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                <title>Amy?  Where ya been?!</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:27:56 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy<br /><br />I made a new account, I'll be leaving amethystlightning soon and moving on...<br /><br />I'll let you know when I have my gallery somewhat established over at my other user name.<br /><br />Thanks for sticking with me all this time, lol.<br /><br />I appreciate everyone who watches me, and I'd love to hear some updates.  How have you been, what's new? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/winkrazz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=";P" title="Wink/Razz" /><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br /><br />~Amy~<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/15885098/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:57:56 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br />Umm. I don't actually have anything to update.<br />
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Just wanted something new to put up.<br />
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Happy holidays! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=)" title="=) (Smile)" /><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Updatessss</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/11723224/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:44:39 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletred.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletred:" title="Bullet; Red" /> Edited (Feb 20) with red bullets <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletred.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletred:" title="Bullet; Red" /><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> The winner of the Portfolio Page Design contest is fantastic: <a href="http://news.deviantart.com/article/25696/">[link]</a> I can't wait til it's launched.<br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> I just bought the last women's medium of <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviantwear/details/410785/">[link]</a> (dA t-shirt of awesomeness). bwahahaha. <br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletred.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletred:" title="Bullet; Red" /> YAY! The t-shirt arrived in the mail yesterday! It's so hot XD<br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> FEEL GOOD VIBES: <a href="http://www.feelgoodvibes.com/">[link]</a> Videos, music, quotes, art... it all makes me smile.<br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> Music I've been listening to lately... <a href="http://www.myspace.com/artistxsongs">[link]</a><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletred.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletred:" title="Bullet; Red" /> My birthday is this Saturday (it's a big one! I'm turning 18!) <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/party.gif" width="50" height="20" alt=":party:" title="Party" /><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> Love love love love love.<br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletred.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletred:" title="Bullet; Red" /> We cannot change the winds, but we can adjust our sails.<br /><br />~Amy~<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Hiding deviations</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:38:47 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br />Have you heard of the new portfolio feature for deviantArt? <a href="http://news.deviantart.com/article/25550/">[link]</a> It's going to be implemented in the next few days. Very exciting. Look what people are designing: <a href="http://browse.deviantart.com/projects/contests/2007/portfoliopage/">[link]</a> and my favorite so far: <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/47831669">[link]</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/faint.gif" width="18" height="17" alt=":faint:" title="I think I've fainted." /><br />
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In the meantime, I'm trying to clean my page up a bit, so I put 46 deviations into storage. I'm being considered for an internship with a graphic design company, Boost Creative. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><br />
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Wish me luck!<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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~Amy~<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>New Music</title>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:03:49 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br />HEY!<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> how've you been? Long time no see.<br />
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I finally have an mp3 player and it's really been helping me get myself back together. I'm letting music heal my soul. And feed my spirit.<br />
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Give me a song, any song. I want to hear it.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
~Amy~<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Hiatus</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:41:58 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I shall be taking a rest from deviantart for a while.<br /><br /><br />Dont miss me too much <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/winkrazz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=";P" title="Wink/Razz" /><br /><br /><br />feel free to catch me on AIM or yahoo<br /><br /><br /><br />Love,<br /><br />~Amy~<br /><br />P.S. I just noticed that DA is letting Beta testers use CSS in their journals now. That's freakin awesome, I wish I had known sooner. I should've read those weekly updates. Anyway.... thats a project for another day....<br /><br /> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Empty glow</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:06:21 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br /><strong>Mood</strong>: <img style="vertical-align: middle" src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/t/thanks.gif" alt="Grateful" title="Grateful" /> conflicted; grateful<br /><strong>Listening to</strong>: All songs.<br /><strong>Reading</strong>: All words.<br /><strong>Watching</strong>: All images.<br /><br />I want to appologize again, to you and to myself, for the past couple months of emptiness and inactivity. I always enjoy being socially active in the community. However, lately... a combination of artists block, school, life's emotional complexities, and other things have torn me away from deviantart.<br />
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After identifying my values and priorities, I struggle with acting on them. I've felt torn between those things and the impulses of instant gratification.<br />
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Basically what I'm saying is I havn't submitted anything or updated anything or been commenting like i should've because I've been so involved with other parts of my life. Everything's changing for me, it seems. Huge changes. When I think about all the change, sit in it, I realize that a lot is still the same. The world is still spinning, I'm still existing, and everyone goes on being part of the whole. I am constantly reminded of the bigger picture. I think of Azyh, and how she indirectly showed me the importance of gratitude at all times. And I think of Aven and what he would say. And I imagine us all as small entities dancing around each other, all part of one bigger infinite essence, one Being.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/roseblack.gif" width="15" height="18" alt=":blackrose:" title="Black Rose" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/rose.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":rose:" title="Rose" /><br />
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<sub>The world continues spinning.<br />
<i>Harmonized noises all in sync</i><br />
Yet any lasting reality is fragile.<br />
<i>Not as safe as one might think</i><br />
 <br />
What once was secure has now been broken.<br />
<i>There are whispers of change</i><br />
My eyes are glazed, my thoughts unspoken.<br />
<i>Hear them distant and strange</i><br />
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I fly away, looking back to watch it all.<br />
Overwhelmed I start to fall<br />
forced towards the core<br />
of earth, of soul.<br />
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A sudden stop.<br />
<i>What makes me whole?</i><br />
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The world continues spinning.<br />
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This is the strangest feeling.<br />
<i>I need to know</i><br />
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And the world continues spinning...<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/rose.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":rose:" title="Rose" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/roseblack.gif" width="15" height="18" alt=":blackrose:" title="Black Rose" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/sun.gif" width="30" height="30" alt=":sun:" title="Sun" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/raincloud.gif" width="24" height="27" alt=":raincloud:" title="Grr." /><br />
sun and rain<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/flame.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":flame:" title="Flame" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/snowflake.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":snowflake:" title="Snowflake" /><br />
burning ice<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_empty.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star-empty:" title="No Star" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" /><br />
empty glow<br />
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</sub></div><br /><br />Let's start a petition to add a yinyang to the devart emotes. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Fizzled Out</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/9801799/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:08:49 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />I probably wont be posting many pictures from my vacation. I don't like how they turned out. But maybe only two or three are worth posting. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/worry.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":worry:" title="Worried" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />I'm still working on my doodles for the five people who responded to my last journal.... Thanks for bein patient. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." /><br />
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Person 1: =<a class="u" href="http://darkmoon3636.deviantart.com/">darkmoon3636</a><br />
Person 2: ~<a class="u" href="http://dancewiththesky.deviantart.com/">dancewiththesky</a><br />
Person 3: *<a class="u" href="http://emeraldsugar.deviantart.com/">emeraldsugar</a><br />
Person 4: ~<a class="u" href="http://marykathryn.deviantart.com/">MaryKathryn</a><br />
Person 5: ~<a class="u" href="http://carthaki.deviantart.com/">carthaki</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />Appologies to those I've added to my devwatch, as your deviations are still in my message center and I havn't looked through them yet! I'll get to that, sooner or later I will, I promise.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />I also want to appologize to all my watchers who havn't been given anything new from me to look at in ages. Every time I sit down to get inspired and creative... it just fizzles out into nothing and I can't do it.<br />
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I'll get past this, I know I will. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" /><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>NEWT! I mean NEWS! (update: kiriban)</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/9368975/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 08:03:44 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />(edit july18) Hey, my next kiriban is 5,555 pageviews and I'm almost there! Somebody snap it for me <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/wink.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=";)" title=";) (Wink)" /> (end edit)<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />So I'm back from vacation! I'll post those pictures eventually. I like to wait awhile so that I can have a fresh perspective when I review them again for post-processing.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />You'll soon notice several changes in my journal, if you havn't already. I'm going for a much more minimalistic style (as far as graphics - not text <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/rolleyes.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":roll:" title="Roll Eyes" />).... Although I don't really have a lot of time, it's definitely something I'd love to strike off my to-do list.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />AHhhh I got a message saying my deviation "Find My Heart" has received its <b>1,000th view</b> on Jul 12, 2006, 7:28 PM! This has never happend to me before. Spectacular.<br />
<div align="center"><span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16235236/"><img src="http://tn1-1.deviantart.com/fs6/100/i/2005/077/8/3/Find_My_Heart_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="76" /></a></span></span></div><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />Apparently, since I commented on someone elses, I must now post this here.<br />
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First five people to comment on this entry get a free doodle from me. Oh, and you gotta do this for five other people too. If you participate, you must post this in your journal and do 5 doodles for other people.<br />
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Any takers?<br />
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Person 1: *<a class="u" href="http://darkmoon3636.deviantart.com/">darkmoon3636</a><br />
Person 2: ~<a class="u" href="http://dancewiththesky.deviantart.com/">dancewiththesky</a><br />
Person 3: *<a class="u" href="http://emeraldsugar.deviantart.com/">emeraldsugar</a><br />
Person 4: ~<a class="u" href="http://marykathryn.deviantart.com/">MaryKathryn</a><br />
Person 5: ~<a class="u" href="http://carthaki.deviantart.com/">carthaki</a><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/dance.gif" width="29" height="21" alt=":dance:" title="Dance!" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" />I updated my poll.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
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                <title>Vacation</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 06:31:51 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans2.png"></img><br /><br />Amy is on vacation! Will be back in a few days <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> Yes, taking the Nikon along.<br />
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Blessed be.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Artist's Block &amp; 5k</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:36:17 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center">Please support the supporting of<br />
stamp support by sporting the<br />
stamp support stamp in your journal<br />
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<a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img><br />
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<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"></img></a></div><br /><br /><strong>Mood</strong>: <img style="vertical-align: middle" src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/superman.gif" alt="Superhuman" title="Superhuman" /> In theaters June 28!<br /><strong>Watching</strong>: cant wait for Superman Returns<br /><br /><div align="center"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantart_journal.jpg"><br />
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<div align="left"><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> 5,000 <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pc.gif" width="38" height="24" alt=":pc:" title="PC" /> Almost at 5,000 pageviews. (woo! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/u/unimpressed.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":unimpressed:" title="Unimpressed" />) Take a screenshot if you catch it!<br />
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EDIT: <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35403435/"><img src="http://tn1-4.deviantart.com/fs11/100/i/2006/177/c/1/AmethystLightning_5000th_Hit___by_dancewiththesky.png" width="100" height="34" /></a></span></span> ~<a class="u" href="http://dancewiththesky.deviantart.com/">dancewiththesky</a> has caught my 5,000th pageview! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cake.gif" width="32" height="32" alt=":cake:" title="Have your cake and eat it too" /> he gets a prize <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> i think i have an idea of what I want to do. very exciting <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
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                <title>Prints Account - update</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/8683254/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 18:14:46 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center">Please support the supporting of<br />
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<div align="left"><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />CURRENT NEWS<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /><br />
I now have a <a href="http://amethystlightning.deviantart.com/store/">Print Store</a> ~ Well, isn't that nifty? The two available photos are:<br />
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<div align="center"><span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/print/321605/"><img src="http://tn1-4.deviantart.com/fs10/100/p/2006/139/5/54f57a0d1ce0aebb.jpg" width="100" height="67" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/print/314000/"><img src="http://tn1-1.deviantart.com/fs10/100/p/2006/124/7/7e7c19f60cfac502.jpg" width="50" height="100" /></a></span></span></div><br />
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Please note me or add a comment to this journal if you have a print request.<br />
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                <title>Panorama Competion -&gt; londonxpress</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/8634378/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:55:26 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <strong>Mood</strong>: <img style="vertical-align: middle" src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/reading.gif" alt="Reading" title="Reading" /> Read this!<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://londonxpress.deviantart.com/journal/8521068/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs9/i/2006/041/8/a/Panorama_Stamp_by_lukeroberts.png"></img></a><br />
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<b>Panorama</b> can be defined as;<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> A panorama is a wide, all-encompassing view; hence also a panoramic format. The word comes from Greek pan ("all") horama ("view")<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> A series of images stitched together to create a picture wider than what the camera is normally capable of capturing.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> The third studio album by American new wave band The Cars, released in 1980.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> The deadline for the Panorama Contest is August 1st, 2006. All submissions must be received by 12:00AM Atlantic Time.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> All submissions are to be sent to evan.mcmaster@gmail.com. Submissions sent via DeviantART will not be accepted (see subsequent rules for reasoning).<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Panoramas must be new creations; photographers are not allowed to submit a deviation that has been posted in their gallery. The general idea behind this rule is to force photographers to think about new compositions, challenge the canons, and ultimately create a new and unique piece of artwork that can be shared with the community. If you wish to receive feedback on a panorama before you submit a final product you may post a rough copy in your DeviantART scraps folder. I encourage you to submit your final piece to your main DeviantART gallery *after* entering the contest  the more people that see your work the better, right? This contest is intended to serve as a learning experience not only for those creating panoramas, but those that view them as well!<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Each panorama must be composed of at least 5 frames to qualify for the contest. Although this might not be an easy task, please view it as a challenge! Taking a photograph with an X-Pan or similar camera does not count. In addition to a finalized JPEG file to be sent with each email (see address above), submissions must be accompanied by a Photoshop file that still has all of the original layers intact (for email attachments, the physical size of the file (pixels, MB) should be reduced). If you are using a program other than Photoshop please include low resolution copies of each frame used to create the panoramic stitch.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Panoramas can be constructed by any means available; Photoshop, stitching programs, photo of photos etc. Panoramas can be indoor / outdoor, colour / black and white (conversions to black and white are allowed), infrared etc. Digital manipulation outside of traditional digital processing is not allowed. In other words try to limit yourself to simple adjustments such as brightness and contrast.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> Each photographer is allowed only one submission. If you have already entered a submission you will not be allowed to substitute it with a different submission at a later date. Plan your subject and composition carefully and ask for feedback where appropriate!<br />
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                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>You're Tagged!</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2006 13:37:49 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <strong>Mood</strong>: <img style="vertical-align: middle" src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/aww.gif" alt="Cute" title="Cute" /> Chipper<br /><br />°`°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°` °`º<br />
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I was tagged by ~<a class="u" href="http://dancewiththesky.deviantart.com/">dancewiththesky</a><br />
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(The Game: List <b>"6 weird habits/things about yourself"</b>, Choose the next 6 people to be tagged)<br />
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1) I would be a vegetarian except for I'm not.<br />
2) I love eating tuna... straight out of the can. Meow.<br />
3) I wear a watch that dosn't work because it looks pretty.<br />
4) I spent a year perfecting the art of paper snowflake origami.<br />
5) I only add a deviation to my fav's if its freaking awesome, and STILL awesome when I view it a month later.<br />
6) I love my wittle brother. Now <i>that's</i> weird.<br />
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I tag:<br />
=<a class="u" href="http://darkmoon3636.deviantart.com/">darkmoon3636</a> | ~<a class="u" href="http://skywhicker.deviantart.com/">Skywhicker</a> | =<a class="u" href="http://amarand.deviantart.com/">amarand</a> | =<a class="u" href="http://cubecrazy2.deviantart.com/">cubecrazy2</a> | =<a class="u" href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/">LancerD</a> | ~<a class="u" href="http://marykathryn.deviantart.com/">MaryKathryn</a> | and YOU!<br />
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                <title>New Submissions</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/7835157/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:30:59 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ ---~--- Update March 28 <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" /><br />
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[Be where you are. be Where you are. Be Where You Are.]<br />
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Vibrations: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  Mystery Beneath:<br />
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---~--- Update March 13<br />
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Still updating... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/razz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=P" title="=P (Razz)" /> Trying not to bunch them all together in one day... sorry if I end up flooding your message box. Here are the latest from yours truely:<br />
<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30326310/"><img src="http://tn1-2.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/072/f/2/Darkness_Beneath_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="40" height="100" /></a></span></span>  <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30326473/"><img src="http://tn1-2.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/072/a/0/A_Digeridoo_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="69" /></a></span></span>  <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30326688/"><img src="http://tn1-4.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/072/1/1/Purple_Dreams_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="53" height="100" /></a></span></span>  <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30327103/"><img src="http://tn1-1.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/072/8/1/Pottery_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="61" /></a></span></span>  <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30327411/"><img src="http://tn1-4.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/072/b/9/Quantifying_Silence_Sequel_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="35" height="100" /></a></span></span><br />
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---~--- Update March 11<br />
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Newest submission:<br />
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Aaaaaaaaaaand scraps:<br />
<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30183152/"><img src="http://tn1-2.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/069/d/7/Scrappy_Abstract_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="66" height="100" /></a></span></span>  <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30233994/"><img src="http://tn1-3.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/070/0/c/Typical_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="68" /></a></span></span><br />
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---~--- Update March 8<br />
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Please enjoy my latest submissions.... and let me know what you think!<br />
<sub>(Never posted my own thumbnails in my journal before... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /> I'm jumping on the bandwagon!)</sub><br />
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<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30039023/"><img src="http://tn1-4.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/066/9/a/Harborside_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="67" height="100" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30038652/"><img src="http://tn1-5.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/066/a/3/Not_What_You_See_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="68" /></a></span></span> <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30038374/"><img src="http://tn1-3.deviantart.com/fs9/100/i/2006/066/7/b/Abstract_Architecture_by_AmethystLightning.jpg" width="100" height="68" /></a></span></span><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/sun.gif" width="30" height="30" alt=":sun:" title="Sun" /> Alone?<br />
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<i><sup>.</sup>~<sub>.</sub>There's a difference between being <b>by yourself</b> and being <b>with yourself</b><sub>.</sub>~<sup>.</sup></i><br />
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Love you, Mean it! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
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                <title>Small Update</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:07:54 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center"><a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img></a><br />
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Please support the supporting of<br />
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<div align="left"><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Star indicates updated material!<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /><b>My To-Do-List:</b>*make stamps; *Create footer links; *Fine-tune journal layout and headers <sub>News, Updates, Life, Mini Gallery, Scribbles, Links, Communities, Friends.</sub><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />NEW CAMERA ZOMFG. Nikon D50, Quantaray 70-300mm 1:4-5.8 Tele-macro(1:2) lens, polarizing filter, and a really cool camera bag with velcro divider thingers. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /> I love it. You'll see a LOT more photography from me... when I can get time away from school and such.<br />
-----(<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" /> 02/01/06)-----<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Small update to get the silly surveys off my front page and to let you know:<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Shoutboard updated!!!!!!! Every one of them is worth a view, I love to feature works by artists I admire for having great personalities as well as talent.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Also would like to appologize for the lack of submissions lately. There are several on my camera, but I've been busy with school...<br />
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Other news.. I've recently joined a community called =<a class="u" href="http://constructivecomments.deviantart.com/">ConstructiveComments</a>, which I think has an awesome idea. Check it out if you need some critique on your work, or want to help by giving critique. You dont have to do both.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/spotlight-left.gif" width="23" height="22" alt=":spotlight-left:" title="Spotlight" /><a href="http://constructivecomments.deviantart.com"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/352/9/8/ConstructiveComments_Stamp_by_zanenkim.gif" /></a><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/spotlight-right.gif" width="23" height="22" alt=":spotlight-right:" title="Spotlight" /><br />
It's worth the click <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/n/nod.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":nod:" title="Nod" />, so please consider submitting stuff to get the club a bit more active. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /></img></div></div></img></div><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/FrozenKrystal/deviantartHR_mergedtrans.png"><br />
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                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Stamp Collection</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/7374363/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:20:38 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center"><a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img></a><br />
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Please support the supporting of<br />
stamp support by sporting the<br />
stamp support stamp in your journal<br />
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Yesh, my stamp collection <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
Fun stuff, yes!<br />
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<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24691032/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/305/6/e/aydeviance_by_karyaazure.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span>    <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24719001/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/305/0/c/Hippie_by_karyaazure.jpg" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span>    <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/22808950/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/254/8/8/I_support_Coke_stamp_by_N_ico.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span><br />
<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24415818/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/297/8/9/G33k_Valentine_by_ghostlove.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span>    <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21888842/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/230/b/b/I_know_stamp_by_EvilSaku.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span>    <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23357602/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/269/4/4/Feel_my_squirrelly_wrath_stamp_by_deviantStamps.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span><br />
<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/24057879/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/288/2/0/New_MacroPhoto_Stamp_by_macrophoto.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span>    <span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23115756/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/262/9/5/The_Heart_Stamp_by_Princesinha.png" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://splat.deviantart.com/journal/2475257">The Comment Revolution</a> <br />
...and the stamp:<br />
<span class="shadow-holder"><span class="shadow"><a href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20284794/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs7/i/2005/187/1/6/Comment_Revolution_Stamp_by_pandrogas.gif" width="99" height="56" /></a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://forum.deviantart.com/devart/thumbs/489448/">The Colourful Critique Game</a><br />
..and the stamp:<br />
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                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/7317880/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 10:17:37 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center"><a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img></a><br />
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Please support the supporting of<br />
stamp support by sporting the<br />
stamp support stamp in your journal<br />
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<div align="left"><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Amy's second decorated journal <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/dance.gif" width="29" height="21" alt=":dance:" title="Dance!" /> I'm excited! I'm supposed to have fixed the text defining my journal sections by now... and typed a to-do list... but I havn't. Gawd, why am I even updating. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/rolleyes.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":roll:" title="Roll Eyes" /> Ok, ok, keep reading.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />The Communities/Friends-list/Links-page is updated with some neat articles by *<a class="u" href="http://gilad.deviantart.com/">gilad</a> click: <a href="http://amethystlightning.deviantart.com/journal/5609584/">[link]</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Please check out the features on my shoutboard...<br />
-----(<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/star_full.gif" width="17" height="16" alt=":star:" title="Star!" /> 12/17/05 update)-----<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />I'm gonna do that thing where I'll have only a few journals which I update instead of a new journal every time something new happens. I'm so trendy and origional, arn't i? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/sarcasm.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":sarcasm:" title="Hahahahaha. No." /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> Anyway, so my watchers dont have to re-read stuff to find the updated material, the star will indicate where I've added new stuff. Just scroll down, find the star, and read from there so you don't have to scan older updates if you dont want to. good plan? aaaalright.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />(posted here more for my own memory than because i think anyone is interested. Prolly cant understand my shorthand notation anyway <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />) <b>My To-Do-List:</b> *OSS artwork due Jan1st; *make stamps; *Create footer links; *Fine-tune journal layout and headers <sub>News, Updates, Life, Mini Gallery, Scribbles, Links, Communities, Friends.</sub><br />
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So. I've recently joined a community called *<a class="u" href="http://constructivecomments.deviantart.com/">ConstructiveComments</a>, which I think has an awesome idea. Check it out if you need some critique on your work, or want to help by giving critique. You dont have to do both.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/spotlight-left.gif" width="23" height="22" alt=":spotlight-left:" title="Spotlight" /><a href="http://constructivecomments.deviantart.com"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/fs8/i/2005/352/9/8/ConstructiveComments_Stamp_by_zanenkim.gif" /></a><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/spotlight-right.gif" width="23" height="22" alt=":spotlight-right:" title="Spotlight" /><br />
It's worth the click <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/n/nod.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":nod:" title="Nod" />, so please consider submitting stuff to get the club a bit more active. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
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<b>OSS Updates!<br />
Secret Santa schmealio:</b> I got the note saying who I'm going to make art for! Yeeeeay. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> Kinda worried though..... ]]></description>
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                <title>New entry: Now with exciting pictures! :P</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/7095893/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:28:53 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center">Please support the supporting of<br />
stamp support by sporting the<br />
stamp support stamp in your journal<br />
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<a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img><br />
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<div align="left"><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Amy's first decorated journal <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /> I'm excited! By the next update, I'll have text on the hr's defining my journal sections... maybe like "Updates", "Mini Gallery", "Links", and whatever else I can think of <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/shrug.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":shrug:" title="Shrug" /> (any ideas?) Oh, I've totally got to make a to-do list! Anyway, since my journal header is too much like my old ID, I've submitted a new one... go look.. it's kinda cool <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />I'd like to thank everybody who commented/faved "Utopia in the Clouds" for the positive feedback.. I was suprised to see it jump up to be the first thumbnail in my gallery with the most favs!<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />I'm trying to get my submissions to be a bit more consistent and spread out... Lately I've been busy printing things for my portfolio. I've never had an actual, printed portfolio before, but a lot of the colleges I'm visiting want to see one. So I'm using the new printer my dad bought & trying to come up with interesting layouts... Should probably buy a leather binder or something....<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Digital displays are so much easier <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> But I can't exactly do everything online, as far as a career in art goes. Speaking of that, I'm considering a prints account... Maybe once I get enough professional-quality images to sell!</div><br />
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<b>Update!<br />
Secret Santa schmealio.</b><br />
Sounds pretty fun. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /><br />
Check <a href="http://anuvia.deviantart.com/journal/7128492/">anuvia's journal</a> for more details.<br />
Deadline to sign up is Dec. 4th.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />ummm i had another idea now I can't remember <img src="htt... ]]></description>
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                <title>YESSS-SUH!</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/6900214/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:23:37 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <div align="center">Please support the supporting of stamp support by sporting the stamp support stamp in your journal<br />
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<a href="http://keiross.deviantart.com/journal/5518142/"><img src="http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/152/0/0/Little_Stamp_Thing_by_keiross.gif"></img><br />
</a></div><br /><br />I can <b>finally</b> use stamps and images in my journals!!! And I even have a SHOUTBOARD!! It's EXCITING! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/wow.gif" width="23" height="15" alt=":wow:" title="Wow!" /><br />
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I'm going out to see the Heather Brooks Band in Cape Coral, so I can't write a long entry but <i>damn</i>...<br />
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*excitement*<br />
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Lots of thumbnails coming soon<br />
and features<br />
and spiffy layouts!<br />
YESSSS-SUH!!<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
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~Amy~<br />
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I've started my attempt at journal decoration but havn't gotten it all ready to use yet. Hopefully my next journal entry will be spiffyer <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /> I think I need more brushes. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/razz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=P" title="=P (Razz)" /> ... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />People I Watch<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />Featured Artist Page<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" />ummm i had another idea now I can't remember <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /></b> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Please Read</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/6791116/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:09:17 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'm submitting new stuff guys <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /> If I could, I'd do a little thumbnail preview journal like =<a href="http://darthmarlan.deviantart.com/">darthmarlan</a> does, but I don't have a subscription yet! So you'll just have to check out my <a href="http:// ">gallery</a> if you wish to see my newest uploads. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /> Hope you're not dissapointed!<br />
<br />
<br />
In other news, I've got a new computer and a better version of Adobe Photoshop. w00t! Saving up for a new camera and a scanner for some of my traditional pieces. Excited about autumn and some cooler weather down in Florida. Hope all is well with my deviant friends! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smooch.gif" width="35" height="16" alt=":smooch:" title="Smooooch!" /><br />
<br />
~Amy~<br />
<br />
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<b><a href="http://amethystlightning.deviantart.com/journal/5609584/">*Communities, Friends List, and Links*</a></b> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>A break</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/6335158/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:37:04 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ *Sigh*.<br />
Well I've been confused on how to continue with DeviantArt... Whether or not to post art, comments, etc... It's all a mass of confusion to me. I'm not strongly supporting or against either side, and will remain neutral until more information is provided. I'm just eager to get all the negativity over with, so I'm posting a funny name game test thingie. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> Enjoy!<br />
<br />
<br />
1.YOUR STAR NAME<br />
(name of first pet + street you live on):<br />
Kit Bald Eagle<br />
<br />
2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME<br />
(grandmother's/father's first name + favorite snack)<br />
Dorothea Pirouette<br />
<br />
3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME<br />
(first word you see on your left + favorite restaurant)<br />
September Hops<br />
<br />
4. YOUR SOCIALITE NAME<br />
(silliest childhood nickname + first town where you partied):<br />
Amers Beaumont<br />
<br />
5. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME<br />
(first initial + first three letters of your last name)<br />
A. Whi<br />
<br />
6. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME<br />
(favorite animal + name of high school):<br />
Sugar Glider Fort Myers<br />
<br />
7. YOUR BARFLY NAME<br />
(last snack food you ate + your favorite drink)<br />
Oreo Soda<br />
<br />
8. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME<br />
(middle name + city where you were born):<br />
Ruth LagunaNiguel<br />
<br />
9. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME<br />
(favorite candy + favorite musician's last name):<br />
Jolly Rancher Lee<br />
<br />
10. YOUR OPPOSITE SEX NAME<br />
(name of [opposite sex] friend + cell phone company you use):<br />
Matt Cingular<br />
<br />
11. YOUR STAR WARS NAME<br />
(first 3 letters of your last name + last 3 letters of mother's maiden name)<br />
Whison<br />
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12. Five people you want to take this test:<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />~<a href="http://marykathryn.deviantart.com/">MaryKathryn</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />*<a href="http://greetz.deviantart.com/">greetz</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />~<a href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/">LancerD</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />~<a href="http://waveargentum.deviantart.com/">WaveArgentum</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />~<a href="http://lunarsea21.deviantart.com/">Lunarsea21</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletblue.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletblue:" title="Bullet; Blue" />YOU! ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Torn</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/6123209/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:56:25 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The dA community I've loved and believed in for a year is now crushed. Exactly one year, by the way. Today is my dA birthday.<br />
<br />
I can't express how sad I feel.<br />
This is really <i>really</i> tragic.<br />
<br />
My involvement in this site has developed into being a big part of my life. Being here and interacting with everybody has given me joy, enlightenment, inspiration, love, ecouragement, and so much more. I eagerly looked forward to commenting on each of the deviations in my message center. Now, nearly everything I enjoyed has vanished, and the people I most loved are leaving, or discontinuing their posts.<br />
Many many hours were spent cheerfully browsing the site, making new friends, reading forums, and being active. Now the forums are crowded with mob-like protestors and hateful comments.<br />
What I had looked forward to every day for the past year now seems to be gone.<br />
<br />
Before everything happend, I personally had not seen what some people were seeing as a decline in the community feel of the site... To me, it seemed very friendly and united, with no hint of an invading corporation. But, I must remember that I havn't been here since "the beginning".<br />
<br />
It isn't $<a href="http://spyed.deviantart.com/">spyed</a> or any sort of corporate take-over that is destroying this community, it's the community itself that is tearing everything apart.<br />
I can understand the need to support °<a href="http://jark.deviantart.com/">jark</a>. What was done to him is unjust and unacceptable. It seems that people have reacted with overwhelming support for °<a href="http://jark.deviantart.com/">jark</a>, ironically by destroying the very thing that he stood for: the community.<br />
<br />
So it seems that what should be done is try to heal the community, but I'm afraid my actions would be seem like attempts to counteractively oppose supporting jark. Of course I'm not opposed to supporting jark.<br />
I just seriously don't know what to do.... I have no other choice but to wait until jark and °<a href="http://matteo.deviantart.com/">matteo</a> build a new community and a new art site.<br />
<br />
<br />
However, I will participate in Yellow Day, since I don't feel like that sort of action would be "mob-like" in any way.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/alienjar.gif" width="23" height="36" alt=":jarkinajar:" title="Jark in a jar." /><br />
<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>A return: Me (&amp; Le internet)</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5990379/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:15:22 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Well, I'm back. Been back for a while, but have been swamped with cleaning and gardening and chores <sub>and my brothers Guild Wars pc game</sub>. So I havn't done much of anything except comment on works in my message box, and have long conversations with *<a href="http://avenescent.deviantart.com/">avenescent</a> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":D" title=":D (Big Grin)" /> which is *always* worth my time.<br />
<br />
(if i had a shoutbox thing, i'd be featuring this awesome artist and spiritualist)<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /><a href="http://avenescent.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/a/v/avenescent.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="avenescent" /></a><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointl.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointl:" title="Point Left" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointl.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointl:" title="Point Left" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointl.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointl:" title="Point Left" /><br />
<br />
Anyway, a sudden death of my internet has shoved me towards Adobe Photoshop, with no choice but to prepare some photos for my watchers. I've done so, and now my internet has been ressurected... I'm excited to say I finally have something to post! It'll all be up within the next few days for your viewing pleasure. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
<br />
Now, I have yet to dedicate art to the wonderful groups I'm in:<br />
=<a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/">Magic-Myth</a>, ~<a href="http://abstractsilence.deviantart.com/">abstractsilence</a>, and ~<a href="http://evermusic.deviantart.com/">evermusic</a>.<br />
But I'll get around to that. I really want to, it's just difficult...<br />
<br />
My new favorite emoticon is: <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/earth.gif" width="16" height="16" alt=":earth:" title="Earth" /><br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
~Amy~<br />
<br />
*<a href="http://amethystlightning.deviantart.com/journal/5609584/">*Communities, Friends, Links, News*</a> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Vacation</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5779062/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:12:37 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'm leaving today for vacation... I'll be back sometime next month... (more info in previous journal).<br />
<br />
I just rememberd that it might be a good idea to tell everyone just where I'm going. I will most certainly be taking my camera.<br />
<br />
I'm going back to the place where I took these photos:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/11280393/">[link]</a><br />
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/9951785/">[link]</a><br />
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/11282327/">[link]</a><br />
<a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/11479322/">[link]</a><br />
<br />
SO! I know theres not much time (i'm leaving at 5 pm today), but if you have any requests about new shots I should take... because I know =<a href="http://frink.deviantart.com/">frink</a> was all like "if you have an opportunity for a reshoot..." and I will definitely take what he said into consideration when going back up there. <br />
<br />
Yeah.<br />
<br />
thats it.<br />
<br />
Yay. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /><br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Out of Town...</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5733938/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:31:59 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> I will be out of town (and without a computer) from <u>June 28th through July 11th</u>... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/frown.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":(" title=":( (Sad)" /> I wont be able to submit art, write comments, reply to notes, make new friends, or contribute to any of the communities I've joined.... and that makes me sad. I will, however, have time to catch up once I get back. Comments and replies will be delayed, I'm so sorry! ...I can already feel my message centre about to overflow... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/faint.gif" width="18" height="17" alt=":faint:" title="I think I've fainted." /><br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> On a happier note, I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer solstice! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/relax.gif" width="31" height="23" alt=":relax:" title="Relax" /><br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> (And enjoy the full moon! It was too cloudy for me to see it last night *sigh*)<br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /> So, while I'm gone, please comment on this journal if:<br />
-you miss me<br />
-you want to say hi<br />
-you want to know where i am going<br />
-you want to make me some gift art because you're bored<br />
-you feel like piña coladas.<br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /> OH! and I almost forgot... I'm in a strange situation and I hope someone might be able to <b>help me???</b>. Awhile ago there was a short story that was featured as a daily deviation about two guys and then the <b>sky was falling in big pools of blue honey.</b> I loved that story, I really really loved it but hesitated too long to favorite it, and now I can't find it <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/stupidme.gif" width="30" height="30" alt=":stupidme:" title="Stupid Me!" /> (I dont remember the name of the artist) So if anyone knows what story I'm talking about and can link me, I would be SO GRATEFUL!!!! (((this also happend to me with a [more recent] daily deviation photograph of some oranges called "Juicy"... it was frikkin awesome and I dont know the name of the artist... help?))). Gawd I'm stupid. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/dohtwo.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":dohtwo:" title="Doh II" /><br />
<br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /><br />
~Amy~<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletpurple.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletpurple:" title="Bullet; Purple" /><b><a href="http://amethystlightning.deviantart.com/journal/5609584/">*Communities, Friends List, and Links*</a></b> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Lyrics game</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5610074/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:55:17 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Stole this from <a href="http://darthmarlan.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/d/a/darthmarlan.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="darthmarlan" /></a><br />
<br />
<br />
RULES:<br />
1. On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first ten songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing).<br />
2. Write down a few lines of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line.<br />
3. Have your friends comment and see if they know the songs. (NO CHEATING! NO GOOGLE!)<br />
<br />
______________________<br />
<br />
<br />
1. Are you ready to go, Cause I'm ready to go, What you gonna do baby baby..<br />
2. Look at the stars, Look how they shine for you, And everything you do...<br />
3. Everything I can't remember, as fucked up as it all may seem, the consequences that I've rendered, I've stretched myself beyond my means...<br />
4. Nobody's invincible, no plan foolproof; But keep in mind we're rocking under the same roof; Bass fire's gonna take you higher ...Don't need a knife, don't need a gun...<br />
5. If I could find you now, things would get better; we could leave this town and run forever<br />
6. Put on my blue suede shoes, And I boarded the plane, Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues in the middle of the pouring rain <br />
7. Good eye, sniper, Here I'll shoot, you run, The words you scribbled on the walls with the loss of friends you didn't have, I'll call you when the time is right, Are you in or are you out? For them all to know the end of us all <br />
8. I could feel your salutation, Sounding heartbeats, Intimidations..<br />
9. Cause we are the ones that want to play, always want to go but you never want to stay; And we are the ones that want to choose, always want to play but you never want to lose...<br />
10. To avoid complications, she never kept the same address... ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>*Communities, Friends, Links, News*</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5609584/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:03:22 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <sub>[I lost all the fonts I had when I got this new computer... Can't get them back, so if anyone knows of any cool ones I could download, that'd be neat. Or I'll just google em. Once I get some downloaded, I'll make cool labels for these categories to replace the bold text and annoying emoticons]</sub><br /><br /><b>Communities:</b><br />
<a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/magic-myth.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="magic-myth" /></a>  <a href="http://evermusic.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/e/v/evermusic.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="evermusic" /></a>  <a href="http://abstractsilence.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/a/b/abstractsilence.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="abstractsilence" /></a> <a href="http://constructivecomments.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/c/o/constructivecomments.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="constructivecomments" /></a>  <a href="http://freeqz.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/f/r/freeqz.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="freeqz" /></a><br />
<a href="http://macrophoto.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/macrophoto.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="macrophoto" /></a>   <a href="http://the-heart.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/t/h/the-heart.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="the-heart" /></a><br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Friends:</b><br />
---<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/hug.gif" width="38" height="15" alt=":hug:" title="Hug" />---<br />
<a href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/a/lancerd.png" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="lancerd" /></a>  <a href="http://lunarsea21.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/u/lunarsea21.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="lunarsea21" /></a>  <a href="http://marykathryn.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/marykathryn.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="marykathryn" /></a>  <a href="http://skywhicker.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/s/k/skywhicker.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="skywhicker" /></a>  <a href="http://darthmarlan.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/d/a/darthmarlan.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="darthmarlan" /></a><br />
<a href="http://arsamandi.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/default.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="arsamandi" /></a>  <a href="http://greetz.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/g/r/greetz.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="greetz" /></a>  <a href="http://schieben.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/s/c/schieben.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="schieben" /></a>  <a href="http://seeleverloren.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/s/e/seeleverloren.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="seeleverloren" /></a>  <a href="http://waveargentum.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/default.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="waveargentum" /></a><br />
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                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Surprise 1 week subscription</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5539058/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 04:10:36 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Gooooooooood morning!<br />
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<i>For the next seven days, deviantART has especially chosen YOU to surf the largest art community on earth in style; with a FREE one week trial subscription.<br />
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There is no catch, no strings attached, nothing!</i><br />
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Shit. I'm hooked now, guys. Yeah, thanks. Jeeze... haha. Well I'm getting some babysitting money soon, and buying a three month subscription has been on my mind for a while. After I pay my brother back the $40 dollars I still owe him...<br />
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Anyway, what is this "Header" thing? oh look and i can type in my mood and what book im reading and stuff. Totally neat. Definately.<br /><br /><strong>Mood</strong>: <img style="vertical-align: middle" src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/j/jawdrop.gif" alt="Surprised / Shocked" title="Surprised / Shocked" /> OMG yay?<br /><strong>Listening to</strong>: Lifehouse - Hanging by a Moment<br /><strong>Reading</strong>: Magician: Apprentice (by Raymond E. Feist)<br /><br />*curses more...*<br />
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I Love DeviantArt...<br />
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I really do.<br />
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But this is just cruel.<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/love.gif" width="23" height="16" alt=":love:" title="Love" /> YAY!!!!!! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/x/xd.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":XD:" title="XD" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" /><br /><br />P.S: I'm reaching 1,500 pageviews pretty soon... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>*needing new avatar*</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5501781/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2005 11:49:41 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/u/upset.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":upset:" title="Upset" /> AAAAHHHHHHGGG <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/shakefist.gif" width="24" height="18" alt=":shakefist:" title="CURSE YOU!" /><br />
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I desperately need a new avatar. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cries.gif" width="23" height="15" alt=":cries:" title="Waaaah!" /> The  one I have right now is - as my brother  would say - teh uber lame. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/n/no.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":no:" title="No, I disagree!" /> (Bro is on  DA now, only God knows why: ~<a href="http://skywhicker.deviantart.com/">Skywhicker</a> )<br />
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So please, if you have time and want to  do me a favor, then feel free to make  me an avatar. I really hate mine as it  is but havn't been able to successfully  make a better one.<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/please.gif" width="15" height="22" alt=":please:" title="Please" /><br />
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i <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> u all. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/hug.gif" width="38" height="15" alt=":hug:" title="Hug" /><br />
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~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Summer</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5475299/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 08:51:08 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ The first day of summer break!<br />
Plans for the next few months:<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/relax.gif" width="31" height="23" alt=":relax:" title="Relax" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/aim.gif" width="17" height="21" alt=":aim:" title="AIM" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pc.gif" width="38" height="24" alt=":pc:" title="PC" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/sleep.gif" width="38" height="22" alt=":sleep:" title="Sleep" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/date.gif" width="36" height="22" alt=":date:" title="Date" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cuddle.gif" width="24" height="17" alt=":cuddle:" title="Cuddling up with someone close..." /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/t/tunes.gif" width="40" height="25" alt=":tunes:" title="Jamming to tunes" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cd.gif" width="16" height="16" alt=":cd:" title="CD" /><br />
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Since I'll have more time to be on  deivanart:<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /> I'm probably going to buy a  subscription...<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /> I made a stock account: ~<a href="http://amethyst-stock.deviantart.com/">Amethyst-Stock</a>  <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/pointr.gif" width="11" height="10" alt=":pointr:" title="Point Right" /> I'm going to change my gallery around  a bit.<br />
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Awesome links that you might find  fascinating:<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /><a href="http://fallisphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5202197/">Darkroom manipulations: Double printing  (texturization)</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /><a href="http://leodadominico.deviantart.com/journal/1693176/">How To Give Better Comment - (Edited  Version)</a><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> ~Amy~ ]]></description>
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                <title>News ~ please read...</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5394460/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 17:35:22 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ To My Greatly Appreciated Watchers:  I've submitted a lot this month...  please let me appologize for flooding  your message boxes. (Of course, if its  flooded then I doubt you're reading  this <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/razz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=P" title="=P (Razz)" />) If all my submissions are  frustrating you, feel free to skip the  kajillions of icons and go straight to  my photography / photomanipulations. Or  skip me altogether and come back later,  as long as you come back eventually <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/g/giggle.gif" width="17" height="15" alt=":giggle:" title="Giggle" />.  No matter how late, or from who, I  *always* appreciate your comments (I  actually get REALLY excited when I see  that I have some new ones to read! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" />).  Even if it's criticism, suggestions, or  a simple "Nice work!", your support  means a lot to me <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/hug.gif" width="38" height="15" alt=":hug:" title="Hug" />. Thank you so much.<br />
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June is coming up pretty fast. This  June is going to be the fucking best.  June means: 1.) I'll be out of school  for summer break, (spending more time  on the computer), and 2.) My boyfriend  is coming down to Florida (<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/love.gif" width="23" height="16" alt=":love:" title="Love" /><img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/exclaim.gif" width="10" height="24" alt=":!:" title="!" />) and we're  spending as much time as we can  together (less time on the computer).  So as far as how often I'll be online,  do those things cancel each other out?  I predict that I'll spend about the  same amount of time that I've always  been spending... but be prepared for  changes <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />.<br />
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You know how I said in my last journal  that I'm going to try some new stuff?  Yeah, I'm excited about that, I think  I'll try poetry and ink  sketches/abstracts. I'm saving up for a  scanner.. In the meantime, I've got  some photo/photomanips that I'm going  to submit <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." />. I'm also planning on  spending some time this summer on a  deviation to dedicate to the only  community that I'm in: <a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/magic-myth.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="magic-myth" /></a>. I've never  made anything extremely  fantasy-related, but I need to start  contributing to the group and being  more active. It's a really neat group  of people <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" title="=D (Big Grin)" />. OH! Actually maybe I should  submit that drawing I did back in  freshman year. I'll ask Ryan if I can  borrow his scanner for that.<br />
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This journal entry is way too fucking  long. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/d/dohtwo.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":dohtwo:" title="Doh II" /><br />
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Awesome links that you might find  fascinating:<br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /><a href="http://fallisphoto.deviantart.com/journal/5202197/">Darkroom manipulations: Double printing  (texturization)</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/bulletgreen.gif" width="10" height="10" alt=":bulletgreen:" title="Bullet; Green" /><a href="http://leodadominico.deviantart.com/journal/1693176/">How To Give Better Comment - (Edited  Version)</a><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> ~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Meow</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5324969/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 10:48:05 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Eee, a journal update. Oh wow, they  added an "Emoticon Legend" link, that's  new! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" /><br />
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Anyway, I'm still trying to get to all  the deviations in my message centre  (i'm up to 500 now)... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/f/faint.gif" width="18" height="17" alt=":faint:" title="I think I've fainted." /> I appologize...  School will be out in a few weeks and I  plan on spending hours upon hours here,  adding to my favorites list and pouring  out comment after comment. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." /><br />
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In other news, I havn't had a very  consistant internet access for weeks,  so I've been spending time mostly on  Adobe Photoshop... which means I have a  kajillion new projects, experiments,  and deviations on my hard drive just  waiting to be submitted. I've just now  uploaded several -- and there are  several more which must wait until  later, because it's midnight thirty.... <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/o/omfg.gif" width="15" height="20" alt=":omfg:" title="omfg" /> <br />
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And I have IB tests this week so I must  get to sleep. I really hope you enjoy  my latest submissions, and I'm excited  about my next ones which I shall upload  soon.<br />
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Ah, and out of boredom I added a webcam  pic <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
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<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> Love to all,<br />
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~Amy~<br />
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Update May 12<br />
I've just decided I'm going to attempt  something new.<br />
I'll write a poem, try using a  sketchbook and some pencil work,  eventually ink, and perhaps paint. I  think that will help with the overall  development of my art, and I have some  ideas anyway so I'm gonna go for it. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/aww.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":aww:" title="Aww" /> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." /><br />
(Now... how am I going to get a  scanner?) ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>~sigh~</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/5087118/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:08:50 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I thought I was on a roll, because in  one day I got from 400 deviations in my  message centre, to less than 300. And I  commented on almost all of them. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/whew.gif" width="25" height="17" alt=":phew:" title="Phew!" /><br />
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But its back up to 406 now, and I'm  desperately behind. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cries.gif" width="23" height="15" alt=":cries:" title="Waaaah!" /><br />
I havn't even submitted any artwork to <a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/magic-myth.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="magic-myth" /></a> , but I plan to be more active because  I think the community is awesome.<br />
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On a brighter note, I've had a great  time this past week, due to my  boyfriend coming down to visit me. (<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> ~<a href="http://michael1985.deviantart.com/"> michael1985</a> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" />)<br />
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Other good stuff has happend, too... I  heard that ~<a href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/">LancerD</a> likes my  photomanipulation work, which totally  suprized me. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" title="=D (Big Grin)" /> And Kory admires my  passion for photography. How totally  cool is that!<br />
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Also, I've made a few new friends on  deviantart, which I'm excited to learn  more about & see more work from. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><br />
<a href="http://greenfroggies.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/g/r/greenfroggies.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="greenfroggies" /></a> <a href="http://prool.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/p/r/prool.png" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="prool" /></a> <a href="http://tachy-on.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/t/a/tachy-on.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="tachy-on" /></a> <a href="http://trinity-77.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/t/r/trinity-77.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="trinity-77" /></a><br />
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If only I didn't have so much homework.  ~sigh~ I wish I could pick my priorties  based on their entertainment level <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />  (dont we all?) Anyway, busy busy busy.<br />
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~Amy~<br />
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<a href="http://electra.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/default.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="electra" /></a><a href="http://akira5400.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/a/k/akira5400.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="akira5400" /></a><a href="http://azerath.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/a/z/azerath.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="azerath" /></a><a href="http://bleedingvisuals.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/b/l/bleedingvisuals.jpg" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="bleedingvisuals" /></a><a href="http://burning-liquid.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/b/u/burning-liquid.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="burning-liquid" /></a><a href="http://celestialblue.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/c/e/celestialblue.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="celestialblue" /></a><a href="http://disj0inted.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/d/i/disj0inted.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="disj0inted" /></a><a href="http://emotionaldefect.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/e/m/emotionaldefect.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="emotionaldefect" /></a><a href="http://greenfroggies.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/g/r/greenfroggies.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="greenfroggies" /></a><a href="http://greetz.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/g/r/greetz.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="greetz" /></a><a href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/a/lancerd.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="lancerd" /></a><a href="http://lunarsea21.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/l/u/lunarsea21.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="lunarsea21" /></a><a hr... ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Kiriban</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/4848752/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:20:22 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Whoever gets my 1,000th page view and  posts a screenshot in their scraps will  get something special.... Will it be  you? <br />
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I like that word... "kiriban" ...<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" title="=D (Big Grin)" /> hehe  thanks Schieben. ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Can someone help me out?</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/4844496/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:30:15 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hey guys. I've got a question, and it's  not in the FAQ list. Maybe you can help  me. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/p/please.gif" width="15" height="22" alt=":please:" title="Please" /><br />
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I am totally fascinated by downloadable  textures like these: <a href="http://thespook.deviantart.com/gallery/resources/?view=1&order=9&limit=24,">[link]</a> and  downloadable brushes like these: <a href="http://belladona-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/resources/?view=1&order=9&limit=24.">[link]</a>  I've been wondering <b>how to use them</b>  after I've clicked the "download"  button... do I open them in Photoshop?  Do I need the right program? (How do I  know what program it is if the user  dosnt list it in the description? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />) And  how the heck do people make those  things? Can I make some too? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/e/excited.gif" width="23" height="19" alt=":excited:" title="OMG! I can't contain my excitement!" /><br />
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Being a photoshop addict, I love such  things, and I'm interested in  continuing to create more photomanips.  I've already got experience in using  the brushes that origionally come with  the photoshop program. However, I only  have Adobe Photoshop Elements version  2.0 ... which, to my knowledge, sucks.  or something.<br />
<br />
Yeah thats about it. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/h/heart.gif" width="15" height="13" alt=":heart:" title="Heart" /> Anybody have  suggestions? <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/a/animesweat.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="^^;" title="Sweating a little..." /><br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>HEY I think I've returned! or something</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/4796813/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:33:20 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I got my computer back, sorta kinda!!!  I'll submit some of the photos I've  been working on these past months.  Basically: LOT'S OF SCHTUFF -- COMING  SOON.<br />
<br />
In the meantime, check out some of my  recent favorites:<br />
~<a href="http://michael1985.deviantart.com/">michael1985</a>'s <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/15702526/">Scarlet Carnation</a>  beautiful fractal<br />
~<a href="http://lancerd.deviantart.com/">LancerD</a>'s <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/15735824/">All That Jazz</a> photograph,  emotive portrait<br />
*<a href="http://akira5400.deviantart.com/">akira5400</a>'s <a href="http://www.deviantart.com/view/15991389/">Victim Unknown</a> awesome cd  cover design<br />
(to name just a few!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
I love ~<a href="http://michael1985.deviantart.com/">michael1985</a>~!<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Dead?</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/4615348/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:22:48 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I havn't submitted anything since  October. Does anyone miss me yet? lol I  wanna come back to DeviantArt but it's  difficult to manage everything that  goes on. Should I post my new birthday  I.D. early? ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>niknar</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/4093949/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:47:06 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I think I am sick. I just don't feel  well. Winter break might give me a rest  from school, but the anxiety of knowing  how bad my grades are could ruin this  vacation. ((it's not your fault)) I  should focus on happier things or  something. Photography. I must submit  more art. And I promise I will.<br />
<br />
I'm sorry...<br />
<br />
((I'm glad you installed yahoo  messenger again <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/r/razz.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=P" title="=P (Razz)" /><br />
I'm not sure when to explain stuff, but  I certainly do not want to do it here.<br />
This incense is lovely... thank you.))<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Poll</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:47:59 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hi everybody. Been extremely busy with  homework and such, but I've managed to  get my message centre items down from  280-something to 196. *sigh* They're  all journals and deviations of people  who I watch (none are comments, so  don't think I'm popular <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /> and besides, I  always reply to comments quickly.. just  so you know.)<br />
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<br />
POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL POLL  POLL POLL:<br />
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<br />
I don't have one of those poll option  thingies that subscribed members do,  but I would still like to know what my  watchers think about future deviations  from me.<br />
<br />
What would you like to see? (Choose all  that apply <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" />)<br />
-> More of the North Carolina series  (waterfalls and such).<br />
-> More of the Texas series (the uhh..  trees & sunset photos).<br />
-> More abstract scribbles.<br />
-> Stock photography.<br />
-> Try some poetry!<br />
-> Photos with PEOPLE.<br />
-> Photos of myself.<br />
-> Photo manips from stock photography.<br />
-> Black & White darkroom photography.<br />
-> Nothing. You're an amateur and your  stuff sucks.<br />
-> Other (please specify)<br />
<br />
Thanks so much guys. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/blowkiss.gif" width="35" height="21" alt=":blowkiss:" title="Here's a kiss for you, my love!" /> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Devious Journal Entry</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3813211/</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:15:36 PST</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ GODDESS help me. I've never had so many  message centre items before!!! What do  I do?! <br />
<br />
I'm so sorry guys!!!! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/c/cries.gif" width="23" height="15" alt=":cries:" title="Waaaah!" /><br />
<br />
I'll get around to it, I promise!<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Eclipse</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2004 20:11:35 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I'm in over my head with school work,  and my DA to-do list is several items  long. Sorry for getting behind...<br />
...In other news...<br />
<br />
The lunar eclipse is happening right  now. The sky is so clear. I wish I were  out on a lawn chair gazing up at it,  but i can't see anything! My glasses  are being fixed and I dont get them  back until next week. It's so  depressing, all I see is a  white/grey-ish blur. I wanted to take a  photograph of the moon, but, for it to  be used in my photography class I have  to find a tree somewhere so I could  "frame" the photo. It's too dark for  framing. So. I will just not look at  the eclipse. I hope everyone else  enjoys it though~!<br />
<br />
After I develop my film in photography  class for the first time, I'll find  some way to scan my pictures and post  them. *IF* i get any good ones. And  *IF* I don't screw up during developing. ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Magic-Myth</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3672438/</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:12:06 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Somewhere I belong...<br />
<a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/m/a/magic-myth.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="magic-myth" /></a> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Future</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3581860/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:47:22 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /> <b>My personal DeviantART goals:</b> <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/letters/=p.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":P" title=":P (Lick)" /><br />
<ul><li>To make an art peice dedicated to ~<a href="http://magic-myth.deviantart.com/"> Magic-Myth</a> and be proud of it...<br />
<li>To figure out how to make a signature  without asking someone for help... <br />
<li>To be listed in ~<a href="http://schieben.deviantart.com/">Schieben</a>'s journal  next time he lists his favorite  watchers...<br />
<li>To develop a more elegant style in my  photography...<br />
<li>To maybe find more groups/communities  with my common interests...</li><br />
<br />
<b>Future submissions:</b> (oh I know its  stupid to list them... "Just post them  already!"... I'll get to it~!)<br />
<ul><li>Edited version of "Branched Frame"<br />
<li>Edited version of "Fireworks Series"<br />
<li>Scribble 2 (scraps..)<br />
<li>Scribble 3 (scraps..)</li><br />
<br />
<br />
...Thank's for letting me post my to-do  lists. heh-heh.<br />
...There's a three-day weekend comin'  up....<br />
<br />
<br />
Ryan: I hope you enjoyed your birthday,  and I hope you're feelin' better soon!!<br />
<br />
~Amy~</li></li></li></ul></li></li></li></li></ul> ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Nonac</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3518819/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:52:09 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I.B. is killing me, but I havn't  realized it yet.<br />
<br />
My dad is letting me use his camera for  photography class. It's ancient, dusty,  and worn, but I love it. I named it  Nonac <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/l/lmao.gif" width="19" height="21" alt=":lmao:" title="Laughing my ass off!" /><br />
<br />
After learning all this shtuff in  class, I've started wondering about the  pictures I've taken prior to all this  knowledge. I'd like to think they're  art, but are they? I mean, I had a  basic understanding of composition and  lightning, but my digital camera was  only 1.2 mega pixels. (Faaar from the  requirement to be considered  proffesional). I don't think they're  mere snapshots if my intentions were  artistic... but I could be wrong in  that assumption.<br />
<br />
Anywho, I have a few more pictures to  submit; weather they're art or not, I  think *someone* will enjoy them.<br />
<br />
Sorry about the excessive babbling.<br />
Homework time.<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>llamas and badgers</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:35:19 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ There's still time to vote in the  "silence" contest, held by *<a href="http://smileemptysoul0.deviantart.com/"> SmileEmptySoul0</a> ~! (click the link to  view the applicants & vote). I'm not  going to win the contest, but it's been  fun participating. <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/x/xd.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":XD:" title="XD" /><br />
<br />
As well, I've submitted a few more  deviations, and some scraps are on the  way. *YAY for LLAMAS*<br />
and badgers: <a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/badgers.html">[link]</a><br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/boogie.gif" width="25" height="25" alt=":boogie:" title="Boogie!" /><br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>I'VE ENTERED A CONTEST~!</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3417375/</link>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:20:19 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Hey guys, I've entered *<a href="http://smileemptysoul0.deviantart.com/">SmileEmptySoul0</a> 's awesome contest, themed "silence". <br />
<a href="http://smileemptysoul0.deviantart.com/"><img class="avatar" src="http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/s/m/smileemptysoul0.gif" width="50" height="50" alt="" title="smileemptysoul0" /></a><br />
<br />
My entry isnt the best, but please  check out the contestants and maybe  vote. <br />
The contestants so far are here: <a href="http://smileemptysoul0.deviantart.com/journal/3270807/">[link]</a><br />
<br />
(My entry is the tree with the sunset  behind it... near the bottom of the  list...)<br />
<br />
Contest ends September 22nd (Wednesday)<br />
Voting from September 23rd till the  30th!!<br />
<br />
<img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" title="=D (Big Grin)" />Check it out!! The art is fantastical~! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/b/biggrin.gif" width="15" height="15" alt="=D" title="=D (Big Grin)" /> <br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Howdy</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3391553/</link>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:19:52 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Yay, I finally have an avatar.<br />
<br />
I've been trying to switch my "featured  deviation" with my "recent  deviation"... does anyone know if i can  do that? and how? It would be a great  help.<br />
<br />
As well, I'm going to submit my  photographs from my trip to North  Carolina two months ago.<br />
<br />
"Finally! She's actually submitting  something!"<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>More deviations posted ummm... soon</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3278122/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2004 13:11:56 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Did I say Monday as in August 27th? I  meant Monday as in September 6th....<br />
<br />
I'm a little late, and getting farther  behind each time I delay.<br />
<br />
Thanks for your patience <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/s/smile.gif" width="15" height="15" alt=":)" title=":) (Smile)" /><br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>More?</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3212226/</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2004 17:49:27 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I have a pathetic number of deviants  posted. Only, like, two...<br />
<br />
So one of my top things to do this  weekend is post some more of my digital  photography.<br />
<br />
I promise I'll have at least five new  photos up by Monday...<br />
<br />
Sorry for being so dull.<br />
~Amy~<br />
<br />
P.S. I need an avatar~! ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Woot!</title>
                <link>http://AmethystLightning.deviantart.com/journal/3174173/</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:08:43 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ Wow, this is awesome. I've submitted a  few photos and now I'm making friends! <img src="http://e.deviantart.com/emoticons/w/w00t.gif" width="23" height="23" alt=":w00t:" title="w00t!" />  Having sooo much fun. Thanks everybody! ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>Getting started..?</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:01:34 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ I submitted two photos... but they  arn't showing up. I think they're  decent, but I submitted them under the  category "scraps" because I took them  with my digital camera, which I've yet  to learn how to use proffesionally.<br />
<br />
I wish I knew why they arn't being  displayed. Perhaps I did something  wrong. The FAQ suggests that maybe I  should resubmit them, and then see if  they show up...<br />
<br />
If not, I uploaded them onto my yahoo  breifcase, <a href="http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/2279eb69/bc/My+Photos/Water+Lily.jpg?bfY2VJBBN8b8OUg.">here</a> and <a href="http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/2279eb69/bc/My+Photos/Dead+Carnations.jpg?bfY2VJBBs3PQ_DYx">here</a>.<br />
<br />
Oh, and I'm working on my ID  schmealie...<br />
<br />
~Amy~ ]]></description>
                <author>~AmethystLightning</author>
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                <title>n00b...</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:05:39 PDT</pubDate>
                
                <description><![CDATA[ This is awesome! I've been wanting a  DeviantART account for ages. I  should've started writing down all my  favorite artists long ago. I suppose I  could begin my search anew.<br />
<br />
Glad to have registered.<br />
<br />
~Amy~<br />
<br />
P.S. Whoops, I guess I should've made  this a Journal Entry instead of a  Comment. Heh. So I'm making it both.  Hey I'm still a newbie. Getting the  hang of it though... ]]></description>
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