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Lego My Apple & some vintage finds

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Do you know someone who fancies thing of a vintage nature?

There is a shop on Etsy where you can buy Vintage Miniature Amber Glass Oil Lamps. Very cool, but Jody's Vintage offers a bunch of ideas and gifts to choose from for any time of year. There are hand painted cast iron trivets, old school TV lamps, kitchen utensils and even dated Mason jars if you know a collector. You could even put some goodies in the jar as part of the gift.

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MacSlaps are designer vinyl decals that utilize the backlit apple, allowing Mac owners to instantly customize their computer. So go ahead, slap some skin on your apple! Because your Mac should be as unique as you are.

"Lego My Apple" is a cute vinyl decal for your laptop or for wherever you wish to apply it. For those you know who like Apple products. I'm lucky because my husband likes Apple AND Legos, so really this would be the perfect decal for him. He'd probably put it on his Jeep. The description of the decal includes a disclaimer which says, "*Please note: this decal will definitely make you the coolest kid in the library." ROFL.

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Etsy is also a great place to find shops with cute, unique jewelry. One of my favorite shops to browse through is primoriginals. Right now they have really amazing unique ornaments, Christmas cards, art pendants, prints and original artwork, etc.

If you know me, then you know how I love owls. In fact, if I could have a pet snow owl I'd be elated. And if I weren't allergic to cats I would want an orange tabby. Anyway, I can have both of those animals painted on something at primoriginals. Like the colorful HOOT Mounted Art Print. They are tiny block prints that you can hang on the wall as part of a collage or just by themselves on a smaller wall like in the kitchen or powder room.

And there is a Cat. Tree. Mouse. pendant which has a coy looking orange kitty on it. The painted colors are warm and inviting, such a great scene.

Labels: apple, art work, dali decals, Etsy, gift guide, jewelry, MacSlaps, primoriginals, prints, vintage

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Alex Wilhite Oil Paintings; Plus Some Challenges and Inspirations

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Alex Wilhite has been deaf since birth. He has been painting when he was four years old. He attended to Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis at age of 4 until 15 years old. He was awarded B.F.A. from the University of North Alabama and M.F.A. in painting and art history from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He has had several solo and group exhibitions all over the USA, Japan, and Europe include the White House under President Clinton.

He now has an Etsy shop which just opened on February 2, 2009.

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Would you like to get over 1,000 icons for free?

The best of best collections of free icons collected mainly from the icon gallery sites and interesting articles. Webbyarts is glad to display the best list of icon resources for free icon set download. The download icon set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.

They also have a post with "31 Spectacular Logos for your Inspiration" to boost up your inspiration.

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Web Designer Depot has a post with 13 iPhone Apps said to be perfect for Graphic Designers. The applications help with task management, enhance photos, sketching and a whole lot more.

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ARRL announces second homebrew challenge

In 2009, ARRL ups the ante in the Second Homebrew Challenge by upping the power limit to 50 W. All entries are due no later than February 28, 2010.

"Low power (QRP) operation is fun, but often a little more power is even more fun," said ARRL Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR.

"For our new challenge, we are asking readers to design, or adapt a published design (with appropriate credit), and build a 50 W amplifier to follow a 5 W/40 meter transceiver. This could be used behind one of the radios from the original challenge, or from other QRP radios at similar power level."

There will be two cash prizes for this challenge. In addition to the prizes, the winners will receive the usual QST page rate for published articles.

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Design Is Mine has intrigued me again with their Flickr Friday piece from yesterday. It's called Flickr Friday: Into a Story Book.

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Greenlaunches is offering another chance to win a stylish eco-friendly gift for its ardent readers as well as all those who care for our planet and environment.

Participate in the contest to walk away with a chic, green bag by Matt & Nat.

All you have to do is suggest interesting and innovative ideas to recycle plastic bottles. Anybody from any corner of the world can share their passion for a greener life and grab this $300 bag recycled out of plastic bottles.

Labels: alex wilhite, apple, challenge, design is mine, Etsy, flickr, icons, logo design, painting, web design

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Apple MacBook Pro Case Design

Thursday, July 10, 2008

It's no shock that Apple plans to update the MacBook Pro sometime soon, and these casing designs are starting to look like the real thing. AppleInsider says that it has received confirmation that the leaked images are in fact authentic, and we can safely say that the new design will include some minor, yet welcome design tweaks. Of most interest is a release latch that provides access to both the battery and hard drive.

The photo of the new MacBook Pro's top shell is not particularly revealing, and also largely mirrors that of the MacBook Air. The recessed Apple logo contains three holes that are further recessed to the depth of the Apple logo's leaf. In the shipping product, it's speculated these holes (and the leaf) will be hollowed out so that light from the notebook's LED-backlit display can shine through and illuminate the same kind of a semi-transparent white Apple logo seen on today's models.

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