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Did you know that Spitfire Media Group is now a local delivery hub for fresh, locally grown organic produce every Friday?  As a way of staying connected to our community and supporting local farms, we’ve joined with Local Food Stop to offer this service. In our first week, there were 9 bags of fresh fruit and vegetables delivered, and this week that number more than doubled to 21 bags!

The produce varies from week to week, and has included fresh lettuce, squash, zucchini, kiwi, apples, eggplant, sweet potatoes, strawberries and more. Here is a small sampling of this week’s produce:

We are amazed at the freshness of the produce and its vibrant color.  These carrots were a highlight from this weeks bags.

Tammy discovered that she could use her carrot tops as a hiding place, if necessary.

Want to participate?  Simply visit www.localfoodstop.com and order a regular, medium or large bag of produce by 10AM on Tuesdays, select Spitfire Media Group as your pickup location, and then stop by to pick up your bag on Friday between 2-5:30PM. You’ll enjoy the healthy food and feel good about supporting local agriculture.

This week we celebrated Tammy’s birthday!  What better way to celebrate this momentous occasion than with one of her favorite foods, pizza!  We got a couple of pies from Buckhead Pizza, and Tammy washed it down with an ice cold Mountain Dew.

After she did the Dew, we introduced Tammy to the true theme of her birthday, the First Annual Spitfire Spelling Bee!

Why a spelling bee?  Well, let’s just say that Tammy is sometimes grammatically challenged.  We can’t all be spelling champs day in and day out, but Tammy certainly takes the cake.  Or, should I say Tammee taykes thee cayk.  Please note that she is wearing a funny party favor in the photo above, a pair of lips with a built in whistle.

The Spelling Bee had a full roster of contestants, each with their own pair of ghetto glasses from the Goodwill.

The words that the contestants had to spell all revolved around Tammy’s history at Spitfire. After several competitive rounds with his fellow contestants, Bradley and his nerd glasses emerged victorious.

After the exhausting intellectual challenge of the Spelling Bee we settled into the conference room and enjoyed  a delicious fresh fruit salad prepared by Paige.

If there’s one word we could spell for Tammy and her dedication to our team, it would be T-H-A-N-K-S!

Happy Birthday Tammy!

Eleven years ago I had a life changing experience. I was introduced to a piece of software that would single handily set the course of my future career path. A piece of software that allowed me to design and create in ways more powerful and intuitive than I though possible. Yes, I was instantly hooked, and from day to day my love for this program continues to grow. It is the single most used program in my creative arsenal, and it would be safe to say that a majority of creative professionals rely to some degree on its technical merits. Concerning the industry, it is King of the hill and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon. Of course I’m talking about the mighty giant that is Adobe Photoshop, and it turned 20 years old on February 19, 2010.

From photographers to videographers, motion pictures to magazines, Photoshop touches everything, and everyone. It has truly become embedded into our cultural experience. Even people who have never used it know of it’s powerful capabilities and majestic healing properties. “Can you just Photoshop so and so out of the picture?” or “Can you just fix that with photoshop?” are frequent client requests, and more often than not the answer is “yes”. Photoshop is that good, and it has truly earned all the accolades it has received. I’m sure I’m not the only designer who if asked,”what one program would you take to a desert island”, would easily answer “Photoshop.” I mean, duh.

Photoshop has brought me years of enjoyment. It’s brought smiles and tears of joy through family projects created on the platform. It’s given me the means to make a living. I owe a lot to Photoshop, in so many ways.

Happy Birthday, Photoshop.

To learn more about the Adobe Photoshop’s 20th birthday, click here.

It’s another exciting day at the Spitfire hangar: Palmetto Grant Consulting debuted their very first website! Showcasing the incredible impact their grant writing services have on the lives effected by educational and non-profit organizations, the site evokes emotion and reflects their dedication to empowering others to change lives.  View the website.

We’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with Susan Bacon, founder of Palmetto Grant Consulting, and learned that sometimes our passions take shape in different ways over the years. Susan’s passion has always been for children and others in need, after having been a high school teacher earlier in her career. But, she soon found that her drive to help others succeed could take the form of grant writing - which she is mighty good at, if we might say so ourselves. Just take a look at her track record!

Here’s Susan describing her website project in her own words: “It’s rare to find people who consistently exceed your expectations. I have found the Spitfire team to be extremely professional, reliable, and committed. The entire group pays attention to detail, makes suggestions, and always puts in the extra effort. I will definitely recommend Spitfire Media Group to my clients and friends, as well as continue working with the company for my own projects.  I trust Spitfire to do high quality work at a fair price.”

It’s never too late to create a website for your own business, or even allow your passions to change shape now and then. Call us at 770.271.3001 to discuss how we can help you take this exciting adventure head on!

I was very pleased to recently introduce my daughter, Lyla, to the Spitfire Crew!  She stopped by for a late afternoon visit, and was happy to see so many smiles and get so many hugs.  Yes, there were a few jokes about Lyla and I having the same haircut.  Hardie har har.

What was very unusual was to see that Tammy and Lyla are nearly the same height.  It’s hard to tell in the photo below, but Lyla and Tammy were both standing with their feet on the ground.

But seriously, it was nice to let everyone spend some time with Lyla and for her to thank them in person for all the thoughtful baby shower gifts they provided before her arrival.