tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35876142011-12-13T21:58:31.435-06:00Emote.Create.Live. Observe.Reflect.Love.shellsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7761100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1147538249173118552006-05-13T11:22:00.000-05:002006-05-13T11:40:48.606-05:00

(all three of) My regular readers know that for the last, what 6 months or more, I have been waffling on this blog. Not sure what I wanted to do with it, or IF I wanted to do with it. I have started a few new things, and they have taken away from this blog as well. So here's the update as of today:We got iLife a few months ago, and I've been playing with that. I have an iWeb site that I'm working

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I've seen lists of the top 10 reasons to date a geek (and the top 10 reasons to not date a geek) on the web, and I wanted to do my own list. Been working on it for a couple weeks, but saved it for today.So I bring you...The Top Ten Ways to Know Your Geek Loves You#10 He gives you useful electronic gifts, not something that would die like flowers#9 He burns you CDs of music you might like#8

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IMG_0214 Originally uploaded by seeshells. This is a project I'm working on at work. The body is almost done in this shot, completed now. Next is thinking about fringe.

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Does anyone else have the problem of not being able to stop their feet from dancing the Davy Jones side-shuffle when a certain eBay commercial comes on??Anyone?

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Well, the missing girl was found. Some suspicious circumstances, certainly, but at least she's ok.

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Two things today hit me too close to home. First, the 14-year old girl that is missing lives in the same general area of town as we do, she goes to my son's school, and was last seen close to our neighborhood. The person at the door pointed in the general direction of the 17th Street Russ's from our porch, but didn't actually say where the girl was actually last seen. And a work-guy-friend found

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One of my e-mail accounts has, unfortunately, become a magnet for spam, and I am deleting a dozen spam e-mails every time I open the inbox.This morning there were a couple that made me chuckle. Show Your Love on St. Valentine's DayShow Monster Power on St. Valentine's DayHmm, so does that mean that "your love"="monster power"??Or does that possible mean that taking your loved one to see Monster

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So we're loving iLife. (I agree, Angela, Macs definately Rule! I'm so jealous you're getting an iBook!!please give me a link to your blog, BTW)I haven't played with each program, so I'll just comment on the ones I've used. iPhoto: the new features are nice, especially the full screen edit, but nothing added was so new that it was ground shaking. We're still sorting all the old photos, and a few

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In preperation for the new iLife, and trying to clean up my old PC, I'm finally getting the rest of my older photos and art off the old PC. It was so easy to dump all the photos, art, and other data onto the iDisk, and now all my old stuff is available on the G4 Mac. This one popped out as one of my favorites. Photo first, of my own garden, then enhanced with a photo/art program. (Click on the

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With the new camera, I was planning on buying the upgrade to Flickr, but after watching the macworld keynote presentation, we've ordered iLife, and I'm thinking that might meet all my photo/web-ing needs.

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originally found on MakeThis gem of a program takes your photo or drawing and transforms it into a counted cross stitch pattern. Beaders who bead brick stitch or any other square stitch will be able to use these patterns for their beading as well. Awesome!

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The specs are here.This is the camera my parents got for both myself and my brother for Christmas. Very nice!

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A blogging New Year's Resolution:Blog More!I have been light on the blogging the last few months, if you remember, I was pondering if I should keep blogging on this blog, or at all, and the last few weeks have been so busy with holiday stuff, I haven't even thought about it. But I'm back.

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sign found on (of course) The Generator Blog

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Well, today is my birthday. Meh.

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I actually shoveled tonight. At 9:00 pm. Because there's no way I'm going to have time to do it in the morning. I had others do the shoveling so far this season, but this time it was my turn. Ouch! Me with an often 'bad back', me with some ligament pain by by knee, that I just know was from dancing too much, but this week pains me so much I dread putting on socks, me whiney girl that I am. I

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Bubble Originally uploaded by seeshells. I was recently bemoaning the one thing I miss about smoking (it's been over ten years since I did, btw): Blowing smoke bubbles. Cool fun, and when they pop, the smoke poofs up so cool. I even had learned, after carefully watching the props comedian that came to my college that year, how to blow a square bubble (you have to blow the smoke into the

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I didn't even watch it last season. Caught up over the summer due to interesting reviews. Definately hooked this year. Been waiting, what, three weeks, since we found out Bernard actually was, as Rose always said, alive. Been waiting for that moment that they finally know with touch, with sight, what they knew in their hearts, that the other was among the living. So romantic. So f**king romantic

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I finished the beaded bag for Crafters United (pictures this weekend, when Dad is here with his good close-up taking camera). I glued and cut the last of the threads last night, but I officially finished it last week, the same day as finishing listening to my first Audible book, Kitchen Confidential.

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Just wrote the best-ever blog post...in the shower. Um, wait. You can't read/hear my thoughts, right? So THINKING about a blog post doesn't really do much, huh?Wasted.

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The Movie Of Your Life Is A Black ComedyIn your life, things are so twisted that you just have to laugh.You may end up insane, but you'll have fun on the way to the asylum.Your best movie matches: Being John Malkovich, The Royal Tenenbaums, American PsychoIf Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

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{magnetic advent calendar} Originally uploaded by joleenieweenie. I love to see the cool arts/crafts of others. So inspiring. This idea is very nice, a metal tray painted to be an advent calendar. Now, I don't really want to make an advent calendar, BUT I have been wishing for some metal in my cube at work. You know, old fashioned offices, there was metal all over the place, file cabinets

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It's moving day!Work's been terrible busy getting ready for moving, and now the time is upon us!They staggered us moving, so some moved already yesterday, I move today. don't tell anyone, but I ended up with the biggest work space of any cube-dweller, and I had last pick because I was last hired

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Crafers United Project Originally uploaded by seeshells. Here's my handy beading tip:When I'm done with a project, and I'm designing the fringe to go with it, I make a sample card like this to check which fringe works best/looks best.I usually have 3-4 different ideas, or slight differences of the same basic idea. Using the plastic canvas makes the practice fringe hang very similarly to

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Crafters United Project Originally uploaded by seeshells. Here's the updated project. The bag is finished, ready for fringe and necklace.

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Boy, I'm a dork (and regular readers are saying 'yeah, we know')But thanks to Sir Algor I have gotten my comment problem straightened out. Turns out, Blogger was giving me a link to the direct post all along, but I didn't realize it. I was sure I had checked that link, I thought it was just a link to the main page. Well, in my defense, maybe it used to be just a link to the main page, like years

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You Are 70% Boyish and 30% GirlishYou are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch.Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes.You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them.You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.How Boyish or Girlish Are You?

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A short word on comments:First, thank you for the birthday wishes, and the piratey wishes, guys. Second, I've gotten some other comments this week, and I don't know where they are. I get an e-mail when a comment is made, because I have that option set, most all blogs have this setting, no big deal. But these other comments, I have no idea what post they were comments ON. Folks find my blog

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Three years ago today, this little blog was born.

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I never really liked the Nike ads that said 'Just Do It' but you know they have a point. After my sewing machine sitting on the coffee table for probably almost two months, I sat down last night to sew up my project, and it took me less than 1/2 hour! All because I had decided that I might need the coffee table last night, and wanted to put the sewing machine away. I guess I had been

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I died my hair a couple weeks ago, it's a dark black cherry type of red. It's a I'm-not-trying-to-pretend-this-is-my-natural-haircolor obviously fake red. It's fun. It's one of the only times I've used long lasting hair die, which means, in a few weeks I'll be faced with the roots issue, not looking forward to that.A month or so before that, I got a hair cut, blunt all around, shorter than usual.

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Here's the joke from my dream last night/this morning:The young entomologist was very excited to learn that new bug species, like dinosaur fossils, are usually named for who discovered them. The child did discover a bug soon after, but the entomology community went against their normal naming convention due to the length of the child's last name: Geisenhopfler. They shortened his name for the

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If you'd like to hear my wonderful singing voice ;p tune in to the JCD podcast. Or even if you don't want to hear me sing, tune in anyway. It's funny. If you like Jon Stewart, you'll like it.

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If you've found the new blog site, welcome. If not (well, if not, you're not reading this yet) it's because I didn't put the link before I switched over, and I'm trying to put a link there with dreamweaver, but not having luck yet. Grrrr.

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As I've said before, I've considered a few different things with the ol' blog. The RSS thing is important. I use RSS now to read blogs, and I know that there are definitely blogs I enjoy reading, but might forget to read if it wasn't on my RSS feed. I think my blog falls into that category. The enjoyable-but-sometimes-forgetable read. ;pSo, I am going to put the blog back onto blogspot, assuming

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By the way, I have been posting more often at my food blog. And IT has RSS!

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I've been thinking about what I can do to help, and here it is.

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Art Car JAO ART, originally uploaded by seeshells. The other side of the art car, with another painting.

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Art Car with Speed Art Originally uploaded by seeshells. This is one of the art cars that came to Lincoln on the Nebraska Art Car tour.

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OK, I'll keep posting while I'm thinking...Basically, I'm trying to decide/figure out what I'm doing on the web. Just blogging? No, that was never the intention, I have bunches of ideas for the site. On-line handicraft store? Maybe. I have some ideas of things to sell. But I thought of the things to sell before thinking of how to ship them. Hmm, if I'm going to send things through the mail, do I

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I think I originally had an aversion to Flickr, because it's creation took time away from GameNeverEnding which I was looking forward to enjoying. But I have been chipping away at my prejudice a bit at a time. Flickr really is a great device. I like it more than the Gallery that comes with my web space.I've uploaded some old ones from the gallery, and am uploading some new ones today and over the

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Master Blasters!!!!

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If I've never mentioned it before (and I think I have) I love art cars! I hope to actually make one some day. And now I'll get to see some in person!The Nebraska Art Car tour is coming through town next weekend! The tour is promoting tourism along Route 6, and should be a ton of fun. Here's the schedule in PDF. One of the scheduled cars is part of Jao Art with speed painting! Spread the word, and

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Well, I'm seriously thinking of putting the blog on hiatus. I haven't gotten back to posting as often as I'd like, and I don't see the posting getting more often any time soon.I have several things to ponder web-wise, and I think I may need to shut down a few things to really take serious thinking time.

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Beware Lemonade of an ungodly tartness...

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Check this out. Found on one of my new favorite blogs.

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This is very amazing. I usually can see optical illusions fairly well, you know, like which line is longer, but this one is very surprising.

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As promised...I'm not much of a concert go-er. I didn't attend my first concert until my senior year of high school, and then it was my all-time favorite band (see, I've always had a thing for Bryan/Brians). My kids have already beat my record by attending their first concert at 14 and 12, respectfully. (Well, considering all the skanking and moshing, probably not so respectfully.) And most of

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In my catching up on Blogging, I promise to post about:The Concert and The Book

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Now that the blog is pretty again, I can get back to the goal of blogging more often. Besides template turn-off, these last several weeks I have also been in the middle of "The Big Project" (tm).The Big Project included going through the storage section of the basement, and getting rid of things, in order to turn that part of the basement into a bedroom area, and get things out of the

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even though it does still have a few kinks to be worked out, I like the template. I'll finish the updates this week. I will definitely add and subtract some links. And I'm working with FreeHand, so I'll make some graphics soon!

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SShockingHHumorousEExplosiveLLuxuriousLLegendaryYYumName / Username:Name Acronym GeneratorFrom Go-Quiz.com

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A comment from Anonymous let me know that the white space problem was something messed up on my template, and that was the kick in the butt to change the layout again. I had been miffed when my last background was all-of-a-sudden gone, and I didn't know where it went. So I had been not liking that layout ever since then.I surfed around the last week to find some more free templates. The last one

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I like lists (shut up). I would like to redo my 43 things list to be more of a to-do list. More daily. More specific. A little less of the really long term goals, or the ‘finish things’ goals. Much more specific. Then I can check off things when they’re done. Yay!See more progress on: revamp my 43 things list

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Don't know what's up with all the blank space....

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Make sure to see the paintings.

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Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.-May Sarton

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1119134673649605442005-06-18T17:32:00.000-05:002005-06-18T18:02:26.916-05:00

Looking for the perfect stitch, bead weaving stitch, for a necklace on an amulet bag. I remember a kinda cool stitch that was spiral, little beads around a bigger bead, but I remember that one being very, very time consuming, and I don't want a super time consuming stitch. (I think it was kinda like this)I have big (10 or 11) hex Delicas that match the Delicas in the bag, and would like to use

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118977988656445982005-06-16T22:12:00.000-05:002005-06-19T00:30:03.876-05:00

Here's my favorite drawing I've made with my graphic pad and the art software sample program that came with it. This was done probably two years ago, but I just ran across it again today, and I always just love it when I see it again.Is it wrong to love your own stuff so much??

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Though I hope I don't look it...We were on our way to Omaha tonight to pick up the G's son, and the traffic slowed to a crawl for a couple miles before being routed off the interstate. While crawling at a snail's pace one minute and at a complete stop the next, the semi truck behind us hit us! Jarred these old out of shape bones a bit. But just a bump. Car and passengers appear fine.But that kind

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118925209590354522005-06-14T10:32:00.000-05:002005-06-16T22:40:54.870-05:00

When we have a creative vision (or when we acknowledge we have a creative vision), and are somewhat of an adult (read: no longer in school), I feel we have two choices: we try to make a living solely from our creative vision (the 'follow your bliss' theory) or we work some other job for pay, and follow our creative vision in our free time (the 'hobbyist' theory).I have seen both work, and seen

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118925127934357862005-06-13T22:02:00.000-05:002005-06-16T07:44:16.403-05:00

Definitely didn't want to go to work today. The G and I are on are on opposite schedules, which for the most part, we make the best of, but Monday morning I feel gypped. That plus the depressing feeling of is this the right job, is this the right work theory (*more on that later). Get to work, Chatty Cathy is still on 'leave' and Beauty is late, and Boss-Lady is there, but too busy to help much

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118596781990151752005-06-12T12:19:00.000-05:002005-06-12T12:38:13.863-05:00

Nothing like working on a project for years (literally) only to have it not be what you wanted. Not quite what you wanted. I'm in the mode of finishing things. We'll start there. No, let's go back maybe 7 years. I had no sewing machine, well, strike that, I had a sewing machine that had been damaged by costume making back in college (how many pairs of burlap shoes did I make for that play anyway?

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OK, I'm playing more with flickr now. It does seem to be a good way to share photos. (I always thought it was too slow on dial-up)I've even added one of those super cool little photo boxes on my sidebar. Still not a ton of photos in there, but give me time. Also found that you can get some goodies from them. kewl.

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Here I am, working on getting the blogging going again on a regular basis. I'm sure that after almost two months of not posting, I've lost a couple readers. And if you've (you being a fellow blogger) ever been away from your blog for a while, just because of being busy, or going through a period of not caring so much about doing the blogging thing, you may have, like I did, contemplate if coming

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118594495103093472005-06-11T15:37:00.000-05:002005-06-12T11:46:04.840-05:00

Busy Saturday.I put supper in the crock-pot, made Chex mix, finished sewing a hat (more on that later), started ideas for a purse, started another hat, cleaned in my kid's room for over an hour, and cleaned up the kitchen. And there's still more to do. I do love the feeling of accomplishment on a Saturday afternoon, rather than the feeling that I didn't do anything. Weekends are hard, you want to

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118592583093882502005-06-10T11:05:00.000-05:002005-06-12T11:09:43.100-05:00

Well, Chatty Cathy wasn't fired or quit, she just took a leave of absence. Allegedly. But no one knows how long, the boss just said indefinitely. To me, it's worse if she's really just gone, because they won't hire to replace her. I imagine while she's on her leave, she'll give notice. You don't bring your husband with you like a body guard, refuse to talk to co-workers, dump all your drawer

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118374234339178622005-06-09T22:20:00.001-05:002005-06-10T12:12:06.586-05:00

Well, my second week on the new job is almost over, and I'm still feeling good about it. Feeling very good about it overall.I've made a point to set in place some good work habits already. Like taking the stairs instead of the elevator at least once a day (which I hope to increase), and actually leaving my desk for breaks. I've brought creative reading material to read in the break room, and will

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1118373502478994132005-06-09T22:18:00.000-05:002005-06-09T22:18:22.483-05:00

I originally set a goal of “practice Yoga” but you know, you can’t practice something if you don’t even know how to do it, right?!? So I’ve changed the goal to “learn Yoga” and any help (especially links to free on-line lessons) is much appreciated!!See more progress on: learn yoga

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The kids left today on a two week vacation that includes their first airplane ride and first visit to the ocean. I'm so happy they get to have a nice vacation.

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I sometimes think that clutter is the enemy of creativity. But since I believe that there is duality in everything, I find that perhaps clutter is the other half of creativity. Here's a couple thoughts:I want to save different things for future art projects. You know, junk. But it might inspire me at some point, or I can see inspiration in it, but just haven't figured out what to do with it yet.

shellsnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117857153066604072005-06-03T22:52:00.000-05:002005-06-03T22:52:33.076-05:00

Considering that the emphasis of this blog has always been (in my mind, anyway) creativity, ideas, and endevors, I had always envisioned some thoughtfully written posts on said topic. Hoping that some words may actually be repeat-worthy to others, and mostly, an outlet to get some of this junk out of my head.Coming back to the blog after a vacation of transformation (more on that later) I want to

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117804362005829452005-06-03T08:12:00.000-05:002005-06-03T08:15:16.596-05:00

Thank Goodness it's Finally...a job I can live with.Most Fridays this past year, it's been a relief just to get away from the nastiness and the chaos. This Friday, it's just being glad to have the work week over, not dreading going back.Granted, the phones are twice as busy at this new job, but even with that, this is going to be good. The weekend ahead will be full of decluttering and actual

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117628426434768252005-06-01T07:20:00.000-05:002005-06-01T07:20:26.486-05:00

First day at the new job went well. Too much to remember, I'm on information overload. But that's to be expected. Fairly laidback atmosphere, with well defined rules overall.Nice, calm folks for the most part, with the standout exception being the guy who grunts "what's good about it?" when you say "good morning" even if you're the new girl. And makes a point to huff down the hall to tell the new

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117509081298265802005-05-30T22:11:00.000-05:002005-05-30T22:27:59.323-05:00

The pedicure post is from the new fun tool I just discovered (being probably the last person to do so). I always liked All Consuming, even when it took forever to open, and last week, they sent an e-mail announcing they had joined up with 43 things. And I can post to the blog from there.Me likey.

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Well, my first step to getting a REAL pedicure was doing a home pedicure. I have never (until today) even owned a pumice stone, much less known how to use it (still not sure if I did that right).So I was hoping to find a kit that would have different things in it to do a home grown pedicure, and amazingly enough, I found one today! For ten bucks, I got foot scrub, toenail clippers, cuticle

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I was one of those kids who always got nervous the night before the first day of school. I loved school, and never had any problems, but I would still get nervous. I liken it now to more like a night-before-christmas or opening-night-jitters nervous, not actually scared. So... tonight I'm fighting with those butterflies, trying to relax and get ready for sleep. Tomorrow is one of those 'today is

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117291465093135092005-05-28T09:44:00.000-05:002005-05-28T09:44:25.146-05:00

Well, Thursday was my last day at my old job. Even though I consider this blog mainly about creativity, I have broken down in the past to vent about the poor work situation I was in. Nutshell: I really enjoyed most of the people I worked with, of course, there were some I got along with better than others, just like anywhere, but there was one specific person that just completely made me crazy. (

shellsnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1117196896509037782005-05-27T07:28:00.000-05:002005-05-27T07:28:16.576-05:00

I am officially 'between jobs' right now. Yesterday was my last day at my old job, I took today off, Monday's a holiday, and I start the new job Tuesday. More on all that later, but just wanted to post that it feels sooooooooo good to be moving on to bigger and better things.

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For reasons that are not important to the point of the story, I have to make a pair of earrings tonight. HAVE TO. TONIGHT.This got me to thinking about procrastination, or at least got me thinking that sometime soon I should start thinking about procrastination. ;pI remember in high school and college, when I took art classes, just like any other class, I had a tendency to procrastinate. All of

shellsnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1116984964122584022005-05-24T20:32:00.000-05:002005-05-24T20:41:26.000-05:00

Here's two things I like/want to make/find craftily inspiring that came to me in my e-mail today:If you want interesting inspiration to come in your e-mail, subscribe to Get Crafty.DO IT!

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There's at least a little color.

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One of the changes in my computing life lately, was not being able to get onto Dreamweaver with the computer I was using from about last November until just this last month. I was disappointed, because I had some good things in mind site-wise, and couldn't figure out why I couldn't connect to Dreamweaver.The computer I'm on now, I've been on for the last month, and I hadn't tried out Dreamweaver

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You know how you sometimes think 'I'll do such-and-such when everything gets back to normal?' Like, when you're busy with things, a change perhaps, and you keep thinking about what you might do after things are back to normal. Well here's the big secret...you can't get BACK to normal. Normal keeps moving. Keeps changing, just ahead of the horizon. All we can do, is deal with what we've got.

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I have heard of folks making a jello fish bowl, but hadn't tried it myself until this week.It was a hit at work, where we've all read the inspiring Fish! book, and we 'fish' everything. Click the picture to see the whole set of pix.

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Boy, I've never been so glad to be finished with a book! I just read John Saul's Nightshade, and it just wasn't the right book for me. I've read several of his books, I really loved some of them, the spooky Indian ghost one, the one where the kids find out they're all experiments, the one with the blind girl. Oh, wait, maybe that was the same one...Sure, they're a little formulaic, the story

shellsnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587614.post-1112016720959881172005-03-26T10:22:00.000-06:002005-03-28T07:32:00.960-06:00

I've moved into a very busy chapter of my life. Looks like the whole spring and summer will be terrible busy. But not terrible.So I will apologize now for lack of posting, and we'll see how it goes.One little part, on the creative side, almost all my arts and craft supplies are going into storage, but I decided to have one tub of 'current projects' that won't go into storage. I bought a 70 gallon

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