@dwalbert appreciate it :-)

🕸️ Spider Man: Homecoming tonight with popcorn 📼 🍿

🗒️ Day planned. Full Friday ahead!

Grateful Log for Friday July 26, 2024

1. Met with a client yesterday, face to face is always good to have.
2. Wrapped up the Ocean Front website and started sharing it.
3. A nice breeze this morning

Now Available: Ocean Front, leather bag by yours truly. Thanks to everyone who watched up to this point in the process :-) Website is live, commissions via the email form at the bottom of the page can be made, excited to get some made and out there! Please check it out and pass along.

nearly there…

📹 Finishing touches on the walkthrough video of the Ocean Front bag...once I have it on the website I am FINISHED and will launch it!

@dwalbert beautiful! Also, perfection is overrated.

Some purse “repair” action this morning.

🔮 Harry Potter on in the background while working this morning.

Voiceover time 🎙️

@dwalbert oh yeah, the human tripod!

@dwalbert I have a small photobox that I've used in the past but ended up disliking those results too. Had cloudy conditions when doing the photos and videos earlier, and experimented with angles and exposure and such...think I hit a pretty accurate spot, accurate enough at least. What type of setup do you have?

My third indoor plant to keep alive :-)

☕ Have been hitting an early afternoon crash the last few days. Coffee is needed. Need some positive life stuff too!!

@dwalbert always amazing at just how much time this part of the process takes, and just how tough it is to take photos and videos that don't distort the actual colors. That said, it is fun to get to do this, and then to share it out with folks :-)

@Miraz Appreciated :-) Doing my best!

@gregmoore I appreciate the encouragement. I do need to figure out how to get breaks that are done in a positive light. Right now I've pulled away a bit but mostly due to a negative interaction.

Grateful Log for Wednesday July 24, 2024

1. Today is the day I’m officially “launching” the ocean front bag (more to follow later)
2. Got to hang out with Mozzie a bit this morning
3. Good recovery sleep last night

😶‍🌫️ Quiet today. Stuck to myself even when around family this evening, my natural reaction when attacked. Words hurt. Actions hurt. People are people. I'll get over it with time, but makes me realize just how vulnerable I've made myself. Bunch of issues here that I need to deal with.

@gregmoore vast!

@kitt thank you, I appreciate it.

@jabel appreciated.

Email me to purchase. (Feedback appreciated!)

Grateful Log for Tuesday July 23, 2024

1. today is indeed a new day, it is not yesterday
2. out for a walk this morning
3. a slight breeze

🥱 up an hour before my alarm. late to bed as-well. nice start to the day though: walk, coffee, some writing now.

😴 bed for now. tomorrow is a new day.

😑 Man. today ended terribly.

splinched

@odd Yep, very light and easy. Clean as far as language, adult humor/situations, violence, etc which make it easy to watch with Mozzie (11yro). Love the adventure aspect of them :-)

Grateful Log for Monday July 22, 2024

1. Watched National Treasure 2 with Mozzie last night.
2. A new week
3. Changes in the weather

@odd all good, I appreciate it! No situation per se, that I’m aware of at least, just hit me and lingered…had some bourbon and that seemed to calm the nerves for now.

Oof. Overwhelming anxiety out of nowhere.

@ningkantida also, if email is easier or more appropriate at this point: aaron@amaiken.com

@ningkantida 'The' is not necessary for this one as it is just "Strathmere Leather". Of the concepts, I do like the clean lines of #1 as a wordmark and #3 for the initials. Looks like both of those ideas include stitching as a detail?

🏊 A bit stalled with what to do next today. Heading to the pool, despite the cloud coverage, for a change of scenery.

@ningkantida Hey now, awesome! I'm good with the approach of focusing more on the craftsmanship than luxury, especially since my aesthetic is quite understated. Impressive that you've already put so much time into the concepts! Will give this some thought today as to which design approach I am drawn to the most...I do like the simplicity of initials only...but let me think about a bit more today :-)

Grateful Log for Saturday July 20, 2024

1. All of the ideas I’ve been having lately, most of which have come to life!
2. Good sleep
3. Being inspired.

Here’s a photo of the neighbor cat enjoying one of the new deck chairs yesterday while I was making dinner :-)

@ningkantida Thank you and thank you! It was a very enjoyable site and story to build. I hope it resonates with folks.

I have corrected the link in the footer to point to your Letting with Ning website - and while there I noticed the writeup you did of the Ocean Front logo, love that!

Yes, for Strathmere Leather I was going to do a 'S' in the font that I'm using for the headings on that site, maybe using the color of the footer as the background, and then a diamond shape border using the color of the text...just never got to it :-) feel free to riff on that if you are interested in doing so. I certainly prefer to use a handmade design like yours as opposed to the computer generated look that mine would have.

💡 An idea I had woke me up 30 minutes before my alarm. Brain has been in a heavy creation cycle lately!

@odd smart!

@Miraz yup, all the eggs in one basket.

@V_ ah, exciting! enjoy your holiday!

@Annie only my toes still exist in the IT world. what's happening out there?

@jsonbecker sounds nice!

@V_ good deal :-)

@ningkantida in the process to wrapping up the site shortly...hopefully tonight but maybe tomorrow, will see how much longer I can keep chipping away :-) I have your about page linked in the footer of the site as credit for the logo. Let me know if there is another page you'd like me to link to instead.

@maique been there. the brain spinning in circles to keep you awake. hope you can catch a few 💤

@V_ oh man, 30 by 500, blast from the past! hopefully these are good vibes :-) I remember 30 by 500 and Amy Hoy from way back. Thanks for giving it a read!