If you haven’t heard about ExtraTasty.com yet and you’re into cocktailing, you should definitely check it out.  It’s like the Flickr of cocktails!  Tags and friends and drink recipes galore!  Good times, good times.
Since we are known to be martini mavens around here, we submitted our Moxietini™ recipe to ExtraTasty and lo!  The Moxietini™ is today’s Drink of the Day!  Thanks, ExtraTasty!

I’m Alive!  Barely.  The baby is crying in the background and it has taken me all day to write this post.  The joys of motherhood!  Just a quick update on my schedule as I have gotten a couple “It’s April!  Where are you?“ emails.  I do not have a definitive start date on coming back to work just yet.  I am in the midst of moving to Georgia this month and with a 3 month old, packing sure is a challenge.  That said, I will be returning on a part time basis at the end of the month/early May officially, but am already starting work on a few odds and ends for some existing clients. 
So I am unofficially back to work, but with a baby who doesn’t nap much (read: hardly at all) during the day, I have little time for luxuries like showers let alone a few uninterrupted hours at my desk, so I use the term “part-time” loosely.  I already have accepted a few small projects that will be consuming my time through May and possibly into early June, so any new projects I accept will likely have a start date of something like early to mid-summer.  I am accepting a limited number of projects for that time, depending on the size.  Anyone needing a project done during that time, please get your inquiries in to me now and I will get out some proposals as soon as I can.  First come first serve!  I am checking email and if you have sent me something I did get it and am responding as quickly as I can, so I appreciate everyone’s patience!
The baby is hungry again so off I go. Happy Spring!

For all you designers out there (budding or professional) there’s a contest on right now called The Style Contest. It’s brought to you by Six Apart (the makers of Movable Type, for those who don’t know) and Adobe, among others.  Kathy and I were honored to be asked by Six Apart to be on the judging panel along with Derek Powazek, Jason Santa Maria from Happy Cog and John Allsopp.  If you dig LiveJournal, MT or Typepad and you can design your way out of a hole in the ground, then this is the contest for you. Good prizes, too!  Check it out.

Hello everyone!  It’s been a while since I updated my schedule so I thought I’d pop in and give the rundown.  As you may know, I welcomed a son into the world in late December and have been playing “Mommy” ever since.  It’s been a wonderful, exhausting experience to say the least.  He is a wonderful little guy and I couldn’t be happier.  In the meantime, Moxie celebrated it’s three year anniversary which just floors me.  I am very proud of what we’ve done in the last three years and most importantly, I am lucky to get to do this all with the best partner in the universe.  She has held up the fort like a trooper since I have been on Maternity leave.  Happy Anniversary!
Speaking of, I am still currently on leave until the beginning of April.  I don’t yet have a definitive start date as I am planning a move out of Hurricane Alley to a lovely town outside of Atlanta, Georgia.  When I do return I will be taking a few projects and hopefully lightening the load Joelle has.  I do appreciate everyone’s understanding while I go through the rest of my leave.  If you are a current client and have an emergency, please email me as I have been able to check my email regularly, but please be patient with me! Thank you again to my clients for their continued loyalty and patience!

Three years ago, Kathy asked me if I wanted to help her do some blog designs in our spare time.  Little did we know that 3 years later, we’d be where we are now — over 400 projects and counting!  It’s been 3 years of trying new things, succeeding at most and tripping hysterically over others.  We’re thrilled to have been able to provide snazzy designs for your websites and blogs and hope to continue.  Skillset aside, we’re very lucky women to be able to do what we love for such amazing clients. And working together, if only “virtually”, is always a great time.
So far, it’s been a fabulous ride!  Here’s to three more years!