Snot Faced & Soaked to the Knees

The all too common occurrence of my boy lately. Luckily I'm a laundry pro, and he's so dang cute!

May Desktop Background

After a long break from blogging, here's a desktop background I made for May.

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Enjoy!

Friday Font Favorites

A quick look at this week's favorites: Thanks for looking. Have a great weekend!

Dingbats and Typeface Design

Dingbat fonts are fun and useful. Here's a list of a few great sets by Think Design:

Cool & Useful Dingbat Fonts

Ever wondered what goes into creating a typeface? I have! : ) Here is a simple tutorial by VectorTuts+. All font designers have their own styles and techniques, but this tutorial demonstrates one way it can be done. The final product on the tutorial isn't the most pleasing typeface I've seen, but the lesson itself is very helpful.

Designing a Typeface, With Illustrator and FontLab, from Start to Finish Part 1

The second part of this tutorial hasn't arrived yet, which is okay for me because I have a feeling this will take a while... But the "A" is a start, right? P.S. I'll post part two here also when it's up.

Reduce your footprint: Ecological Footprint Quiz by Redefining Progress

How to Put a Chicken to Sleep and more

A couple quick tutorials this week. I don't know how useful this will be to anyone, but it's quality knowledge from Martha, as always.

Martha Stewart - Putting a Chicken to Sleep

This next post is one I am excited to try. I have been collecting jars for supplies for some time now and hadn't even thought about how to label them. Now I know!

Etched to Order from ReadyMade by Claire

Short post this week. First week of new classes... Busy. Busy.

Top Drop Caps and Typefaces of the Week

tarting off this post with my favorite letter of the week! Each time Jessica Hische adds to her sites, I love her work even more. The "S" she illustrated yesterday is so beautiful, I couldn't wait to add it to this post. You can see all of her work here and Daily Drop Cap is a fun site where she posts an illustrative initial every day.

Favorite Font of the Week: Magesta Script

Bonus: The Mix weight of the Font is free on MyFonts.com The following two links are from WDL and feature some great paid and free fonts. Thanks WDL for posting these!

20 High Quality Free Fonts for Designers

As soon as I laid my eyes on this original post I quickly downloaded the "Folk" font (above). It was just what I was looking for and is very versatile.

30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design

This Matchbook typeface is wonderful. Also, featured in the post, is Ballpark. It's not as complete of a font, but the lowercase letters have been a long standing favorite of mine. Happy weekend everyone!