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I’m a Certified Digital Designer!

2010
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I did it! I took Jessica Sprague’s “Art of Digital Design” class, submitted my design portfolio, took the exam, held my breath for a few months and checked my email today and found this certificate waiting for me! Woot! I am now a “Certified Digital Designer”! (check back later, there’ll be a blog train with my first mini kit available for free!).

AoD Certificate

I want to say a huge thank you to both Jessica Sprague who taught the class and Carina Gardner who reviewed my portfolio (and taught one week of class). It was a fabulous class and I’m so pleased I was one of the first students to take it. Fabulous experience and I’m sorry it had to end. It was so well presented, so practical and so thorough! They covered everything in depth. And I am so relieved I passed!

Well, that’s it from me! Check back soon – my blog train mini kit will be up soon!

Enjoy

Dodie
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Sneak Peek!

2010
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Well folks, the Jessica Sprague Certified Digital Designer Blog Train, Scrap, Scrap, Scrap!, is almost ready to begin! Yay! So, what better way to whet your appetites than to give you a Sneak Peek of my mini kit =) So… here it is!

Sneek Peek!

It’s a mini kit with 5 papers and 7 unique elements! I LOVE the colours used and can’t wait to scrap with it myself!

So… did I get you curious? If I did, come back on Thursday when the Blog Train begins!

Enjoy!

Dodie
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I Have a Design Name!

2010
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I have finally finished my Jessica Sprague Certified Digital Designer course – exam done and portfolio submitted and returned with great feedback! Woot!

During the course I had to decide if I was going to stick with my boring design name, “Dodie’s Designs” or pick something more fun. It took me a few months and I just couldn’t come up with a name I liked. Finally I gave up and figured I’d leave it as is.

But it kept nagging at me, especially as I was about to switch servers and wanted to pick a domain name that fit my design name. After a little more thought, and numerous pages of potential design names written in lists upon lists, one name kept coming back to me. And then one day I thought, “I like that design name!”. May seem simple, but trust me, when you’re waiting for something to click, it’s a nice thought!

So, I submitted it with my portfolio to Carina Gardner and thought I’d wait to hear back from her before making anything permanent. I heard back from her last week with my portfolio and in her words, she thought my design name was, “Stickin’ Cute!”. Whew! Infact, it was a huge ‘Whew’ because I had already paid for a new domain name, www.alittlegiggledesigns.com – yup – that’s my new design name, “A Little Giggle Designs”.

I think it reflects what I am and what I strive to be as a designer. I’m only beginning and may never make it as I am simply too busy… but I have a goal and will work towards it slowly – a design name I like is the first step.

Anyway, here’s my new logo, which I’m not 100% sure on – but it’ll do for now…

A Little Giggle Designs

Hope you like it! And wish me luck in the world of designing!

Dodie
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Blog Train Coming!

2010
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Kelly over at Simply Kelly Designs is organizing a blog train that includes me and 9 other JessicaSprague.com Certified Digital Designers. The train will run from October 14 – 18, 2010. Each designer is giving away a mini kit on a subject that no one can say not to…  scrapbooking! Each designer will also host a contest to win a full kit AND {drumroll…} one lucky person will win a full kit from all 10 designers! WOOT! As this will be my first blog hop, I’m SUPER excited!!!

Come back here on October 14 to hop on the train!

Blog Train Coming!

Dodie
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My Blog's Wordle

2010
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I love wordle (and if you haven’t tried it yet, head over to www.wordle.net and give it a go!). I didn’t realize you could do a wordle of your blog, so was super interested when I saw a blog wordle on a random blog I visited. Here’s how it came out (click on it to enlarge).

Wordle

I’m so surprised by some of the words and some others are pretty obvious. Words such as template, friend, week, email, photo, 300dpi and dodie (my name!) – not surprising. But seriously, where are the words layout, doodle, freebie? I was so sure these would be my top words and, to be honest, I can’t even find them in the tiny print! And where did building, template, facebook and love come from? How many times have I mentioned the word building, or hospital in a post?

So, all in all – Bizarre – but very interesting!

If you haven’t had a go – try it. It’s so much fun! You can change the font, colour scheme (including a custom colour scheme), orientation of the words, how the words appear and more. Love it!

Dodie
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Twilight – Gotta Love It!

2010
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Twilight

I love twilight – absolutely love it!

Here’s a photo I took at Disneyland in Hong Kong a few weeks ago. It’s not the best photo (I’ll probably do some photo-shoppping when I have time), but I love the lights, the fire, the reflections in the water and the subject – Tarzan’s Hideaway. I wasn’t able to go over to the Hideaway on this day, but I did a few weeks later and tried to get a few shots from the top of the hideaway – they didn’t turn out great. I still like this one best!

I find that when I am photographing at twilight I get a little stressed as I know there’s a time limit – you can’t stay there for 3 hours working all the angles and trying out different things: you’ve got less than an hour and you have to make every minute count. I’m always late, so this is really difficult for me *lol*.

I’ve still got to practise lots before I finally figure out twilight – but I love trying!

Enjoy!

Dodie
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Kevin Skinner

2010
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Kevin Skinner has restored my faith in people. Well, at least a few!

{If you’ve come for a freebie, you can find my latest freebie HERE!} Ok, now onto Kevin Skinner =)

I am watching “America’s Got Talent” at the moment (I love it! Shh… don’t tell anyone – I’ll never live it down *lol*) and this week it was the best week ever! The highlight was the very last performer, Kevin Skinner.

Here is a guy that is so humble, so unassuming and downright nice. I know that this is a lot to gather from one appearance on a TV show that was filmed hundreds of miles away, but the guy was so downright nice! I just wish the world was full of more people like him – it would be a better place (yeah, I know I live in a huge city – but still!).

I c0uldn’t resist seeing how far he would make it in the competition and so googled him and was so pleased to read that the won the whole thing! I’m now waiting for his upcoming album to come out as I will definitely be added it to my iTunes library.

Anyway, here is the clip of him on the show. I’ve watched it several times and just think he’s lovely. I’m so glad he won. He deserves it. By the way, I checked it up and chicken catchers really do catch around 60,000 chickens a night and they do grab 8 at a time and it is one of the most horrible jobs anyone could do. Kudos to him for doing it to support his wife and 2 children.

Anyway, here is the clip. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Dodie
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