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Old 01-02-2016, 01:05 AM






Ahhh so a new year begins. *breathes in* Can you feel it? The air is electric with opportunity. A lot of my 2015 was spent setting up for this year. I worked hard and I'm planing out an outstanding 2016. With many goals from last year I move on to a successful 2016. Always moving forward.

With that said there are still a few things I could work on to keep myself on task.
Last year I stated that "Any great person knows they are only ever in competition with their past selves." And I plan on maintaining my moon high goals by practicing the 1 1 1 1 rule. . .ok so I think I kinda made it up for me but it really works.

1 hour Art
1 hour Activity (cleaning or workouts ect.)
1 hour rest
1 hour Mene Modly things



RL Goals for this year

  • Keep my Deviant Art account up to date with new stuff TWICE a week. Even if it's a different version of the same piece.
  • Renovate the basement.
  • Create 2-4 solid Cosplays AND GET GOOD PICTURES of them!
  • Sell some originals/take more commissions (if I add a few more every year I'll be happy and able to "retire" to my art and only create things for a living)
  • Go for more walks
  • Do the 1 1 1 1 rule!


Mene Goals for this year
  • Update my memory jar everyday with the awesome new prompts that were added this year.
  • Maintain shops already bought out in my Quest
  • Try to get 30K between each event. (Cuz lulz)
  • Update my runway thread yearly.

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:41 AM

SPOILERX



January Highlights

January 1st

Brought in the new Year with a bunch of great friends and meet 2 new really awesome people I jived with automatically. All 3 of us are artists of different sorts. We'll be meeting again soon at the next convention party! It'll be a blast for sure. Chris was happier than a pig in a blanket dancing with us three ladies. It was an amazing night. OH and We won a few of the draw prizes including a HUGE bottle of Sailor Jerry's Spiced rum and a box full of glow sticks. The only thing I regret is forgetting my camera. Pirated themed new-years was amazing.

January 2nd

Chris and I took Lilith and my Nephew Daniel to see their first movie of the new year. Star Wars. It was great. It had a lot more moments that I identified with than the first 6. Strong females FTW! Leia was great in her Slave outfit and all but Rey is just wow! Her hair was never princess perfect, she was a really great character in so many ways. I need to re-watch it to see a few of the bg characters, but in the end we all had a great night out.

January 10th

Hung out with friends and had a blast. Found out what the baby's name is going to be. Played a lot of Cards Against humanity.

January 23rd

Went out with friends to a Karaoke event. Didn't take any photos because I'm a derp. XD

January Avatars:

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:41 AM

February Highlights



Feb. 13th

I went to Winnipeg's 1st horror themed convention. It was pretty fun. :D

February Avatars
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Old 01-02-2016, 04:42 AM

March Highlights



March 12th

I went to see Zootopia with Lilith. :)

March 15th

Rescued my sister from a dangerous situation. Insane drama ensued. To the point where I had to call the cops because some idiot wouldn't get off my property.

March Avatars

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:42 AM


April Highlights




April 1st

After two weeks of sunshine and no snow mother nature decided we needed more snow. Went from nice sunny weather to 3-4 inches of snow in 4 hours.

April 4th

My birthday. :) Had a nice day at home wit family.

SPOILERX


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April 30th

Went to a Game Show. Lots of game board geeks. had tons of fun. picked up a new game too.

April Avatars

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April Art List
  • April 2 Sketches from March DONE
  • April 6 The Garden DONE
  • April 9 Naga in the Garden DONE
  • April 13 Lilith's Gift DONE
  • April 16 Floral Ink DONE
  • April 20 Unlikely Pair DONE
  • April 23 Unlikely Pair Variant DONE
  • April 27 Sacred Place DONE
  • April 30 Unification of Trill DONE

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May Highlights



Key Con!

I'm still dealing with all the photos. I'll post some soon. :D

May Avatars

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May Art List
  • May 4 Sketches from April DONE
  • May 7 MP 1DONE
  • May 11 MP 2 DONE
  • May 14 MP 3 DONE
  • May 18 MP 4 DONE
  • May 21 MP 5 DONE
  • May 25 Cenobyte DONE
  • May 28 Unification of Trill Variant DONE

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:43 AM


June Highlights



June Avatars

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June Art List

  • June 1 Sketches from May Done
  • June 4 Tactaog 1/3 Done
  • June 8 Tactaog 2/3 Done
  • June 11 Tactaog 3/3 Done
  • June 15 Harpy1 BG Done
  • June 18 Harpy1 Done
  • June 22 Harpy BG Done
  • June 25 Harpy1 continued Done
  • June 28 Selfie Done

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July Highlights



July Avatars

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July Art List
  • July 2 Sketches from June Done
  • July 6 Harpy 1 BG Done
  • July 9 Hapry 1 Final!Done
  • July 13 Harpy 2 bgDone
  • July 16 random Orc marker sketch Done
  • July 20 Harpy 2 Done
  • July 23 Jayla WIP Done
  • July 27 Jayla Done
  • July 30 Harpy Done

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:44 AM


August Highlights



August Avatars


August Art List
  • Aug. 3 Sketches from July Done
  • Aug. 6 an earth like planet Done
  • Aug. 10 Looking down on you Done
  • Aug. 13 Standing proud Done
  • Aug. 17 A bed room in spacce Done
  • Aug. 20 whats going on! Done
  • Aug. 24 DH 1Done
  • Aug. 27 DH n 1.5 Done
  • Aug. 31 DH's 3 Done

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September Highlights

Sept. 6th

I got some awesome avatar art from a contest I won! It's so cute.


September Avatars

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September Art List
  • Sept. 3 Sketches from august +Done
  • Sept. 7 MP: Summer banners +Done
  • Sept. 10 MP: Summer Pixels +Done
  • Sept. 14 Her Eye (revisit) Done
  • Sept. 17 Star Trek interior Done (Oops I put this up the same time as Her Eye)
  • Sept. 21 Romulan Done
  • Sept. 24 Vulcan Done
  • Sept. 28 Done-ish

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:45 AM


October Highlights

Oct. 1st

The last day of my day job. Now i'm going into do or die mode. I can't even with other peoples dreams anymore. XD

October Avatars


October Art List


  • Oct. 1 Sketches from Sept - DONE
  • Oct. 5 Pumpkin Jellies - DONE +
  • Oct. 8 Halloween Banners 2015 - DONE +
  • Oct. 12 Cosplay Inspirations DONE
  • Oct. 15 Cosplay Inspirations 2DONE
  • Oct. 19 Costume building DONE
  • Oct. 22 Costume picture(s) DONE
  • Oct. 26 Costume picture(s) DONE
  • Oct. 29 Bases. :D

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Old 01-02-2016, 04:46 AM


November Highlights

Nov. 9th

Well, THAT happened. :(

November Avatars

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November Art List
  • Nov. 2 Random Chibi's DONE
  • Nov. 5 Winner's Chibi DONE
  • Nov. 9 Space kisses DONE
  • Nov. 12 Many YCH Bases handle it!DONE
  • Nov. 16 Base 2 ExampleDONE
  • Nov. 19 Base 3 ExampleDONE
  • Nov. 23 3/5 Bases example DONE
  • Nov. 26 Base 4 ExampleDONE
  • Nov. 30 Northern Lights DONE

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December Highlights

My daughter joined Menewsha. :D

December Avatars
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December Art List
  • Dec. 3 Mene Comic 2015 pt. 1 DONE
  • Dec. 7 Mene Comic 2015 pt. 2 DONE
  • Dec. 10 Mene Comic 2015 pt. 3 DONE
  • Dec. 14 Mene Comic 2015 pt. 4 DONE
  • Dec. 17 Northern Lights DONE
  • Dec. 21 AndorianDONE
  • Dec. 24 Chris's PreeeesantDONE
  • Dec. 28 Andorian Part 2DONE
  • Dec. 31 New years DONE

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Old 01-02-2016, 05:45 AM

January 1st: Last years Goals

My last year goals were:

Quote:
For Real Life

* Keep my Deviant Art account up to date with new stuff TWICE a week. Even if it's a different version of the same piece.
* Re-Visit some of the ideas in my monster girl challenge series push them further without a daily time limit and turn them into print quality images.
* Create 3-5 solid Cosplays AND GET GOOD PICTURES of them!
*Drink more water/ less coffee/sugary drinks (this may be a set up for failure on my part)
*Sell some originals/take more commissions (if I add a few more every year I'll be happy and able to "retire" to my art and only create things for a living)

Mene Goals

* Update my memory jar everyday with the awesome new prompts that were added this year.
* Continue my success with the "Guess the CI and win" Thread
* Buy all of "The Runway" shop
* Maintain shops already bought out in my Quest
* Try and get back up to 150K in between events as I would like 100K to be a base line for under my avatar. Why? CUZ I CAN THAT'S WHY (Also dragon blood..wouldn't be a good dragon if I didn't stock pile gold now would I?)
* Update my runway thread more regularly.
So let's see for Real life. . . check, check, check...except the "good" picture part. They were average, check and check
And for the Mene part...Check, Check - My runway thread was updated but not very busy. Not at all like a hangout like I hoped it would be, Check, Check and then some, FAILED the runway one BUT I used my journal as a more efficient method of sharing/documenting my outfits, at least in my head.
  • I set up this thread
  • Started switching over some on my event commons to their drawers
  • Went for a Walk with Chris
  • Brought some fruit with me to work for my co workers to start off the new year sweet. :)
  • Made my first avatar of the new year! :D
  • Bugged Lilith. XD Momma's gotta do it!



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Old 01-02-2016, 09:04 PM

January 2nd: Resolutions

I've listed all my goals up at the front in the first post. :D I also want to spend the weekends with family/friends instead of working. With all my preparations for this year I feel like I wasn't always present with those I love.

Balance and happiness is really what I seek. :)
  • I switched my siggy
  • I'm ordering pizza and taking My daughter and Nephew to see star wars. :D
  • I need to get Lilith's phone more time and pick up a few things
  • I need to get an easy piece done today
  • Find time to color something
  • Went from 264 items to 283 from BlackJack

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Old 01-03-2016, 09:26 PM

January 3rd:

I went to see Star Wars Finally. :D It was great. :D I can't wait for the next one. I want to see it again because of all the background stuff. Every scene was packed with so much detail. There we're a few interesting previews in it for other movies coming out as well.
  • Bought the new CI. :D
  • Made a banner for this years jar
  • Hung out with Chris
  • Alt Tracker:750/2982 Main: 1042/5083

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Old 01-04-2016, 09:09 AM

January 4th: In my kitchen

My kitchen is really small. It has yellow and green wall paper from the 70s so it looks very dated. But it's where I spend a lot of time with family. It melts into the bg and its never and issue. A lot of our stuff is pretty old come to think of it. They've all worn well and been taken good care of so they would last.
  • Catching up on event art for Kat. DONE!
  • Art in general kind of day.
  • Blackjack commons went from 264 to 303 from someone buying one of my older items. :D woot! The first shop of 2016 is going very smoothly.
  • Made a new avatar with the CI I bought yesterday



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Old 01-05-2016, 06:19 AM

January 5th:My Yard

Currently covered in a thick blanket of snow. It's resting right now, come spring I hope to do a bit of gardening. It's a small area, but workable. My bf got me a gift card to a garden supply shop. I love going there in the summer it smells so nice.
  • So I finally got around to posting an Art Commission Sheet after a melt down. This past week I've gone threw all the "Am I good enough?" to last my a year. Or at least it's in the pending tubes. I feel like throwing up. I'm working on the "will do/Won't do list" Just every time I go and look at it I'm like...AAAARG! >.<
  • Gonna kill some stuff in D3 to calm myself.
  • I entered R U B Y's contest yesterday, I forgot to mention it. >.<

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Old 01-07-2016, 03:39 AM

January 6th:To my left

A lovely mini vodka skull. :D Chris picked it up for me on whim a while back. He saw it and just got it. XD It's so cute I don't want to drink it. I'm not normally sentimental about items, for whatever reason this little thing stays unopened and on my computer desk. My daughter really wants me to drink t because she wants the skull from it. Yup she's mama girl. XD
  • Had some yummy mini quiche for dindin.
  • I need a massage. I got twisted up on some icy patch and fell. Graceful. XD

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Old 01-07-2016, 11:55 PM

January 7th:To my right

My little Nikon 16.0 Megapixel "coolpix" camera. Oh buddy, I wish I didn't forget you so often when I'm going out. I guess I'm to busy living rather than posing but still. So many cool costumes. >.<
  • Start working on a bg picture.

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Old 01-09-2016, 12:16 AM

January 8th:Chores

Today at work was crazy for some reason. On Friday it's to be expected but this was even more crazy. We were down a person because of the weather/ bus schedule. I was only scheduled until 3 but I couldn't just leave them like that. I knew they were about to get slammed. I got out around 5:45 man was I hungry when I got home. They were very thankful. Lilith had already made us some Tuna Casserole so yay! One less thing for me to do at home for chores.

Tomorrow Chris and I are continuing the fun job of getting stuff out of the basement. O.o I'm so lucky to have him. Truth! He's been making the reno plans go SO much smoother.
  • I got my self a list to do tonight. XD ...mene stuffs

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Old 01-09-2016, 02:09 PM

January 9th:My Last Vaction

umm, I've never really went on a real vacation. Most if not all travel has been with work positions.
  • Not sure if I should save for next event or go for more things. *ponders*
  • Alt Tracker:0/? Main: 0/?
  • I was able to get some more stuff from Blackjack today. :D

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Old 01-10-2016, 08:14 PM

January 10th: Travel

There are a few places I'd love to visit in my lifetime. India, Europe (particularly where my family came from) Egypt, Brazil, Mexico. So many areas! So little time and money T.T

I'm going to be going over to a friend house later. So yay fun times ahead.
  • Started organizing my inventory with the new items from last event.
  • Changed my siggy to reflect yesterdays purchase
  • I'm only using my alt right now to quest the store. Only 129 items left to get from the female side for it. :D My next batch will have the awesome rave pants in it. Something I've been wanting for a while but have been to busy questing the big items.
  • Alt/Main Tracker: 250/9852

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Old 01-11-2016, 07:34 PM

January 11th: The future of. . .

Gaming!

The Oculus Rift is now out for people to purchase. The kick starter was originally made to get 3D technology over the pricing hump that leaves many people unable to purchase. The price point was suppose to be at 300-350 but turned into 600ish. So it kinda failed in it's original vision. But I guess it doesn't really matter since they already got paid for the idea and it was bought out.

I would have given it a try at the original price point but 600 just isn't happening. I can't wait till some of the copycat companies start putting their products out to compete.

I can't wait for holodecks to be a thing. :D
  • Art Day. :D
  • Did a bit more of stuff to the inventory.
  • My back is really stiff today. Not to bad. But just enough to know it's there. A bit of stretching should take care of that.
  • I made a new avatar.



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Old 01-12-2016, 11:21 PM

January 12th: My new Jam

Sadly I've been listening to a lot of my old Jams. Bowie's Death actually hit me pretty hard. I was fine until I saw the space station tribute to him singing one of his songs. It was just. to much feels. I was surprised by the astronauts voice too.


  • Some more art stuff today
  • Thinking about what to put in (if any thing) for the pixel contest.
  • Dragging my butt today. XD

 


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