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Font Friday + Skunkling Giveaway

by • on 04. Nov, 2011 • in Blog, design, font friday, freebies, news, skunkling

I am very happy and honored to be involved in this weeks Font Friday event. This week the whole gang featured Skunkling in their designs that they are giving away as free printables! So be sure the check out all the links at the bottom and grab all of them for your holiday gift tags and cards.



The other good news is you can enter to win Skunkling!

You have a couple ways to enter:

1.) Tweet the following: “Just entered a #fontfriday giveaway @DesignEditr, hosted by the @FontFriday crew and @jasonmarkjones, the creator of #skunkling. http://bit.ly/tYtEXK”

2.) Share the giveaway on Facebook with the following: “Just entered the Font Friday giveaway at Design Editor, hosted by the crew and Jason Mark Jones, the creator of Skunkling. http://bit.ly/tYtEXK”

The giveaway will be open until midnight EST on Thursday, November 10. Winner announced on next week Font Friday posts, November 11.

Check out all the freebies! Visit each Font Friday blog for a set of free printables using Skunkling:

ALEXANDRA / THE AERIALIST PRESS
JEN / BLUSH PRINTABLES
CHELSEA / FOURTH AND FOLDED
LAUREN / PALM PAPERS
KERRY / SUPER SWOON
ALISON / ALISON OWEN DESIGN
JENNY / HANK+HUNT
WENDY / WESWENDESIGN
LAUREL / GO AGAINST THE GRAIN
LAUREN / LAUREN ELISE CRAFTED
JENNA + ELIZABETH / LITTLE BIT HEART
SOFIA + ANDREA / BRANCO PRATA

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CRV

by • on 26. Mar, 2010 • in Blog, news

One thing we have learned about ourselves through the process of buying our new family-mobile is that neither Marta nor I are impulsive buyers. We spent hours on edmunds.com, carmax.com, and all the honda dealers’ sites in southern california, plus all the advice we could get from anyone who would give it.

Today was finally the day though. We were pushing it with showing up at the dealer at 8pm, but we knew what we wanted and we stuck to our price and we got what we wanted: Honda CR-V in Urban Titanium.

Now for some road trips!

Marta in her mom-mobile

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Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara

by • on 11. Mar, 2010 • in Blog, inspiration, news

How did I not know that one of my all-time favorite artists has a documentary out? I’ve admired his work for so long I don’t really remember how or when I first heard about him, but I’m pretty pumped to watch Traveling with Yoshitomo Nara.

Add to Netflix Queue > Move to #1 Position > Wait by mailbox

Also, my son Liam has some growing to do before he can wear it, but our friend Jessica Dobson got him one of Yoshitomo Nara’s shirts. We start training at a very young age around here.

Pretty cool huh?

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God Hates Retweets!

by • on 10. Mar, 2010 • in Blog, news

I remember hearing that the Westboro Baptist Church was going to come through Long Beach, but never got wind of the big day. Thanks Alayna for reminding me of the amazing counter-protest put on by the people of Twitter. Check out some of the signs at laughing squid.

My personal favorite was this one:

Westboro Baptist Church visits Long Beach by District Weekly

Westboro Baptist Church visits Long Beach from District Weekly on Vimeo.

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Valentine’s Day – 143

by • on 19. Feb, 2010 • in Blog, inspiration, news

143

I know Valentine’s Day was more than a few days ago, but a late post is better than no post at all right? We’ve never been the couple to go all out for this hallmark holiday, but we do like to have fun with it. So, I didn’t get Marta anything from Kay Jewelers, but I did go to quite some effort to get ahold of some vintage type. I found a collection of numbers from a store on etsy, Salvage Nation. She was also kind enough to throw in an old theatre seating number with the same numbers, which for those of you who don’t know/remember, 143 is pager code for I LOVE YOU.

Liam’s first V-day

We spent the day with our new little guy and went over to our friends the O’Malleys for pizza and some Olympics!

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DWHE iPhone app coming soon…

by • on 02. Dec, 2009 • in Blog, news

Do We Have Enough has been officially entered into app star awards.

Here is a preview of the app

For now, check out DWHE and the characters I illustrated of everyone at JLOOP.

Click the image to visit www.dowehaveenough.com

dwhe-preview

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Henry needs to pay off his new house!

by • on 18. Aug, 2009 • in Blog, news

Vote for Henry. And pass this along. That is all. Thanks :)

CutestDogCompetition.com
Vote for my Dog Sponsored by All American Pet Brands makers of premium dog food.
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Home Improvement Update 2.5

by • on 18. Aug, 2009 • in Blog, home improvement, news

The revisions to our lovely home have continued. It definitely was a lovely house to begin with, but it was a tad on the grandma side. No offense to the previous owner, but i don’t mean the grandma-style that marta loves so dearly. i’m talking christmas-plaid, country-mom, ducks-and-those-dolls-with-straw-hair grandma style!!

Anyways, I have many more photos to post including the mantle and cabinet my friend Mark just built for us, but for now I’m posting a photo of our new/old 1920′s chandelier courtesy of Maile Eaton and the piano that was just passed down to Marta from her Aunt Lisa…Thank you to both parties!

The chandelier and the piano all in one room
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The old chandelier that is on its way to Portland
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That last photo kept reminding me of that old Spike Jones commercial for Ikea. If you haven’t seen it…change that now:

Spike Jones Ikea ad – “Many of you feel sorry for this lamp…that’s because you’re crazy”

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Electricity is pretty awesome

by • on 12. Aug, 2009 • in Blog, news

I thought I would post a little update on all things changing. I had big plans for last Sunday afternoon that got dominated by my lack of electrical knowledge. After a couple wasted hours of tampering with wires I shouldn’t have and calling my electrical engineer step-father, I realized that I simply needed to retest one of the GFI breakers. Consequently, I didn’t get around to some of my other to-dos, but here are some photos of recent changes around the house…

Reupholstered the dining room chairs
And, we are currently re-reupholstering one of them that Henry got to the very first day we had it back. Henry is an outdoor dog now.
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New media cabinet
Now we are just waiting for a tv to adorn it with. Anyone ever heard of Proscan? They sell some really inexpensive tvs but are they crap? And, in the picture you can see we put up blinds and curtains.
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Really rad vintage armoire
Marta found on craigslist for $200 and we have doors to our bedroom now (with new hardware!)
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Boring photo, but a large task
Finally updated all the electrical outlets, switches and coverplates to be white and nice and new!
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And finally, 2 of these should be on their way.
However, we’re having second thoughts about them as it will mean we have to get rid of our loveseat recliner chair. Anyone have any thoughts? They do go well with our antler coat hanger…
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Oh, last but not least we have 2 other changes going on…
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Henry is hardly a puppy anymore and he is “this close” to graduating from puppy school and learning how to shake! Not really on the shaking. And little Liam is growing too…wow, I sound like I’m ready to start the baby blog! Time to buy www.liammarkjones.com…get ready :)

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