And finally...

These are some special projects (with the exception of the normal old lifestyle page I wanted to squeeze in there).

A) Thanksgiving recipes from local chefs
B) A poster for a local farm team
C) The cover of the 2008 Bridal tab. I still need to save the cover of the 2009 one.

More design

These are some of my favorite A1s from the past year.

A) Michelle Obama and Jill Biden visit the area.

B) Residents fight or support construction of wind farm

C) Teachers receive these amazing grants that they can spend on basically anything

D) A story about preventing farm runoff from seeping into the rivers

E) A normal A1, but with lots of awesome art.

How I fill my days

It's been over a year since I posted pages, basically since I started designing, so I thought it was time to show ya'll what I've been doing in the interim. These are some of my favorite lifestyles and homes pages (which are my all-time favorite to do). Tomorrow, I'll post some A1 fronts.

A) A Homes story about decorating your home with branches and berries from your yard.

B) A wire story about the popular spices for 2008.

C) A wire story about fancy luggage. I didn't have much in the way of art, so I decided to whip together something that I thought would look like a children's book, in a good way.

D) A wire story about good old Lincoln. Thought I would go for presidential.

E) A story about our cartoonist's 20th year on the job. 

even more boring pages

These are my most recent lifestyles pages. I drew the tree on my Quark page and my editor came over and was like, "where did you download that illustration from?" I was like, "um. I drew it." It was way cool.

more boring newspaper stuff

This is my much snazzier A1 for today. Later this week, I'll post some of my entertainment and lifestyles pages.

start spreadin the news

So, last night I did my first A1 AND came in under deadline, with 8 minutes to spare. It's not gorgeous, but it's mine.
Here's the goods!