Heart shaped rose bouquet coloring page

So – as I guess you all know now – I draw coloring pages, or rather line art to color for one of my other websites, Color-Your-Own.com .  Today I finally knuckle down (or under) and draw some designs meant for Valentine’s Day.  Personally, I think Valentine’s Day is a bunch of bullshit – but there are a lot of people who totally buy into it and they want and need line art and coloring pages, so who am I to deny them their fun?

I have always loved roses, all shapes, sizes, colors but especially the ones that smell really good.  But for whatever reason, I’ve never really drawn many flowers of any kind – roses included.  Looking for some different ideas for Valentine’s Day coloring pages, I ran onto a couple of different heart shaped bouquets made of roses.  I thought that was a cool idea, so I set out to draw one.

This means I drew something like twenty individual roses.  The more of them I drew, the more of them I looked deep into, the more I outlined those delicate folds and intricate mazes of petals – the more they started looking like pussy.  Pussy as in vagina – those curled lips, that mysterious little dip holding the clit in it’s center, that sweetly unfolding hole drooling a little cream…  If you have spent any substantial amount of time face down in pussy (and I have) the association is inevitable.  I wonder if that is why roses became the symbol of passionate love?  A man once told me my pussy was like a beautiful flower and I laughed.  Maybe I owe him an apology?

WB

Sights like that are one reason I love New Mexico.

But my main reason for being here and abusing everyone today is that I finally got my shit together and got the store up so you can now purchase and download the coloring books in PDF form that contain all the coloring pages I’ve drawn for Color-Your-Own.com. I think digital coloring books like this are cool because they can live on your computer – you can print them once, print them a million times, print all the pages, print just the page you want to color that day, print your favorite page as many times as you want – it’s the ultimate in having what you want in a coloring book. To me anyway.

So go check out the store. I’ve got it for free for a week, then I have to decide if it is worth paying the monthly fee.

And yeah, I’ll plug my little article on Valentine’s Day for the frugal (not to say CHEAP) couple – who have been together for a while and are pretty comfortable. Bleh. LOL

CYA

WB

I have an odd sort of fascination with the “Danse Macabre” theme – which I rather expect my fellow goths here to appreciate. I’ve got a whole collection of Danse Macabre art at Flickr – and this is a Danse Macabre ATC I created myself:

Sorry the photo is shaky!

Enjoy the slide show of Danse Macabre images:

I talk a bit more about my fascination with the Danse Macabre on this lens – look towards the bottom.

Come on over and give me a listen on Blip.fm – you’ll find me as “Webitchtress”. I’m really having a blast with my own music station – LOL. If you’re there, blip me and let me know so I can dig on your music.

WB

Please forgive me for this cross-post from my main blog Foovays Cauldron The last week has been quite eventful and I just want to try and catch everyone up.

First there was the idiot event. Sunday night, January 10th, the Internet suddenly just went off. Since I had just paid for it on the 21st of December, we thought maybe there was some sort of problem at the service. Finally on Wednesday we were able to find out they had cut us off for non-payment. Back in December when I paid – four days early – the entire balance – the idiot on the phone swore there were no past due bills or fees or anything and in fact was quite freaked out that I was paying a few days early rather than leaving it until Christmas Eve (when it was due). January 10th someone suddenly discovered we had a past due pro-rated partial balance from…AUGUST 2009. So they shut us off. Since we’re on a budget here – and I thought the bill was paid in full – we had to wait until payday on Friday to turn the Internet back on.

I am really getting sick of idiots who through their incompetency fuck up my life.

I know I told a lot of people that some major changes were coming in my life and then left it hanging. I really didn’t want to go into it if it wasn’t necessary. You see, on Monday January 11 we went to the hubby’s Nephrologist (kidney Dr.) to get her final word on something. The word is yes – hubby is going to have to start dialysis. This means a flurry of Dr.’s appointments in the next few months. Then he will go on full disability and be going to Las Cruces (about 100 miles) 3 times a week for dialysis. In case you didn’t know, he has had kidney disease since he was a child – this was not a big shock except in that he really doesn’t seem to be SICK, just tired a lot.

In a way, we are rather looking forward to it. He will be home all the time, and have an income we can depend on – no fear of lay-offs, getting sick, being fired, etc. We plan to start traveling again as the Dr’s assure us that won’t be a problem. Hubby is a great cook and is looking forward to getting to cook for us every day. He has been interested in photography for a few years – he takes many of the gorgeous photos you see in this blog – and will be able to finally take some courses and spend more time on that hobby. After all, he will be spending less time in dialysis than he spends now working for some soul sucking jerks who don’t appreciate him at all.

So yes – it’s going to mean some changes, but I think they will be mostly for the good.

Unfortunately, the latter part of the week was spent caring for a severely ill dog. In the end there was nothing more we could do and he was clearly suffering, so on Sunday we put him out of his misery. We all miss Klyde and it will be a while before we are really okay around here again.

When we did get the Internet back on I made the wonderous and happy discovery that my Squidoo payment this month was about twice as large as my Google Adsense income! I admit it – I mostly spent it on some fun things for myself. I bought tokens at SandboxFarm and paid my friend Robert Sloan for a fantastic bit of art he created for me last month. When it arrives I’ll try and get a good photo or scan and I’ll tell you all about it then – but suffice to say, it’s really special and I love it already.

Speaking of Robert, we were chatting the other night and he has agreed to create a number of dinosaur coloring pages for Color-Your-Own.com. I am really excited because I draw really LAME dinosaurs and Robert draws GREAT dinosaurs. This will be the first time I have ever asked or even allowed another artist to contribute at Color-Your-Own.com so that’s a bit of a milestone. I’ll be paying him for the art and I’m sure it’s going to be a really good thing for both of us.

And speaking of Color-Your-Own.com, the coloring books are done. They’ve actually been done for a week but…yeah, anyway, AHEM – all that awaits now is for me to find a workable payment system that will let me sell them for a price I think makes sense and in a way that (I hope) you will be able to pay and download them instantly. I’ll look into that some more tonight.

Doing research today for Valentines Day coloring pages, I ran onto an interesting bit of Victorian trivia that I posted at Foovay’s Floozies.

About the last thing I accomplished last week online before we got cut off was a Squidoo lens on Finding Free Articles on the Internet. Yes, someone stole an article from me and was rude about it and I obsessed over it for a couple days and then wrote a nice, long article on how to correctly find and use free articles on the Internet, and further more, how to make money doing it. I hope someone benefits from my ten years of experience in learning to do just that. I also happened to notice at the time that one of my old domains is up for sale again and I still have the whole old website that used to be there on my hard drive! Sooner or later, much of the old “empire” is liable to return. Hopefully on a more profitable basis.

And while you may have missed me just a little bit – and yes, I missed my Internet friends, too – I did enjoy being home to enjoy the mule deer who came to visit during deer season. They seem to have figured out we are suckers here and no one is going to hurt them. And here is one of hubby’s photos now!

Sent in a direct message to me on Twitter:

Do you suppose goths dress all in black because we are in mourning for the way the world used to be?

What a thought. Because, you know, we USED to be punks – and punks dressed in all sorts of outrageous outfits which included bright colors.

The more I think about this, the deeper it gets.

@Rivethead Rasta – one of my favorite Twitter pals – shared this link to the 20 Scifi Movies We’re Most Excited to see in 2010. I don’t know about you, but I think I’m just going to print it out and check them off as I get them

I was even more excited, however, to see that they are making John Carter, Warlord of Mars into a movie. I am a serious Edgar Rice Burroughs fan, and although he is best known for Tarzan – my personal favorite of his series was John Carter of Mars. I am also a huge Pixar fan, and it does seem just too perfect as the medium for four armed ten foot tall Martians to be brought to life.

Go forth and enjoy!

I like puzzles and strategy games. Hubby likes RPG games. Last week we bought a game we could agree on. In fact, we figured it would take us both to play it. It did. We had a blast. Okay, it only lasted two days but we had lots of fun and it gave me the chance to breathe down his neck and have some of his attention for a change. Usually he is all caught up in some game .

Oh, the game! It’s Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhurst from Big Fish Games. We picked it up at a Walmart so you probably could, too. Since it is “return” to Ravenhurst, I bet there is a Ravenhurst floating around, too. I’m going to look on eBay. Obviously, no affilliation – just a game we really enjoyed that I thought my goth friends might get a big kick out of, too.

It was a well spent ten bucks in my opinion – and delightfully gothic and scary and Victorian. Great graphics. You run about this old Victorian mansion looking for clues to solve the puzzle. Hubby did the running around and remembering where stuff was and I did the puzzle solving bits.

Hope all of you have a great New Year – 2010 is going to be so much better than the years preceeding it for me and mine so you better get in gear and have a good one, too! Now I’m gonna go eat my Black-eyed peas.

BlessedB

WB

Pauley Perette

There’s this and that and the other I want to share but today I finally got my shit together in one basket and made my long anticipated Squidoo lens, Abby’s music on NCIS. I found a vid of Pauley performing Fear, a vid of her old band Lo-Ball, and lots of fun fan vids. You can buy the NCIS Soundtrack CDs or even download just the one song, Fear. So please, go check it out and give it some love, rating, etc.

My little thang for Music Monday on Twitter. Of course, I also have some new music I want to check out – stay tuned…

WB

I meet the coolest people on Twitter, like arianaelle whose profile led me to The Monocle Chronicle – a forum and gathering place for those of the steampunk persuasion and soon an RPG, too. I’m so excited

Well of course I joined – look for Kitty LaRue.

Kitty LaRue

Which all just reminds me that what I set out to do today was work on blogs – including my just for fun little Victorian playland called Foovay’s Floozies. Yeah, it’s pretty blank right at the moment. I have photos and stories ready to go – in fact, it was a going thing for a little while earlier this year but all that hosting BS came up and, well – yeah. I’m doing blog stuff today though, really I am. I started a new one last night and realized I have 16 set up and about three actually working – LOL.

Oh, the new one? Well – I gotta tell you it’s an Internet Marketing site that goes with that Affilliate Systems thing I’m trying out. Not that there are not some really good deals that I’m itching to share – just you should know it isn’t either my usual yappy stuff or fiction – it’s shopping pure and simple. That said, here it is – My Best Deals. I mean – if you are looking for some sort of deal on the internet and you want to toss your business my way, I’m sure not going to stop you!

*smile*

WB

I so have to share these folks with you – just met them via Twitter. Clockwork Couture features steampunk clothing, corsets, costumes, jewelry, hats and oddities according to their introduction. They describe themselves as a group of crafters, fashionistas, tinkerers and explorers and give part of their proceeds to bring art back to the public schools. And this is before you go drool over the new “vintage” styled victorian clothing. OMG. I want it all and I want it now. And if you feel the need, they do have gift certificates for Christmas! They are really new so lets give them all the support we can so they can hang around and share these gothic creations with us all for a long time.

WB