This photo is from the Barbie Murders series by etsy seller Wildemoon. Buy a print here or see the other tragic Barbie victims.
Here's an entry in the "Deadly Cute" Photoshop contest at Worth1000, where innocent little animals are retouched into nasty creatures. Via Boing Boing.
I have a new portfolio website, programmed for me by a wonderful friend. So if you know somebody who needs graphic design work, send 'em over to jessicajonesdesign.com. Or go there yourself to grab some desktop wallpaper from the Goodies page.
Left: Funny Houses by Sarajo Frieden. Right: Pistachio Ice Cream by Vanessa Tam.
Here's how to make a giant piece of wall art for your room.
Choose some fabric with a large-scale pattern. Go to your local art supply store and buy 4 lengths of wood frame made for stretching canvas. The wood strips have corners designed to interlock. (Or you can cover an existing blank stretched canvas, but it will get pricey if you go very big.) 
Position your fabric the way you like it and use a staple gun to tack it down. I stapled along a long edge, then did the opposite side, pulling it very tight. Next do the short sides, one at a time. Trim off any extra fabric that hangs past the inner edges of the frame. To finish the corners, tuck in the extra fabric as if you're wrapping a present and then staple it down. It doesn't matter how you do it as long as it looks tidy from the front. The art store gave me a wooden tool to help with this, but it's not essential. Attach a picture hanger (or maybe two if your panel is large) and hang.
Just kidding. This is what our guest bedroom looked like after we packed up the airbed and acquired our neighbors' used futon. As awesome as this looks, I decided we could do better.
Ta da! Here's our new "den," as we shall call it. Still functions as a guest room, but now we can use it for other things besides storing an enormous queen size Aerobed.
Here's my freehanded wall art. I learned it's enormously scary to stand in front of a freshly painted Japanese Maple wall with a loaded paintbrush in your hand. I used a white pastel pencil to make tiny marks for the top, bottom, left and right edges of where the tree should go, and then I held my breath and hoped for the best. The little canvases are 5"x5". Their design might look familiar...
I love this Ikea fabric I bought to make pillows and the wall art (I'll tell you next time how to stretch it.) And this bookcase, also from Ikea, is cool because you can put in drawer units, cupboard doors, or wicker baskets as you like. I've got a mix of drawers and baskets for crafty stuff.
Here's a little reading/writing table. And that concludes your tour of this enormous 10'x13' room.
Here's yet another variation on the "What Color Are You" quiz; this one asks you to check off boxes of personality attributes and your color will be given to you as an HTML hex color code. So you can color your next website your signature hue? Beats me. Anyhow, I am Pale Turquoise:
Erin in Dallas sent me some fun images featuring oranges, including this one from The Illustrated London News Picture Library. It's possible to order high resolution digital files or prints of any illustrations you fancy, or visit their sister site, The ILN Print Library, if you'd like prints on fine art paper or canvas.
I'll be the first to admit I am a print designer, not a web programmer. I am html-challenged. But by some miracle, I was able last night to convert this blog to a three-column template all by myself! Which means you can do it, too. Everything I know about altering a standard Blogger template I learned from my friend Google. Here are the tutorials I've used for doing stuff to my blog, in case you want to try it:
You never know when you might need coffee stain Photoshop brushes. Download them free here. You'll need Photoshop CS or higher to use them.
This recipe is yummy. Make some. (I have not made the marshmallow footballs, however, since I don't care a bit about football. Maybe I will make marshmallow Eames chairs.)
Yeah. That's why this excellent cartoon is printed out and tacked to the bulletin board behind my monitor (at home, not at the firm where I freelance! Eek!) Of course it doesn't deter me from wasting just as much time in cyberspace. A guy named Dave Walker drew this, along with zillions of other smart, pithy little observations, some of which concern everyone's favorite topic: blogging! See those here, or find even more of Dave's cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.
Determined to use up my pile of waste paper, I made more booklets. The covers are made of pages from back issues of Domino magazine. Nice. And as a special feature, one interior blank page has a wee dot of blood on it from my thumb, when I poked myself with a staple. Awesome.
I have a stack of scratch paper that's been sitting on top of my filing cabinet, annoying me. You know how when you print emails, sometimes there's nothing but one line of text on the second page? It's stuff like that. And yet in my purse, I never seem to have any paper whatsoever, so I scribble people's email addresses on the backs of crumpled receipts. So here's my solution: tiny notebooks.
I decided to make my notebooks 3"x4" when folded. If you want that size, find a piece of decorative paper that's at least 6"x4" or print yourself something on one of the pieces of scratch paper. (I printed some designs I made in Illustrator.) Laminate both sides of the sheet with clear contact paper.
Cut your decorative paper and your scratch paper into 6"x4" pieces and fold in half. (I used 8 pieces of scrap paper to make 16-page booklets.)
Set the staple aside and use a pin or needle to poke all the way through the paper stack in the places where your hole indentations went. Then push your staple through, turn the paper stack over, and use your fingernail, letter opener, or screwdriver to close the staple. Repeat for the second staple.
Here are more samples of Dover clipart I mentioned a long time ago. If you sign up, every Wednesday you'll get an email from Dover Publications with links to download some free art from their vault of historical images. If you haven't signed up yet, you can do it here. Things you could do with the images: print them out and decoupage them onto something, print some onto iron-on transfer paper and iron them onto fabric, make shrinky dinks out of them, or use them in collages or homemade greeting cards.
A few more paper-and-fabric bookmarks I've made. Quite fun to slip into letters and cards to mail to friends. For the how-to details, see here. 
The Hockneyizer is a fun online tool that turns a single photo you upload into a collage of polaroids. Give it a whirl.
Blog reader Christina emailed me about these cool World Wildlife Fund pumpkin stencils you can download from HP right here. Which prompted me to search for more downloadable stencils. Check these out:
Here's another greeting card I made, which you can download here and print, if you like. A chocolate brown envelope might be nice with it. If you don't have one, you can make one out of brown paper using this template.
Now, what kind of haircut to get? I'm liking Halle Berry, #6. Sharon Stone, #1, is a little too crazy. Maybe Cate Blanchette, #3, but in my real hair color? America Ferrera, #2, isn't bad. But then I'm back to ponytail syndrome. Hmmm.
Whenever my hair gets long enough to fit into a ponytail, that's all I ever do with it since I'm so lazy. Time to cut some off so I'm forced to actually use a blow dryer and try to look presentable. So while searching for hairstyles, I found this Makeover Studio online where you can upload your head and try on different hair. There aren't a lot of hair choices, but I still thought it was fun. You can add accessories to your head, too. Try it out if you're bored some night or looking for a new 'do.
We saw this house on Haight St. in San Francisco. Alex thinks I should live in it. (With him, of course.) 
My friend Kristin in Riverside gave me this cute bag when we visited. Of course I love it.
