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About Snailbird

I'm the one on the right (sans wings)

The Girl

I am Nikki Jeske and this is my blog! I am a twenty-four 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 twenty-two furry and scaly kids.

I am an artist and aspiring writer and illustrator for childrens books. I work as an associate web designer for a small company here in Austin, and I do a bit of freelancing on the side where I 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 as well.

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), 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 showcase of both artwork and design that I do and things that I find inspiration in one form or another.

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!

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