Vacation Part 2: Beachcombing, Bonfires, Bakery

After a yummy breakfast with friends at the legendary Pig 'N Pancake in Astoria, we drove to Cannon Beach to celebrate our 1-year wedding anniversary. Two nights of rest and relaxation at the beach.

Ahh...Vacation Part 1: Donuts, Pregnant Pal, Wedding

The blog has been silent lately because of a lovely summer vacation that took us back to Washington and Oregon. The vacation started in Portland with a visit to my lovely and pregnant best friend, where she and her husband introduced us to Voodoo Donuts, a 24 donut-dive. The next day we took in the Portland Public Market before heading to Astoria for a wedding.

The Inaugural Post from the NEW Home Office

One call to our friend at Apple and one shopping spree at IKEA later and we have a new home office! Oh yeah, and a cab ride to and from work to get the entire Adobe Creative Suite installed free of charge. All totally worth it. I'm so excited!!!

4 Months of Hard Work

For the past four months I've been working on a pro bono design project designing a logo and redesigning the website for a local non-profit, Urban Alliance. It's been an awesome experience. I've been working with a great team from my office and we basically created an entire new brand identity for Urban Alliance. I'm so proud of the work we've done, one, because it's a really great organization—100% of Urban Alliance participants graduate from high school compared to an apalling DC-wide average of only 50% of students. And two, the new website and logo are a big improvement over their old website and logo. I think our efforts will really impact their success. I hope you'll check out the Urban Alliance website.

Next time, bring a tarp

Not five minutes after staking out our prime lawn location with a premium view of the stage at Wolftrap, the monsoon started. And didn't stop for 2-and-a-half hours. Regardless, we huddled under our tiny umbrellas and sat on our soggy blanket, drank our wine and ate our fried chicken. All while enjoying the National Symphony Orchestra and the music of John Williams, embellished with light sabers and lightning.