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Please stop raining.

Jackie — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:34:12 +0000

Seriously, no more rain please. My back yard is turning into a little jungle. I would like to start getting it into gardening shape, but these 40 degree, windy, rainy days just don’t work for me. Oh, the sinus infection that was turning into bronchitis has finally started to move on thanks to my doctor and many wonderful medications. But thanks to all the pounding, blowing rain all my pretty lilacs have been blown away, leaving me little to smell now. Oh well. Just needed to vent there. I feel better now.
Once again, the actual money making work has taken over my free time and unfortunately that isn’t the fiber stuff. I have lots of ideas and a growing pile of ufo’s. I’ll get to them, it just doesn’t give me a whole lot of exciting photos to post and blog about, sorry about that.
I had a great Mother’s Day weekend thanks to Victor, even though I was coming out of sinus infection hell. He got me a new scanner that can scan medium format negatives. Doesn’t sound that exciting but to me it is. I have several roles of 120 film from my Holga and vintage Diana cameras that I want to digitize and now I can!
West Winds Studio now has it’s own Flickr.com page and soon I will be uploading everything and we will start organizing it more. I’ve started photographing the sculptures and they are just as cool. It will be worth the wait, I promise.

Some business design stuff

Jackie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:40:53 +0000

Here’s the website we finished this summer. It’s for TABB Packaging Solutions in Plymouth.

Some Non-Fiber Art

Jackie — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:10:15 +0000

Being a graphic artist, I still love seeing my design work in print. I love the smell of freshly printed materials and new paper. So it only took me a year to get a hold of this:

I designed this for long time client Dr. Greg Popcak. Even did that logo in the corner there. I’ve also done some re-designs of book covers for some of his best sellers. I haven’t gotten a hold of this one yet. I’m told I have a credit inside for the cover design. Eventually, I’ll get my hands on a copy.

We also created a website for a local company. Hopefully that will go online in a week or so here. So we have been rather busy with lots of stuff. And yup, still working on the ‘secret project’. I should be able to reveal it at the end of August.

Plug Time!

Victor — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:01:23 +0000

I just did a (relatively) simple website for GoGreen Step, a local Michigan business which takes single-use plastic drums from the food industry, paints them up, puts a faucet and a filter on them, and sells them as rain barrels. We’ve had ours (55-gal) for a little over a month, and it’s already filled up three times (and the vegetable plants in the garden really seem to prefer rainwater to tap water… who knew?).

Anyway, if you’re in Michigan and in the market for a rain barrel, check them out.