January 29th, 2009 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, family, things that make you go LOL, work/career |
No, I’m not one myself (although Harmony is starting to be interested… and a natural at it apparently!), but one of my newslist subscribers asked for this type of blinkie and so here you have it…
Cute, eh? Those were a fun batch to make. I’m not posting all 15 of them (I totally get that some people are in the “what-the-hell-is-with-those-annoying-flashing-things-and-why-does-everyone-like-them” camp), so just click on the 1 if you’d like to see the rest.
As a side bonus, drawing the basketball in Adobe Illustrator got me some practice with using their curves, and I also noticed the “grid” feature which I’d never used before – duh! That would’ve saved me oodles of time with all those Baby Guessing Charts I do for showers! Oh well, you learn something new everyday.
So expect to see curves and grids more in upcoming blinkies and siggies and other design-y projects. 
And keep your fingers crossed for Harmony, who gets to attend the next level of competition for “shooting hoops” as she won first place at the last level and gets to represent her school!
Actually given that I’m all excited for her and stuff, maybe I am a proud basketball mommy after all?
EDIT: All blinkies are now hosted on KStarDesign.com!
January 26th, 2009 -- Posted in angels, blinkies & other cuteness, people suck, work/career |
so, normally when I see someone “wearing” one of my blinkies or something like that, I think “cool!” ’cause it’s neat to see how things you make can wind their way around the web.
but sometimes, it’s more like “hey! do people not know that stealing someone’s bandwidth without permission is not so nice?” 
even if they don’t have personal experience hosting websites (and being aware that some hosts charge you $$$ for the bandwidth you use above and beyond your account’s limits!), there are enough sites out there that caution against direct-linking.
Issue #1: Some of my breastfeeding blinkies that were previously on YM were being hot-linked a bunch of places, especially here where a whole batch were added to a forum thread. And even though BlinkieMommies now has those blinkies available for direct linking, YM never did and I don’t want to share any of YM’s bandwidth. So my smart hubby updated the .gif files to show a “this blinkie has been moved to BlinkieMommies.com” blinkie when someone is trying to direct-link there.
Issue #2: So even though it’s been 7 years since I lost angel and got a tattoo of a heart and angel wings, it’s still something moms are going through and tattoos are still a popular way to remember and honour the lives of our little angel babies. And I appreciate that moms are looking for ideas. That being said, I’d rather not see a picture of my hip “out there” on the web. So I’ve added a copyright message to the pics and hopefully next time someone would like to pass along that idea, they will link to me instead.
I don’t want to be overly controlling or anything (and stamping a © on everything in sight) but it just stings a little to work hard on something, have an idea, do something creative, make some art, etc. and have that taken away when you put it out there.
It’s like that cliché situation at the office when your co-worker steals your idea and takes credit when the boss says “that looks nice!”.
December 6th, 2008 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, pain / disability, pics, scrappy / stampy, things that make you go LOL, work/career |
I got to nap yesterday! The bathroom renovations were all finished up by 2pm Friday afternoon and after taking a quick peek (and a quick pee of course!), I eagerly climbed into my bed for a nap. I didn’t really wake up when my alarm went off at quarter after 3, but I finally realized I should get out of bed when my alarm music went off. Which it does after an hour. ‘Cause it figures what kind of person is still lying in bed being lulled back to sleep by their radio a whole hour after it goes off?
Feeling a wee bit better, I set upon making some more cards. Especially since my Stampin’ Up order from the last Stamp Club arrived on last week, yay!! I made 6 cards and ordered dinner while DH was trying to get home in the snow & traffic. After our movie night, I made a bunch more. Today I made tons and tons of them. I think all in all, I’ve made about 70 cards, and many of those have been mailed out, yay! Here are the designs I’ve been working on now that I have the “night of navy” cardstock.
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