Kim's Favs for week of 8/16/2012

Quote for today:

August 15, 2012

"The real purpose of life is just to be happy—to enjoy your life. To get to a place where you're not always trying to get someplace else. So many people spend their lives striving, trying to be someplace that they're not, they never get to arrive."

—  Dr. Wayne Dyer

Email Promotion going out today - 8/15/2012:

More Picks from Marcela...

Hope you have a great weekend.

Enjoy these additional picks from the site Pinterest.

Stencil and Tribal Influences in Home Fashions:

From Williams-Sonoma Home (email promotion received today, 8/10/2012):

Seems that texture & geo's are big in fashion this fall....from Crate and Barrel ad:

Oprah says these are five must read books:

Give me an extra hour in the day - I'd want to nap but probably would end up spending that time reading.  I love to read.  I rarely watch a movie because I think - why don't I take that time and read?

I love when a list (I am a list person) comes out with "must read" books.  I print the list out and carry it to my book group for discussion.

So, when Oprah (yes, I am an O-fan) sent me this list - I checked it out.

Thought you may enjoy it too:

http://www.oprah.com/book-list/5-Books-Everyone-Should-Read-At-Least-Once_1

August Newsletter from Design-Options - Color Trends:

Click here to view newsletter:  http://design-options.com/news1.html

Doodling Anyone?

Article that may interest the designer in you:


http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/08/03/i-draw-pictures-all-day/

A tip for my fellow designers...from Iris

Iris finds this App helpful.

So, she offered this up to all at KD to check out for tracking time on jobs…if needed.

Iris writes:

Hi Kim,

I downloaded this little app from the Mac App Store to help me keep track of time spent on different jobs. It may be helpful to others in our group.

Just google Desktop Task Timer.

http://desktoptasktimer.com/Text.png
<iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xRJRRsPSD9w?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Iris

PS: Wish it could tell me how to estimate time for a job--AARRRRGGG!



Kim's Favs - Week of 8/2/2012

Spotlight on Andrea S...

Kim Note Here:  No photo of Andrea S. but I have met Andrea in Manhattan and she's very nice and very pretty!

How long have you been contributing to KD?  

5 years…I think!

Where do you live? (State, Country) 

Wisconsin, USA

When did you realize you had a passion for art/design? Actually, I really wanted to be a doctor. But my parents said- "You don't want to do that! You're an artist!"  I suppose they knew me better than I knew myself. 

Did you inherit your passion/artistic genetics from someone in your family? My father. He was a doctor. But he always wanted to be a photographer. His mother insisted he become a surgeon. And so he was- and  a very, very good stitcher- no scars!  Ah! Such parellel lives we live!

What is one of your favorite design/art you have created?  (attach jpg) Bunny Bandana

Why this piece? It is funny- in a very subtile way. Lots of pattern- I love the cabbbage in the middle. I what to do a whole series of them- bees, horses, owls- everything!

Do you have a hobby outside creating/art? Growing tomatoes. Lots of varieties including Heirloom. Sharing, cooking, freezing, drying- EATING! Nothing is better than a vine ripe tomato eaten over the sink with a little sea salt. I have "White Queen" in my garden again after a 5 year wait! Tastes like pineapple.Oh YUM! Also- Reading, waterskiing, collecting "face" cups, (cups with faces on them) and of course- art in any form. 

If you were a color, what color would you be?  Why that color? White (or black in pigment or print) of course. It is all colors of the spectrum combined. Why have one when you can have it all? What a silly question. But I do like lime green.

Favorite food? Tomatoes. And that tart yogurt (pinkberry/cali yougurt)- please come to Milwaukee!

Favorite movie and/or book? Oh- without a doubt, anything written by Dianna Gabaldon!! Run.. do not walk…   to your nearest bookstore or audible download (the audible is just as marvilus!!) and search for her Outlander series! If you like to read- you will love me forever for telling you this. There are 8 - 1,000 page books of bodice-ripping historical time traveling I-wish-it-was-real amazing fiction. Fans are all waiting for the movie..she has a blog too!

A guilty pleasure? Guacomole

What would be your dream job? Retirement. So I can just do art and grow tomatoes.

If we showed up at your house unexpectandly on a Friday evening, what is something we would find you doing? Watering my tomatoes and drooling in the corner after a long week of my day job and freelance at 50+ years. 

An interesting or funny fact about you that you’d be willing to share…?  I read tarot cards. I started because my best friend had a deck and we would read the book as we played with them. I continued reading and learning, taking classes, exploring the philosophy and history. I don't think I am particually gifted in that psychic kind of way. But there have been some very spooky moments!



More features coming soon!
Kim

Love this geo - always amazing how many geo's there are to be created!

By Pankaj at Kim Designs...featured above.

Cheer for a good Tuesday,

Kim