Shawn joined our family. Check out the photos: Continue Reading
it's so sad
without Julia around.
I can never eat all the strawberries.
And the only way I can tell if new roommate is home is
the position of the open beer in the fridge.
on the subject of blogging
I constructed jenniferheller.com with this grand scheme–to share my life, adventures, get-rich-quick schemes, challenges and triumphs to the world–while leaving room to complain about crappy marketing and challenging myself to come up with a better idea.
Now that jenniferheller.com is live, and I’m on the verge of releasing it to my friends, family and colleagues–I am noticing that I don’t actually know how to blog. I know how to write, and rewrite, and rewrite again–I know how to think of great blog ideas. (I am, indeed, quite a great idea machine.) But I don’t know how to hit PUBLISH, because to me, the entry is never done.
So my commitment is this: to post something whenever I feel inclined, whether or not I think it’s even any good–not save a draft everyday.
My commitment is to give it a JenRating of some amount. And to give you the opportunity to give it a JenFanRating of something or other. That way we can work together to keep this interesting–and my challenge will be not taking it personally.
It’s an adventure!
Jenrating: blah
JenFanRating: coming soon!
Lessons on Web Design
Today we finally went live with the site for Awakening Yourself Life Coaching.
When constructing this site we learned a valuable lesson–to test the design on one’s target market before fully implementing it. We had a design that both Nicole (my Life Coach and client) and I were completely in love with–but we were too close to it. We were therefore unable to see that it was too chaotic to really convey the message–that Nicole’s job as a Life Coach is to help you see practical steps to really help your life–that working with her will make you feel more grounded and centered, while energized and empowered.
We stopped, sacrificed some of the design elements we loved so much, revisited her mission and this is what we came up with: www.awakeningyourselfcoaching.com.
I'm not perfect
I’m not perfect and that’s okay.
I’ve been obsessing for months about Jenniferheller.com and how it should look, be organized, …
Here it is. A work in progress. Forever.
Here at jenniferheller.com, I have incorporated my past blog entries once located at daunted.blogspot.com. I named that blog as such because it is so easy to be daunted in the world… I find more than anything the need for perfection is what daunts me.
This site is an experiment in putting perfection aside and following my dreams.
What scares me the most (besides earthquakes) is the possibility of never realizing my dreams because I have let perfection keep me in a state of perpetual inaction.
Django!
Because Van Gogh My Pet dot com is still not up..
I post here.
TITO!!
I began painting pet portraits this past February after visiting a craft fair in Orange County. I saw a woman doing a lovely watercolor of a pet with a sign that said “Pet Portraits! For more info call…” I thought, OMG, I need a portrait of Gus BAD! But I was trying to quit my job, and saving money, and I wasn’t really all that into this woman’s style… or lack there of. So I decided that I was going to come home and figure out how to pain a Warhol-like version of the Guster. It came Van Gogh.
Behold my first Warhol My Pet, Andy:
I did it in Photoshop. If I REALLY wanted to, I am sure my friends at Yes Press would make me a screen of the dark layer and screen it onto a canvas on top of my paint and I wonder how much I could charge for a real, live, fake Warhol of a pet?
this ain't no April Fool's Day joke
I gave notice yesterday!
