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An Hour in the Life of a Work at Home Mom

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Disclaimer: If frantic phone calls, poopy diapers, pineapples or nursing bras upset you in anyway, you don’t want to read this article. 

We, the work at home moms, are a misunderstood bunch. No one can really identify with your day to day balancing act except for another gal juggling the same combo of kids, clients, customers, [...]

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How to Create Chrome Letters in Adobe Illustrator

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This quick tutorial will show you the steps required to make simple beveled chrome letters.  You will need a basic knowledge of illustrator, but you certainly don’t need to be a pro.   I am using Adobe Illustrator CS3 on a Mac, but older versions and PCs should work the same way.  Here we go!

 
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Writing a Better Goodnight Moon

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Ah, bedtime. It’s dark outside.  Everyone is fed and clean and (hopefully) winding down at the end of the day.  Our little one is snuggled up in her bed ready for her story.  Its almost time for Mommy to have a little time for herself.  If only I didn’t have to read an odd little [...]

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Fun With Photoshop – How To Ink and Color a Pencil Drawing in Adobe Photoshop

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Everyone dig out that little pencil sketch you’ve got stuck in a drawer or on a bulletin board.  You know the one, the one you want to add some color to, but you don’t want to mess it up.  Let’s digitize your artwork.  It’s easy!  I’m using Photoshop CS3, but this tutorial will work with [...]

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Cultivating Doodles

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Are you a doodler?  I am.  Let me introduce you to Pokey the baby dinosaur.  Pokey has graced the margins of my notes since junior high.  I draw him on napkins, on scraps of paper while I talk on the phone, on painfully blank dry erase boards and even on my websites for luck.  He [...]

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Learning to Paint Novels

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Before I sat down to write this article I looked up “writing for artists” on Amazon.  My search came back with dozens of books on basic grammar, technical writing and sentence structure for us language impaired visual artists.  This was disappointing.  I wanted to find references on learning styles and creativity that focused on cross [...]

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Travels With Ernest – The Adventures of a Nomadic Navy Wife

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In the spring of 2006 my husband left for a deployment.  It wasn’t our first, and it certainly will not be our last, but it was his final deployment before we became parents.  I was able to take advantage of the flexibility of our before-kids lifestyle, and, among other things, I became a nomad, tried [...]

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Making the Switch: PC to Mac

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My first computer was an Apple 2C.  My dad bought me a “drawing” program that let you color pictures like a digital coloring book.  It was crude, awkward, had only eight colors and was utterly magical.  My current computer is a brand new iMac, complete with Adobe Creative Suite 3, which allows you to color [...]

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Don’t Just Run… BE a Runner

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I am a runner.  I do not run fast or far, but I do run, and that is what counts.  Deciding to BE a runner instead of just going running was a breakthrough for me.  I removed the option of not going.  I could not BE a runner and not run.  It was a part [...]

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Have a Happy Family Photo Shoot

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Recently we decided to enact a new family tradition.  The Yearly Family Photo Shoot.  I admit that I am not a professional photographer, but I am a bit more than an amateur.  When you are an illustrator it sure helps if you can take good reference photos.  I’ve also sold photos as stock photography, taken [...]

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