Lisa Lidback

This girl is one of a kind. When I first saw her video Crystallize, I instantly fell in love. As a dancer and musician, she is absolutely inspiring. But it’s not her technique or the novelty of something different… she loves it, and you can see it. She puts her soul into it. And that is the coolest thing to me.

Visit her youtube channel, or watch and listen to some amazing dubstep violin action here:

So I’ve decided to set up an online store and start selling a few things! For now, for my purposes, this is basically an online garage sale. (I’ll be moving soon and will be cleaning out my closets anyway!) But I’m thinking eventually it’d be fun to start reselling thrift items…

At any rate, I decided to start out on Bonanza over Amazon, Ebay, and Etsy for a number of reasons. First of all Bonanza is the least expensive place to get started, secondly it’s a smaller amount of traffic but also smaller amount of similar listings, thirdly I liked the cleanness of the website and branding, and overall it seemed to fit my goals the best.

Here’s to trying new things!

I often use lisabeloved as my username when signing up for something online. It goes as far back with me as being my main email address, and it’s really become part of my identity online. And for some reason, I just felt inclined to explain what it means to me.

What does it mean.

Well, I stole it from John. John the beloved.

There was actually a study I did called Beloved Disciple. Not that I really remember much about the study itself, but the impression it left on me really stuck. The intimacy of being a disciple, of being close to Christ. It’s the farthest thing from religion you can get.

Every time I see or write that name, lisabeloved, I see myself being loved. I hear God saying my name and calling me His beloved. It really is the most tender and intimate thing. And it’s my name. It’s my identity.

Just stumbled across this site in my entrepreneurial pursuits, and it blew my mind! Actually, I have my mom to credit for finding it. But this is awesome, not just for the idea itself, but for all the ideas people come up with to sell for $5! Fiverr.com is a website where people sell a wide variety of skills, services or resources for $5. The simplicity of it is sweet, and the ideas people come up with to sell are both entertaining and impressive!

It’s true that it’s a great way to under sell yourself, however if you’re smart with it you can sell simple tasks or abilities you have that you enjoy doing – for me, playing with photos – and get paid for it! Even if it’s just a few bucks, it can add up quick!

View my profile and my first few Fiverr gigs: fiverr.com/lisabeloved

Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious – the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

Philipians 4:6-9, The Message

“This is true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy”
-George Bernard Shaw

You know you are a web designer when you never get around to updating your own website :) But at long last, my website is donning my very own design. It’s a much simplified version of two or three design ideas I’ve had floating around in my head, and messing around with in photoshop, but have never ventured to code them out. Partly due to lack of time, partly due to the fact that I keep learning more and more every day, and keep thinking “oh, I’ll have to incorporate this design concept or this functionality that into my website somehow…” there are always new ideas and inspirations. I finally decided to bite down and put into action something that I can build upon later.

That is the beauty of web design and development… there is always more to learn, always something new to discover!