metrocake

Kids and kittens, there is just way too much going on!

Wedding stuff is in full gear. There’s only ten weeks to go! Invitations have been ordered, bridesmaid’s dresses have arrived, I’ve applied for my passport (expedited, thank you very much), and I need to go to the tailor in the next week or two to alter my wedding gown. We have a photographer, DJ, florist…we’re working on wedding favors as we speak. I need to get some scarves or shawls for my bridesmaids (in case it’s cold), jewelry for me, oh, and that little matter of an engagement ring and wedding bands.

It’s all going to be groovy, I’m just… : makes gesture of head spinning around and around : Woosh.

The after-wedding things are cropping up. Little things that make me realize just how close the wedding really is. The next Kushiel book? Comes out in June. I had been walking around thinking, “Oh, waaaa, June, that’s so far away…” Except it’s NOT. : head spins again :

See?!

Bored!

I need to start thinking about photography classes again…I can’t remember when summer semester starts, but I haven’t done squat all winter and I’m BORED. So bored! And STALE! Hopefully I can get into a location photography class that starts in June, get more stuff down, or even just do a workshop. My camera’s wailing piteously, it’s lonely, I need to soothe it. :)

The metrocake design isn’t done by a long shot, but at least I’ve got a more interesting header up. (If you’re reading this through a feed, come visit!) I need to adjust the header some, but the general gist is up here — now to do some fun things with the rest of the site. Again, BORED. And yet, I can’t get my act together and get my portfolio online… I’m very, very, very, very blocked when it comes to that. A friend of mine said, “Just shit it out, already,” and I’ve been trying, but there’s a lot of fear associated with it. Most designers have done agency work, so they have many clients — and thus many different looks — in their portfolio. I’ve been at my current job for twelve years, I don’t have that. I’ve done many different things for my job — annual reports, magazines, brochures, Web sites, won an award for e-mail blast design — even set up an office in Second Life. But I don’t have the breadth of clients, I’ve just gone deep with the one.

And then there’s also what I want my portfolio to look like — I can’t settle, I come up with five different ideas a week and can never like one enough to get it down. The structure’s in my head, but not the look and feel. One minute, it’s lots of colors and pop. Another minute, it’s sepia tones, letterpress, and Mrs. Eaves. I can’t settle on just one.

Heaven help us if I need to paint a room an actual color…