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[livejournal.com profile] bangel_4e very kindly extended Round 1 of [livejournal.com profile] btvsats20in20 from June 4th to June 7th (midnight our time respective time zones).

Thank goodness, because I need 20 icons....I have about 69. Not counting the 40 or so I already deleted or moved to another folder. I completely scrapped the blending ones I did yesterday due to extreme suckage (and not the fun kind either.) My "smile" icon also sucks goose eggs and needs to be scrapped. In fact, I suddenly loathe a whole bunch of them because all I can see is the flaws. I know this because I've been staring at them - too long. And too closely.  (I'm pretty sure staring at the icons with my eyeball about an inch or two away from this little screen would explain my headache. Or it could be martians changing the radio frequency, but whateve.)But my ladylove took the wireless keyboard to work and left me with her older, slower "hey honey I don't think you've got enough files crammed on this thing" laptop instead. Which is slower and harder on my eyes, and doesn't allow me the same control that I'm used to in terms of the "mousepad" vs the mouse. (I can see why some people get those stylus pads that allow them to "draw".) And she's got it set up so the menu bar at the top plays "peek a boo" with me.

In fact, PB won't even show the image when I try to crop it. It won't let me do much of anything today. But I don't know if it's PB or if it's the laptop....*le sigh*

Sure, take away my french easel and my 100% Kolinsky sable hair size 1 brush with a brass ferrule and leave me with a used card table and the cheapest brush in the craft store. Take away my Corvette and leave me with a Datsun. Then take away the Datsun and leave me with a horse-drawn wagon - and then take away the darn horses. Eh, thanks anyway, I'll walk instead.

Also, I haven't kept up with any other icontest challenges currently, and I'm woefully behind in wishing [livejournal.com profile] angearia, [livejournal.com profile] teragramm, [livejournal.com profile] chic_c and [livejournal.com profile] leni_ba very, very happy birthdays.


I'm also woefully behind in in posting my own icons from recent challenges; in keeping up with the latest challenges; thanking everyone who voted my This Year's Girl icon "Best Crop" in [livejournal.com profile] slayerstillness challenge #24, in thanking [livejournal.com profile] tempertemper for the marvelously electrifying - pun completely intended - banner; and in giving a shout out to all the other winners as well as few personal faves. What a marvelous batch of entries.

*guilt sets in*

Date: 2014-06-04 05:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
I love doing that sort of thing, the making of, or reading them by other people. Maybe with a poll?

I need to ask comlodge how to put in a photo so when someone clicks it they get the bigger version.

I'm also curious about the new icons

The ones of antique photos? I've had those for many years actually. Or do you mean the last set for slayerstillness? I want to put those up as well.

Edited Date: 2014-06-04 05:36 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-06-04 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kikimay
I'm curious about the slayerstillness icons. The antique icons are beautiful!

Date: 2014-06-04 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] red-satin-doll.livejournal.com
Thank you very much! Some of my antique photos were damaged in the fire, I didn't scan all of them beforehand but I did scan some of my favorites. (the girl on the right hand photo is still in my collection thank goodness.)

The slayerstillness icons were a ton of fun to make, but trying to do icons for three different challenges at the same time got a little confusing.

Date: 2014-06-04 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kikimay
Can't wait to see the Buffy icons as always. XD

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