http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:zayday&section=today deviantART RSS for by:zayday en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:30:01 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/27375245/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/27375245/ Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:46 PDT
And I've hardly been here this year?


Thank you folks, I really appreciate the love!

I miss being around my fellow deviants.

Its good to be back.

Luv Zay xx

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20868784/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20868784/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:49:39 PDT
I'm my shiny, happy self with a little extra sauce now.


An update:

I am please to say that the images have now been removed from the site. On Friday I was pleased that one of the pictures had been removed, even though it got to the stage where I had to enlist the services of a Representative in the U.S. who contacted her to remove the other image and selling page. I am happy that she was true to her word and removed my design from her site last week Saturday. I will in turn be true to mine and remove my angry blogs about Lona online.

Now I can move on from this and concentrate on more positive and uplifting things in my life.

Zay xx

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20803176/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20803176/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:41:41 PDT
I really have a few people to thank, one of them is Talyra. Thank Q my sweet for helping me to rationally look at the situation. I will for the last time post what happened next below....

FROM MY MYSPACE BLOG...

Friday, October 03, 2008


I need my calm inner peace again.
Current mood: tired

OK folks, you're probably wondering what is going on with Zayunu, what is happening about the stolen images and stuff. Well, I'm tired. I don't want to be angry any more..its poisoning my entire being and I don't feel good about it. I have been running on Adrenaline and fury too long now and I want the whole sorry thing to end.

I was contacted by one of my peeps with the link to Lona's myspace page. So I went to have a look, and got more angry in the process. The more I looked at her images, the more angry I got. So I decide to vent my feelings towards her. Some would say I was right to do so and maybe I was, but did I need to? Did I need to send her this?

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OF ZAYUNU BY DESIGN'S WORK

[link]roductId=168

IS NOT YOURS TO SELL LONA, REMOVE IT NOW!

THIS IS ONE MY TRADEMARK, CREATIVE WORKS YOU ARE TRYING TO SELL AS YOUR OWN AND MY PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE YOU ARE USING ON YOUR SITE TO PROMOTE IT AS AN ORIGINAL LONA WORK..I HAVE ASK YOU ALREADY TO REMOVE IT AND IT IS STILL THERE.

I DON'T TAKE THE THEFT OF MY WORK LIGHTLY LONA AND FROM LOOKING AT YOUR OTHER DESIGNS, I CANNOT BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY AS A JEWELLERY DESIGNER YOU WOULD EVEN THINK OF STEALING ANOTHER'S CREATIVE SOUL'S WORK. IT LACKS PROFESSIONALISM AND INTEGRITY WHEN YOU STEAL SOMEONE ELSE'S CREATIVITY. IT SADDENS AND SICKENS ME TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE SO BLATANT AND FLIPPANT WITH IT.

IF YOU WANTED TO SELL ONE OF MY PIECES ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS APPROACH ME TO BECOME A DISTRIBUTOR OF ZAYUNU BY DESIGN CREATIONS. YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN IMAGES THAT YOU COULD HAVE USED ON YOUR SITE. BUT THAT WILL NOT BE HAPPENING NOW. I WOULD NEVER WANT SOMEONE WHO LACKS AS MUCH INTEGRITY AS YOURSELF TO REPRESENT MY WORK....EVER.

I AM NOT INTERESTED IN A DIALOGUE WITH YOU OR YOUR WEAK EXPLANATIONS OF HOW MY ORIGINAL CREATION AND PHOTO ENDED UP ON YOUR SITE, I WANT IT REMOVED NOW.

ZAYUNU OF ZAYUNU BY DESIGN


At the time I though I was right, now...when I read it all I see now is a very angry, irate woman venting. This isn't me, this isn't Zayunu...the Zayunu who I know. This is pain, tiredness, anger, ego, venom and poison. This isn't me.

I went to my Art forum page and looked at the replies there...why? To fuel an already angry mind? What would be the point? All I wanted was my creative content remove from the site, not to start a witch-hunt. And that's what it was turning into, that is not me.

So, I went to check my emails and found that the other designer has had her images removed from the site, yet mine still remains. Something inside me says calm down. So I do, I calm down and realise that the pain in my head, the tightness in my limbs, the tiredness in my eyes and body is all a pointless exercise because it wasn't necessary to go to this unhappy place to make my point. And as I calm down some more, I decide to contact Lona again.

I wrote:

Ok, let me start again...this time without the venom.

My name is Zayunu from Zayunu by Designs. It came to my attention two days ago that my FRUITS OF THE ROOTS DREADLOCK CUFF image is on your site being shown as the Grapevine Sterling Silver Loc Cuff.

Here is the link to your page:[link]roductId=168

This is the original design on my site:[link]

The design is one of my original dreadlock jewellery creations and the image of the cuff you are using was taken by and is owned by myself. Understandably, I am not happy about this as the design is very easily recognised as a Zayunu by Design work. As one jeweller to another I take great pride in my work so it does rub me the wrong way when someone else tries to profit from it. I have a distributor club where online stores go to stock my work. I really wished you had used this route to obtain my image instead of how you have obtained it.

You may be asking yourself why am I telling you this, after all the abuse you... ]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20200101/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/20200101/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:03:22 PDT
I'm kicking off! The computer died on me again, only this time I haven't the foggiest clue as to what went wrong. I've been offline now for almost 3 weeks, just climbing the Goddamn walls without my computer, booohooo!

Anyway out of desperation, I bought a secondhand desktop computer, moved the Ram over from the old to the new and would have done the same with the New hard drive that I bought when the OLD hard drive kicked the bucket...you remember withdrawal symtoms part one?

Anyway now I have to do the hard drive thing all over again, I'm just glad that this time it wasn't a hard drive issue. Me thinks it was the motherboard giving up the ghost...Why oh why is technology punishing me so?!

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/18924689/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/18924689/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:20:33 PDT
Sorry for the long break away from DeviantArt, I have a big pile of orders to finish and there hasn't been any time to touch base with all my cool peeps here. I'm going to TRY and visit at least once a month, so that I don't get left too much out of the loop of things.

But please forgive Auntie Zay if she falters a little though, hehehe.

Luv, light and less chocolate

Zay xx

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/17504395/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/17504395/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:08:48 PDT
It was my birthday the 23rd of March, how do I feel? Not as old as I though I would. The days prior to my "Earthday", I was feeling a little crispy around the edges and I didn't want to see anyone. But on Saturday 22nd my family came down. It was fun seeing my Mother with a hula hoop around her neck and my father using my lateral thigh trainer with gusto, my sister, brother and my son going head to head at boxing on the Wii, in fact it became one big workout...and that made me smile. It doesn't matter how old one gets, there is still that little child waiting for the right moment to spring out and play. I'm glad that I have made it to another year and hope to see many many more.

And I also wish that my inner child never leaves me....so that when I'm my mom's age I can still spin a hula hoop around my neck with ease,

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/16677943/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/16677943/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:41:10 PST
My computer died on me some days ago and trying to fix it was like trying to chew food without teeth, a tongue and a jaw. I was in withdrawal. Not being able to do the simplest of things like watch youtube or my favorite Bleach episode, send email to clients or stumble was a nightmare, not to mention that trying to fix the files was making me VEXED! I had my sister and my best friend pleading with me not to press the RESTORE XP button. I was like that hampster on its wheel, running desperately nowhere, trying to make sense of nonsense. Something went wrong with the boot sector of my harddrive and although it wasn't a virus, it wiped off all my most recent images and word documents (not happy about that), I'm just fortunate that a lot of my images are hosted remotely. Its things like pictures and videos of the boys and such that I have lost. Amut came down yesterday and installed new hardware for me. And if it wasn't for N9ne and Stephie, I would have probably scrubbed that harddrive with bleach before throwing it out of the bloody window and hoping that it would continue bouncing until it ended up at the bottom of the Thames River (as I overlook it).

I'm glad that I listened to them...

On another note I'm potty training my shortest son and so far so good. I would though love to get some advise from experienced potty trainers please as although I have three boys, I still feel like a novice in this area, hehehe.

So what am I doing jewellery wise at present, well I have two bridal orders that I'm working on and two corporate clients to tend to. With my most recent images of my work lost to the ether, it looks like I'm going to be even more busy than usual for Feb/Mar/April. I also have a new apprentice, N9ne's 8 year old daughter and designer to be, Moon.

Keep watching this space to see how things get on with her

I don't know how many of you that read this blog watches BLEACH, but you need to be watching BLEACH, cause its PHAT! :0D

CHAD ROCKS!! (watch episode 158 of bleach to see why)

Now I need to earn me some cash as always cause "I'm trying to make a dollar outta 15 cents", cause "Cash rules everything around me, cream! Wheres the money? Dollar, Dollar bill yall"

LOL, I had to go there didn't I?! Hehehe.

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/15956424/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/15956424/ Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:13:22 PST
It's that time again, where the bloody children drive me insane, begging for the most expensive games console known to mankind and where I'm running around like a headless chicken, trying to finish off orders........O_O?!

................Er?

................Me?

................Running?????!

O_O?!

HAHAHAHAHA! Now that was funny,


Ahem! now where was I? Oh yes, I thought it about time to touch base with my fellow Deviants before the year came to a close and I have to say that I am really happy to be back, if it is only for a little while before I get back onto the o' work horse again. If I haven't told you all before, then I'm telling you now that I think that you are all some of the most talented people on the planet and that I am proud to have you as my 'cool creative peeps' (FRIENDS).

Yes that was a little spontaneous and beyond the call of duty, but that is how I feel right now, I just thought I would voice it before the year ends or my tongue falls out from bellowing at those boys of mine.

Stay Blessed always, my fellow creatives.

Luv Auntie Zay xxx.

]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/9903542/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/9903542/ Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:30:37 PDT
APPLE - SAUCE - KECHUP ( and so on...)


I want to see how long we can keep the game going for, and NO CHEATING PLS! Now lets get creative.....I'll start with:



ANGEL ]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/9848755/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/9848755/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:13:15 PDT
Yes I am posting another entry into my 'almost empty' journal. I have been soooo tired lately with all the orders that I had to complete. It seems like everyone and their aunties were getting married in the same month. I had 5 commission orders and one regular order on the trot, so suffice it to say I have been burning the candle at both ends. But now I have finished my last bridal order and I'm really pleased with the results.

One of my clients wanted me to create bridal jewelry that emulated the lace detail on her dress, so I started to experiment with beadlace........I really didn't like it, in fact I HATED IT! The first head piece I created started off well. I would do a little bit of it each day then meditate on it for another day and so on. Two days before the client is due to pick up her order I scrap the piece and start again, it just wasn't flowing the way I wanted it to. So with half the day gone, I start again and work through the night and the following morning non-stop to create the HEADGEAR CLOSE UP AND RECENT BRIDAL COMMISSION piece. I really didn't know how it would come out as I had so little time to create it. I just closed my eyes, said a prayer and got stuck in.

My ALMOST FINISHED piece is part of a large bridal set consisting of 1 neckpiece, 1 choker, earrings and tiara with detachable forehead jems (hence the loop on the end of the unfinished tiara). Originally the tiara was supposed to be an Egyptian Neffertiti Crown. Most of the order was completed, I made the frame for the crown and was just about to start beading it, when the client CHANGES her mind and ask to scrap the crown and do a tiara instead. It wouldn't have been so bad, but she spotted the discarded beadlace work (see above) and decides that she wanted the tiara to look like lacework.



Did I tell you already how much I hated doing the beadlace piece before I scrapped it?!



Sorry I digress! I now had a week to create this tiara and I still had to put the diamantes into all of the other pieces. The only thing that helped was that the client wanted part of the tiara to mirror one of the neckpieces that I had already created for her. So with that in mind I make the three cowry center for the tiara and start to burn braincells as to how I was going to incorporate this with the beadlace (I disliked so much). This three cowrie starting point sits on my desk for 3 days. On day 4 I had to throw caution to the wind and start making, I zone out and keep making.

The Almost finished piece took 24 hours to complete, if you don't include the three cowry centerpiece which I had made 3 days prior.

And when it was finished, I laughed out loud uncontrollably, my children though I had gone mad when they heard me saying WOOHOOO, I'M FINISHED HEEHEHEHEHEH! YAHHHHHH! I did this for 3 minutes straight

I even don't hate making beadlace anymore, I could quite happily do another piece like it and not spit fire.

But I am SOOOOO TIRED NOW

So I'm going to have a little break, to SLEEP! ]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7895960/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7895960/ Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:53:14 PST
I have been missing 4 a while from the Deviant place, I have been working on some new bits and pieces. As I get through them, I will post them up 4 the peeps to see.

I have been having physio 4 my broken ankle, I have to go to the hospital every week! ( I'm sooooo glad I didn't break my arm or hands or I would be up poo creek without a paddle). The healing process is taking longer as my ankle is still very swollen, (Broke it in NOVEMBER .......Sheesh!) So I am practically house bound, I hate it!

My mind is stuffed full of new things that I wanna try. Since Monday I have been letting the creative juices flow, damn I have even suprised myself ! I am into CRAZY WIRE FLOWERS at the moment, VORTEXES as usual and NEGATIVE SPACES. I am also doing a lot more beading, I think its all this time that I have on my hands, since I'm not on my feet .

Anyway I will be missing 4 a while but not 4 long though. And as I said earlier, I will get them new bits up soon!

Happy Valentines Day Peeps, ( even though I don't celebrate it, I call it Friendship Day) and 2 u all! ]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7701141/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7701141/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:01:11 PST
I have been blown away with the amount of comments about my work here and on:

[link]

I just wish that blasted website of mine was a tad better than it is at the moment, that will change soon

Started on a new piece, using a wire frame and seed beads, I started with lime coloured beads, not sure what colour to add next, probably orange cause I like lime and orange together, yummy!

I have been stumbling less these days, but found this site,

[link]

Now I can't get that blasted song outta my head, My all time favorite funny site is

[link]

take a look and tell me wot u think of the Cuitlacoche! Anyway its time to go now, the baby wants his breakfast, oh well no rest 4 me, over and out.


give zayday more *HUGS*

Get hugs of your own


]]> *zayday http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7626177/ http://zayday.deviantart.com/journal/7626177/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:28:15 PST
I woke up with three designs in my head that I really need to get out, one for bridal head gear and the other two for neckpieces. I haven't had much sleep though , Lamech would not settle .

I read somewhere about a designer that built a shrine of inspiration every year and on it placed items, colours, photos and stuff like that. I think I will do something like this.....hey I do, do something just like that already at [link]

Just need to get myself in gear if I'm to go to the Netherlands in April, I hope my broken ankle heals in time 4 that event.

Well that wasn't soooo bad 4 a first Journal entry, wow inpiration really does come along eventually!

give zayday more *HUGS*

Get hugs of your own


]]> *zayday