Those were mine! I was at Blogher spreading the gospel of Squarespace v5 and spoke about the HOPErevo project on the Positive Posting panel. Of course, I had to leave notes. :)

Only ONE of them said 'You are perfect'. For you BSG fans, yes, that was a total nod to Baltar. I made a handful that said 'You are beautiful' and threw in a 'You are perfect' because I was deliriously tired and thought it was funny. Yay for geektastic hope notes represented in the NY times!

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Ever have the urge to be little again and get adopted into someone else's family?

Reposted with love from Christa. (For you Squarespacers out there, yes. The same awesome kickass support samurai Christa who has held your hand when you accidentally hid your login, and other hilarities.) Watch for the tiny dictator dance! I am sooooo doing it RIGHT NOW AS I TYPE.

Apple's Jake Widman has written a new Profile on Dark Horse Comics, who creates the world's raddest (most rad?) comics with 145 Macs. Super excited to read they still use a penciler, inker, letterer and colorist for each comic, and all production is done in-house for quality control.

Read the full article at http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/darkhorse/ »

Sometimes, I talk about BOOBS.

Ok, well, maybe I talked Squarespace about boobs WHILE TALKING ABOUT MY JOB Squarespace but, whatever.

Also, Squarespace I love working with Christa Squarespace and if she ever goes Squarespace to work anywhere else, Squarespace I will cry. Squarespace. The end.

Blogher was amazing and there's at least six posts about it rolling in my head right now... but more important things take priority at the moment. Like Squarespace v5! It's here! It's here!

I'm crazy excited.

If you're already a Squarespacer, head on over to this post about all of the fantabulous improvements that have been made to the system. You might have to take a break or two in-between... it's a doozey!

http://service.squarespace.com/service-blog/2008/7/21/squarespace-version-5-has-arrived.html

If you haven't a Squarespace account, then take your crazy ass here and sign up for a free 14 day trial. 

http://www.squarespace.com/

Tell me what you love, hate, can't understand, can't believe is so easy... everything. I wanna hear it. User experience is where it's at, yo. You have my ear.

If you’ll be in attendance, don’t miss the “Beautiful Blogging and Positive Posting” panel on Saturday, where I am humbled to join Kyran Pittman, Alyssa Royse, Jen, and Lucrecer Braxton to talk about the positive things we do on our blogs, and how your blog can also be about love, trust, positivity, hope, empowerment.

I won’t be doing a CSS lab this time around — the chicks at Blogher like to change things up each year — but if you see me don’t hesitate to hit me up for any help or advice. :)

When Renee offered plant advice in her column at Modish, I threw her my urban garden challenge. The thought of planting seeds, nourishing the soil, and growing my own garden got me to thinking about how huge one small seed can be. "Look how these weeds have grown in this stale dirt", I thought. "Imagine what this will look like when I actually put effort and love into it."

This is what inspired the summer Hope Revolution -- Sewing The Seeds of Hope. Here's the challenge. Make some seed bombs and find public patches of dirt that could use a little love. Plant it and leave behind a hope note. You can make your own, or print off one of these lovelies Renee created.

Every time you pass the spot, even after the note is long gone, you'll be reminded of your secret operation, and the power of a single seed. Or in this case, seed bomb. :)

For me, the sparrow symbolized letting go of what I could not make right, and the unknown path ahead of me. Hers represented leaving behind an eight year stable (yet unfulfilling) career, and moving across the pond to start her own design business.

The tattoos came out terrible. To top it off, hers scabbed and I had an allergic reaction to something, so neither held their color. Ironically, or perhaps serendipitously, the following year and a half held difficult challenges for us both.

Last week she came to visit and we spent a few days talking, soul searching and sharing. Inbetween we shopped, drank, ate, went to the spa for massages, and stopped at Holy Mother to see the talented and cheeky Jayson.

As her business is taking off and her life is now a whirlwind, her bird now appears to be in flight and is surrounded in swirls and movement. In choosing my new art, I realized that my journey wasn't a literal one. While I did physically move, the search was for something within myself. I'm no longer that sad, battered looking bird. I've learned that life is more about being true to yourself and hope-FULL, no matter what life throws at you.

I encircled my sparrow in a bright orange circle surrounded by six red petals, the Base Chakra. If we have our survival needs met in the Base Chakra, we are able to discover there is more out there that what we have learned, and this creates desire, which gets us to move, to reach out, to grow and to change.

Before when I would look at my wrist, I was reminded of the challenges of my past. But now my sparrow is vibrant and beautiful, surrounded in color, and symbolizes not only what I have learned, but what I will continue to learn as I grow and change.