me? write? about shopping?

wow it's been BUSY! so after i designed the new logo for salesguide.ca (it's still not up yet), they asked me if i would be interested in becoming a contributing writer for their site. me? write about shopping!? hells yeah! of course, i'm not really a writer, but what i can do is shop. So every week or so i will be submitting articles about random places that i shop, eat, or travel to. i think i love this new role. i get to shop and then i get to talk about it (and have a valid reason to buy stuff -RESEARCH!). that being said, i just posted my FIRST ARTICLE woot! this is pretty exciting stuff.

for those who are not familiar with this site, its a brand new website that tracks sales all across canada. so when there is a sale in your area, it will be listed under your city. the site also tracks websites with current sales information and allows members to post their own sales sightings as well.

after being explained all this at great lengths *whew* i thought this would be a fun venture to get into. so check weekly on salesguide.ca for my articles!

new logo for salesguide.ca

so a month ago, i was hired by the owners of www.salesguide.ca to redesign the logo for their website. it's a shopping website that tracks sales across canada. its not up and running just yet but it will be soon. shopping? hells yeah! so i thought, cool why not! they wanted to make it look like one of those shiny web buttons (web buttons?), but to tell you the truth, i had no idea what they was talking about. did i mention i'm the biggest computer dummy? well there you have it. i am. so i did some research into it and saw what they were looking for and made the most killer looking web button thingy-ma-giger that they had ever seen. i was so happy that they liked it so much. i haven't used photoshop in a long time so it was nice to be able to sharpen those skills again, like riding a bike right? whew. so here it is, the final product!

::: new logo for SALESGUIDE.CA :::

toys! toys! toys!

who doesn't love toys? the older i get the more i appreciate them. its makes us happy just to be around them and when one of mine brings a smile to someone's face, well there's just no better feeling. and it makes me even happier when one of them can make a grown man squeal with joy like a little girl! these are a sample of the munnys that i have done. all were inspired by the people that they are named after. there are more to come, but i'm unemployed at the moment and therefore lacking the funds to create more of these lovable little doods. i totally tweaked on a few of them and actually made trading cards too woot!

::: part of the [my favorite people series] :::
::: say hi to D43, marko the INFAMOUS ho, mocha diva cupcake, and mr noodles :::

in retrospect...

i haven't done anything new so far. so i thought, why not post something cool that i did several months ago as a starting point. this was something i did for halloween that im still in awe about. it was a joint effort between me and my neighbor justin. i designed a costume of out my all time favorite artist -Junko Mizuno. there's just no one cooler! it's amazing what you can do with a lot of super sculpy and fun fur these days! every piece of this costume was hand crafted. the outfit was created by my amazing designer friend justin and all the props were made by me. and after that was all done, we all had a fun day doing a photoshoot complete with fake blood and all that goodness. what i'm going to top this with next year i have no idea. this was pretty kickass!

::: kaori's tool kit and garter belt :::

::: xkitty nurse's hat :::

::: kaori's killer bunny chainsaw :::

::: voila -kaori the nurse and a fun day of photoshoots! :::
photography: CHRISTOPHERMACDONALD.CA
outfit design: JUSTIN BARRINGTON-FOOTE

rucjrlove -brand new year...brand new blog!

so my birthday just passed a couple weeks ago and i am currently stuck in a jobless limbo. with my old career not working for me and with no new career prospects on the horizon i figure, why not do something i have always wanted to do. just be happy being creative again -on projects i WANT to work on and with people i LIKE to work with. it may not pay much (or at all), but at least i can love what i do again. so what more can i ask for? well besides a paying job. but one thing at a time...