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I keep finding new sites with tons of fabulous freebies thanks to everyone on Twitter. Below is the beginnings of a list of those I find myself going to over and over. The folks who offer these put out unique, quality products. I’ll be adding more as I have time. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

• Vector4Free — Vector art
• Vecteezy — Vector art
• Colorburned — Vector art, Illustrator brushes, patterns and more
• Brusheezy — Photoshop brushes
• Colorburned — Photoshop brushes
• Bittbox — Hi-res Photoshop watercolor brushes
• Fresh eMedia — Photoshop brushes and more
• Flasheezy — Flash files, templates and more
• Fresheezy — WordPress templates and more
• WebAir Blog — 100+ WordPress templates
• Colorburned — Tutorials
• Fontfabric — ‘VAL’ font (this is a fun font to have in your arsenal)
• Bittbox — Stylized fonts
• Woork — “10 Delicious Free Fonts with commercial-use license”
• Bittbox — Textures

Been thinking about where my career would be now if we didn’t have a house and kids. I know, very self-centered and selfish but, it just makes me wonder. Sure, it makes me wonder when I’m raking leaves out of the hedge, weeding the gardens and all of the tedious tasks that need to be done. All of the time spent maintaining a house, all of the time devoted to kids and their activities, not to mention just trying to keep up on the technology, trends, etc. of a career much less doing anything about it. People without time dedicated elsewhere seem to be the ones pushing the envelope creatively and technically because they have the time to devote to such pursuits and are the ones you read about.

Yes, we went out to dinner at that fancy restaurant again tonight, met up with the elite and then went back to our New York loft for the evening. Stayed up til all hours of the night working on the latest inspiration. Developed the latest cool widget/application/device that everyone will be talking about and everyone will want for years to come…Yeah, that kind of stuff. It’s kind of like the confirmed bachelor that finally marries but misses his free-wheeling ways.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love, love, love our kids and love having a house and can’t imagine life otherwise – it helps that my husband is also my best friend. I also love that I have a job where I can be creative, have some freedom in my schedule and work with great people. I guess that is why Twitter is so important as well…I get to live vicariously through some pretty cool and ingenious people AND get to benefit from their knowledge and findings Yes, life is good.

<rant>MyCokeRewards.com is an example of a Flash site gone wrong. I love the idea of collecting bottle caps and entering codes in for a chance to win something or get some Coke paraphenalia. However, when it takes flippin’ forever to get from one page to the next on a high-speed connection there is a problem.

Not to mention, trying to find anything specific on that site is darn near impossible. I’ve been trying to find where to enter a code to enter a sweepstakes. Sure, I can find the sweepstakes but there is no place to enter this specific code! Normally I’d spend a few minutes trying to ferret it out but when the speed of the site rivals that of turtles I’m not sticking around. Sorry, Coke.

For all of the money that it probably cost them to create this site, they missed the mark. Yes, I’ll still enter codes so my kids’ school can get stuff but, I’m spending my surfing time elsewhere.</rant>

Still love Coke products otherwise! Diet Coke with Lime…yum…