I've been thinking about making my own design(s) for our competition for quite some time now. At first I decided that I'd make my first design as soon as I have the time. As more and more time passed I realised it's not about that - if I just took the time I'd have it. Then I decided I'd make my first design just as soon as I have the new Adobe Illustrator CS3. Well, even if I'm not accustomed to using the Illustrator (I'm still a Macromedia Freehand guy myself) I also realised that this is merely an excuse. Finally I decided that I'd make my first laFraise competition entry just as soon as our new european competition takes off. That's really only an excuse also - things may still be a bit slow with the competition as we haven't even started properly promoting yet, but having said this there really isn't a better time to participate than right now (not too much competition and we still choose a winner at least once a month from the EU-site too).

It seems that losing one's laFraise virginity can be a scary thing. I'm not sure what I'm afraid of because after all I'm as comfortable with our site as I'm with hanging out in my own livingroom and believe me; I'm pretty comfortable with that. So, now I've decided that I'm making my first design during this week and it will propably be open for voting before friday. Just to get even more comfortable with the idea of getting feedback (…and I know all of it won't be positive) about my designs from someone else than my customers I decided that goofing off is the thing I want to start with.

For one reason or another my older cat has been a bit sick over the past three days. Vintiö (finnish for a "rascal") has been puking all over the place (don't worry, she's just fine) and a couple days ago she puked on my pillow. Yes, on my pillow - right in the middle. I can be quite lazy when it comes to doing the necessary household chores and the pillow has been on my bathroom for the past two days. Today I was about to wash it when I noticed that the shape of the puke stain looks pretty much like a surfer riding a wave and got an idea.

My first design here will be "surfing on cat puke." No, I don't really expect it to win; I'm just doing it for the fun of it. I hope this encourages some of the readers of the blog to participate more (maybe for their first time). It's not so serious really. Don't be afraid - If I can do it I'm sure you can too!