Freebie: Tiled Pattern ‘Paper’ – Swirls, Stars, Dots

Had a moment to try and learn something new with Illustrator the last few days and tackled creating a tiled pattern which I turned into a black and white pattern. I’ve decided to give it away as a freebie in 300dpi 8.5×11″ paper and 12×12″ paper. If you like and you take, please leave a [...]

A Logo Idea…If I Were Predatory

I saw a tweet from LayersTV_RC about not being able to sketch a logo for his own identity, and I’d never even really given it a thought for myself. But I had a few minutes and decided to sit down and sketch out a rough idea for this site. I used Photoshop to clean up [...]

Neighborhood Cat… Now Ours?

First noticed the cat about two months ago, hanging out on the back porch trying to stay cool in the afternoon sun by hiding under the deck seating. Can’t resist cats, so I went out to pet her. She purred from the beginning. She kept coming back and well, I have a soft heart when [...]

Troubled by spam messages….

EDIT X2: Found it, thanks to a discussion board at Google Groups. So, profound thanks to all the diligent people there who investigated the problem behind this issue. EDIT: So, it’s not the deactivated plug-ins and I’ve switched themes. I remain at a loss still. Will have to continue searching for this culprit. A friend [...]