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and I have both lost friends and family (respectively), within the last sevreal days, and in both instances, they could possibly have been spared if they'd been wearing seatbelts.

Today we buried my husband's cousin's son, Tyler. [link] [link]
Today lost a dear friend. [link]

Please, if you consider yourself old enough to enjoy the priviledge of driving, you're old enough to take responsibility for your own safety as well as the saftey of others.

Buckle Up and Drive Carefully!!!!

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First I'd like to say that I truly, truly appreciate the efforts of artists like as well as others for creating tutorials for under-skilled artists like myself to learn from. They post their hard work up as a guide for us to learn things like expressions, body language, etc. I have used their references in a lot of my work (whether I did them justice or not).

However, I am getting really, really tired of some folks on here "borrowing" (read as stealing) other artists work and simply, idk, turning it into a black and white picture, coloring it in, etc. and not giving credit to the original artists! For example, lot of folks put lineart up, and I'm sure they are quite happy when someone takes the time to color it in, but don't go throwing something up here on dA and say "I colored this, I hope you like it." without even alluding to who the orginal artist was. Give credit where it is due people!

Marta, Mary Dreams, Lberghol, Mudblood428 (just to name a few)'s work has been victimized quite a bit and it breaks my heart because I know that they find it discouraging.

Think about it people, if you're going to pour your heart and soul into something, spend hours on it trying to hone in your artistic skills, and then 6 months later someone rips off your work, wouldn't that piss you off???

If I stepped on some toes here, well, then they needed stepping on!
No apologies today folks!

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No baby-sitting kids came today since schools were out (that means they're parents had off too), even the hubs stayed home. We fixed biscuits and country ham for breakfast (the kids could barely eat, they were so excited). And even though it took nearly fifteen minutes to get everyone dressed, we finally made it outside.

And the darnedest thing, somehow the door to the van was left open during the night, so it snowed inside the van! Wtf??? So we had to turn the heater on to start melting the snow.

After ten minutes we almost had a mutiny, the hubs went to his folk's side of the farm to borrow his dad's four-wheeler and the girls started crying "daddy left, where did daddy go? I wanna go with daddy! I'm cold! I wanna go inside" Finally he came back and all of a sudden they weren't cold and crying anymore. Amazing. Lol!
Then, using a little red-neck enginuity, the plastic top of the sandbox became a sled pulled by a four-wheel. Lol! Kris wouldn't have anything to do with it, but Skylar had a blast. I even hopped on the four-wheeler with the hubs and Krissy to pull Skylar along (kids, don't try this at home).

Got some cute pics of the kids in the snow, I'll have to post them later.
We're probably go back out after Krissy gets up from her nap. For that matter, I think now that my belly's full and the hubs has the fire going, a nap doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Later ya'll.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22998061/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22998061/ Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:55:06 PST Lol!).

So for those of you who live in parts that actually got significant snowfall and are grumbling about digging out your sidewalks and vehicles, think about that bored stay-at-home mom in Virginia with two kids who are bouncing off the walls and are dying to build their first snowman.

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Skylar has been a wonderful big sister so far. Yes, she has her moments, as all big sisters do (as a big sister myself, I get where she's coming from a lot of the time). But she is turning out to be a very creative, vivacious and wonderul little girl and I am proud of her. Krissy is my silly goose, petite, polite for a two year old.

Now, the following rant is aimed at the media, not at necessarily Dems or GOP'ers:
I've got NBC's day-before-the-inaugeration coverage on (because there's nothing good on History or Travel Channel right now), hosted by the "Today" show crowd. If I'm going to watch news, this is the bunch I usually like to watch. Today I beg to differ.
Who gives a royal f**k that Michelle Obama has not chosen what she's going to wear for the inaugeration or the ball afterward! The woman is a mom of two little girls (of which I whole heartedly sympathize!) and is about to undergo a life-altering experience in front of the entire world - cut the woman some slack!!!

Just because she is one of the youngest first ladies this generation has known, does not mean the media should throw her under the same microscope/bus that the media has such a habit of doing to Hollywood starlettes! She is not a starlette!! This is wife of the man that this country voted to lead our nation. And by virtue of her position she should be treated with the same respect and privacy! I swear if I see one headline in the WalMart checkout that says "Michelle's Baby-Bump!" or "First Lady gains 40 pounds!" I will friggin scream!

>>>>

Headline : "Stay-At-Home-Mom has Aneurysm in WalMart Checkout - Sources say the event was triggered by reading tabloid headlines.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22413053/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22413053/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:57:11 PST So after Christmas I was looking online and was getting very depressed about how much PS costs, even to purchase a used copy from Amazon was an arm and a leg!!
But my resourceful hubbie went on ebay and found copies of PS at prices I was willing to part with!!! So he diligently watched several auctions last night and snagged a copy of PS CS3!!! (*does snoopy happy dance*).
It should be here in a week to 10 days! Wheee!

That's all for now.

Holly

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22165092/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/22165092/ Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:52:51 PST Well, it's Christmas Eve and I still have to get things ready for our famliy celebrations for the next couple of days.
So I'll just make this brief.
Have a wonderful holiday, whichever holiday you celebrate, and even if they get on you ever-loving nerves, enjoy your time with your family.
And a thank you to everyone here on deviantART who has faved, commented, inspired and critiqued.
Here's to an interesting and truly inspirational new year!

Love to you all!

Holly

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/19354703/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/19354703/ Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:52:31 PDT 's journal, and am thus following through. So, if you'd like for me to feature your work in my journal, please take a look at the paragraph below and send me a post.

"The first 10 people who post in this journal will be featured. I will go through your gallery and choose three of your deviations I like most and post them in my journal for everyone to see. It's pretty much to show you off. Who doesn't want that?
The catch? You gotta put this in your journal as well if you posted."

Look forward to hearing from ya!

Holly

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In case I don't get a chance to update before the upcoming holidays, Happy Independance Day and Canada Day to you all!

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/18017873/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/18017873/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:50:52 PDT
At first things were great, I was a novice, but G was gentle and so friendly while I took my time learning this trick and that. Oh, occasionally G would get tired and wouldn't work properly right in the middle of a project, but I was forgiving, I'd let him sleep it off and I'd come back later and G would be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, all utilities functioning properly. I was delighted to learn that G forgave me for switching tablet brands mid-way through a project.

After Christmas, things changed. A new program entered my life, Photoshop Elements (PE). G and PE didn't seem to mind each other at first. PE was aloof and not as friendly, so I cast him aside and continued my comfortable relationship with G.

But soon I began to want something more, and was torn what to do...
I longed for more options, more brushes, more filters. PE could offer me that. G had qualities that I've yet to find in PE, like a stroking tool, a path tool. He even kept up with the colors I last used, so trusting was he. But like a brazen Jezebel, I made my move, PE and I started seeing each other more and more. I had abandoned G, but I didn't look back, somehow I felt G would always be there for me when I needed him.

Until finally the other day, PE and I were working on a project, and I resigned myself to the fact that I had to turn to G for a favor, I needed his path and stroke tools. Oh he was so helpful, even though I had done most of the work with PE, he didn't seem to mind. When we were finished, and I hit "Save" for the last time, G turned on me! Maybe he knew I only needed him for one thing and that I was going to go running back to PE to color in the rest.

I tried to open the file up again in PE, but it wouldn't! PE said the file was now corrupted! How could this be? It was fine when I saved it with G! We had done this once or twice before in the beginning of my relationship with PE, G didn't seem to mind then! I tried to get G to open the file. And he did, but oh, oh what a mess! All my work gone! Just an ugly, black and red staticy rectangle staring back at me... hours of work gone! How could he do this! Why! Jealousy?Betrayal!?! He's a computer program for Pete's Sake!

Alas, G, this is a betrayal I cannot ignore, nor forgive! *Slams door and walks away in a dramatic huff*

T^T

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17982468/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17982468/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:42:24 PDT [link]

RULES
1. Post these rules.
2. Write 8 random facts: of thyself.
3. Post these things in a Journal/Blog.
4. In the end, tag and name 8 more people.
5. Go to their DA pages and comment saying that they are tagged

1. I had never read any Harry Potter books or had seen any HP movies until summer 2007!

2. In the mid- 1990's, I worked in group travel (i.e., sending little old ladies to Atlantic City on motorcoaches for the weekend to spend their husbands' retirement money)

3. I am a bulemic in recovery.

4. Before meeting my husband who is red-headed, I had previously dated two other red-headed men.

5. While everyone else had a secret crush on Sean Cassidy and John Schneider, I had a crush on Parker Stevenson and Eric Estrada.

6. Last job I had before becoming a Stay-at-Home-Mom was as a secretary in a Public Defender's Office.

7. I have two precious daughters!

8. When I was little, I used to draw on the inside cover of coloring books when I ran out of paper.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17448662/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17448662/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:51:08 PDT "With her age (83) and her overall health as a factor, she would not be able to endure surgery. We may have a day, two days, a week, or two hours. We must decide whether to send her to another hospital and consult a neurologist, or consider palliative care until the end comes." With a rattled and laboured breath, my grandmother made the decision for us.
We said our goodbyes, we said we loved her, we kissed her, we cried, we stroked her hair and held her hands.

I've given birth twice, both times it was a beautiful moment. But this was so different, to be there at the end of life instead of at the beginning. And yet is was beautiful too, so peaceful.

I just like to imagine that the next time my grandmother opened her eyes, she won't be the white-hair, worn and wrinkled woman she last saw in the mirror, but young, fit, with her wavy walnut-coloured hair flowing in the breeze. And as she looks up, the handsome, blue-eyed blonde young man with a hint of mischief in his eyes that my grandfather used to be, reaches out to her and says "C'mon Alise, I'll walk you home."






"She Is Gone"


A ship sails and I stand watching till she fades on the horizon and someone at my side says She is gone.

Gone where? Gone from my sight, that is all.
She is just as large now as when I last saw her.
Her diminished size and total loss from my sight is in me, not in her.

And just at that moment, when someone at my side says she is gone,
there are others who are watching her coming over their horizon and other voices take up a glad shout - There she comes!

That is what dying is.
An horizon and just the limit of our sight.
Lift us up O Lord, that we may see further.

-Bishop Brent

"Death Is Nothing"

Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other
That we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes
We enjoyed together.

Play, smile, think of me, pray for me,
Let my name be ever the household word that
It always was.

Let it be spoken without effort,
Without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolutely unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind because I am
Out of sight? I am but waiting for you
For an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner .
All is well.

-Canon Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918)

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17236030/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/17236030/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:30:00 PST Dressed? Check.
Coffee? Check.
Kids up and needs currently met? Check.
Cartoons on? Check.

I knew I needed to update this journal. I just didn't have much to report. I've started babysitting in my home so that I could still stay at home with my kids. So far I've got one kid, a little boy just three months younger than my baby. They're hilarious to watch play together! And having another baby in the house is bringing out the more responsible side of my older daughter, she's been a big help running for diapers and what not.

This has not left me much time to dedicate to drawing or coloring in on the pc with the tablet. I take a few moments in the evenings or during naptimes to check in, I just finished "My Girl" [link] and that coloring took longer than it should have because of the craziness around here. That pic was interesting for me because I've never drawn any of the professors before, albeit a teenage version of Snape. But I was happy with how he turned out. I've had the craving to attempt the Marauders, but I just can't think of a situation to portray that hasn't been done a thousand times already.

Oh, I'd like to mention that if there are any of you out there who want to do some coloring practice, ya'll are welcome to any of my lineart that's been up for more than a month. Obviously I'm not gonna get a chance to color it in anytime soon or am no longer as impassioned to finish it. Nessarie [link] surprised me by asking if she could color in "Sage Advice" [link] So if anyone else would like a go, I just ask that you give credit for the lineart where it's due and let me know when you've put it up here on Deviant, so I can have a look-see.
I'd love to see someone color in "Relax 'Mione" [link] That would be good for someone who likes to do a lot of detail work.

Well, gonna run for now, the kids are too quiet, and that's ususally not a good thing.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/16042364/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/16042364/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:42:11 PST I feel like that Jodi Mitchell song "I need a river to skate away on". I could defintately use one right now.
Merry Christmas Ya'll.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15645013/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15645013/ Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:17:52 PST
So now that leaves me with about a month to dive into my drawing! That is of course when I'm not cooking, or decorating the house, or taking my grandmother christmas shopping, or driving the kid to preschool or gymnastics, or taking my nearly blind mother in law christmas shopping, or cleaning the house, or doing laundry, or babysitting my after-school charge, or trying to catch up with my friend to exchange babyclothes, or working with the baby now that she's trying to walk.....Yeah I'll get around to drawing again sometime this month.

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15474344/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15474344/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:19:09 PST
Just want to thank everyone who's taken the time to look at my gallery and comment or add to their fav. I'm so happy that I've found this site as a place to post my artwork. It's a really therapeutic(sp?) release for me.

I probably wont' get to churn out art at my current rate because I seriously need to resume my study-from-home course that I was doing before I took this art-therapy hiatus. But it's all for the greater cause, you know, like keeping a roof over my head, food in my kids' bellies, blah blah blah....

So until the next update, have a great November and thanks for your continued support!
-Holly

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15107566/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15107566/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:04:12 PDT
It's also given me the urge to hit the sketch book again as time permits.

Also, I've discovered GIMP, I've seen a few of you post that you've used it on your art, so I downloaded it and am giving it a try.

Bear with me, more Harry Potter stuff on the way!

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15025096/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/15025096/ Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:09:38 PDT And I'm also inspired! Plan to do some more this weekend - if the wee ones stay out from under me for more than 30 minutes at a stretch!
Again, thank you, you made my day!

]]> ~Hollyboo2001 http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/14823734/ http://Hollyboo2001.deviantart.com/journal/14823734/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:12:10 PDT Later,
Holly

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