kate
24 November 2009 @ 11:50 pm



taken from the blurb of the book Green Monkey Dreams by Isobel Carmody - its a Chinese proverb
 
 
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kate
24 November 2009 @ 11:47 pm
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: [info]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/
 
 
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kate
21 November 2009 @ 02:24 am
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
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kate
18 November 2009 @ 11:32 pm
here are some of my icons from various icontests.

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

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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 [info]bones_stills
law and order CI from [info]alexeames_stilland [info]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 [info]carter_stills, [info]stargate_stillsand of course [info]stargate_rumble!!!rumble!!!


Note: I think entry uses the greatest number of tags i have ever used, or even seen, in my life!
 
 
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Current Music: backspace - pearl jam
 
 
kate
18 November 2009 @ 10:13 pm
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...
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kate
11 November 2009 @ 02:22 pm
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 :)
 
 
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kate
28 October 2009 @ 04:58 pm

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. ([info]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.

>> under the cut << )
 
 
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kate
23 October 2009 @ 02:59 pm

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
 
 
kate
23 October 2009 @ 02:35 pm

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



+ one other under the cut

>>> this way <<< )

 
 
kate
23 October 2009 @ 01:43 pm

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

so that makes my to do list for challenges extra long

[info]goreneamesstill  is done for the week

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

[info]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

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

[info]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 [info]carter_stills and [info]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
 
 
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kate
19 October 2009 @ 12:00 pm

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

 
 
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kate
19 October 2009 @ 08:30 am

wanted to pimp my new community [info]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. :)
 
 
kate
14 October 2009 @ 04:01 pm

I had a go at learning some HTML over the weekend, and i am getting closer to being able to understand this layouting business. when i say getting closer, last week I knew nothing and now i have a layout, its pretty much done (i think ill still change some stuff), but i worked from instructions and the template. i am hoping next time to do it slightly more independently. but still fun. and i got to make a header image for it which is a great excuse for graphics! yay! so now i can celebrate my NEW LAYOUT credit where credits due - i used a help guide 
for the stuff didnt understand made by [info]irinafan and used as my base the code from [info]lilbreck layout butterfly but i wrotes it myself

got my cousins birthday tonight, which is an excuse for my family to spend too much time together. cant figure out how i seem to be the only person who realises a three-hour cut off for these events would go a long way to keeping the piece. that said, the adults can fight amongst themselves, have two beautiful cousins, Thomas and Christine, and they are still young enough to think i am cool. however thomas is getting too bg for me to throw over my shoulder.

Also, i have discovered the joys of stillness contests, i love graphics and this gives me an opportunity to actually have a goal in mind when i start. i am a member of [info]goreneamesstill [info]tww_iconathon and have just joined [info]bones_stills so i am getting my moneys worth (figuratively as my journal is a basic accout) anyway, i have done pretty ok, and i get bannersss which makes me happy. check under the cut

 

4 awards )

so all is going well, got to do some real work now.
:) :) :)
 

 
 
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kate
10 October 2009 @ 02:39 am
 - 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

 
 
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kate
09 October 2009 @ 05:18 pm


Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- W B Yeats

just because, well i am in love wth this poem
 
 
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kate
08 October 2009 @ 03:52 pm

having a bit of a L&O CI day, must be from the icons  have been working on for [info]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.
 
 
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kate
07 October 2009 @ 06:39 pm
45 random bones icons that i screencapped and made in my free time.



under the cut )
credit is appreciated
comments are love <3</div>

 
 
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kate
07 October 2009 @ 06:23 pm

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. :)
 
 
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kate
01 October 2009 @ 12:48 am

very excited, got the mods choice award for the 2x21 18th and Potomac iconest at [info]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 [info]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 :)
 
 
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kate
01 October 2009 @ 12:22 am

two texture sets




delicate_icons
by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

+ one other set



enchant_me_icontextures
by ~dreamsofkate on deviantART

:-) comments = love
 
 
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