Official welcome to a Jazeffect 2012...

What a super busy start to the year it's been!

With a number of jobs rolling over into the start of this year there wasn't much time to take a breather... well time to think about blogging anyway. I'm just now catching up on some "house-keeping" and indulging in some photography and updating the Jaz Effect website, Blog and my Facebook account. Have to say I'm loving the new "timeline" profile, looks like a real website page with the wide banner at the top to show off your favourite photos.

I also spent some time over the christmas break tweaking the Jazeffect Design branding with a big shift from red and brown to green and black... and almost every other colour on the wheel! This marks v.4 for "Jazeffect design" and I found it funny that I've gone back to black and green, the colours I first used to create the business and image 8 years ago. The main difference is all the extra colours, I figured it was time to have a bit of fun and sometimes you just can't decide which colour you feel like - so I figured why choose when you can have them all!

The image below is the front and back of my new business card. I used this opportunity to trial a new printer who specialises in embellishment, eg. embossing, foil, spot UV, plastic cards, etc. and they did an outstanding job. I was really impressed with the quality of their work, service and all at an extremely reasonable price. They are now my regular speciality printers and I've used them a number of times since. So if you're reading this and want to "Jaz" up your business cards with a touch of "impressive" then send me an email.

I've got a list of blog topics which I will aim to get through over the coming months. But for now it's time to get back to work ;-)

Morning Muse...

Thought I'd share this photo seeing as it's been some time since my last post - last year in fact. I've been playing around with my new Canon EOS600D having recently upgraded from an older model Canon. It seems my most popular models are my gorgeous cat Nikita and food!

I'm also working on a new restaurant website scheduled to go live in early May 2012, for which I'll be taking the photos. For once I won't have people looking at me strangely as I try to sneak in a photo of my food before eating it! More on that later.

My husband and I treated ourselves earlier in the year to a stay at the Lakehouse in Daylesford and 8 course degustation with matched wines. The only disappointment was the quality of the photos I took using my phone... just wasn't game enough to use my big camera and flash and disrupt the intimate and "proper" ambiance. Each plate was a true masterpiece I was really looking forward to sharing it on my blog. Alas this photo of a fat goose will have to suffice.... the before picture??? ;-)

 

Shimmering water at the Lakehouse