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Design your own Logo and Business cards

May 29, 2008 by Tricia

If you’ve been thinking of creating business cards to promote your website, online business or company you might want to visit LogoYes.

I just tried out the free logo design demo on their site and within just a few minutes I had created a logo for Tricia’s Musings. Take a look at what I created:

musingslogo.jpg It was easy! LogoYes has a simple step by step proceedure that’s foolproof. You can even go back a step or two if you change your mind about what you are creating!

The first step is to choose the type of image you want your logo to portray – High-tech, bold and flair are the three choices. I picked flair for my logo style.

Once you’ve selected your style you’ll need to decide which industry your business or website falls into. This is a fairly general blog that discusses a number of topics so I had a bit of trouble choosing my “industry”. I eventually decided to go with health and beauty as I discuss health topics quite often.

Step three involved picking a symbol (image) from my industry of choice to use in my logo. As you can see I picked a flower bouquet. There is a wide variety of images to choose from so you’ll be sure to find a symbol that will depict your website or business quite well.

Step four and five were the most fun steps. This is where you can chose the colors of your logo and add text to it as well. I choose to simple add the name of my blog – Tricia’s Musings. I then decided to make the bouquet a red color and matched the text of Tricia’s Musings as closely in color as I could to the main green colors of my blog.

What you see above is the logo I created.

I then went on to create a simple business card by going through two additional steps:

musingscard.jpg

Now i have a logo for my site that closely matches the style of my blog. This of course is known as branding. If I order these business cards those who visit my site after receiving a card will see that the cards colors and logo are similar to that of the site.

I’m quite pleased with how my logo and business card turned out.

LogoYes also does custom Logo Design so if you can’t find a Do It Yourself logo that works well for your company you can inquire about having a custom logo made for your business.

This was actually a fun process to go through. Anyone could design their own logo using a system such as this. Give it a try.





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Is it the flu?

May 27, 2008 by Tricia

Earlier this evening, just after Chris got home from work, I suddenly became really nauseated. I have no idea why.

I tend to get mildly nauseated quite often due to the Crohn’s disease, but what I experienced this evening was full on nausea. I hope I don’t have the flu.

I was laying on my side on the couch doing something on the laptop when it hit me. I decided to just try lying flat to see if that would help and it made it worse. It took about two hours to settle down again – all of the time with me thinking I was going to toss my cookies at any moment. Bleh.

Needless to say we didn’t have the nice steak that we were planning on barbecuing. We had macaroni. Other than soup it was the only bland thing I could think of that probably wouldn’t upset my stomach even more. I’m not the biggest fan of mac and cheese either so I guess I had another awful dinner.

Hopefully I feel better tomorrow after a good sleep.

In other news … I think Midnight has started to figure out how to undo the latches on her crate. Two or three times in the last week I’ve found one undone when I know they were both done up. I guess we’ll have to get one of those small tsa locks to put on the crate when we go out if she keeps this up.

Darn smart puppy.

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Our Puppy Tagged With: better tomorrow, Bleh, Chris, cookies, couch, crate, crohn s disease, dinner, eat, evening, flu, good sleep, home, laptop, mac and cheese, macaroni, Midnight, nausea, nauseated, smart puppy, soup, steak, stomach, tsa locks

Disgusting dinner

May 24, 2008 by Tricia

We had dinner a little while ago and ugh, it was disgusting.

You know you can buy frozen chinese food in the grocery store? Frozen chicken balls, frozen veggie spring rolls? Yeah … well don’t. Bleh!

As I said in my last post I’ve been really busy working on my main website over the last two or three days and at the same time I’ve also been really hungry – like acidy stomach hungry. So Chris decided to whip up a quick dinner for us while I finished up the last little things I had to do on the website. He made rice and that was fine, but the chicken balls and spring rolls that he pulled out of our freezer and then cooked up were just plain yucky.

The next time I get a craving for Chinese food … I’ll pull out my passport and go to China. Nah … we’ll go downtown to Toronto’s Chinatown. There’s some very tasty Asian food there. Yum. I definitely won’t be buying frozen Chinese food again! Not that brand anyway.

Have you ever purchased pre-made frozen food or packaged food and thought it was going to be delicious but ended up being seriously disappointed?

Filed Under: Dining and Restaurants, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Toronto Tagged With: acidy, asian food, Bleh, brand, chicken balls, china, Chinatown, chinese, Chinese Food, Chris, craving, dinner, disgusting, Downtown, freezer, grocery, grocery store, Passport, rice, spring, stomach, Toronto, ugh, veggie, yucky

Busy few days – updating website and more

May 24, 2008 by Tricia

Gee I haven’t made a post on this blog for a few day … what’s up with that? I usually post at least one if not two or more posts a day.

Well … to tell you the truth I’ve been pretty busy over the last few days. I’ve been doing a major update on my main website (reptile related info). The site needs a complete redesign, but there were a few issues I couldn’t ignore any longer so I spent the last three days working on updating various aspects of each and every page on the huge site.

I’m a real type A personality and once I start something I usually keep going until I get it done and well, that’s why this blog and most of my others are lacking new posts for the last few days. I think I’m done working on the main website for a while so things should get back to normal now.

Other news … I was right, I am losing weight. I’ve got Crohns and I’ve been on medical leave from my job as an ER nurse for close to two and a half years. During my time with Crohns I’ve gone through periods of massive weight loss. One time I lost close to 40 pounds in one month … weight I really didn’t need to lose! That was bad. I wouldn’t doubt some people thought I was taking handfuls of weight loss pills. Strangely enough, over the last two years that I’ve been home I never did go through a period of weight loss due to the Crohns. Instead I seemed to have gained a little bit of weight very slowly during my medical leave.

Well it seems things are turning around. My metabolism is revving up as I’m constantly hungry and the weight I gained seems to be coming off. I’m not doing anything different really. I’m a little more active now that spring is here, but I still feel pretty yucky so it’s not like I’m going out jogging or anything.

Anyway, I consider this good news – well as long as I don’t start losing weight really fast it’s good news. I’ll be lookin’ good by the time it’s warm enough here to start wearing shorts.

Filed Under: Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Internet, Web and Technology Tagged With: blog, busy, crohns, design, ER nurse, home, hungry, Internet, losing, medical leave, metabolism, nurse, personal, post, posts, reptile, Shorts, spring, Technology, two and a half years, type a personality, update, web, website, weight, weight loss, yuck

Super busy long weekend

May 17, 2008 by Tricia

The other day I wrote a post detailing all of the things we were supposed to do on this long weekend here in Canada. It’s what we call the May two four or more formally the Victoria Day long weekend. Our long weekend came early this year. In my mind it really should be next weekend. In fact it caught me by surprise being so early.

As things go our our Saturday night plans fell through. We were supposed to go over to a friends house for a barbecue, party and perhaps even some early fireworks. Unfortunately our friends mother happened to call him on Friday and reminded him about the birthday invitations that they had on Saturday night. I guess it’s his great aunts birthday and the whole family is getting together for a big shindig.

That’s ok. Chris and I were busy enough today! We’re going to have a busy weekend so we got some gardening work done earlier today. I’m sure we won’t have time to do any gardening on Sunday or Monday! Tomorrow we’re going to a brunch at a another friends and then there’s fireworks on Sunday and Monday night.

I believe next weekend is the Memorial Day long weekend in the US. Do you have big plans for that weekend? And how about my Canadian friends – are you as busy as I am seeing family and friends this weekend?

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