It is possible to add a very useful tool to every site (RedBubble Profile, Bubblesite, any Art-site or T-Shirt-site…) to see directly a…
It is possible to add a very useful tool to every site (RedBubble Profile, Bubblesite, any Art-site or T-Shirt-site…) to see directly and live, who is visiting you…. :) For me it is very informative…..... maybe for you too…....... Now I will describe how to do this…........... You have to go here to FEEDJIT and you will see there in frames, under “Cut and paste the code below into any HTML page for your own instant Live Traffic Feed” a code, looking for example like this: < a href=”http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/”>< img src=”http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png” alt=”” ISMAP />< /a> Just copy it, paste to the site where you want to see your visitors (write it for example in your comments of a new photo, which you have just posted)... Now you have to copy the last html-address (in this example: http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png) and use it as a “normal” picture you want to post… Just write it between two exclamation marks: ! http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png! (without the empty space….) Now you add the first html-address from Feedjit and use it like a link (in our example: http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/).... You write it after the picture address after a double point…. And it looks like this: ! http://feedjit.com/b/5ceae12346ade7ae.png!:http://feedjit.com/ir1/5ceae12346ade7ae/ (without the empty space….) It will work and show you your visitors…. When you go to: WATCH LIVE, you can remove your IP, and you don’t see yourself, just the other visitors….. Use for every new site a new code, which you can generate clicking FEEDJIT again…. When you have BLOGGER or TYPEPAD BLOG, you can add this tool to your blogsite too (just click here) and you will get even much more useful informations: for example from which site the visitor is coming, or which site he is using to leave your blogsite…. you even can see which words he is typing in google looking for your blogsite… very cool!......... Because of this adaptation to work this tool here at RedBubble some informations are lost, but anyway, you still can see live your visitors, not only as a number, but as a live feed….................. I love this tool! Try it too…... With a lot o greetings Nuh Sarche Read also: Free buttons for your website… or Little helper to write nice comments… or Use a descreet visitors counter and see informative statistics… Who’s among us?
FOR ALL MEMBERS OF LIVE, LOVE, DREAM …....... It has come to my attention this afternoon that by me forwarding a bubblemail this mor…
FOR ALL MEMBERS OF LIVE, LOVE, DREAM …....... It has come to my attention this afternoon that by me forwarding a bubblemail this morning that I had received over the weekend asking for people to remember those affected by the fires in Australia , as well as, by asking you to check out a member that was accepting donated works to benefit those affected, I have offended one of our group members of which I wish to remain annonymous. The majority of you that know me, KNOW that I would NEVER say or do anything to offend anyone….......... I feel that I must say what is on my mind at this given time…......... I AM A CHRISTIAN and I BELIEVE COMPLETELY upon God. He is my rock and my salvation….............. However , with that being said, I would never force my beliefs on you or anyone else….... You are a free, living spirit all of your own and you have the ability to accept Christ as your saviour or to not accept. Its your call…... In the end, no matter who we are, no matter what we say, or no matter who we know, we will each be judged and accounted for our personal lives period…........ Nothing more and nothing less…........... I forwarded a bubblemail that I believe to be EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL to those that are going through absolutely HORRIFIC times at the moment in Australia…........ I feel for them, I ache for them, I just want to get the word out there and get any help possible to those affected. I would want someone to do the same for me…...... I honestly would…......... anyways, back to the discussion at hand….............. IF I OFFENDED ANYONE, I am sincerely sorry…........ It was never my intention…......... I will continue to Love the Lord, I will continue to pray without ceasing, and I will continue to help in anyway possible within my ability to get any help to Australia that I can possibly do…......... It is truly a tradgedy and I hope and pray that it ends soon…............ Each of you are who you are, period…............. I dont expect you to be anything more or anything less and I would hope that you would each expect the same from me…......... Also, I might add that I am running a group with around 2300 members alone…......... I do all the features, I do every single thing that is done…....... the challenges , just whatever….. I am not complaining. I love it ! However , with that being said, I know I will not always please every single person in LLD…... I dont expect to….......... What I do expect is for us to try to get along, to always want to help another fellow human being in need, and to just keep on Rocking RB as we have all done for some time now ! I love Live, Love, Dream…...... I hope that each of you do as well…............ It is YOUR CHOICE to be a member in Live, Love, Dream….... You are not forced to be one…....... I hope that in being a member, you will always enjoy it and take the most from it that you possibly can ! I can assure you there are some SUPER TERRIFIC PEOPLE IN THIS AWESOME GROUP ! / Hugs and love to each of you ! / Bonita Moore / Host and Founder of Live, Love, Dream…....... / The Place Where Dreams Are Born …...............
When I had an email from RB 2 weeks ago ,I couldn’t beleive it,one of my pic was going to be edited in «Gaïa the living planet»…after …
When I had an email from RB 2 weeks ago ,I couldn’t beleive it,one of my pic was going to be edited in «Gaïa the living planet»…after a while I just thought it wasn’t true ,but YES ..IT’S TRUE….thank you so much…..one of these two pics was chosen…...yaaaahouuuuuuuuuuuuu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have read out there there are many suffering depression as I do. Not only those but the people about them who care for someone who suff…
I have read out there there are many suffering depression as I do. Not only those but the people about them who care for someone who suffers. / Being the generous helpful soul that I am, I feel compelled to help by offering what I have learned and developed for my own solutions, and encouraging others to read it and help themselves find their own solutions. I am fortunate and have worked hard to retrain my brain and try to control the dark thoughts like non-depressed people do. I have not taken drugs feeling that to just be a cop out, a diluting of the problem not a cure and in such dilution the acuteness of the triggers are not discovered or dealt with. Instead I have sought counselling and from the multitudes of sessions have reasoned out my own re-education of my thoughts and these are the tools I learned developed and use. I have written them out and over the months posted them in my folio but to make hunting them easier I have collated them here for any sufferer’s to read and use if they feel they help. Please read the comments too for in these there are other helpful information from other artists. Firstly to tell my story of where I became lost and why. There are deeper darker reasons that I have not chosen to share here in the bubble but these were the crucial ones: / Fragile / Paying Dues / Addicted The best tools I have found are: / Rings of Living / 10 Guidelines / Frank” was the poem that started me writing poetry as a focus. / These next two journal entries was to give the lyrics to the two best songs that I felt helped me through my tough times - / In Your Silence was my son’s band’s only song. [my son was the drummer] but the song should be the most heard for depression sufferers and for all the casualties of the depression victims. / Misty Mountains Calling Me helped me to walk away from my children time after time and to decipher what friendship really was. My own Validation, that is my acceptance of what I do best and what sustains me in spite of all attempts of others to belittle it, is written in these poems: / Oralist / My Beast / Creating My Dark Poems are here – you may realise that I cover my sadness with happiness brilliantly on most occasions but sometimes I just give way to writing out the transparency of that happiness. / Growth Gap / Looking Out / sit / Take a Breath / My Journey In redbubble I write poetry or prose or stories prompted by other’s art work. Sometimes it takes a while for the words to gather and then boom! But other times I feel compelled to write on first sight and end up writing it in the comment box beneath the art I’m viewing. You can tell when it hits me from the thumbnail picture I favour the work AFTER I comment! :O) I always feel worried that I am imposing or something on another’s work yet if they didn’t like what I wrote they can delete it! But then validation comes in the forms of people liking what I do to such an extent that they include my words on their work – such an honour – Sun Symphony that Jerry Alcantara added to his published book and Soft the Dawn that Mary Campbell added to a poster; are two that have been printed for publication and thus purchase [details can be found through the links in my work] and I am so thrilled to think that my words are so well liked :O) / And then this tribute: / I wrote this poem I can be Pretty Too! inspired by a bubbler’s art and received a verse in my comment box which I then added to my poem I can be Pretty Two that taught me the elation of the honour of inspiring another artist. And to ease the pains I have included these two “Healing” sort of poems. / Drifting into Peace / Rejuvenate your Soul But the strongest depression killer is ACTION! Mundane boring action which achieves a small reward – doing the dishes, weeding the lawn, vacuuming etc … And I hate to say it folks who help us depression sufferers – “Sometimes, NO Help is MORE Help than Help!” perhaps you can just leave us alone [provided we are safe]. Don’t necessarily leave us but don’t talk to us let us talk to you. A big part of depression is embarrassment, frustration that we allow this overload of emotion to swamp us. When we do come out of it we need reassurance that we are not monsters for feeling overwhelmed by ourselves. The last thing we need is belittlement. Things like “Don’t be so silly” or “Snap out of it” etc, just feeds it! If we could “Stop it!” WE WOULD! But Validation is the cure. We who suffer depression for what ever individual combination of environmental stimulation we all suffer depression because we have been conditioned in the past to feel invalid. / I am a believer of inherited personality traits and inherited memory. I see in my sons, who have nothing to do with their biological fathers whatsoever, the same philosophies the same personality and the same ideas. I feel the history I read is Familiar to me. I see in my mother and what I know of my grand and great grand mother’s the same responses I have to situations. Yes most of that is learned behaviour but why does my siblings not do the same? We have the same parents? I have two brothers who display similar tendencies to depression as me but they deal with it differently, one has the money to take the pills and see the best therapists, the other wears it as a badge! Our mother is in complete denial that she has it! But I disagree with the experts who call it a mental disease! We are not sick! Yes we can take drugs that help us to conform with social levels of mental behaviour. I once read that there is a fine line between genius and insanity. And most of the depressive people I have met are highly creative in some way. Could we depressives not be the descendants of the artists and bards of old? And as such now that society does not value the arts in our education system [it is usually the first to receive cut backs in favour of sport or science] in our employment sector either – writers musicians and artists have no section in the employment categories at the dole office. Funnilly enough Crafts people [potters weavers etc] Dancers and actors do! Yet any money made will happilly create an unemployment benefits debt! / But it is the common people who hurt the most when you try to validate yourself, especially as a writer. A conversation could go like this - / ‘So what do you do?’ / ‘I am a writer’ / ‘What books have you written then? Would I have read any?’ / ‘I’m not published yet, but I write …’ / ‘Well then you are not a writer you only think you are so you can cop out of doing real work!’ Yes I know all throughout history since after the medieval times artists have always struggled for money BUT we have always been respected for the creativity we produce. And to show how fickle the contemporary common people are, the conversation above would have ended in the complete opposite if I had’ve been in print! It’s as if nowadays you cannot be what you are until you have made money from it! My validation is in my ability to write and to advocate for children [and the underprivileged] and to sing! I do many many other things equally as well but I prefer to give my efforts to these three vocations. Yet none of them will give me an established recognised income to be respected for! I have to go out and peddle myself and create an income before I am allowed to be acknowledged in the vocation! The other think we depression sufferers MUST do is find our triggers! No it won’t necessarily be directly connected to our validation desires and every person has their own trigger or combination of triggers. / Mine are money, bureaucratic red tape over income gets me every time, and to a more intrinsic crucial extent my children – if seeing them is in any way threatened or jeopardized I cannot breathe! Physical abuse is nothing in comparison to those two triggers! Put them together and I am incapable of breathing moving thinking or anything! But it is NOT an immediate fix! Like grief depression takes time to control. I equate it to “One month per year depressed, one year per decade to get back in control” So if you were depressed from a trauma twelve years ago then expect it to take a year and two months to recover and be in control again. Having said that it will NEVER be gone! We are people who delve deeply into our emotions and as such sometimes are overwhelmed by them. What we learn to do is curb and control and avoid situations that trigger our intense emotions so that we can live productively along side others that we need. The only reason I advocate for doing this is because in our intensity we can hurt others, the loved ones around us who do not understand what has gone wrong, and that is not good … it also harms ourselves like drinking smoking etc, but so long as it does no harm to others … then what should stop our own choices for ourselves? Just remember abusers of alcohol/drugs/gamboling apart from physically destroys the abuser’s health only harms others who are in contact with the abuser [physical & emotional casualties] or dependent upon the abuser’s money [which of course they use on drink not rent bills food etc] Where as cigarettes by their very presence of being smoked, inconsiderately always invade other’s with polluting the air needed for all to breathe, [ and remember the pollutants are more toxic than the smoke] and leaving the rubbish of their ash and butts all over the place! Ever seen a driver flick his still lit butt out the window of his car or empty out his ash tray on the road? what about those who stand about doorways smoking to drop the butt on the ground and if they’re bored will grind it into the pavement with their foot or if they couldn’t be bothered with that they leave it to roll off still smoking into the gutter or onto someone else’s shoe. [If they see it my children pick the butts up run after the smoker and give them back with “Sorry you dropped this.”] If anyone flicks a butt in my presence I flick them! Smokers are inconsiderate and are lazy litter-bugs they have no care for anyone around them but themselves. The only reason Smoking is not illegal like drug taking is because the governments make an awful lot of income from the taxes on them! Even if they do dispose of their butts thoughtfully what of the air? NOT exhaling defeats the purpose of inhaling! / A very clever practitioner and motivationer, Doctor John Tickell, once stated “Now days it is impossible to be intelligent and a smoker at the same time!” / I stated this in a University Tute once and was argued down by the 5 classmates and the tutor who smoked …. But the next tute session 4 out of the 5 students quietly said to me that they had now stopped smoking because they had thought about what I had told them and realised I and John Tickell were right. / The best was the tutor who announced in the tute she had seen the errors of her ways and degrees and post grads and all sorts of other qualifications meant nothing if she continued to smoke and make a mockery of her intelligence! What a sweet victory that was! Especially as she rewarded us all with packets of lollies that she bought with her smoke money instead! :O) But I digress [I always do! another depressive trait I fear lol :O)] So if any of the work I have collated above can help with what you or your friends / loved ones are experiencing then please feel free to use them as you see fit! / But I re-iterate these are just my tools that I have developed that have worked for me and I am no authority or credited counsellor in any way! I’m just a sufferer with many years experience of helping myself and others :O) My motto too is “Nil Despiradum Illigitimus Carborundum!” [Don’t let the bastard grind you down!] Keep Happy! :O)
This just appeared in my email, thought some might be interested in reading how one user finds live view useful with his ND grads:...
This just appeared in my email, thought some might be interested in reading how one user finds live view useful with his ND grads
When the Live Traffic Feed...
When the Live Traffic Feed is too big for you… there is another very useful tool, which can be added to every site (RedBubble Profile, Bubblesite, any Art-site or T-Shirt-site…) to see directly and live, who is visiting you…. :) And how to add it? Here it comes…. You have to go to who’s among us and you will see there in a yellow frame the preferred code… Click at NON JAVASCRIPT and you will find something like this: < a href = ” http://whos.amung.us/stats/d9pnv3lygraa/ ” > < img src=” http://whos.amung.us/widget/d9pnv3lygraa.png ” width = ” 81 ” height = ” 29 ” border = ” 0 ” title = ” Click to see how many people are online ” / > < / a > Just copy it, paste to the site where you want to see your visitors (write it for example in your comments of a new photo, which you have just posted)... Now you have to copy the last html-address (in this example: http://whos.amung.us/widget/d9pnv3lygraa.png) and use it as a “normal” picture you want to post… Just write it between two exclamation marks: ! http://whos.amung.us/widget/d9pnv3lygraa.png! (without the empty space….) Now you add the first html-address and use it like a link (in our example: http://whos.amung.us/stats/d9pnv3lygraa/).... You write it after the picture address after a double point…. And it looks like this: ! http://whos.amung.us/widget/d9pnv3lygraa.png!:http://whos.amung.us/stats/d9pnv3lygraa/ (without the empty space….) It will work and show you your visitors…. Just click on the button to get more informations about your visitors… a world map to see where they come from and so on…. There is a lot of languages to choose in the upper right corner of the site….. Use for every new site a new code, which you can generate clicking who’s among us again…. I love this tool! It’s very descreet and very informative! Try it too…... With a lot o greetings Nuh Sarche Read also: You can see live, who visits your site if you want… or Free buttons for your website… or Little helper to write nice comments…
Portrait courtesy of Tracey Mac...
Portrait courtesy of Tracey Mac Yes, yes, yes…………………yes, yes, yes / If you had known Don in the last few years this would be very familiar….…….no, no, no would never have occurred to him. He found good in all, had a high degree of tolerance and a deep love of family and responsibility for his community. But you all know that, what you may not know is…………………… / Thomas and Nellie married on the 23rd August 1923……………………..15 months later Alexander Donald was born at home in the small logging community of Mornington Mills. Don spent a wonderful childhood going to the local primary school and having many adventures usually involving animals of some sort. He spent many hours with his step brother Mick who he looked up to and spent many wonderful hours playing and watching sport. Towards the end of his Primary education his parents purchased the local roadhouse in Harvey and young Don was sent off to Scotch Collage in Perth where he was a boarder for his Secondary education. He loved this experience and spending weekends with his father’s sister who was known as “Aunty Sis”. It was at Scotch he met his life long friend Bob. Bob and Don and a couple of other mates had too many adventures to relate but it must be said they did give some of the masters a dreadful time and none of them did not know the sever impact of the cane. Don was a member of the football, sailing, swimming and rowing teams while he attended Scotch. A special Saturday while at school would see him rising early to train with one of the various teams and then meet his father and they would head off to the races at Ascot for the first 3 and then on to the football to watch his brother play. His father taught him many things but punting horses was his special gift. Sixth months prior to him finishing his schooling at Scotch his mother and father moved to Clunes in Victoria to take up an inheritance that would become the family farm known as “LauraMac”. When he finished school he travelled by train to Victoria to be with his parents again, not satisfied to just travel across the Nullarbor in the passenger car Don found 6 young thoroughbreds’ that needed a bit of company. Don had a life long love affair with horses and found their company to be more than agreeable. / During this early time at Clunes he would ride into town with no top, shoes or saddle on the buckskin pony called “Smokey”………………………..my mother did not approve even though it would be several years before they actually met!!! He worked as a labourer on many of the local farms as well as the family property. He learnt many skills stooking, chaff cutting, tractor driving and shearing. Shearing became his career and he travelled extensively throughout Australia and New Zealand plying his trade. When home from shearing he worked on the farm during the week and transported race horses to and from the track on weekends in the Morris ute and single horse float he had purchased for the job. Arthur or Trezise and Don spent many hours travelling to tracks all over Victoria while his father punted the horses for the stable. It was about this time that romance was to appear on Don’s horizon when at a local dance in Clunes he met Betty and a relationship that lasted 61 years began. Don and Betty married in 1954, bought a small miners cottage in Angus Street Clunes and set about establishing their life together. Initially Betty travelled to Ballarat for work and Don would disappear for a month at a time shearing through New South Wales and the western districts of Victoria. However when their first son Adrian was born Betty ceased work and became a full time mum. Don continued to travel for his work and by 1959 this left Betty at home with the two boys. Every time he returned from one of these contracts he would arrive home with a Matchbox toy for each of his son’s……………………………….it was not until many years later that mum fessed up and said she bought them and passed them to Dad as he came through the gate. Life continued like this until the mid 60’s when his father contracted glaucoma and Don became a full time farmer on the property he loved. He did continue to shear locally but he no longer would be away for long periods. He established a fine flock of Corriedale Merino cross sheep and cropped both wheat and oats. A frequent visitor to Clunes during these years was David his step brother’s son, Don loved David’s company and they often completed projects that Don had put off until David’s stays. He still had the hunger to travel so a caravan was purchased and the family spent 4 weeks every year somewhere. This love of the caravan life style would last his entire life and right up until the end he owned a caravan even though he had no car and could no longer drive. The 70’s proved to be difficult on the farm and so Betty started to work part time at the local TAB and eventually she owned the business, my lasting memory of this period is dad’s two sheep dogs Bill and Buster asleep in the back of the ute in front of the TAB in the main street of Clunes every lunch time. That and the barking with Dad telling them politely to “Shut Up” as he drove back to the farm after the 1.00pm rush. During this time he introduced his son’s and his son’s mates to the punt and a small punters club was formed with us all knowing the intricacies of a form guide but very little about algebra. We spent Saturday morning’s studying the form and getting the scratching studying every race like our lives depended on the result. Unlike my mother who in my dad’s terms was just a “Tin Arse” and did not give the study of the form due consideration just relying on numbers or a good sounding name. It was also at this time he and Robert bought and trained several race horses. One by the name of “Ali Spot” bought the family a much needed washing machine and freezer. Unfortunately Robert had to move from Clunes and the horse training had to be set aside, but the purchase of a Go-kart for his boys provided a new interest and they proceeded to destroy this less than speedy machine on the rough paddocks of the farm. So after a couple of phone calls he discovered the Ballarat Go-Kart Club had a bitumen track and we all became members. Eventually he would become a life member for his service to the club and you know I can only remember him doing 2-3 laps in a kart during the 20 years he enjoyed the sport. He would spend most evenings in the shed polishing and fixing bits that his boys had managed to bend or break at the races the Sunday before. The Karts also provided an opportunity to travel through Victoria and interstate racing and watching with his boys and great friend Alan. Mum often stayed home to work the TAB on these boys weekends so many hours were spent in the car hearing stories of his life and work which are treasures that neither of his sons can measure. As the boys matured Go-Karts provided Don and Betty’s first trip overseas to be spectators at the Hong Kong Kart Grand Prix held in that cities Victoria Park. Betty, Don, Alan and Marg set off on a package tour that gave them their first taste of international travel. Dad took to Asia with great pleasure and delighted in the haggling for all manner of goods, a trait that he continued until the end even with local taxi drivers. / Don was not a member of many clubs or associations as he did not have time for that and his family but if he did join he went to every meeting and was an office bearer at some time in most. He was given a life member award to the CFA and the photographs of that day hang proudly on his wall. I remember with great fondness he visited his mother most nights for several years at the local Clunes hospital until her passing. He was also a proud member of both the Ballarat and Moonee Valley Turf clubs. There are many photo’s of the family all dressed up for a day at the races. / Too soon his sons moved out of home and he and Betty again pursued their love of caravanning travelling to Queensland was a regular expedition and returning to his home state of Western Australia was a highlight for him visiting his childhood home and friends. But when his grand daughter was born the whole game changed again. Jess could do no wrong and very early on she too was introduced to travelling if only to get her to go to sleep and the trip was around the block in Clunes. However as she grew up the motivation to show her all parts of Victoria was strong and they had many adventures together. Mum shopping with Jess and Don being disapproving of all the purchases that according to Betty……………… Jess really needed! Jess was very special to Don and when she showed an interest in horses he was elated. He supported her in every way not missing an event and making sure the horses had plenty of water and feed. Betty catered and Don strapped for the team. He loved all the horses but “Kyra” was his favourite and he would relate the story of how she laid down beside him as he had a cuppa and something to eat at a Ballarat dressage competition to anybody who would listen. He never tired of feeding all the horses’ liquorice, carrots or any other treat he could find. Like the horses Don had a very sweet tooth and was never found without a pocket full of lollies that he was often caught passing to Jess just before meal time much to Betty’s disgust. He would get a severe talking to about ruining the child’s appetite but they would just grin at each other and the practise continued until now with them both having very guilty faces at most family dinners. / In 1997 he sold the farm and moved into Ballarat, initially retirement was not easy for Don. He struggled to make the transition so he and Betty bought a new van and headed off around Australia which they eventually did twice not seeing it all the first time round or just to make sure they did! The Maverick and the Coromal pop top van he loved saw some amazing country and he took great pleasure in relating the tales of these trips some of which might even have been true. A six week trip to Europe and the UK was the high point of 2001 and provided both Don and Betty some beautiful memories and some great memorabilia for their home. / A stroke in 2002 shocked the family and took its toll on Don but the passing of his wife in 2005 was a terrible blow and Don took solace attending the Ethel Lowe centre several days a week. He enjoyed the company and activities especially the “Footy Tipping” competition. He was a keen follower of both Western Australian teams but West Coast was his team and he took great pleasure when they did well and lamented privately when they did badly. But he always defended them to all southern staters who had no idea of the superior quality of all Western Australian footballers. For the last 18 months Don spent time with another Betty and her two sons assisting her to get down the street, doctors and a couple of trips away that he enjoyed enormously. He also became a part owner in a pacer with a new mate Kerry and he would call Kerry regularly for updates on the progress of the horse, maybe a little too regularly. He would relate every conversation and would keenly watch every race the trainer drove or trained on Skyracing. His horse won the week before last and he was able to attend a meeting the week before his passing and the trip home was spent discussing the run and the high hopes he had for the horse. / He and Grant made the trip to Western Australia in 2006 and he returned to the west for the last time late last year for his son’s wedding. He loved both these trips and gave him much to talk about…………. the way the West captures water, the kangaroo they hit, the trip down to Mangerra by train and the tyres that were replaced on the trailer half way. They had only been on the trailer 25 years! / Don lived independently his entire life and his garden and home care was a credit to him, he took great pride in his roses but he really should have watched Betty do the ironing more closely. However he did cook a great omelette and his water recycling kept all his plants thriving. Visits to Bunning’s would see him purchase all manner of gardening implement but the best part was having a chat with the shopping assistants or anybody who stood still long enough. He did change after the stroke and his opinion regarding many issues became very forthright but he never spoke with any malice just a strong caring for his community. / Don’s final resting place will be at the farm he loved his entire life. His wish was to have his ashes scattered over where his two favourite dogs Bill and Buster are buried along the creek. Don lived a great life, loved his family and friends. Worked hard and took great pride in his and his families achievements. I hope he will be remembered as a kind and generous man who will never be forgotten by those that new him well.
I want to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to all involved in the Gaia – The Living Planet Competition and huge CONGRATULATIONS to all …
I want to send out a heartfelt THANK YOU to all involved in the Gaia – The Living Planet Competition and huge CONGRATULATIONS to all of the winners, including me as I’ve never won anything before apart from a meat tray at the RSL. I’m very excited (still can’t quite believe it) and extremely honored to have had my work selected for the Photography category, it has made my day, which was spent in bed with the flu…........................ feeling much better now!! Again, thank you and congratulations to everyone. Sylvia xxx
First of all, thanks to everyone that will take the time to read this ! I sincerely appreciate it very much ! Yesterday, I was invited to…
First of all, thanks to everyone that will take the time to read this ! I sincerely appreciate it very much ! Yesterday, I was invited to join the group International Photographers Alliance. I accepted and viewed this as a very nice accomplishment . I want my work to continue to get out there and am doing all that I know to do to keep on moving forward in my photography / art career. As most of you know, I am the host for Live, Love, Dream…..... It was a group that I started in hopes of touching as many people as I could through out the world by giving them a chance to be themselves, showcase their artistic abilities and truly soar in the passion that they have for art ! Well, it has come to my attention today that many people are not very supportive of invite only groups. I truly had no idea that this was an issue on RB. The people that truly know me online know that I love all People, I wish complete success to each and everyone of you , and I WOULD NEVER THINK I AM BETTER THAN ANY ONE PERSON OUT HERE ! Actually, I KNOW IM NOT ! LOL I have a long ways to go although I am continueing to climb daily ! :) The reason I am writing this, Is that I would like to get as many opinions as possible on what your views are on being in a group that is by invite only…....... PLEASE NO DRAMA ! I dont like drama ! LOL I would just like sincere answers. I would just like to know the majority feel on this subject ! Again, thank you to everyone that comments. I just wanna see each and everyone of you soar in your chosen fields! Hugs to one and all and hope you have a beautiful weekend !!!!!!!!! With Love, / Bonita
I’m a bit taken aback … four more featureds in the past few days … Spring...
I’m a bit taken aback … four more featureds in the past few days … Spring in both Live, Love, Dream, and the New South Wales Photograpy Groups / Leura Cascades No 1 in New South Wales Photography / Urban Myth) in Shots in the Fog. I am so grateful for the support of my watchlist, and the encouragement that the hosts give by including our works in their Featureds. It sure gives one a boost!!!! Woohoo (shouldn’t log on just before bed – I get too excited!). THANK YOU!!
A very BIG thank you to the wonderful person who bought a card of my Grieg Piano Concerto...
A very BIG thank you to the wonderful person who bought a card of my Grieg Piano Concerto ... it is flattering to think someone likes an image enough to actually pay money for it!!! Wooohooo! Also found that Geranium No 1 has been featured in the Live, Love, Dream Group. Thank you, hosts, for the honour!
I live! miracle that it is, I try to teach my two young sons, 9 and 5, the lesson of life that tells you to stop in the forest, stop what…
I live! miracle that it is, I try to teach my two young sons, 9 and 5, the lesson of life that tells you to stop in the forest, stop what you are doing, and look around at all things. Smell and taste your surroundings and then realize that “I am alive!! My youngest son, Cary, asks me almost every day “Dad, how long are you going to live?”, and I answer ‘I live now.’ Do not waste your life wondering of such things, son. Talk to the Great Spirit. Tell him thank you for such a beautiful sunrise, or the citrus smelling Orange in your hand. Look at it, and see not a moment of self pleasure as you eat, but, rather, a miracle of life, delivered into your hand. Everyone stop. Pick up something and study it. Look for a miracle. Feel for it. Delve into it. For you are Artists, and can see more than most. I Live!! WE LIVE!
To my fellow Redbubble friends and acquaintances: I am writing this as I feel led by God to do so. As many of you know, I have recentl…
To my fellow Redbubble friends and acquaintances: I am writing this as I feel led by God to do so. As many of you know, I have recently joined Bro. Trevor Irwin and Bro. Michael Reimann in a cause that truly means alot to me. There are fellow HUMAN BEINGS in this world that are living so very far beyond the poverty level that it is COMPLETELY INHUMANE! These people have no way of helping themselves and it’s the will of the Lord that we help others…....... Young children are dieing constantly, families are forever changed, and the conditions that these poor families have to endure are truly horrendous! / I ask you as my friend, I ask you a fellow human being, I ask you to PLEASE HELP AND CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CAUSE ! One person , only if doing very little, if we all come together, can TRULY CHANGE AND SAVE A LIFE ! Such a blessing we could all be …........... / We are conducting an over the counter medicine drive at this time…............. / We are in great need of the following items and OTC medications: / Pain relievers such as tylenol, aleve, both adult and childrens strength / Aspirin to fight fever / Multi Vitamins, adult and children / Folic Acid for the pregnant women / OTC pre-natal vitamins / Immodium type meds to fight Diarrhea / Vaseline or other petroleum type jellies / Calamine lotion and other anti-itch creams and oitments / Baby and sanitary wipes / Surgical gloves Anything mentioned above or similiar could be greatly used ! Also, you can make a tax deductible contribution as well . Paypal donations are also accepted. If you are interested in helping the above cause in any way whatsoever, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME ! / By all of us STANDING TOGETHER we can truly MAKE A DIFFERENCE ! / God bless you all and I love you ! Thank you so much ! / Bonita
Well, I was asked to do an interview earlier today, and I just realized , July is my one year anniversary on RB!!!!!!! I just want to let…
Well, I was asked to do an interview earlier today, and I just realized , July is my one year anniversary on RB!!!!!!! I just want to let each of you know how much I have truly enjoyed meeting you all. You have all inspired me in a way that you will never ever truly even comprehend ! What an awesome bunch of folks out here ! My group is now well over 800 members, Live, Love, Dream…. I am deeply touched and honored, and just to put icing on the cake lol, My birthday is Friday! WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOO Again! LOL I wasnt gonna tell, but Terri is gonna anyways, so I might as well tell it ! LOL I also, although its not a habit for me to lie, lol, was gonna say I was 29, and that probably wouldnt float too well, so then I thought, well, 39, lol, and then I saw on my home page it already says 39 year old lol, so I reckon the right thing to do is to be honest, Lordy Lordy look who is 40 ! ROFLOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I may cry all day Friday when the 3 changes to a 4, lol, but then again, I may just rejoice and thank God for yet another beautiful year ! Yeah, thats what I will do, and thank him for allowing me to share this past year with each and everyone of you! Its truly been my pleasure…........... I love yall…....... Thanks for all the inspiration ! / Hugs and love always and forever! / Bonita / ” The Old Chick ” Roflol….......... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not know who bought one of my favorite portraits.. THANK YOU… / :=D :=D :=D :=D :=D ...
I do not know who bought one of my favorite portraits.. THANK YOU… / :=D :=D :=D :=D :=D :=D /
Artists of the World / has been featured in the Live Love Dr…
Artists of the World / has been featured in the Live Love Dream Group….........thank you to the lovely Bonita Moore, assisting hosts and all the Redbubble members who view, comment and favorite my work! I am overjoyed at the response this image has received since I uploaded last night…........ I am so honored by you all and your amazing support…thank you each and everyone !!!! Live Love Dream Group
How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music...
How encouraging it is to find your work on Featured pages!!!! Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found / Music featured in Inspiring Greeting Cards / Catching the LIght in Light and Reflection / Spring Fever in Live Love Dream / Safari in National Parks of the World It always makes my day to have some validation from our ‘leaders’ and encouragement from other members. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!
Thank you so much Live, Love Dream Group and everyone else for all of your support; this is truly an honor for the featuring of my “The W…
Thank you so much Live, Love Dream Group and everyone else for all of your support; this is truly an honor for the featuring of my “The World I Know”
Thank you so much for the features ! I am truly honored !!!!! Two features tonight…............. The first, In The Living Christiani…
Thank you so much for the features ! I am truly honored !!!!! Two features tonight…............. The first, In The Living Christianity Group, I am truly humbled ! Thank you ! The second, comes right from my very own group, LIVE, LOVE, DREAM ! I am humbled and it came unexpected for sure ! I am deeply honored that you would chose my work as a feature ! God bless each and everyone of you and may you always soar in love and in life ! Bonita
Good morning everyone!! Yea, it’s 6 bloody am here in Sg, but guess what?! / Frozenfa.com is officially “live” n…
Good morning everyone!! Yea, it’s 6 bloody am here in Sg, but guess what?! / Frozenfa.com is officially “live” now!! YESH!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Finally.. this is my very first official domain name. I’ve decided to retain the name frozenfa, seeing that i’ve been using it for my username all around for the past.. 6yrs? So yeap!! Do drop by my webbie if you wish to read up a lil more about me and the different characters i’ve made for my tees!! There’s no new design yet, but just you wait!! am now left with painting the house.. give me 1 week.. by mid Aug, i should be able to continue illustrating! i can do it!! nyaaaaaaaaanyanya!!! Oh, if you’re wondering what took me so long? Well, i actually finish designing it in June. Did the pages last month.. then got stuck with the Wall-E project.. The codings are not perfect.. am not a programmer (almost failed that module..). so i still haven’t make the codes for my enquiry page more strict.. I will be working on the Mobile Phone Wallpaper Downloads next! hope i can finish and upload it by Monday. So stay tune for that!! XD And there’s so many activities i need to catch up with on RB.. though i must say, it’s lesser than i expected.. Are you guys still there?? I miss you all so much!!!! XD i seriously need to sleep now.. g’nite! Hugssssss!!!
It’s finally up! My story, The The Bunyip Of Boobera, is now up and official over at Mystic Moon Press! / Here it is...
It’s finally up! My story, The The Bunyip Of Boobera, is now up and official over at Mystic Moon Press! / Here it is. Clicky clicky! / Cover art by David Bowman I’ve got an excerpt still here on RB, as I’d added it here for a brief visit originally. I’d had the story rejected for publication by ASIM (maaaybe aimed too high for a first outing…), so asked Kate for some editing help (thanks again!), and also got feedback from a few other folk too. The new shiny version went on to win the eBook competition in the WMG, organised by Ronnie, and judged by Mystic Moon Press, giving me an open door to publication! Now it’s out there on its own, and I can’t keep going over and over it and never letting go, as I can tend to do… nothing ever feels finished enough… which leads to nothing going anywhere. So 2008 has been my year of letting go. :)
The excellent lot at StartDrawing.org are collecting green drawings to post…
The excellent lot at StartDrawing.org are collecting green drawings to post on their start drawing for live earth blog. Their aim to is collect as many drawings as possible from around the world to show support for the 24 hour 7 continent concert Live Earth and the movement towards a greener environment. Learn more at the blog
i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in…
i decided to post my letter to pilgrim as i believe the topics in hand are serious enough to demand public debate. if you wish to join in, please have the decency to read the entri text thoroughly, and not to skim-read or jump to the end halfway through. thankyou. mister pilgrim, i’m writing to you as a representative of big bubble, as it has been you in the past that i have in the main had communication with. i’m not normally one to take issue, but i’m afraid i have an issue. i recently tried to join a group called ‘living christianity’. they kicked me off. they didn’t even write to tell me why, i think i lasted four minutes. slightly put out, i tried to engage the moderators in dialogue, both through bubble mail and an open letter- again no reply, no explanation. the thing that made me rather angry was that i was subjected to clear prejudice. i hadn’t even submitted any work. they just decided they didn’t like me. any way you look at that, it’s just plain wrong. thus my issue with the self appointed leaders of this expression of christianity is twofold- i understand that the general tone of my output is probably not to their taste, but they could have said- ‘welcome rabbitollah; although we welcome your input with the warmest of hearts, we do feel obliged to warn you that the general tone of your output is not to our liking, and we’d basically like our group to be kept free of anything that might be considered either offensive, or not really suitable for kids- we’re a family oriented group of guys, and though we appreciate the fifth amendment and all that, we’d like to keep things clean! in short, to use your own language, we’re basically into ‘bumper stickers’, and one offensive word and you’re out. we look forward to your contribution…..’ and the rules would have been set. but no. they just blanked me. i bubble mailed the group moderators- no reply. no explanation. not even an acknowedgement of communication. that- in my book is not on, regardless of sensibilities. i joined again., three minutes later, kicked out again. this ‘closed book’ nature alerted my second concern was seeded by this response. if i remember correctly, redbubble is an artistic community (although at times it does seem to resemble an online asyslum for the insane involved in some sort of creative therapy)- i believe religious belief is as valid a binding interest for a group as ‘llamas’ or ‘fugilicious’, but the wholesale- ‘my way or the highway’ attitude shown does suggest a tone of religious bigotory- i began to think… if i was a roman catholic and started posting shit hot shots of the pope on the phone, would they allow them? is it the ‘right kind’ of christianity? oh, hang on a minute, we’re already not judging on ‘artistic criteteria- we’re judging on affiliation to a narrow channel of belief- what the fuck has that got to do with making pretty pictures out of pixels….?’ basically what it looks like is a closed private online church, and the continued lack of communication from it’s leaders, doesn’t instill one with confidence to the contrary. the group is called ‘living christianity’. not ‘living evangelicism’, or ‘half dead protestantism’. and christianity is big. if it was an islamic group run by sunnis, who were rejecting the membership of shi’ia, would that be tolerated? (in this respect i regard myself somewhat as a sufi, finding the concepts of art, beauty, mysticism and universal love at the heart of god, and god to be found in my heart) as it happens i believe in jesus. although my belief’s aren’t entirely conformist with any single branch of popular church, i was baptised into the orthodox faith (the oldest, most mystrical and unadulterated of the popular variants), i own a crucifix, more than one book on jesus, and like to get stoned and go to ancient churches and monastaries pretty to meditate. i have a wide interest in religious art, and am fascinated by the influence of spirituality in the history of art as a whole, though not so much by bumper stickers. however- why the hell am i defending my credentials as a christian? do i need to be a christian to join the living christianity group? what’s next? groups for white people? groups for black people? surely it is the theme or topic of the art displayed in the group that merits inclusion, not that you belong to this or that religion, denomination, race etc. could i not join the ‘adelaide’ group if i wanted to post pictures of adelaide, just becasue i live, for instance, in melbourne? i will not patronise you by continuing. you clearly know what i’m talking about. thus i would be interested to know bigbubble’s policy on the use of groups primarily for progeneration of specific political or religious attitudes, as opposed to theme or topic specific art- for thus it would appear that this is exactly what this particular group is involved in, consciously or not- and i’m not entirely sure that’s healthy, opn any level in my opinion, if the group moderators are autonomous in this respect, and have the final word in the respect of who and who cannot join their group without having to justify their decisions (as this group has done) then this group in partuicular must change it’s name to something a little more specific like ‘north american living christianity’ to clarify exactly who is allowed to join, for if it discriminates so, it cannot singularly claim to represent the embodiment of the range of worship practiced in the world’s largest religion. i’m quite ragged about this. the word communication has the same root as the word community. one does not exist without the other. i think that the fragmentation of red bubble into a a host of seperate self-interest mini bubbles was not the vision that you and your folks had when you conceived this remarkable parallel universe. by insisting on communication, i do not mean that i wish to engage in theological debate, but rather that i want to make and post some positive stuff on jesus, and get it to the right audience- an audience with whom i would otherwise have very little contact with- neither in daily life, nor on the bubble- and the title of the group ‘living christianity’ thus fits my purpose, which is why i want to join it. generally i try to make a difference with my pictures; some of them are crass statements, others absolute fucking cliches, but they are all done with the best of intentions. first there was anti-facist stuff, then the anti-american colonialism series, more recently the pro-whale anti-whalers stuff. my core messages are clear, love and peace in a global context. i want to move onto jesus, who you can’t really argue with as a banner waver for being nice to everyone and everything, though i can’t help but feel he’s been a little misrepresented in the east recently, in much the same way as muhammed has been in the west. i’d just like to add that in my opinion neither my current tendancy to name myself ridiculously nor have a comedy avatar should count against me as i am clearly just entertaining myself and various other members (nobody has told me that they are offended if they are) nor the nature of any of my other writing or work affiliated to other groups (namely the eponymous parody and lampoon group) should prejudice my right to join any other group. regardless of the treatment i’ve suffered at the hands of the moderators in question, i am still keen on joining the group and getting on with my jesus stuff, because as i said, it’s the best place for my jesus stuff to be. i would appreciate your counsel, opinion, and arbitration respectively on these matters. yours sincerely mister khan.
Some of you may have read the poem that I wrote recently Living Dead Girl...
Some of you may have read the poem that I wrote recently Living Dead Girl about a corpse like heart. Well… I asked the Queen of Hearts Little Helen if she would like to design one of her world renowned heart designs to go illustrate the feeling behind my poem. She went in blind as my only request was for it to have black angel wings. Violence in all its tragic beauty is what she saw. Helen, I am completely awestruck and overwhelmed. You have seen not only into the heart of my poem but straight on through to my very soul. Thankyou seems so very inadequate right now.
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