Category Archives: Beginnings

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Scout & Misty – 7 weeks old

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The kittens had a vet appointment to check their health and make sure they were A-OK after the transition from outside in the backyard to the inside of the house. Misty, the big sister, weighed 1.5 lbs and Scout weighed 1.2 lbs. They did have some parasites but overall they are happy and healthy!

They continue to chase things on sticks but have learned that boxes are extremely fun to play in!

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They also love to play in the folds of the bedspread. Misty had been the aggressor at first, but Scout seems to be the one to hunt Misty down lately.

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And they are still the cutest little baby kittens!

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Scout & Misty – 6 weeks old

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Scout and Misty’s personalities are starting to come through more and more. Scout is still scouting things out, but she is a little more mellow than her out-of-control sister! Misty must have springs in her feet; she is constantly jumping, bucking and running around! She particularly likes chasing after Scout and wrestling her down. These shots were from last week when they were roughly 5 to 6 weeks old. They learned how to chase and leap on things attached to sticks!

Scout

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Misty

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Newest editions: Scout and Misty

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Introducing Miss Scout and Miss Misty! Making their grand debut at (we think) 5 weeks old, they could not be any cuter!!! We are also 90% sure, meh, 80% sure they are female. They are so tiny its hard to tell with 100% accuracy!

The very first thing we did was give them a bath to wash the dirt and kill any fleas or other bugs they may have had one them. I was calling this one Uno the first couple of days because she was the first one I caught. She has since been named Scout (she has to investigate EVERYTHING!).

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Once she dried off, she is a knock-out, can’t-stand-it, I-want-to-cuddle-with-you-forever cutie pie!

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The next day, I caught her sister, whom I was calling Dos (second one caught).

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Her name is now Misty and she is just as sweet and cute as her sister.

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The two of them are just as curious as can be and are never far from each other.

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They recently learned how to play with toys and man-oh-man, do they have fun!

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But after all, they are kittens, so it doesn’t take long before they have to take a nap.

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But it doesn’t last long before they are up and ready to play again!

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Then again…maybe not!

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Wait for it…

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Graphic Design

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After calligraphy, pencil drawings and black and white photography classes, I had finally made it to “designing graphically” classes. It still started with drawing by hand and I soon learned I wasn’t good, nor did I enjoy, having to come up with 100 doodles, or “thumbnails.” But it was all part of the process. From those thumbnails, you had to choose 6 B&W roughs, then usually 3 executions from that, then color executions, sometimes another round of roughs with tweaks, then finally your final.

Below are some of my favorite projects. The zoo signage is from start to finish and after looking at some of my thumbnails, I think I actually want to explore doing Giraffes and Flamingoes (I wasn’t obsessed with Flamingoes yet which is why I didn’t choose them as the final).

Hot Spots was a project that entailed creating not only a fictitious company name, but a business plan, mission statement, mark, business system and brochure. Below are my roughs and the business system.

On the Edge was another pretend business project where we had to create retail tags then shoot them on actual clothing (enlarged on purpose for ease of viewing).

We did a lot of making up of businesses, I made up a telecommunications company called Off The Hook. Yup, sure did.

As part of our final portfolio, we had to create a marks page (marks are more commonly known as “logos”). The top middle was, at the time, my personal mark, but I’ve never been too happy with it. Still working on it. Talking about yourself is always hard, but trying to come up with a symbol, on paper, that represents you, your personality, your work ethic and aesthetic is even harder!

One of my absolute favorite projects was a poster on The Divine Proportion, or Golden Mean. It’s an actual mathematical equation, like “pie” or “squared” that appears naturally in nature, but is also used in musical instruments and architecture. I had a lot of fun just learning about it!

Someday, hopefully, I’ll make a career out of this, whether it’s brand marketing or photography. Need to keep playing, practicing and keeping the creative side of my brain active ;-)