Month: April 2008

Twenty Something: A Fine Frenzy

I’m starting a new series – real life twenty somethings in the world. I’m not sure how often this series will run or who all will be featured but I’d like to start this off with a fabulous musician I found a few months ago. Name: Alison Sudol aka A Fine Frenzy Age: 22 Location: […]

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Twenty Something Advice: Always Second Guess but Never Regret

I’ve had a number of responses to the quest for guest bloggers for my weekly Twenty Something Advice series. This guest post was written by a 20SB who blogs at Nothing to Show But This Brand New Tattoo * * * * I’m a middle aged woman trapped in a twenty-seven year olds body. I […]

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Blogiversary Giveaway

Haaaapppppppyyyyy blogiversary to me [insert awful singing voices here]. April 20th was my 1 year blogiversary! What I learned through my first year of blogging … It’s quite complicated to write an introduction to something that you’ve never done but I think this first year has turned out pretty close to what I planned – […]

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T-Shirt Thursday

My life has been a complete and utter roller coaster the last week (maybe two) so I decided my advice for this Thursday is to myself … have some fun! Life is not as serious as you make it! There you go that’s my advice. And in keeping with my advice I decided I’d share […]

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I believe in pink

Update: I created this graphic many years ago, it’ been making the rounds on Pinterest lately so I decided to update the post to clarify. This image was created by me (Genpink) but the original quote is Audrey Hepburn. Want more lovely quotes checkout my Pinterest board: Word to Live By. * * * I […]

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What’s next for GenPink?

The lack of post today is due to the fact that I am working on about 18 things at once. One of which is I am redesigning GenPink. I’m hoping to launch the redesign on my actual blogiversary but we’ll see. Anyway, I need your input. For my redesign I am making plans for year […]

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{creativity} Artist of the Day

My name is Elysa and I am a creative snob. Well no not really, but I am definetly inclined to befriend creatives. I do know there are some people who, as they say, “don’t have a creative bone in thier body” but honestly I find that hard to believe. Either way, even those who don’t […]

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{money} Tax Tips

My tax situation is fairly complicated because I’ve always had a full time job in addition to my freelance business. Consequently I keep most of my financials in pretty good order most of the year. I am not a last minute tax payer but I do know there are some people who are scrambling these […]

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{twitter} Where my peeps at?

The New York Times calls Twitter “one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” TIME Magazine says, “Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app,” and Newsweek noted that “Suddenly, it seems as though all the world’s a-twitter.” What will you think? http://twitter.com Are you following me? I’ve decided twitter is for […]

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When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller

{quotable} Opening Doors

If you’ve read my ABCs of Me you already know this about me: “Q: Quotes – I absolutely love great quotes. In college I had my whole closet door covered in post it notes with fun quotes on them. I added some of my favorite random quotes on the side bar.” For the most part […]

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