iPhone photography: hyacinths

In the December Issue of the Micro Magazine for members of Club Marmalade Moon:

• how to kickstart your New Year on your computer creating an attractive desktop with built-in organization
• “Espresso” pre-release of an abstract, geometric desktop wallpaper
• finding a sustainable approach to new year’s resolutions
• thoughts on the ebb and flow of creativity: “there’s nothing routine about passion”
• free, printable holiday tags
• pre-release of a collection of colourful folder icons

If you think it would be useful and fun to get insider sneak peeks, tips, pre-releases, members only desktop art and special sales at consistently irregular intervals, join the club! Membership is free!

Life Compass. Goal Setting Kits

Life Compass
The Goal Setting Kit With a Heart & Soul

Experience more ease and flow in your life by going with the pace of the seasons: 

• find more peace and clarity around how you really want to live your life
• create a space for your soul and dreams to breathe and grow
• stoke the fire, build a momentum
• take action and complete your projects
• reset your life balance
• tweak your motivation
• gain confidence by focusing on your accomplishments
• nurture yourself throughout the process

Four Seasons
Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn

Navigate through the four seasons and catch the wind in your sails, with four practical and soulful goal setting kits.

Winter: it is during the dark season of winter, that we find illuminating light
Spring: see your life as a garden and find the flexibility for change
Summer: abundant energy and ease allows you to release a great deal of power with little effort
Autumn: the season for balance, transformation, gratitude & forgiveness
Life Compass: Get all Four Seasons in one package.

Productive Desktop Icons is a brand new bundle of 4 collections of icons that help you get unstuck so you can work with ease. Supporting your workflow, following along with your process, keeping your most important projects organised and keeping your creative work at your fingertips.

Think of them as a stimulus package for your desktop, and go get them today!

iPhone photography: Purple Sunset

There was a purple sunset. To think of how the sunset is change in motion. Transformation. Or if you will, a gift of beauty, for us to find, to discover. This sunset went in shades of purple, orange and yellow, and since it corresponded with the signature colour palette of Marmalade Moon it reminded me of my thoughts to redesign my site.

Then I thought, why not turn it around, change my approach, and make it more transparent? Instead of disappearing down the rabbit hole *shudder*, to do my magic (obsessing for ages) and reappear like the magician with a creation, why not make it an open process? Why not share the creative process? Why not turn it into something you can take part of?

Pros

• You might enjoy it
• You might be able to help me
• if you’re in the process of redesigning your website, maybe you could learn from my mistakes?
• I might let go of some of my perfectionism and enjoy the journey more
• I’d just go ahead and do it, instead of waiting for the “right time”
• It feels right, even if I don’t know how to do it

Cons 

• I have no idea if it’ll work out
• I might fail completely and lose face, and have to come to terms with that

FOLLOW THE WEBSITE MAKE OVER VIA EMAIL

The Autumn Goal Kit helps you stay motivated and recharged, with a minimum of fuss. Stay on track by leveraging the natural rhythms of the seasons. Get unstuck with ease by taking a holistic view on your life and tapping into the flow of the seasons.

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About The Autumn Goal Kit

Autumn is the time for harvest and thanksgiving. A time for balance, transformation, gratitude & forgiveness. Use the Autumn Shift to find your balance and gain clarity on your harvest. Reflecting on which aspects of your harvest you store for winter and which you leave behind. Get unstuck with ease by taking a holistic view on your life and tapping into the flow of the seasons.

The Autumn Goal Kit Features

• 7 printable PDF pages (5 of which are worksheets with prompts).
• A unique, holistic, feelgood approach to personal growth, goal setting and motivation.
• Visually stunning with sumptuous colours, inspiring quotes, beautifully laid out and illustrated.
• You can type directly into the PDF pages on your computer, so you don’t have to print out the goal kit unless you want to.
• You can use or print it as often as you would like and use the goal kit year after year.
• A simple, effective approach to getting unstuck and accomplishing your goals.

The change of season naturally allows and offers us valuable opportunities to refocus, reevaluate, reconsider, release and renew. When you align with the natural cycles, life can feel easier and you are able to live in the here and now more effortlessly. Seasonal Goal Kits help you align yourself with the transitions. Get the Autumn Goal Kit. 

The Spring Goal Kit helps you stay motivated and recharged, with a minimum of fuss. Stay on track by leveraging the natural rhythms of the seasons. A unique, holistic, feelgood approach to personal growth, goal setting and motivation.

Buy Now

About The Spring Goal Kit

Spring is the time for renewing your life and making a change. This is the time to begin launching your ideas, plans and dreams. Use the Spring Shift to see your life as a garden. Preparing the ground, sowing seeds, growing your crops and nurturing them. Get unstuck with ease by taking a holistic view on your life and tapping into the flow of the seasons.

 The Spring Goal Kit Features

• 7 printable PDF pages (5 of which are worksheets with prompts).
• A unique, holistic, feelgood approach to personal growth, goal setting and motivation.
• Visually stunning with sumptuous colours, inspiring quotes, beautifully laid out and illustrated.
• You can type directly into the PDF pages on your computer, so you don’t have to print out the goal kit unless you want to.
• You can use or print it as often as you would like and use the goal kit year after year.
• A simple, effective approach to getting unstuck and accomplishing your goals.

The change of season naturally allows and offers us valuable opportunities to refocus, reevaluate, reconsider, release and renew. When you align with the natural cycles, life can feel easier and you are able to live in the here and now more effortlessly. Seasonal Goal Kits help you align yourself with the transitions. Get the Spring Goal Kit. 

New Leaf Icons on Daffodil Wallpaper

Here’s a lush and vibrant green, spring palette, perfect for turning over a new leaf with a good desktop spring cleaning!

These Vintage “New Leaf” Folder Icons with a Daffodil wallpaper are pre-released to members of Club Marmalade Moon and are part of the micro magazine for April.

We’ve been improving the help section at Marmalade Moon with a series of brand new video tutorials for how to change the icons on your computer and how to change the desktop wallpaper. Each tutorial now comes with a downloadable PDF that you can save for reference.

I’m celebrating the new guides and tutorials with a club members’ sale on the series of productive icons.

If you think it sounds useful and fun to get sneak peeks, tips, pre-releases, members only desktop art and special sales at consistently irregular intervals, join the club! It’s free and fun.

With Flare, you can effortlessly add effects and textures to your photos then save them to your Mac, upload them to Flickr, or send them in an email. Choose from a variety of Flare’s built-in high-quality presets or create your own using dozens of individual photographic effects. Once you’ve created the ultimate look for your photographs, save and share your preset creations with other Flare users quickly and easily.

Easy to learn for casual hobbyists, Flare also has the flexibility professional photographers need. Your photo is just the beginning!

Old Rose. ©Marianne alias "macounette"

This wonderful photo of a rose was shot by my Twitter buddy Marianne and is her first go with Flare! She says “This app is great. Easy to understand and lots of possibilities. Love it!” You’ll find Marianne and her iPhone photography on Flickr, Posterous, Tumblr and Twitter.

Give Flare a go before buying it by downloading a trial version of that lets you experience all the powerful features of the application but limits the size of photos that can be exported. You can take advantage of the introductory sale and get 50% off Flare on the Mac App Store. (The sale ends on March 18th)

Go to FlareApp.com to learn more about the application, download additional presets, browse the online users guide and more. Then head on over to the Mac App Store and pick up the all new digital desktop darkroom that is Flare for the Mac.

Gift certificates are now available for the series of Productive Desktop Icons. Problem solved.