Somehow or another when my server switched, it botched up all kinds of fun stuff. Including my e-mail.
So here I am doing my thing yesterday, completely oblivious to the fact that 82. EIGHTY TWO. E-mail had not gotten to their final destination.
Eighty Two.
I will get caught up. After coffee, and taking the garbage out, and getting a shower…LOL
Yep, I am freakin’ out. I moved servers in the middle of the night lastnight, so now everything I posted this morning and afternoon is gonnnneeeee and I don’t know if I can get it back. This just makes my yicky mood worse, ya know?
Here’s Emily’s underpainting, which I posted this afternoon, but let’s just pretend you never saw that it was here and gone. Garrrwowowowlll…
Hey, I remembered that I took a screen shot of it for mom! Hey! It’s back!!
Didjya see my new skin? I am just loving seeing it live! I did create all of the graphics for it and all that jazz. Just one thing you might wonder about, and that’s the top center design. I have to tell ya, that’s a tattoo design that Lolo of Rase Hall Studios conjured up for Mark and I before he left for Iraq. I flew down to Louisiana to see him off, and we both got that tattoo! It is so neat, totally unique, so I had to find a way to incorporate it into my new skin! She has the neatest stuff in her head! A great artist & sweetie pie to boot. She’s on my link list over to the right, too, under Paint Well. If you haven’t stopped by her blog yet, please do!
I just had a great idea…how about a reader based design? Wouldn’t that be neat? Here’s how we’ll do it. The first person replies with a suggestion for something they’d like to see in a new skin, and the second person adds to that, and on and on until I get everyone’s input and then I’ll build a design based on it. Sound like fun? Ok! Let’s do it! Then if it’s really funky, it’s ALL YOUR FAULT! heh! LOL
My back is feeling much better today! I can move without pain, yay! Thank you, Sheila, ’cause you know no-one listens to what the doc’s say (ok well you did), I applied a nice gel icepack to my back lastnight for a while (fell asleep on it, oops!) and got up this morning and aaah. MUCH better. I think it helped to have Caitlin whomp on me and smear icy hot all over my lower back, too.
One more thing I’ve added here for you guys, my schedule! Over in the left column “Bloggy-Do’s”, down beneath my website gallery menu is my current schedule.
I’ll be working on Emily’s underpainting this morning on webcam!
Ten’s underpainting…
I was going to try to get Emily’s done tonight, but that’s just not going to happen. I will get hers done first tomorrow and then start in on Tori’s next (final?) layer. See ya in the AM!
Don’t be scared, this is just the underpainting!
Ow.
This morning, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to relocate the remnants of my bathroom demolition to my neighbors dumpster. Granted, it’s only 50 feet away from the front door, not too far to haul a disgusting toilet, ancient medicine cabinet and 10 50-pound bags of plaster, chipped tiles and flooring, right?
Wrong.
I had put it off because my back was still so tender. I should have put it off longer. Here I was feeling better and on the mend! Somewhere along the route carrying something I shouldn’t have carried, and probably doing it really wrong, I felt that snap in my lower back. Oh boy. I continued plugging away until every piece of garbage was in the dumpster anyway. And now? I am really becoming more and more stubborn with age, I will not be defeated by anything, not even my health! Someone smack me, eh?
I’m hobbling, unable to stand completely straight, pain radiating down my left leg, and breathing realllly shallow. I know that it will feel better later today, it’s just getting to later today that’s making me a little crazy right now. Took some aspirin, ate a PB&J, and now I wait.
I did work this morning though! It was artful in a web-based way. I had some revisions to do on a website I designed last spring, so I got that taken care of. Replied to some e-mail, stuff like that.
I’ll be turning my webcam on in just a little while to continue working on Emily, Ten & Tori. I’m glad I have a sit-down don’t lift anything heavy kind of occupation!
I’ll change my webcam status in the left column (under the calendar) when the cam is on!
Hope your day started out back-pain-free!!
Here’s Tori’s eye underpainting… and with this I am finished for the night.
I would like to start painting earlier tomorrow, we shall see how things go in the morning! Every time I want to do something at a certain time, it gets all wonky, but I will try!
Webcam is going off now…
‘nite!
Emily’s eye underpainting…
What a fun afternoon! My break was longer than I had anticipated, man stalkers can be a real pain. I’m not talkin’ about lurkers, you guys are all cool, I’m talkin’ about the ones who snag code, images, text… right down to ideas (things I’ve done and/or talked about doing), and try to pawn it all off as their own. JEEEEZZZ some people have no integrity at all! (Hence my new header!) 😛
I just finished the underpainting of Ten’s eyes. I keep working at adjusting the contrast level so you see something as close to real as possible, I just do it in too much of a hurry I guess! Ah well, close enough, and better in person! My client knows that already! 😉
I will finish the other 2 tonight as well! Going to take a short break, but I’ll leave the webcam on.
