The lovely people I've worked with over the years

Client List & Testimonials

Over the years, I have been for­tu­nate to work with an amazing variety of busi­nesses and people on a great many inter­esting pro­jects. Take a look at how I have helped them and their busi­nesses, and see for your­self all the nice things people have had to say about working with me. It’s enough to make me blush!

Client List

Sarah and I might have been in sep­arate time-zones, but we were def­in­itely on the same page when it came to my web­site ZOMBIES ATE LAUREN. She took a very loose concept (a horror blog with a retro, pulp look) and gave me some­thing that fit my brand, and per­son­ality, per­fectly. This was my first time working with a designer and I couldn’t have been hap­pier with my exper­i­ence. Sarah walked me through every step, listened to my feed­back, and provided quick res­ults. When ZOMBIES ATE LAUREN launched a few weeks ago, I imme­di­ately knew I had the sweetest web­site on the block. I hope I inspire lots of folks to get in touch with Sarah so they can have their own piece of the web to brag about. — Lauren Oostveen, Zom­bies Ate Lauren

Sarah is bril­liant. She was able to trans­late my very spe­cific vision for the site, and temper it with her in-depth know­ledge of web tech­no­logy and com­pre­hensive under­standing of what works in web mar­keting. It’s a kickass site and I couldn’t be hap­pier with it. — Myke Cole, Author

Trig­gers & Sparks revamped our web­site with a clean, fresh look that made nav­ig­a­tion much easier for users and revealed the wealth of con­tent we had cre­ated. We’ve received many com­pli­ments from our nation­wide net­work of mem­bers. (“Great job, love the look, easy nav­ig­a­tion on the new web­site!” “Far better format! Con­grat­u­la­tions!”)

With her tech­nical know-how and design vision, Sarah cre­ated a web­site that sur­passed expect­a­tions, all within budget. Our web­site is now the public face that we want rep­res­enting our organ­iz­a­tion.
— Alice Ewan, Actrees

As a reg­ular client, I always have a laundry list of design and web­site needs for Sarah to deliver on each week. No matter how big or small, Sarah faces every chal­lenge with a pos­itive atti­tude and a smile and she always gets the job done—creatively and pro­fes­sion­ally. She is a pleasure to work with and a true asset to our com­pany. — Tara Joosse, Wicker Emporium

Sarah is a pleasure to work with. She always has so many great ideas and her con­fid­ence is con­ta­gious. She breaks down jobs in a logical fashion and meets every dead­line along the way, always standing by her work with a strong pro­fes­sional integ­rity. As for the quality of her work, it speaks for itself! — Iain Keith Murray, Ima­gicon Illustration

Sarah suc­cess­fully runs a graphic design busi­ness in a small town rife with com­pet­i­tion from a mul­ti­tude of other graphic artists and wan­nabes. The reason why she main­tains this suc­cess comes from her diverse skill set and unique styles. — Peter Guindon

Sarah did a fant­astic and very hard-working job on our web­site. She gave it a whole new updated look, an easy-to-use graph­ical inter­face, and much-improved nav­ig­a­tion cap­ab­il­ities. We didn’t even have to worry about chan­ging and testing all our links and book­marks, because Sarah’s impressive atten­tion to detail took care of all that for us. She made the site easy for us to main­tain, too. Thanks Sarah! — Joyce Arthur, Pro-Choice Action Network

It was always a pleasure to work with Sarah. She gave me the right dir­ec­tions to improve my old web­site. I had so many good com­ments on this new web­site that I gave her the con­tract for my rack cards and busi­ness cards as well. She has a very good under­standing of what a cus­tomer requires, her know­ledge is excel­lent, and she is able to work very effect­ively. I am very excited to see the res­ults of the next work order, the new Rum Runner Inn web­site. — Eva Zei­gler, Smuggler’s Cove Inn

Everyone who seen my web­site is very impressed with it, and with its layout and design. — Michael Nod­ding, Lun­en­burg Framing & Studio

The site is simple and straight for­ward, giving me exactly the lim­ited amount of cus­tom­iz­a­tion I requested to quickly and easily update con­tent while keeping a con­sistent look and feel. It looks slick, works slick and you did a great job of trans­lating my awful descrip­tion and ‘vision’ into a very effective web­site. Well done! — Darryl Wright, Sea­weed Events

Trig­gers and Sparks had the tech­nical skills to do exactly what we needed, and the design skills to truly make it sparkle. — Alex Lencicki, Orbit Books

It was pleasant and edu­ca­tional to work with Sarah, as she was patient with this techno peasant and pro­duced a product that I can use and understand…and other people like it, too. — Sue Beaver, ArtChoices

I know I can be a dif­fi­cult client. Even in the face of that, Sarah con­tinu­ously kept coming back with great work done and a smile on her face. I know it wasn’t always easy for her, but she never showed a wince of frus­tra­tion. She gave me a great product for a most excel­lent price; I’m impressed and I look for­ward to working with Sarah again and again. — Ryan Delane, Web Site Main­ten­ance & Design

I love Sarah’s work, she is simply amazing! — Daniel Car­roll, Vincent’s Restaurant

It took some hunting around to find the great com­bin­a­tion of the ability and talent to do both the design and imple­ment­a­tion of our new web­site. This is just what I wanted, someone who would respect my input, explain things in a way I could under­stand, and come up with a web­site that is so easy to use, change and update that I no longer dread man­aging it. — Beverley Rach, Fern­wood Publishing

Working with Sarah was straight­for­ward and easy. She under­stood the per­son­ality I wanted to convey and the brand I am trying to build. The end product is proof of that! — Laura Melanson, Red Bal­loon Relations

I began my quest for a graphic designer a couple of years ago when the seeds for my Night­mare Nib­bler pro­ject were first sown. Although I had never gone through such a cre­ative pro­cess like this before, I had a pre-determined list of qual­ities that I was looking for in the person I was going to entrust with “my baby”—a few of them included: cre­ativity, talent, good humor, patience, effi­ciency, flex­ib­ility and, as a new small busi­ness owner—affordability! I found all of these char­ac­ter­istics and more in Sarah! From day one until the recent launch of my busi­ness, Sarah remained enthu­si­astic and pas­sionate about each of the design ele­ments she was working on. She easily grasped my needs and pro­duced design ideas for my con­sid­er­a­tion in a timely manner. Sarah’s com­bin­a­tion of cre­ativity and pro­fes­sion­alism was exactly what I was looking for and what I needed. I look for­ward to working with Sarah again on any future design needs that I may have! Thanks a mil­lion Sarah!! — Susan Smith, Night­mare Nibbler

Sarah’s work with The Switch has proved invaluable….Her eye catching site design and logical layout made it per­fect to reach and cap­ture our audi­ence, and has helped the band book shows and reach talent agents that The Switch could not have done alone. She gets the job done, and done right! — Nick Lawrence, The Switch

Sev­eral years later, Sarah’s design work is still opening doors for me pro­fes­sion­ally. The quality of the web­site designed by Trig­gers and Sparks has def­in­itely helped me get work I likely wouldn’t have had access to oth­er­wise. Everyone who sees my web­site has some­thing great to say about it! — Jenni Camp­bell, Word­smith Communications

I was blown away by how fast. effi­cient, and pro­fes­sional Sarah was. Not only was she a joy to work with but the end product was better than I ever could have ima­gined! — Nick Lacelle, Knowtropolis

Working with Sarah at Trig­gers & Sparks was such a load off my mind. I was wor­ried I would be working with a tem­pera­mental designer that would plow ahead with their own ideas and not take mine into thought. This was the total opposite, she was patient with me and listened to my thoughts and turned them into reality! We FINALLY have a logo that we are proud of and it would never have happened without her patience and under­standing. — Glenn Martin, Com­fort & Joy

Sarah has a won­derful design sense with a well developed aes­thetic. We required her to work with another artist on our pro­ject and she was gra­cious, flex­ible and helpful every step of the way. Thanks to her insights and expertise we were very sat­is­fied with the res­ults. — Tzigany Cameron, Traveler’s Joy

I’ve worked with Sarah at both HB Stu­dios and Trig­gers and Sparks. She is an extremely tal­ented and hard working graphic designer. She is a per­fec­tionist at heart and tries to do whatever she can to make her cli­ents happy and make their sites beau­tiful. She also has a remark­ably strong tech­nical back­ground for a designer and is able to develop robust sites using the latest web tech­no­lo­gies. I worked as a fron­tend pro­grammer to her graphic design at HB and her skills, per­fec­tionism and tech­nical know­ledge made my job so much easier. I can’t ima­gine another graphic designer that I would prefer to work with. — Blair Doyle

I was riding the bus home today when I noticed two archi­tects’ store­fronts next to each other. One was fairly standard; typ­ical type, the names of the archi­tects; nothing spe­cial. The other was simply and cleanly designed, but stood out by a mile. Now, for me to take notice of my envir­on­ment is sort of rare, and for me to cri­tique it for style is sort of ridicu­lous. This is what working with Sarah has done to me (and by “working with” I mean “asking her to make me things”). I know that at any point I can ask her to design me some­thing – any­thing from a resume to a new tattoo – and it will be done quickly, effi­ciently, and beau­ti­fully. In person, Sarah pretty much per­son­i­fies the idea of style – if you’ve met her, you’ll know what I mean – so how can any­thing she cre­ates help but be the most aes­thet­ic­ally pleasing things known to man­kind? Working with her will result in not only you get­ting exactly what you wanted, but weren’t entirely aware that you wanted, but also in you gaining a new appre­ci­ation for the entire idea of design and the pos­sib­il­ities therein. Which, if you think about it, is pretty damn cool. — Jenny Arnold

Sarah is a very flex­ible person to work with, while at the same main­taining the integ­rity of her own style. She is very effi­cient and prompt which made the work flow easily. Since we were looking for someone with the skill of bridging to our idea of the Traveller’s Joy logo and what we stand for as a tour com­pany, we were very pleased with the res­ults. — Nancy Sher­wood, Traveler’s Joy

Sarah has the ability to take an idea, simple or com­plic­ated, and turn it into your wildest dreams! Her rare ability to “get it” has made our life much easier online! — Lesley Steele­worthy, Steele­worthy Wedding

I have never had a ques­tion on my web­site that Sarah could not answer, and often she has added much value with ideas and sug­ges­tions! My very best ref­er­ences goes out to Sarah and her com­pany! — Per­nille Fischer-Boulter, Kisserup Trade Roots

I enjoyed very much working with Sarah. She was very know­ledge­able, always listening to my con­cerns and explaining what she was doing for the site. The site is just what I wanted, and was up and run­ning earlier than I’d anti­cip­ated. I found her both pro­fes­sional and friendly—overall, a delight to work with! — John Keck, Brambles Antiques

Client Love Notes

Sarah has the ability to take an idea, simple or complicated, and turn it into your wildest dreams! Her rare ability to “get it” has made our life much easier online!

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