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Monthly Wallpaper: August

Hey, it’s the best month of the year! I might be slightly biased because it’s my birthday tomorrow and it’s important to always be biased towards one’s birth month, but it’s also full of nice weather and quietness, and has a relaxed feeling that I really enjoy every year.

Speaking of quietness and relaxation, I seem to have inadvertently slipped into a bit of a blogging/social media hiatus lately. It’s just happened naturally as a combination of putting my head down and working on a bunch of projects at once, as well as just enjoying living life in the offline world. It’s been kind of nice! But I’ll be more active on the Great Interwebs again soon — I have a new series of posts planned about making your front-end development workflow more awesome*, as well as a number of photos that I’m looking forward to sharing.

*I promise, this shiz is totally super exciting if you’re a developer.

wallpapers-august

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(They’re sized for a 27″ iMac, a retina iPad, and an iPhone 5, respectively, but they should all work for smaller devices, too.)

Happy August!

P.S. Long before I started making monthly wallpapers, I always had a soft spot for art that references months or seasons. One of my favourites is this song by Simon and Garfunkel:

Monthly Wallpaper: July

And just like that, we’re over halfway through 2013. Madness!

July’s wallpaper is an oh-so-subtle homage to a pretty cool country, which happens to be the one I live in, and which just so happens to celebrate its “birthday” in July.

wallpapers-july

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(They’re sized for a 27″ iMac, a retina iPad, and an iPhone 5, respectively, but they should all work for smaller devices, too.)

Hope you’re having a lovely summer!

Monthly (slightly tardy) Wallpaper: June

Hey, ladies + gents!

I know it’s been a big quiet around these parts. It’s a rule in blog-land that one must post on a regular basis to stay relevant/remind readers that they’re alive, and I think it really does make a lot of sense in most situations. When I started blogging, I had a plan to post at least once a week, and for a while, I did. And all was peachy.

That, however, was when I had a traditional job. I freelanced on the side here and there, but I did it quite part-time, and when I think about it, I actually had a little more time on my hands back then. Thinking back, one of my big motivators for being self-employed was to have more control over my schedule so I’d be less frazzled and stressed out than I was before.

Well, as you can guess, things didn’t quite work out that way. I did the thing that you’re not supposed to do, and said ‘yes’ to just about every project that came my way. Then, I started learning first-hand that when you’re freelancing full-time, you’re essentially running a small business where you have to do everything yourself, and that running a business takes an incredible amount of time and energy, at least in the beginning when you’re figuring stuff out.

All this is to say that blogging’s been on the backburner. Instead of beating myself up about it, I’m okay with it, even though it means that I’m probably not going to become the most famous blogger in bloggerland. I’m learning that until I create a more manageable schedule for myself (which I’m in the process of doing now!) I need to prioritize, and that client work always comes first. This space’ll be here for me when I’m ready to come back to it on a regular basis, which I’m hoping will be in about a month, so don’t worry. You won’t be without me for too long. (You were worried, right? Right?)

That being said, I’m still doing monthly wallpapers, so enjoy June’s!

wallpapers-june

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(They’re sized for a 27″ iMac, a retina iPad, and an iPhone 5, respectively, but they should all work for smaller devices, too.)

Have a lovely weekend!

Monthly Wallpaper: May

Can you believe that it’s May already?! Time is flying unbelievably quickly for me and I can’t believe that I’m now in Week 8 of my new “job”. April was a packed month with many projects on the go, a guest post over at Paper Fort Studio, attending FITC and being nominated for an award (I didn’t win, but oh well!), changing what I ate by taking on a Whole30 for the month of April, and just generally enjoying the start of spring. It turns out that my last wallpaper was a little optimistic since the weather here was mostly cold, rainy, and uncooperative, but things are definitely looking up now.

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(They’re sized for a 27″ iMac, a retina iPad, and an iPhone 5, respectively, but they should all work for smaller devices, too.)

For me, May is all about happiness, spring, and of course, cherry blossom season. The illustration of the birds and blossoms is, like the other wallpapers, from the public domain.

Enjoy!

Monthly Wallpaper: April (for real this time)

Yesterday’s monthly wallpaper, while totally gorgeous with its delicate combination of a matzah textured background, a clip art easter bunny, and my very favourite font in neon pink… was an April Fool’s joke. Shocking, right? …right?

Well, never fear, you’re not stuck with that mess. Not that I let you download it anyway, since the “download” links led to everyone’s favourite Youtube video.

Here’s the real thing!

wallpapers-april

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(They’re sized for a 27″ iMac, a retina iPad, and an iPhone 5, respectively, but they should all work for smaller devices, too.)

This wallpaper is more on the optimistic side of things, since I just looked out the window and it’s snowing. Snowing. C’mon, weather, get your shit together. April also features one of my very favourite fonts, Memoriam Pro. It’s one of the first fonts I ever bought, though I wasn’t sure at the time what I’d actually use it for. I ended up using it in my own branding so I did find a few good uses for it after all. The illustration is, as usual, from the public domain.

Enjoy!