I started a new blog last night. Its called Becca's Unique Attic Treasures.
Are you curious about the kind of treasures found there? Well, they are/will be my own orginal creations. Either drawn with my mouse or sketches I have done and scanned into paint shop pro to colorize them or play with them.
A lot of my orginal creations, I open a canvas and fill it with a color, add a new layer and then chose a coordinating color and just scribble or doodle on it. I use the effects that come with psp or I use a plugin or filter on the scribbles or doodles. Mostly I play around with the kaleidoscope effect. I even use the smudge or mesh warp brush on it. I play around with it until I see something I think would make a good bow, wings, butterfly, etc. All the creations on my new blog will always be freebies.
Right now there is only one freebie there. It is 4 bow templates. You can visit my new blog here.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Grief
Its never easy when we lose a loved one. I cant imagine the pain of losing a child.
There's no right or wrong way to grieve. Each person has their own way of dealing with death and grieving. Me I cry, I get quiet and go off by myself. There is no set amount of time to grieve. For some it could be a day, a week, a month or years. I dont think the pain of a loved one passing on ever goes away. It just lessens with time. The loved one will always be with us in our hearts. Gone but not forgotten. We have our memories of time spent with them. Even if some of those memories are bad.
My thoughts and prayers are with my nephew and his family at this time.
Evin was here for only a short time but he touched the hearts of many people.
May you rest in peace little one.
Until next time I hope that all is well for you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
There's no right or wrong way to grieve. Each person has their own way of dealing with death and grieving. Me I cry, I get quiet and go off by myself. There is no set amount of time to grieve. For some it could be a day, a week, a month or years. I dont think the pain of a loved one passing on ever goes away. It just lessens with time. The loved one will always be with us in our hearts. Gone but not forgotten. We have our memories of time spent with them. Even if some of those memories are bad.
My thoughts and prayers are with my nephew and his family at this time.
Evin was here for only a short time but he touched the hearts of many people.
May you rest in peace little one.
Until next time I hope that all is well for you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Just My Thoughts
A lot has happened since I last posted here. Enough to write more than a few chapters in a book if I were writing one.
Friends, new ones made. Some left for various reasons.
I am now co-editor of the Cancer Moon Creations Newsletter. The first edition came out this month. In March we are going to try to get 2 editions of it sent out. This will be a trial run to see how it goes.
Family wise things are good. The boys are with their dad this week. I missed them soon as I left yesterday to come home. I always miss them when I dont get to see them every day.
My tag making is going good. I started doing quick pages. I want to learn how to make my own blog layouts. Thats a goal that I will be working on very soon.
The weather has been strange this winter. We have got more snow this winter than in the last decade. Last week the temps were in the single digits. Yesterday and today the temp has been in the low 50's. Today it rained off and on all day.
I am so ready for Spring to get here so that I can be outside more with the boys. Plant some flowers and tomato plants. Take nature walks with the boys. What is a nature walk you ask? Its where the boys and I go for a walk and look at things in peoples yards or along the street that has to do with nature. On day while walking
we saw a walnut tree. Walnuts in the hulls covered the side of the road and there were a few in the road that had been smashed by traffic. We stopped to look at one of the smashed walnuts. I told the boys about the hull, how you have to remove the green hull to get to the nut inside. I told them that the juice from the inside once smashed stains your hands and any thing that it gets on. I also told them once the walnuts are hulled you have to spread the nuts out and let them dry before you crack them to eat. This also brought back memories of how Momma used to use walnuts in cakes, make black walnut fudge and how we would all just sit around Momma and crack the walnuts and eat them. Black walnuts are best after the first frost.
I am tired and not feeling well so until next time I hope things are going well for you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
Friends, new ones made. Some left for various reasons.
I am now co-editor of the Cancer Moon Creations Newsletter. The first edition came out this month. In March we are going to try to get 2 editions of it sent out. This will be a trial run to see how it goes.
Family wise things are good. The boys are with their dad this week. I missed them soon as I left yesterday to come home. I always miss them when I dont get to see them every day.
My tag making is going good. I started doing quick pages. I want to learn how to make my own blog layouts. Thats a goal that I will be working on very soon.
The weather has been strange this winter. We have got more snow this winter than in the last decade. Last week the temps were in the single digits. Yesterday and today the temp has been in the low 50's. Today it rained off and on all day.
I am so ready for Spring to get here so that I can be outside more with the boys. Plant some flowers and tomato plants. Take nature walks with the boys. What is a nature walk you ask? Its where the boys and I go for a walk and look at things in peoples yards or along the street that has to do with nature. On day while walking
we saw a walnut tree. Walnuts in the hulls covered the side of the road and there were a few in the road that had been smashed by traffic. We stopped to look at one of the smashed walnuts. I told the boys about the hull, how you have to remove the green hull to get to the nut inside. I told them that the juice from the inside once smashed stains your hands and any thing that it gets on. I also told them once the walnuts are hulled you have to spread the nuts out and let them dry before you crack them to eat. This also brought back memories of how Momma used to use walnuts in cakes, make black walnut fudge and how we would all just sit around Momma and crack the walnuts and eat them. Black walnuts are best after the first frost.
I am tired and not feeling well so until next time I hope things are going well for you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Tags By Becca
I am making tags again. I missed making them and decided to do them for some of the CT teams that I am on. I was looking at how many times my tags were viewed and downloaded this morning. I was surprised at how many times some of them were downloaded. It makes me feel good to know that people like the things I create.
About my creations-tags are made with a designers kit, and tubes that I get from a yahoo group, or from kits that I get from playing secret pal games as a gift from my pal.
My scrap kits are often inspired by things I see around the town where I live or things I have seen on other websites. I love unusual things. I love just playing
with scribbles, lines, odd shapes in paint shop pro and then using plugins and effects on them to see what I can come up with for a kit from them.
As you have seen, a lot of my kits is shades of purple. Purple and black are my favorite colors. Some of my kits include things I have sketched. Scanned into psp and colorized. Made into a tube or png image.
I have some art that is scribbles that my grandson Drake, who is 5 done for me. I am considering using some of them and making a kit. I think I will ask him when he comes back from his dads next week if I can use it for a kit. I am thinking about calling this kit Drake Art or Drakes World of Scribble Art.
I just started doing quick pages. I just added a Valentines Quick Page and 2 Valentines tags to my scrap blog.
These were made by using a kit called Valentines by Aleahs Mommy Designs.
How do I feel today? I feel good that people like my designs and tags. Physcially I am feeling tired. Which is nothing new. I am always tried even if I had a good nights sleep. I do have a slight headache this afternoon. My sugar levels have been a little high in the evenings and some what low in the next morning. But still in what is considered the normal range for a diabetic. Its like this because I dont eat much throughout the day and dont eat until later in the evening. I know, I should be eating meals during the day, its just that I cant eat if I am not hungry. If I do then I have an upset stomach and feel bad all day.
Breakfast is usually an egg and a couple of pieces of 35 calorie wheat bread toast, Lunch is a salad, or a sandwich, or soup. Dinner is the usual full meal with steamed veggies and meat. I sometimes have a morning and afternoon snack but not often.
So, until next time, I hope all is well with you and yours in your own little piece of the world. Love ya........
About my creations-tags are made with a designers kit, and tubes that I get from a yahoo group, or from kits that I get from playing secret pal games as a gift from my pal.
My scrap kits are often inspired by things I see around the town where I live or things I have seen on other websites. I love unusual things. I love just playing
with scribbles, lines, odd shapes in paint shop pro and then using plugins and effects on them to see what I can come up with for a kit from them.
As you have seen, a lot of my kits is shades of purple. Purple and black are my favorite colors. Some of my kits include things I have sketched. Scanned into psp and colorized. Made into a tube or png image.
I have some art that is scribbles that my grandson Drake, who is 5 done for me. I am considering using some of them and making a kit. I think I will ask him when he comes back from his dads next week if I can use it for a kit. I am thinking about calling this kit Drake Art or Drakes World of Scribble Art.
I just started doing quick pages. I just added a Valentines Quick Page and 2 Valentines tags to my scrap blog.
These were made by using a kit called Valentines by Aleahs Mommy Designs.
How do I feel today? I feel good that people like my designs and tags. Physcially I am feeling tired. Which is nothing new. I am always tried even if I had a good nights sleep. I do have a slight headache this afternoon. My sugar levels have been a little high in the evenings and some what low in the next morning. But still in what is considered the normal range for a diabetic. Its like this because I dont eat much throughout the day and dont eat until later in the evening. I know, I should be eating meals during the day, its just that I cant eat if I am not hungry. If I do then I have an upset stomach and feel bad all day.
Breakfast is usually an egg and a couple of pieces of 35 calorie wheat bread toast, Lunch is a salad, or a sandwich, or soup. Dinner is the usual full meal with steamed veggies and meat. I sometimes have a morning and afternoon snack but not often.
So, until next time, I hope all is well with you and yours in your own little piece of the world. Love ya........
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Just Because
Just because you say you love someone doesn't mean that you're in love with them. It just means that you care about them and their well being. I say I love you to family members and friends when parting. To me it just means that I care and wish them well until we meet again. They know what I mean when I say I love ya.
To my friends on the net when parting most of the time I say love ya. But I dont say it to all my net friends. Some of my net friends I dont know well enough to say love ya to. Usually when parting from them I just say take care. In my nightly bedtime prayer I ask the Lord to watch over and keep safe my family and friends safe and healthy until we meet or speak again.
I love spending time with family and friends be it in person or on the phone or net. Family is important to me and we need to spend time together. Friends are an important part of my life. I love spending time with them and going out and doing things like having lunch or dinner, shopping, going to the park just to hang out etc.
Love is/has different meanings to lots of people. So how you define love is what's important. I dont know why this topic or what I can say about it but it just keeps coming up in my thoughts this morning and I dont have much time to write or any thing. I have to go and get ready to take the boys to the Dentist with Nicki.
So until next time know that I love ya all. I hope all is well with you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
To my friends on the net when parting most of the time I say love ya. But I dont say it to all my net friends. Some of my net friends I dont know well enough to say love ya to. Usually when parting from them I just say take care. In my nightly bedtime prayer I ask the Lord to watch over and keep safe my family and friends safe and healthy until we meet or speak again.
I love spending time with family and friends be it in person or on the phone or net. Family is important to me and we need to spend time together. Friends are an important part of my life. I love spending time with them and going out and doing things like having lunch or dinner, shopping, going to the park just to hang out etc.
Love is/has different meanings to lots of people. So how you define love is what's important. I dont know why this topic or what I can say about it but it just keeps coming up in my thoughts this morning and I dont have much time to write or any thing. I have to go and get ready to take the boys to the Dentist with Nicki.
So until next time know that I love ya all. I hope all is well with you and yours in your own little piece of the world.
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