Annette Price

 

ABOUT ANNETTE

Annette Price is a business owner, educator, artist, journalist, wife, and mother of three.

She started Speeding Bullet Comics in 1998, near historic downtown Norman, Oklahoma. Speeding Bullet, known for its family atmosphere and community involvement, has been nominated for the Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award, the highest honor among comic book specialty stores.

Annette enjoys teaching both children and adults. As a certified eBay Education Specialist, she helps beginners sell products online. She also teaches cake decorating at the beginning and intermediate levels.

Food artistry is another entrepreneurial avenue. Her professional cakes and confectionary carvings win festival awards and take the spotlight at weddings.

Annette is an editor, writer, graphic designer and photographer by trade. With a magna cum laude degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, her credentials include the prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper internship and experience at major newspapers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Annette and husband, Matthew, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in 2007. They live in Norman with their three daughters: Rachel, Audrey and Miranda.

 

LINKS

 

Speeding Bullet Comics features over 5,000 graphic novels in stock -- giving the store one of the largest selections in the Midwest. You can learn more about the store at www.speedingbulletcomics.com.

To learn more about Annette's Selling on the Internet classes, see her listing in the Education Specialist directory or find her class at Moore-Norman Technology Center.

Annette's cake decorating classes are offered at the South Penn Campus of Moore-Norman Technology Center. Her cake and cookie decorating class for the Summer Youth Academy is designed for 9- to 11-year-olds. Visit her Flickr site to see photos of her cakes.

To visit Matthew's web site, visit www.matthewlprice.com.

To contact Annette, click here.

Thu Jan 17

Green is my favorite color

I have mixed feelings about home makeover shows. Extreme Makeover Home Edition? Love it. Sometimes it makes me cry. Shows on H&G Network? I don’t know. Sometimes they bore me to tears.

I’ve never been one to paint walls on a whim. I’m not that daring. If I didn’t like the color, I know it’d be an ordeal to change it back. Dolling up the website, on the other hand, is less of a mess.

There’s no paint to mix, but deciding on one hex value out of millions of possibilities is a challenge. And once you’ve found a great color, creating coordinating colors can be even more frustrating.

For help, I went to the Color Schemer Gallery to get ideas from other people who like to match colors. Then, I used the online Color Scheme Generator to expand on the ideas I liked, and to find the hex values of shades that were slightly lighter or darker.

There was a lot of trial and error involved, but I think I came up with a look that I liked. I wonder if hardware stores can mix paints based on RGB and hex values …