Since moving to Florida, my whole workin’-on-stuff schedule has been totally out of whack– including my blog, of course! (Man, please don’t let this blog become one of those blogs whose only entries consist of “Sorry for not writing, teehee!!!”)

I (Actually, my dad) did succeed in solving a long-time frustration regarding the name “Jadefrolics,” though! Years back I was dumb enough to let jadefrolics.com expire, after which a domain hoarding company immediately snatched it up and started using it for random ad garbage. Rather than going into the whole boring story, the good news is that my dad signed up for an expired domain-grabbing company himself and got it back! Now  jadefrolics.com is mine again (it will have to be pried form my cold, dead appendages) so I’d like to ask anyone who is linking to the site from jadefrolics.net / blog.jadefrolics.net to update their links to jadefrolics.com / blog.jadefrolics.com! Woohoo!

I also tweaked my logo a bit, just to make it a bit more polished. I didn’t like the irises and position of the eyes in the old logo, and I thought the eyelashes were too garbled when shrunk. I’ve given it some slight changes and just general editing.

Old Logo (Above)

New Logo (Above)

I’ve also been delighted with the shiny-candy icons the Mac uses, so for fun I decided to make a shiny cat in Illustrator. While looking for inspiration on logos I found this awesome tutorial on how to recreate the Firefox logo, which is really fun to read about– though it uses Photoshop rather than Illustrator.

My last update for the site so far was to create a commission request form, so potential clients could give good, organized information and also to weed out serious requests from, er, not so serious ones ;). I used JotForm.com for this and integrated it into the site. It was really easy to do, if anyone else is looking for a form builder to stop spam and keep organized!