blog #306 Saturn Duplication

Check out the new company that my husband and I started Saturn Duplication! Stop by our SE Ankeny office for a quote or friendly chat. We'd love to talk to you about your next CD, DVD, print, design project or even just the weather!

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blog #503 >> Space Craft Paper Craft

Here's my latest design for the Foto Crush store:

A Space Odyssey 

As we journey to the final frontier in a retro rocket ship, our spaceman finds the perfect moon rock to plant his flag of universal peace. Later, he’ll party it up with HAL 9000, Bishop, Data, a cute little alien girl and the crew from MF-4 (both are free!). Your space odyssey is only $2.99.

blog #502 >> End of an Era

After eight years of awesome design, today was my last day at NW Media. It's been a good run, but I'm moving on to brighter opportunities on the horizon. I plan on focusing on my contract/freelance work, doing more illustrations, and launching an etsy site for party kits and other downloadable pdf designs. Currently, I've been doing contract work with FotoCrush, and it has been a blast! You can download some of my papercrafts here at the FotoCrush Store. If you need any design assistance, please contact me: theresa.rohrer@gmail.com
I'm always taking on new clients. To see more of my work, visit my website: www.roaringdesign.com
Hopefully, I'll finally have the time to redesign it.
Here's to new and exciting things ahead!
T

 Here's a small selection of the album art I've done over the years.

  Vintage Circus: DIY Paper Craft Calendar: available at FotoCrush!

Notebook: Put Portland in Your Pocket: available at FotoCrush!

blog #501 >> Update!

Alright, I'm going to try this one more time. Last time I tried to post a blog, it completely erased it half-way through, and I gave up. But I do have a lot of stuff backed up... so here it goes.

Here's the homemade yogurt I made last weekend. It turned out fantastic! I love that creamy-buttery layer it gets on top. It's so much better than store bought! But ironically, you need to buy yogurt to use as a starter to make yogurt, so now I've got a LOT of yogurt. Looks like I'll be making some Ottoman Empire soup with the starter, and eating the tasty homemade stuff for breakfast.

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And these are the swell little vintage spice jars Trina gave me. I LOVE them! And my dad was able to repaint the lids for me. They cleaned up beautifully, and I've got them all filled and put neatly away.

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This is the Jabba the Hut piñata that I made for my nephew Charlie's Star Wars birthday party.
It was a huge hit!

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And here are the cutest shoes in the world that I found at an antique store while shopping with my mom. I was just so happy that they fit!

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I also seem to have found a new favorite Dickens novel! Dickens is hit-and-miss with me, I either love it or hate it. The Pickwick Papers was meandering, Great Expectations was a little disappointing, (there wasn't really a likeable character in the entire book, and they all deserved their fate.) Hard Times was a bit depressing, (if you want to read a good book about the northern mill towns, and the southern farming cities, North and South is a much better choice.) A Tale of Two Cities, I've always kinda liked, it's epic. And The Old Curiosity Shop was my old favorite, since it has such interesting characters. But Bleak House wins over the others by far. It's exciting, interesting, epic, with interesting likable heroes, and treacherous villains. I had watched the BBC presentation a while ago, and loved it, and I finally got the book from the library. And of course, the book is even better than the mini-series. I'm getting close to the end. I've signed up for Paper Back Swap, so I'm going to try to get Bleak House from that site. I've already sent two books off, and so far it's been a pretty fun site. It's a website where you can trade books with people all over America. You can read more about it here.  Alright, I'm going to get back to reading now... Good night!

 

BBC / Bleak House photo by: Point Black

blog #500 >> Minecraft Farm & More!

It's true, I've been consumed by the vortex known as Minecraft. I keep on thinking I'll burn myself out with it, but instead I just keep on thinking of bigger and better things to build now that I've gathered enough resources. But since it's been an eternity since I've blogged, and I don't really want MORE Minecraft pics at the top on the page. I'm going to post about a couple of other things first.

One of my current projects, (outside of spending hours on Minecraft) has been creating these vintage bumper stickers for my car Florence. In light of the upcoming election, I thought a political sticker would be fun. And since nobody likes Nixon, and Kennedy is a little too early for my car, I've decided to go with the classic, "LBJ for the USA" sticker from the Lyndon B. Johnson era. I also found these fantastic travel stickers, including the "I was there!" New York World's Fair 1964-65. I can't wait to print them up, and laminate them to some magnet sheets. That way I can switch them out with others when I get tired of them.

Here's an old Rambler that still has the original sticker!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/exuberance/5720764496/

And besides being obsessed with Minecraft, I've been a crazy pinning fool on Pintrest. Ever since Google Reader took away it's sharing feature, Pintrest has been my new stand by for those five minute breaks at work. 500MG file downloading? Let's kill a little time on Pintrest! Here are a few of my favorites from my "In the Closet" board.

Matthew Williamson Lace pearl beaded dress from Polyvore (sold out)
p.s. Polyvore is fun!!!
Rieker Mirjam shoes from Zappos $100
50's Mauve Mohair Cape from Sally Jane Vintage $52

Shoulder garden from Some Girls Wander
(I love this look! I need more flower pins though)
Edith Pinafore from Alice Nightingale $90
(I love everything in this shop!)

And last but not least, my amazing Minecraft farm. I've spent weeks on this! It's my greatest Minecraft achievement yet!

My Minecraft farm! Complete with green houses, barn, silo, windmill, water
wheel, water tower, automatic wheat farm, automatic sugarcane farm,
animals, and so much more!

Automatic wheat farm and power house.

Inside mechanics of automatic wheat farm.

Storage room in power house.

Barn and silo.

Inside barn.

Water tower to feed water wheel.

Water wheel to feed automatic wheat farm and automatic sugar cane farm.

Windmill... I couldn't figure out how to make it spin, but maybe someday.

And that's pretty much all I've got for now...
T

blog #499 >> Pintrest Update!

I'm really just posting this here so I can pin it to Pintrest.
I'm updating my "In the Kitchen" board. I'm switching it from both cute kitchens and delicious food, to just cute kitchens. Then I'm starting a new board called "In the Recipe Box" for awesome eats. So if you're missing my food pins, you'll need to start following my new board. Or if you're not on Pintrest, sign-up! 'Cause you're really missing out!
Cheers!
T

Here's an example of the delicious things you can see on my "In the Recipe Box" board.
It's a Home Made Mushroom Soup. I tried it. It's AMAZING! You can see the recipe here on Season with Spice. Or see the pin here on Pintrest.

And here's an example of the swell stuff you can see on my "In the Kitchen" board.
Image found on Interior Home Designz. Or here on Pintrest.

blog #498 >> White Chocolate Strawberry Cookies

Look! I did something other than play Minecraft!
I made this delicious cookies!
I found the recipe here at the Picky Palate blog.
See, this is why I LOVE Pintrest!
Cheers!
T