Day 2: Someone you like ( a celebrity, a significant other, or a crush)
D J Ashba is one of my favorite people! He is a musician ( lead guitarist for GnR and Six AM)
a designer, gaaawwwwgeous!!!, and a designer as well. He is both a celebrity and a crush :))
Deviant Art posted a 30 day Art Challenge and I have accepted 🙂
Day 1: A personal portrait or your persona-
This is an illustration done by me in Adobe Illustrator 6
Over the last year that I have been sick, I have tried to stay motivated to fight. After all this is the fight of my life and I am a firm believer that mind can win over body any day. I have said throughout my illness that if I think I am sick and dying I WILL BE sick and dying! So, I continue to say I am beating this! I am winning! It is working most days and by the tests it is working period. There are still days when I am sick and weak and I just can’t seem to get out of bed without a fight. On these days I look for inspiration to get the hell up! To find a reason to want to be a part of the world. Some ray of hope or light that will spur me into action.
I won’t lie some days the cheer leading and pep squad method just doesn’t work. I am human. I get mad. I get sad. I get damn right pissed! Why is this happening to me? Well the resounding answer I always seem to feel from that question is why not? Why wouldn’t it be me? Bad things happen to good undeserving people everyday, and I have tended to be stronger than most, throughout my life. It is best that it is me. I can handle the pain and the fear and still on most days keep my head up.
I decided to share some of the things that I look through when I am having a bad day. The things that make me say stop crying, stop with this and get up. Fight through this for tomorrow cause it is worth it!
Number 1:
My grandson and my family. Relationships have been strained and sometimes really tough but through it all the thought of my children and this little guy keep me movin’. In the end it will show that my love for them was as tough as I have always said. It will be what brings me through this. I am not in a place with any of them to leave. I have so many things to say and to do. Those things will come. There are several friends I include here as well… My friends are the family I have CHOSEN. 🙂
2. My Work
The love I have for what I am doing and the hard work I have put into getting educated and able to do what I love keeps me motivated to stay around. On a bad day I create something. That always makes me smile :).
3. Nature
Most of the times just watching the leaves blow in the breeze is inspirational to me. I feel so much from this earth. The power and the beauty are an amazing force.
4. Music
Music has always been a huge love of my life. All kinds of music. It makes me smile and my heart feel lighter. I always have music around me.
Four simple things..I bet a million people take these things for granted every day. I don’t any longer. Cancer has been a hell I will not even try to sugar coat it, but it has also been a life saver. Can you believe that? It has made me see what I want in life, what is worth the trouble and the turmoil and what is just so trivial it doesn’t deserve a second thought. I know I live a different life now. I live my life as if there is no tomorrow and although it sounds cliche, we are not promised tomorrow. No one is…. Don’t let the time slip away. Don’t leave things unsaid. and above all be happy. What is life worth if you aren’t living it happy???
My company site is up and running as of today!!!! Check it out at www.ddazzledesigns.net. Great specials through the holiday season. Click away my friends!!!
Logo done today
Fall is here and with it there are so many projects on the horizon. Every one is back in school or has kiddos back in school. Work is taking off as everyone settles in and starts to get ready for the holiday blitz. I thought this would be a great time to share some of the applications that help me most during the busy season.
First Note: First note is one of my favorites. It is included in Microsoft Office Student and Teacher Edition. This program allows you to make notebooks and organize all of the information you are working with. Each notebook can have unlimited sections and pages and within can hold pictures, videos, links, just about anything you can imagine. This is perfect for the student or blog writer, or just about anyone who has several projects going on and needs a way to organize it all in one handy place. There are apps for One Note for your android phone or tablet, I-phone and IPAD and of course windows phones as well. You can download a trial version here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/onenote-2013-preview
Evernote: Another of my favorite apps available for your PC, phone or tablet. EverNote is like OneNote. It is also shareable with friends and colleagues. You can have buttons right on your browser that will pull the information into an EverNote note book for you. Evernote also has fun applications to add along with it like Skitch. That allow you to paint or write on your own pictures and add them to a notebook or send to contacts. You can get EverNote here:
Taptu: Last but not least is Taptu. Taptu is a great way to organize all your feeds in one place. With scroll menus and easy to read titling this app is wonderful! Available on Windows 8, Android and MAC. You can even add in all your social network feeds as well. You can get Taptu here:
resource://jid0-gxjllfbcoax0lcltedfrekqdqpi-at-jetpack/as-ff/data/edit.html
Along with apps to help with getting back to school and work I wanted to include a freebie I found this week while surfing the web. I am an icon FREAK and always love finding good ones for free. This week I found a great set of Windows 8 look Icons.
http://www.iconarchive.com/show/metro-style-social-icons-by-graphics-vibe.html
Thanks for reading this week! I will see you again next Sunday where I will be sharing some of my favorite spots to find free vectors and psd files. I wish you all a wonderful week!
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