Animate My Day

So for those of you that know me you probably know that I'm a huge animation buff. For those of you that don't know me, believe me... I love animating and I love watching animations. Here is one that I stumbled upon that is more than worthy to share. Enjoy.


minilogue - hitchhiker's choice from ljudbilden on Vimeo.

My past week... in photos.

It snowed...

Black Friday... My destination: Ace Hardware, Time Store opened: 7am, My Target: A laser level, Crowd: NONE

Worked a lot. (So did my co-worker Dave...)

The mouse ate all the peanut butter from the traps. NO mouse yet. Set some new traps...

I put up my first Christmas tree. Not that this is my first christmas tree putting up ever ... or for that matter even my first this season. This is my first while living on my own.

Everyone that came to my house commented on the "Lost" flyer on my fridge. I think it'll be a perfect addition to my decor.

Have a good week.

This means WAR!

Over the past month a lot of the time I've spent traveling, leaving my house all alone. I have an ongoing battle against spiders. I assumed that while I was away the spiders would notice my absence and build up their forces awaiting for my return. Much to my surprise I received a phone call today from my friend, Lori, who has been checking in on my house for me (so that it wouldn't be lonely). She told me that a bowl of candy had been invaded (not by spiders) a possible rodent attack! I was in route to my house (about 4 hours out) and started plotting my counter attack. I stocked up on some rodent killing supplies and I'm ready for battle.

The second I stepped into the door I started the hunt. I saw the evidence (a mini Hershey's bar) and started tracking a possible path. Then I stumbled upon a stash in the office... more evidence (an organic fruit leather and a Special K bar). That's more than enough evidence to me.



I unpacked my warfare from the bag, and loaded my weapons.



The traps are set.... Now we sit back and wait...

A change of scenery.

I know that my blog is fairly new, however I think there are going to be some changes made. Obviously the name of the blog is called "designing twenty-five to life". I am a designer and I love all things cool and designeriffic. So along with photos that I'll take I'm going to try to post some things that I've designed and things that I think are cool designs... etc. I think it will make for a much more interesting blog. I hope that everyone will enjoy my changes.


Today at work I was browsing the internet for the perfect picture of a crayon. A crayon you ask?! Yes a crayon. My job is that cool that I get to look through thousands of photos for the perfect picture of a crayon then recreate it. Of course when you type "crayon" into any search, many things non crayon related come up. So a few hours later, I'm now fighting the urge to take photos, and damn good ones at that of various random things.

During my search of the perfect picture of a crayon I stumbled upon this photo on flicker:



It brought back some memories that I had pushed into far corners of my mind! I totally owned one!!!! It definitely had its flaws but it rocked! There was the interchangeable plates so that you had the bottom of a ladies wardrobe (IE skirt, pants, shoes...) and then there was a middle section with some sort of top and a head with a hat or not, or you could choose the upper half of a woman's body to place with the bottoms. There were so many options! to top off all of that there were pattern plates so that you could put a pattern on the fabric. Anyway so you chose the layout you wanted and placed a piece of paper on top then lowered down a frame thing and rubbed a crayon on top and wa-la (assuming that you didn't move the paper while doing the rubbing) a perfect fashion designer style drawing. Then you choose a pattern or not and color it in! Who ever came up with it?!

November already?

So I haven't written in a long time. Frankly I was busy, didn't have internet, etc etc... now I've ran out of excuses. I have internet, and I'm not so busy any more. I should be... believe me I do have things to do but I just haven't found a good reason to do them. I'm still recouping from my busy time.

I went to Augusta Georgia last weekend for work. Had a lot of "firsts" on that trip. Here they are: First time on a 9+ hour road trip alone, first time to Tennessee and Georgia, first time not getting lost in a state that I drove to by myself, first time traveling with a company, first time tracking milage, first time eating at Quizinos by myself, first time driving through the moutains by myself, first time staying in a hotel alone and my first time that I listened to Arthur the Invisibles book on tape all the way through.

As I was driving through the mountains (for my first time alone) I snapped some photos. Here they are....