We ask you, Internet, do you like boobs? We like ours and want them to stay healthy!  If you’re a boob fan, you’ll be pleased to know the 6th annual Boobiethon started TODAY on Monday, October 1!  We are proud supporters of and participants in the Boobiethon for five years running!

Here are some excerpts from their press release:

That’s right, the racks are back Oct. 1-8 and they’re committed to raising more than $10,000 in one week by unveiling Mother Nature;s greatest gifts. That’s right, we’re saying it, BOOBIES.

In an effort to gain donations for breast cancer research, hundreds of women and men are donating images of their chests for ogglers world-wide to check out. Generous donor bloggers are seriously strutting their creativity in both the clothed and bared arena on boobiethon.com.

They’re still accepting photo submissions all week. If you’re at all interested in participating, go read the rules and start snapping photos!

With all the book stuff going on, we’ve kind of let this site simmer on the back burner for a bit.  Now that we’re approaching our final edits on Blogging with Moxie, we’re ready to start thinking about the future!  We have a lot of plans for the Moxie Girls over the summer and into the holiday season. We hope you’ll stop by from time to time to see what’s new.  Since we’ve been so quiet, you may wonder what we’ve been up to…

Kathy put together a fabulous site for virtual assistant (VA), Mia Chambers.  Her company, Acumen VA, was looking for a new logo, as well as a completely overhauled website using a green and purple color palette.

Kathy also did this very traditional design for return client, Athenian Properties.  For their business, they requested a more “gothic architecture” style with minimal color, which Kathy delivered in an elegant, sophisticated format.

Brandi Baldwin wanted a fun design with a sexy blonde woman and lots of cake for her home bakery business in Wyoming, Brandi Bakes!. Brandi definitely wanted “more Anna Nicole, less Martha Stewart” and requested the popular palette of pink and brown.

FashionJunkie was one of the biggest projects we’d worked on to date.  Utilizing lots of illustrations by Micho Illustrations, the client Dara Fleischer requested a bold design with lots of color and action.  This site utilizes lots of bells and whistles and features a variety of scripts, plug-ins and modules.

Wifeville, the online wife-wear boutique created by Jen Gorman, was a bright, cheery design project with a whimsical concept. This project was design-only and developed by a another firm.

It’s a rare opportunity that I get to meet my clients, but I did get the pleasure of meeting Carol Flake at our 2006 SXSW Panel.  She hired us to create a logo and an inviting design for their woman-centric financial website, Woman with Portfolio.  This project was completed in summer 2006, but the client is still finalizing a launch date.

Whew!  So, in addition to a book and a handful of small projects, this is what we’ve been doing with our time.  We also are working on a complete overhaul of this website (including pre-designed exclusive blog templates and small business website templates for those of you looking for instant gratification), as well as the impending launch of our Moxie Girls website which will feature so much cool stuff, I don’t even know where to begin.

And, of course, don’t forget to grab your copy of The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie available for pre-order now from Amazon.  It’s been selling like hotcakes (or so we’re told) so make sure to get in on the action!

A warm congratulations to our client, Melissa DeLeon, the Cooking Diva for winning the 2007 Bloggies Award for Best Latin American Blog.  This is Melissa’s second win in this category and she had some very kind words for us:

Joelle, thank you for the beautiful designs. No doubt they have helped me to win the Bloggies two times in a row!

Thank you, Melissa, for being such a great client who keeps coming back for more Moxie!  Congratulations on your blog’s success.

We are thrilled to spread the news that pMachine, Inc., the company who created our favorite and wildly popular content management system, ExpressionEngine (EE), has changed its name.  Out with pMachine, IN with EllisLab!  Here’s a bit about the changes straight from the horse’s mouth. Or, in this case, Rick Ellis, CEO:

Over the past three years, ExpressionEngine has grown by leaps and bounds in popularity.  In fact, as a brand it had eclipsed pMachine.  So when we set out to define our 2007 goals we decided it was time to move ExpressionEngine to its own site.  And since I always felt the name pMachine was confusing given our discontinued app, we decided to re-brand the company (and our hosting company).

So there you have it!  New name, completely new site, logo and everything else, designed by the ever-talented Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain of 31Three.

Speaking of… we would also like to add that we were asked by EllisLab to be members of their Advisory Board alongside some of the top names (and talent!) in the design/development community.  We are honored to be asked and look forward to working closer with the EE team and these incredible designers in the future. 

Cheers, EllisLab!  We love you guys.  “For realz”, as the kids say.