Helloooo!  Just popping in to post a wee reminder that The Moxie Girls Summer Cocktail Contest shindig is still going on until June 6th.  If you haven’t already, send us your favorite summer cocktail recipes to enter to win one of theeeese fabulous prizes:

Grand Prize Winner will receive:

• A Cosmo Caddy, which includes a cocktail shaker, 4 cosmo glasses and a retro-esque carrier valued at $55.00 courtesy of LiquidPlanet.com
• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Two Runners-Up Winners will receive:

• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Rules here… hop to it kids! Time’s a runnin’ out and these Jaqua hand creme’s a burning a hole in my pocket.  Ok, they’re not actually IN my pocket, more like in a bag on my desk… but they’re taking up space!

Potato and Onion © Dan Worthing. All rights reserved.

This strip, Potato and Onion, was introduced to me by a friend and I love it now. 

Hello!  I just wanted to pop in here quickly to mention that we found a hinky bump with the Request for Proposal form.  It was giving us some nasty errors thanks to an extension we added to ExpressionEngine to help combat spam.  Apparently it had a hissy and decided no one was allowed to submit the form.  So!  It’s been fixed.  If you were attempting to submit an RFP and it barfed out some icky errors, it is now resolved, so please feel free to resubmit.  Thanks!

If you didn’t notice, then don’t mind the woman behind the curtain channeling the all powerful Oz… *whistles*

Since we have our new Moxie-a-Go-Go look in place we thought we’d kick off the summer with a fun little contest giveaway!  Yay!  Free Stuff!  But hang on there, Bucko, you can’t get something for nuthin’ these days.  In this case it’s something for very little effort so that’ll just have to be good enough!    Lets cut to the prizes:

Grand Prize Winner will receive:

• A Cosmo Caddy, which includes a cocktail shaker, 4 cosmo glasses and a retro-esque carrier valued at $55.00 courtesy of LiquidPlanet.com
• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Two Runners-Up Winners will receive:

• A signed copy of The IT Girls Guide to Blogging with Moxie!
• A tube of Jaqua Hand Creme (flavor may vary!)

Here’s how to enter:

• Send us your favorite Summer cocktail recipe… your tried-and-true, your awesome party punch, your blended fruit favorites… whatever!  Send us your favorite Summer-themed cocktail recipes.  Drink recipes must include at least three (3) main ingredients (Garnish doesn’t count!  No rum and coke with limes you sneaks!) For extra credit, include a recipe for a “pairing”, or a tasty snack to go with your cocktail.  You can get even *more* extra credit by posting your entry on your blog and sending us the link.
• Then, send an email with the subject “Moxie Girls Summer Cocktail Contest!” in the subject line to .  Please include your full name (and nickname for announcement purposes if you would like to remain private) and a full address where your prizes will be sent.
• One entry per person.  You can get an extra entry into the contest if you include the aforementioned “pairing” or snack idea.  Like a 2-fer!  Make it a 3-fer by posting your recipe on your blog and linking back to our entry here. If you blog it, be sure to include the link to your entry in your submission so we know to give you an extra chance.  That’s up to three chances to win!  Winners will be drawn at random.

The winner(s) will receive full credit in our blog postings and mad kudos for their win, but any and all submissions become property of The Moxie Girls™ and we reserve the right to reprint, rename, or modify original recipes at our discretion for future use.  Trademarked and/or copywritten recipes submitted must contain the source of the recipe in order for it to be considered. Multiple entries, or entries missing information will be disqualified so make sure you include your recipe, name and address!

Contest will end at midnight EST June 6, 2008, so please have all entries in by then and we’ll announce the winners here on the blog on Monday, June 9, 2008.

A big thank-you to our friends at Jaqua Beauty and Liquid Planet who helped sponsor this contest.

Winners will be drawn at random out of a hat… or ice bucket, whichever we can find first.  The drawing will be recorded via video or webcam for authenticity.  So start mixing, and start sending those recipes!  Yum!

Hi hi hi!  Well, as you can see, we’ve been doing a little housekeeping around here. It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have our new look in place.  We loved our Air Moxie pink and blue girls, but it was just time for a change, so we’ve taken our girls to a cocktail lounge with a go-go twist.  We call it “Moxie-a-Go-Go”. We’re still making some tweaks and ironing out a few weensy details here and there, so pardon any dust you might see.  Overall, it’s finished and should be displaying just delightfully in IE7, Firefox 2.0+ and Safari for both PC and Mac. If you’re using IE6, either upgrade your IE, get a better browser and/or tell your IT department to get with the program.

Some of the new features on this site are a new and improved FAQ section, which breaks down the most popular questions we hear monthly, weekly, even daily.  We’ve also made the proposal process so much smoother by creating a detailed Request for Proposal form that provides you a guideline for pricing and add-ons. 

We have a new portfolio, too! After 5 years and over 450 projects, we realized we had to pare it down a bit, so we’ve removed anything that’s not currently online (for now, though we’ll be bring back our Design Graveyard eventually for retired designs that we really like a lot). We also wanted to showcase only our most current and best work.

As you can see, our blog does allow comments now and we’ll be doing a lot more blogging over here, so please feel free to chime in.  We love a good conversation and meeting new people. We’ll also be sharing some of our favorite blogging tips and editorials on blog design in our Blogging with Moxie category.  And while we did have a semi-hidden feed before, be sure to subscribe to our new feed here.

Kathy has some fun and exciting news for you later, too, so keep your eyes peeled. You may want to get in on it! 

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Hellooo!  It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Allow me to climb out from under my pile for a moment and update this here “schedule” I keep threatening myself with.  A few projects were launched this spring and I’ve been neck deep in repeat site maintenance and some logos, so I’ve been keeping busy.  I am about to launch a few larger projects.. some cute ones!  So I’ll be doing a few proposals for new projects slated to start this summer, over the next few weeks.  I’ll be scaling back on some of the larger custom jobs to focus on preparing Femmplates™ so we’ll hopefully have a few of those available this summer too.  Feel free to fill out the Request For Proposal form if you’re interested in obtaining a proposal!

Summer looks like it’ll be busy as usual for The Moxie Girls™ but we have some fun stuff in store which may include drinks, donuts and faaaaaabulous prizes.  No matching washer and dryers but stay tuned. 

She liiiiiiiiiiives!  Actually, we’ve been very busy around here in case you didn’t notice. hehe!

Right now, I’m spinning several plates working to wrap up some projects and I’ve already booked a few new clients for the coming months, but I am still accepting inquiries… well, until I’m not anymore. I’m not quite sure when my cut off will be — there are some projects in negotiation right now. But it will only be a handful of jobs this summer, so hot-step it if you’re interested.  You can fill out our request for proposal to get started.

I will be taking my summer vacation from July 19 - August 5 and will be unavailable by phone or email (it is a vacation after all!), so if you have a project that needs to launch before then, definitely contact me as soon as possible.  Any projects I’m currently working on will certainly launch before then (barring anything unforeseen), so don’t you fret.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!  Don’t forget your sunscreen!