A comic book hero that is.  Oh yeah, I just read on five blogs before lunch (a kickin blog by the way) that Tim Gunn will be in the new Marvel Comic Model’s Inc.  I believe Tim will have the ultimate new superpower — a keen eye for fashion.  I’m lovin it.  Yeah Tim!

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On Tuesday night, Ken and I went to The Triple Door to see Vienna Teng.  While on our vacation a few months ago, Vienna and her musical partner Alex Wong played in the atrium of a crazy cruise ship into the wee hours of the morning.  So, no surprise Vienna was awesome.  She has a [...]

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Everyone has mentors and teachers.  People who graceful walk (or in some cases dance) through your life leaving ribbons of wisdom and then departing on their merry way.  Some stay with you for years and evolve with you, some show up on a tuesday and leave by mid-afternoon.  The time they share with you is [...]

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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

There are two things that I love reading, learning, and chatting about with reckless abandon. . .The first is creativity and the second is leadership.  I know, lame right? [insert ego here] Try as I like to dive into [...]

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Hi all. So I made a secret deal to blog more, and then haven’t been too disciplined.  I’m trying to find work, Ken is helping me build a website, and of course — Ken and I made a giant Halloween decoration that took us all weekend to get up (pics to follow soon).
However, in the [...]

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So I’m an IKEA fanatic, but Lapster and I always laugh about the names of their furniture – always very Swedish!  Blogadilla has a good IKEA Name Generator that may give us a sneak peak into the process. . .

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What is wordle?
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. [...]

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So last year, Lapster created a great website for me:

I love it. The girly quality, the colors, I love it. My guilty online pleasure is racing through a bunch of sites that I have a daily — “cool” or “stylish” item: Mighty Goods, Outblush, Delight, etc. There are tons of them, [...]

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Long story short. I went to an amazing weekend yoga retreat a few weeks ago conducted by a friend who also just happens to be an amazing yoga teacher and personal coach. I’m not someone who has ever had a true yoga practice and normally I am not someone who would attend a [...]

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Woah. The Ballard Dennys, on the corner of 15th and Market Street, has been designated a landmark. I ate there on a number of occasions and felt that the wait staff were obnoxious. Here’s a quote from a Seattle Times
article:
“A city board stunned developers, preservationists and Ballard residents Wednesday by voting 6-3 to designate [...]

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