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About Snailbird

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The Girl

I am Nikki Jeske and this is my blog! I am a twenty-three year old web designer and illustrator living in a small house in the beautiful hill country that is Austin, Texas with my girlfriend and our large menagerie of animal-kids.

I am an artist and aspiring writer and illustrator for childrens books. I dabble in freelance web design, and my long-term goal is to start up my own web design/graphic design business from home and create web sites, logos, business cards, and other odds and ends for those who need them. In the past I have created t-shirts, greeting cards, invitations, brochures, and pamphlets for different events. I am no stranger to Photoshop.

In my spare time, I game (WoW: Horde: Kel’Thuzad!), knit (scarves being basically the only thing I do WELL), paint (acrylics and oil – watercolor is the bane of my existence), watch the popular law/crime shows (Law and Order: SVU, CSI, Without a Trace, etc), take photos (digital and black and white film photography), write cliche poems (purple prose, anyone?), and dream of bigger and better things for my crowded family. I’ve been making websites and web designs since 2001, and blogging in various forms since 2002. This blog is basically a chronicle of my life and all the random acts of insanity that I (and those in my life) commit.

Other things you might want to know: I have one tattoo (a maple leaf on my left shoulder – I want more!), I am a lesbian (just ask my girlfriend and Love of my Life, also known as Ash), and we currently have 23 furry and scaly kids. It’s quite the zoo.

I’m interesting. At least I keep telling myself that. What do you think?

About Snailbird.Com

Snailbird.com used to be known as Coyote Dreams and was hosted at my friend Dan Bowling’s site. He’s awesome and really helped me figure Wordpress out when I first started using it. I moved my blog to its own domain in October 2008. Why Snailbird.com? Really, it’s two of my nicknames put together. I grew up being called Snail a lot by peers because I was (and am) slow at everything I do, whether walking, running, or thinking. Bird comes from Blackbird, a nickname that grew from one of my online pen names based on my favorite poem by Wallace Stevens (“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”). Snailbird is as random as I am and what I blog about, so it fit.

Snailbird.com is hosted by HostGator and uses Wordpress to run the blog. Want to link to us? Use our banner or button (or a simple text link will work – but please upload any image to your own host).

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Snailbird has been showcased in many Design/CSS galleries, as well as featured in several Design Magazines. Thank you all!