What I’ve been up to? Creating a whole identity for my lovely soon-to-be sister-in-law, Theresa for her fresh new etsy shops: Lucky Hanks

Theresa makes some incredibly crocheted housewares & is about to launch a brand new line of soaps, shampoos & lotions made by her! It’s a fantastic little shop full of very useful (& totally reasonably priced items!). She based her company name on her two adorable pooches, Lucky & Hank but it’s also a cute little play on words regarding yarn! Her favorite colors are turquoise & orange. I came up with the header based on a photo of her two pups and once we were happy with that, I developed more of her identity suite:

Overall, I’m really happy how it all turned out & I know Theresa is too. I’m so excited for her new lotion & shampoo bar line—Get Naked!— that just came out! I’m looking forward to putting more Lucky Hanks stuff together.

Well, what about you? What are you working on?

60s genies in the most fabulous mod perfume bottles. Divine.

Friday 5: week 39
Life is just running away with me. WHOA. & today: I am really sleepy. YAWN. Also: someday soon there will be sunshine & not poorly lit photobooth photos that are reminiscent the the early art of myspace portraiture. BWA. Happy Friday Everyone!

What’s in my lasersights of love this week?

• Homemade green tea lattes. Skim milk + vanilla syrup + green tea= yummy treat.
• The lovely lovely artwork (see left!) from the talented Yellena James. Go check out more visual candy!
• New responsibilities at work! I get to lay out one of the national sections of the paper and I am super pumped about it.
• Marching into March.
• Rock Band on the XBox 360—which we used to play all the time and then sort of stopped but played again recently! It’s still way fun.
• New yarn that I can’t wait to work with. I am cruising through the currently-on-my-needles project just so I can play!

What’s makin’ your heart go bang!bang!bang! this week?

Oooh! A new series!?
Yup: it’s just a little section that will be updates on whatever I’ve been working on lately. It might be design, fine art or crafting. It will just be another little peek into my visual world and a request for a peek into yours! What have you been working on? Post links, pictures, etc in the comments and tell me what you’re up to, what the next steps are? Is it finished? Still in progress? Let’s help keep one another’s creative balls rolling.

Whatcha workin’ on?
For the first installment, I’d love to show you a quick little template that I created for my friend Hillary’s blog (byhillary.com) for her new series: Colour with a u

She wanted to illustrate color palettes (like Tonal Tuesdays!) for her lovely readers and described her design aesthetic as “Bauhaus with bunnies” and here’s what I came up with. She needed something that she could easily edit in photoshop without much mush or fush. So I created a simple black and white design that she would be able to change out super easy. She has a 3 & 5 color template. Go see it in action!

What’re you up to?