Rosasharn Designs

New Notebooks

lauren — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:26:30 +0000

I made some new notebooks. I’ll be honest, I copied the idea from this post.

And you can see a whole bunch more pictures on flickr.

The Dog Park

admin — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:50:28 +0000

We used to take our dog Buckley to the playground of the elementary
school next door to our house, until it closed all its gates to the
public. Then we took him to the little league field 2 blocks down, along
with a lot of other dog owners and it became the unofficial dog
park of Winters. Then they remodeled the dog park and now it has
a new sign:

I guess I shouldn’t complain because within a 10 minute walk from our
house is this:

But I know that someday this field will be developed into more homes,
and right now all the dog owners like me are just trespassing on who
knows whose land, and it would be great if there was a legitimate
off-leash place for dogs to exercise in Winters. Ahem.

Your Face

admin — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:12:10 +0000

I finally got my picture drawn at yourfaceblog.blogspot.com! And Buckley got included too! I love it!

The W in San Diego

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:01:13 +0000

My co-worker Sherry and I stayed at the W in San Diego this week,
because they offer the state rate! Can you believe it?! The unfortunate
part is that we were so busy prepping for our field tour the next day
that we didn?t have a spare moment to enjoy the W’s amenities, including the “beach” (see pics below), the fancy bar(s), or even just relaxing in our own room, which was wonderful itself.

Anonymous Postcard

lauren — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:51:58 +0000

Anonymous Postcard accepted my submission and sent my postcard! This is really cheesy, and I shouldn’t be so excited but somehow I am. In the interest of keeping it totally anonymous, I probably shouldn’t be posting about it here, but I’m not telling you which one is mine. Of course anyone who knows me will know exactly which one is mine, and that’s fine with me. Check it out: http://www.anonymouspostcard.org/gallery.php

Photoshop skills

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:09:28 +0000

Halo Halo

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:33:19 +0000

I meant to post about this a long time ago, when we made these spectacular halo halos. I have to admit, at first I thought halo halo was weird. I mean, beans in a dessert drink? Beans in any drink?! And potatoes! OMG. But its really good. Without the jackfruit of course. And with the ube ice cream of course. The ube ice cream is my favorite part. Yummy!

Elements Chicago

lauren — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:10:29 +0000

Recently Danny Volk, an employee from a fabulous store in Chicago called Elements found my journals in my Etsy shop, showed them to the store’s buyer, and they bought 24 of my journals! It was by far my largest sale so far. And I’m just really excited about having my journals for sale at this upscale store in Chicago. Then a colleague of Danny’s loved my journals so much that she placed a custom order. So I’m very grateful to Danny for setting this all up and I wish Chicago was closer so I could go to the store! Check out the pics:

Faves and Unfaves

lauren — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:55:07 +0000

Faves:

1. Pumpkin Spice Lattes
2. Harmonica and/or piano in rock and/or folk music
3. When people ask me about my car and I get to tell them how cool it is
4. That Barack Obama takes the time to visit his Grandma
5. Elements Chicago bought 24 of my journals!
6. http://www.slickdeals.net
7. Bobby Dazzler’s pumpkins
8. My pumpkin
9. Headless Horseman Dog Costume
10. When silkscreening works (especially after you promised someone that you’d silkscreen them some stuff)

Unfaves:

1. That California voters can change the state constitution by signatures and popular [uneducated] vote (see #’s 3, 6, 9, and 10).
2. That UPS will deliver a mis-addressed package to your last known address without contacting you or the sender, nevermind that you haven’t received mail there for 4 years.
3. Yes on Prop 8 people
4. People who listen to public radio but don’t contribute during the pledge drives.
5. Spam comments on my blog
6. Yes on Prop 8 people
7. Driving
8. Shorter days (only 53 more until they get longer again!)
9. Yes on Prop 8 people
10. Yes on Prop 8 people

Faves and Unfaves

lauren — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:49:38 +0000

At the risk of coming off as negative, I’ve decided to share some of my unfavorites to go along with my favorites. Hopefully they will be more comical than anything.

Unfaves:

1. People who must have thought the signs say “Slow traffic keep left.” Oh wait, maybe they’re British. My mistake. Whatever. Move over!
2. Not having as much time to spend with my dog as he deserves
3. Inexperienced cheesecake politicians (thank you, Guphy, for coining this term) being selected out of nowhere for VP
4. Shorter and shorter days
5. Pebbles stuck in my car’s wheel
6. Not having enough money to retire tomorrow
7. Marginal ratings for an amazing presidential candidate who deserves the highest ratings ever. C’mon, people!
8. Being stuck indoors on beautiful days
9. Cyclists who disobey traffic laws (riding on the sidewalk is the worst, followed by riding on the wrong side of the road)
10. Internet Explorer and people who use Internet Explorer

Faves:

1. Gleanings part 2
2. 3 day weekends
3. Sun-drying figs and tomatoes
4. The petting zoo at the State Fair
5. Obama stickers
6. Google Apps
7. Winning 2nd place at the State Fair
8. The Mother Hips (as those who know me know, this is an all-time fave, so I thought I had to put it in here at some point)
9. seeing Burning Man cars going down the freeway
10. “…somethin’ fierce”