Sad News

This to let my friends and visitors know that on Jan. 20, Saturday evening, my mom had a stroke.  I'm posting this afternoon from Cottage Hospital in

Santa Barbara. I'm putting my blog on hiatis until I have a better picture of what's to happen if and when she comes home.  I will post updates whenever I can.  I can be reached at the e-mail address in my TOU.

Thanks and I hope to be back soon.

Cate

Showing off...again!

Catch me if you can...

I've done my first interview ever!

It will be in the next E-Mag from

Psp Party Central... I'm sooo stoked!

I'll post a link to it when I find it's ready to be posted.

I've been smiling for days

Here's a sample of an exclusive WWO I made for

PPC with an exclusive tube by Barbara Jensen

for Scraps n Crap.  It's called

XFactor:

and you could request one for your own as a member at PPC!

The offer is good til Tuesday noon.

Waitin' for Santa

This will be the last post til after Xmas...

I hope everyone that stops by has a wonderful holiday

& I'll catch up with you on the other side of the 25th.



These are a few of my favourite things...

This is a guide to  my holiday music on the blog...

A few of my favourite holiday songs.  I figured since

I was sharing this corner of my world with friends from

many different places, there's songs on here

that are reflections of those heart and souls that I love.

Feel free to skip around on it, the Mix Pod is at the bottom

of the blog.  press the right side arrows to advance the songs.

1. Pearl Bailey   5lb. Box of Money

2. Purple Snowflakes: a song by Marvin Gaye

3. U2  I Believe in Christmas(No Snow)

4. Mr. Mojo's Xmas... a Door's medley

5. Carol of the Bells  The Bird & The Bee

6. Robbie Williams  So This is Christmas

7. Diva Dance/The Nightmare Before Christmas

(a VERY impressive collaboration!)

8. Melissa Etheridge  Glorious

9. Kristin Chenoweth/Craig Ferguson  The Christmas Song

10. Mario Cantone: The Jim Morrison Christmas Special

11.The Pussycat Dolls  Santa Baby

Thanks to Everyone!

Thank you everyone for being patient

with the mail-in requests!  I know it's a little

different approach, I hope it's not too much of a pain on your end.

I'm working on bringing back a few of last years

xmas frames and elements so check back this week.

I used a few things in my banner...the deer frame

and clusters!  I know I need to break away

from the stockings...LOL

Now, can someone help me step away from this addicting tube?



Sad news today!

Yes, it made me very sad to read the news

of my muse, leaving CDO at the end of the year.

Olivia's artwork has inspired me for years...

and I mean YEARS!  I've collected her art since 1977.

I get a monthly dose in Playboy to this day.

When none of her beautiful monthly contributions

surfaced at CDO this year, I sort of had a feeling

this day was coming.  Didn't make it any easier, I only

hope her work re-appears in the next year.  I'm very meloncholy right now.



The Story Behind My Curly Toes Stocking Template

For many years I'd had a wonderful close friend named Vicki.  We started doing craft faires together around Xmas time,  Vicki made the most exquisite

Xmas stockings using velvets, satins, hounds tooth fabrics; vintage laces, buttons, vintage florals...things she'd saved thru the years from flea markets and thrift store rummaging.

Vick was diagnosed with breast cancer.  It was very aggressive; she managed to beat it and was cancer free for 7 years.  But it came back.  So while she went thru more chemo she'd sit in her chair and hand sew her beautiful stockings.  Many went to the chemo nurses, or she filled with yummie goodies for fellow patients.  Sadly, she passed away.  I treasure my Curly Toes stockings.  In a way, they are my Breast Cancer Awareness reminders.

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Last year I created a template set, designed after her paper patterns.  When I make tags in the season, I feel like I'm sharing part of my friend.

So, thank you on all the wonderful comments on my stocking tags...

You're really complimenting Vicki for what she taught me.

The NEW Rules

To request a copy of ANY template
from now on, please email me at
foxtrot.psp@gmail.com
Be sure to put "Template Request" in the subject line and in your email
include the number of the template you're wanting.
I check for requests once a day so please give me
24 hours to fill your request.
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This is due to finding out my templates have indeed been passed
around in a certain Yahoo share group. 
This is against my terms of use.  It's a shame to have to do this around the start of the holidays but TOU's are posted for a reason.  It places more work on me but to insure I know who's actually downloading my offerings for personal use as opposed to stealing this is how it will be.
I'm sorry for any inconvenience.
Cate



Tut by Vix

I adore Vix's tutorials!

I've learned sooo many techniques

from her!

You can find this tutorial

HERE

I would also like to take a moment to thank Ismael Rac.

With all the recent uproar with MPT tubes, Ismael

is now allowing us to use our current Xeracx License #

with all tubes purchased thru MPT and AMI...

I, personally have 40+ tubes between the 2 companies that I wasn't using because I won half the tubes thru various contests or

had made promo tags for MPT and got to keep the tubes.

 There wasn't a receipt

for that huge block of tubes so they were sitting in limbo.

Thank you Ismael!!! 

 I plan on using your work much much more, again!



Heavy Siggghhhh

    
     I sigh because I find myself in a WTF? place.

   3 times this week I went to try some of the new tutorials that I saw go thru my Yahoo groups.   3 times I can't try the tutorials because I can't open the supplies that are being saved as .rar files.  Not everyone's PC is willing to let it's user download a .rar opener...Sony Viaio's are one of them.   Sighhhhh

   Sooo, at least, if there was something to be learned of a new technique, I did that! That's what a well written tutorial is for... to teach.  I learned how some tutorial writers don't care to be bothered when asked if there was a way I could get the supplies in a different form...( asking went unnoticed/ignored...hmm.)  That's fine with me.  All I can think at this point is it's part of a certain clique and my planets don't align with their stars OR it promotes ones creativity to get into overdrive and make the best with one's abilities.

.....I'm good at that...hehe!
nuff said.

Just catching up with the rest of the tagging world

I'm really not sure what karma is going around MPT.  Better yet, I'm pretty sure I'm just gonna stay in my little corner of the tagging world, pull up my PSP program and play with tubes from companies that appreciate my patronage AND my cash.  I made a huge gaffe in trying to stick with MTP in the last war of words n witts and frankly felt like a fool. Yea, I said it. It's sort of an apology to those at PTE that got judged
before I knew what was really happening there.

I'm happy that my favourite artists are finding homes.

Without these "homes" I'd lose a hobby that's

kept my empty moments from strangling me.

A little cryptic, again... yea yea.

But I'm just gonna get to cleaning my "hobby corner"

and throw myself into making some new taggage.

Let the big kids sort out the damages, I guess?

Parting thought...it's out of our hands so all we can do is wait

and hope for the best.
*****

P.S ???

Someone pleassseeeee get Scott Blair hooked up with

a cool place to land?  I miss the man...

Hangin'...