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This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:9-10


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News and Birthday Presents

Journal Entry: Wed May 7, 2008, 10:28 AM
  • Mood: dA Love
  • Reading: Then God Whispers Your Name, Max Lucado
  • Eating: Yogurt
  • Drinking: Coffee
News


I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the presents and well wishes from my DA friends. :hug:sss. I was almost overwelmed by the love you all showered on me.

I had a wonderful day yesterday, even though I had to work (it was the first day of the summer session :(). When I got home hubby kept me so occupied that I never got a chance to get on the internet last night. He took me out to a very nice New Orleans style restaurant, and then to see Ironman (which really rocked btw). At home I was treated to chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate (sugar free of course). What floored me to the max was that my estranged daughter called, JUST to wish me a Happy Birthday. She hasn't remembered my birthday for about three years. I guess miracles do happen!

I wanted to share what hubby bought me for my birthday (a few days early). I really love that man!




In other news, I opened a second DA account where I intend to post photomanips and stock items. It’s :iconlightkeeper7: in case anyone is interested. I made several sets of fractal wings, which I am going to put up as stock items. I haven’t exactly decided which account I will post them in yet, so if anyone has an opinion please voice it. I don’t want to flood this account with a lot of non-fractal items. I probably won’t be writing many journal articles or doing features from that account because I really don’t want to pay for two subs.



Thought for the Day


April 30 - On Imagination

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.
Albert Einstein

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

April 29

Something new I want to do. I may not be able to get to it daily, but I'm going to try. Hopefully no one will think I'm doing this to increase my pageviews, because those don't really matter that much to me. I am inspired to do it by a story I heard this week.

A corporate consultant visited a grocery store in order to help increase the store's sales. She suggested to the store's employees that they try somehow to make the customer's visits to the store a memorable one, in a good way. One of the baggers, a boy with Down's Syndrome named Johnny, decided that he would slip a little something into one of the bags of each of the customers. He called it his "Thought for the Day". He got the help of his father, who typed the thoughts out on the computer and made copies of them. They included quotes, stories, and when he couldn't come up with anything, just thoughts from the boy himself.

It made a very positive impact on the store, which filtered through to the other employees. So much so, that whatever register Johnny happened to be at that day had a much longer line than any other. Customers often would not move even if offered a shorter line because they wanted that little slip of paper with the thought for the day.

I was so inspired by that story, I decided I wanted to be a "Johnny" to my own circle of friends.




Many Thanks ...


My Birthday was May 6, and I wanted to say thanks for the very lovely gifts I recieved from my DA friends.

From *SpringLilac Vera is such a sweet person that so many of her deviations are gifts for others. :hug:s and more :hug:s sweetie!



From =MagePrydain. How did you know I miss the blossoming of the redbuds here in warm South Florida?



From *mistywisp, whose etched flowers I adore :hug:



From *phoenix75 Very elegant. Thanks Kim :cuddle:



From =Colliemom, who KNOWS how much a like planty fractals :blowkiss:



Loads of :hug:s to =Kabuchan, I really love this



Despite the trials she's been through lately, *MzKitty45601 is always thinking of others. Thanks from the bottom of my heart darlin'.


My beautiful present from :icondragonfly113:


So very sweet of you hun.

:iconluffsfromafriend: made me a very pretty stamp. It really made my day!



Thank you so much sweetie :blowkiss:


I am doing a happy dance that I have fractals recently featured in DA news articles. April's Color is Green [link] and Two Fractals on the most recent Green Fractal Friday: Irish Rosette and In Praise of the Emerald Isle. On the Fringes was featured on the Wall of Wows [link] and Spring Fever on the Wall of Wows [link] Mandarin Tapestry was featured in Fabulous Fractal Prints 2 [link] and Strange Shores was featured in AnnaKirsten's Terrific Tuesday [link] .

Recently featured by:

:iconmzkitty45601: :iconbaba49: :iconmistywisp: :iconzoozee: :iconcolliemom: :iconultra-fractal: :iconsweetangel1: :iconim1happy: :iconsophquest: :icontubaholics-anonymous:



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Contest Feature
:iconsimplysteff: was the runner up for :iconnfotm:'s screenshot contest




I Believe I Can Fly

Since it seems most of my work lately has to do with winged things, I thougt I would offer up some of my favorites.














I'm very thrilled that =Rickbw1 picked up the first item I've ever offered as stock and made something beautiful with it. Please check out his amazing gallery.



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Top Ten: Last call for a feature

Journal Entry: Wed Apr 23, 2008, 6:06 PM
  • Mood: Amused
  • Listening to: Avalon: For the Sake of the Call
  • Eating: Cheetos
  • Drinking: Diet coke
News


The Top Ten

A little something I picked up from *Fraxa. I will display three deviations from the first 10 people to reply to my journal. There are two catches. You must have several items in your gallery to choose from, and you must post this in your own journal.

So get ready to pay the love forward :w00t:

1. *n8iveattitude1



2. *MzKitty45601 (because I wanted to)



3. ~Medusa92



4. *terrye634



5. =laurengary




6. *jennabee25




7. ~Plushiemode



8. =Rickbw1





9. Anymore takers? Last call for a feature.

10. :hug:


I'm going to be very busy the next couple of weeks as the semester comes to a close, so please forgive me if I fav and run.



More News ...


Many many thanks

My beautiful present from :icondragonfly113:


So very sweet of you hun.

:iconluffsfromafriend: made me a very pretty stamp. It really made my day!



Thank you so much sweetie :blowkiss:


I am doing a happy dance that I have fractals recently featured in DA news articles. April's Color is Green [link] and Two Fractals on the most recent Green Fractal Friday: Irish Rosette and In Praise of the Emerald Isle. On the Fringes was featured on the Wall of Wows [link] and Spring Fever on the Wall of Wows [link] Mandarin Tapestry was featured in Fabulous Fractal Prints 2 [link] and Strange Shores was featured in AnnaKirsten's Terrific Tuesday [link] .

Recently featured by:

:iconmzkitty45601: :iconbaba49: :iconmistywisp: :iconzoozee: :iconcolliemom: :iconultra-fractal:




Featured Art


Treasures in the Attic, Vol. 1

Over spring break I started wondering what gems the established members of DA have hiding at the very bottom of their galleries. They might be sparks of inspiration, or maybe serendipitous events while we were learning. Even those members who came to DA as already established fractalists rarely blaze onto the scene. It takes time to build a list of watchers and become familiar with the various clubs. Perhaps treasures in the basement would be more apropos. I spent some time delving into the depths of several of my friend’s galleries for deviations with less than ten favorites that I liked and thought deserved a second look. (Roz and Thelma had so many that I had a great deal of trouble choosing.)

I hope this inspires others to go looking for “lost” art treasures. :XD:


:iconthelma1:





:iconrozrr:




:iconcolliemom:




:iconkayandjay100:




:iconjennabee25:




:iconexpercf:




:iconbootsbounty:





Forgive the self promotion, but I decided to include a few of my own, personal favorites of mine that I thought I’d bring forward.









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I Can't Wait for Spring Break

Journal Entry: Wed Mar 26, 2008, 7:22 PM
  • Mood: Happy
  • Listening to: Michael W. Smith
  • Playing: Gin Rummy with hubby and mom-in-law
  • Eating: Key lime pie
  • Drinking: Hazelnut Coffee
News


A couple quick notes:

:iconluffsfromafriend: made me a very pretty stamp. It really made my day!



Thank you so much sweetie :blowkiss:


I'm buried under tons of genetics problems at the moment, so please be patient if I'm slow to comment and forgive me if I fav and run. I only have two more days until spring break. I'll still have papers to correct, but it sure will be nice to relax. I plan on hanging around to do some much needed spring cleaning, although I may take off with hubby to do some fishing when the weather is nice. My husband is a high school teacher and he's got spring break too :XD:.



3-23-08

I wanted to wish everyone a Blessed Easter.

I don’t usually get preachy about my faith, but on this holiest day of the year, I find that I cannot remain silent. Jesus said that were we to be silenced, even the stones would cry out His praise. I’m not going to be bested by a rock.

I was raised in a Christian home, so some would say I only believe what I was taught to believe. However, I am also a scientist, and as such, my faith is not blind. I went through a period where I examined what I believed against what I was told to believe by other biologists, and came out the other side because I am in complete awe of the world God has created. The more I study the complexity of the chemical reactions going on in a single bacteria, the more my faith is strengthened that all we see in nature didn’t just come about by accident. Master workmanship begs for a designer.

Why do I believe in Christ? His life fulfilled more than 300 prophecies about the Messiah found in the Jewish scriptures, some of the written hundreds of years before he was born – down to the price Judas was paid for betraying him. Some of these are confirmed by non-Biblical records. The chance of a single man’s life meeting even 40 of these prophesies is astronomical. However, that is nothing to the evidence I see when one that is lost comes face to face with the Savior. My hubby was one whose life was changed overnight by the power of Christ’s love. I have personally witnessed a crack addict whose addiction disappeared without one day in rehab when he lay his life at the foot of the cross. That is power my friends.

C.S. Lewis said this of Christ in his book Mere Christianity: "I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: 'I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be either a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman, or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."

So I call Him Lord, and have never had one moment’s regret. I will admit there have been times that I have been angry with some of the things he has allowed to come into my life, but that is my human failing and he forgives me and loves me just the same.

And the Lord I serve is living! Forgive me those of you from other faiths, but what I say next is merely recorded history. Mohammed's grave is in a mosque in Medina. Confucius was buried in the city of Ch'uFu. The followers of Buddha will tell you he ascended into heaven, but historical records indicate that he was cremated and his ashes scattered.

Roman writers attest to the execution of Jesus of Nazareth. Many believe his body was stolen, but soldiers guarded the grave of my Lord to prevent that. Yet his tomb was found empty and more than 500 people at one time witnessed his living presence. Nevertheless, greater evidence is found in what happened to his followers. Most of the disciples, the writers of the gospels, two of his own half bothers and Paul himself suffered horrible deaths rather than renounce their faith. Would you be willing to go to your death for a lie?

I know most of all because the life I live is Christ living in me - guiding, comforting, giving me peace. It is a thing that is very hard to explain to those who have never experienced it.

I wish for all that read this to share the saving grace of God’s most precious gift.

I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
John 11:25


With this knowledge I shout to the heavens:

Christ is risen!!


More News ...

As you can see, I have a new spring journal thanks to :iconlilyas:.

I am doing a happy dance that I have fractals recently featured in DA news articles. Two Fractals on the most recent Green Fractal Friday: Irish Rosette and In Praise of the Emerald Isle. On the Fringes was featured on the Wall of Wows [link] and Spring Fever on the Wall of Wows [link] Mandarin Tapestry was featured in Fabulous Fractal Prints 2 [link] and Strange Shores was featured in AnnaKirsten's Terrific Tuesday [link] .




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I'm trying to put together a new feature, but I probably won't have the time to complete it until the weekend.



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Wicked Weather and a Feature

Journal Entry: Sat Mar 8, 2008, 8:08 AM
  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Celine Dion
  • Reading: Midterm Exams :P
  • Watching: My cat chase a toy
  • Eating: a breakfast sandwich
  • Drinking: grape juice



I meant to write a journal entry sooner than this. I’m surfacing from being buried under a pile of midterms that still need to be graded. I spent most of the night sleeping on the couch because hubby is away and we were under a tornado watch (our family room is the closest room to our “safe” room). The coldfront that passed through the state yesterday spawned tornadoes and very high winds. Thunder woke me about 2:30 a.m. and I turned on the TV just in time to catch them tracking a suspected tornado for the town just north of us. Although this woman has experienced the wrath of two major hurricanes in the last few years, being alone made it a little scary.

News Articles

I am very happy that I have three fractals recently featured in DA new articles. On the Fringes was featured on the Wall of Wows [link] and Spring Fever on the Wall of Wows [link] Mandarin Tapestry was featured in Fabulous Fractal Prints 2 [link] and Strange Shores was featured in AnnaKirsten's Terrific Tuesday [link] . I love experimenting with UF!



From my list of favorites:







The "Greening" of DA

Because we are nearing both the beginning of spring and the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, I thought I would feature green deviations. Please take a moment to visit the galleries of these talented folks.

Fractals



Others that caught my eye









:iconfractaldreams: :iconapophysis: :iconimagersfractaldds: :icondeviousfractals: :iconultra-fractal: :iconmarbliciousfractals: :icontubaholics-anonymous: :iconnfotm:







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Guess I'm a Lemming

Journal Entry: Wed Feb 20, 2008, 7:31 PM
  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Billy Joel
  • Watching: A full lunar eclipse
  • Eating: Asian snack mix
  • Drinking: Diet Coke
I took this from *terrye634's journal. I don't usually do those tag things, and I feel like a lemming, but this looked like a lot of fun so I wanted to try it.

Thumb Tag

RULES:
1) Answer the questions below
2) Take each answer and type it into dA search box
3) Take a deviation from the first page of results (may use ' popular' or 'newest' ) and post thumb (for subscribers) or link (non-subscribers)
4) You can't copy