Girl Geek Dinner's Blog Challenge

It has been talked about for a few months, idea's floating around between emails and Twitter and now it's finally here! The Winnipeg Girl Geek Blog Challenge!

For those who don't know a blog challenge is just a community of like minded people that encourage, comment and give feedback to fellow bloggers. Since this is focused on local girl geeks I am very excited to get to know all of the other techy ladies that are out there.

This week's challenge: Reasons for Blogging.

I have several reasons for blogging. I find it a great way to record my thoughts and feelings on any given day and revisit them. Whether it is a personal post, business related of a review of an event or equipment it is a great way to keep track of and REMEMBER what was happening in my life at that time.

Another reason I blog is with my small business Smash-Art-Graphic Design, Web and Print it is one of my missions to remain 'transparent' to my clients. Meaning that I am open and honest about my business and my life, there is nothing hidden up these sleeves!

The most important reason I am blogging right now is to create a community with other like minded people to share experiences, resources and support. I know from working on my own in a home office it can become a very lonely profession. Also I do not know any other female PHP wizards, do you?

So cheers to the Winnipeg Girl Geek Blog Challenge! Let's get this party started!

Art Land Inc.

I am so excited to announce that I will be teaching with Art Land Inc. starting in September. Art Land is a new child creative arts studio opening in Winnipeg Manitoba. They offer a variety of different children's art classes through out the week. Each class is designed for each age group and skill level from 3 years to 17 years old.

Smash-Art will be teaching classes Tuesdays to Thursdays, sign up here to take a class with me.

I've started to become friends with the owner and creator of Art Land Inc. Nichole Glaw. I really have to give her credit on many levels, she has had the dream of Art Land since she was a pre teen and now it's finally coming to fruition. The amount of constant hard work and good hearted energy she is putting into the new studio is so highly commendable.

Nichole is also an emerging Girl Geek! She started by developing her own registration form with PHP and moved on to learn and develop Wordpress code for the new Art Land Inc website. Having little to no knowledge of web code before hand it is fantastic to see how fast she was able to lean and how professional the site looks. Great Job Nichole! I look forward to working with you more and more.