Okay, so we partner with a fantastic design and marketing firm and really don't have to know how to do the flashy design stuff, but its fun to play with anyway. I'm working on a placeholder logo for a new client and decided to try to employ one of the tutorials at the forums for Paint.NET. If you have never heard of Paint.NET, please check it out. It's an open source version of Adobe PhotoShop written on the .NET platform.

There is an entire community that writes new plug ins for the application. (A little ironic to me that the forums are .php.)  One of the true "open source" .net projects I've found out there.

Here's the icon I created (not too bad for a programmer!):