I missed one What’s Hot, What’s Not and now I can’t tell my last week from this one. So, here I am, back on a horse.
WHAT'S HOT
- I finally learned how to spell “Wednesday”.
- I got two new followers. Welcome, guys, thank you for your interest, I will do my best so you are not bored here.
- Aleutie was featured in a blog and my Etsy store - in two treasuries. I am getting popular!
- I balanced November and discovered to my pleasant surprise that this month my little enterprise of me made more money then I used to make working in the store. I understand that this is just a holiday fluke, but it’s one of that fluke that boosts the staff morale (lol).
- I discovered a good song: Bob Dylan’s “Things have changed” (yeah, kudos to me, the song is just 9 years old and won Oscar).
- I am working on my web-site for an almost full week now: doing a primitive (in conversations I call it “minimalistic”) design, choosing shades of gray, considering fonts. So this Saturday I looked up “Verdana” in Wikipedia and got hooked. Now I am a typomaniac. I can spend hours looking for slight differences between typefaces (yes, now I use this fancy word), learning how to spot Arial and guessing was it Helvetica or Univers in the razor commercial. This is such a fascinating area, full of great battles that almost nobody heard of and world conspiracies that went unnoticed by even the most fidgety paranoids; where the difference in one hundredth of millimetre can create milliard dollars loss or gain, and changing proportions of letter “g” can be an end of multi-million dollar corporation. Absolutely fantastic!
WHAT'S NOT
- Hubby doesn’t feel well.
- November is such an idle month – nothing happens, we can’t really go anywhere thanks to this nasty weather, and it’s getting dark at 4 PM. Ugh! Depressing.
- Surely, I was the only one whose present didn’t arrive in time to grandmother’s 90th birthday. I was so ashamed and upset, I can’t even talk about it.
The font thing is fascinating. There are some great blogs and forums out there dedicated to typefaces and all their wonderful details!
ReplyDeleteI love the helvetica tribute t-shirt to Ian Dury! Its very good indeed!
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