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Last Minute Road Trip…

Bluebonnet Season!

Bluebonnets, taken along the side of Highway 290, between Brenham & Giddings, Texas.

This weekend was the weekend for seeing people from out of town. How fabulous! Kathy was in town from Dallas for her friend’s son’s first birthday, so we got together at Elaine’s to watch Rumor Has It and hang out.

Saturday was a daytrip to Austin. In December when we went to Kentucky, I met the creators of The AntiCraft at ReBelle, the local yarn store. We had a fabulously good time hanging out with Zabet (Renee was out of town, or I am sure we would have had a great time with her too), and Patrick even saved our Christmas Eve dinner for us by giving me a Guinness for our beer cheese soup that we wanted to make on a Sunday. (No beer sold on Sundays in Kentucky.) When we were there, Zabet told us that she would be heading to Austin at the end of March for a wedding, and we made plans to get together.

She flew into Austin late on Friday, and we headed up Saturday to spend the day having a fun little tour of yummy food (Iron Cactus and Amy’s Ice Cream), a trip to Hill Country Weavers and then time at the bridge to see the bats. Zabet saw za bats! (Oh, that joke … it never gets old.)

We got delayed a bit on our drive, because there was just no way that we could pass all of those bluebonnets without stopping.

It was a short trip, and I wish we could have spent more time there so we could have seen everyone in Austin. Soon. I also wish we had had more time with Kathy, so we need to plan now for her next trip to Houston and for our upcoming Dallas visit.

Today was spent editing more photos from the recent shoots, and then taking photos of Hanna & Michael’s daughter Emma. Such a sweetie! I plan to have both sets of baby shoot proofs done within a week.

Whew! Right now, I think I need a nap! Busy weekend, including a new episode of Pointy Sticks, and there is going to be a very busy week ahead!

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Tapping into My Creative Geek Side…

Unmellow Yellow

Before I started knitting and went back to school, I used to post a lot about geek related topics. Over time, between the crafty side and school work, my focus on that has dropped off – at least on this blog. (In reality, it is not something I can let go of – it has always been there.)

When I was at SXSW, I realized how much I missed writing about the geek related topics, and so many of the panels that I attended focused on building community – and for me, about building myself.

So my focus here will be changing. I considered actually closing down BigPinkCookie.com – but it is too much of me and who I am. Also, there is a lot of good content in the archives that I don’t want to lose. So instead, I am going to simply refocus the site. Reinventing myself, to borrow the term from Erica. More writing on the craft, less writing about personal things. A new domain and a new name to replace the BigPinkCookie (although it is still very much a part of me, something has always been missing), and a new look.

I feel as if I have come full circle.

The creative blended with the geek. How many of us are out there? I know there are a lot of us out there – I am very fortunate to have met many over the years. Let me know if you are one, and I look forward to your thoughts in the future as I go through this process.

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Pearl post…

Testing writing a post from the Pearl. Why does WordPress refuse to remember me?

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Pick a Phone…

Samsung Blackjack, Blackberry Pearl or a Palm Treo … which one would you pick, and why?

Please discuss.

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Things Are Changing…

I haven’t been feeling the BigPinkCookie love for awhile. In part, probably because it has changed so much from what I used to write about, and after SXSW I realize how much I miss the things I used to talk about.

Basically, life has gone full circle, and I want to go back in some ways to where I used to be 2 years ago. But not completely, because there are many aspects about my life *right now* that I love.

I’m planning on writing more here about the craft geek side of life. The creative geek side of life. The personal side of life is possibly going to move behind closed doors somewhat – I am still thinking about that. But meanwhile, expect changes. They might just be big ones.