I am writing this post for two reasons. One my blogger friend Anthony over at Old School SEO had something to do with it and after 7 years of my grandmother being gone I decided I needed to deal with her death in some way. My choice of dealing with things has always been writing.

My grandmother was my mother. She along with my grandfather gave up their retirement to take care of four kids that suffered early on the signs of attachment issues and early trauma from being neglected, and abandoned. My biological mother was not a mother to us. She neglected us and ended up being the cause behind us being taken away by the state and being put into foster homes. My grandparents fought hard to get us back together because they didn’t want us to go around in the world wondering who our brothers and sisters were. Despite the dysfunctional ways they grew up they had their family throughout their life. As soon as my mom went through all the motions for the court to fake she had changed she ditched us. I was 7 at the time. My grandmother made me who I am today a strong woman who knows how to take care of herself and her son. She made sure that I would not follow the same footsteps that my mom did. She took me aside and showed me how to do everything that involved running a household. By the time I was 15 and forced to leave home I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt I could take care of myself when the time came. Our relationship afterwards was tested due to the fact that my grandfather who molested me held all the emotional cards to keep her from leaving him.

There are so many good memories I have of her and so many memories I have that I know I tried her patience time and time again. I was angry not at her but at the fact I would never get to know my dad and at the fact that I had no idea why my mom didn’t love me enough to want to stick around to be a mom to me. I was angry at being put in foster homes and juggled all over the place. Later I became angry because I was being molested and lived in a town where no one believed me until I did something drastic to get out of the situation. I could never be angry with my grandmother. I loved her too much. It wasn’t until I had been in three abusive relationships that I knew what she suffered being with my grandfather from her perspective.

I did falter in my confidence as a mom when she passed away because I didn’t know what I was going to do without her. Then a voice that was more like a scream than a whisper told me I was going to do what I did every day. Get up and take care of my son. Be the mother she tried to teach my mom to be, but had succeeded in teaching me to be. She gave me all the tools to be a great mother. She is my inspiration for running my blogs and doing what I do on the internet each day. I keep a picture of her handy now to look at when I get to feeling down or depressed. She seems to look at me like “You can do whatever you put your mind to; you are a pretty girl with a great complexion and you’re very smart.”

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You can see how just a simple cropping or two can bring out details in an image better. This was done using the crop tool three times to really bring out the details of the lettering.

This one I resized first then cropped to really bring out the detail of the pony emblem.

So I was checking out the developer biography videos for Stargate Worlds the other day and one of the developers was talking about brick walls and I wanted to try my hand at making a brick wall totally from scratch without the use of a tutorial and nothing to really go off of except some brick wall images I found at random off the internet. The process took about three nights to complete. The first night I spent scouring flckr to get some inspiration, the second night I spent creating the three styles of brick I used in this wall and then last night I spent laying the bricks and creating the morter.

One criticism I received already on this is that it looks too grid like and that I could maybe make it look less forced. I want to hear your input on how I can make it look more natural. Please keep it constructive.Anyone making nasty comments will not have their comment posted to the discussion.

If so there is a file you need to download that I found over at Steve’s Desktop Photography

This is the file I eluded to in my first post on How to Make Camouflage. I can’t guarantee that it will allow your version to work with every filter or plug in out there but it should make it easier for you to work with most filters and plug ins out there. There are links that will describe how to install the file to your program as well. So Good Luck I hope this makes your program work better if it has been giving you fits.

I have been using Scribe Fire from Firefox and I am here to tell you I love this extension. It is a definite time saver. If I am doing some research I can bring up my Scribe Fire editor and make a blog post right there and still have the window I am looking at visible in the background. I can also switch between tabs as well while Scribe Fire is up.You can add every blog you run and have the same publishing tools available to you that you would in your Word Press editor. When your done writing you can choose to save it or publish it just like you do with Word Press and you can also edit your time stamp and add your tags in the Scribe Fire editor as well. It is such a dream of a time saver. The only glitch I have come across is sometimes you have to go in to Word Press and edit the formatting of your post a little but to me that isn’t enough of an inconvenience that it will deter me from continuing to use this awesome Firefox tool.

Ok so I decided to expand my empire over to Squidoo. I left Squidoo for awhile and for the life of my I can’t figure out why. It is a cool way to give people a brief snapshot into different aspects of any given niche they choose to create a lens on.

You can visit my lens over at Wildheart’s Works on Squidoo

I hope you bookmark my lens so you can see what it will evolve into.Oh and you can also earn money on Squidoo may not be high stakes money but you can certainly save it away on PayPal for other internet purchases. Me I am working on saving money for at least an 8 mega pixel digital camera.

I did this using both Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop CS2. I created the heart and the foil in Photoshop as well as the text. Then I saved it and went over to Paint Shop to add in the light burst effect and the softened edges which is actually done with a filter from the same folks who brought you the VD Adrenaline  filters I used in my first attempt to make camouflage.

I was sitting here thinking about what to do my guest post for Karen over at Scraps of Mind on. Well I got to thinking and it has been some time since I have made any new frames. So today I give you my latest additions to my frames collection.

The first one I really liked I used a gradient to make it with and the second one I used a pattern.

You can view a tutorial on how to make these over at Nanson’s Place.

You are free to use these just make sure you give credit to the maker.