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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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Picture Time

Sweet, Sweet Baby…

Sweet Baby

For the record, I adore newborn babies. This child was just 15 days old on Tuesday when I met him. Right after the bottle break that had me photographing the cat in the last post, his father came home for lunch and we took a quick opportunity to capture this shot with him. Don’t you just want to sniff his sweet baby head?

I have many more to process from this session, but I have wanted to take this exact photograph for so long it had to be the first one that I edited. Soon Fresh Photography will have a baby portfolio! (I’m still taking people up on photography sessions though, so let me know if you are interested!)

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Worth Keeping

Really, You ARE Fabulous…

Pepper

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

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Geek Love

Web 7.2…

Over the past few weeks (ok, years, but it has been really heavy the past few weeks), I have heard the term Web 2.0 tossed around a lot. Thank goodness for Wikipedia, I finally found a definition:

Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004,[1] refers to a perceived second generation of web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. O’Reilly Media, in collaboration with MediaLive International, used the phrase as a title for a series of conferences, and since 2004 some developers and marketers have adopted the term.

I have to admit it. I think it is a rather goofy term. It is true, and very accurate, to say tha tthe web has grown and changed over the years. I believe it is constantly changing. Every single day, new innovations appear online. To draw a line and say that everything before a time is the 1.0 version, and after is 2.0, is a bit silly. And if you ask me, aren’t we up to Web 7.2 or something like that now? That was the point I brought up last night while at the Houston NetSquared meeting.

2004 is a LONG time ago in web terms.

I also have to say that I agree with Robert Scoble as I see Blackberry phones everywhere now and with the iPhone coming out soon, maybe we need to start thinking about Mobile 2.0 instead of (or in addition to) Web 2.0? Just today, I used my phone to answer e-mails and look up maps. I snapped photos of books I wanted to remember the names of. Plus I made phone calls. When we do our next art market, I will be able to use it to validate credit cards on the spot online. (We do not have the volume to make leasing a credit card processing machine anywhere near worthwhile, but ProPay has worked well for me over the past several years.)

Rapidly, cell phones are becoming so much more, and finding them in the hands of everyday users is becoming a common thing. We need to start taking that into consideration in our way of thinking.

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BlahBlahBabble Geek Love

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.