Welcome once again fearless readers!

This is just to let you all know that this site may get updated a bit less for a while as I have recently decided to follow a dream of mine and purchased the Earth Spirit Emporium and New Age Retailers. It is going to get crazy in my life for the next couple of months until I get a handle on everything. While it’s not my first experience with being a business owner, it is probably larger than any other I’ve had.

I also inherited several Yahoo groups related to the business, New Age Resellers - to keep up on the latest that vendors have to offer, ESEContest - for entering into a quarterly contest at ESE, ESEBiz - where I can communicate with my wholesale and drop ship customers and SpiritOne - Our webzine that explores Paganism, Earth-based religions and spirituality.

I anticipate the next few months being a bit hectic as I try to get into the flow of the business. I’m still getting a bunch of new ducks in order, new PO BOX, Credit Card terminal for phone and mail orders, phone number for the business and the like so there is definitely going to be a period of transition.

What a month June has turned out to be! I found out today that we won the bid to develop a portal for a local housing community. I’ve put up a teaser in the web interfaces portion of my portfolio, but contractually, more of the details will be left out until the project is done. It is an aggressive project with lots of really great features, and will take about 8 weeks to complete!

I’ll keep you posted on my adventure…I’m hoping this is the start of some great things in my design career!

Hello again fearless readers, I just wanted potential clients to know that my June schedule is full for all but the most basic of design needs. July still has plenty of room if you’re not in too much of a hurry or your design needs are more complex. I’m always happy tog et the requests and try to fit them in where I can! If you need some freelance design work done and would like to have me do it, please use the contact form to get in touch with me, I’d love to work with you.

There has been a change of plans regarding the WindowBlinds skin…I’m not doing it. :) I know, I know. Let me explain…the program that you use to assemble the skin once you’ve made all the graphics is almost intolerable to experience. So…I’m not gonna. I’m continuing to work on the new iGoogle theme, but I’ve also got two paying design jobs lined up and starting next week.

Hey fearless readers,

I’ve been taken in by the Geocaching craze and thought it’d make a great topic for a theme. I’m sketching up some screens now, but will be working on it this weekend. The Steampunk WB6 theme is coming alone, I’ve got the button controls and the log off screen finished.

I’ve finally started my WIndowBlinds 6 Steampunk theme. It will be full of brassy, steamy goodness, with a wonderful dose of awesome as well! No screen shots just yet, like I said I just started, but very soon, gentle reader, very soon.

WindowBlinds is an application developed by the skinning freaks at StarDock that does an incredible job of theming your entire Windows environment. They also have a ton of other products for changing icons, sounds, cursors, etc. Yes, once done with the theme, I will be creating a suite which will include icons, cursors and more! Stay tuned!

The Cascadian iGoogle theme is finally available for use in the iGoogle theme directory, and my Steampunk theme now has over 8,000 users! Thanks to everyone for your comments, contacts and support. I’m going to be working on some more Steampunk stuff in the near future.

Miles to go is a poster featuring a fractal work I titled Winter, when I first made it, combined with one of my favorite poems. This is available as a poster from Deviant Art.

I recently discovered a great website for both 2D and 3D artists, The Gnomon Workshop, and have added a link to their site on the links page. Not only do they have some fantastic educational DVDs on just about every technique and app available, from rendering liquids in Maya to tattooing, but they also got some amazing free tutorials as well!

Google has finally activated their iGoogle “Artist Themes” section where you can now pick up themes by world-class artists and innovators (their words, not mine) as Rolf Harris,  Cold Play, Dolce & Gabbana , Jackie Chan and the Wiggles. I’m sure it’ll sound like sour grapes, but it is tough enough getting your theme noticed when it takes three weeks for the list to get updated and yours is among some very good ones and a lot crappy ones, but now it is that much tougher. I guess I’ve really got to step up my game a bit.  For some reason, Cascadian didn’t make it onto this round of additions (but the Wiggles did!), so I’m going to keep it as an inThemes exclusive theme.