taken from the blurb of the book Green Monkey Dreams by Isobel Carmody - its a Chinese proverb

something completely different. i saw a competition on deviant art and it opened up a completely new idea to me - photomanipulation. i have never really tried this much past fanart, but i figured i had the basic skills and could give it a go. after a failed attempt i found a competition for 'greek goddesses' and did this piece of 'selene' moon goddess. it was a lot of fun. and my icons this week have been pretty mediocre. I couldn't stray completely from my stargate origins, the city in the background is a screencap from atlantis, lol. anyway, the link is here dreamsofkate.deviantart.com/art/Selene-moon-goddess-144621063 if you wanna take a looksee :)

completely unrelated: untapdtreasure i had no idea you has a website, especially one with a great header for which i am requesting immediate tutoring in how you got that great colouring. i am signing up asap :D
http://unofficiallykathryn.proboards.com/

really quickly before i got to bed, went to pearl jam concert tonight and it was AMAZING!!!!! Loved every minute of it. anyways, just wanted to get that off my chest, g'night xoxo

here are some of my icons from various icontests.

1-17 bones
18-31 goren and eames/alex eames
32-49 stargate/carter/amanda

1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35
36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45
46	47	48	49

gah! thats a lot more than i thought. i still have west wing ones to upload but they can wait as i am out of patience and cannot be screwed.
most of these are from challenge comms, although a few of the stargate ones have been lurking around my computer for a while.

bones icons from bones_stills
law and order CI from alexeames_stilland goreneamesstill(yes untapdtreasure i still love you, and will make some more icons soon, real life has just got in the way of the last contest xoxo)
stargate icons from carter_stills, stargate_stillsand of course stargate_rumble!!!rumble!!!


Note: I think entry uses the greatest number of tags i have ever used, or even seen, in my life!

now exams are all over i can get back to my place in balnarring. usually during semester i live with my grandmother in an attic room (a very nice attic room with a bathroom, attic room sounds, well, dodgy) which is about a 10 minute walk from Uni. its a great arrangement as it is practically rent free and i have found i have a much better relationship with my parents when i don't have to see them every day.

so now as i move back home, i am already sick and tired of home life. i have three brothers, mum and dad all live in a small house, so there is zero privacy and for some reason mum and dad feel like a 'real family' consists of them making unwanted comments about my activities, trying to control my day and if thats impossible have a minute to minute recount of anything i could have possibly 'got up to'.

while i have moved past the need for them to 'parent' me (at the tender age of 22 i might add) they don't seem to grasp that being away from them for 9 months of the year for the last 3 years, they can't just pick up where they were when i was 15. I don't need lectures about drinking, shopping, driving, sex (although we dont talk about sex, its all eupherisms and boys have cooties).

so anyway, my mother was off work today. i have been sorting through stuff with constant commentry, with her checking up on me every half hour and i am about to go CRAZY! She thought about removing my computer so i could concentrate. I thought about braining her with the expanding file of paperwork i am sorting.

so thats my rant. i feel better. she's not home tomorrow and its going to be hot enough for me to go to the beach *squee*
truth is my mother is stuck in a past where she felt she was a useful mother, and now feels trapped in a job she doesn't like, and kids who don't need control or discipline now they are all grown up. she is incapable of giving any part of herself to anyone, even in a simple conversation you will get more of an interrogation. and while i sympathise especially as we kids start to take on opportunities she never had, all she has done is succeeded in alienating everyone around her.

i guess i can only hope she develops a better relationship with herself so she can start to redevelop a relationship with me. or i'll just go to the beach...

Two textures sets, made the first one when i needed some small text and decided to make a set. Second set is a light texture set. Also I have uploaded ZIP files to my deviantart for those of you who asked (ZIP files here)


Tinytext icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART


illuminate_lighttextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

Please credit if you use, don't sell them or pass them off as yours.
If you manage to make money out of something you create with them kudos to you
comments are my sunshine
enjoy :)

I love icontests. Really do.

I know some people enter icon contests for the glory and I am honestly not one of those people, i like having a direction for my mind to head in and icontests are perfect for that, and its great to get come feedback on my work. I'm not one of those people who has to win (having three brothers beat that out of me pretty quickly). But then these little geniuses called banner makers go an create these wonderful things just for ME and it makes me all excited again. and soon its the next week and i am photoshopping away in my little heaven. lifes great! and its a great way to make friends. (untapdtreasure I'm talking about you!)

so i am posting the banners i have accumulated since my last 'bannerpost'. and i will put them here.

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2 icon texture sets, can be downloaded from deviantart


midnight_icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

+


millionsofpeaches_icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

credits/comments always appreciated <3

made two SG1 backgounds, one of O'Neill and one from the episode Avenger 2.0



+ one other under the cut

( >>> this way <<< )

oh god. i did it again. joined more icon challenges, during exam time no less. but who could resist the lure of carter_stills and stargate_stills hey? not me. i am weak.

so that makes my to do list for challenges extra long

goreneamesstill  is done for the week

alexeames_still b&w challenge - entered 4 icons, maybe make a 5th but god knows when :)

tww_iconathon  havent even started, sigh. manchester part II challenge, love this episode, and love how CJ stands up to the president, its such a great moment when he asks her to stay. i always think the guys are mean to CJ, except maybe josh, because i love josh

bones_stills is all done, but i am not sure how much i like them, sigh

stargate_rumble is still a work in progress, but i should have a finished icon soon. i am finding its harder to enter 1 icon than several beause i feel i have to make it perfect.

so now adding carter_stills and stargate_stillsto the list. lets see how this pans out :D


also have a couple of wallpapers for stargate that i am finishing, should get them up asap. oh and study... maybe i should do that

had a crazy day, been tryng to get my damn resource post to work, it looks like shit, LJ had some serious trouble processing A TABLE - its really not that hard. so had to break it down into itsy bitsy tables that livejournal could handle. sgh. but its up, and it wasn't really fair to all the wonderful resource artsts out there not to put my credits up. anyway, unloading some stuff today, i am at my home home where we have finally got broadband, so i am getting some graphics stuff out there before i go back to uni.

also did some editing of my LJ layout, it was too skinny and so graphics stuff was overflowing. also my least favorite thing about flexible squares in how the first three lines of text are pushed across to make way for the icon, so i have relocated my icons to the right, only now i keep looking for them and forgetting where they are.

this is a photo a friend of mine took on the way back from a holiday a few years ago. i played around and took the background out, and used some different effects and colors. it never ceases to amaze me how many things you can do with one picture. anyway





( under the cut )going to do some real work now. smile

wanted to pimp my new community stargate_rumblei am a little late on this one, round 1 is already underway. however looks like its going to be heaps of fun, and with only 1 icon a week (for 10 weeks) it isnt going to be too much of problem to keep up with. oh and this way i get to show off my pretty banner

tadah!



anyways i had fun. working on my resource post, however i put it in a table and the formatting is playing up. sigh. should be up in the next day or so. :)

 - 2 natural icon texture sets, can be downloaded at deviantart -


natural_icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART



stones_throw_icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

credit/comments always appreciated <3

having a bit of a L&O CI day, must be from the icons  have been working on for goreneamesstill  love this quote from eames, just watched 'the third horseman' episode from season one again, this is one of the first episodes where alex really asserts herself with a point of view that is not 'gorens partner' (whch was really annoying me for a while. i <3 alex eames, and i hate it when she just plays bobby gorens keeper). so in the spirit of alex love it made a piccy *smiles*


gorgeous.
thats me for today, need to go do some real work now.

45 random bones icons that i screencapped and made in my free time.



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credit is appreciated
comments are love <3</div>

just me playing around with corel, thought it was a good way to define my fandom lovin. That sad apparently alex/bobby - my latest fandom aquisition, is about to fall apart. L&O CI is letting go both kathryn erbe and vincent d'onofrio. sob. and i just started watching this last month. however stargate universe and a third stargate sg1 movie are in the works, and mariska hargitay and chris meloni from svu have had their contracts renewed so the future is not all bleak.



As part of the twwiconathon (which is just too much fun) i have been rewatching the episodes of west wing and revisiting my love affair with cj and danny. sigh. I still havent got my hands on season 7 but knowing that they end up happily ever after makes me a very happy girl!
think thats me for today. hoping to get my resource post up soon, but its taking me a while. :)

very excited, got the mods choice award for the 2x21 18th and Potomac iconest at tww_iconathon
I'm pretty sure that means they felt sorry for me because i was new, but  made these awesome banners and i just couldnt help putting it up. check it out. it was a lot of fun and the people there are so talented!! made by motorized who btw is a graphics godess



yay! also had a family bash for my brothers 15th, which went well, but i am glad to be done for the night. tucking myself into bed now :)

two texture sets




delicate_icons by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

+ one other set



enchant_me_icontextures by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

:-) comments = love