On hotties; me and ES, redoing old product and laziness

ON CLASSIC LOOKING HOTNESS...
Today's good looking is Mr. Idris Elba. He's not only a looker - to me a very classic look and very sexy in it's quietness, but he's also a great actor who I expect to see in mainstream films as the years roll on. Gaze on girls, then keep readin'




ON ELEMENTAL SCRAPS' PROBLEMS...
Okay, so ES is down right now. I keep checking not just daily, not just every few hours, but indeed i find myself clicking on that line in my browsers' history (yeah, why isn't in in favorites yet???) time and time again. I can't lie, I do miss hanging there. We have a temporary 'shelter for the ES refugees' but it's not the same. Who knew you could become so comfortable at an online forum...Who know *I* would? It's not even that I feel super good camaraderie w/ the owner [b/c I don't really...I mean, I like her and believe me she's got awesome things in store for the store *chortle* but we're not friends persay (more like comfy acquaitences)], but I feel it with several of the other designers, which is worth much to me. Anyway, I am bummed not only that I can't go there and type and hash out ideas and post links to my naughty jokes...but I also wanna upload my product and send out an ad one of my CT ladies did for me. But I can't because the stupid @$$ host people are being....oh....stupid.

ON REDESIGNING & LAZINESS...
So...before ES's site redesign - don't you love it? I had several (i think 5) pages worth of product in the store. Now...It's down to 3 I think. I just didn't want to think of previewing all my older biggish kits for the reopen. Lazy lazy lazy. And costing myself money. After all, customers can't buy what they can't see. I was thinking I'd take this time to redesign....reinvent a few of my older kits - like Cherrie's Jubilee - and I am sure that I'll do that but again.....i'm so lazy. I am getting better at prioritizing daily, but in that, I'm letting 'new designs' take the place of getting my other things in the store - back into the store I should say.

on hotties; new products, my girl AfriDigiDiva and anonymous posters

ON NEW PRODUCTS....
If you paid any attn to my last few posts, you'd know I had a product in the works and FINALY it's finished. At least it's done. I've sent it to 2 unbiased and uninterested parties for them to look at and test it out and see how they like it. I offered the product testing jobs at DST. Anyway, here's the preview of what they're checking out for me. It's a form of templates and I really have gotten positive feedback on it from various designers that are friends of mine. ES is offline right now,k but it will be in the store once I've gotten the requested feedback from my testers.



ON MY GIRL AFRIDIGIDIVA...

What can I say? Ever since I've known her she's been an encourager of me and A GREAT heartfelt scrapper. In fact she is the one that encouraged me (threatened really, but who cares about words after all?) to get into designing. She really did and it was with great pride I named my first kit for sale after her. It's due for an update, don't even ASK to see an image of it lol.

Anyway, I'm so happy to see how she's grown into the bloganista that she is and a designer to boot. DO YOU BIG DAWG! You know how I roll and I know you roll. I'm happy that you roll your own way no matter way. I'm proud to call you my friend and even prouder that you call me yours. Everyone can't handle your plain way of speaking when it's directed toward them, but you know what? We all need to spoken to plainly every now and then, but that doesn't mean we have to do anything but listen to you. Some people take things a little too seriously and well, that always ends up in no good. I just wanted to high-five you for having the guts to say exactly what you want to say and standing behind it.

ON ANONYMOUS POSTERS...
I choose to post everything I say and do under my name. How can anyone claim to 'stand behind their convictions' if you wear a coverlet over your face when telling your convictions to others? If the backlash comes to me because of something I said, I want to be able to show the manner in which I present myself and defend my position as honorable and with conviction. I just don't think anonymous posters have that same feeling.

ON TODAY'S HOTNESS...

Can you saw "sweet lawd jesus ha' muhcy!!!" Mr. I Need Love is in the lip-lickers house and all I have to say to that is looka hyeah...looka hyeah looka hyeah looka hyeah! (that's look at here) ;)

(in all his lip licking glory) and finally


Okay, I have to admit to being an old school hip hop head, so I love LL not just for his looks, but back in the day he really did bring it, lyrically speaking. At 31, those were my years....dudes...the 80s and 90s and well..i won't be going into a hip hop diatribe here or else I'll start talking about the drivel that passes for rap today- and do not get 'rap' confused with 'hip hop' - not it ain't the same. If my friend Keith were here he'd tell you.

Anyway, on to other stuff...

Have a good day ladies....and take a look a few posts below at the hotness of Terrance Howard - DAMN he's so fine lol.

On Hotties of the World; New Products; Faith and Believing and Worrying

On Hotties:
Today's hottie is the beautiful piece of chocolate Morris Chestnut. Lawd lawd lawd. Let me just have a moment of silence please.
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Thank you thank you, and without further adieu...


On New Products:
I am releasing this week a new product. I know...I NEVER have releases 2 weeks in a row. Well, i HOPE times they are a changing lol. I'm trying to learn how to better deal with my time and spend it more wisely. Anyway, never one to give a product away, just allow me to give you a peakaboo. I'm sorry if you're having a hard time distinguishing....okay..no i'm. What's a tease if it doesn't tease ya ya know? It's actually finished, I'm just tweaking based on feedback i've gotten from non-involved parties.


On Faith/Believing/Worrying:
Yesterday 2.5 miles from home after leaving Martial Arts class (the girls take it) our car stopped. The Lord saw fit to have a trooper driving right behind us. Thank God. He pushed us out of the flow of traffic. Long story short and ordeal still unchanged, we and vehicle are all back home - thanks to a tow truck that arrived not 15 min after I used the cheap $2.99/month roadside service that I purchased with my CELL PHONE!!! Att and users - it's a blessing. No out of pocket!!!! God Bless Free Towing! Anyway....I am a firm believer that things are in God's hands whether I put them there or not. I am a firm believer that worrying over things doesn't do anything for the circumstances, but it does something for me...gives me ulcers and other bodily ailments that I can do without. So I don't worry very much about things.

Dh on the other hand is a worrymaster. Everything gets him up in arms. He worries when they're not as much money as we'd like in the bank acct, he worries when there is more than enough in the bank acct. I'm constantly telling him we're not destitute. Try as he might, he can't seem to find the Peace our faith is supposed to give us.

I can't live without it. NO matter what sins I might commit (and I know I am a sinner - Thank God for Grace) I never lose sight of the fact that my life is in his hands, he doesn't put more on me than he knows I can handle.

I guess my msg to you all today is to leave worrying behind, If you're a worrier and a believer - in any higher power - leave the worrying to those that don't have a source for inner peace - because your worrying doesn't make the situation any better. Better to think it over, think of a solution and not obsess.

Now...go back and look at morris chestnut!

On Hotness; New kits & Crazy Dreams

On Hotness:
I am going to be posting a picture of visually stunning men (to me at least) and I have such a plethora of hotness to choose from. I won't be putting DH up, because i live with him and you all can't ogle! lol. Anyway, last post was the lovely Gary Dourdan, today we have my all time favorite peice of luciousness - Mr. Terrance Howard. Look ladies...and don't let him distract you from reading the remainder of this post lol.



On New Kits:
I think you'll like this. I alluded to this new kit in the last post and I really enjoyed making it. the ES Scrappin Mamas made mention of wanting boy kits that are not the traditional blue and orange with stars and flowers in boy colors. This is my attempt at giving them what they wanted and I hope some of you will enjoy it as well. I really loved it and you can get it here - only at ES of course. Junkyard Fun


On Crazy Dreams:
Last night I had a dream that I went to get my nails done - which I do often. They did them completey wrong and I had a breakdown right there. It was really sad. But hey, if badly done nails are all I have to worry about- life is pretty good right? I'll tell you, that's NOT all I have to worry about, but I really believe that worrying about the worrysome things doesn't change them at all. Only gives me indigestion. Why do that to myself?

Have a good day people!!