I’ve activated the Poll for the pumpkin carving contest on my sidebar.
You can view current entries HERE, and vote if you’d like!
I’ve also amended the contest rules for last minute carvers, you can enter your pumpkins through Sunday night and I will create a separate poll for your pumpkins and voting will be limited to 8 hours on Halloween!
Top Illustration:
Bottom Illustration:
Custom Portrait of Elizabeth (blog owner) carrying a shopping bag, with one of her two English Springer Spaniels on a leash
View Secondary Blog Illustration
(Layout and Design by EWebscapes)
These are a couple of blog layouts & graphics that I’ve done over the last couple of weeks, you can click on the screenshots to go visit them. Tell ’em I said hi!
Custom Cat Portrait : Bindi (Orange Tabby Kitten)
12 x 12 Oil Painting
Canvas Panel
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved
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My other Thirteens 1. There are 3 days left to enter the Pumpkin Carving Contest. I have 3 new entries that I need to add, plus whatever YOU send me! (GREAT BIG GIANT HINT there, in case you didn’t notice!) 2. I had another Armegeddon type dream lastnight. This time a meteor plunged into the earth causing a forest fire in the middle of the town I was in. The ground opened up and there was a brown gooey lava flowing, and some old guy almost put his hand in it to “see how warm it felt”. I was surrounded by idiots, at a carnival, during Armegeddon. Lovely dream. Then the phone rang and woke me up. ((Thank you for waking me up)) 3. I swam 10 laps yesterday, just over 1/4 mile. 4. I bought some things from Coldwater Creek the other day. They’re having a 50% off sale on everything, and if I could have bought everything, I would have. 5. I was up a lot of the night pulling the hair back from my 4 year olds face as she hugged the toitie. She’s pitifully sick, and even more pitiful when I mention “can’t go to school and throw up on your friends, honey”. 🙁 6. I varnished Bindi’s Portrait yesterday and hope to scan it today. I’ll post it when I do that. I also have to put the work in progress images together for his mom. She’s making a scrapbook of his portrait, isn’t that too sweet? What a good meowmmy. 7. I have to call three people at the school when my little one is out sick. 8. I’ve done three graphic & illustration projects that I took screenshots of yesterday. I have to post those and get them up in my gallery, too. 9. The Schwan’s guy showed up yesterday wearing a Batman costume. 10. I bought pizzas from him anyway. 11. And tried to give him our guinea pig (I’m allergic to her, and she lives in my studio now that the dander has gotten to the kids, too). He really likes her, and he’s not allergic to her. (He couldn’t take her.) My eldest kid accused me of trying to sell her guinea pig. I told her “that’s not true! I was trying to give her away for free!” 12. I watched The Wedding Planner lastnight and cried at the end. I’m such a sap. My three favorite sappy movies that I’ve cried to are Serendipity, Sleepless in Seattle and The Notebook. 13. It’s going to take a lot of caffine to get me going today. Man I’m sleepy! Links to other Thursday Thirteens! (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!) |
The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Be sure to update your Thirteen with links that are left for you, as well! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!
TECHNORATI TAG: Thursday Thirteen
Google: The Oracle
Who needs a fortune cookie or a psychic reading for the latest predications or insight into yourself? Just type your own name like this “Leanne is” in a google search engine and see how accurate the oracle can be.
Leanne is both cute and dressy.
Leanne is available in BLACK, RED, WHITE, OCEAN, PINK and BLUSH.
Leanne is a sassy shoe.
Leanne is dropped off at the hill home by a burly female trucker.
Leanne is one of close to thirty artists involved in this program.
Leanne is very motivated to work with you in fulfilling your real estate needs.
Leanne is always right!
Leanne is a great leader.
Leanne is the only person on our staff, and perhaps in the country, who’s experienced 9-Gs in an F16 jet, jumped out of a Hercules in a tandem jump with the Skyhawks, swam with sharks and ridden with the RCMP’s Musical Ride.
Leanne is as comfortable in the kitchen with an octogenarian champion bread baker as she is backstage with stars like Harry Connick Jr. Leanne loves people.
(Snagged from Colleen)
147 minutes and 43 seconds later, my sister posted her first entry in her new Blogsome Blog (Big Sis modified & personalized her design for her in the same period of time!)
GO SAY HI! :wave:
(p.s. I made a spare one too, just for giggles, artistbynature.blogsome.com)
Just a quick recap of recent goings-on in my life:
There are new entries in the Pumpkin Carving Contest. View them HERE. They’re cool! Hey! Where’s YOURS?!
Thousands of people are looking for cool, wicked, animal, and even custom pumpkin carvings, designs, patterns, etc. I can’t believe how many people. Tons of people. Woah. LOTS. People. Go to Walgreen’s and pick up a pattern book, or flip through one, you’ll get ideas from it if not just USE one. That’s what they’re there for. And when you carve it? Go enter my (little, so far) contest, and tell all your friends to vote! Why not? You’re just going to be sitting around eating candy all day anyway! Plain-ol’ Jack-O-Lanterns would be WAY cool. Let’s not forget about Jack!
CAT scan results are in. Diagnosis? I’m making the stuff up! YAY!!! It’s all in my head! I’m just your normal, almost middle-aged hypochondriac. I drank all that chalk to find out something I already knew! Whew! Hey! WOW! The pain is gone! (No, it isn’t!) WHEE! I feel so much better.
I have a cold. No, really! I’m not making THAT up! I just make up all the other pings pangs and dings. Seriously. Colds are easy to self-diagnose. I make up the stuff that costs hundreds of dollars to try to figure out. Hah!
Before I forget this link again, BLOGSOME. For those of you without your own domains, stuck on Blogger and wanting more control over your own blog, they use WordPress. Some of you know WordPress rocks. Some of you don’t. The some of you who don’t need to get a WordPress blog and find out we’re not lyin’! Seriously!
I was going to give myself the day off, but now I’ve thought of a bunch of things I have to do. Including prepping for my next painting, which is going to be seriously interesting to work on.
Recommended reading for today:
Loose Leaves
Pamibe (she just Weathered Wilma)
Mr. MommaK’s Favorite Fall Things
Life (a tearjerker from a Soldier)
Mir and her Hair Experience (read: Trauma)
Pending any last minute tweaks, Bindi’s portrait is complete. I’ll follow up with scan & detail images after any final revisions are made and he’s dry & varnished.
If you want to see this painting as it has progressed, click on this category: custom cat portraits.
