Bats, Cats and Skulls

What does it all mean? It's that time of year. The seasons changing, leaves are turning different colors and I wonder just how many other people are starting a post just like this? Yeah!! Fall is upon us and with it, the greatness of Halloween! So maybe I should be doing homework right now but where's the fun in that? Ney, I say!! I shall bring more of this greatness that is Halloween into the void that is the interwebs and the world for all to enjoy! (Psst, fyi.. no worries on my hw, I plan to do a lot of Halloween projects for them.)



Love that wonderful man of mine! He was kind enough to search the web and find me all kinds of Halloween themed pictures. Most of the stuff is from a theme that Target did a couple years ago. Which was a very good design if I say so myself! Which I do. I now have a whole folder full of assorted Halloween .gif, jpegs and I think a few .bimps. But I try to avoid all these formats when I can and so into the Illustrator and Photoshop pot they go and Victor, he is editable... Anyways, thusly they come out as .ai, .psd or the lowest format I'll go .png. What does this mean? What does it mean!? "There's something here I'm not quit getting, though I try I keep forgetting"... What? No! It's very simply really, avoiding try not to go into song here, that it's higher resulotion, which makes a prettier picture and the capibilty to do more with it!!



So enough of my tangent. Halloween is upon us, soon! And so Halloween crafts are in need of being made! I have a few new patterns that I am working on(below). That I'll be using in print outs for assorted undetermined projects. Again from the Target line. And with that I think it's about time to start a new blog. One devoted to my love of Halloween and that way get all these freakin' Halloween files off of my computer and shared with the world!!! But mostly, I gotta see what I got. I know I have sooo many stored from years past. Like the time I made a coloring book for a party I was throwing. Eek!! Watch out for that flashback! But anyways, be on the lookout for when I start The Halloweenies blog!






And now for the countdown! What we've all been waiting for. Watching that pumpkin drop!


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Deviant Blog Candy

DeviantArt just had a birthday, didn't get to play in it like I wanted because internet was being a jerk and I was pony huntin' at the flea market. But it's all good, more bummed out that da still hasn't got it together to support pngs properly. I shouldn't have to compromise and settle for the lesser format for my images just because da only wants to read transparent backgrounds in gifs that are 150 x 150 pixels! Grrr.


Hunting down Blog Candy again.

One of these days I might win one. But at last here they are. I'm sure there are more but I have yet to find them. And OMG!! I am so out of html practice, the above really should not have been as troublesome as they were. But I digress, time for some cheetos and twinkies! I'm such a foodie.

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Kitty-A-Day

While artist Noah Scalin's idea of Skull-A-Day is awesome and if you haven't heard of it you really should look into it. But as much as I like skulls, they are not a big part of the art that I do here. Plus I want to make a Reece's Butter Cup of artist ideas. Putting two great taste together to create on awesome creation!!!

So what happens when you fuse together Noah Scalin ideas with that of David Horvitz in a mad scientist lab known as The Nite's Meow that is non government funded or regulated! Especially not regulated!!

You get some crazy lady with a posting like this! Asking you to do something as silly as the below picture will demonstrate.


Also your kitty art can be posted here in a comment or you can watch for it to show up on the slideshow on the right.

So, my project. that includes anyone that accepts to do it is to find or create kitty object everyday, in their everyday life and post it on flickr with the tag "BEEBOOBOD".

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Logo Wuv

One week left of Summer classes, then a two week break and then Fall classes start. And within this week I have 1 Chapter and 3 Projects to complete.. so why aren't I working on that stuff right now. Well duh, it bores me at the moment. Besides it's lethargic Sunday. But speaking of school, Project 2 was to create a letterhead, envelope and business card and if necessary a logo for the business. Project 4 was to design three logos. Well the logos are as followed and were designed for actually sites and friends.

Which *dramatic music* has lead to a revamp of the blog! All new and swanky looking. Still have a banner to work on but hey I can do that in my down time if nothing else. Well hope everyone enjoys the new look.. I for one am not in much of a writing mood. Shocking I know.

But at last let me leave you with a couple of awesome graphic sites that I enjoy using..


Veerle's Blog
Blue Vertigo

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Zen Weekend

This weekend on ATCsforALL we had the 3rd ZAT! <-...Hmm, wonder how many people looked at that and asked themselves, "Is that a real sentence?" It does have all the elements of a sentence and he is sitting. So this weekend; Friday, Saturday and Sunday. On the website ATCsforALL.com. There was a Zentangle-A-Thon. Zentangles are an abstract, repetitive doodle art usually done in black and white, the idea being that you relax and make beautiful works of art by letting the lines tell you where they want to go. Hopefully no one gets perturb that I refered to them as doodles. Heh. And so, yeah.. A repetitive, abstract doodle thon. For this event we were given optional challenges. Usually they are done on standard ATC, artist decided everything so with the challenges setting some boundaries, it hopefully gave people more ideas.

Well Friday didn't actually have a challenge so it was open Zen ATCs. Saturday was Zen Inchies, Twitchies Challenge. And Sunday was Zen and watercolors. Granted I didn't get to do too many of any of the challenges, in fact, I was not able to make any cards for Sundays challenge because my watercolors have gone MIA. But I do need a post in here about Zentangles. And Ta Da!! This is it.

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Sand Art

I actually had written and was going to post this entry a while ago. So get ready for a filler entry!! Ha ha, I'll have to do more of these, just for those special kinda days.

Sand Art


Remember when you could go to a carnival and they would have those booths where you fill plastic honey bear jars with sands. And it was the neatest thing!! Cause you're bear had the fuzzy troll hair... no? Don't remember? Well that's okay, I don't remember having one but my sister did! And you could fill it with all kinds of different color sand! And when the sands layered it created a trippy different layers of colored sand effect. Okay so it's not so impressive now, but years later I found myself buying a sand art kit.


It was a Rose Art kit that came with seven different colors of sand, about five different contains (none of them where plastic honey bear jars with troll hair) and an assortment of color by number picture sheets that had adhesive on them for the sand to stick to. After buying it I did a couple of projects, but got bored of it quick!



Fast forward to seven years after I bought it, still surprised it has hung out with me for that long. Brushed off the cobwebs that had settled on it and opened the kit, four of the containers, 2 color by numbers pictures and the majority of the sand left. Then had the great idea to do one of the color by number pictures, some of the adhesive wasn't sticking too well anymore but I managed. And woo-la, after some spray adhesive and the cutters I now have 16 inchies (would have had more but some where damaged in the cutting process) and 4 twictes, my first set ever!



Moral of the story; don't smoke in bed. Or have fun digging out old art kits and coming up with new uses for them!

*whispers* These are in the available for trade category. Inchies and Twitchies for 100, Alex.

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