Blog of the Week - Design Love Fest

Today's beautiful blog is:

{ DESIGN LOVE FEST }

I can't believe I just discovered this blog. Bri is all over Pinterest.

I love her aesthetic and her passion for design loveliness!

Enjoy your exploration!

Cute, right?

Color Love - Part 4

Yes. Let's face it, pink had to show up sometime.

I'm loving the pale variety lately :)

Lovin' it :)

Color Love - Part 3

Ah, yes. We all knew this one was coming!

Behold, the color of the year:

What a peppy color :)

Color Love - Part 2

Maybe this is just a phase...

but I really like making color collages.

So here's another color obsession for your viewing pleasure.

Isn't yellow the friendliest color?

(yes, I adapted that from "You've Got Mail")

Color Love - Part 1

My current color obsession:

You're craving Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream now, aren't you?

Me too.

Blog of the Week - Fresh News

I derive a large portion of inspiration via blog stalking and I have come across some fabulous design blogs lately, so...out of the warmth of my heart I thought I'd share one a week. Heaven knows we can all use a little more inspiration, right? :)

Today's beautiful blog is:

{fresh news }

Yep, this blog's got some gooood stuff! I could stalk for hours.

 Enjoy!

Make Something

Somedays, especially the ones where you really miss blogging, you just got to sit down and make something...and blog it. Even if it's just real quick.

I'll be back.

Soon.

Promise.

ENGAGED?! Today is your LUCKY day!

Remember my fabulously talented friend Jalene Taylor that took all of my beautiful engagements and wedding shots?

She's doing a GIVEAWAY (and I designed the graphic for it)!

So that's pretty dang exciting!

CHECK IT OUT

CLICK BELOW!

Good luck, cute people!

Happiness!

Yes, I'M MARRIED!

I have SO MANY fun and happy details to share with you all!

But for now I will share this little tidbit of advice, designed by yours truly in the most fabulous font I've EVER beheld! :)

I'll be back REAL soon!

Photo by J. Taylor

Envelope Stuffing Party

Redesign In Progress

Thoughts? :)

Busy vs. Boredom, Blog Book, Birds, Bacon & Beyoncé

They say that post-graduation is often accompanied by boredom due to endless amounts of free time and such. And yes, that may be partially true, but I have really been enjoying my free time. See! I'm FINALLY designing my blog into a physical book, starting with 2009 and so on.

I love Adobe InDesign :) I'd go with Blurb or some other free internet book-designing software, but I love having complete control of what goes in and what comes out...

Graphic design has turned me into an aesthetic nitpicker. And proud of it :)

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Speaking of things I'm proud of, my nephew calls extension cords "extendable" cords ;) And, on Sunday, my other nephew ran around the house singing,

"Weasley is our king! Weasley is our king!"

So, it's safe to say I'm not the only one in my family that has an affinity for Mr. Potter :)

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Speaking of dancing... ;)

You: "Who said anything about dancing?"

Me: Oh! Speaking of dancing...

I added "learn how to dance" to my bucket list yesterday.

I mean, I've always been a dance "appreciater," but that's completely different than being a dancer...which is completely different than being able to bust a move here and there...which I can do. So, I wanna learn something cool like hip-hop or tap or ballroom or breakdance.

"Anything is possible if you just believe."

("Cinderella Story" anyone?)

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Speaking of possibilities, I'm going to be potentially profound for a moment, mostly because that's how I organize my endless train of thoughts...

I've discovered that it doesn't matter where you are in your life or how busy you may be, if you have a dream, simply take a step toward it in whatever way possible with each spare moment you can find, and by and by, you'll look back and see how far you've come and how much you've grown and...eventually that you've actually LIVED one of your dreams, rather than simply went on dreaming it. I call that "The Nike Point of View". Just do it.

Speaking of Nike... I'm walking out of the gym yesterday morning after a really good workout, wearing my Nike gear, feeling awesome, and guess what smell slaps me right in the face...

BACON.

Yep, from some breakfast bbq taking place at the park next door.

Cruel and unusual.

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Speaking of bacon (ok, this has nothing to do with bacon)...Ya know how it's been raining the whole entire ocean onto Utah lately?

Yeah, that stinks, cause June is...tomorrow, but I've noticed something happy about the birds (at least the ones around my house). They LOVE this wet weather... At least, their increase of beautiful singing makes me assume they do. Y'know, kinda like how we humans sing in the shower ;)

It's a theory, but I think it's valid. 

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Speaking of singing, there are very few songs that I can continuously rock out, too...mostly because I get sick of those new, overplayed songs SO quickly. However, Katy Perry's "Firework" and Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" hit me right in the groove thang EVERY time! ;) I can't help but dance and sing-along to those two.

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Speaking of Beyoncé, my friend Carrie told me a HILARIOUS joke that I feel needs to be shared with the world, because I honestly laughed all night long post-joke-telling. Ready? K...ah-hem...

"Why does Saturn look the way it does?"

"Because...God liked it, so he put a ring on it."

OH Oh oh ;)

Spread it like wildfire. You know you want to.

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Speaking of randomosity, perhaps you've noticed, or more-likely you haven't, but I just renamed all of my "Randomosity" posts. Why? Cause using roman numerals was getting to be too confusing...not to mention lame. Who uses roman numerals anymore? Just kiddin', but I had fun! Want to see the new names? Ok, I'll let you: 

Randomosity Part I = Belts, Bands, Bugs & Because

Randomosity Part II = Utah, Uncomfortable, Umbrella & "Ugh!"

Randomosity Part III = Love, Leprosy, Lipstick & Lingo

Randomosity Part IV = PDA, Pizzazz, Patronage & Pins

Randomosity Part V = Warm, Wrong, Wishing & Washing

Randomosity Part VI = Forks, Fingers, Fragrances & Facebook

Randomosity Part VII = Clip Clops, Clasps, Copying & Curiosity

Randomosity Part VIII = Muscles, Murder Mysteries, Marine Biology & Massages

Randomosity Part IX = Potter, Pickup Lines, Paste & Purple People-Eaters

Randomosity Part X = Guys, Good & Going Green Garbage

Randomosity Part XI = Cookies, Carats, Creepers & Capitals

Randomosity Part XII = Pens, Planners, Presidents & Portfolio

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What are you doing on your computer?

You should be outside enjoying this beautiful day!

Aubrey's Photo Shoot

I just BARELY realized...I never posted these for you.

I did this photo shoot of my niece for a school project - an antique catalog. It was actually really fun. Not to mention a lot of work to put together outfits and do her hair and makeup for each look. But yes, very fun. She was a good sport for letting me use her as my model. All of my nieces are gorgeous, what can I say?

 Yes, we used a fan for these two. Gotta love it :)

Aren't they fun? I should do this more often. Whittles, you're next :)

To view the catalog, go HERE

For more of my photography, go HERE

Have I Told You Lately...

Design via Tumblr

Y'all simply rock my virtual world.

And yes, I love you.

All 86 Fabulous Followers,

Thousands of Kind Commentations,

And 40,444 Blog Views of you!

Thanks for being so awesome!

muju

**Post revised 4/25/11 @ 5:13p with new photos

We interrupt this unannounced blog hiatus to bring you a word from our...uh...sponsors?

Ok, basically I just finished a project and wanted to show you how pretty it turned out.

Ready? Ok.

(whoa, suddenly I'm a cheerleader)

Introducing:

muju

(like Moo Juice - it's flavored milk)

A bottle labeling and packaging project

by Lindsay Kay

Yellow Drink: HORCRUXES - Commotion Potion

Brought to you by "Harry Potter 7" & the Retro era

Red Drink: SUPER HERO - Crunch Punch

Brought to you by "Iron Man 2" & the Art Deco era

Green Drink: GROWING UP - Animation Libation

Brought to you by "Toy Story 3" & the Cubist era

Blue Drink: UNBIRTHDAY - Shrink Drink

Brought to you by "Alice in Wonderland" & the Borrowist (my made-up) era

The package, workin' it for the camera.

 

 

 

Pretty no? :)

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program,

And off to class for me :)