Found THE cutest packaging for Salt Water Taffy (one of my all times fav candies… its the one I will cross the aisle and break the “if it ain’t chocolate it ain’t worth it” rule.) I am sucker for Salt Water Taffy… I can’t even describe how cool I think it is to visit the Ice Cream Bar on The Strand in Dickenson, TX on days they are making Taffy… its SO cool.

I came across an all natural Salt Water Taffy this year at Whole Foods packaged very similiarly to the Sweet Candy Company twists shown here. We all went ga-ga for the packaging here at the Schipul Office. Its not often that someone comes up with packaging for a product that we even notice… let alone stop and talk about.

My sis’n'law posted this video on Facebook this morning and I decided to use it as the tool to help me focus my dreams and lay the foundation for positive change in the new year.

So, this is my plan from now until Jan 1, 2010. I will watch this Visual Affirmation in the beginning part of my day and then tag my day in the comments.

I am open to whatever shift occurs from this experiement… I do know that one result will be a much, much more positive attitude around each day that will grow and frame this next year.

… and it was awesome!

Women are positively radiant when they talk about their creations… me included.

The start of many a conversation at Mom 2.0 was like any other networking function where strangers collide under the common umbrella of a conference’s theme… a bit dry, a little awkward, a dash of soooo… what to you do? And time and time again when the conversation turned to our kiddos’/new company’s/new book’s/etc.  latest and greatest milestone the tone completely changed, the woman I was talking to literally shined. I was over-joyed and honored to witness it time and time again this weekend.

Which leads me to my #2 Take Away…

(Thanx to d’n'c’s for the pic)

True Light Resources is please to announce the
grand opening of our new digs…

Caroline
Collective has been a project in the making for several months, and has
finally arrived. We are happy to announce the unveiling of this
monumental space, that would not have come to fruition without the
collective help, advice, sweat equity and support from family, friends,
the Houston community and the global coworking community. The
announcement for the grand opening party follows below:

True Light Resources is please to announce the
grand opening of our new digs…

Caroline Collective has been a project in the making for several months, and has finally arrived. We are happy to announce the unveiling of this monumental space, that would not have come to fruition without the collective help, advice, sweat equity and support from family, friends, the Houston community and the global coworking community. The announcement for the grand opening party follows below:

@ericaogrady sent a link to this site: http://ma.tt/ on twitter – and I LOVE it.

Check out the bottom.

I have been seeing a lot of sites with this sort’of design aspect.

The Satsu site is another great example of using a fabulous background with some awesome layering and you know how I love swirls and spirals.

This final example is the one I really want to figure out how the hell they do that!

I mean I dig it something major.

The content is presented so well and clean. Very easy to navigate, great use of CSS to control
content, so it looks wonderful and at the same time search engines pick up all those keywords.The thing I gotta figure out is how they make it work even as the window resizes.

So, I am off to do a little poking and experimenting. Will let you know what I find.

“Artist’s Comments: An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself. A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find – the brush tool, the eraser tool – to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself. — This took three long months.. i think it’s worth it.”