Clemart Design

Woopity

2009-07-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

I complete forgot to write a blog the past two weeks. Before it was just me being now its just because I don't know what day it is. I even got a few emails that were like "Hey are you still alive?" The answer to that question is yes I am alive and I am feeling rather Napoleon-esk.

I've been running on a different frame of mind and I different type of energy and although crazy as that might sound its great. Its great to be moving forward with the pub/brewery although we still don't have a name for it. I sent out most of my stuff and I am waiting on a response from a few people on what I need to fix where to make sure that the funding for the pub is secure. $200,000 of debt and dreams here I come!

In other news I knew that I would somehow mess a few things up! So I am prepared with July's new desktop already for you. This one is now in standard monitor form but! If you would prefer widescreen leave me a comment or send me a message :D
For some reason though it is on photobucket which is odd but eh. I'm rolling with it :D

Woozle Woo No Zle

2009-06-23T10:43:00.000-07:00

I had an awesome Father's Day and I am hoping everyone else did too. Now that I have said that today is the first day that I start training for the Pub/Brewery in the form of being a Cafe Manager. Lame I know right but I actually need to build my resources and customer handling services. I can't just send the person at table 4 an email to apologize I have to be face to face with them and offer them a free drink or meal on us sometime. So as long as I am hard at work being insanely insane I am still going to run my graphic design business too. That means outside of etsy and on etsy you might still randomly see me pop up.
Or if you have my yahoo you will still see me all the time. There are so many projects that I do at once anyway that it doesn't matter. I love micro-managing myself and games. So this wont at all be extra for me. It will just make me semi-normal. Lol, with that being said here is some pretty for you pretties....

Bom Bom Wallpaper!

2009-06-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

Lol, I haven't posted a wallpaper or tutorial since oh idk February and with that being said I have to step up my game. Get back in the saddle! I may not write a blog every day of the month but I can at least do it 2-3 times a week. Its not that I HAVE to but I SHOULD. It keeps my vocabulary strength strong and helps me with laying out designs and showing you guys what I have been doing.
If you've noticed around everywhere my design has changed again. The last design seemed to be lost in translation so here I am with a new one. I really like this new one and think that I might keep it for a while...or until I get bored. I have to update the website but haven't had the right layout for it yet. I have been building different ones and I think I found one that works so expect to see me writing about that soon.
So with the new design I am trying a ton of different techniques most of which you will see in the new backgrounds. Normally the background is random but in this case its just a ClemArt background except its only in widescreen at the moment. Let me know if you need it in a different format other than that enjoy!

get the widescreen version here

Just a thought

2009-06-08T13:22:00.000-07:00

I was clicking through blogs and I saw that Leah had posted a picture of her son in a power rangers outfit. I remember when I was growing up my mom actually made the customs for us. The Power Rangers one that is. I remember one year being the green ranger and next the white ranger. I was always up on the latest Power Ranger trends but I mainly picked those characters because I thought the guy playing it was hot.
Turns out that the character in the show turns into a Doctor who would have thunk eh? It got me all nostalgic. So I think that I should do something very fun and playful artwise. Maybe make a blog background or draw on graham crackers. Who knows!
In other news operation brewery pub is going well I think. Spent 98% of the weekend working on the business plan and its looking like some back robbing is in order. Other than that everything is shaping up rather nicely.

Hair Spray me away

2009-05-28T17:51:00.000-07:00

GWAR! I can't not post a blog. Lol, I love following myself. Its like a personal stalker who knows you but not really. Lol, anyway how is everyone? Span-fucking-tacular I awesome? I myself am in a happy mood. The whole Justin staying with me thing is going well especially since we technically only spend 4 days with each other. I get my time while he is at work and he gets his time while he is playing world of warcraft. I also harass him daily regardless which keeps me in shape for the "Harrass-a-lympics".
In more business news I write for Indie Columbus but haven't written anything. I am too busy being Clem for that. I barely find time for the U-Weekly articles. Lets see I own my own business, I'm a freelance writer, and I am opening a pub/brewery...wait whats that you say?
For the past month me and Justin have been laying down the ground work for a pub/brewery. When things are official official official we will run around screaming "we are the champions" while drinking Vernor's and slapping people on the back.
In other less trendy news I am still designing just less now. I had this big push and then I was like eh *shrugs shoulders* and I began to focus more on the pub/brewery. Also I am trying to work out my amount of social interaction. I seem to be a binge social. I will go out for a whole week non-stop and then spend months just relaxing in the shade. The problem is I miss alot and should probably get my hiney into gear.
So expect a few new things in my shop as soon as I figure out what they are going to be. I randomly throw out ideas to Faeried Treasures and she is always like "Bologna, Chicken, and Red? How is that a background." Lol, needless to say my thought process is not so great.
Also I broke my Hairspray disc! I am doomed!!!!!

Nerdmare

2009-05-14T08:48:00.000-07:00

Last night I went to a meeting of the minds more or less. These guys were high players in Columbus and here I was the recent college graduate with a business and another one on the way. I was the only one there who uses a pc and not a mac and I was also the only one without an i-phone. I was completely out of my element and it was like panic. The conversation was so well intertwined about things in Columbus and I was like *eats cheese square*. GOOD GOD WOMAN, am I not a young professional??? Have I fallen off the map?????
That whole idea and panic sensation carried into my dream world in which I had nerdmares. I for some reason had designed Justin's new site and people were asking "you aren't going to keep it that way are you?" or "Looks kinda first rate" and I was like NOOOOOOOOOO!
So other than that you guys can check out my testing ground for blog backgrounds. I change the background once or twice a week and I test out color schemes and formats. Which in this case is a way for you all to preview in a more direct way. Currently I am testing out a few steampunk inspired ones. The ones I like will go up in the shop the ones I dont like you will only see once on the blog and probably never again.

Go Clem Racer Go!

2009-05-11T16:00:00.000-07:00

I've started putting up the new stuff in my shop. If you guys notice I added two blog backgrounds and there is more on the way. You can expect to see new banners and new banner sets also. So that gives you a bigger chance to expand from blog to shop. I also going to put back up the listing for card design and a few other goodies which is also a general plus.
I got my package from Auntie Dis today and loved my candle! I even left her some feedback that went a little something like this:
"Oh, whats that? Amazing? Oh yes it is very amazing. I love the way my bedroom smells and the way she gave me extra goodies and I also love her so that works too. Amazing and if you dont agree something is wrong with you....horribly wrong with you."
So that means its the honest to Clem truth on how awesome it is. I got a sample of the Sweet Orange and Chili Pepper and when this Cactus Sea Salt runs itself down that will be my next grab.

Funky Fresh

2009-05-09T19:47:00.000-07:00

The new design is up and loaded everywhere....except for to the Myspace but that doesn't count because I don't really use my Myspace. Which makes everything even more exciting! I like the way this looks the khaki and white layout with hand-drawn letters and water color faded effects *squeels with glee*
I went to the zoo today and it was awesome. I also went to burger king and it was disappointing. When did burger king become disappointing? I get some stellar packages from Auntie Dis and Heathen's Hearth come Monday! If I dont get them Monday I will go on a rampage of unawesomeness. Speaking of which who hear is going to the Eco-Craftacular in Columbus this weekend? Its hosted by all of the Etsy people from Columbus (minus me) lol which is why it is unawesomeness. I went to fill out the form for team etsy and it was like trying to get married. Wanted me to go on dates and participate in our social actions. I just met you!!!!!
In other good news tomorrow is Mother's Day which for me means I can finally turn over my store stock and upload completely new works and purchases for you guys. Which probably wont happen until Monday when I have the time to upload and update.
So hopefully I can get the blogger packages up and running for you guys :D
Also:

Denise Richards' Funbags from Denise Richards

Wherewithal

2009-05-05T08:45:00.000-07:00

Is wherewithal a word? It must be...what does it mean. I should probably look it up before I make it a blog title but I wont. Anywhoot....
So it seems that I thought I had been updating my blog but hadn't. I told you guys last time about how I watch myself and wonder why this person never updates? Well I did it again. Except this time I remember telling myself to update and clicking on my blog and then insta fail.
In other news YAY! My re-branding of myself is in process. A few of you may have noticed that my shop has changed and my website home page has changed. Next is my blogger banner and icon followed by my twitter background. I am really immersed in this one so its exciting. I am sure the whole blue print steam punk thing was cool for a while but its time to let that trend go.
I am going to the Cinn Zoo Saturday YAY! ZOOOoooooooooooooo. Which means road trip and some good time with friends and the animals. Also *looks around* Star Trek comes out. I know I know I know nerd alert but its not even that. I saw Wolverine already and now its time for a newer more cooler version of everyone except Spock and I cant wait to see the movie.

For the fishes

2009-04-19T10:23:00.000-07:00

I just broke my ipod shuffle charger. Which leaves me the opitions of a. buying a new one or b. shelling out 56 dollars and going to the pawn shop and grabbing my ex's ipod touch that I bought for them oh way long long ago.Decisions decisions decisions.
In other news how is everyone?
I got that gig in Arizona doing posters/flyers for bands but its kinda lame. The guy has no idea what he is doing or how to go about it. I spent 25-30 mins the other day fixing someone elses photoshop mistake and then its like the ugliest piece of design work. But thats not my place. All I know is that when someone doesn't know what they are doing it makes it harder to do what you do.
In more exciting news(things dont make me gd monkey balls)I am working on operation blog backgrounds and they are looking pretty nice. Now all I have to do is actually put them up on etsy for you guys to like buy them or see them.

Here is a little preview of one of the backgrounds:

Well now your world is mine

2009-04-15T17:39:00.000-07:00

So who has seen Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog? You? You? Come one out of the 100 people who read my blog surely someone is as big of a nerd as me! Nope? No one? Thats cool. Lol, regardless its amazing. I have seen it twice and Justin plays the soundtrack in the car sometimes we are going somewhere.
Its fancy pants classy style musical and since I love musicals it all works. So thats what I have been doing in my free time. Hanging out with Justin and smoking a hookah. A honey dew melon smelling hookah. Anyway hookah around these parts is considered a social gathering function so Justin and I built one. It is omega awesome. So people come over and play video games and we smoooooke it.
Also as far as graphic work goes I may have a gig in Arizona (freelance of course). I am making music fliers for bands I could care less about but its all good. I like expanding my portfolio and graphic prowess.
In other news I made a few demo fliers to send out and we shall see how that goes. Also I am getting into making blog backgrounds for peoples bloggers and live journals so if you like to change your blog just as much as you change your etsy shop banners or your wardrobe.
Also I have had a huge increase in twitter followers which means I need to become more active again. I will try and start posting more of my current work and what I am working on and show you guys what I actually do in real life.
My favorite song actually spoils the movie for Dr. Horrible's Sing along blog so dont watch it if you might watch the movie. Lol

Skeleton Boy

2009-04-10T22:29:00.000-07:00

I have been playing Skeleton Boy nonstop since I bought it yesterday and I like it alot. It gets me pumped up and I am all singing and grabbing at my clothes and acting like I am on stage. Good fun good fun indeed.
Anyway I am wondering what everyone is doing for Easter. Who's spending it with their families and who is spending it online on Etsy? I got a lot of questions about whats going on with Blu and for that I will update Blu's blog which you can find here.
I have a story to write to complete my weekend and I am heading to Katie's for Easter. I may even get some snugglies before then. Who knows.
Me and V just played Rock Band for like a billion hours and it felt good until my butt cheek collapsed and decided it didnt want to be a butt anymore. Lame on its part. So we stopped playing and got some nasty Little Ceasers pizza. I remember when Little Ceasers was amazing. It had a certain taste and smell and you just felt excited to have it. Now its like OMFG *spits out chunks of pizza* What happened to my child hood? Eh, *eats a fake pepperoni*
So whats new with me? Whats new with you? Lol, I actually read my blogs but no one is really updating. Little Papoose talked about her package from Nemesis Production, Heathens Hearth reached 900 sales....I like pudding?
Lol, so I am reading your blogs I swear I just dont seem to be responding. Except I do stalk Mike's Hemp Bracelets and I do respond to his blog...and Charlie Carter should update her blog.
Now that I am done blaming everyone else for me not posting blogs here is some magic for you:

De-Fo

2009-04-07T11:41:00.000-07:00

Its not that I dont check my blog or look at my blog but its just that I dont write my blog. Every time I scroll over my name I am like why hasn't this ClemArt Design updated. This jerk! Turns out I am ClemArt Design and I AM the reason why it hasn't updated.
Justin has been crashing with me which is a curse and a gift. If its 3am in the morning and I am hungry no more cooking dinner I poke Justin with the nearest object and say "Food." Thats the end of that and we go grab some of the awesomeness of Columbus. The only problem is now I get what I want which means now I will weigh 3 billion pounds. I also punch him in his butt. Its good fun but I think it might be messing with his "man hood".
I finished a ton of projects last week but they were shockingly all Etsy based. I dont think I have ever had a week in which Etsy took over my clientle. It was odd going through so many emails and most of them saying "conversation from Etsy".
I've done a few new designs and in this case I just haven't posted them. I am about to redo my website so everything is falling into this one category "GET IT DONE". I ran into a website for some local people that do the same thing I do and I died a bit inside. Flash how I hate you but LOVE you so much. I was thinking about doing javascript but lets not get ahead of ourselves.
Also I have been having weird crazy dreams the newest was a man who stuck walrus teeth into his sons head and sucked out orange liquid. Everyone keeps asking me what I ate and I dont know if that even played a factor.

Thats from some work I did the past week :). Anyway I am done writing and now I need to read other blogs...and do things.....am I still typing?

Wheeee

2009-03-27T11:19:00.000-07:00

Wheeeeeeeeee! Hello, my fine non-feathered friends. And to all of you who are feathered I dont think we can talk anymore. It seems you might have some contagious disorder. Shame.
Anywhooooot. I am all abouts my business this past week. I finally broke back into my creative streak and hand sammichs a glory. In other words I made monies. With that being said my buddy Justin is staying with me for a week which is awesome because he is like a giant attention bunny. He is like hey lets watch a movie. Hey lets go push people down at the pool. Hey lets build a hookah from scratch. Oh how I love his government brain.
I was going to photoshop my soap by itself on a beach but that failed. So i am going to make jerky with Justin and then go pick up phantom monies. Mmmm, phantom monies!

I'm on a DRAGON!

2009-03-20T21:35:00.000-07:00

Who wants to go on an adventure through the clouds?

Yes "The CLEM" is riding a dragon through the clouds. Yes, I know right you need that soap right now!!!!!

In other news I am back from my two days off. Lol, I guess they werent really days off considering that all I did was not work for two days. I got to spend time with my friends which is worth alot to me now. Everyone kinda moved away so when they come to visit I put in that extra bit of effort to clear my schedule for them. Yes yes yes, I know I do have other friends but these ones are my special ones. The ones that kidnap me in my pajamas and we stand in Michaels for hours not buying anything.

I also feel like I have been ignoring the etsy portion of my life a bit too much. Sure etsy doesnt actually pay my bills but you guys are all awesome and I have been selfish taking break after break trolling etsy as blu.

So what have I been doing? Flyers and wedding invitations for my real life company which also happens to be ClemArt LLC. Which is fun in itself because not everyone is on their p's and q's in the world. Lol, so its like watching kids run through a candy shop when you get to send people designs and they go "Oh my...you are amazing." It reminds me that just because I dont sell things on etsy doesnt mean it has to effect my real life job. I also cant get enough of the clem on this dragon. Lol, I am so proud of this photomanipulation.

Right now the heathen's of HeathensHearth are having some sort of soap thing a ma jigger about something or other. You can read about it here! I will start promoting it as soon as I do the other 5 billion things I have to do online. And by that I mean probably tomorrow lol. I am going to bang out 4 cd cover designs, 2 church logos, 1 flyer, and drink juicy juice all tonight. Mmmmm, I loves my money!

My inspiration for this manipulation came from the song 'Cloud Age Symphony"

Lets have a talk

2009-03-14T14:49:00.000-07:00

"Oh why hello there! Nice to see you old chaps.
Jolly good, jolly good. It’s come to my attention
that the soap game is getting mighty fierce, yes
fierce indeed. Between the “Heathens War” and
the “Great Soap Debate” it seems that I have
been shall we say forgotten."

"So why not show the good ol Clem
we all know and love some love? Its simple
really. All it takes is $5.00 plus shipping and
handling no cod’s of course, and you too can
bring me home for the loving of a lifetime."

That is all :D

BUY ME

I can't get any better...oh wait I can!

2009-03-12T19:32:00.000-07:00

So whilst being awesome and people bathing with my soap which you can buy here , something amazing happened. The world opened up and spawned the most deliciously cute bracelet from the depths of panda heaven.

ALL HAIL JUPITA! The pandas cried as the bracelet flew up into the heavens of the world and became the must have fashion accessory for everyone and anyone! As the pandas took one last glance at the beautiful bracelet as it left its home a tear rolled down their awesome faces and turned into brownies and diamonds!!!!!!

Okay, first of all Jupita mad love to you for this. I never considered myself fashion forward but now I am...and I will rule the world *muahauahauhauhauahuahauhauahuahauhauahuaha* Moo goo goo guy pan!!!!!
Lmao, thats my cry of evil.
Now if I didnt know any better I think this makes Jupita the awesomeness on my arm since HeathensHearth is the awesomeness in my shower. Its like the world is filled with some much awesome and I cant contain it! My world is exploding into digital orgasms of amazing and its all from you guys!

Also buy my soap! And buy Faeried Treasures soap and then sit in the tub with both of them and then rub them on yourself and then when you get done with that you are going to be dirty in a clean way and its the only way to get clean!!!!!

I have to think of something magical in return...like lucky charms but cooler!!!!

Tuesday was yesterday right?

2009-03-11T16:49:00.000-07:00

Lol, sooo someone definitely didnt write a blog the past two days and for that I am going to look for this video to explain why I did or did not:

Exactly!!! Amazing!!!!
Lol, anyway here is a new banner for you Love Bones :D
ALSO HeathensHearth is having an amazing sale. None of which involve my soap but still an amazing sale. Also if a person were to buy lets say 1 bar of the clem and then 55 other people bought 1 bar of the Clem it would be awesome...and help feed a diabolical plan like none other...

Also while we are on the subject of Heathens Hearth I was given an award like a bajillion days ago...
7 things I love
1. My Family
2. Money
3. Naughties
4. Pepsi
5. Soap
6. Food Stuffs
7. Water (in lake/ocean/fountain form not that bottled bs)

As you know I should tag like 7 people but I dont want to :P

Responding

2009-03-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

Ooooh yeah!!!! So if you written a blog in the past 24 hours chances are I just responded to them. I am not slacking per say but indeed just waking up from a much needed nap. I also just drunk an 8oz bottle of water which makes me feel semi-healthy. Lol, anyway I have been busy all weekend and if you talked to me last week Wednesday-Saturday you know that I have been doing alot of partying.
My friends all decided that this past weekend was the weekend to spend with Clem my favorite quote from that was a very bad bad racial joke. Hee hee. I am finally catching up today from all of that which means that I am actually in photoshop today working hard. I should probably go out and get myself a freelance client this week. Lol, I need to make back the money I just spent on 4 days of partying.
*clears throat*
Some of my banners have been on Etsy so long the went into the inactive...old retired bin. Everyone was like just put out the 2 dollars to renew them but I would rather not...wait except for dying bush I will renew that. Lol, anyway I've got new designs coming your way. I have been working on them off and on and sometimes just sometimes I ask some people what they think. Reguardless of which I am sure you all noticed in my store a new addition this past week and it was a Mother's Day Banner. I have lol, I think 3 more of those without me having to make new ones so I think I can rest on that.
In other news Blu Sparrow is getting rid of the Chai Tea Popcorn until fall time. Sad sad sad sad day when my favorite goes away...

Here is a banner!!!!!

Making Soap Babies

2009-03-07T14:07:00.000-08:00

Misty of Heathen's Hearth was like "Awwww poor Clem. Being so super awesome but losing the war. " So she flew down on her creamy soap dragon and landed in a pool of my clear soap armies blood and walked across the field of soapy awesomeness to me. As I stood there completely bewildered after the raping my men had received she reach out and offered me a gift. Something so awesome I think I tinkled a bit in my armor.
I stood up and shook the tinkle out of my armor and turned towards my men. In my hand was the glory of war. The battle trophy fit for all of Mc Hardy. Ladies and gentlemen it was SOAP. But not just any soap THEE SOAP to end all battles forever. It was "The Clem". A soap so beautiful and that was both creamy and clear.
Babies were instantly born, men cried, and most of all the women of the land stripped to bathe with this Orange Pomegrante glory. Waterfalls bore new springs for nymphs and fauns to play in. It was amazing.
And now you too can have a piece of this glory! Of this great kingdom of..."The Clem"!

Now I know I know I know I know(yes I KNOW), everyone was all Clem you lost ha ha. But indeed I am the victor with such a sweet scent as Orange Pomegrante who wouldnt like to smell as awesome as me.

Tonight even Heathen's Hearth is having an sns sale! You know what that means right? If you dont its a saturday night sale which means a chance to buy the Clem at an awesome price
10% off your total purchase of $10 or more and a free lip balm in your choice of flavor for every $10 spent!

Get in on this I command thee!!! Okay if it didnt work for me getting votes I know it wont work now. Lol, but still enjoy the sale!

Clem of Hardy Mc Clear

2009-03-05T15:45:00.000-08:00

I lost...with great skills I leaped over creamy soap moats and shot dragons made of creamy soaps in the eye and it wasnt enough. I give in....
Misty the Mosity Cream Girl : 3 billion
Clem of Hardy Mc Clear: .....2.5

It seems that even though clear soap still sells more on etsy creamy soap is preferred. I wonder why?

Anyway I lost so here is my end of the wager. Misty gets a girlie banner because she wanted one and I was like not by the hair of my chinny chin chin. So it seems she grabbed some of that invisible hair ripped it out and served it with a nice cool glass of "Yeah now what bitch!"

SO for you Misty you best use this banner ya hear? Or I's bee comin by real soon...real soon.

So with that being said wouldnt it be awesome if there was like a soap that was both creamy and clear? One that was both orange and blue??? Like my awesome logo????? I wonder.......

VHAT? VHAT? VHAT??????

2009-03-04T11:04:00.000-08:00

Come on really guys?? Everyone is loving the creamy soap better??? Cause I am shaking my fist at all of you here is the score so far:
Misty: 9
Clem: 2

Lol, you people make me sick! Lol, voting is still going on but you can only vote once of course. I will tally everything up at the end. So if you want you can continue to vote in yesterdays blog or todays. I dont care just vote for me!!!!

So I may have lost day one of the battle but I mean thats normally how the story goes right???????

So whats your pick? Creamy or Clear soap?

THIS IS CLEMART

2009-03-03T14:14:00.000-08:00

I got the most amazing package from Nemsis Productions yesterday. It was SOAP. I love SOAP. If there is one thing that makes me check my bank account for spending money its when I see a soap shop on etsy. I get all oooooooooooh and aaaaaaaaaaaah. And then I am mmmmmmmm.
So needless to say I used like two bars because taking two showers a day makes sense when you have insane amounts of soap. I lathered and scrubbed, danced and loved, and used...used a little too much soap. Lol
So then I got into a discussion Misty of Heathens Hearth and I told her that people prefer clear colored soaps and she told me that people prefer creamy soaps. We both stated our cases but it does neither of us any good I needs some help!
Lol, or you can vote for her I dont care, either way which do you prefer?

THIS IS CLEMART!!!!!!!!! *kicks a man made of creamy soap into a gape'n pit like in 300* Clemartans!!! What is your profession?
*crowd of awesomeness says*
"DESIGN!"
Lol, okay I am getting carried away.

But seriously leave a comment. Which do you prefer creamy or clear soaps?

Okay Yeah

2009-03-02T05:50:00.000-08:00

I did not post the rest of the tutorial yesterday as everyone has noticed and if not then *shakes fist at you*. Also Saturday was my 100th blog post. YAY, lol. I am just dragging abit of arse as of late. A funk I am sure I will get out of. Doing my real life job, My Etsy Business, My other etsy business, lol and my freelance writing gig is starting to take its toll. Which is odd because for all versions of what I do I pretty much have to sit on the computer all day. Well today maintenance finally fixed everything at a classy 8am in the morning which when you go to bed at 3am is not such a great time to wake up to.
I filled out my college loan shotna in order to avoid them raping me with a late fee. Lol, oh school why did you cost so much. 9 more years and 9 more months and I can say goodbye to you...unless I become a millionaire then you could kiss my arse today. *Stops and listens to her neighbor blaring a ton of music*
Lol, so this is how I am starting out my day. Post office magic followed by business banking hold the lame sauce. Lol, I have to run to chase sometime too. GAH. I think by now everyone in general has run themselves a wee bit ragged which is okay with me because then we can all go crazy together :D. There could be like an Etsy insane asylum.
With that thought I leave you...I cant remember if I have a banner to go here or not. I know I have some but they are all holiday themed. Womp womp

Day Two Requested Tutorial

2009-02-28T21:01:00.000-08:00

Okay so today we get to build our page in photoshop and also we get to learn how to cut things.

Here is our image for the day:

First we want to make a new document. So you are going to make it 750x whatever the number you want it to be. The reason why we use 750 is because it is the size of most standard monitors for people who have not yet switched to widescreen which is like 65% of America last time I checked (which was a year ago) In this case mine is 750x1000.

From here we go ahead and make a new layer and save our document in the "source" folder we created yesterday.

Alrighty lets get out web header/banner that we made yesterday open and drag it into our new document.

If you followed my format yesterday everything fits like a hand in a glove...hmm I should probably use a better analogy. Anyway from here we want to select the eye dropper tool. Our banner lets us know the colors we need and the style we want to follow while building the rest of our page.

From here lets select a color from our web header/banner. The good thing about this is that you are using colors that already exist in the document to make it stand out more for the web.

Now from here you can put in a shape with that color. Make sure to make a new layer so that you can keep everything seperate and perfect for moving and saving purposes.

I personally know that on the sides of this website I would prefer to have feeds from other websites. So I take the time to make space for them. I start of by making a guide line. You can make a guide line by:
clicking and dragging on the rulers on the side of your photoshop document.
If you dont not have your rulers open you can go to the "view> rulers"
or you can hit
ctrl+r to bring them up
From here I draw my shape on my guide line to make sure it looks perfect.

Now this is a decision you have to make on your own. Do you like the shapes placement? Is the color to dark or murky? In my case this brown although looks tasty but is too dark for what I need. I grab the gradient tool and fade it into the background. You can leave your bar the way you want it or nit pick as much as you like. I am not rushing you in this tutorial :D
If you use a gradient notice that in the top left hand side a new panel will come up showing your gradient colors. To pick a new one or change your gradient you can double click on that open window.

With everything all fancy looking and pretty lets open up that new image I provided for you and drag it into our document.

Our reason for this extra image is to keep the page from being too plain jane. Sure its fine to just want a banner and a color but does it really define you?

From here I free transform the layer to a bigger scale and match it to my guide line that I made earlier and then fade the opacity. If all of what I just said to you was a jumble you should probably start off with my other tutorials:

Alrighty from here I make a few side bars our rectangles to represent spots that will be filled and what wont. In the process I use guides to cut my image. Make sure your guidelines fit the way you want the site broken up. Tomorrow we will be using tables and its important to follow your guides.

Okay with our guidelines drawn lets select the rectangle marquette tool from the tool bar.

We are going to use this guy to help select just the sections we need for saving out. For the demo I selected a larger section to show everyone the break down. I would suggest not cropping the banner though get everything below it. Make a box with the tool that follows your guides. SAVE NOW just incase of accidents. Now click "image > crop" and lets get this baby down to size.

Continue to crop the image or do a single crop depending on how you follow this tutorial and lets get down to those little bars on the side.

Now that we have gotten down to just this little guy lets learn how to save things out for the web. Click " file > save for web"

Remember how yesterday we set everything to maximum? Yeah lets not do that today. The reason why is because in the left hand bottom corner we can see a set of numbers that tell us how long something will load on the web. When it comes to websites this is very important.People dont want to wait for 3 seconds for an image to load. So lets take this guy down a huge notch.
For text and simple colors 98% of the time you can turn it into a "gif" which you probably saw on the drop down menu yesterday. You can also you "png8" or if actually using a "jpg" is quicker use that format.

The resolution of the image will continously change depending on what you select. Just like with a jpeg you can change the level of quality with a gif or png8. The selection for this is in color numbers though. There are 256 visual colors on the web and you can pick anywhere from 1-256 to get your image down to size. Remember though we dont want to give up quality for time either so lets make sure this guy looks good but loads quick.

From here cut up the rest of that side bar and save out the little boxes and the side panel. All of these guys should be saved in our "images" folder that we made yesterday and named accordingly to what they are.

NOW! Lets move on to our banner and cutting it. Remember yesterday how i had you save out both banners? Well this is why. Open up both banners and lets drag on into the others window:

Lets make sure they are even and lets start to draw our guide lines for cropping on them. In my case I split the banner into 4 across and 2 up. If you made a funky shape yesterday its your job now to make guide lines for it appropriately.

Okay so now its the same idea from before. Lets pick sections and crop it down and save them out. Remember to check the amount of time its going to take to load:

Also remember save it in our "images" folder

Now here is the cool part about saving out both banners at the same time and stacking them on top of each other. When you crop down the banner it will be perfect two times which means our size will remain. In other words you can toggle off the eye switch to see the layer below and and save it out keeping everything the same size.
How ever make sure to save them out as the word on them followed by one and then the second one should be the name and followed by two. In my case mine will be saved out as homeone.jpg and hometwo.jpg
img src="http://i688.photobucket.com/albums/vv249/clemartutorial/29.jpg" border="0" alt="29">

A cool tid bit. While using this form of cropping your banner all you have to do is go back in your history to before you cropped it and simply move on to the next section and crop and then repeat the process.
To open your history panel if it isnt open go to "windows > history"

Thats it for today. Make sure you save everything out and get it all perfect for tomorrows day in dreamweaver.Here is your badge for the day!

Requested Tutorial Day One

2009-02-27T22:44:00.000-08:00

Last month Inkihandmade put in a request for me to show how to build a website. Which is a huge request. Lol, especially for one blog.
Warning!!! If you have not done my other tutorials or are not familiar with photoshop this will sound like nonsense. Take the time to do my other tutorials if you have not.
So I figured out a way to do a many tutorial but it would span into next month oddly enough and take over the tutorial that month so for all of you I present:
Web Design mini-course:

HeathensHearth was awesome enough to let me use them as a guinea pig for this little experiment so here are the files for you guys!

Alrighty first step is to:
Make a new folder on your desktop background:

Next make two new folders inside of that folder:

Name one source and one images.
Your source files will contain things like your photoshop files or flash files. Your images files will contain all jpegs, gifs, and whatever have yous.

After we get that all squared away lets open up photoshop and create a new document. The measurements for this document should be 750x100. Which is about 10 pixels short of an etsy banner:

From here lets create a new layer and get all of our other files open. You can do this by:
a. going through file>open>"file name"
or
b. drag and drop the files into photoshop

Now that we have our files open lets drag them into the open photoshop document. If you are unfamliar with this step see my other tutorials:

From here lets close all those other guys out and save this booger. We are going to save it in the "source" folder we created earlier under "banner" After that lets start changing the size of these layers.
You can do this by(from layer sizing tutorial)
a. hitting ctrl+t and clicking and dragging
or
b. going into edit>free transform>and dragging:

After we get everything sized the way we want it lets merge those layers to save on some space.
You can do this by
a. hitting ctrl+e
or
b. right clicking on the layer and selecting merge layers:

If you like the way everything looks from here you can skip the next two steps. I personally love to add on a bit of texture to things so I make a duplicate of the layer
You can do this by
a. right clicking on the layer and selecting "duplicate layer"
or
b. clicking on layers at the top and selecting duplicate

From here we select "Filters" from our top bar of photoshop. You can randomly pick anything you like. Photoshop allows you to change the option inside of the setting.

From here I personally select "Paint Duabs" like 98% of the time. I can toggle the numbers to change the size of my brush or the amount of detail I have.

After that I hit okay and head back into photoshop. I go to the opacity button and change the number (from my watermarker tutorial)This gives the layer more texture and feel and it doesnt just look like plain pictures but works of art.

Okay make a new layer and select the shape tool. For this particular exercise we are using the rectangle tool but if you prefer to use a funky shape be my guest but it will hurt you in tomorrows portion.

Now from here you can leave it whatever colored you made it or change it with styles. I have a huge library of styles and some of you might. So for this tutorial you might have to stick with a basic color. If you have a ton of styles this will be a snatch for you.
If you dont have a styles panel open go to "window>styles>and select it" from there your styles panel should open.

Depending on what you decide to do it really doesnt matter but for this step we are going to duplicate the layer with our shape on it to make sure that we have the exact same shape in the exact same position. This will come in handy for our navigation of the website. After you have duplicated the layer if you are using styles you can select a new style or if you are not you can just use the paint bucket tool and change the color.

From here we want to select the text tool. Pick a font you like and add words to the bar we just created. The easiest way is to just line up the words with the picture. So pick 4 words and lets get those babies on our page:

Notice that I created a new layer for all of the text. This allows me to move everything by piece instead of in a huge layer that I might need to edit later due to spelling or me not favoring one thing. If you put the text on separate layers it will also help you.

From here lets select all of those text layers we just made (or for some people layer) and right click on them and hit duplicate.
If you dont know how to select several layers you can:
a. click one layer and the hold the shift button and select the others
or
b. Just drag around the layers and select them all

Once we get those guys duplicated lets change the color of the text. This will help us also when it comes to creating separate forms of navigation.

From here lets do a nice toggle on our layers. Lets turn off the eye on our original text layer and on one of our layers that has the rectangle(our shape that you picked) and see how our navigation system looks. The one that is all of your original text layers and rectangle that you turn off can be used to represent our inactive buttons (will explain tomorrow) and our active buttons will be the reverse. Look at this combination's now and decide if you like them or not.From here we can add the name of our site. In this case I used "Heathens Hearth"

From here I personally find the text hard to read so I add a white rectangle behind it and fade it to make my text more readable. Depending on what you have done and your color choices you can toggle or mess around until you feel safe with your choice.

From here its just saving out. Now remember that you turned some layers off and on. Keep this combination and lets got to file>save for web or devices
or in older versions of photoshop its
file> save for web
and in even older versions of photoshop
you have to flatten you image

Take a look at your panel on the right hand side and make sure it is set to "jpeg"

Now take a second look and also make sure that it is set to maximum.

If thats the case then remember your toggled choice and name it either "active banner" or "inactive banner" this will save us time on issues we will run into when saving out tomorrows stuff.Also these guys go in your "Source" folder for now.

Okay the good news is this porition of the tutorial is over.

The bad news is tomorrow it gets more wordy. If you had trouble following any of these steps let me know and I can try and help you out as much as I can. Tomorrow I have a ton of running around like a chicken with my head cut off to do so I will upload bigger files to my website for all of you who cant see. Today you have successfully made your navigation here is your badge to put on your blog for completing this tutorial:

Blogger vs Clem an epic battle

2009-02-26T15:28:00.000-08:00

For the past month me and blogger have been fighting. My pages wouldnt load and I couldnt respond to comments even though I was clearly logged in under my name. It even got to the point in which blogger thought it was cool enough to not load the word captchas. Which meant I couldnt respond to blogs and that made me hulk mad.
So then Blogger is like whats that Clem? You wanna respond to comments?? SO it gives me a captcha but tells me that it didnt load and that I am crazy.
So now finally to everyone who's blog has been lacking that extra clem spice I have commented. I have ran through blogs and left smart or witty...possibly even boring comments and I feel achieved.
So you can take that Blogger and suck it...watch this post not even post.

The score is:
Blogger: 95 Clem: 1

Lol, you may have won the battles blogger but I will win the war!!!Also if anyone owns "Strong Hold Crusader" you can play online with me sometime and let me own you!!!!!!!!

So for what its worth if you need any information on cool sites that expand behind etsy and beyond blogger check out Works In Progress she is up on everything!

Late Night With Clem

2009-02-25T19:52:00.000-08:00

I am having a weird night. I spent most of my day nerding out with CharlieCarter on yahoo and then followed that up with more nerding out on yahoo with Heathenshearth over baby photos.
Lol, how girlie of me. So needless to say I am a bit womp womp at the moment. I just ate a ton of chocolate however and I am begining to mellow out...or pump up but I am not sure which one.
Lol, oh no I just started a new sentence with lol.... Anywhoot. My ceiling still has a giant hole in it but the plus side is that my neighbors floor has no more holes and I can bathe without fear of CLEMPOON porn fest 2009 being on the internet.
I should probably post something in this generally spot like a banner so I will except it will be invisible...right about.....

The Brain Fart

2009-02-24T15:33:00.000-08:00

Today I got to chillax for about 20 mins online with littlepapoose and it was awesome. There was laughter and pink stripper shirts and I seriously think I might need to get myself a fancy pair of glasses. Not because I cant see but because it would make me look more dignified.
*sniffs my business sweater* It smells like...well you dont need to know that. Lol, tonight I am going to see Lady Black Smith Mambazo and its going to be awesome. Yes AWESOME. Its all about getting out and seeing amazing things while I am still young. Also I am rather snazzy when cleaned up. So I may come home with a few awesome pictures...oh wait I cant.
The Dirty Flaggs are doing a photoshoot today and have my camera. Lol, wow how did I forget that. I got this awesome letter in the mail today from my Aunt which reminded me that I am behind two times on inkihandmade's postcard. I think we decided on this week but alas brain fart.
Lol, this is the most scatter brained blog I have posted to date and I am glad you read it.
This is one of my original easter banner ideas before I went to the chicks:

I'm On A Boat

2009-02-23T09:20:00.001-08:00

Faeried Treasures completely got me addicted to the song "I'm on a boat" by The Lonely Island and I cant stop playing it. Its like more than amazing...its awesome.
Lol, anyway Time Warner came today and fixed my internet connection and by that I mean he fixed my modem setting. It turned out that my wireless router was set to shut off at the same time everyday which made me think something was wrong with my internet. It shuts off for a minute everyday which in computer time means 10 minutes.
Also maintenance came in today and it was like my favorite guy. He quickly fixed my ceiling and is coming back after lunch to clean up the mess. Like sometimes he vacuums my floor or will repaint the walls. Its like beyond cool when he does his job.I am sure it could be the fact that I have ta ta's that he does that but I like to think its more because I am awesome and less because I am a girl.
In other news I have a new banner for you guys...not going to post it on etsy of course. Lol, I mean I might who knows.
Also Blusparrow is trying to join team eeat which means we need like 10 positive feedbacks so we are having a retarded sale. Click here for more details:
CLICK ME I'M ON A BOAT

I am not sure about how I handled the text on this one but I think the graphics came out perfect.
Sunflowers and Stars:

What goes up must come down...like my ceiling

2009-02-22T09:09:00.000-08:00

Normally today would be a tutorial but due to recent events I have not had time this morning to make one. As most of you know 95% of my readers lol. My bathroom ceiling fell in...out...caved...hmmm I am sure there are more terms. Anyway this happened at 3am in the morning and I got dicked around by maintenance who still hasnt shown up.
I have a busy day today as it is but now I can't even smell clean for it. Lol, I took a shower yesterday but its not the same I want to take a shower today. So now I am a very pissed and grumbly panda of rage and awesomeness. If this isnt fixed before tomorrow...hell it doesnt even have to be fixed someone just needs to come in and actually look at it you can assume that I am going to be a raging ball of unforgiving Clem...which isnt actually good.

Now let me explain this I dont have a temper problem I just have a short fuse. Now this fuse is lined with gasoline and sometimes just sometimes I explode into a mass of curse words and shaking fists. Exhibit a. would be "dayhomemama" when she called me a loser and told me I make digital crap. I can take a couple of black jokes..the watermelon, the fried chicken, the grape soda...because I actually do like those things but I dont take being called a loser or my craft being called crap too nicely.
Now there are times when I dont pop my lid when someone lights the fuse. I just let it harbor. I am grunge holder so basically what happens is I push it back for another day and when they least expect it I will be there baseball hat and gag in hand.
Otherwise I am a pretty happy person. Lol, I am easily sold with candy and chicken...mmmm chicken. But this is a bit much for me.

So needless to say I am on the road to pissed of revenge. So if you talk to me today and I am a bit moody just ignore that. Lol, but I can say that I am going to a concert tonight right after I write up the ufc preview and turn it in for this weeks paper. I then have to go make some "Chadder Jalapeno" stuff...etc etc etc.

In other news...I have a headache. lol

The Definition

2009-02-21T09:09:00.000-08:00

What defines you? I have been wondering about this and I dont know why but I have wanted to ask that. Our fingerprints define us and our hair dna can tell on us but what defines us?
Lol, dont worry this wont become a tag blog from me but just a random question of thought. I spent most of yesterday night creating and laying down some extra ground work over at the sparrow and then I woke up this morning feeling ill. Its called you cant eat 40 bajillion calories of sugar and buffalo chicken and think everything is okay. *shivers*
Anyway back to that defining thing.When people talk about you what do they say? I can be compared to any number of movie characters but what makes you...well you?
Hmmm...btw fat vampires do exist!!!!!
*clears throat*
So this is my summary of me:
My name means kindness in spanish and I am a pretty kind person but I do have an arse-hole stretch streak of verbal sayings. Lol, I love to eat food ie why I probably need to find a way to make myself gold to be truly buddha. I can't spell well but I can design my pants off! I also suck with my english grammar.

But I dont have a definition. What is your definition of yourself? What defines you? What makes you, you?

Safety Dance

2009-02-20T15:54:00.000-08:00

I cant express how happy I am to have a ton of blue vinyl...because in retrospect I probably shouldnt have shelled out the cash for it. Lol, the auction got crazy and I was so cheap that I let it get the best of me until I spent $60 a roll on two 200 feet rolls of Blue Vinyl. My pocket shattered but my heart loved...loved me for who I am. Needless to say Clem will be putting in extra work time for the next two weeks because SHE for some reason was too cool for school and wanted two sets of blue vinyl.
My father came down at 7:45am in the morning which in Clem time was about an hour earlier than he should have.I was having weird dreams about the Simpsons. Mr burns was like Wyielelele Coyote and I was all about it. We got lost 3 times because I was tired and couldnt navigate we then got lost in the parking lot of the building we needed to get into lol.
Needless to say two auctions later and a roll of window cling printables I was in like swim wear. So expect to for sure see some window cling ware coming from me. Its going to be all clem-a-fied of course. I wont sell it for 10 dollars on some card stock like SOME people on etsy do...you know who I am talking about!!!!
In other news my crush is sick so give her some love by buying things from me. Lol, love how I stuck that in there right? In other great great news I am in love with Mike's Hemp Bracelets...yes I know it can never be but he is just so awesome. Its like if I ever wake up a man its on Mike!
Also snowboarding coming up soon and a bunch of fun little craft fairs. I am going to post a calendar on that side>>>>>>>>>> of my blog to eventually let you guys know where you can find me. If you want to support someone who I support that gets very little love or attention click here.
Other than that its a wrap....vinyl wrap :D
*plays the safety dance song*
ooooh yeah and heathenshearth last I checked was having a blog give-a-way I did not enter because it would be bias seeing as we are all like cuddle buddies but!!! Everyone else should :)

Bonjure Brochure

2009-02-19T11:42:00.000-08:00

I was awoken by a car accident outside. Its a sound that everyone knows. The crushing of plastic and that skidding of tires that you can feel in your bones. You wonder if someone is hurt of what they hit. Part of you needs to see the mess and the drama unfold even if it is life threatening. I on the other hand rolled over and said "Why...todays Wednesday...wait what day is today? I dont want to go to the auction....what day is today?" *looks at clock* "Its 9am, what day is it????" After about an hour of arguing with myself over what day it is I got up. Its Thursday which means I need to go to the mfn auction. I DONT WANT TO. Its about 27 F outside and I dont want to think. I think of an elaborate lie or story to tell about why I am not there and then give up and play in chat. Along the way I talk to Sojourn Curiosities who tells me "Its snowing outside". I am like snow? What? I look outside my window to find the street covered with ice. About an inch thick which is big enough to cover the whole street up to the curb. There is a man outside who works for the city poking at the ice with a stick. Now he gets paid 15 an hour to poke ice with a stick while I get paid what? Exactly, anyway after about 20 mins of poking he realizes that he should poke harder and then begins to poke harder. Its not an ice pick, its not a spade, and not whale harpoon but indeed a stick.
I sit back down and send the auction an email tell them that I will be over tomorrow morning. Tell a quick sweet lie about my car being frozen in the block of ice. I then call them an hour later to seal the deal and to my luck the construction works outside are literally pulling up the streets to get to the watermain pipe that broke. The perfect background setting for the perfect lie.
In other news I finished my cookies from Charlie Carter :(. Also I got this sweet burn on my tongue from eating pasta that was too hot. It looks like a snake but cooler cause its my tongue.
I also started introducing my real life work into my etsy store. Of course I am still using etsy users as examples instead of corporate identities but whatever keeps me from a lawsuit. Anyway you can now buy custom brochures from me :)
Which is a cool feature because now you guys dont have to ask if I make them anymore. Now you know. "The more you know, GI JOE"
Bonjour Brochure *tips my paris like hat*

In other other news Mike of Mike's Hemp Bracelets gave me this thingie. I am supposed to like spam about oooooh 10...5.....some random number of you all with this to get you to participate more in the community circle and prove that you actually read my blog but alas as we all know I wont. Lol, in other news I still got an award so you can suck it Dayhomemamma!!!!!!!!!!

If I were to tag 5 people though it would be:
Inkihandmade :P
Lanee Crochet
Auntie Dis
Heathens Hearth (Misty or Amy)
Isabella

Lol, but you dont have to if you dont want to. For the rules of this whole award read this here

Clem = Cookie Squared

2009-02-18T10:10:00.000-08:00

I am having an odd week it seems but what makes the week better is COOKIES! Magical glorious cookies. Yes cookies. If I have to say it one more time I think I will make everyone jealous. Lol, anyway yesterday I recieved 3 packages in the mail 2 were from Chase Bank and one was from Charlie Carter. Whom if you haven't noticed I had a bit of a kid crush on. Lol, I pushed her in the mud and laughed and then bought her a gift like all little kids do. So when I got the box I got all giddy and upset. Lol, I became upset because I couldn't get it open. Lol I even took a box cutter to it and still couldn't get it open! So then I just ripped it open and inside were double chocolate macadamia nut cookies. Oh sweet baby jesus did I cream myself.
So after I ate like 4 I went back to doing the normal Clem business...and then I went right back to the cookies. Lol, in other news I made a new Easter banner but today not yesterday I was too busy eating cookies. My other chick banner sold what within like 3 days of posting and went to an awesome home so I made a new one with a baby rooster. Speaking of babies littlepapoose's ninja bunnies spawned a bajillion lovely little babies and are now available in her shop. :)

Douche Bags, C-rags, and Old Hags

2009-02-17T12:26:00.000-08:00

So yesterday was quite the entertaining day for my inbox as everyone has read and I of course couldn't resist responding back for the third time. Lol, I have an addiction to having the last word and it is the one thing that keeps me from backing down in an argument even if I am wrong. Last night though however was not the case. Me and V went to karaoke and plowed out some songs but there was this one guy who was truly a male ass hat. I got there about 10 mins before V and we had a huge miscommunication. She thought we were meeting at her house and I thought we were meeting at the bar. So I sat down and began to flip through the song book when this homeless bag man strolls up and sits down with me. Now, if you have ever seen me you can imagine that you just dont do that. Lol, I'm dressed in all black, wearing a black hat, and blue gloves. I'm just too cool for school and I am also black myself. Lol, so I give the guy the look. You know which look I am talking about. The one where you are confused as to why someone who you dont know is either talking to you or sitting down by you. I laugh though and shrug it off and continue to flip through the book of songs. This is where he crosses the line. He gets up from around the table and sits next to me. Whoa, really? You are a homeless bag man rolling a cigg at the table and you sit next to me?????? In my head all I keep thinking is "I am going to kill V." By some sure grace she walks in the door and I scream at her. "V!!!!" Lol, I have never grabbed my stuff so fast in my life.
V gets plastered as normal and goes on stage and sings a song by the Vonbondies. There is this complete tool standing by me and he goes "Don't f-up my song. I love this show." and I am like whoa. When you go out with Clem you dont get heckled and if you do its by me. Lol, those are the rules. She gets off the stage and I am like dude V this guy is being a douche. (douche is my favorite bad word just in case you didnt know)
She is wasted by this point and says "I am going to get all MILF in his face." and by MILF she is referring to the woman who was on Real Chance at Love. I am like whoaaaa there tiger. Luckily it gets to the point in which V has to leave because she has work and no fight is had. I get home and start to settle down and my friend calls me and wants to come over its 1:30am sure why not. Lol, I love a good late night nesting eye. He brings me heart shaped cookies from Cheryl and Co and has the biggest grin on his face and says "This is for my Clemmy." I was like awwww. Alas he got none though lol.

The rest of the argument:
She then Says:

Listen, you're obviously got nothing better to do, and such a loser that you had to resort to swearing and nasty names because you obviously cannot think of better ways to use your tiny little brain. I just opened shop in January, so ya 7 sales, is not bad really, do the math jerk! You've been open since October last year, hope things go well for you and I certainly hope you don't treat your clients like this....so ya, I am not worried, considering card making is a hobby for me.....and our economy hasn't tanked just yet. Anyhow, keep up with the cute little fantasies about what my sex life is like, have fun.
BTW, you obviously give a shit what I wrote or you'd be smart enough never to write back!

And I then Say:
I've put more effort and money into my business then your silly card shop. I am sorry that you think that by some weird chance in heaven you are worth more than you are. So if you are bigger than me don't respond to this. Don't even open your mouth to breath. Lord knows it would only come out smelling like the crap you have spoke. You must remember that I was being polite when I first contacted you and you turned this into a bout of idiocy when you called me a loser. Oh, don't cry its okay that you dont know the difference between nice people and douche bags....I figured you would though seeing as you are a douche and it takes one to know one and in this case you didn't know the difference between your pee hole and your ass hole.
Oh and here are some numbers for you:
My Computer: $2,000
ADOBE Creative Master Suite: $2,499
Wacom Tablet: $180

So the next time you want to try and use me as a social tampon for your lack of awesomeness remember you are better than me and therefore dont have to respond to this. So when you go to sleep at night you can roll over and say "I won" and masturbate to the idea of it. All the while not responding to this because you are better than me and after all your economy isnt in a downward spiral right? I will remember to post you actually saying that somewhere. Lol, wait what am I saying you dont know your peehole from your asshole. Just remember you are better than me. Lol, now go wash out that dirty social hole you have so you can fuck off and leave this tampon alone. Lol, fucking idiot.

Here is my newest Easter Banner:

In My Etsy Inbox a letter from an upset seller

2009-02-16T12:10:00.000-08:00

I recieved an offline from my sister showing me that someone was trying to sell the same stickers I bought for a dollar from micheals on a piece of card stock for $10.00 which is outrageous. Its a 1.00 for some card stock and a 1.00 for the a pack of four stickers. So I send this:

"One of your card sets are for sure made from stickers from Micheals. Its really nice work but if people come across it and have seen it they will probably laugh at the price. Its a dollar sticker pack and you are selling it for 10 dollars as cards. You have a really nice store but its a bit over priced in some areas."

She then responds:
OMG, I didn't realize I have to clear it with you before I list my items!!! Oh no, they are all gonna laugh at me, what shall I do, I'm gonna have to close up shop and go hide under a rock!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

First, you sell digital crap, that once you have a program it probably cost you nothing to make digital banners...and when people buy them it's because they themselves wouln't or cannot or will not make them , hmmm, same goes for cards!

Second, what does it matter to you what I charge for stickers I bought at Michael's...did you know that my Big Shot die cutter was $129 and the Spellbiders to cut the scallop circles was $25 and the spellbinders to cut the tags was another $25, and the sheets of bazzill card stock were $1 each, the stickers, $1 too, The baubles, were $3 for a pack and since it's a set of 4 cards, they took about 45 minutes to an 1 hour to cut and put together and not to mention the adhesive and gross grain ribbon , oh and being creative enough to put them together and well, in the end I think it's a bargain and so do a lot of other people... and if anyone is laughing, it's me at you for wasting the time to tell me anything. LOSER!

Thank goodness today is a holiday here in Canada, or I'd never have wasted 10 minutes writing you this note.

So I then respond:
LMAO, wait who has more sales? Awww, I'm sorry did I catch when you when you were on your period? Or is just that the sex isnt good enough. Lol, if I am a loser for trying to suggest some friendly advice then you must be the biggest douche on the planet for thinking I was trying to bitch you out. God what is this idiots day. The next time you respond back to me make sure you pull your head out of your ass and stop fingering yourself. Then I might give a shit what you wrote. Lol, fucking dumb ass

This has been letters from my etsy inbox :)

If you would like to visit this sellers shop and help this bitch get some page views and actually make a sell lol feel free to by clicking here Or if you would prefer to just act like I didnt just curse up a storm and you still love me click here

Dead Banana = Bad Banana

2009-02-15T14:26:00.000-08:00

It is with a sad broken heart that I tell everyone of the death of someone close to me. Yesterday after the Valentines Day activities everything was going good but something went wrong. We were all laughing and joking and then the next thing I know there was angry voices ...soon the only thing left was an engraved ring.A ring made by a scorch path of light. The ring became a memory of what was and could have been. 3 months of hard work and tender love to be washed away in one instance. Ladies and Gents I am talking about the death of my rock band. I spent $202.81 on a game to have my Xbox eat it like candy. I spent most of last night taking pictures of my characters for todays funeral...
Lol, but f that! I woke up early today and went down to the game stop and got myself a handy dandy new game. Free of course. So now I can play rock band as happy as a clam...well Clem :)

I got this from littlepapoose so I am posting this here:
(X) Gone on a blind date
(X) Skipped school
( ) Watched someone die
(X) Been to Canada
( ) Been to Mexico
(X) Been to Florida
( ) Been to Hawaii
(X) Been on a plane
( ) Been on a helicopter
(X) Been lost - more than once!
(X) Gone to Washington, DC
(X) Swam in the ocean
() Cried yourself to sleep
(X) Played cops and robbers
(X) Recently colored with crayons
(X) Sang Karaoke
(X) Paid for a meal with coins only
( ) Been to the top of the St. Louis Arch
(X) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't
(X) Made prank phone calls
( ) Been down Bourbon Street in New Orleans
(X) Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose & elsewhere
(X) Caught a snowflake on your tongue
( ) Danced in the rain-naked
(X) Written a letter to Santa Claus
() Been kissed under the mistletoe
() Watched the sunrise with someone
(X) Blown bubbles
() Gone ice-skating
(X) Gone to the movies
( ) Been deep sea fishing
() Driven across the United States
( ) Been in a hot air balloon
( ) Been sky diving
() Gone snowmobiling
( ) Lived in more than one country
(X) Lay down outside at night and admired the stars while listening to the crickets
(X) Seen a falling star and made a wish
( ) Enjoyed the beauty of Old Faithful Geyser
() Seen the Statue of Liberty
( ) Gone to the top of Seattle Space Needle
() Been on a cruise
(X) Traveled by train
() Traveled by motorcycle
(X) Been horse back riding
( ) Ridden on a San Francisco CABLE CAR
() Been to DisneyWorld
(X) Truly believe in the power of prayer
( ) Been in a rain forest
( ) Seen whales in the ocean
( ) Been to Niagara Falls
(X) Ridden on an elephant
( ) Swam with a sea lion
( ) Been to the Olympics
( ) Walked on the Great Wall of China
( ) Saw and heard a glacier calf
( ) Been spinnaker flying
( ) Been water-skiing
() Been snow-skiing
( ) Been to Westminster Abbey
( ) Been to the Louvre
(x) Swam in the ocean
(X) Been to a Major League Baseball game
( ) Been to a National Football League game
(X) Played in the snow

MY BANDS:
The Brothers Divide:

Luke n Lace:

Blu Sparrow:

Siler Penis:

Love like Gold Baby!

2009-02-14T11:56:00.000-08:00

I had very weird day yesterday that I am going to skip over simply because of the fact that it is Valentine's Day. I am nerding out today with close friends who happen to all be single. Lol, I wonder if there is a trend going around. We are having terriyaki grilled steaks, some sides, and lovely lovely chocolate cake for dinner followed with a rock band marathon.Even if I was dating someone it would have ended with awesome eats and very nice evening. So my Valentines is going to go perfect to the idea of Clem. I wont be a downer today like everyone else and it makes me giggle that all those people who did plan something special for that special someone is getting dissed by hail, rain, sleet, and snow. So while you may love your love even if for only today the weather hates you lol.

Anyway here is a little shiny goodie for everyone to be all happy about because Clem love is love like gold baby!

Because ONLY Mike can can

2009-02-13T14:07:00.000-08:00

Today I got a package in the mail from Mike's Hemp Bracelets and I must say I am very impressed. On Mike's blog he had a give away of awesomeness and I entered for the giggle factor and actually one something. I opened the package to find a keychain inside with a note written in Mike's handwriting and a ziploc package with his card. I took out the keychain and glanced over it. Perfect color choice for me on Mike's end and part of me wanted to bite it. I knew then that I had to test it the only way I knew how. So I commenced operation "trying to fuck it up". I pulled and I tugged and I yanked and this mofo is sturdy. His braiding is tight and not a single loose strand or gaping hole. I can only imagine what the rest of his products look like and I would advise that everyone at least try something from his store.With craftsmanship like this who knows, Mike could one day be on the map for awesome hemp bracelets and you could be one of his first original buyers.

CLICK HERE

Ha ha if you actually clicked that it went to Mike's Etsy store.
I sold one of my first banners today and I am proud to have sent it off to a good home! In other news I waked a 1 mile today what did you do with your life?

Abandon Ship!

2009-02-12T10:05:00.000-08:00

It has come to my attention that I am slacking. Point in case I was playing around in my etsy store today and I was looking at what I was going to deactivate after v-day and then it hit me. I did not have a banner in mind to replace these guys. Sure everyone's holiday guess would be "Easter" problem with that is I made one Easter banner and I chucked it into my pc's trash can. So what next? What now? What am I going to post???? If you read my blog yesterday or even glanced you would notice that I already started on a set of Mother's Day banners but alas for some reason my brain just completely forgot about everything else.
I also have a few articles due for this up coming weeks paper. Lol, what have I been doing and where has the time gone? If you have ever been to the etsy portion of my website you would see that I have a ton of banners that I just dont put up. Like ever...never...oh no! I do more than make banners but for some reason I am limiting myself on etsy. OH NO!
Panic indeed. Everyone climb into the life boat its our only hope *climbs into the boat* Except you! *points out my first mate* You are now captain of this vessel and hereby must stay on board while this ship sinks. That is my last act as captain of this ship! *drops life boat into water*
Lol, and now that I got that off my chest here is a banner lol ironic.

Sleepy Time Lova

2009-02-11T06:58:00.000-08:00

I am trying to become semi-normal again with my sleep schedule so I am up at 9 am :). It was a cuddle night all the way for me but alas at 3am in the morning (which is when I went to bed) calling someone to come cuddle is weeee bit much. Lol, so I curled up with a ton of blankets and I feel hella good.
I had weird etsy dreams though. I dreamed that littlepapoose pulls up in a car and I hop in and her kids are in back. We swing around the corner and drive up to my house and apparently I know live in a two bedroom town house that I never use because as to quote myself in the dream "I dont even go upstairs so this is going to be knew to me." My walls were all white and there was this weird blue perfect lighting going on.
Lol, so needless to say I have no idea what that dream means but I do remember the last thing I thought of before I went to bed was how littlepapoose tucked me into in chat. Lol, WEIRD. @-*
If you remember earlier when I first started on Etsy I had banner nightmares. So this is a step up!
So for you guys today I have a banner I am waiting on an email from a certain 12Step so I can show you guys some photo techs in photoshop.

Mothers Day:

Flying High!

2009-02-10T15:33:00.000-08:00

Today is the official launch of "Blu Sparrow" which is a product of me and Etsy user Morganette. We are actually really pumped up about it and I am sure you guys will be too or at least you can fake like you are :)
So for the launch you guys get this kick ass Blu Sparrow wallpaper and a link to links about links!
Lol, literally everything but fookn facebook! Needless to say I am a bit wired about it. You will notice that trademark ClemArt feel on the banner. We are inbetween designs on the banner at the moment but if you love that one let me know :)
Anyway here is the wallpaper for you guys. Remember if it is not in your desktop size you can leave me a comment and I can make it to the size for you :)

Grab Me

blog

My 8 So Late

2009-02-08T22:47:00.000-08:00

I just got back in my house after a day of baking and rolling sexiness into chocolate. So I am pretty beat. You guys may or may not get in on the creations of today. I haven't decided how I am going to roll that one out. I got tagged today by Inkihandmade who seemed to think that I should tag 8 other people. Thats where you are wrong Inki!!!!!! I will stop this vicious cycle now! So anyway you get clem-tacular facts about me in a random list of ramblings.
In other news I lost my book to pay back my college loans somewhere in my house. Which sucks because now I can't even turn it in to access the late fee. I need about ooooh 16 grand to pay them back. Lol, yes I have worked down that 120 grand so if anyone feels like giving me oooooh 25 dollars. Lol, it would go to the "Clem Shouldnt Have Spent So Much Money On School" fund to back loans lol. Lol, okay thats enough begging for one night here goes your 8 random facts:

1. I have night terrors when I sleep. I scream, bark, growl, and sometimes talk in my sleep. I even wake up with bleeding scratches.

2. When I get extremely bored I take showers. So I sometimes end up taking 4 showers a day instead of 1.

3. I can not pronounce the word "crayon" correctly.

4. I am right handed

5. I can not measure with a ruler correctly. I am always an inch too big or an inch too small.

6. I once jumped out of a moving vehicle.

7. I sometimes say what I am thinking out loud and then try to cover it up by screaming things like "penis" or "fuck".

8. I am an INTJ

Those are my 8. Seeing as most of the people I know have been tagged its going to be awesome to see what everyone comes up with.
I was originally going to post the wallpaper of the month today but I will wait until tomorrow which puts me behind schedule by a day.
I also really enjoyed thinking of 8 random thoughts about myself.

4.

ARRRRR(new comic page)

2009-02-07T08:40:00.001-08:00

Arrrrr, me mateys! I am so not sure how this page came about. Originally the idea was to have the guy shoot the bullet past me and Lady Poosy and for Wood to knock him out. From there I would get tackled and the bigger fight would began. Instead this morning whilst drawing this page I decided to change the story up a bit. To answer your questions just I already had pages drawn out from last time but those pages have to be worked up towards. I think next week is when Green gets to be all ballsy. On other news I am hungry and would really like a nice sandwich.I also dont understand why basic html coding doesnt work on etsy. I will have to fight through that one I guess. I am going to spend most of today building Nemsis Productions Brochure uh...I think? i have the layout made and the pictures gathered now its just time to fill in some crafty words and ship it off :)
See me bigger here

Capie!

2009-02-06T19:09:00.000-08:00

I ran through most of today at a sloppy pace. I woke up at 12:32 after last nights 5am stay up and trotted outside. I found myself at the Main Library for the city over to us and I had brought my portfolio. As you all know I own my business and if you dont know...well now you kinda do. Lol, anyway I find myself working through things very quickly and since my business work load is work that takes me a matter of what 8 hours to do. Even if its 5 projects it doesnt go beyond 8 hours. So I figured why not apply for this head graphic designer job for a library. Sounds like cake and pie...cakepie....capie. Yes sounds like Capie. I sit there and do graphic work and then fix some presentations. Lmao, I ate that for b-fast!!!!!! So as I turn in my portfolio I walk out with the biggest grin on my face. I rule and I know..no...no..NO! I rush back into the library and I have forgot to attach my application which is all the way back at home. I track back down the library manager and I am like I forgot my application. She doesn't over to hand me one or tell me where I can print one off at she just says "Soooooooooo,I will just write that application on the way."
I stop and look at her and I am sure she can feel me calling her a million ways of stupid. I say thank-you and rush out the door. Alas, I get home about an hour later and decide that going out tonight not soooo cool. I chillax and sit back which in other words means I pass out. Lol, I wake up at 8pm and I am like who are you? Why are you in my bed? My cell phone of course does not respond to me. Lol, I dont know how it even got in my bed. I must have sleep dialed a few people. Anyway so for you guys this is a glimpse at some of the cooler etsy based projects I have done in the past few days. You might know I few of these names ;)

My New Business Card Design = Stellar!

Inkihandmade Business Card Design = Clean Pimp

Nemesis Productions Stationary and Label Design = Saucey Mamacita

Wheeee...Ooooowwww!

2009-02-05T14:02:00.000-08:00

Business all day everyday! Thats the champion way right? They work hard and then play hard. Lol, I have no idea where that came from but it sounded good. In other news its V-day Month you guys and I am sure everyone is "Oh SO Excited". I myself am not. I am more excited about Saint Paddy's Day which would equal me going out with friends and playing games and drinking until we all remember that we have big kid jobs and shamefully go home at 2 am. So with that in mind what does this month have in store? I can tell you what my blog has in store!!!! Lol, this saturday everyone can expect a page or more of "Tales From Etsy Land". I know I know everyone is all excited and throwing their children over board into the ocean.
In other news I found out what the cool feel of ice really feels like. As I strolled down the streets groceries on my back I felt a slight push. By push I mean I fell down lol. Like hardcore on the ice I landed like spiderman...or more like that guy who always lands fist down. Whats his name? Anyway after that event I then leaped up and acted like I was trying to get my cell phone out of my pocket and slid the rest of the way to Chase Bank.
Lol, so with that being said. Anyone else having fun with this freezing weather?

Also I am whoring myself out for the pillow give-away at:
http://www.simplemakes.com/
I love those mfn pillows I just am too cheap for my own good

While Brown

2009-02-04T11:28:00.001-08:00

I am tired very tired. Lol, but that wont stop me from playing around on my blog/s today. I have a lot of catching up to do and enough time to do it in. I received a call from my Dad this morning saying "Don't go outside! Don't go to Staples." Lol, in my sleepy state I assumed the zombie attack was upon us. It was more or less to let me know that if I stepped 4 feet outside I would have instantly frozen and been but a memory. So all the things I was going to do today has been postponed until tomorrow. Which is good bad. I have a few errands to run for a potential upgrade in designer positions and probably should have braved the mfn cold for it but I am going to trust my dads judgement on this one. He called me at 7am!!!!!
In other news I went to the dentist on Monday and they were all about my teeth. I have healthy teeth but not so healthy gums. So while my teeth equal no cavities and infections my gums equal the dreaded number 4!. When you are in the dentist chair and they check the areas around your gums and teeth they call out numbers. 1 and 2 are good 3 and 4 means its getting bad but if you get a 5 that means you seriously now have to come to the dentist every 3 months instead of 6.
So with that behind me I played with my sisters dog and even got Rallys/Checkers.
So thats the catch up on me. Now time for the good stuff.
I have a new design for you guys. I know how much you love my banners *snickers* and by banners I mean the comic that I drew. Lol, so I am going to post something cooler than a comic. Which would be one of my failed banner sets. I actually drew the design in the background of this. Its 100% clem done but the reason why I Vito'd this design was because I didnt find it cool enough. I am sure someone would have like it but I found it too plain and generic and I didnt feel that it separated my banners from anyone else who could draw and intricate design.

While Brown:

Forever Away

2009-02-03T12:47:00.000-08:00

Amanda had always been a quiet soul. She never asked for anything even when it was needed and always found herself in the worst of situations. She had been waiting on a sign of some sorts as she walked to the park. In one hand her house keys and in the other a note. It was a cool day and there was still snow on the ground that had began to melt. She felt like she had been waiting for this her whole life. She began to cross the over pass and stopped and looked into the river below her and tossed her keys into the water.
A soft plunk noise echoed back up to her and she looked at the sun. Brilliant white light in the sky kissed her eyes in return. She closed her eyes and held the moment in her mind. Every thing around her stood perfectly still and this moment was her forever.She walked down the slight hill and the snow that hadn't yet melted crunched under her feet. She made her way to the river tightly clutching the note in her hand.
Standing at the edge of the river her reflection danced against the water. She slid her right foot in and closed her eyes. Snow was still around the edge of the river and caused the water to be near freezing but she didnt mind.She slid in her left foot and found that everything was becoming cooler. She opened her eyes and she couldnt see her breathe as she breathed out. She took one look around and not a soul was out on this bright blue day.She took the note and ran her fingers around her note to a little vessel around it. She pulled out the stopper and refolded the note smaller and shoved it into the vessel. She replugged it and hid it back under her shirt.The water became a comforting cool against her skin and she smiled.
She closed her eyes and fell in. The river current pulled her under the thin sheets of ice in some areas and bobbed her up whenever she hit the areas without ice. She felt alive in the tumble and tussle and thought of nothing but the river rushing around her. She prayed that the water be the only thing her skin would ever feel. She opened her eyes and saw the ice above her and slid her hands across its surface as she was pushed under it.
The cars passing knew nothing about the woman under them and in the river. The birds who perched on the trees along its edge didn't notice the dark shadow as it rushed under them. The air she once was standing in existed without knowing she had.
As Amanda let out the last bit of air she had been holding something weird happened. Her necklace with the tiny vessel snagged something. She stopped instantly and found herself no longer at peace with her situation. She grabbed at the string of the necklace and attempted to get it over her head. The string wouldn't budge off of her and Amanda put both feet on the bottom of the river. Her head hit the chunk of ice above her and panic set it.She banged on the ice and scratched at it. The sun had weakened the ice and given her a chance of escape by pure luck. As her head burst through the ice the necklace let go and she found herself able to move again. She dragged herself out of the river and sat on its side. Shaking and scared she reached her hand out to the necklace on her neck to see what had caught it. Shining back at her were her house keys. They had gotten tangled on a branch hanging into the frozen river and then gotten tangled on the necklace around her neck.
She stood up legs shaking and wobbly and ripped the necklace. She tossed it into the river and climbed her way to the nearest road in search of help and a ride. As the necklace sunk into the river water it smacked into a rock. A rock 4 times the size of Amanda that would have cracked her open like a coconut. As water filled the vessel the note insides ink began to bleed out. As the words began to erase themselves a piece of the note caressed the inside and read as follows
"For everyday tried, for every second lost, I have always loved you even though you were forever away. With much love......" The water quickly rushed in erasing the name and just as it entered its watery graveyard soft petals flew from a near by car window kissing the sky just like Amanda's eyes once had. The car stopped and let Amanda get in.

But MOM! I dont wanna....

2009-01-31T17:24:00.000-08:00

Today was the day of I dont wanna. I didnt want to give the bank my money to pay rent, I didnt want to go to the anime convention all my cracked out friends went to, I didn't want to get out of bed, and I especially dont want to color in the comic today. LOL, I suck. Last night I went out and got a bit lippy with the drinks...as in a guzzled shots. While standing on the corner on my cell phone this car slowly creeps by me with a white guy hanging out of it. I know what this is. He is going to hurl this cup at liquid at me and I can't stop him. I could dodge out of the way especially since I can see it slow mo coming at me. He for sure throws his drunk on me and then laughs as the car speeds off. I think he assumed that I was an anime nerd or leaving the Columbus Blue Jackets game. In both cases he was wrong. I may not ever see him again but I have put his face to memory. So if I end up on the news for beating a man with his own two fists then you know why.
My friend Tato came down for the convention this weekend baring gifts a plenty. He had cupcakes, potato chips, booze, and of course a special hoodie from Justin my best tall white man ever and he calls me short black girl. We are batman and robin but defined by our races.The hoodie consisted of a panda wearing a pimp hand, having a cane, and a breif case with a slogan that says "It's alright ladies, I am an international sex panda pimp." Lol, classic
Tato even brought me a cutie. Lol, now let me explain what I mean by cutie a very lovely brown haired something with curls a million. I giggled sadly though a bit too much of a prude for me and too young...like two years younger than me. Alas it seems I should stick to my profile right littlepapoose?
Lol, so you guys get nothing today. No banners, no goodies, and no comic. Instead what you do get is me saying I dont want to and the knowledge that I wub 98% of you. The other 2% know who you are *eyes them*

The Feature

2009-01-30T08:19:00.000-08:00

I woke up this morning (at like 9:30am) and did my normal checking of emails. So as I sit here a little after 11:18am I go through my blogs. I am seeing a ton of featured people in today's blogs and I am wondering if I missed the the posting to everyone to feature some or something in their blog.I am one of those "I enjoy the stroke of my ego" people so upon looking back through my blog I guess I technically only feature myself.
I thought on the matter of the feature and I would play favorites too much. I mean I already do a comic with a .5% of Etsy as the cast mates what about the other 99.5% who will never be in it?
So today instead of featuring the crazy awesomeness of myself or my etsy friends I am instead going to do something amazing. I've seen people do features on monkeys, sweets, soaps and hand bags but nothing like this. Nothing like a Clem feature. This is going to be a fookn Clem makeover banzai. Its going to be like Home Make Over meets Top Design meets Jizz in my pants. So I hope you are ready for this. Cause here it comes!
Lol, okay I lied but I got you pumped up didn't I? It is an nice idea though. ClemArt Design Makeover Banzai. Lol, I couldn't do it at random or I could but then I would be that person who was a "dick" for telling someone their shop graphic items sucked. Either way one day I will feature someone even if its that guy who makes exploding frog soap.....

I was rummaging around online and found these awesome comics from like 5 years ago. Lol, so I am going to post them

(click the smaller comic to make it bigger )

Jordan

2009-01-29T04:55:00.001-08:00

I went to bed last night at 10pm. I wanted to be able to wake up early for a ton of errands I have to do today. I woke up at 3am wide awake. Thats a whopping 5 hours of glorious sleep especially since I didnt have to be awake for ooooh another 3 or 4 hours. My body has gotten used to sleeping 5 hours and then waking up to do work. Normally I go to bed at 4am after spending a night in the chat room with my fellow "Tales From Etsy Land" cast mates but alas last night I was trying to be awesomely good.
In other news (besides the fact that I think I might need to go back to sleep) Nemsis Productions gave me a kick ass shout out in her my craft blog. I rewarded myself with a nice steamy shower. So if you see me around in Etsy Land make sure its me and not some insane sleep deprived version of me walking like a zombie into chats. You can tell the difference between the me and zombie me by how often I ask questions and if I put my foot in my mouth.

Paranoia

2009-01-28T09:41:00.000-08:00

So I think I am going crazy in a matter of words. Lol, my weird sleep schedule attached to my sometimes echo built work load is nothing. And by nothing I mean the way things are going its not weighing on my subconscious at all. But the thing that is making me paranoid is reading and research. I find myself googling like a crazy person in those late wee-night hours. Dreaming and hoping for something more magical then I already have. Like there is some hidden word that I haven't yet discovered that when I google will open up a whole new world of ideas and surroundings.I am always looking for new ideas or funny things to read. So its almost like a life line to the world. Which btw is snowing great guns outside.

I woke up this morning at an unknown time and went into the bathroom. Everything was pitch black yet I kept having this creepy feeling that something or someone else was in my apartment so I shut my bathroom door and sat in the bathroom in the dark. I kept having flash backs to "Saw One" in which the little girl kept telling her dad there was someone in her closet and he didn't listen. I stuck my hand out and ran my fingers over my closet door in the bathroom. The wooden blinds barely responded as I pressed on them.
I got done with what I was doing and flush and as normal washed my hands but I closed the bathroom door behind me. I felt better with the door closed but then I tried to talk myself into being "a big kid" and I opened the door. I didn't feel so good anymore. I turned around and stared into the bathroom and it was this gaping pitch black hole with a door frame. Something wasn't right and I could feel it. A surge of paranoia took over me and I raced into my bedroom and I shut my door.
As I laid back down to sleep all I kept thinking was I have to go here tomorrow and I must do this. My bedrooms temperature quickly dropped without the circulation of warm air and cold and I bundled up under two comforters. I awoke to the sound of my phone ringing and a familiar hello. What an odd thing paranoia is.

Konkers

2009-01-27T13:43:00.000-08:00

Its a busy yet slow day for me. I had a panic attack trying to do my taxes. Lol, I have so many freelance gigs on the side its impossible for me to keep up so I think I might just go to H&R and suck it up.
In other news I am partially bored out of my witt but in that same token I am so tired. I am running on kinda sorta fumes which basically means nap time. I wonder what keeps everyone else going after staying up late in chat...

I found myself having an emo day yesterday. I was playing around in the forums and I saw the most horrible sight ever...sales. Lol, I thought quickly to myself I am 20 times better than this person what gives? The difference was all in price. There was about a 3 dollar difference. Which meant that I was out of my bargaining range. So I posted a forum topic asking how other people deal with the idea of competition. Only one person responded. Eh, I guess no one is in competition right?I am sure people just watch other peoples stores just for the fun of it right? Even if they make the same thing as you? Oh you clever dog you! Konkers to you!

In other news my BFF Inkihandmade sent me an awesome fooking post card in the mail and I am glad to say I got it. I put it on my fridge and all. :)

T-Shirt Hell is CLOSING?!?!

2009-01-26T06:23:00.000-08:00

I am a person of witty yet bad humor so of course I love t-shirts that point that fact out. So I buy most of t-shirts from you guessed it t-shirt hell. I woke up and was playing around in one of my 24 emails(literally 24) and I was like ooooh t-shirt hell. I click on the email and it says they are closing. Now I cant even get it to come up in my browser window. Gah, for who will make me t-shirts of witty bad humor? Who will tell me that the Pillsbury dough boy believes in "White Flour". *cries a little bit and regains my composure* GAH!
*phew* I just the page to load and this isnt a fooking sale. lol, everything is still the same price and the guy is like a millionaire....
Anyway in other news I spent most of yesterday twiddling around with a brush set for Inkihandmade and banners for 12Step. It was pretty good fun until I realized it was like 10pm and I was supposed to go out with a friend for pizza...woops.
I am sure she wont even notice I didn't go out with her due to the fact she smokes enough trees to cause global warming (stolen from ludacris. Regardless I love that mofo. Me and her once drove her car over a huge hill and fooking flew through the air for like 3 seconds before her car scrapped the ground and I found out that I could fly. I was in a seat belt too!!!!!
So to all of you who enjoy flying in cars this one is for you:

Grog Soup

2009-01-25T09:54:00.001-08:00

I believe that I went to bed at 1amish or was it 2amish...hmmm. The odds of me waking up at a decent time though was slim. *guzzles some hot tea and then remembers that its hot* Mmmm....owwwwwww. Yet for some reason I am all sorts of groggy and clumpy eyed. Lol, clumpy eyed. Anyway I went out to the party last night and it was a total bust so being the good Ol Clem that I am I hopped to a new party which we then couldn't find parking for and went home. *le sigh*
In other more business like news radrb8vicki 's brochure for her paperbead making tool is done and as soon as it goes into printing and she gets them in her hands I will post a bit of it here so you guys can get all proud of me and swoon. The kind of swooning I do when I see littlepapoose in a chat room and rush in to join her.
Also in other business news I am going to the RokCity Studios Showcase on Friday for free so I am going to be all up in those bands grills interviewing them which should be awesome.
If you have been on my page recently you have seen the newest addition...well two new additions to my profile which I haven't featured in my blog due to the comic so here is the first one which is a new Valentine's Day banner for the world of Etsy.

The Great Debate

2009-01-24T13:46:00.000-08:00

So technically today I should stop the comic and continue back to my old ways of banners and semi-crazy stories about monsters in the basement or smelly soap that magically makes your skin feel better than any soap ever did. Now the problem with this means that all those extra pages that I have lying around has to wait to be posted for the next cast members birthday which in this case would be CharlieCarter in March. Lol, thats almost two months away and I should probably feed littlepapoose's addiction to knowing whats going to happen next. If I stop now English wont be featured for two months oooooooor I can post a page a week on a given day and every time a cast members birthday rolls around make it a whole week. Now I am debating this like none other due to the fact that well I have all these pages to sit on. I guess I could make them look better or taste better with white wine but alas why?
Also I was lying in bed waking up from a well needed nap when I heard this loud "FUMPBUMPTHUMP" and then it was followed with a "Mooowosdj" moan. I live next to an old man (as many of you readers know from my whole post about him)and I assumed he had fallen down, was out for the count, was never going to get back up.
Now here is the problem with me. I don't leap up to the rescue unless I feel like someone really needs to. I am one of those "No way, run bitch run" people so I dont really save others. So I waited silent as a mouse to see if he would make anymore noise. The problem with this is if I wait too long and he has been down on the ground then there is a slight chance he wont make it and if I jump up and he is perfectly fine and wonders why a breathless black chick is at his door he might think I am crazy. So I sat there...well more like layed there and then to my surprise a good 5 mins later he was talking to himself again and carrying on. So in my brain I think he dropped the body of the woman who he holds hostage (weird dream I had)and was cursing at it for weighing down his walker.
*clears throat*
I also have like 2 parties to go to and in which my answer was "No". The odd reason behind my answer made me feel a great ball of shame. I wanted to sit on Etsy and chat with everyone. How lame am I? Lol, people who are within touching reach of me ask me to go out and I am like nope gotta talk to people I have only seen in photos. Sorry can't help ya. Lol, whoa I think I have an addiction to etsy chat with my etsy friends...
Anyway I need you guys to decide for me. Comic once a week or no comic until the next cast members birthday?

Blood Splattered Tears (comic continued mature auidience)

2009-01-23T18:30:00.000-08:00

About a year ago I downloaded "The Cinematics" cd and I was not really feeling it. I liked about two songs and I played those on very rare occasions. I clicked on one of the songs today by a random action of clicking I like to do and I landed on the song "Maybe Someday". In the song he says "No blood splattered tears." How impossible is that I thought...
I slept in today and when I did get up I printed out inkihandmades postcard for shipping. So if you are reading inki you will be getting the card either monday or tuesday depends on when mail pick up is. Anyway, I went grocery shopping and got raped by the prices. Fooking 66 dollars in food. OUCH. Man, and my back hurts from trucking the groceries the clem fashion way.
Anyway todays blog title is very fitting for the comic.As we all know this was building up to some action which in turn took a very odd turn when I was writing this. I draw scene by scene and sometimes I will forget to draw a scene. The reason for that is because I am literally writing while i am drawing. I knew that I wanted there to be a big bar fight and for everyone to join in and to introduce "Captain Jack Mehoeff" aka Faeriedtreasures but it kind of got out of hand. Yesterdays pages with the guy throwing up becomes very important to introduce Englishmanips character lol. So I mean I had a lot of things to build to without many drawings or time. Especially since I wanted to establish that "Asshole Anders" is the bad guy.
Now I know littlepapoose is the sweetest apple on the planet so the action and violence thing isnt well...her thing. Lol, so i do apologize in advance for todays and tomorrows ultra violence filled pages. So for that I am limiting the next couple of pages only to blogger
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Wakey Wakey...but no bakey? (comic continued)

2009-01-22T08:20:00.000-08:00

I am getting all sorts of womp womp coming from my brain. Its like womp womp "You dont have any bacon nor do you have sausage and all you have is one packet of blueberry pancake mix. Womp womp, you do not shop properly." I MADE A LIST I SWEAR!!!!!! *sighs*
Me and littlepapoose were up till all hours of night and if she hadnt gone to bed I wouldn't have gone to bed. We have a cool pact like that. We are like long lost crazies in a sea of crazies...its awesome.
Also on another ironic note I applied for this freelance writing gig and the guy was like "I would like to see an example of your blog." And I was like "Shsdjdsbjfd oooooooh, yeah....hmmmm....kay...uh" *jumps out window and runs*
I some how only managed out of like 5 pages of drawings to only get 2 pages done for today *le sigh* So no wood...which makes me sad cause he is going to big and burly and all manly like "WOOD". Lol, I loves it. Oh but today I do introduce my wifey...
Big stuffs here

I'm a big Kid! (comic continued)

2009-01-21T07:47:00.000-08:00

Uh, I just woke up and I feel like I just drank until I passed out. Lol, oddly enough thats not what happened. BUT if that was what had happened( I dont even know if that sentence made sense) then it would have happened because today is ACTUALLY littlepapoose's birthday. We would have gotten drunk and been marry and had cakes and pies and chicken wings. There would have been liver performers and giraffes.
*clears throat*
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
LOL, and with that here is some more of the comic. Tomorrow we actually get to the Vulva Tavern which means we meet CharlieCarter's character and the bad guy of the story for now. We may meet Nothinbutwoods character but I dont know how many pages I will get done. And on Friday I am determined to introduce Englishmanip's character. Anywho here it is in blog form and here it is larger here

Tales From Etsy Land "Chatters Island" pt 2

2009-01-20T04:07:00.000-08:00

I was sooooo pumped up I decided to post these guys as close to the real morning as possible. Which to me is actually 7am. I am really excited about these pages and the ones that come after them. I already have everything written in my head and right now its all about putting it on paper. I hope to be able to at least get to "The Vulva Tavern" by Thursday or Friday that way I can introduce "Big Booty Carter" and "Hemorrhoid Ass Ander Captain of The Rusty Trambone" but until then we have some chit chat between Captain Penis and Lady Poosy that must be had of course.
Also you will notice a new addition to page. I added a Captain Penis Pants Twitter follow button. So hopefully I get all the characters in order and make everyone their own Twitter button of their character. So without further adu here are pages 2 and 3 of the story. If you cant read it click here

Arrrr (adult conversation)

2009-01-19T07:08:00.001-08:00

This week is littlepapoose's birthday which to my knowledge is Wednesday. So with little time on my hands (i found out two days ago) I thought to myself what could I get her for being awesome? I pondered on this for a while and even ate a sandwich and then it hit me. Lady Poosy!!!!!
So last night in the chat a group of us made pirate names and named our ships which for this week will come in handy since its going to be Lady Poosy week. Lol, I know classic right! But dont fret I am not going to go on about how amazing she is. Instead I made her this ....dun dun comic. Lol, its very quickly done seeing as I worked on it for about 5 hours total which if you have ever seen my artwork you'll be like ohh....I also colored this and drew this at 12 am in the morning so I am thinking lol maybe today I will ya know sleep? But hey going to bed at 5:45 am is awesome!

With that being said I give you page one of Tales From Etsy Land "Chatters Island".

Make A Brush Tutorial

2009-01-18T10:36:00.000-08:00

Alrighty this is a dangerous tutorial since you wont get some of the extra stuffs behind the image but here it goes:

I've provided you guys with the image as usual. Today we are going to be working with a flower image. If you would like to work with you own photo or drawing it needs to be in either gray scale or black and white. If the photo or drawing is in gray scale remember that anything that is white will not show up on your brush.

Step One
Alrighty, first step is to get this flower opened in photoshop. After that we select our brush tool.

Step Two
Lets look on our tool bar and we will find a number next to a brush shape. Next to the number is a little arrow and thats what we want to click on to get our brush menu to drop down.

Step Three
With our brush menu you down we can see a list of the brushes currently in use. If you are an older version of me you might have 80 brush sets that dont belong to and if you are new to this then this is where all your photoshop brushes are in the program.

Step Four
Sadly we now have to deleted all of this brushes one by one. Right click on a brush and select delete. When all of your brushes are deleted move on to step five.
Things to be aware of
If you have a ton of brushes and you find it too hard to save them all simple reset the brushes and a save window will pop up. Save those current brushes and then start from the newly reset brushes and delete them.

Step Five
Select "Edit" from the tool bar to get your drop down menu to pop up.

Step Six
Look for and find something that says "Define Brush Preset" and select it.

Step Seven
A window should pop up saying the name of the file ".png" or ".jpeg" ".psd" etc select inside of that window and name your brush. Then follow that up by hitting "ok"

Step Eight
Reselect the brush tool and bring down your brush menu again by clicking the arrow. There you will find your newly made brush. Click on the little guy and lets give it some love.

Step Nine
Lets make a new photoshop layer. If you dont know how you can either:
a. Go to your layers palette and select the thing thats a funky square. If you hoover over it, it will say "Create New Layer". Click it and you have a new layer.
b. Look up on your tool bar and select "Layer" and then follow that by selecting "New" and then "New Layer".

Step Ten
Lets turn off our bottom layer by using the "eyeball" in photoshop. Just click the eyeball next to your layer in order to turn it off.

Step Eleven
Select your new layer and have at it. Click, drag, make it big, make it small, and change the color if you like. Get a feel for that new brush.

Step Twelve
Lets save this brush. Select the arrow again and drop down your brush menu. You look in the top right hand corner of the brush menu and there is a tiny little arrow. Select this guy and a whole new menu should pop up.On it you want to select save and well...name this brush set and save it out. (dont worry if you want to add more brushes to the set its a snap)Also remember where you save this little guy to.

Step Thirteen
With this guy saved lets get back your old brushes. Open up the brush menu again and once more click on that tiny arrow in the corner. Find and select "Reset Brushes".

Step Fourteen
A new window will pop up asking if you want to discard this current brush or keep it.
Select "Append" which means to keep and now you have all your old brushes back plus your new brush.

Things to be aware of
This will not reload all of the brushes that you have collected over the years if you are one of those people. You have to go through and mainly re-add them.

Now that you Have all that out of the way have fun with making brushes!

As always here is your badge if you have successfully completed this tutorial.

Butt End Fist

2009-01-17T08:49:00.000-08:00

So everybody knows what tomorrow is right? *looks at all of you blog readers* Its tutorial day!!!! Lol, the one day out of the month (which seems to always be sunday)in which I post a tutorial in photoshop. How ever this week I have been getting all sorts of questions about dreamweaver, flash, and as always photoshop. So I am making tomorrow an open tutorial day. Which also means I am open to requests today for anything that you guys want the tutorial to be one. I'll basically pick one out of a hat and then go from there. Since I post my blog on like 3 different sites that means hopefully I get a nice well rounded set of things people want to know about programs.
In other news I am feeling kind of like a twat for telling my ex to shove off. Today is their birthday and their horrible new girlfriend didn't do a damn thing for them. Which yes I know I should roll around in the idea of it and giggle every four minutes about how much more I rule than everyone else and how I am perfectly awesome....but I can't.
So needless to say I think I will shove out a card or something for their b-day. Which makes me feel like I put my foot in my mouth and then was all fist-ta-cuffs and being a ding dong wanger. I guess more of a "butt end fist".
ALSO!!! I have goodies for you guys today. I know when I tell stories you guys are like there is NO WAY you fooking played in a bad or took photos for them. So I am posting a few of the photos from last weeks show today :)

The Dirty Flaggs

Death of a Quilt Woman

2009-01-16T11:17:00.000-08:00

I spent most of yesterday talking on Etsy which for once wasn't by accident. Etsy has this tiny little hook that she likes to stick in you and every time you try to walk away from her she slowly reels you back in. So yesterday I was hook free from my Bad Mistress and got to chit chat with a few new people. In that respect I ran into a certain Etsy user who's banner was made by my ARCH NEMESIS. So of course without thinking I made a new one. Thats is when the lovely Littlepapoose was like you know "If you walk up to her and tell her banner looks bad it would be like being a plastic surgeon and walking up to people and saying 'I'm a plastic surgeon let me help you'" Which was an epic statement so operation crush my ARCH NEMESIS'S balls was on hold...well in this case their wig wom hut.
So instead of today this being an all new awesome banner you get to see the banner I was going to give to the person minus their name. I changed it to something more "fitting". Also I got to spend some of my night talking with Ultra Punch which was completely awesome. I got to see his 360 avatar which actually was an inverted black man. Lol, which I loved.He then told me mine looked more asian than anything. And I was like you have no idea how hard it is to dress female avatars in this piece. Lol. He sadly though doesn't have any of my games so we couldn't play anything. So I guess I might get guitar hero 3 but I really think he should just get Rock Band and not be sooooo lame.
I also got an awkward call this morning from the ex asking if I got them anything for their birthday. Now I am a very logical illogical person which means I make no sense but perfect sense at the same time. So I thought wait didn't you leave me for an 18 year old...so why would I have gotten you anything? Hmmm, maybe I am being too logical lol.

Death of a quilt woman:

Eh Mhm...who?

2009-01-15T09:44:00.001-08:00

I am one of those people who are all about the idea of "The Hunt". You pick someone or something and then you get it. Which would be awesome except for due to the fact that when I get it I am like soooooo...*looks around and sneaks out the backdoor*
The only thing I haven't run out on is my business lol, but give it time and someone else will be running it for me.
With that being said there are a ton of projects I have started on and never finished. None of them business and always personal. I have a folder on my computer that literally says "Eh Shrugs" which means I might get to it later but doubt that.
I have half finished animations and a website for my business that I update only because I don't like bugs or quirks but its pretty much not finished.
So today I finished an "Eh Shrugs" banner. I used 100% all Clem photoshop brushes and I am proud to say this "Eh" is now an "Mhm". Lol, only problem is my watermark kills this beast. Still looks awesome I swear!

Seaweed:

Sheep in Clem's Clothing

2009-01-14T10:35:00.000-08:00

I got to Skully's last night and set up Tyler's drumkit. Except I was going to be playing it for him. I haven't played real drums in 6 years so I set it up like rock band drums. Lol, it was the only way I could remember how to hit what.My hands were shaking and I didn't know any of the bands songs they were like "You listen to our music all the time." Correction you play your music all the time and I tune it out.
I shook my head and started to play. I have never felt more shy in my life. Who was this sheep in Clem's clothing and why were they stealing our glory? (our as in...well you get it lol)So I definitely felt awkward and then when I got into they would stop a song and go on to the next one. It was only sound check but it was like GAH!So while playing I realized they need more r&b rythym. Lol, but it was a good time.
At about 10 is when Tyler finally got there to he definitely did what he's good for. There was 2 bands before them and not a one of them stayed to the end, which was sad. They made them sit through all of their whine singing and drawn out playing and not a one stayed through their set. The show was a bust. The band was falling apart because they dont practice enough and the snow gave them an empty room of folks to play to. They made 180 dollars and 150 of that had to go to the sound guy. Needless to say they lost out big but it was experience...I guess. In my real band (my rock band) I dont get less than five stars.
I on the other got to take a ton of pictures while Tyler played and now I am cleaning them up in photoshop. You never notice how bad someones acne is until you are cleaning it up. In other words I am going to stroll through the world of Etsy full speed today so look out for me :)

Wobyn:

Weighing Opitions

2009-01-13T09:52:00.000-08:00

Today was one of those days in which I refused to move from my bed. I kept saying I want a break! My phone rang, someone knocked on my door, and it was just too cold to get from under the covers. I know what you are thinking "Clem you own your own company and all you have to do is design things from your house and only leave for meetings." And your right, but in that respect give me the benefit of the doubt I am latched onto my computer and internet as if it were necessary for life. Which in my case it is because thats how I pay the bills. Between emails of clients and emails of people who might become clients I am on Etsy chatting with potential clients and networking to no end.
I originally felt like I did nothing in my day. Like all I did was sit around and play video games...which was true but not quiet. I would work for x-amount of time and then while waiting on responses I would play Rock Band or Tropico. I would stare down at my hands and then whack myself a good one for not trying harder to build up my own company. Its just my brain couldn't wrap around how to try harder and how to increase my earrings to more than 500+ a month.
I started on redoing my website and I even built up a new color scheme and it just wasn't good enough. I started again and again and now I am also done but there is forever a piece of code that doesn't work or an image that takes too long to load. Constant saving and unsaving. My sleep schedule has become insane because I am always thinking always pushing. Needing newer brushes and cooler banners for Etsy.
Yet I can't stop. I love building websites, I love seeing someone buy one of my banner designs off Etsy, and I love networking. Its like a bonus to no end to be able to do things I love. Yet today was one of those days that I didn't want to. I didn't want to log into blogger, etsy, yahoo, myspace, twitter, and mycraft. I just wanted to stay in bed and maybe have some chips.
So here I am lol. At work but I am way happier after watching this...

Blog What Not?

2009-01-12T09:46:00.000-08:00

I looked into blogger today to see that I am currently not following any blogs. Which I find highly impossible because if you follow my blog I follow you. I live in the world of 50/50 equals happiness for all so I don't know where all my blogs went.
Now before this happened I was going to be all happy and filled with cheer about the snow last night, but now not so much.
I went outside last night wearing a pair of shorts, jeans, a long sleeve t-shirt, a short sleeve t-shirt, a hoodie, a coat, gloves, and a hat to find that it was snowing. Now I did not know it was snowing I just assumed it was cold because I could feel the draft in my apartment. As I walked I felt like a little kid wishing that I had worn my boots out so I could play in it. The snow flakes were HUGE. Like the kind where you hold out your tongue and every single one hits it without you having to chase it.
I almost went back into my apartment to get my camera and then I remembered what I was supposed to be doing. Which is A. getting a bag of ruffles and B. getting a chicken corn dog. Lol, so on my way back I looked up at a the tree I had passed on my way over and just kept thinking. I am going to blog about this. Okay, mindless chatter over here is a new banner design. Using 3 yeah thats right 3!!! Of my new brushes. I am slowly working my way into liking them.

Wooden Clock:

Pride and Wallpapers..sounds like a fun store

2009-01-11T09:36:00.000-08:00

I spent most of yesterday helping out my sister with some of her business stuff. I found myself doing that thing where you are like wanting to bang your head on the desk but you don't want to help yourself. The problem is that I was trying to help her online instead of in person. So how I would describe things would leave her saying "What...nah I don't see that." So there was a lot of screen shots being taken on my end. All in all though I can say that I am super proud of my sister. She has been talking about doing her own business for a while and she hearing how excited she gets (via yahoo messenger) is awesome. I got her Myspace, blogger, and sadly she got angry at twitter and beat it with a stick and then got dinner...but other wise an awesome experience :D.

Also I am really excited about January's Desktop. I loved it so much I put it into widescreen format for my computer and currently am enjoying it. Eventually my link will lead to the website which will give you guys more choices on desktops but for now while I finish the redesign and work out all the kinks (mainly the video page)it will still link back to my photobucket so you can steal it from there.

For my sister :)

Etsy - Blogger

The Graveyard Shift

2009-01-10T09:15:00.000-08:00

So I have definitely been staying up till like 4am in the morning. Sometimes I try to go to sleep and find myself just making brushes. So last night I went to a concert/show at Skullys in Columbus. I got to see the Phantods which is completely awesome because I went to school with Gretchen and she is oh so talented. I would love to be a photo major with an amazing voice...instead I was a time based major with an obsession with Guitar Hero for 2 years.
So anyway I am there with part of the Dirty Flaggs (yes I roll deep in bands lol) and the lead singer is from South Africa and has this cool accent that sounds british and australian together. So he is talking to a few of the other bands there and he gets to see Gretchen and he is like "Ooooooooooh, she is kinda cute who is that?" And I am like dude thats Gretchen and so after the show Victoria introduces him to her and I can just her Gretchen's face. I am like Oh no! The accent has got her.
Oh those lucky English, British, Irish, Aussie, and apparently South African people with their accents.
So anyway, we starting dancing and it was awesome. I found myself cracking jokes with Andrew about V's dancing and it was well worth it. So now he is going to come out dancing with us. Now by the time we leave it is 3 am. I am hungry like that type of hungry that suggests you need to eat NOW.
So we go to TeeJaye's which is like down the street from my house and it was disappointing.. food was sup-par. So it is now 3:40am and V is in my house trying to print things and I am like GAH, sleep zombie. She finally leaves and it is near 4 somethingish and I am done. I pass out to have myself lovingly woken back up by V seven hours later and I am like...Who is this? Why are you texting me. Needless to say I think its time to get off this graveyard shift because waking up at 11:30 am isn't work productive and it also makes me look like a dingus when I respond to phone calls or text messages.
Also tomorrow is my day of the month to give you guys a free desktop background. So be prepared for free goodies from Clem. In other news if it cant fit your desktop remember you can send me a message or leave me a comment and I will send you a new one :)

Essence V-day:

The Grinch, Scrooge, and Clem

2009-01-09T08:13:00.001-08:00

There is a certain feeling creeping up and I am not sure what it is. I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge when x-mas is around or the Grinch when he is standing over Whoville with all of the stolen gifts. I can't sleep and my eating schedule is way off. Could it be this very nice corporate created VALENTINES DAY! I feel like I should be celebrating it more or at least go get a Valentine and then do the shameful "dump" after v-day.
Or maybe I am just thinking about the idea of "Love" too much. With the world crashing and burning like it is what will be left of anything? Is love truly forever? Can I have cookies?????
These are questions that I need answered and fast...lunch time is quickly approaching.

Old loves and Old Frames:

Explode...no wait dont!

2009-01-08T11:06:00.000-08:00

I've been playing Ciara's song "Explode" for most of the week and I can't stop. Well according to iTunes I've played it 193 times this week. There is something very sexual about the song..well other than the fact that it is about sex. It is more emotion inspiring then artistic inspiring. I tried to use some of my new brushes to it and I couldn't. I also think that I might be building brushes but they still arent quite where I want them yet. Anyway I fished through some of my unposted file and found one called "Smokers Heart". I opened the psd file and thought PERFECT. With the song playing the background I became even more creative with it. I used one of my new brushes which is a nice advancement and a few heart shapes and sexy it is.
I also spent most of my day talking to "CharlieCarter" on Etsy and I think she is pretty awesome. Of course in normal Clemart fashion hit on her. Lol, anyway I also met "Deecee1" and she even gave me a shout out in her blog!
http://deecee1.blogspot.com/2009/01/hi-to-all.html
I got to help her out which made me feel really good about sitting in the Etsy chat rooms with my thumb up my ass. If only there was some way to get paid for ACTUALLY helping people on Etsy. I would be all for it.
Anyway...what where was I?
Oh yeah and Isabella rocks my socks. She is very personable and friendly and I just love that. I would have deleted my "mycraft" account if it wasn't for her. Much love senorita!

Smokers Heart V-day:

and in the time its taken me to post this I have played the song 196

An Old I Love You

2009-01-07T08:17:00.000-08:00

I had some weird dreams last night. One of which I saw someone that I felt I knew but didn't know. I then told them that "I feel like I know you even though I am younger than you we have met many years before." Lol, needless to say like even in real life the person freaked on me. Its an odd feeling though. I blame mostly the fact that I have been listening to Ciara's song "Explode". If you attempt to google that it wont come up and if it does I am highly surprised. Anyway the songs gives me a very calm yet sexual exciting feeling. Like all good music should lol. It also makes me a bit nostalgic. Hmmm, "love".
I also saw the preview for Under World 3 rise of the lycans. Lord knows that series of movies is an old love of mine. I even played with my brushes today and you guys get a freebie out of me today. Its a banner called.. well "An Old I Love". Its just a test of two oy my brush sets. I am still working on them but I am getting better. I might redo this banner completely in the coming month so take this as an Unknown Limited Edition. I wont know how many people download it but I will know that it wont exist past this blog because it is about to be revamped because I love the name. *thinks quietly in my head* I love you....

An Old I Love You:

Etsy equal bad mistress

2009-01-06T08:38:00.000-08:00

So I found myself up till 4am last night...well actually 5am. Lol, but its nice to pad things with fictional evidence. Anyway I was sitting on Etsy. I couldn't got to sleep so I made myself a set of photoshop brushes because I don't want to use other peoples anymore. I am highly creative and I don't need a lawsuit because I was too lazy to hit "edit, define brush preset". Its just most of this week I just can't sleep and I dont know why. So I make brush sets and stalk Etsy. The problem with Etsy is that she is a bit flawed. If you are tired she makes navigation even worse and her chat features become something of a magical experience. She wont apologize for her mistakes if she kicks you out or crashes on you. She will tell you its your internet or your computer and she isn't a very nice lover. Lol, even her friends are lazy and refuse to do anything if there is a problem. BUT! You have to give it to her, she is heavily addicting and loves to take your money. She is like a really bad mistress. Except she is the kind that will put out every once in a while but thats only after you have already spent a ton of money on her. Lmao, so this is for you my bad mistress:

Also I disabled the etsy ad on my etsy mini! If you would like the etsy ads and sayings off of your just let me know!

Welcome to the Circus

2009-01-05T07:33:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I found myself out with etsy user Morganette. We walked down the streets of Columbus like it was a freaking parade...except for we did it in the rain. It never fails when you are out with Morganette that it rains or some weird inner city hurricane happens. So yesterday as we are walking this yellow car starts spending towards us. They switch lanes and move a lane closer to us. I see the end before it begins a big car splash coming up. I did my classic fast speed jump to get out of the way and Morganette stood there like a classic ding dong. I was moving so fast I slammed into her and she refused to move. So I had to hunch curl behind her as the wave or water rushed towards.
When the car had fully passed I looked down at myself a few splashes here and there and then I looked at Morganette. She was ruined. I laughed...and all she could say was "I didn't know it was happening until it happened." We walked to Family Dollar which in our drunken state made everything seem like a deal. We were lucky the debit card and credit card machine system was down or me and her would have drunkenly bought up the store.
So later on we are on our way Ravari Room and we see some poor guy try and jump a curb on a bike and face plant himself into the cement. WHICH WAS AWESOME. I rolled down Morganette's car window(by this time we were in her car) and went Ooooooooh. Man that had to hurt and all he could do was look up and smile.

Welcome to the Circus:

The Thrill

2009-01-04T08:35:00.000-08:00

While on the chat today I heard the most amazing thing from Holistically Heather. She hopped trains for fun. Oh my fookn head. I thought how amazing is that and then I asked her if she robbed then and she said no. Lol, so she had a little in column a but nothing in column b. Anyway I can't imagine the thing that will actually be my thrill. The one thing that when I do it I am completely alive. Me and SecretMe were talking about this the other day. I don't have a thrill but hers is driving her car Rally style. There are things I love to do but nothing that I would consider a thrill. No climbing mountains with a monkey on my back playing the drums, no diving into the raging ocean wearing nothing but a t-shirt and skibees, and no diving off of sheer cliffs with waterfalls.
What thrills people? What is the one thing that they have found that will stay with them forever. I can't even stay in a relationship longer than 3 months so I obivously havent found my thrill yet. SecretMe said probably when we have kids and I said nah. That wont be the end all to end all in anyway. What is the great thrill...

The Echo of Love:

Two ways to do dumb things

2009-01-03T09:22:00.000-08:00

I woke up for the second day in a row at 4:41am. So today instead of trying to force myself back to sleep I got up and got on Etsy. Now due to the fact I was very tired and all misty eyed I thought lets get on chat. I think I may have done a dumb thing. Lol, the first thing I did was I got all in poor Cherub's or is it Cherib's face. I was soooo happy to see someone from aussie sitting there all happy like chit chatting at what is clearly 10pm for them. I was so over come with joy I couldn't stop asking her questions. I am pretty sure it got to the point in which I wouldnt shut up...poor girl.
The second dumb thing I did was try and have a "Canada is so fucking AWESOME" conversation with Chromasmear. The problem was that she didn't seem to think that "Canada is so fucking AWESOME" because she lived there. I said well "Your schooling and health care is better than ours." And I can't tell if she was upset or annoyed but I kind of think she was annoyed when she said "No, I pay $556 dollars a month for health care." Now that I think about it doesn't make your health care worse but then again I was running on 4 hours of sleep. "More parents are home schooling their kids for fear of violence." And at this point there are two things running through my brain either:

a. I hit the shut the fook up you stupid american button
or
b.I hit the I'm pissed off with canada button.

In all truth Canada reguardless of who is teaching Canada still has better schooling than America. Studies have shown American education to be 34th on the list of "awesome schooling" and Canada number 3 on the list. Which basically means America is getting dumber and everyone else is getting smarter. Canada is even almost par with our currency. They sadly though dropped down to 70 cents to the dollar again. Canada is cleaner and has a more healthy environment and they also have one of the most striking arts colleges this side of the whoot knocker.
I think if I had been a little bit awake I could have said this but alas 4 hours of sleep. So in other words I am pretty sure ChromaSmear no longer likes me...hmmm I guess thats two ways to do dumb things.

Its All About The Green:

Single vs Together

2009-01-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

Since I was in high school people have been doing this "singles awareness day" thing on "valentines day". I personally don't like running about the world saying "Hey look I am alone!!! I am proud to be alone!!! Someone please LOVE ME!!!!!" But for some people it works. That feeling of being together with something bigger than yourself when you are truly all alone. In that respect though people fling themselves into relationships and instant marriages and thats all fine with me but not for me.
So I sat there thinking what should the new banners for Valentines day be and it hit me do both. Happy Singles Awareness Day and Happy Valentines Day. Its something that I think even if it doesn't do well this year it will still get better over the years. So many people looking for love and very few with that special person to love.
I also made a new watermark for my banners. So if anyone likes the old one better let me know. Lol, then again there is rarely a comment so I don't feel to worried about that.

Pink n Black Valentine:

Blue Vibe Singles Awareness Day:

The Feast

2009-01-01T13:49:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my mom's b-day and god bless her soul. Anyway I went to my friends huge get together that involved playing no, fireworks, rock band, and of course FOOD. OMFG, I was all about the food stuffs and forgot to eat a meat ball. What was I doing!!!!! There was carrots, buffalo chicken dip, chicken, spinach dip, crackers, cheese, jalapeno berry spread, buck eyes, cookies, oh....
I a drooling just thinking about it.
Needless to say I am a happy camper on New Years Day. I hope everyone had a blast and I have a bunch of designs I have been sitting on that I can't wait to put up this month :)

Its a P.I.F moment

2008-12-30T07:47:00.000-08:00

I have been sitting on this idea for a while. I ran into someone who did pif's...or does pif's. Hers are normal hand drawings and what not and about. So I said whats a pif? Pay It Forward was the response I got. So I was like hmmmm.....
So I figured with New Years coming up I would give my readers a PIF!
So click on the image and it will bring you to a photobucket page you can snag it from or leave an email as a response. Hmmm, or go to my etsy and do it there. So many choices.

Happy New Years Banner for your enjoyment!

Mmmm, pandas

2008-12-26T11:22:00.001-08:00

For some the holidays are just beginning and for me they have ended. My shop's wares are changing and I can finally post a ton of my new banner sets and just banners. I should expand outside of my banner world and start to post other things too. I have tested the waters enough to know the deal and I have a handle on things.
I didn't spend X-mas with my family but I did spend it with people that I care for and thats good for anyone in this life time. I am more than excited about the coming year and can't wait to see where the world will kick me to next. I wonder if I will go to Carnival or just watch it on the internet again. Who knows? But what I do know is that I am happy to post this panda banner.

Its X-mas for me whats it for you?

2008-12-25T09:14:00.001-08:00

And the easy way to answer that question is for me to simply say...

Silence

2008-12-19T09:12:00.000-08:00

Its hard to keep up with blogging when I am not at home. My shop for lack of a better term or phrase literally runs itself. So I can sort of take my eye of it for at least 8 hours of a day and then come and look at it when I am done with family stuff.
So when I return to good ol home and leave this island of ghetto I will be more active.

Not Now But Soon

2008-12-17T08:08:00.000-08:00

I am having sort of a weird creative boost from the song "Not Now But Soon" by Imogen Heap. When you play it with the iTunes music visualizer OH MY FOOK NAUGHTS!!!! Amazing. The song becomes more epic then it already was. As I watched the visualizer last night I was like what if I could draw the way this makes me feel, what if I could turn it into a banner series? The reason for this weird creative boost is that I am feeling lackluster myself. Whats Clem without good sleep and cuddles? Lackluster!
The song gives me a source of weird hope and peace. So may I present to you
Not Now But Soon Pre-made Custom Banner Set:

The Earthquake

2008-12-15T13:04:00.000-08:00

The sun had become hidden behind a cloud and Julie scratched her head. She desperately needed to get her item posted on Etsy so she needed the sun to come back. Everything was in place and all she needed was just a little light. Her poorly made Kodak digital camera was frustrating enough when there was sun let alone when there was no light.
She looked up at the sky and prayed the cloud would move. "Come on just a little to the left." She looked at her watch. Julie had about another 5 minutes until the kids got home. She would never be able to get the picture taken when they got in the house and she began to make deals with the cloud.
"Come on cloud" she said with her hands on her hips "If you move over just an inch I'll buy you something real nice with the money I make off of this piece." The cloud didn't budge a single inch and Julie became more desperate. She looked down at her watch 3 minutes left. "Well fine cloud! I didn't need you anyway." and in one swift movement Julie kicked her set up for her photos and as they were crashing to the ground something weird began to happen.
Julie's foot was still lifted in the air as she began to feel the world move underneath her. She looked up to catch a reflection of herself in the glass sliding door. She looked like a flamingo she thought, a very drunk flamingo.
Julie hit the ground and felt like she was in a martini shaker. She couldn't stop moving couldn't stop jumbling. She had no idea if it was her or the world shaking. She tried to look at something to get her barrings but the stand she had kicked over was still somehow falling down. Her beautiful crafted work was still soaring in the air. She closed her eyes and screamed very loudly "I didn't mean it!! For F88ks sake cloud I didn't mean it." Her eyes welled up with tears and her hands clutched the grass underneath. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." and with that it all stopped.
Julie opened her eyes and ran her fingers over the ground.
*Clunk* was the sound of her camera hitting Julie in the head. She seemed to have thrown it in the air whilst doing her flamingo dance. She got up from the ground rubbing her head and she saw that the cloud had moved out of the way of the sunlight. As she bent over she heard the front door slam open as her kids came pouring in.
"Mom" "MOM" they screamed. "We just had an earthquake" "It was an earthquake MOM".
She looked down at her ruined set up and then back up at the sky. The cloud had completely disappeared. She pouted sadly and walked into the house defeated. "Yeah" she said "An earthquake."

The Earthquake:

(I am sorry about the whole constant watermark thing. Its really epic without them)

Watermarking 3 Lazy Ways...I mean Easy?

2008-12-14T10:24:00.000-08:00

Okay, so this month I am going to do a thing on 3 lazy/easy ways to watermark. As Always I provide you guys with a symbol unless you have one that you would prefer to use. Its all good. After the more than recent theft of some Clemart it makes sense to be like "Hey Watermarking = Cool".

This symbol is a from a brush back and it is just a simple circle behind it. I would not suggest you guys using this as an actual watermarker for yourself but people do what they want. This is just for teaching reasons :)

Watermark

This time I am also providing you with the image too. This is from a free stock exchange site found online.

Image

Step One:
Lets get this guys opened and side by side so we can move on to step two.

Step Two:
Lets drag the file over. (You guys may remember this process from the last tutorial on layers)

Step Three:
Lets expand the window so the only thing we are working on is the actual image we want to be working on

Step Four:
Open your layers window or if it is already open find the word "opacity" and click on the arrow beside it. (see image)
(If you don't know how to open your layers go to window and click on "window" Then find layers and click "layers" and your layers window should pop up)

Step Five:
From here there are two ways you can go.
You can
A. Type in a number anywhere from 0-100 into the bar that says opacity
B. You can drag the arrow that pops up underneath the word opacity after it has been selected.

You know can scroll or type to a number that you feel is fitting. In my case I just do everything by eye. That is one way to make a quick, lazy, and easy watermark.

Way 2: You can skip steps 1-3 if you already have the system of the click and drag down.

Step One:
Lets get this guys opened and side by side so we can move on to step two.

Step Two:
Lets drag the file over. (You guys may remember this process from the last tutorial on layers)

Step Three:
Lets expand the window so the only thing we are working on is the actual image we want to be working on

Step Four:
Next to the word "opacity" is also a word that says "Normal" and it also has an arrow that you can click on. When you click on the arrow you should get a drop down window.

Step Five:
Once the window has dropped down you can look for a word that says "Overlay" and select it.

I normally use this function for text. Depending on the color of what you have and the item under it determines what shows up and where. In this case it worked swimmingly but I wouldn't always suggest it for logos. Like I said its more of a text thing. This is way two.

Way 3 You can skip steps 1-3 if you already have the system of the click and drag down.

Step One:
Lets get this guys opened and side by side so we can move on to step two.

Step Two:
Lets drag the file over. (You guys may remember this process from the last tutorial on layers)

Step Three:
Lets expand the window so the only thing we are working on is the actual image we want to be working on

Step Four:
Next to the word "opacity" is also a word that says "Normal" and it also has an arrow that you can click on. When you click on the arrow you should get a drop down window.

Step Five:
Go to and Select "Multiply" once the window has dropped down

Okay so Multiply isn't the most awesome choice. It just kind of makes the layer itself well...hmmm whats the word I am looking for. Translucent. Multiply is a good way for people who like to color in things underneath a line drawing or make something stand out. Its a quick but very ugly way of making something "your own".

Okay so why did I show one great way, one text way, and one eughk way? Because its good to know the little things even if it makes something ugly. Plus not every way always works. Of course my favorite way is the first one.

If you have successfully finished this tutorial here is your Clemart badge.

Anyway, if anyone has questions or if I missed a step in one let me know. :)
This has been the tutorial for the month of December

Tomorrow's Today

2008-12-13T11:04:00.001-08:00

I have no idea what to post for tomorrow's tutorial. Last month was "Layer Sizing" and I gave out a cool layer sizing badge but what should this month be? Maybe a watermark tutorial or like a make a gif animation tutorial. Idk, if anyone has any ideas let me know!
In other news its as cold as a witches nips outside and I am bored as sin. December is a pretty slow month for me outside of Etsy and inside of Etsy. I am wondering if all Decembers are going to be like this or is it just for the first year...hmmmm

White Line

2008-12-12T07:22:00.000-08:00

About a month ago I woke up with my chest burning and my stomach very upset. I ran to the bathroom bla bla bla anyway I still randomly get that same chest pain. It turns out that I have a weird form of heart burn that occurs from acid leaping up into when I am sleeping. The best direction I got for this was wait four hours after to eating to sleep, sleep with bricks under my bed to tilt my body downward, and/or lose weight. So I wonder do aneroxic people not get sleepers heart burn?
So if I drop like 100 pounds (which might kill me due to extreme no fat) and put bricks under my bed and wait 4 hours after eating to go to sleep does it really stop or is that just a theory?

Anyway, I have been having a bit of a jumbled month. Like everything I do has a thin white line that says do not cross and I don't see it. I got into an argument about rent hypotheticals and still very much think I am right which is apparently the wrong thing to do because it was that little line of "You have talked to much" that I didn't see.
I tried to be cordial with a bus driver and got bitched out which I guess means don't be polite or so much as talk to anyone because I crossed that social line it seems.
I then found that after I got robbed of one of my works people started deleting me from their favorites on Etsy. I don't know how someone blatantly stealing my banner makes people say "F U" but alas :(

Here is some more stuff from project "Vice Caster"

Moose!!!!!!!!!

2008-12-11T09:28:00.001-08:00

My friend does to the fact art sculptures and for about a year and a half she has been obsessing over moose. She made this beautiful moose sculpture and hasn't finished it in a year. He is baked and primed but he is just sitting there. Among the other things there are huge dragons and also a life size dinosaur she is making but she hasn't finished them yet. So when one of my other friends starting making diecast models for Warhammer I had to get in on it. There is no way all of us can keep half assing everything. I refuse to finish my website, she refuses to finish sculptors, and he refuses to work on things before the last minute. If we could all combine are talents we would be badass!!!!!!
Anyway here are some logo sketches for him...

Draw this out

2008-12-10T09:05:00.000-08:00

I made my way to the bus stop and saw a bus coming at a different one, as I boarded the bus I asked the driver if he was going to loop back down to Downtown. He told me "No, no I'm done for the day. I can take you up further to catch the number one though." Awesome because I was going to catch the number one anyway its just why walk a mile when the bus will drive me two and get me to where I need to be.
I was kicked off the bus at its last stop in the dark. Rain ran down the over hanging bus stop and was currently trying to splash me. I couldn't sit and I couldn't lean because everything was just too wet. I stood awaiting the number one a poor decision on my part...
As the bus pulls the driver opens her door. She pulls out a cup from Mc Donalds and I ask "Are you taking a break." Instantly the bitch fest begins. "I drove all the way from Renyoldsburg. I think I deserve a break don't you!"
I quickly went whoa "I was just asking if I could get on the bus." I got on the bus and went to sit down. "Are you sitting up here with me?" She said and raised her hands. "Excuse me?" I said with a confused look on my face. "Are you sitting on up here with me! I'm on break I mean really! Are you going to sit up her with me!"
I held up my hand and ran to the back of the bus.
I was pissed, livid pissed. I am a friendly "Hey how are you doing? Would you like some cookies? I love cookies."
Good god what is wrong with people.
So in that respect, I am pretty grouchy still...hmmm maybe I should draw this out.

Anatomy of a Tidal Wave

2008-12-09T07:48:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! I am back from my trip to Cleveland and I am super tired. Me and my friend stayed up until about 4am each night. Lets just say I am not built for that. I also snore which didn't help him sleep so in the middle of the night all you could hear was "Clem shut up!!!!!" I also as my last post stated was robbed so womp womp for Clemart. Someone was using my banners and redoing them and handing them out like hotcakes. So I had a good two days of that before I realized it wasn't worth it and that I should just give in and wait it out till when I could come home. I just need time to go to the library bla bla bla
Anyway, for once something was posted to my Etsy before my blog and thats pretty amazing. Here a new holiday banners:

Swinging Happy Holidays:

ROBBED

2008-12-04T19:24:00.001-08:00

Someone has been stealing my banners and selling them as their own!!! Keep an eye out everyone!

The photoshop file!!!!!
http://www.my-way-to-la.com/clemartdesign/winter-banner.psd

The origional banner by clemart design!!!!!!
http://www.my-way-to-la.com/clemartdesign/clemartdesign.jpg

The stolen banner from Vidia2be!!!!!! (with censored client name)!!!!!!!
http://www.my-way-to-la.com/clemartdesign/vidia2be.jpg

Up! Up! and AWAY!

2008-12-04T09:26:00.000-08:00

I spent most of yesterday building my website. I find it to be true that I have a curse or something attached to it. I can finish everyone elses website 1-2 days. Mine I have continually been building for 5 years now. I can never get it the way I want or some weird coding issue appears. I like seamless designs and I if something isn't connected it frustrates me. So when my website developed a HUGE white gap and there was not a single error in my coding I deleted everything and started fresh. I am now stuck in the world of trying to figure out which banners to put in my gallery. Oh woooooooo is Clemart.
In other news I am on my way to Cleveland. So bon voyage and what not and see everyone in a bit. I am not really feeling like posting a design today. I have a few new happy holidays and a special valentines day one but alas laziness. Lol, I did however post the end of skies for sale finally on etsy so if you guys want to hop on that you should :)

If U Seek Amy (December Desktop)

2008-12-03T08:13:00.000-08:00

Like my word I am making a desktop once a month and handing it out on my blog. With the release of "Circus" my favorite song on there is "If U Seek Amy". The cool part about this song is what it means if you say it fast. Hee hee, so anyway yesterday was odd. I found myself being bored out of my mind and wanting to play shuffle board with my brain just to have something to do.
The desktop is actually Kris I just had a picture laying around and used it. ha ha, joke on you Kris for having files on my pc

Circus!!!!

2008-12-02T11:08:00.000-08:00

Mmm, to continue the amazing month of December the release of Britney Spears new cd "Circus" came out today. Now don't get me wrong Britney was on her way to doing a Micheal Jackson and hanging her baby over the edge of a hotel and saying "Hey ya'll." while chewing on a pack of dubble bubble gum. Yet there is something about Britney that I can't resist. I have a theory that she has subliminal messages hidden in the songs. Mainly they say "Clem, play me listen to me LOVE ME." Oh that Britney. In other news I have for you lovely lovely people two new banners as always.

Digital Love:

The Cranberry Room:

December!!!!

2008-12-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

Its December which means a ton of things.
-My Mum's Birthday
-Christmas
-Aids Awareness Month/Day
-I start paying back on a hefty Art School College Loan
and most importantly
-The year is almost over!!!!!

So hello December! How are you doing? Do you need some tea? Lol, in other news its like Cyber Monday and also Aids Awareness Day. So if you are spending a bit of money try and donate some to the cause. Its sad that we can spend 6 billion dollars on a bail out but not on a cure. Then again that is my opinion.
In other words I am going to try and stay up on things with my shop and I even have a New Years banner. YAY!

From Spring to Winter:

Happy New Years:

Saturday...wait Sunday?

2008-11-30T08:38:00.000-08:00

After a long but short ride home...yes I know my use of words is amazing *clears throat*. After a long but short ride home I came in and mauled Kris...literally. After that was done I realized that sleep was a necessary addition to my day. So I went to bed....and 7 hours later wow, look at me. Lol, slept through the whole day. I got myself all nice and situated in front of the tv. I got some grubbage from Kris and listened to fable play in the background. I then went back into my bed. 7 hours just isn't enough. With that being sad Kris was not having that and woke me up. We then got some drinks from Carabar came back home and then I slept some more. Now its Sunday...

Coke Bottle Holiday:

Bird Tree Poison:

Dun Dun Dunnnnnn !!!!

2008-11-28T06:07:00.000-08:00

This is the completion to Chapter One of Edgar’s Bedroom from Wednesday. I know the suspense was nail bitingly awesome right?

Happy "Food Stuffs" Day

2008-11-27T07:04:00.000-08:00

HAPPY TURKEY DAY! Or in my case ham day. I am a turkey fan but not as big as ham. Me and my sister have this sick little need for honey baked hams and macaroni and cheese. It isn’t a holiday without one of those items. My mom would bake a ham all night and her glaze was a special one made from Vernors and brown sugar…AMAZING. When I worked at Mc Cormicks their ham was glazed with liqour and brown sugar….MMMMMMM. So I hope everyone today has at least a good meal. If you are Kris you should for sure do something nice for yourself.