What I did instead of what I should have did…
but I don’t care, it was fun. I made a new skin for stellaomega.com, and a set of artsy emoticons for Story forum
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Although they were fun to make, I do wonder if they won’t be a bit disruptive to the flow of conversation– look at that 
smily thogh, the grinning cat! It was an image in the far corner of a photo of street graffitti. Smile and sad are from some piece of vintage furniture, wink is from a restuarant sign, I drew the kiss myself, and cool is Roy Orbison… Smiling ketteh is so altered from its original you’d never recognise it. The heart was aflorist’s display. Shock is John Barrymore expressing Horror, and that evil devil looks so much like a young Danny Elfman! Still missing is an expression of contempt.
And here is my new blog skin; 
Scrumptious, isn’t it? A crumpled piece of paper, and scraps of momentoes… including my original header.
This skin was based on one called Japan-style, whoch was pretty damn stylish in the first place– but not very personally meaningful to me…
Very cool! I like the used photo effex, and the dandelion added is just…ineffably stylish. Not sure why it works so nicely–all that work and artistic effort into describing a common weed for us?
Oh, so important a weed! It’s common, it’s unkillable. it’s nutritious, medicinal, and fluffy.
Somewhere there’s an old woodcut of a dandelion, very like this one– it’s going to be a tattoo for me some day, big, on my shoulderblade. It has little bugs flying around it and a worm on a leaf.
You did a good thing, you did!
And I bet you learned something in the process too. With geekery, to learn it, I have to do it. My eyes glaze over with manuals and I can never even phrase my question so that the Help contents can help.
I’m a bit like Alice in Wonderland with an un-do button.
Hmmm, wonder what this does…?
Can that level of personalization be achieved with what’s offered on lj?
Happy you kept the previous header in the mix – I really like that image.
But I also adored that green shot silk fabric… I wanted to wear it… It says late-18th c. morning (not mourning) dress — the style where there was no waistline in the back and the fabric fell uninterrupted from the shoulders to the ground, trailing just a bit, and capturing the wearer’s movements as fluttering, rippling, living breaths of silk.
Tomorrow, when I can see your new skin up close on the big computer, I’ll be better able to see all the design details you’ve incorporated.
But even in tiny view–it looks great! Glad you did it. Thanks for telling about the emoticon sources–I love knowing those sorts of things.
Very cool! I like the used photo effex, and the dandelion added is just…ineffably stylish. Not sure why it works so nicely–all that work and artistic effort into describing a common weed for us?
Oh, so important a weed! It’s common, it’s unkillable. it’s nutritious, medicinal, and fluffy.
Somewhere there’s an old woodcut of a dandelion, very like this one– it’s going to be a tattoo for me some day, big, on my shoulderblade. It has little bugs flying around it and a worm on a leaf.
Very cool! I like the used photo effex, and the dandelion added is just…ineffably stylish. Not sure why it works so nicely–all that work and artistic effort into describing a common weed for us?
Oh, so important a weed! It’s common, it’s unkillable. it’s nutritious, medicinal, and fluffy.
Somewhere there’s an old woodcut of a dandelion, very like this one– it’s going to be a tattoo for me some day, big, on my shoulderblade. It has little bugs flying around it and a worm on a leaf.
You did a good thing, you did!
And I bet you learned something in the process too. With geekery, to learn it, I have to do it. My eyes glaze over with manuals and I can never even phrase my question so that the Help contents can help.
I’m a bit like Alice in Wonderland with an un-do button.
Hmmm, wonder what this does…?
Can that level of personalization be achieved with what’s offered on lj?
Happy you kept the previous header in the mix – I really like that image.
But I also adored that green shot silk fabric… I wanted to wear it… It says late-18th c. morning (not mourning) dress — the style where there was no waistline in the back and the fabric fell uninterrupted from the shoulders to the ground, trailing just a bit, and capturing the wearer’s movements as fluttering, rippling, living breaths of silk.
Tomorrow, when I can see your new skin up close on the big computer, I’ll be better able to see all the design details you’ve incorporated.
But even in tiny view–it looks great! Glad you did it. Thanks for telling about the emoticon sources–I love knowing those sorts of things.
You did a good thing, you did!
And I bet you learned something in the process too. With geekery, to learn it, I have to do it. My eyes glaze over with manuals and I can never even phrase my question so that the Help contents can help.
I’m a bit like Alice in Wonderland with an un-do button.
Hmmm, wonder what this does…?
Can that level of personalization be achieved with what’s offered on lj?
Happy you kept the previous header in the mix – I really like that image.
But I also adored that green shot silk fabric… I wanted to wear it… It says late-18th c. morning (not mourning) dress — the style where there was no waistline in the back and the fabric fell uninterrupted from the shoulders to the ground, trailing just a bit, and capturing the wearer’s movements as fluttering, rippling, living breaths of silk.
Tomorrow, when I can see your new skin up close on the big computer, I’ll be better able to see all the design details you’ve incorporated.
But even in tiny view–it looks great! Glad you did it. Thanks for telling about the emoticon sources–I love knowing those sorts of things.