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My balcony garden

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 18, 2013, 6:47 AM

Besides web design and art I'm very much into interior design. My home is a art project in itself, which I constantly strive to improve. 

My balcony is a huge deal every summer and I think I've outdone myself decorating it this year. This is what it currently looks like, and it's not even done yet. Photos: [link] [link]

Do you have a balcony or garden?



So now I'm getting into drugs

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 10, 2013, 3:28 AM
Someone posted journal skins to one of my journal skin groups, using images other deviants holds the copyright to. Deviants who were not asked if they were ok with their art being used in this persons skins.

When I tell the person about how I know the artwork used in the skins is stolen this person replies with "fine! then banish me and my Journal Skins out of your group! But one thing I have to say: you don't know how many thieves are here at DA...but how I can assess it, U aren't intrested...so ban me...".

This persons logic seems to be that since DA is full of art thieves, that makes it ok to be one. So now I'm going to start stealing art, because others do that. I'm going to do drugs as well. I hear others do it so it must be ok for me to do so too.

Lovely logic there.

Revamping skins

Journal Entry: Thu Jun 6, 2013, 5:58 AM
I need to re-upload a couple of my latest journal skins since I... eh... kind of forgot to upload the graphics to them. They only work because I upload all graphics to my own domain while I work on the skins. Most of the graphics are still there so most of the skins works, except for the vintage moon one, since I took down the graphics to that one, which is how I discovered that I had forgot to upload them to DA.

I'm also going to go through all of my old skins and fix issues. Maybe I'll even improve some of the old ones. I've made close to forty skins so this will take some time. Good thing I happen to have a lot of free time right now.

Gothic stock

Journal Entry: Wed Jun 5, 2013, 1:27 PM
I would like to promote my group :icongothicstock: which I recently upgraded to supergroup status. This is the place for your gothic resource needs. There's lots of great stock photos, premade backgrounds, brushes and textures to be found in this group. Photomanipulators, journal skin makers and just about anyone working with free resources can find something here. And best of all, it's all gothic!

Cherry Blossom journal skin

Journal Entry: Wed Jun 5, 2013, 7:23 AM


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Too much free time

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 4, 2013, 2:07 PM
I'm getting bored. Having no job means too much free time. I'm very good at filling my free time with my numerous hobbies but lately I don't feel like occupying myself with any of them, except for web design. And it does get boring only web designing every single day. But I don't feel like reading, drawing, painting, writing or sewing. Don't feel like going out geocaching. Don't feel like going out period, which is weird since I love summer so much. My home is flawless so there's not much to do with my apartment either, except for buying stuff to it, but I don't feel like shopping and can't afford that either. What more is there that I don't feel like doing? Cooking. I never feel like cooking though so that's not unusual. But the complete lack of interest in books is a bit weird. I guess what I really want to do is go out and DO something. Not just take a walk, not just going shopping, but actually doing something. Going somewhere. Seeing something interesting. But how do I do that without money?

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Metal journal skin

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 4, 2013, 11:04 AM

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Impulse shopping and a new skin

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 3, 2013, 4:33 PM
Sometimes I buy things on impulse with my credit card. Today I bought a super group status for :icongothicstock: which I can't really afford. It was stupid and I kind of regret it now. Being unemployed and all this is not the kind of thing I should spend money on. Definitely not. But now it's done.

According to me the best feature of super groups is the ability to use journal skins in the group. I designed a new skin specifically for the group. This skin you're looking at. It looks even better at the front page of the group because there I use headlines with a interesting font.

This skin will not be available for installation. It's made specifically for my group.

The background is from here: [link] and the header is made out of my own stock: [link]

Supergroup CSS

Journal Entry: Sun Jun 2, 2013, 8:38 AM
One ongoing design project of mine is the front page of my group :iconthe-horror-club: I recently asked my group members to rate the front page and it got a average vote of 7 out of 10. I think that's fairly good. How would you rate it? Do you like it? Should anything change?

The ability to use journal skins in super groups is the main reason I've bought this super group status. I think that a well done group front page makes people more inclined to check out the group further. It's the first thing you see and I use journal skinning in such a way that The Horror Club's front page is a huge (bloody) statement.

I'm thinking about making a entirely new layout for it but I haven't got any ideas so far. It has to be better than the current layout, which I think is rather good. That's always my problem. If the work I do doesn't excel my previous works I count it as a failure. I have many journal skins I'm not particularly fond of because of this reason. It's not that they're not good. Only that I have done better.

Queens of the card deck journal skins

Journal Entry: Thu May 30, 2013, 10:39 AM
I got the brilliant idea to make four journal skins based on a deck of cards. The queens of heart, spades, clubs and cloves. Is that what they're called in English? So far I've made hearts, which is this skin, and spades.



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Queen of Spades journal skin

Journal Entry: Thu May 30, 2013, 10:11 AM

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Queen of Hearts journal skin

Journal Entry: Thu May 30, 2013, 6:45 AM

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What I do during my days

Journal Entry: Wed May 29, 2013, 2:05 PM
Since yesterday I've done seven basic skin commissions. I think this was a great idea. I can make these skins pretty fast and in return they're cheap. Perhaps I should permanently add the basic skin package to my commission price list. The 100 points deal was meant to be a limited time offer but after selling seven of them I'm thinking perhaps the deal should stay. The more choices the better, right? From something basic for 100 points to something advanced for 900 points.

If you ever wondered what I base my prices on it's the amount of time it takes coding a skin, plus how much extra content it has. A basic skin can be done pretty fast = cheap. A more advanced skin takes longer = more expensive. Extra content also adds to the price. A custom link menu, scollbox, stuff like that.

Speaking of something else. Unemployment is working well for me when it comes to the amount of time I can spend on DA, but I'm getting rather bored with my days. I didn't remember having no routines was this boring. You think that being able to do whatever you want with your time is great, but I'm getting bored with spending most of my time alone. Other people have jobs. My boyfriend has a job. I don't. During the time of the day when other people are at work I'm at home.

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Gothic journal skin

Journal Entry: Wed May 29, 2013, 12:42 PM


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Points, money and unemployment

Journal Entry: Tue May 28, 2013, 3:32 AM
I've been making some points by doing commissions and also got several donations. This means I'm close to the number of points needed to renew The Horror Club's super group status.

That's great since I don't have a job any more and therefore will be terribly broke this summer. Isn't that the best timing ever? Summer is the time when it's most unfortunate to not have money because summer is the time when I DO stuff. Like going on a birthday cruise with my family to celebrate my 30th, dad's 50th and my brother's 20th birthdays (100 years whoa!). I can't afford that any more but my parents promised to help me out. Wouldn't be much of a 100th birthday party minus my 30 years, now would it?

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Damask journal skin

Journal Entry: Mon May 27, 2013, 9:42 AM


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