bonbah

illustration, animation, made stuff

12 Aug

losing the facebook popularity contest

A few people have suggested that I create a facebook page for little bulldog design. I’ve finally done it, but it feels a bit like the first day at school. Nobody ‘likes’ me! Nobody actually even knows I’m there! Actually it’s not true that nobody likes me, they have very kindly made it so you [...]

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12 Aug

new photos

I’ve finally got my new product photos up on Folksy just need to do shots for the new wedding and children’s party invitations once the samples are finished.

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05 Aug

new photos

When picking products for my Folksy Friday posts, I’ve been finding myself being a bit particular about photography. This is slightly hypocritical as I really doubt I would choose my own product photos:

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First I thought about just desaturating the background:

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This helps a bit, but to be up to the standard of most other sellers I [...]

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28 Jul

little steps

I’m not the most patient person so it’s been quite hard telling myself that building up a business from scratch is not going to happen overnight. The biggest problem being that when I set up as a freelance graphic designer, it did literally happen overnight. There were a few dry spots, but for the most [...]

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11 Jul

finally made the baby’s curtains

Only 8+ months late, but I finally made curtains for the baby’s room. Yes they are a bit too short and there are quite a few mistakes, but at least they’re made and up. He still woke up at 5.30am (we had curtains before but not black-out ones) but he went more quickly back to [...]

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10 Jul

little bulldog design

I officially back from maternity leave to my freelance business, little bulldog design, a couple of months ago, but you wouldn’t really know it as not much in the way of work has come in. I blamed it on the recession for a little while, but it quickly became apparent that my clients had either [...]

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08 Jul

back to bonbah

owl bum, originally uploaded by joannevc.
I’ve never been very good at keeping up this blog and over the past 8 months I haven’t been very good at keeping up with much of anything except a certain little boy. But it’s time to get back into the swing of things albeit a different set of things. [...]

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