Technology Programs Brochure Designs

These are a couple of brochures I designed for two of our technology programs we offer at work. I chose to just show the covers because I wanted to show how clean and simple the design is. 

This first program is our e-Read and Report. In this program the children read the book then answer vocabulary and comprehension questions at the end. They are scored and then the teacher can check how they are doing and decide what level of book the child can read next. 

This second program is to help with a child's fluency and reading rate. It reads a passage from one of the books, then the child reads along, and finally the child reads the passage independently and is scored on how fluent they read.

Both of the programs are really fun and interesting for children who have issues with reading.

February Adventures & St. Augustine Weekend Trip

This year is just flying by already! I realize I missed 2 weeks on the blog. The first week it was because I started a side project and hope to share more on that soon. The second week we had just got back from our second trip to St. Augustine and I was so exhausted.

To start off I did not get any pictures of sunsets or nature for this month (except for a couple during our trip see those below).

I finished a LifeBook 2014 lesson and was able to start on a second one.

Here is a quick sketch for the next LifeBook 2014 lesson:

I bought these little mystery packs for Lego Minifigures I just love the samurai:

I was trying to think if we did anything else interesting in February and I couldn't come up with anything. I think we were excited for our second trip to St. Augustine. We had a free 2 night stay in one of the Bluegreen resorts for becoming owners. We decided to go back to St. Augustine so that we could see a few things we missed out on. The first thing we did when we got there was go to those places. We ended up at the St. Augustine Distillery and the Whetstone Chocolate Factory.

These are barrels of their first batch of Bourbon Whiskey, which was explained as the first batch of whiskey distilled in Florida. These barrels won't be ready for bottling for a couple more years.

These are the stills that they use in their distilling process.

More barrels of Bourbon Whiskey. I was really hoping we would get to taste this but it's just not ready yet.

We made it to the tasting room and the first thing we got to try is the Vodka. They made what they call a Florida Mule. It was so good and refreshing.

Then he made a batch of Gin and Tonics. These were also very tasty.

As we were leaving I noticed this hawk just chillin on the fence.

We then headed over to the Whetstone Chocolate Factory. Yup that is me sporting a fancy hairnet.

This machine was so loud. It was where they pour the chocolate in the molds and it shakes all the bubbles out.

It was neat to watch this machine wrap the chocolates.

By the time we were done with everything we were starving. We were going to go back to the Distillery and eat but nothing on the menu looked appetizing. We ended up going to Mojo BBQ again. This place is just amazing. Look how big this sandwich is, it's the Mojo Club, with Turkey, Lettuce, Tomato, Cheese, Bacon, and Pulled Pork.

The next morning we woke up as the sun was rising. There was a neat little fog over the little ponds.

We had our Owner Review next with Bluegreen. They really were just trying to up-sell us into a bigger package than what we originally purchased. We also found out that some of the things we were told when we originally purchased just were not true. So we will see how this goes. I guess we need to really learn their system.

After the review, we decided to go shopping at the outlets. I was a little disappointed with this, I thought outlet stores were supposed to have better pricing, everything was regularly priced. We then went back to the resort to rest for a bit. I was wanting to wait for the sun to set and go take some nature photography but it got really dark and cloudy so I missed that perfect light and didn't get out there to take the photos.

We ended up going back to the Sushi place we went to last time, and it was still amazing. I wish we had a sushi place closer that was this amazing.

When we woke up the next morning I was going try again to go take some photos around the resort but it was so densely foggy out. We packed up the car and headed to Orlando, because I wanted to go to IKEA to get another cart because they were on sale. I also ended up purchasing a couple of shelving units for my art supplies. The boyfriend just finished putting them together so I will have to show pictures in next month's adventures when I get everything organized.

I also finished the 1st book of the Outlander series. There was a lot I loved about this book and somethings that were hard to take. I loved all the Celtic Folklore that is told throughout the book. This book is based in the 1700s Scotland and there was a lot of barbaric things that happen throughout that we are just not used to dealing with in the here and now. It was definitely an interesting read and I plan to try and read the rest of the series.

Well that is about it for this month. I look forward to what next month brings, which is my birthday month!!!

LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 10 ~ Positive Life Connections

If you noticed I did go from Week 8 to Week 10. Week 9 was an artist interview with Claudine Hellmuth, if possible click on her name, she is a wonderful artist that does the cutest package designs.

On to Week 10, This lesson was so much fun! It was a paint over collage technique by Tamara Laporte, She is the creator of LifeBook. She had us clip out a picture of a face from a magazine. We then used the face as a guide and painted over it.

This was the original image before I painted over it.

January Adventures

January was a pretty quiet month. I think we were just trying to get back in the swing of things from the holidays. 

I was able to finish one of my LifeBook 2014 lessons.

I only took a few sunset photos.

I was just checking my Goodreads and found that I have finished 4 books this month.

1. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - This book was very interesting to read. It mostly takes you through the author's research and findings through other peoples studies on behavior and personalities. It made me think a little differently and realize I need to take time out to recharge.

2. Shiver - This is a young adult book. I enjoyed this take on werewolves, where they are only wolves during the winter. There is a bit of a love story involved but the kept story going and interesting.

3. The School of Good and Evil - This book is a children's story and turned out to be super cute. Two girls get kidnapped and taken to this school of teaching kids the fairytale lives of good and evil. The girl that you think should be good and the princess ends up on the evil side and the other girl that you thought would be on evil ends up in the good side. It shows their struggles on dealing with the side they end up on.

4. These Broken Stars - This is a young adult book. It starts out with a bunch of people traveling on a huge space ship. The high class girl meets the lower class soldier but because of class they can't hang out. Then the ship is starting to crash and they end up on an escape pod together. Then the escape pod lands on this planet that there is no life on except wildlife. These two people start off not getting a long very well had having to figure out where they are and camp together. There are some weird sci-fi kind of stuff that goes on in it. It was a very good story and kept you wanting to know more.

Also we went and saw the movie American Sniper. I am not the type of person that likes war movies, but the boyfriend wanted to see it. I thought the content of the movie was very heavy and left you still processing it at the end. I think in the back of your mind you think you know what goes on during war, but when you see it on the big screen it is heartbreaking what these men and woman go through. I liked that you were seeing everything through one person's point of view.

Hopefully I will have more to show you next month.

LifeBook 2014 ~ Week 8 ~ Joy of Intention

I am trying to catch up with last years LifeBook lessons. I was a little uncomfortable doing this one. I am the type that likes to plan out paintings. This lesson was about letting go a painting whatever feels right. This is what I came up with.