If you didn’t realize by my lack of responding to your emails and comments, I’ve been quite out of touch these last few weeks. First I was on vacation—a wonderful Caribbean cruise—and then I was at my company’s sales convention. I missed so many great articles while I was away, not to mention connecting with my wonderful readers and bloggy friends!

It seems that many others have been incredibly busy since the start of the new year, too, so just in case you’re in the same boat as me and missed them, here are some great articles from March.

Ok, so Small Caps on iLT goes back a little before March, but it was a very enlightening article for me and you should check it out if you missed it.

Speaking of typography, Vivien from Inspiration Bit had the most awesome articles on breaking down what makes great web typography (check out part 2, too!). This is definitely a must-read!

In the same vein as my last post on grunge textures, is Jacob’s post on Font Flags and Specimen Sheets. He also shared a little more about himself last week. Always nice to get to know bloggers better!

Kristarella, one of the bloggers I invited to write on The GIMP for Creative Curio in my absence, has posted a follow-up article on GIMP tutorial sites she’s found and her first impressions of them.

Charity, another guest author featured on Creative Curio, went to Costa Rica earlier this month and recently posted pics from her vacation, if you’re interested in more photos! She has some good advice for any of you traveling to CR (though maybe you’ll be a little scared when you read her article!).

I subscribed to Ideas on Ideas back when I read How to Disarm 10 Difficult Client Requests. I’m glad to see that Eric is back up and posting again! He really makes me relax a lot more about what I do—I don’t feel the need to be perfect every single time—especially when I read posts like this and this.

Verne at Creative Briefing put together a humorous but so very true post about Gordon Ramsay and business. Great lessons to be learned!

And I’ve added a new page to Creative Curio (yet to link it in the top navigation) for those of you interested in writing a guest article for this blog. I’ve had many guests the past few weeks while I’ve been away and I hope to welcome more of you!

Now for the pictures!

These are just a few of many that I took while in the Caribbean. You saw the best ones from convention last week. That’s my husband and I below, with the captain.

We chose a Western Caribbean cruise, stopping in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Cozumel, Mexico and Princess Cays because it offered some of the best SCUBA diving in the Caribbean.

We were not disappointed! The water was warm (about 80 degrees F) and we were able to chat with some divers that signed up for the same excursions we did.

I was able to rent a nice underwater digital camera for Grand Cayman dives, so I have some good shots from there. We dove a site called La Mesa because of it’s shelf and flat surface (just like a table) and then moved over to a ship wreck which was really cool! We definitely didn’t spend enough time there.

Cozumel was fun, too, and we had three drift dives there. I only had a crummy disposable camera for Cozumel and it was overcast most of the time so the pictures didn’t turn out as good. We had great dive guides that pointed out all sorts of neat things, including sharks, squid (actually my husband spotted that guy first!), little bitty rare fish, rays and turtles, which are no big deal after diving and snorkeling in Hawai’i!

Ocho Rios, Jamaica was our first stop and we visited the tourist trap, Dunn’s River Falls. You’ll probably know this site if you’ve ever been to Jamaica.

We sailed aboard the Grand Princess.

Princess Cays is Princess’s private island at the tip of the Bahamas. It was very beautiful!

And some closing words to live and work by. Enjoy.

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