Donate to help save lives!

my fabulous friend Ashley is running her second half marathon (insert applause here!!) and I am so proud of her, because not only is she running 13+ miles, but she's also doing it to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Please donate if you can, to help her reach her goal!

http://www.active.com/donate/tntnca04/AshleyMitchell

I finally am learning Photoshop!!

I have been extremely bad at posting to my blog lately...but I'll catch up soon I promise! This is one of my assignments I turned in tonight for my Digital Image Manipulation class...we had to create a 'fantasy' image...so voila...yoga on a cloud!

Where am I??

I have been so MIA between Thanksgiving and Christmas! much to post, so hopefully while I'm home today relaxing, I'll get some updates on here :)

Happy Holidays!!!!!

Buy Handmade for the Holidays!

I think this is a great pledge to take :) visit craft shows and great sites like www.etsy.com to find wonderful, one of a kind, handmade gifts for the holidays :)

I am going to update my site on etsy www.jerseygirldesign.etsy.com this weekend...so check in for updates!!

Typography Final Project

Another one bites the dust...another class that is...wednesday marked the end of my class in Typography and I am one class closer to my degree!

Our final project was to display some sort of history of an alphabet, or a typographer, and I chose to do the history of the Greek Alphabet.






some of the other projects for this course...

Happy Blogaversary!!

It has been one whole year since I started up my blog! So much has happened in the past year, and I've had so much fun documenting it online to share with all my friends both on and off-line :) I have been neglecting it a little lately, but hope to have many more posts to come in year #2!

Mike & Carrie's DC Wedding

This past weekend my cousin Mike got married to his lovely bride Carrie :) The wedding was beautiful- at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue...so excited to have another girl on our side of the family!

Baltimore Half-Marathon Heroes :)

My friend Ashley and her Mom ran in the half-marathon (that's 13.1 miles!!) this past Saturday, and I am so proud of her accomplishments! She really is quite a hero to me for accomplishing her goal! Here's a picture of half of her lovely support team Jess is holding our sign, complete with glitter and starbucks of course ;)



and then there was the guy dressed like a beer can...

BONNIE & ANDY ARE GETTING MARRIED!!!!!!

:) :) :) :) :) :) my bestest friends are getting married!





10/07/07...Bonnie & Andy...engaged!!

Buttons :)

about 2 weeks ago...this little kitty found her way to our neighbor's back stoop...and now we've basically domesticated her...and hopefully will find her a home soon...e-mail me for more info...she is just the sweetest little kitty ever...and we've been calling her Buttons :)

Crafty Bastards

had so much fun this weekend at Crafty Bastards in Adams Morgan!! There were so many great vendors...and I even took home a cute little monster ;) (http://www.cottonmonster.com/)

here he is hanging out at Tryst for lunch with Amanda's monster



goal for next year...be a vendor!

new logo

the new logo for JerseyGirlDesign :)



very excited to be an exhibitor at SpaJama in Columbia on December 16th!

We Are Virginia Tech

Every time I go back, I remember why I loved being at school so much...

Race for the Cure Logo ideas...

A fun new project I've been working on...the t-shirt design for our Race for the Cure shirts (October 14th in Hunt Valley)

Virginia Tech or Bust :)

I never really understood that saying, but we are only a few short hours away from our trip to VT this weekend for opening game!! (on ESPN 12 noon Saturday, September 1st!!)

It's been just about a year since I've been back, and I could not be more excited to be going to one of my favorite places in the world today...there really is no place like it...Hokie Hokie Hokie Hi, Tech Tech VPI!

something to inspire you :)

here is a link to my co-worker Stephanie's blog...if you need a little pick-me-up, she will definitely inspire you! :)

Stephanie's Circus

Etsy Treasury!!

A big big big thanks to Kelly (mrsm) for including me in her treasury on Etsy!!

Click here to see the Treasury

and here to see my shop! (currently being updated!!)

Illustration Friday - Captain

a little sketch I did while on hold today...I don't think I'll have time to color him in before tonight, but I was determined to get a post up again this week- three in a row, hooray! :)

Illustration Friday - Emergency

I actually doodled this little guy at work the other day, before the topic was announced :P It's Dr Penguin to the rescue :)




yay! two weeks in a row...now I just need to keep it up :)

Illustration Friday - Missing

after a LONG hiatus from IF, I'm back this week yay!! I have missed this so much, and now that all the weddings are over until October, I have some time to myself again...so here it is...MISSING puzzle piece!