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Snapshot Bingo

2013-05-20T01:36:47Z

Remember when I posted about doing this months ago? I kinda forgot the deadline. That knee injury really kept me from going after these like I wanted. The pics are all kinda blah, but I wanted to at least get something done. I do like the egg photo.

Prompts Used: I, Found, Triangle, Tea, Imperfect
Camera(s) Used: Canon Powershot ELPH 300HS

( Photo List )

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Making Changes

2013-04-27T20:35:24Z

My paid Dreamwidth account expires on May 1 and along with it a failed experiment. The tumbleweeds blow through my Friends List. I hear that there's more active comms here but not apparently in anything at all that I have an interest in. I cannot justify the expense of another year's paid account here especially since the only people I follow on here crosspost to LJ. There's one comm here that doesn't exist on LJ so I will keep my free membership. I will probably cease my crossposting though. I will be shutting down the Dreamwidth version of my graphics journal. I've gotten exactly one comment over there since I started mirroring and that isn't worth my time to manually crosspost. Eventually my paid account on LJ will expire and I'll probably let it do so as well. There's still some icon community happening so at least for a little while I'll have something.

ETA: I was thinking I was using "here" which was confusing since I originally posted to Dreamwidth. My Dreamwidth icon journal is going to be closing on May 5. The Live Journal one will remain open as long as it is still getting traffic (and I'm making icons). The DW one just didn't get any traffic at all and it was not worth it to keep it open. I figured if I had someone (doubtful) on DW who was interested, I'd give them a week's notice to snag the icons. And I probably won't be bothering to post to my DW account either since all my followers on DW also follow me via LJ.

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Arrow Icons

2013-04-21T02:47:53Z

20 Arrow icons (mostly Oliver) for tvcharacter20

The rest here

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Stock Icons

2013-04-13T04:03:58Z

20 misc stock icons for free20in20

The rest here

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Dallas Season 1 Icons

2013-04-07T16:08:32Z

20 icons of Dallas(TNT)-Season 1 for season20in20season20in20

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Mentalist Big Bang Artwork Post #3

2013-03-25T01:35:20Z

This is artwork for the story "Shatter" by ruuger [link for story forthcoming] for mentalist_bb
Two banners, plus a smaller version of the second banner for sites with size restrictions.

( Behind the cut )

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Egg Recipes

2013-03-19T01:56:27Z

A co-worker of Eric's has given us 2 dozen eggs from her hens and ducks. So I'm looking for egg recipes. I posted a plea here on justhere4food or you could add your favorite egg recipes to this post. Thanks!

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justlook3 @ 2013-02-28T21:16:00

2013-03-01T03:21:07Z

Arrow and Stock [St. Patrick's Day, Easter]

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justlook3 @ 2013-02-10T20:23:00

2013-02-11T02:24:46Z

20 icons for free20in20 [Valentine's Day, Taylor Swift, Winter, Stock: People, Violins]

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Artwork for Mentalist Big Bang #2

2013-02-07T04:40:50Z

Artwork for the story "Nick and Nora" by browneyesparker for the mentalist_bb
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The Glades Icons

2013-02-07T03:47:33Z

20 icons of The Glades (Season 1) for season20in20

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Artwork for Mentalist Big Bang

2013-02-02T04:54:26Z

Artwork for vanrigsby's story "Always There" (Link coming soon) for mentalist_bb :

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Celeb Icons

2013-02-01T23:20:25Z

Simon Baker, Julianne Moore, Naomi Watts and David Tennant [including Richard II promo]

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Icon Meme

2013-01-25T18:01:24Z

I believe I did this once quite a while ago, but it's time for another round.

Comment with the word "ICONS!" and I'll choose six of your icons and then you'll post this with some explanation of the icons I chose.

h_loquacious gave me the following:( My icons under the cut )

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Stock Icons

2013-01-23T21:10:49Z

Stock: Classic Pinups (no nudity), Classic Cars, Fashion, Winter

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Watson Icons (Elementary)

2013-01-18T03:17:29Z

20 icons of Joan Watson (Elementary) for tvcharacter20

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Snapshot Bingo

2013-01-17T18:21:44Z

So I decided to take part in a photo challenge on Dreamwidth at snapshot_bingo. The idea is that you get a randomly generated bingo card and get until mid May to get bingo on the card (in various ways). It sounded like fun, so I'm going to give it a try. If you're interested, registration is open for a while and you don't need to have a dreamwidth account to join in. You can comment with your Open ID and post your bingos to your LJ or other websites.

Here's my bingo card:
( Card under cut )

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Elementary

2013-01-11T04:31:49Z

Small disclosure, the first time I tried to read a Sherlock Holmes story I thought this guy is annoying and didn't finish it. And this is from someone who read Christie's Pierot (although I was always frustrated with him too). [Note also I've never been able to get past chapter 1 of the first book of Lord of the Rings, so there you go.] So basically I went into Elementary blind. Oh I know the basic story but any of the little characters and nods, are sailing over my head.
That being said I started to watch the show out of curiosity and love of Lucy Liu. And I have to say it's grabbed me on its own.

( Spoilers for M. )
ETA: Apparently this is the only new episode to air this month, the series returns on Super Bowl Sunday (not sure how it works in Canada).

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Stock, Arrow, Stana Katic

2013-01-08T23:24:26Z

20 icons: Stock (Misc), Arrow and Stana Katic for free20in20

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Vegas Icons

2013-01-06T23:41:26Z

20 icons of Vegas

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Advent Day 24: Silent Night

2012-12-24T17:05:58Z

Well here we are at the end of the advent calendar. I hope you enjoyed it.

For a relatively new Christmas carol, Silent Night had its share of myths. One is the often repeated tale that the song's writing was prompted by the organ at the church breaking down and thus a song that could be accompanied by guitar was needed. That does not seem to be how it happened. What we do know is that Stille Nacht was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at the St. Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria. The young parish priest Father Joseph Mohr had written the lyrics to Stille Nacht in 1816. Before Christmas Eve 1818, Mohr brought the song to Franz Xaver Gruber, schoolmaster and organist in the nearby village of Arnsdorf, and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service. Both men performed the song during the service. In Gruber's written account, he makes no mention of specific inspiration for the song. There is nothing about the organ being broken, in fact that story seems to date back to a late 1940s American radio play. In 1859 John Freeman Young, an Episcopal bishop, published the English translation most commonly heard today. The version of the melody that is generally sung today differs slightly (particularly in the final strain) from Gruber's original, which was a sprightly, dance-like tune in 6/8 time as opposed to the slow, meditative lullaby version generally sung today. The carol has been translated into over 140 languages. The song is considered a must for Christmas albums and virtually every artist that has produced a Christmas album has covered Silent Night. A version recorded by Bing Crosby is in the top ten of best selling singles of all time selling over 30 million copies [worth noting Bing Crosby's White Christmas tops the list with over 50 million copies sold worldwide] worldwide.
Because it's Christmas Eve, I'm going to give you a few to chose from:
( Silent Night )

Merry Christmas to all of you. May it be a happy and safe one.

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Advent Day 23: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

2012-12-23T16:14:16Z

The original version of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing first appeared in 1739 in the collection “Hymns and Sacred Poems” and was written by Charles Wesley. The original version was much more solemn then the carol as it is performed today. The current version is the result of alterations due by various people, most notably George Whitefield, Felix Mendelssohn and William H. Cummings. Whitefield, a contemporary of Wesley's, changed the opening couplet to the one we know today. In 1855, Cummings adapted part of the music from Mendelssohn's 1840 cantana Festgesang to fit the lyrics. There are also a few other arrangements of the song that can be heard on occasion.
( Hark! The Herald Angels Sing )

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Advent Day 22: I Wonder as I Wander

2012-12-22T16:27:54Z

I Wonder as I Wander was written by folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. It was based on a fragment of a song he heard sung by a girl in Murphy, North Carolina in July 1933. Based on this fragment, he wrote I Wonder as I Wander as it is known today expanding the melody to four lines and the verses to four stanzas. He finished the composition in November 1933 and performed it for the first time that December.
( I Wonder as I Wander )

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Advent Day 21: Home for the Holidays

2012-12-21T14:53:29Z

Well so far the world's still here (where it'll probably be until long after we're all gone), so I think we can move on to today's song!
Home for the Holidays was written in 1954 by Robert Allen and Al Stillman. Popular as a Christmas song, the lyrics could also describe Thanksgiving. It also contains my favorite line "from the Atlantic to Pacific, gee the traffic is traffic." Yep sarcasm in a nostalgic Christmas song! The best known recordings of this song were by Perry Como and The Carpenters, though other artists have recorded the song.
( There's no place like home for the holidays )

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Advent Day 20: Sleigh Ride

2012-12-20T16:24:11Z

Sleigh Ride is a light orchestral piece composed by Leroy Anderson. He had the idea for the piece during a heat wave (there seems to be a trend with Christmas songs and that)in July 1946, it was completed in February 1948. The lyrics were written by Mitchell Parish in 1950. The orchestral piece was first recorded by Arthur Fieldler and the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1949 and has become one of the Boston Pops' signature pieces. Although Sleigh Ride is a popular song at Christmas, the lyrics don't mention a specific holiday or religion (although some versions change the lyric "birthday party" to "Christmas party"). Sleigh Ride has been recorded numerous times by many artists, although the version most played by radio stations is Leroy Anderson's own recording from the 1950s. Sleigh Ride was the most widely played song on US radio stations in the years 2010 and 2011 (and has been in the top ten for several years).

( Sleigh Ride )

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