Well, I’m finally back in Savannah, which hopefully means more updating to my poor, neglected blog!
I spent the holidays in Florida and, having grown up in Michigan, stepping outside to 75 degrees and topless Europeans on the beach was a rather startling Christmas atmosphere. I had a great time though, and got to spend some quality time with my four siblings (Including the new one!)
Even on vacation I couldn’t stop thinking about neat stuff to make for my upcoming Etsy shop, so I took the opportunity to have a little craft-time with my siblings. I found some really neat tutorials on making glass magnets on the web, so I printed out a bunch of little bits of my artwork and we all made some sets of magnets out of them. Unfortunately they had to sit out for 24 hours to dry, and I forgot to take final shots! Ah well.
I was also lucky enough to receive an absolutely awesome Christmas/Graduation present…
TADA!!
Suh-weet. My old Inspiron 9300 was about to kick the bucket, not to mention that fact that it weighed a bazillion pounds and could barely run anything over Photoshop 7. My new Macbook Pro is beautiful, sleek and fast, and I’m trying my best to keep it that way. (I give myself a week before it gets cereal crumbs embedded in the keyboard…) I picked the 15″ version with 2 gigs of ram, but ordered 4 gigs online which I’m going to swap out and hopefully not ruin anything.
Anyway, there’s my life in a nutshell. Now that I’m back in Savannah I’m going to try to get back on track with promotion and opening an Etsy shop! Wish me luck!
omg. Awesome present!!! I am jealous! And just so you know, I once switched out the RAM on our laptop and managed to not dislodge/break anything, so I am sure yours will be fine. You will be soooo glad you did it. It is the best thing in the world for running Photoshop etc.
Also, cool magnets! I should try that, or stickers, something small and cute like that. That will be great for your shop. Oh, when you package your stationary, do you buy sheets of sticker paper and just feed them through the computer?
tamara-
Yeah switching out the RAM shouldn’t be too hard, good to know you did it with no trouble to!
Yeah the magnets are really fun! You can get those glass beads at any craft store, or I even found some at the dollar store! As to the stationery… I actually have been doing all my printing at Office Max because of the SCAD discount. They have label sheets there that I print on and then cut out. Works great! But yeah you could get sheets of sticker paper and do it in your own computer just as easily I’m sure.