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Hi, and thanks for visiting the site.
I have made my living as a graphic designer and website developer for many years. It’s technical and fast changing, eats up our time with updates, scammers, upgrades, hackers, and our involvement with techno yuck is not going to slow down. We have to do it ourselves. For me, times a lot as I’ve dealt with many websites with their changes too. This isn’t really healthy 24/7.
Need a complete one-eighty, back to nature.
Most of my life has been spent split in half, both on a computer and then onto adventures, hiking, seeing where every road goes by foot, bike, snowmobile, dirt bike, you name it… I’ve loved it… as soon as I could get out of that office.
I moved to Pittsburgh from Texas in 1989. Then to the Laurel Highlands in late 2007. The views and slower pace have inspired me way more than cities I’ve lived in all over, and I’ve worked in quite a few places from downtown Dallas to Pittsburgh. Temp agencies kept me employed a lot.
Now, my dogs are great little co-workers and way way way more gets done without that commute! No stress, rushing around, leaving my dogs, the money alone on parking, gas… it didn’t add up. None of it. Creativity doesn’t flow on a time schedule or in a stressful environment.
The scenery I see going to get fresh eggs and meat is beautiful. There it is right behind this text, that is the Laurel Ridge, taken from Bear Rocks Rd. from a quick errand, which often turns into a back road detour.
My camera goes everywhere on all adventures, and usually so do my dogs. During the pandemic when most of my clients shut down, I started through tons of photos from hikes and trips that I’ve been saving. I began making art note cards which also served as a little mini gallery for viewing, and kept adding things as the creative spree kept going … and going, still going.
Now I’m staying put for a bit, and I have a shop inside of a little vintage camper which I open when the weather is nice. It’s very unplanned at the moment, as the art I make is experimental most of the time, and I use a variety of medium to get projects done. Some are just for me, done once for a purpose but some become art that I would like to share and sell. It’s done more out of a labor of love than a business but the two have to be combined… getting there.
For now I enjoy sharing what I’ve seen, where I’ve been and making new things all of the time.
Custom graphic design projects of any kind can be done.
If you’re still here, thanks for reading,
Shanna Blasingame
Graphic design – Websites – Art – Photos all in one place
My commercial work is under Hot Designs, established in 2002 and can be seen here:
Transition of the logo
My new tree logo was drawn over a lunch break on this table top that got ruined.
I found a table at Goodwill (above) and created a cool top for it out of leaf skeletons I’d been saving up and epoxy. The poor table sat outside; the freezing weather cracked the epoxy and ruined it. I was sick about it, threw the table in a heap pile until recently, when I pulled it out and decided to see if some paint would stick to the top of that laminate circle… It did!
So during a lunch break over summer 2025 while watching two acres of trees being clear cut outside my window, machines everywhere, loud noise daily for weeks on end at my studio and home, I played the piano and painted my tree (incidentally learned how to play “The Trees” by Rush to drown out the noise) and a new logo was drawn like that.
The symbolism was everywhere. Art and music therapy is what it turned out to be, while also dealing with losing family members.
I loved my new tree, so I got busy making stamps for my hand art note made cards, printed new business cards, and began a new journey forward.
I love the new look, hope you do. Turns out it looks great on many things.
The rest of the table sits in my yard as decor with moss and tree roots.