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Martina

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.

About Me


I am a graphic designer living in East Nashville with my amazing husband, Jason; my fat cat, Berkley; and my cocker spaniel, Lucy. We live in a mid-century modern ranch in a great neighborhood and we love it! Jason's a musician. Check out his band's website: myspace.com/waterside or thewatersideband.com . God has blessed us with a really fun life filled with art, music and great friends and family.
I'm an associate art director at Salem Publishing/CCM Magazine. I'm pretty busy these days but I'm still interested in freelance opportunities. I specialize in websites, CD designs, and logos (business cards, stationary, etc.) but I'd be glad work with you doing just about anything graphic design related. My logos have won several awards including a silver National Addy Award. Check out my graphic design website, light hand design .
I try not to get overly involved in politics, especially when it becomes equivelant to religion for some people. But, I am concerned about what will happen to our country if some certain candidates were to get elected. So, to that end,

My Interests

Decorating my home, traveling, gardening, Mexican food, coffee shops, sleeping late, staying up late, bamboo, concerts, movies, Sundays, the beach, hot tubs, cities, graphic design, handmade jewelry, scrapbooking/ journaling, reading, swimming, hiking, camping, bike rides, playing with Lucy, going to the park, baking desserts, cookouts, waterfalls, frogs, painting freely, hot showers, riding waves in the ocean, quiet time, shopping, crocheting

I'd like to meet:

Friends, classmates, business contacts. If I've never met you (or never heard of your crappy band) then I probably will not approve your friend request. If you think you know me but its been a long time, send me a message and remind me of who you are. I am not out to get as many myspace friends as possible or to give free promotion to bands that I don't like or believe in.

Music:

Waterside, Coldplay, Phil Keaggy, Maroon 5, Gavin DeGraw, MuteMath, Marc Broussard, Wes Montgomery, Warren Barfield, Mat Kearney, John Mayer, Jamie Cullum, Downhere, Nate Sallie, Jimmy Needham (I think I like male singers or something...), Standing Small, Switchfoot, Nickel Creek, Derek Webb, Joy Williams, Leigh Nash (see I'm not sexist afterall...), Dave Brubeck, Jonny Lang, Brandon Heath, Bethany Dillon, Story Side B, Jon McLaughlin, Leeland

Movies:

Napoleon Dynamite, About a Boy, Waiting for Guffman, Hitch, Anger Management, Ben Stiller movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, A Walk to Remember, Little Miss Sunshine, Nacho Libre, The Holiday, Click, Spiderman 1, 2 & 3, The Pursuit of Happiness, Memoirs of a Geisha

Television:

The Office! Anything on HGTV, TLC, or Food Network, Seinfeld & Everybody Loves Raymond reruns (box sets), Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Flip That House, Man vs. Wild, Little People Big World

Books:

Blue Like Jazz & Searching for God knows What by Donald Miller Captivating & Wild at Heart by John and Staci Eldridge, I am not but I know I Am & Air I Breathe by Louie Giglio, anything by Francine Rivers or C.S.Lewis, How, Print, Communication Arts, Real Simple, Dwell, Blueprint, Relevant, and of course: CCM.

Heroes:

Jesus, my parents, Jason (he works harder than anyone I know and is always optimistic, faithful, hopeful and steadfast)

My Blog

Moving... (update)

We found a new house! We are moving out of the old house this weekend and into the new house next weekend (if all goes well this week.) There's nothing like moving 2 weekends in a row! Ha ha! Seriousl...
Posted by Martina on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:12:00 PST

We're moving...

Well, we're moving. We sold our house. Our house that we love but is 12 miles too far from the city life we love. We are closing February 16th and we haven't found a new house yet. I don't know what w...
Posted by Martina on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:26:00 PST

Awestruck by God's power

I got out of work at 2:30 today (instead of 5:00) because there was a stream of tornadoes popping up around Nashville. As I was on my way home, with half a million other people, driving toward the sto...
Posted by Martina on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:08:00 PST

Why Jason makes a better housewife.

Last night I made meatlump.It has often been debated about in our relationshipwho gets to be the stay-at-home housewife. The other day, Jason had the day off and I was really irritated that I had to g...
Posted by Martina on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:11:00 PST