Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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Ahhh… The beauty of candid home videos…
Since Joaquin was born I’ve been shooting several short videos of him with my very old digital camera. The main purpose of these is to help us remember all the cute little things he does before he stops doing them, and then of course to share life action images […]
An “ad whore”… That’s the latest sutileza from my dear husband. He’s called me that a few times over the last few days, and specially when I told him how much money I’ve earned in advertising revenue since I began the evil experiment. Well, he’s not interested in my explanations, but now that you all […]
I guess the novelty (not the joy) of blogging has finally started to wind down, but after over a year of having started Mafe Maria, I’m finding myself caring less and less about how many feed subscriptions this site has.
For one, I am not sure that all 21 subscribers currently reported by FeedBurner are good […]
Oh yeah… Some time this week Mafe Maria has turned one year old, and an enthusiastic “Spanish” song is in order:
Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei tu yu… Japi verdei Mafecitaaaaa…
Japi verdei tuuuuu yuuuuuu
About a year ago I began writing publicly — and secretly. Today, on my best day, FeedBurner reports 29 subscribers to this […]
—Why are you making that culo face?
—[silence]
—What’s wrong??? Are you mad at me? Have I done something wrong???
—My server is down again. I can’t work
—Again?… Seems like you need to change hosting companies…
—I can’t. Media Temple is supposed to be THE BEST
—Oh
—Yeah [back to culo face]
What are you supposed to do when you are already […]
I’m not one of those insatiable designers who redesign and reboot compulsively only for the pleasure of creative change. As the pure ISTJ that I am, behind everything I do, I must always begin with a reason why and some concrete goals to direct my work. Without such direction I just get lost and don’t […]
Documenting some sort of epiphany in my process as a visual designer… I’m not sure of how long the thought will last, so it’s important to quickly write it down to remind myself… before I continue producing poopoo designs for my own use. It’s true. When it comes to doing any design work for mafemaria.com, […]
Last Friday, Joey and I celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary. For a while I had been hoping that to celebrate the occasion, I would finally attack that big project that has been on my to-do list for the last… uhhh… five years. That is: Digitizing all wedding photos and mementos and making the nice wedding […]
If you think that I am terribly proud of the visual design and information architecture exhibited on this web site, I need to quickly clarify that you are unfortunately wrong. Mafe Maria may be a sample in my portfolio, but only because it shows that I have taken WordPress by the horns, and also as […]
Dear Yaw Osafo-Ansong,
Congratulations on the recent launch of your web design business and web site “MQStudios”. As you well know, my name is Maria Q. Stultz, and I own a small but successful web design business named “MQStudio“, operating online since Aug, 2003.
Mr. Osafo-Ansong… May I call you Alantee?… I am extremely surprised by the […]
Although there are several fine and elegant applications that provide webmasters with consolidated access statistics for their web sites, I find it impossible to live without my own site logs analysis routine. I have become a shameless voyeur of my sites’ access logs, and I find that this practice is good for business and also […]
After much time spent as a lurker reading and enjoying other people’s blogs, this is the year in which I’ve finally decided to stick my patita in the pool and begin writing publicly. This is that embarrassing first (well, ok: 11th) post documenting the genesis of this web site, and my first attempt to join […]
I currently own two web sites: MQStudio, my business and portfolio website, the older, wiser, and responsible child; and Mafe Maria (this site), the second, more curious and adventurous yet somewhat insecure child. Each site has a completely different purpose and voice. These are their stories.
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