibly! This makes designing them a very different experience to designing say, a business card, or a brochure.
For one, your client interaction will be much greater, and the number of proofs sent back and forth between designer and client will be much higher in number. Be careful to always embed any new and unique fonts, because it may be that what you are sending, and what the client is viewing on their computer are two very different things. Better yet, flatten your work into a basic jpg to increase the compression rate and enable quicker email speeds.
Lastly, get your clients signed approval on the final proof before going to the printer, and remember to give the printer any new and unique fonts too, the last thing you need is 500 invitations with the incorrect font going out! Believe me it’s happened more than once. (never to me thankfully!)
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