Inspiring Interviews - San

San is an amazing graphic designer and illustrator. I have been internet friends with her for many years and have loved to watch her art grow and evolve. She is always inspiring with her colorful personality, fantastic wardrobe, adorable little Chihuahua, and fantastic blog!

1. What is a typical day for you? I run a lot of errands outside the house to keep from going stir crazy, answer emails, work on blog posts or freelance projects and in the evening I try to turn off the computer and focus on relaxing with my boyfriend, friends or family.

2.Where are you currently grabbing you inspiration for design and fashion from?

Pinterest! I loooove pinterest. My computer loves it too because I'm no longer saving inspiration photos on my hard drive and clogging it up. ;)

3. How do you manage to keep an organized schedule as your own boss? are there any tools you utilize to help?

I use two programs on my computer - "Pomodoro" for time management and "Things" to keep track of my to-do and schedule. They are amazing and I don't know where I'd be without them!

4. What do you do to unwind?

I love going window shopping, exercising and dancing, going on adventures with my boyfriend and friends, taking photos and traveling. If I don't do those things I go crazy!!

5. You are much like myself and have many many hobbies, what hobby are you currently indulging in right now?

Hmmm, right now I'd say I'm enjoying collecting Monster High dolls, experimenting with putting videos on YouTube, and trying my hand at nail art. I tend to change my interests pretty fast so who knows what I'll be doing in 2-3 months! 

6. How does it feel to finally have a comic published? I remember you were working on your own characters and story awhile back for a comic of your own, is that still in the works?

It's pretty cool, but not as life changing as I expected! I think I really dramatized the concept in my head since I was a teen, but now that I'm older and have accomplished it I've realized its really not any different from other work I've done. :) As for my own comic, I've decided to put it on hold indefinitely and focus on other things I'd like to accomplish.

7. What goals have you set for yourself and how to you plan to accomplish them? 

I recently shared my personal goals for 2012 here, and most of them are to focus on health and happiness… but as far as career stuff that isn't listed there, I'm still kicking around the idea of writing and illustrating a book for kids. 

8. Are there any upcoming projects you'd like to share?

Right now I'm just working on redesigning my website and my comic for Magnet magazine! I hope the website will be finished by summertime… but it's hard to say! Sometimes my personal projects drag on forever because I never stop tinkering with them. :)

Want to know more?

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Check out her website http://www.san-smith.com/

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Mix Tape Monday

Mod Inspired Mix

Modesty Blaise - Let's Get Together

The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

The English Beat - Save It For Later

The Specials - Gangsters

The Kinks -Waterloo Sunset *

Blur - Parklife

The Who - My Generation

The Zombies - She's Not There

The Yardbirds - For Your Love

David Bowie - Absolute Beginners

The Jam- That's Entertainment

*Unforuntately I could not find the orignial of this song, which is a favorite of mine, so instead I went with a good cover of the song by The Kinx

 I hope you enjoy the music I have shared with you this week and if you want to purchase any of these songs go ahead and click on the player.

I'd also love to hear what some of you favorite songs are!

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Free Comic Book Day!

It's that time of year again!!

Some of you might remember my post last year about FCBD

Today is the Day!

I urge you all to head to your local Comic Book Shop and check it out!

Yes! There are free comics involved, it's not just a clever name!

(click here to see this years titles available to you for free.)

Not only are there Free comics, many shops also have other exiting things going on. Some shops have special guests like comic creators there to sign autographs, Costumed characters to take photos with, raffles, special sales, other free trinkets, and the list goes on.

So please go check it out today!

I will be taking Weapon X out for his first Free Comic Book Day today to my local comic shop.

Wanna Learn More?? http://www.freecomicbookday.com

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Door to Door Organics

Recently we signed up for Door to Door Organics and I am in love with it.

Each week we get fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to our door.  It is a bit pricey but I find it no different than buying organic at the grocery store, and being a vegetarian I already spend a lot on vegetables anyways. Having the convenience of it being delivered free to my door, the opportunity to support US farms (in some cases local farms), and not to mention they fact that they have an online store as well where you can pick meat, eggs, fish, dairy, beans grains, etc, all of which can be easily added to your fruit/veggie box for delivery with no delivery charges just seemed like a great idea to me!

Before I found Door to Door organics I would just pick up vegetables whenever I went to the regular grocery store which was about once a month and in most cases would have a hard time eating them all before they went bad because I would over buy fruits and veggies knowing I wouldn't be back to the store in awhile. Now I don't even have to worry because each week we get fresh fruits and veggies delivered right to our door!

So now can have fresh fruit with breakfast and fresh salads each night with dinner. I have also been combing the interwebs for all sort of new and exciting recipes to make with our weekly lot of produce. I find it very exciting!

One of our weekly deliveries. Look at all that yummy produce!

Unfortunately Door to Door Organics is only available in a few states. But if you live in Michigan and are interested in it, I highly suggest it. We have been members now for about two months or so and only once have I received a vegetable that went bad in a matter of 3 days. But with that being said, I emailed customer service and they were very apologetic! They made sure to send us the same vegetable with out next box free of charge no questions asked! How's that for customer service?

Since I am all about produce these days I have been thinking about putting up some of the recipe's I have been making here on the blog. Maybe a once a month food highlight that way I don't bombard you all with all sorts of food here. This weekly delivery has inspired me to start to slowly ride my home of prepackaged foods and strive to make almost all of my meals from fresh produce or dry goods. We keep hearing all about the nasty preservatives they put in our prepackaged goods and I want to get away from all of that, plus it's a nice challenge and also the greener way (It cut's back on trash without all those cans and packages to toss). I already have plans in the works to rethink my pantry. My first big leap is to rid my house of all the canned beans (being vegetarian I am a bean lover so we always have canned beans on hand) and replace them with dry.  More work I know but I think in the end I will feel much better about it.

 So I will definitely keep you all updated on my progress because I know it's going to be a big step and I am sure some of you are interested (if not let me know what you want to hear about!)

In the meantime check out Door to Door Organics!

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Friday Favorites

It's Star Wars Friday!

Source: williams-sonoma.com via KC on Pinterest

via RedandJonnyvia Official Star Wars Blog

via etsy seller RestyleShop