April 29, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
Hey you busy Saturday? Sure you are, a spring Saturday? Come and see me anyway for some free stuff! Kristine’s Place is having a Blog Hop and there will be sales offers too because its that special day we all wait for…National Scrap Booking (industry) Day! Which really should be called “World-wide” since we internet girls know no borders! Weeee!
See you then!!
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…to get in on My Grand Opening 50% OFF SALE at My Bean Store at Kristine’s Place!
Use the code: HootinApril50
Weeee!
Freebie Hunting? Scroll down, you will get there! LOL!
Mwah!
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April 25, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
What do you call a computer that has come back from the dead?
A bootkey virus slipped by my security and went for straight for my cookie! Doesn’t that sound provocative! HOOT! Jack Darlin’ couldn’t close the backdoor and I kept losing more and more data so we killed the drive. Jack wanted to give it the double-tap and wipe it. I agreed, but in the end we were whoosie girls. We just cut the operating system out of the poor thing so it just became a storage drive, lobotomizing it like in One Flew Over The Coo-Coo’s Nest.
So all this week it was my job to reinstall programs and move the custom files of those programs from the drooling Franken-drive to the new bright and shining 1TB drive without getting bits of bad stuff in the mix. Sometimes I wonder if it was worth all that cleaning up and scanning, ( that is just the cranky tired me talking…of course my data is worth it! LOL!) Nearly done now. I have a few things I am putting off until I use those programs again because I am lazy and want to get back to making things now.
Each time I crash my computer I learn something. The first time I beefed up security, and the second time too, okay and the third! LOL! A few times back ( slow learner) I set up a back up drive. Sadly I didn’t use it. I always had an excuse. It was too hard to do, it took too long…blah blah blah. Well so is recovering from a crash, Silly! A few years ago, my hubby began practicing tough love. He used to spend all night fixing my messes ( he still does this to a degree) but he began leaving the bulk of the mindless work to me. Now that I feel the pain of a crash more I am suppose to mend my ways. I DID make some decisions to protect myself, but I really think life is full of roses not thorns so I don’t see disaster as inevitable, I think I might just sneak past all the bad things in computer land so I don’t back up anything. The best thing I ever did was putting all my storage files on a separate external drive and when the computer does its strange death dance I unplug my externals to be double sure they don’t get tainted. These last 2 years I have had nothing but happy sleep knowing all my design data, pictures, and yummy-yums are safe. I can’t put a price on sleep, can you?
This time, my Jack-Jack partitioned my shiny new hard drive and made huge back up space for it. So now I can back up quicker, thus I might actually do it! I haven’t actually used it yet, so let’s not get carried away that I am reformed. I did pitch a complete fit a few nights ago in which the whine went something like “You can’t expect me to back-up stuff every night, you techie-dictator!” To which Jack reminded me I don’t know how to install an Operating System and partition a hard drive. Touche’ That took the beast out of me! HOOT!
All you ladies in the Sisterhood who just thought “ Don’t back down, you can learn to install and partition as good as any man!” Don’t get you panties in a bunch, my sisters. You’re right I can learn to do those things. I just don’t want to. I want to be a kept woman on those scores.
Just like Jack does not like to cook, and still like to eat. Doesn’t do yardwork but doesn’t wish to carry a machete to blaze a trail to his car. I want to have a computer and not have any idea how some stuff got on it. WHOOT!
Enough computer talk! Grab a cuppa and let’s catch up on a lazy Sunday afternoon, hmmm?
First off, my Grand Opening CODE sale at Kristine’s Place is going on to the end of the month. Here is the poop on that…
http://www.wenchdgrafix.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=21
Use the code
HootinApril50
to get a whopping 50% off all my goodies at KP’s and don’t forget to check out the other designers there, Kristine is having a 405 off sale on her stuff! Please do not leave her store without getting some AWESOME Kristine’s Texture Plates! Seriously they will enhance your life!! She has 5 sets! This is the first.
Next…Kim B Designs is got some moving and shaking going on… TIME is limited on this one…
CU Grab Bag by KimB and Amanda Rockwell
$65.00 $8.00
Save: 88% off
Grab this Exceptional CU bag by Amanda Rockwell and KimB.
Filled with only the highest Quality CU Products.
10 Full sized products plus a BONUS download!
Available for a limited time only.
Bag Contains.
10 CU products in JPG, PNG, ABRI and PSD @ 300ppi
1 bonus download
Available at DigiScrapVault(DSV) and Scrap Artist for only a limited time only.
Kimmer also has a little freebie available for a kit that is coming out on Monday so check that out too…
Here is the picture…go to Kim’s Blog for the download link.
My Delicious TC Team was doing backflips of creativity while I was not computing let’s check in with them…
Sandy Pie made this using nearly every PS Style I have made in the last 2 months! SUPER COOL! See more information on what she used and how she did it! Neat-o!
Vicki aka Bubbles Bits
Has an add-on gifty to her latest kit, hint hint, made using Chalkies: Vicki’s Beach Styles! Weee!
Here is the picture…go to Vicki’s Blog for the download link.
Is going to town making cards! Fabulous Cards! So many I can’t list them all here, start at the beginning of her blog and just go for it! Some use My Jodiann Styles while others use awesome stuff from other designers that you are sure to LOVE. Shannon also recently put up a Gallery, where you can browse all her beautiful creations. Check it out! Shannon’s Gallery
Check out this one…
Using my Chalkies Such a cute card!
Made some awesome templates using my Dot Cute Styles. Visit MoeJoe’s Blog to see these templates and pick up a special template she made to match for a FREEBIE!
And bringing up the rear… Me!
A freebie mini kit done for Kim B’s Color Challenge! It must be fall in South Africa or Kim is cleaning out her attic space…LOL! These color absolute screamed vintage, must be where my head is at lately! Vintage Thoughts! Weeee!
http://www.4shared.com/file/nQchCwoJ/jc-intheatticmini.html
4 papers and 7 elements in Fall Colors.
Whoo HOO! You are now up to date! Wishing you all a beautiful last week of April!
MWAH!!
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April 24, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
testie-testie-test-test-test
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April 14, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
Hey Ya’ll! Having a bit of computer trouble, she’s up and running, but a bit ornery at the moment. Thought I could get back to my normal goodies today, but not so. Jack wants to run a few diagnostics and make sure all is ship shape so I am getting ready to start those now. Will see you all on the other side…Just wanted you to know I didn’t fall into a well!
Happy Wednesday!
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April 12, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
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6 Seamless Realistic Sand Styles, extra large images, 300ppi,Drop Shadow Free. Various sand colors. Rippled, Sand and Shells, Crab Rolls, Wet, Gentle Ripples, and Lumpy Sand.
This purchase contains:
6 Sandy Beaches Sand Styles; Seamless in .ASL format 300 ppi.
1 Text Document with Unpacking and Installing Instructions.
Original Styles created by Jodiann Cates. From Commercial Use, Royalty Free images. Requested and Inspired by Sweet Sandy Pie!!
CU PU S4H S4O Okay
PS7, PSCS, PSCS2, PSCS3, PSCS4 and PSE compatible
Commercial License Included. You may use these PS Styles to create your own products to sell.
Quality Checked
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April 8, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
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12 Seamless Large Dot Styles, in 6 reversible dusty pastel colors. Drop Shadow Free. Slight Texture added for true dusty, matte look. Colors: Hedgerow, British Blues, Goldie Lion, Dusty Rose, Misty Sea, English Lavender.
This purchase contains:
12 Dot Cute Styles; Seamless in .ASL format
1 Text Document with Unpacking and Installing Instructions.
Original Styles created by Jodiann Cates. Inspired by Paula W’s Summer Dress. Thanks Sweetie Pie!!
CU PU S4H S4O Okay
PS7, PSCS, PSCS2, PSCS3, PSCS4 and PSE compatible
Commercial License Included. You may use these PS Styles to create your own products to sell.
Quality Checked
LOOK a freebie! WHOO HOO!
by Moe Joe Get it at her blog, click the preview to go…
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by Jodiann aka Bean
A smart girl would not return, right? Well, I’ve never been accused of that.
I did go back, sat at my table, read my book. Asked questions, and eventually the place warmed to me. When I say “warmed” I mean no one ran off as I approached, but it was surely no love fest.
I took my time reading, because sculpture class was expensive, students must get their own materials and I was starving ( living on Raimen Noodles and Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Jelly was a luxury item) as it was. I kicked myself for not thinking this through, one’s 20’s are full of not thinking things through, there are worse things than getting into a fix and having to dig yourself out, like not even beginning and whining about it how the world wants to kick your butt down the street, but that was my 30’s . HOOT!! Anyway, I got zero money to buy supplies and so I sit there thinking what a shame it would be to quit, but I am hooked on the place, the smell of Clay, Stone Dust and Burnt Cars. ( Where is THAT coming from I wonder) So I read slower and soak up the atmosphere and hope I come into some money.
After a few months no matter how many notes I take or how slow I go, I run out of book. Instructor guy, ( like magic) appears, beckons, I follow.
We end up in the back, the welding room. I access the chapters in the book on welding. Lighting the torch, adjusting the flame, running a bead, making a strong weld all flood into my mind.
“Build an armature”, He says simply. ( metal stick-like base to support a sculpture)
“I’m broke.”, I say mimicking his aire and economy.
I learned to talk like him, to him. Plainly in sentences of 3 words or less. Too many times I launched into a long ramble explanation with him and he just walks off.
“I know.” , He replies. Again with the magic knowing of things.
He points to the scraps of metal in the corner, slaps and old pair of gloves in my hand and he’s gone.
And I am off! WHOO HOO!
I build a basic armature, its good, sturdy. Proportionate. Basic standing human shape about 18 inches high. A dude I have never seem before shows up and gives me money for it. I feel the Magic Instructor Guy’s hand in it. I think about it for half a minute before I sell it for $50 bucks. What if he instantly appears expecting an armature to be there? I’ll build another.
I build another. Same as the first only larger. This one looks to be reclining against a wall, James Dean Style. Boom! Buyer appears. $75 dollars. I am a slow learner, still thinking Instructor Guy is going to show up and demand an armature so I do it again. This one is splayed out like Tom, braking around a corner after his favorite mouse, Jerry. Bam! $75 once more. The scraps are gone, but I have money to buy my own steel so I get to work on other shapes all humans but in a more variety of poses.
A student asks me to build one for her. She sketches it out, a person in a tight fetal position on a 3 foot stainless steel rod, and I build it. And another, and another and another. 4 toatal for her alone. Months go by while I repeat this money cycle. I buy Jelly to go with my peanut butter. * grin* We show up, work and leave. Nothing much changes. Even the Pink Granite Sculptor’s Lion Head never seems to get beyond looking squarish. After 80 hours of classes to me it still looks more like the block of stone than a lion. maybe that is his concept, so I put it out of my mind. I don’t see a lot of Instructor Guy but no one does. There are no grades, no real schedule to speak of. Folks come and go, when he is in his office. When he is gone, no people. So I get to know when he is around, but don’t venture to the office again. I rely on the folks around me for help if I get in a pickle. Or The BOOK! LOL!
In the welding room is the guy who welds the metal boxes around the railroad ties. He is like a REAL artist. He has an agent. We don’t talk too much either. In fact no one talks very much. I just watch him build a meticulous box, with perfect welds…wonder what he will put inside it for weeks, then watch as he takes an axe knocks the holey poo-bah out of them, exposing the stuff inside. Railroad Ties, 8 feet long. Sets of China, Stuffed Animals, and old musket a tiny delicate tea cup in a box no bigger than the span of my hand. He spend hours arranging the work after thumping them, then boxes them up, and galleries send delivery men. They pay him gobs of money. I was always thinking the coolest part was the destruction. He was rail thin with long rock star hair and looked like lifting an axe over his head would break him in the middle, but he tore the fool out of those sculptures. In cold silence, only the ringing of the axe on the steel and the sound of whatever what in the box absorbing the blow. He sometimes thought it out and planned his hits, using a wax pencil to mark a spot, but most often he just went for it. I stopped whatever I was doing to watch in awe and horror. Mostly horror. It was a wild thing to see this skinny white boy with his dark straight hair flying about his shoulders go after his own painstaking work with an axe. I kind of get the same feeling of wonder mixed with horror watching Dexter on Showtime, but not quite. Real life beats TV no matter how good the show.
After deconstruction I always found I was holding my breath. I would let it out and look around and, I was always surprised by this, Magic Instructor Guy was there. Never once saw him show up, never heard the door creak. And it did more than creak. It sounded like a door to a walk in freezer when it shut. I just decided he was a magic man to stop my wondering about how he did what he did.
I begin working my first sculpture about this time. The Axe Artist, had a bunch of old chrome bumpers brought in for some project and looking at them all piled up in the corner day after day got me thinking. Slowly a concept began to form.
…continued.
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April 7, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
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27 seamless Photoshop Styles with soft chalk-like edges in beachy colors. These styles are smooth, no texture. No Bevel has been added either, the look of a bevel is from the softly shaded edges. A simple style with many uses. A basic to come back to for filling in Doodles, Elements, Making Backgrounds, Adding to fonts for a yummy puffed look. Add your own dropshadows, these are dropshadow free. Edge shading is adjustable.
Colors:
Sand, Sandbar, Gold Reflection, Seaglass, WadePool, Flipflops, Beachgrass, MellowOut, Pure Sun, HotSand, Suntan, Starfish, Sunburn, Popcicle, Shell, Sails, Cloud, Stormfront, SlickRocks, Seamonster, Seaweed, Summer, Fishscale, Marlin, Anchor, Deepwater, Inkcloud.
This purchase contains:
27 Chalkie Styles; Seamless in .ASL format
1 Text Document with Unpacking and Installing Instructions.
Original Styles created by Jodiann Cates. Inspired by Vicki aka TxBubbles. Thanks Sweetness!!
CU PU S4H S4O Okay
PS7, PSCS, PSCS2, PSCS3, PSCS4 and PSE compatible
Commercial License Included. You may use these PS Styles to create your own products to sell.
Quality Checked.
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Shannon’s, digitally colored using Chalkies: Vicki’s Beach
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April 6, 2010 by Jodiann aka Bean
Clearing out the closet that got flooded has proved to be a pain and a pleasure. I found my old sculpture 101 textbook. My $105 dollar mistake! LOL! More than 20 years ago I took a sculpture class on a whim. It was at night and being a young pup and having no idea what kind of folks show up at night I thought nothing of it, just blasted forward like always.
My first night, I walked through the warehouse space, stepped over railroad ties covered in stainless steel ( a sculpture I would later find out) 12 Plexiglass isolation rooms with separate vacuum units housed granite, marble, and sandstone sculptures, each with a dusty sculptors attached by some high powered tool to their work. No on it seemed put hammer or rasp to stone anymore. I guessed.
I found a seat at one of the tables, next to a man who was sculpting clay: a horny toad sitting on a rock, and sat.
and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat, and sat. Horny toad sculptor finishes, takes an instamatic camera from his bag, snaps a dozen pictures and flips the sculpture upside down and smooshes the clay into the table, re-forms it into a sphere and begins a new sculpture, yep, you guessed it… another horny toad on a rock. I continued sitting for another 2 hours.
….end of first class. 3 productive hours.
I watched the the stone sculptors remove the vacuum attachments from their power tools, vacuum themselves clean, cover their lion head, madonna, and 2 earth globes, the rest were forgettable or formless…and quietly leave their booths. The silence without their vacuums running was uncomfortable and heavy. I smell the rock dust and what smells to me like BBQ mixing in with the wet earth smell of the clay being worked so close by. They shambled out, so did my toad sculptor, after carefully wrapping his clay work in plastic and carrying it gingerly out with him. A door to the back opened, I turn expectantly, I see welding canisters and torches through the door and more people leaving. They pay me no mind, not even looking up.
No instructor. No class.
My first night class. Messed up.
I leave too.
The next class, the same. Finally after about an hour in I ask Horny Toad Sculptor, what’s the deal. He is working on his 3rd Horny Toad ( that I know of) He gets some fear in his eyes and moves to another table. I briefly recognize this was the first time I spoke. My mouth all dry, made my voice crack a little but to move away, well, he was odd. No doubt.
Someone has GOT to be the instructor, right? So I set off looking. I look in every door. Finally, behind a poster of Farah Faucett ( yeah, you know the one) I see a door I haven’t tried. Its an office, I think. One corner all dark. I am getting an Apocalypse Now vibe so I turn to go, as I do, something moves behind a bank of file cabinets. Its a guy. He looks like this…
Now I’ve got nothing against this actor man, Timothy Spall in fact he is brilliant. I have loved, or appropriately hated every character he brings to the screen, but this all happened long before I watched Timothy Spall act circles around every actor he “movies” with so I was pretty creeped out by a guy who looked like this emerging from behind anything…and HE, instructor dude, had a knife, a short little dagger with a triangular blade. He wasn’t pointing it at me or anything obvious, just honing the blade with something metal in his hand. After a while, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a block of wood and slide the blade into it and set it the closed up dagger on a lacquered stand with 2 others in graduated sizes. All three looking like innocent blocks of wood with inlaid designs to broadcast, they in fact were not innocent. Then I noticed there were Samurai swords, knives and wood, saws, a drafting table and other assorted stuffs ALL OVER this room. Oh! He makes knives! Relief!
I introduced myself as a new student then and he said nothing. So I don’t waste time, I leave. As I am pulling the door closed behind me, he said, “ Campus Police sent you?”
“Nope” I said, trying to act cheerful…why I don’t know. Still Creeped out. Did I say Apocalypse Now already? Well it still felt dark like that so my cheerful voice rang fake and booming in the now bright outer space, but I could still see the darkness inside through a half foot crack in the closing door.
“Read the book” , squeezed through the opening. Almost too quietly to be heard.
Not really understanding what he was talking about, or if I had heard that correctly, still thinking about the Campus Police. I went back to my seat. Confused.
When I got there I sat for another 15 minutes running that strangeness through my mind. Then I remembered the book, the sculpture book. Oh, Right! LOL! Read that book. Chuckle. My mind already re-writing the scene so I don’t completely wig out. I would remember it as a big misunderstanding for the next 4 months.
I read the book, until the vacuums went silent. Then I boogied. Don’t want to be the last one out of there tonight was all I was thinking.
…continued.
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