Buddy-Girl Creator Helena...

Tin Soldier Lane All Day on Callow....

2011-12-10T11:32:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone, Helena here to let you know I'm setup at Echo Artworks on Callow in Bremerton for the 1st Annual Tin Solider Lane put on by Charleston District. There's a lot of things going on band, tree lighting, Santa, vendors...the list goes on. Come visited me, support small businesses, great deals for holiday shopping.

Huge Sale - Black Friday thru Cyber Monday!

2011-11-25T10:52:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone, Buddy-Girl Greetings is having a product sale, this weekending on Facebook, with discounts as low as 45% off on selected items! So get some holiday shopping done, today and by some great holiday cards or get a piece of history with a framed Manette Bridge original art print signed, numbered and dated, their are only 50 prints in existent.

So, shop now! And remember you can only get these deals this weekend and by shopping on Facebook!

2011-11-24T14:54:00.001-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving and I wish you the best!

Upcoming Events: C.A.S.H. Works! — Supporting Kitsap County Entrepreneurs

2011-09-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

Join the Washington Community Alliance for Self-Help (C.A.S.H.) in Celebrating the Success of Local Entrepreneurs:

Hear inspiring stories of Kitsap entrepreneurs - Shop and meet local service providers - Enjoy locally-prepared foods and entertainment -
No host cash bar with wine, beer, soft drinks.

Communitas Building - 920 Park Avenue, Bremerton, WA 98337

Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 5 pm – 8 pm
Conveniently located near downtown Bremerton. Free parking available.

Washington C.A.S.H. empowers aspiring entrepreneurs with limited
resources—and unlimited potential.

www.washingtoncash.org

Event sponsored by:

Ongoings with Helena and BGG: An Long Overdue Update!

2011-09-26T09:33:00.000-07:00

Hey all, I know it's been months since my last posting, I've be doing a lot of stuff and as you also know I can get lazy, I also forgot about blogging for awhile. But I'm here for now, so much as happened, one of my best friends got engaged and married in the 3 months I haven't been around, I was the maid of honor (it was also my first wedding ever). I designed the wedding invites, the table tags, the shower invites and help planned parts of it, it was fun and hard, so much goes into a wedding, I so don't want to deal with another anytime soon. I became a new aunt for the 3rd time, I know have 3 lovely nieces Deja, Louvinia and Raylin.

I've been applying for a lot more jobs lately, I really need steady work, I had few call backs and job interviews, but no one wants to hire me (I'm working on my interview skills, just in case that's the reason why). I'm still working on Buddy-Girl Greetings, I got 3 new art prints, the 2011-2012 Kitsap Calendar and a model shoot done, plus I now offering limited edition Quartz Wall Clocks. I got a new assistant as well and the Blackberry Festival as come and gone.

So, all-in-all I'm doing okay just living life and trying to make it through.

I Read Another Article: New York - Gay Marriage

2011-06-25T10:38:00.000-07:00

National impact from New York marriage law: experts

NEW YORK (Reuters) – When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature on Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said.

With a population over 19 million -- more than the combined population of the five states that currently allow gay marriage, plus the District of Columbia, where it is also legal -- New York is poised to provide the most complete picture yet of the legal, social and economic consequences of gay marriage.

Click to Read More
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My Thoughts:

I say good for New York, I hate the way people are so against it, they're just being judgmental freaks, I mean if you truly believe it's because someone is wired wrong or because they are just choosing to be gay, then why don't you just let them make the best of their situation and live their life to the fullest, if they are truly going to pay for it in the afterlife, let that be the cast. If you don't agree and you believe they will get theirs then just don't vote, stay neutral that is your right, "Don't Judge" that's in the Bible too you know.

I say if you aren't hurting nobody and it's makes you happy, go for it. I will not stand in the they of anyone else's happiness, regardless of if I agree with it or not. It's not my place and or right. Knowing that my neighborhood is gay, green, rich, poor, like to walk around nude; doesn't affect what I eat, when I sleep, when I pay my bill. It doesn't even effect when I laugh, smile or cry, cause it has nothing to do with me. It's only a problem when I let it be and that's what you judgmental freaks do and it's actually really pathetic get a life and stop letting what other's do effect you life so much, only you have to power to let someone being gay hurt or effect your life.

It's people like you that make it nessary for the Government to get involved, to remind us that everyone is intitled to all their rights as an American and a person, weather you agree with them or not, if they aren't causing harm they should be able to do whatever they want. If the church could remember that, we wouldn't have to vote. That goes for believe in whatever you want, being whatever color you were born with, weather you are in wheelchair, you are over weight, a female or you talk funny. We call deserve the right to be happy.

Recent Completed BGDS: Family Honey Cover Art

2011-05-29T14:16:00.000-07:00

Hey, everyone, I recently became published writer, well, sort of, I recently completed the cover art for "Family Honey" by Judy Endicott Manzone of Kitsap County it's a e-book, I didn't actually write anything. Judy was a pleasure to work with and who knew you could make, honey lotion?! You should check it out, it's out!

Up Coming Event: Great American Furniture - Ladies Night Out

2011-04-04T21:13:00.000-07:00

Buddy-Girl Greetings will be having a table at the Great American Furniture Store in Bremerton, WA 98312, 2601 6th ST, from 4pm-7pm. I would love nothing more, than for you to stop by and say, hi, there will be drinks, snacks, prizes and giveaways, plus you will get 10% off your purchase of anything in the store. So I hope to see you on April, 12th, Tuesday. Great American Furniture

I've Read Another Article: South Dakota Politicians Defend Controversial Fetus Bill

2011-02-16T15:00:00.000-08:00

The Article:

South Dakota Politicians Defend Controversial Fetus Bill

By Liz Goodwin

The bill, which made it out of committee with the support of Republicans in a party-line vote, is intended to make it legal for a woman or her relative to kill someone who is attempting to illegally harm her unborn child, South Dakota state Rep. Phil Jenson told Montgomery. Since abortion is legal, anyone killing an abortion doctor would not qualify for the law's stipulation of justifiable homicide in cases where pregnant women kill people threatening the life of their unborn child.

"It's being spun in an amazing way, that those who support this bill are hoping to see abortion doctors murdered or something. I can't think of anything further from the truth," Rep. Steve Hickey, a co-sponsor of the bill, told Montgomery. "I know that's not the intention of the sponsor. That's not even an unintended consequence." It is already justifiable homicide in the state to kill someone who is attempting to harm your spouse or child.

But abortion rights defenders say that those who have committed or attempted violence against abortion providers have tried to use the justifiable homicide defense before. Any mention of justifiable homicide and fetuses in the same law is a signal to extremists, they say.
"The bill in South Dakota is an invitation to murder abortion providers," Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation told Mother Jones' Kate Sheppard, who first brought the bill to national attention. She notes that anti-abortion extremists have killed eight doctors and tried to kill another 17 since 1993. The pro-abortion rights South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families said they worried a "misguided extremist [could invoke] this 'self-defense' statute to justify the murder of a doctor, nurse or volunteer."
Abortion has been a battleground in the state in recent years. In 2006, South Dakota's governor signed a bill that banned abortion in an attempt to get the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade. Voters repealed the law in a referendum shortly after. Women seeking abortions are told in the state that they are ending a "unique" life and must wait 24 hours for the procedure. There is only one abortion clinic, according to The New York Times. According to the Guttmacher Institute, South Dakota is the sole state that defies federal law and does not allow women who have been raped or are the victims of incest to access Medicaid to pay for abortions.

The bill's supporters told Montgomery they are open to changes to the bill. Jensen says he's meeting with state Attorney General Marty Jackley to adjust the bill.

My Reaction:

This law makes no sense, cause it basically saying, that if someone, is killing or attempting to cause serious harm to an unborn child, illegally; that in the eyes of the state it would be justified for the woman or her relative to kill that someone.

When was the last time anyone heard of someone attempting to cause harm or killing a unborn child without first harming the mother? And if someone misreads or omits the “attempting” part of law the statue of limitation comes in play (can a person kill said person after the fact or is it only okay when it’s self-defense or defense of others, in the heat of the moment). Plus, I can see how this can easily get switch around where some extremism takes it too far and gets pregnant or is pregnant and sets out to find some illegal abortionist just to kill them or pretends that they didn’t know the doctor was practicing legally and kills them.

In all honesty, this low is not necessary, when you consider that illegal abortions are against the law and causing harm or attempting to kill anyone is already justifiable, which also covers pregnant woman.

So, seriously, give me a real life example were this law is needed and that no current law covers, any part of the example. Only way this law works if you go soap opera style and have a woman in a situation where she is being forced to have an illegal abortion (which in by being force to have one, already makes it illegal, just saying) and she has to kill the person or people trying to give her one or relative comes to save her and the baby. But you can still take that apart, she’s being caused harm so the killing would be covered under the current law. It might work if someone is trying to kill an unborn child only and not the mother by doing something that causes no harm to the mother, like poisoning of some kind and the woman realizes and kills them. And if it’s about illegal abortions then it would have to justified killing of not just the doctor but of all people involved, I’ve never heard of someone randomly going around killing unborn babies or doing abortions, for no reason and without hurting the mother or having her consent. And if you are so in rage or feel protective then you have to kill the woman too cause she wouldn't be there if she didn't want it.

Even, people that steal babies for a mother’s womb are covered by laws already on the books, so I see not point to this law. I do see, someone trying to justify a killing by twisting this law around, though. I’m not saying abortion is right, I would never do it, I also would never tell someone else what to do with their body and I can see why woman do it in cases of rape and medical reasons. But I don’t see why extremism think it’s their right or it’s justified to kill someone (no matter what they did or do) when they are supposedly fighting to save lives, pro-life means you are for all life, no expectations.

OnGoings with Helena: It's My Birthday Again...

2011-02-10T08:25:00.000-08:00

That's right, Happy Birthday to Me! I love Birthdays so much and especially mine and as you know I love cake, it's my favorite food group.

Anyways, just wanted to let the world know, what day it its.

New Project: Kitsap Co. Small Business Referral Guide and Directory

2011-01-27T13:28:00.000-08:00

So, I've been really busy lately and the biggest thing I'm working is the Kitsap County Small Business Referral Guide, after attending one of my Washington CASH meetings, I got the idea, mainly because people wanted more referrals to bring in more business for everyone, I figured that if we had a book that listed everyone's business in detail (and not just for WA CASH Members), that it would be easier to refer fellow members, thus the Kitsap County Small Business Referral Guide and Directory was born (long title I know, let's just call it the Kitsap Business Referral Guide for short or the KSBG).

The Kitsap County Business Referral Guide is a New Quarterly Listing Resource of Businesses Owned and Operated in Kitsap County. Our goal is to put locate businesses at the finger tips of Kitsap consumers and other small business owners’. so YOU can easily refer and find Kitsap businesses and help Kitsap thrive. Published by Buddy-Girl Greetings and Design Services.

$12 for your First Ad, $10 for Renewal and $1 for a Guide Book.

Your order includes placement of a 4.25x5.5'' ad in the Kitsap County Small Business Referral & Guide Directory and 2 Guide Books.

Our First Issue is slated for March 2011 - Click Here to Get Place Now!

Get Placed! Be Known! Refer a Fellow Kitsap Small Business!

Get Placed, Today & Be Referred, Tomorrow!

The “You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours” Directory…

Setting Up Your Computer and Scanning with the Best Color Output

2011-01-18T11:44:00.000-08:00

Calibrating Your Monitor: Color Calibrating your monitor by press your monitor setup button usually found on the front or side of your monitor, newer monitors have an auto-just setting just press it; older monitor need to be manually calibrated using calibration sets or manually working with your monitor to make it look as best as you can get it.

Load your software:

Setting/Calibrating Your Software: Depending on what software you are using to edit your photos, setting it screen display settings (Calibrating) should be done. Adobe Photoshop calls it Color Settings (Found under Edit in the menu bar) and Corel Photo-Paint calls it Color Management (Found under Tools in the Menu bar) Depending on what software and how advance it is you should be able to find these settings somewhere in your menu bar and starting with the word Color and followed by words like properties, settings, management, preferences. or display.

I prefer my Photoshop color settings to be the following:

RGB or Monitor: Apple RGB

CYMK: U.S. Web Coated (Swop) V2

Gray: Gray Gamma 1.8

Spot: Dot Gain 20%

Note, these settings aren’t set in stone; they are just the best settings I have found to work best no matter if you are using a home computer, work, or a friends. Also, if you know the settings and can calibrate your monitor, software, scanner, and printer all the same that would be the better and best thing for you to do to insure your images come out in true colors.

In changing these settings you are setting your screen to show your image in true colors or coloring closer to what they will print out. Now, this will vary still depending on what scanner you use and what printer you print to. Some printer and scanners print too green, too red, too dark. I find that HP tend to print greener and darker than other printers.

Scanning – A Quick Run-through

¦ Resolution/Dpi Settings – Remember 2 things the Res is more important than size and that the print out size you want your image will determine your res setting.

¦ Settings and Color – You want to do as little color fixing and image clean up as possible with your scanner, so try to keep your settings as sample as possible.

¦ Descreening – Use this setting when you are scanning from a book, newspaper, magazine and other printed media including ink and laser printers. (Descreening softens the look of dots printing, the little dots you can see in newspaper printing)

¦ Scanning a large image multiple times, do this if you can’t fit the entire image onto your scanner.

Teach Yourself to Build Your Own Website...

2010-12-15T12:53:00.000-08:00

Ever wanted to teach yourself how to build your own website, here are some helpful links to free and for profit code, tutorials, software, images, and where to buy…

Good Source tutorials and Code Sites: (I Personally Use w3school.com when teaching)

http://www.w3schools.com

http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/

http://www.hypergurl.com/

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/dreamweaver/index.htm

http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml

Free Cool Dynamic Effects Code Site: (I Personally Use this Site When Teaching)

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/

Clip Art and Image Sites Royalty free: (You might have to pay a small fee or give credit)

http://FreeDigitalPhotos.net

http://www.istockphoto.com/
http://www.stockvault.net/

http://freerangestock.com/

http://www.freefoto.com

http://www.dreamstime.com/

http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/

http://www.adimagephotos.biz/
http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.thefreesite.com/Free_Graphics/Free_photos/

Great Place for freeware and try-outs software:
Find the software you're looking for at Download.com, the most comprehensive source for free-to-try software downloads on the Web. Find Software and games for anything. (Not just web design related find software for anything you can think of.) http://download.cnet.com/windows/

I Personally use this site when I need software to help or to easily do most of the work I need done for a project, when I don't know how. This site has been a lifesaver for cool flash effects help (discovered SWiSH here 9 years ago), designing drop-down menus (discovered Sothink DHTML Menu, 8 years ago), when I needed a free easy to use FTP program, cause though I love Dreamweaver connecting to ftp's using the uploading feature doesn't always work (I discovered CoreFTP) and when I needed a list of free or low costing HTML Editors to share with my students and you, I was able to download and test all the software links I listed below, right for download.com

Where to buy the Adobe Software Adobe Dreaweaver

Educational Use – for learning and non-profit project for students and teachers only, discounted pricing:

Adobe.com – store link – educational store: (I Personally Use Dreamweaver and Note Pad)

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU&event=displayEduConditions

http://www.journeyed.com/

http://www.academicsuperstore.com/category/Software/277591?sourcecode=lcg&promocode=0D1X00A1

Commercial Use and Free Try-out – for learning and for profit use, no discounts:

Adobe.com – store link:

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/index.cfm?store=OLSUS&view=ols_cat&catType=PRODUCTS&nr=0#loc=en_us&catID=PRODUCTS&view=ols_cat&store=OLS-US

Any store that sells software

Buying older versions, copies for less, resale sites: (Beware of scams and sellers, buy at your own risk!)

http://Ebay.com

http://craigslist.com

http://amazon.com

Other Html editors (non-adobe) freeware and commercial:

http://www.pagebreeze.com/

http://www.coffeecup.com/

http://www.webpage-maker.com/

http://www.namo.com/products/webeditor.php
http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Web_Overview.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/FX100487631033.aspx

Microsoft FrontPage 2003 or less - http://amazon.com

Great Free FTP Programs for uploading your site to your domain: (I Personally Use Coreftp)

http://www.coreftp.com/

http://www.smartftp.com/download/

http://filezilla-project.org/

Places to upload your site for free:

Your Internet connection provider – always give you free space, so check with them first

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

http://www.webs.com/

http://www.webstarts.com/

http://www.yola.com/

http://www.wikispaces.com/

Places to buy your own personal domain name and host your site: (I Personally Use MyHosting.com for all clients and my web hosting needs)

http://myhosting.com

http://www.domain.com/hosting/windows.php

http://geocities.yahoo.com/home/

Need forms for your site or a order form: (I love this site)

http://www.jotform.com

What to be able to expect credit card payments:
http://www.paypal.com
http://checkout.google.com/seller/integrate.html

Need your site to have member login:
http://www.interlogy.com/products/pmb/

P.S. These sites will only help you build a website, you still have to design one and most of the above sites don't teach designing, slicing or image editing; you will need a image editor like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator for that, here's of list of free and free-to-try editors.

Image Editors: (I Personally Use Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements)
Check out this older posting for more links and description.

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU&event=displayEduConditions

http://www.aviary.com/tools/image-editor - Free

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1191272117978#tabview=tab0

Vector Editors: (I Personally Use Adobe Illustrator for all my website layouts)

https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU&event=displayEduConditions

http://www.aviary.com/tools/vector-editor - Free

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1191272117978#tabview=tab0

Good luck to you...

Why More and More Network TV Shows Fail, Faster and Faster Each Year!

2010-11-28T12:39:00.000-08:00

I keep seeing all these things about how suckie Fall TV has been, how there isn't a break out hit and how it looks like a lot more show are going to get canceled.

Network TV needs to wake up to 3 main facts, FACT 1: All people want are good shows and good storylines, but most of all we want to know that before we invest in a show, it's going to be around, shows that sound good and that seem like it going to be good a one, I'm always scared to get into, because they cancel things so fast now, I waited to watch all my current favorite show this season, to make sure that when I did start watching them, they would be around to the end of the season.

Fact 2: US Networks and TV writers must also get over this need to have a series go on forever, I watch a lot of TV shows that originally aired in England, Japan and South Korean, shows that only last 6-16 maybe 26 episodes, you get great writing, full story-lines and the promise that u will see a series to the end of its run, then if the series is really popular it gets pick up for another season or it just ends. Either way you rarely have to worry about a cliffhanger ending that you might never get to be resolved. Why does a show have to end in cliffhanger, why does it have to stay on for more than one season, it's the unnecessary need to make a show last forever that contributes to the decline in good writing, the networks need to have something that can tot for years that keeps new show from having a chance and as time goes on people lose interest.

And FACT 3: When are the networks going to realize that people don't watch TV the same so you can't rate a show's viewership the same (sorry Nielsen, but you are way out dated). The Music World and Billboard Chart have caught up, why hasn't Nielsen Ratings? Music counts store sells, radio play and downloads. I don't even have cable or the digital box, I watch my shows either online on the networks, using Amazon or iTunes or Netflix, I also like to buy or rent them when they come on DVD (which is usually way after a shows season has ended). And I know tons of people that that DVR them and some that still records them on VHS. Do the network count all that, no? So how do they know how many people really watched a TV show? They need to hire more people to track all the forms of viewership. After all the networks aren't blind to the fact there are other forms of watching a show or that even a cancel show can still make them money, otherwise they wouldn't stream canceled shows online or put them on DVD for sell later.

When network stop worrying about making a show last forever, give new shows more time to established themselves and start counting all the easy other tractable ways to rate a show. Let’s face it, if they can track how much money they made off a show when they include online ads, rentals, DVD sales and downloads for their bottom-line they can easily count how many people probably watch them as well based on said info.

2010-11-25T11:34:00.001-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

I've Read Another Article: Four in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete

2010-11-18T11:11:00.000-08:00

So, on my continuing quest to stay-up and current with stuff going on in the world, I have read an article about the decline in people getting married if you want to read the article click here Four in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete.

Here is My 2 Cents on the Topic:

Marriage is just not right for everyone, plan and simple and just because you don't get married to someone doesn't me you care or love someone less, it just mean you don't need to show the world that you love someone and are committed. Having a wedding doesn't make you any more committed then just choosing to stay with someone and not get have one (it was, once the way, but it's lost it importance to people). My friends what to get married and I think it's a grand gesture of committed and a great party to have, but if I have to choose between getting married and just living happily with someone I'm committed to, i don't think I would feel the urge to get married. Besides, most people get married too soon in the relationship anyways and that's way divorce is so high, people need to get know each other and not just get married because, it the next step on the suppose it path to happiness or because they let their emotions in the now get ahead of the big picture and what it truly means to commit to someone or because everyone else at their age are and family members are asking.

As a single person in the dating world I find it appalling, how many married people (both men and women) who are looking for something on the side, they don't want to lose what they have, but they aren't getting what they want or need at home. Seriously, isn't that something that should have been figured, worked out or even talked about before you got married and if you are 20 something and have only been married for a year or two, if you are already looking for something on the side, then that's a clear sign you shouldn't have gotten married in first place, you didn't know your partner well enough and there is no way your marriage is going to last if you are already looking elsewhere.

As for being single, sometimes it can't be help and I think a single parent that really cares and is doing their best, it's just as good as having two parents around, but a two parent family is nice too. And note I said 2 parent family not household, just cause a kid's parents don't live in the same house everyday doesn't mean a kid can't get the same kind of love and attention as a kid that does. Having 2 loving parents doing their best to rise their child can work in any situation, no matter the relation, sex or or location of said parents.

Totally Random Thought: To 3D or Not to 3D?

2010-11-17T10:01:00.000-08:00

I like 3-D and I'm willing to pay for it, if a movie was originally shot with 3-D in mind, but I hate when they take a 2-D movie and convert it into 3-D later, when it's a CGI movie to start, it's okay cause CGI were designed in 3-D in the first place.

And as you all know, I love me some movie trailers and I'm usually the first to see them online, but nothing pisses me off more than see the same trailer in the theaters but with the newly added, "In 3-D" phrase. To me, that just means, the studio is just try to make a few extra bucks, I don't hate the studios for trying, it is a business after all. But, I'm not paying to go see it. Cause it wasn't about what's best for the film and it adding 3-D to a film that wasn't meant to be 3-D usually comes out lame and not as sharp. When movies are shot with the intentions of 3-D, film-makers tend to shoot at different angles and try to do there best to make the scene or object stick out as much as possible, that part of 3-D movie-making doesn't converter and can't be added in the change over from 2-D to 3-D, it just makes the 3-D effects look half-hearted.

Ongoings at BGG: Brownsville Elementary Craft Bazaar

2010-11-09T19:27:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, just so you know, this weekend November 13th and 14th, Buddy-Girl Greetings with have booth at the Annual PTSA Holiday Craft Bazaar, this will be my 3rd year, I hope you all can make it down to see me.

9:00 am - 4:00 both days, 8795 Illahee Road - Bremerton, WA 98311, visit it for more info: http://brownsville.cksd.wednet.edu/

Laters

How to make Line Art - lines thicker in Photoshop:

2010-11-05T00:17:00.000-07:00

Once you have cleaned up the drawing and made everything as black as possible. You can even convert the file to bitmap and back to grayscale at this point. The key here is to have the file as clean as you can get, no little dots or spots of black in places you don’t need them. (Because when you expand the lines you will see all the marks you missed and will have to clean it up then.)

Select then Color Range use the eyedropper to click on the blackest part of the drawing, and then set the Fuzziness to 200 then click Okay.
Next go to Select then Modify-Expand depending on the dpi of file you need to expand the selection if the file is 800 dpi I would do expanding of 4 if higher than 800 dpi you will have to do high but you shouldn’t go higher than 6 or 7, remember you can always go back and tweak things later.
Now you need to zoom into your image you should see that the selection of your drawing has expanded into the white, that’s good that’s what we want. Now go to Image-Adjustments-Replace Color, click the on the white part of your selection (the white part closest to the black of the drawing) then at the bottom of the Replace Color window I want you to adjust the Lightness marker all the way to the left making the white part closest to the black, black as well, make sure the Fuzziness is set at 200 click okay.
Now Zoom out and if looks thick enough then your done, if it doesn’t then repeat the process until it does. If it looks too thick undo and repeat the process again making sure you don’t expand the selection as much.
Save file as Bitmap 800 dpi tiff or whatever you file can handle.

So there you go, to can now use this trick on anything from deleting a little bit more to adding just hair line of color around any object.

I Got a Bone with MTV: Why Ya, Being UnFair?

2010-11-03T12:30:00.000-07:00

MTV Apologizes to GLAAD for Jersey Shore Segment
By Natalie Abrams Tue Nov 2, 4:17 PM PDT - TVGuide.com

MTV has apologized for pairing footage of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino flirting with someone whom his cast mates called "a tranny" with shots of Ronnie Ortiz-Magro in a dress.
Jersey Shore to return for Season 3 in January During the Jersey Shore reunion special last week, the images of Ronnie in a dress also were accompanied by those of another man wearing a bikini and Halloween mask.
Julissa Bermudez, the reunion special's host, made jokes about Ronnie's outfit and asked The Situation: "Who was that tranny? What was up with that?"

"We appreciate GLAAD voicing concern about the Jersey Shore reunion special," MTV said in a statement. "The segment in question was certainly not meant to be insensitive, but in retrospect we realize that it was offensive to some viewers. We sincerely apologize."
MTV plans to edit the footage out of future airings.
"We appreciate the network taking responsibility for the offensive segment," responded Aaron McQuade, a GLAAD official.

MTV pulls punch clip from next episode of Jersey Shore
This isn't the first time the series has been edited for content. After a preview clip of Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi being punched in the face went viral, MTV decided to pull the attack from the next episode because it failed to offer the full context to how severe the assault was.

My Comments:

Let me get this straight, MTV will apologize to GLADD for a remark directed at making fun of someone whose Halloween Costume had him dressed in drag and someone jokingly calling someone a “Tranny”, which obvious wasn't meant to be offenses just a bad pun. It's not, that I can't see how GLADD was offended by the comment, as he could have said, “Who’s the guy in drag” or just asked "What's going on there"). But, that’s besides the point, my mine problem is with the fact that MTV is saying “sorry” and censoring the scene, for GLADD, but totally disregard the fact the Jersey Shores as a whole is one the most offense shows on TV (And I don’t mean cause it’s racist or sexist, I mean “offense” because they cast a generation and America as a whole in a bad light, people all over the world thinks that’s how everyone in Jersey acts and the fact that what's popular on TV can say a lot about the people living in a country) and when the New Jersey community protested and said the show makes fun of them and they found it to be offense as a whole, MTV did nothing to censor the show, for them. How is that fair or right, if MTV is going to recognize one’s groups grievous about a show, MTV should, for all groups. MTV is playing favorites and that’s wrong.

Now, I'm not saying the show should be canceled or heavily edited the show, but if MTV is going to respect one group's feelings they should respect every group’s feeling equally. I don't watch the show because I find it and show like it negate stupidity and that it's okay to act ignorant, selfish, and do outlandish things just because you can. Jersey Shores and shows like it don't do anything but suck people in and make them dumber. Again, I don't care for the show, but I'm not going to say it should be taken off the air. I'm just saying that MTV is wrong in censoring the show for one set of people and not for the other sets that also complain about the show.

BGDS Design Project: I Need Your Help!

2010-10-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

This is a Snap Shot of Their Future Site!

Hey everyone, I'm currently working hard on getting the Official Bingo Salsa Website up and running. The hope is to have it up and running by mid-November 2010, but until then my clients need to build up their recipe's page and I would love it if you could submit your favorite recipes featuring salsa for their recipes' page on their website. You will get fully credit and bragging right, if you can submit a photo of your finish creation that would be even better. To submit your recipe just email them at bingosalsa67@yahoo.com or mail it to Bingo Salsa Recipe, P.O. Box 60, Keyport, WA 98370 and remember B.I.N.G.O! Salsa -Because It's Naturally Good On...You Decide!

Thanks so much you can check their splash page now, BingoSalsas.com

Totally Random Thought: Willow Smith

2010-10-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

So, who or what is the cutest thing in music right now, that’s easy Willow Smith and her single “Whip My Hair”. I don’t care what anyone says about her and that it’s all puppet work or she's not that talented, she is so cute and really refreshing to watch and read about, that it’s just awesome. And if this is what she can do at 9, if she keeps it up and stays on the right track, can you imagine what she will be years for now. As starting point it doesn't get better than this. I for one am ready for the Smith kids to take over the world, I luv Jaden too, Karate Kid, anyone.

Check out the “Whip My Hair” video

Just Updated Buddy-Girl Greetings.com

2010-10-18T15:55:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, just to let you know I just updated my Buddy-Girl Greetings website, it's not a complete update as I still have tons of greeting cards, bookmarks and postcards to add, but the art print and calendar sections are updated now, so check it out, any feed back you might have would be awesome and feel free to order whatever you like, laters.

I'm Soooo, Busy, I'm Going Crazy!!!

2010-10-16T02:14:00.000-07:00

So here's the deal, you should always be careful of what you wish for, right? Right, I was being lazy as usual like a few months ago, not really working but totally trying to get work done, but not really getting anything done. I really need to get a handle on my body's temperament as it's really knocking me off my game. Or, I just really need get more social interaction so I don't go so stir crazy, I can't focus (I'm seriously working on it and I just hope you guys understand, that I'm not trying to be lazy or quit, I just can't get my head in the game or at least keep it there, from all I talk to about my problems it seem it all very natural and that a lot people have trouble work and staying on task and such when the work alone and don't have much social or outside contact).

Anyways, with all the work with staying on task, I still was wishing for more work, so I can pay my bills and be able to afford my spot at the Bremerton Blackberry Festival, lucky things worked out and the festival has come and gone, bringing with it a wind storm of work, just getting ready for the festival was almost more work than I could handle, but with all the networking and people really liking my "Places in Washington" series of art print, I've sold 3 large "framed" prints in last month, with the possibility of selling 3 more in the next month. For a little prospective on that, I have only sold matted prints or framed small ones and in my 5 years of business I have only sold 6 large framed prints and that includes the 3 from last month.

So yeah, things are going better and I'm finding with all this work, it's a lot easier to stay on task, but also with a lot work, it very easy to get disorganized. But in all honesty I'm just happy to be working having more reasons to get out the house. And I'm happy that you all are still sticking with me. Again, I have loads still to post and I will do my best to stay on task, if there is every anything you want to know or want me to write about just let me know. The more interaction from you as in comments and emails I get for you, the more I want to tend to write on this blog, so I'm asking for you help you want me to keep up better with this blogging thing, then you guys need to asked me some questions or show me that you are reading and what to hear more, I need the "social interaction" remember. Thanks and laters...

"The Dilemma" What's the Big Deal? Here's what Vince said and after that is my thoughts.

2010-10-15T13:05:00.000-07:00

Actor Vince Vaughn defends "gay" joke in movie (Reuters)

Source: Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Vince Vaughn has defended the use of the word "gay" in his upcoming comedy "The Dilemma" after a week of controversy about whether it is a slur against gays and lesbians.
Universal Pictures last week pulled a promotional movie trailer for "The Dilemma", in which Vaughn's character tells a joke calling electric cars "gay", after complaints that the use of the word sent a message of intolerance at a time when gay teen suicides and bullying are in the media spotlight.

Some gay rights advocates have now called for the entire scene to be cut from the movie, which is due for release in January.

Vaughn said in a statement late Thursday that he supported "the people outraged by the bullying and persecution of people for their differences, whatever those differences may be."
But he added; "Comedy and joking about our differences breaks tension and brings us together. Drawing divided lines over what we can and cannot joke about does exactly that; it divides us. Most importantly, where does it stop."

The gay community has recently stepped up campaigns against discrimination and bullying following a rash of gay teen suicides, including a 19 year-old college student in New Jersey who jumped off a bridge after his encounter with a gay man was secretly filmed by a roommate and put on the Internet.

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

My Take on Things:

I just had to give my 2 cent, we all do it, we all say things that could be offense to some people when said in a meaner context, but we say it to ourselves, family or friends and figure it's okay e.g. You bitch, I'm a cow, I'm such a dumb ass, white people can't talk, all men are stupid, Get your black ass from in front of the TV, etc. We don't mean anything by it and maybe some of the stuff we say shouldn't be said at all because it's even bad to say it to yourself, but hey it's your right (if you don't like me because I'm black or a women, I really don't care, as long as you still treat me with respect and don't call me names to my face, just to express your dislike of my kind), And to censor movies and TV and music because we don't agree with something is wrong. If I don't agree with something in a movie or whatever I just won't watch it. I get it movies shape us and yes, most of use take movies too seriously, "Avatar Syndrome" anyone (I still don't understand that), but no one protested the movie because of that, they did because it was too much like Cowboys and Indians, but that another story. Unless it's a serious movie, we shouldn't take things serious.

I'm tried of hearing about this, the term "That's gay" isn't and shouldn't be offense to Gay people, I'm all for "Gay Rights" and I think it horrible that Gay people don't have the same rights as every other people in this country, I always vote yes and I hate bullying, it breaks my heart every time I hear or read a news story. And I'm so against the use of the "F" word or "S" word or even the use of the phrase "Homo". But I'm sorry the word gay just doesn't have the same liberties, for the simple fact that it has more than one meaning, it's not a word that was always use to describe a people, it originally meant to mean happy or glad. Honestly when I hear the word gay, that stupid song comes to my head that so cheesy and lame and just silly, "I feel pretty, I feel witty and gay", so when I hear someone say something is gay, I think just think is means lame or cheesy. The term "That's gay" is no different than saying, something is "getto". Or how we made the words cool and bad or even phat, mean something good or back in the 90's people were saying "that's so shawshank".

As a black female, I get that offense terms shouldn't be overly used and that, you can never really erase the true meaning of a word, like the "N" word, I don't care how many times people use it as just another word, or if it's okay for black people to use it, same, goes for Gay people who also use some of your more offense terms for a laugh or as a term of endearment, but because you are Gay, it somehow makes it okay or because you are black it somehow makes it okay, cause words like that, if they are ever said in their original context, no matter how many times you've heard or even said them to mean something good or something non-offense, when you hear with those words in the original context you know, what they meant and it hurts. That's why I never us the N word myself and I stop using other words.

Vince is right, it's comedy racial, sexist, political, or gay humor, you are suppose to look at the intent and realize they are just making light or trying to ease a topic, if we got offended at everything someone says in the name of comedy or a joke, we wouldn't have comedy and it's not like "that's gay" really makes fun of a people like black face, making you eyes go slanty, or even using the phrase "that's retarded", now that's offense, that phrase directly makes from of a group of people, so much so, that they had to stop using the word all together.

The the word gay, again, doesn't have that history, because it was original something good, it just meant to be happy and not to describe a people, like so many other words, that now have more than one meaning and can be use good or bad. There is a clear difference between "That's gay" and "I'm Gay" and people know that. We are so wrapped up not offending a people that we have become weak as an nation, I'm not saying name calling is good, I'm just say that, not everything said or remarked is a slur and doesn't need protesting against, this not the reason kids are killing themselves, the reason kids are killing themselves is because we as a nation have stop teaching and believing in the "Golden Rule, Do unto others, as you would have done unto you." We are too busy saying, "that's offense" and defending our right be whatever we want, that we have become selfish and easily provoked to fight over any little thing just to prove we exist or that we are better than someone else, It's because we know no other way to feel better about ourselves, that we don't care who we hurt or how they hurt we just want ourselves to feel better. We no longer respect and treat people as we want to be treated, especially when we don't agree with them and their views, that's why we have bullying. That's why kids are seeing death as their only option out of this hell, because we are just plan selfish and lack the social skills to realize when we take a practical joke, our jealousy, our views on a people or our lack of understanding something too far and it get's mean and hurtful. Not because we took a word and reverse the meaning

Besides, I've seen the original trailer for "The Dilemma" he explains the use the word in the movie and that he means no offense. Actually, I was more surprise that they were able to say, "Serious, Lady Wood", I'm not offended by it, but not sure it needed to be in a trailer that little kids can see.

The film makers have already re-edited the trailer without the "offense" scene, but you can still check it out, it looks like a good movie and I hope they don't cut the original scene from the movie. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/thedilemma/