Elizabeth’s Paper Doll Princess
Another drawing from my 5-year old daughter, Elizabeth. The characters she is drawing always have such funny faces, like this princess! Cute sweater don’t you think?
2 comments March 12th, 2008
Landscape photography made by vegetables and food only!
Last night my man stumbled upon these awesome photos from Carl Warner and I just need to share them with you. Aren’t they cute? Whole landscapes made by food and food only! Haven’t seen anything like this before, über creative and very original.
A broccoli forest with mountains of bread, so fresh and clean. I love these broccoli trees!
And this pink sea of smoked salmon? Great!
This fishing boat struggling in a sea of cabbage, it’s just awesome…
Go here to see more of his work: http://www.carlwarner.com/
1 comment March 8th, 2008
Home designed plastic cards
Just annoying when you have to carry around all these plastic cards with all similar fugg designs. If you have several of these cards and keep them on the same place, you need to search to find the right one, or you mistakenly pick the wrong one like I have done oh so many times.
I never use a purse or a bag, only when I have to bring my laptop around. I just put everything I need in my pocket. Keys, plastic cards, money, tickets, paper, you name it. Sometimes I have so much stuff in my pocket that it hurts when I sit down. When I put everything on the table I can be amazed over how much that actually fit in them.
I forgot my credit card in my back pocket and broke it in two when searching for that ultimate comfortable sofa position and needed to get a new one. Ordered and designed my own card after seeing my man receiving his.
All I wanted was to have a pleasant image to watch every time I suck my card for money. The background photo is from a trip with Hurtigruta from Finnsnes to Tromsø (north of Norway) with some imaginary Illustrator birdies circling around looking for some of that great Norwegian cod.
Add comment March 8th, 2008
I am in love with this song!
Aaaah, what a wonderful song this is, ‘Chasing Pavements’. Just heard it in a coffeeshop the other day and was searching to find out who it was when I suddenly heard it at MTV again. Yess! Adele it is and I can just keep on playing this song forever, it becomes better and better every time I hear it. Love her voice and the refrain is just wonderful!
That’s why I put it here on my blog so I can easily play it whenever I want! Love it, love it, love it!
Update: While I am at it I just need to post this ‘Apologize’ video as well which is one of my all time favorites. Reminds me of the great time I had in Norway with family and friends. So if I said I am in love with ‘Chasing Pavements’, then I am married to this song! Thinking of this friend of mine, Linn, who had it as a ring tone on her phone and said: “Yeah, just call me, call me, call me!” Too bad there’s not any ‘Loop’ button so I could play them over and over and over again. (Do you hear me YouTube!)
5 comments March 5th, 2008
Test your web design in different browsers
Do you remember back in the old days when you were developing a site and how difficult it was to test your design? I used to send out e-mails to everybody and pray that my design worked in all of their browsers… And if not, we were sending e-mails back and forward till it finally worked. Luckily those days are now over!
I just stumbled upon browsershots, a great site where you just add the URL of your developing site, submit it and voila! your job will be added to the job queue where a number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser to create screenshots and upload them to the central server. All you have to do is to reload the very same page.
Was fiddling around with CSS the other day and had some minor problems, submitted the URL to browsershots and had a whole bunch of screenshots in less than 5 min! Saved me a lot of time and it’s great to be 100% sure that your site is working in all browsers and on all platforms.
Link: http://browsershots.org/
Add comment February 27th, 2008
Optimise your CSS file with Code Beautifier
For all of you designers out there: This is a really handsome little application which is both useful and time saving! The code beautifier is simply optimising your CSS code for smaller downloads by cleaning up and structuring any CSS file you input. Shaves off many k’s while your CSS file still works.
Add comment January 25th, 2008
How much is your blog worth?
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Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, here is a little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal. Just enter your blog URL to see how much it’s "worth" using the Weblogs/AOL math. Half a year ago my blog was worth nothing at all, but now it is worth $564.54. Ooooooh! Well, at least an improvement… |
2 comments January 25th, 2008
Inferno is hot!
Was back in the north of Norway where I had the pleasure of checking out the pub Inferno. I was very curious to go there since I made the logo for them last summer when they opened up shop. Pleasantly surprised to see the big ass sign outside of the pub and that the people working there were all wearing black T-shirts with mine and the Mack beer logo on it. Got myself one which I happily am wearing back in Amsterdam.
Had a jolly good time, meeting loads of friends from when I was living there, top of the cake was to see Elements, a local band playing only Deep Purple songs. Was singing on ‘Smoke on the Water’ for 3 days afterwards, tune was just got stuck in my head.
So if you are looking for a job in exotic Finnsnes, Inferno is hiring people! (I had nothing to do with the site, made by a local chickie)
1 comment January 25th, 2008
I love Led Zeppelin
One of my favorite bands ever. My love for them started when I was 8 years back in end of the seventies. I lived on Svalbard where there were no music stores, no nothing so my kind uncle used to send me these old school cassette tapes with various rock tunes and among them Led Zeppelin. He had basically taped ‘Coda’ for me with ‘Black Dog’, ‘Rock and Roll’, ‘Stairway to Heaven’, ‘The Battle of Evermore’ and I remember I had to turn the cassette during ‘Four Sticks’. Used to do it real fast, completely hooked on Led Zeppelin.
I even traveled with the train for 3 days, all the way from the north of Norway to Roskilde in Denemark only to see Page and Plant playing at the Roskilde festival back in ‘95. Awesome concert it was. Few years after that it became a bit silent from them so I hardly could believe my luck when I heard that they were back together again! One gig in London where the promoter claimed that one million people registered for fewer than 20,000 available tickets… Yeah, I also tried but with no luck.
I just totally think that Led Zeppelin needs a world tour right now. How many millions of gazillions fans out there are eagerly awaiting for this! I know I am!
While I am waiting I treated myself on these 3 cool T-shirts from the Led Zeppelin store, can’t wait till they arrive!
Visit the Led Zeppelin Official Website
2 comments January 24th, 2008
Beautiful Photoshop Brushes by Jason Gaylor
Jason Gaylor from Design Fruit has made some fab Photoshop Brushes which are for FREE and can be downloaded as Brushes, Illustrator Vector Art, and PNGs. I truly love his brushes sets because they are all beautiful, stylish and useful. Be sure to check them all out!
You can find them here.
2 comments October 15th, 2007
Advertising on Google for FREE
You know that you can advertise on Google for FREE using Google Local or Google Maps?
This can help you show up in searches and get more traffic, leads and customers.
Here’s what you have to do to get listed on Google Maps for free:
Things you will need before you start:
- A description of your business
- Your phone number, address and any other contact info you want to advertise
- A logo or image that represents your business (some people use a picture of their office, store or restaurant)
- A coupon or special offer you want to advertise (Google also lets you add a coupon for FREE if you want)
Step 1) Go to www.google.com/local and search for your business to verify it is not yet listed.
Step 2) Go back to www.google.com/local and click on Add/Edit Your Business at the bottom left part of the page. Add your business to Google marketing.
Step 3) Follow the steps provided by Google. They are pretty simple and straightforward. As part of the process you will need to verify your business either by phone or mail.
Step 4) Check back in a few weeks and verify your listing. If you want to update it, you can use the same process outlined here to update your listing.
Source: www.smallbusinesshub.com
Add comment October 15th, 2007
Backlinkwatch.com
Knowing who is linking to you and what link text they’re using is one of the most important aspects in Search Engine Optimization.
If you go to Backlink Watch and type your URL, you will get complete detailed information about the quality and quantity of backward links pointing to your website. It will show you anchor text, Google Toolbar PageRank, total outbound links on that page and nofollow flag for each of your inbound links available.
Add comment October 15th, 2007
The importance of SEO Title Tags on your Webpage
The Title Tag is the first object that Search Engine Spiders see. All Search Engines support Title Tags which is used to sum up the contents of your web page in one thought.
What you define as your Title Tags will be displayed as the hyper linking text in the Search Engine’s results.
This is a very useful video showing you the importance of using SEO Title Tags on your Webpages.
Add comment October 13th, 2007
New cute Chemical Brothers Video
Don’t you just love the Chemical Brothers? I know I do! Always innovative and coming up with that new beat. And now they are out with a new tune, “The Salmon Dance”.
My husband showed it to our kids of 2 and 5 years and they LOVE it! Reminds them of “Finding Nemo”. Our son of 2 years is just shouting “Mama, fishes! FISHES, MAMA!” and so we have to play this video over and over and over and over again… But I don’t mind because it’s a really cute video, see for yourself!
Add comment October 10th, 2007
40 years ago since Che left us…
Yesterday, it was 40 years ago since Che was executed and became the legend he still is today. Sad that such a brilliant mind and not to mention handsome man had to leave us so early. I mean, I can just stare at this picture forever… He is so hot!
Think the picture above must be the #1 printed mugshot on a T-shirt ever. I do in fact have one myself which I love. I love Che and may his memory live on forever! Viva La Revolucion!
Add comment October 10th, 2007