Angel problems grrrrr!

So you guys saw my sketch of the angel wrapping her wings around a woman yesterday. Today I worked a little more on it, ok quite a bit more on it and now I think I've over worked it! Grrrr! I hate it when I do that. I questioned before whether I should have the woman in there and decided to try to make a go of it. (I'm drawing this for one of the projects Gale and I am working on. She wrote an angel poem and wanted to see something like this for it.)

I was pretty happy with it at first and now, it's kinda slid down hill. Through the magic of Photoshop, happily I can possibly fix this for the use it was intended if I had drawn her a tad smaller. My new scanner won't get all of her in it! Darn it! Plus, I not only overworked it, I might has well drawn a giant bulls eye on the one thing I wanted to downplay and that was the woman. I put her in a bright blue sweater of all things!!!!! What was I thinking? I was going for a subtle black and white version at first and then wammo! I get out my colored pencils and go temporarily insane, all the while trying to fix her into looking not so shoddy. Abort mission.

The funny thing is, all the while I'm doing this and making mistakes I'm thinking in my head *command z*... dang! not in real life it won't. I'm kinda crazy like that. Have you ever been doing something like... I don't know... say driving... and you make a wrong turn and think *command z* ? You know you've been working on the computer too long when.... haha

I'm starting to scare myself. Maybe I need some downtime. I think I'll go pour a glass of decaf diet coke, cozy up with my cat and watch my last 2 recorded episodes of The Vampire Diaries and look at some man candy. I like the bad brother, he's just so darn cute.

G'nite friends.

Marginally Mediocrity

Sorry, too negative so I deleted this post.

Happy Tuesday :)

Angel w/wrapping wings

I sketched out this angel with her wings wrapping around someone but it sure isn't showing up very well. It is too big for me to scan the whole thing so I just shot a picture of it. I'm thinking I don't like the person she is holding so I may erase her out of it.

I know you can't see her very well, but any thoughts on keeping her or erasing her?

I have no idea how to turn off this underlining!

ugh the assessor just left

So I'm outside filling all my empty bird feeders before this new snow storm hits us and someone drives up. I heard them from far away because we live out in the middle of nowhere. I thought it was the meter reader showing up later than normal but noooooo... he got out and said he was with the county assessor checking up on their records to see if everything still matched. I instinctively said "oh no" and he kinda laughed. I guess that is a usual response.

He was a nice enough guy and pretty good looking too, so it was hard to be mean. So I answered all his questions as innocently as possible and we exchanged pleasantries then he started measuring our fairly new pole barn and he was gone. (cha ching I'm thinking) Oy. How much more is this going to cost us?

I guess it was good I was home to answer because he told me what was on his paper of having 9 rooms and I was like "what?!" We don't have nine rooms. He said they just guess if no one is there to answer questions and from older assessments. He said he corrected a few things that may help us, but I get that sinking feeling that is not going to be the case. Especially when he told me what Indiana is assessing land at now. Like $17,000 an acre!!!! Let me tell you, it's nowhere near what you'll actually get out here in Posey County which is probably closer to $3400 an acre, if you're lucky!

Well that's my woe is me story for today, cry with me! woooooaaahhhhhhh :(

Pizza, anyone?

Well I haven't done any more to the GeeJay Creations logo yet, but I wanted to tell you all about this pizza I ate the other night. As some of you know, I'm on a stinkin diet and hating every minute of it. So far here's the way it's going: First week, I have lost 4 pounds, lost 1 more the second week, gained 2 more back after then and then lost 1 pound last Monday and now as of tomorrow (Monday) I think I may be the same as last week. I try to only weigh on Mondays but I cheated and got on the scale yesterday. This is all going excruciatingly slow. Granted I have not done much of anything in the way of exercising. But I feel like I'm doing the Diet Tango.

Back to the pizza. It was DIGIORNO 200 Calorie Portions that I actually got for FREE because I joined the Kraft First Taste. The program is great because they send me coupons for free food items quite often and I in turn give them my thoughts in the form of a short survey. They also send along extra coupons for a considerable amount off the product to supposedly give away... but I usually am stingy and keep most of them if I like the product. But I have shared a few. Use the link and join, you won't be sorry. But this pizza tasted great and when you are counting calories, this is well worth the 200 calories that is in it. I got the pepperoni one. I opened the box and chuckled because there were 2 individually wrapped pizzas in it and they were the size of a graham cracker, but I popped one in the oven anyway. I nearly burned it, but it was real tasty, at least to a starved 1000 calorie a day eating dieting maniac (1000 calories every other day). I sure wish this was easier.

The other night I dreamed I was eating that yummy Stuffed French Toast from IHOP... Yummo! That's bad when you dream about eating haha. Oh well, that's it for now. I just wanted to share my pizza experience with you guys. Enjoy your Sunday!

logos logos logos

Today or really this whole week has been more exciting that normal. Aside from losing my voice almost completely, (try yelling at your 3 year old with nothing coming out) I had a meeting with Gale my writer friend, and we have got the ball rolling. In fact, we have committed to be in an Arts and Crafts show the 27th of this month! Wow! Now we have a deadline, which is probably a good thing since I can be quite the procrastinator.

So naturally, we want to have a logo for our new little venture and that's what I've been working on today. Nothing is set in stone and these are my first better looking ones but I wanted to get my blogging friends thoughts on what I've got so far. We are calling ourselves GeeJay Creations because her name is Gale and I'm of course Jaime and we create things together. Our creations will be prints of my original art and designs along with her poems and writings mounted on a variety of things that have yet to be determined.

I was going for a fun and not so serious look with a slight feminine touch. I may add some color, but an effective logo design will always look good in black and white, so that's how I always start my designs. I have a favorite but I want to see what everyone else picks. So my dear friends, please cast your vote a, b, c or d? or gasp! if you don't care for any of them keep it to yourself... no I'm kidding. If you really don't care for any then put F :(

(I can take it. I worked in an advertising agency for years and had many dreams dashed... haha)

I knew I'd forget somebody

Well about yesterday's Sunshine Award... mixed emotions I absolutely love that someone thought enough of me to give me one, but....

I wish there were an easier way to do that! PLUS I knew I would forget someone that has shown such kindness and offered friendship and I did. I'm sure I forgot a lot. I want to extend my Sunshine Award to all my inspirational friends!!!! (like Luthien @ Pimp and Paint and Karen @ Sassmowth Designs

The limit was 12 and I did go over that but I still didn't get everyone. I feel bad at leaving anyone out! The awards are a bittersweet thing. I feel great that I received one, but man! that took me literally a couple hours to link it all and then go and spread the good news. I almost hate to ask others to do it when I know how busy most everyone is! So I intentionally left some out because I was thinking there is no way this person has this kind of extra time!

So I want to give a shout out to ALL my friends and I consider you all friends and you ALL deserve a Sunshine Award because as I read all of your posts they really do bring a little bit of sunshine to my day at least for that moment and I really appreciate that! I'm not just talking about when someone comments on my post (which makes me feel really great!), but just people posting about their lives in general. I truly do love to read about people and their lives.

Most of you know I'm a stay at home mom and this little computer screen is the window to the outside world for me. I not only don't get out much... I live in the boondocks. I have no neighbors that I can see and I know that may sound like paradise to some (cause I thought that too once) but sometimes I feel very isolated. My best friend is an hour away and works a lot. I just recently lost my mom, ok ok ok... this is turning badly and I didn't mean for it to take this turn. But what I mean to say is that I truly love these online friendships that have formed and continue to form. You all mean a lot to me :) Big hugs to you all!