Please go to and read this link [link]

This type of thing happens all too often not just in England. So please pass on this link and get this man's story out.

I hope that everyone has had a great Christmas and New Year season. I have started the new year with the best thing ever...a new puppy! Since Jack passed the house has been so quiet and empty without him and we decided that we needed a new puppy not to replace Jack but
to fill that empty space. And of course I need something to lavish with lots of love! I checked online this morning for breeders and found one in Melbourne. It's about 7 hours drive from here so Allan is going to go and pick him up in about two weeks. I can't wait!

                                     

This journal is a tribute to the memory of our beloved dog Jack. For the last eighteen months he has been on thyroid tablets which helped a little but not much. This thyroid problem made him gain weight and even though I cut his food down to half, he stayed at the same weight and his claws kept growing so quickly that the vet couldn't keep them cut back to where they should be and this made life very hard for Jack. Then a few months ago he developed prolapsed muscles in his hind legs. The only thing that could be done for this is reconstructive surgery which would cost $3500 which we don't have. He wasn't in any pain though and the vet said to just keep an eye on him.
He was fine for a while though he was getting frustrated at not being able to do all the things he wanted to do.
All this changed last Friday night when he started having pain and growled and grumbled all night. I took him to another vet who said that if it were her dog, she would put him down. I already knew this was the only thing we could do for him but I just needed her opinion. I had known for a while but you know how it is with a pet that you love so deeply...you can't bear the thought of doing it, can't bear the thought of being without them so you argue with yourself internally until the voice of love and reason wins out and you resign yourself to the inevitable.
So we gave him pain killers for the few days that it took to organise a vet who could come to our house and euthanise him where he would be relaxed in his own home, surrounded by his family.
We were lucky enough to find one on Tuesday who though she was booked out all week, fit us in and came over at 12.00 yesterday.
The waiting was agony, it was a time of intermittent tears, hugs and trying to keep calm with a small semblance of normalcy for his sake.
The vet arrived and everything went as good as it can be in this type of circumstance. I stayed with him, stroking his head and whispering to him. He was surrounded by the whole family through the entire thing. And he just looked so peaceful.
We buried him later with his little wooly sheep, out in the paddock next to a tree, overlooking his favourite place where we hold bonfires which he loved so much and where the roos come every evening.

Now the house feels so empty...there is this massive hole that he once filled. I go from being completely okay and able to talk about him and look at pictures and laugh at things he did to being crumpled up in pain at missing him so badly. But I know that we did the right thing for him and I know that he knows that too. He needed to go, my grandpa puppy, but was just waiting for us to let him know that it was okay...


                       
                                                     
                         




 EDIT: THIS IS URGENT, Please go to this link and if like me you can't watch the whole video, just watch till half way so you know what to say and then go to the link underneath and send your support to shut down this so called kennel here in Australia. Please, please do this for me and for Jack then pass on the info. This place called Calstead Collies is a total disgrace and needs to be closed. This woman should not be allowed to own ANY ANIMAL AT ALL. She should be locked up in her kennels and left with no water, to sit in her own filth and rot. [link]

To email the bitch at the kennel directly and let her know what a piece of shit she is here is her email address. calsteadcollies@optusnet.com.au

Thanks to for bringing this to my attention.

I was appalled to see a video on how many thoroughbred horses from the Australian racing industry that don't 'make it' end up as dog food or food for human consumption in Europe. The conditions these young horses, 1-2 years old, are kept in is terrible. And then seeing them die while the others wait in line knowing full well what their fate will be is just heartbreaking. Please sign the petition which is to fund an owners levy for a horse welfare plan and post the link on to your friends on facebook etc. Please do this not for me but for them, you be their voice.

         Here is the link
[link]

My brother in law sent me this in an email and I just thought that I'd share it with you guys. I thought it was really cool.


STORY NUMBER ONE

Many years ago, Al Capone virtually owned Chicago . Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. He was notorious for enmeshing the windy city in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder.

Capone had a lawyer nicknamed "Easy Eddie." He was Capone's lawyer for a good reason. Eddie was very good! In fact, Eddie's skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.

To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Noy  only was the money big, but Eddie got special dividends, as well. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced-in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large  that it filled an entire Chicago City block. Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him. Eddie did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddie saw to it that his young son had clothes, cars, and a good education.
Nothing was withheld. Price was no object. And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong.Eddie wanted his son to be a better man than he was. Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things he couldn't give his
son; he couldn't pass on a good name or a good example.

One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Easy Eddie wanted to rectify wrongs he had done.
He decided he would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Al "Scarface" Capone, clean up his tarnished name,and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this, he would
have to testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great.
So,  he testified.
Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonelyChicago Street . But in his eyes, he had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer, at the greatest price he would ever pay. Police removed from his pockets a rosary, a crucifix, a religious medallion, and a poem clipped from a magazine.

The poem read:

        "The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the
        power to tell just when the hands will stop, at late or early hour.
        Now is the only time you own. Live, love, toil with a will. Place no faith
        in time. For the clock may soon be still."

STORY NUMBER TWO

World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Lieutenant Commander
Butch O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier Lexington in the South Pacific.
One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank.

He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship. His flight leader told him to return to the  carrier. Reluctantly, he dropped out of formation and headed back
to the fleet.

As he was returning to the mother ship, he saw something that turned his blood cold; a squadron of Japanese aircraft was speeding  its way toward the American Fleet.The American fighters were gone on a sortie, and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger. There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet. Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes.. Wing-mounted 50 caliber's blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove
in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until all his ammunition was finally spent. Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the planes, trying to clip a wing or tail in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible, rendering them unfit to fly. Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction. Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier. Upon arrival, he
reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the gun-camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He had, in fact, destroyed five enemy aircraft. This took place on February 20,
1942, and for that action Butch became the Navy's first Ace of W.W.II, and the first Naval Aviator to win the Medal of honor.
A year later Butch  was killed in aerial combat at the age of 29. His home town would not allow the memory of this WW II hero to fade, and today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man.
So, the next time you find yourself at O'Hare International,  give some thought to visiting Butch's memorial displaying his statue and his medal of Honor. It's located between Terminals 1 and 2.

SO WHAT DO THESE TWO STORIES HAVE TO DO WITH EACH OTHER?

                                      BUTCH O'HARE WAS EASY EDDIE'S SON
                                      Pretty cool.

BE WARNED...OUT THERE BE MONSTERS AS NEVER BEEN MORE TRUE!

I have just watched this video on YouTube that goes far beyond the last movie 'Thrive' that I posted in a previous journal. I don't know how many people watched that one...probably not many I think. Well...this one is about the contents of Chemtrails, what these contents are doing to the environment and most importantly the 'BIOLOGICAL' effects that they are having on us RIGHT NOW. This is not just a video that someone has posted, it is a Scientific Seminar with scientific explanations and proof of what's happening.
PLEASE, PLEASE watch this video and pass it on to as many people as you can! The beginning twenty minutes or so shows images and explains the difference between the normal contrails of planes and these nefarious chemtrails. You simply must watch from then on. This is how the elite are going to make us into mindless pawns in their new world order. IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! I really don't want to scare people with this information but this is the definition of insanity. The people behind this are psychopaths and their psychotic agenda includes every living thing on the planet and beyond. Yes beyond...they plan to expand this program and release it out into the universe. Here in Australia chemtrails are not a common sight in the skies yet, at least not here where I live. Though they are becoming more common in Brisbane and Sydney. In the US, UK and Europe they are an everyday thing. Of course this stuff is not only seen where the chemtrails are, the effects of them are in the atmosphere, the land and water so therefore would be in everything that we eat and drink and it's not just a case of a few heavy metals that they spray to sheild us from the sun, as they say. We are being 'modified' at a genetic level. This video is the definition of OMG!!!! WTF??????
PLEASE WATCH AND PASS IT ON. DOWNLOAD IT AND SPREAD THE INFORMATION.
[link]

Hi everyone. posted a journal yesterday telling us how her work was stolen and being sold on a website. I went and had a look and was disgusted to find that the entire website contains stolen artworks many of which are from here. I found 9 people's work from dA being sold on the site. There were quite a few that were stolen from a Russian art website as well. They have 20 products that they are selling with the stolen artworks on, not just prints. They sell jewellery as well and I'm guessing that those designs are probably stolen too, so if you made jewellery have a look. The website is based in NY and needs to come down people. Even if your work is not on this site, we owe it the people who's work has been stolen to send an email to this person and get them stopped.

Here is the link to the website: [link]

Here is the email address: vicky@secretscents.com

Here is her facebook page: [link]


Please just take a moment of your time to email this person and also to pass on this information.

Cheers everyone, let's see if we can bring this site down!!

Hi everyone. It's been a while since I've done a journal and this is something that's really important to me and should be known by everyone on the planet. If you love freedom, beautiful fresh food and just plain think that we all deserve to thrive on this planet instead of struggling endlessly just to keep breathing every day, then you need to see this.
It is movie length but is well worth watching, I watched it last night but if you don't have the time to watch the whole thing in one sitting you can download it or just watch it in bits. But do please watch it and pass it on. I feel really strongly about all this stuff. the illuminati, HAARP and all the elite bullshit that is going on. And for those of you that think that HAARP doing bad things out there is just plain bullshit, then think about this, a pod of dolphins washed up on the shore BURNT, yes burnt WTF? How do you think that happened? Do you think someone with a flame thrower chased them all by boat and was able to burn a whole pod of dolphins??? Come on people, it's time to wake up. Especially those in America, no offense meant here but you are in the most serious of situations there with all the stuff about the FEMA camps and FEMA coffins and now Obama has signed you all up to be chipped by mid 2013. If you let that happen then the whole world will follow and once they have us all chipped then we will all be doomed.
Once we are all chipped then if we speak out against them they will just wipe our bank accounts out and we will not be able to buy anything from anyone and we will have nowhere on the planet to hide.  That's if you're not thrown in a FEMA camp.
I'm not usually one to go out on a limb like this to get people to look at things, but seriously folks, things are getting really freaky, really quickly and if we don't all stand together against this NEW WORLD ORDER bullshit that's going on then we will all fall together. If you think this stuff is all crap, please just do some research on it. Start with the movie Thrive, it has about all of the illuminati control and it's easy to understand. Then do more research on the things in the movie.
Please, don't hide away and ignore things like this because they change what your image of the world is...believe me, I didn't want to know this stuff either but that is foolish and now could quite literally cost you or your loved ones your life.

If you have a pet cat or dog, or just love animals in general you are going to want to take action on behalf of hundreds of thousands of stray dogs and cats being mercilessly tortured and killed in the Ukraine for the European Football Championships 2012. Despite protests by German National Team players the massacre is going ahead.
The animals are being shot, poisoned, buried alive, incinerated alive and even crushed alive in metal compactors. I know...WTF??? How can this be allowed to happen?

For further information as well as a link to sign a petition to stop this atrocity see [link]

Please take the time to  look at the above link and then go and sign the petition. These animals have no voice of their own, it's up to us to speak for them and stop this despicable act of violence and cruelty.

It's my birthday today...can't believe I'm 50! I don't feel that old at all!  

I'd like to give a big THANK YOU to Francesca for this gorgeous birthday gift, I love it sweetie!
                                                                  


                                 
                                   FRIENDS FEATURES:

I thought it was about time to feature some of my friends works. I've picked some in no particular order and hopefully I'll get around to featuring everyone at some point...I'm pretty terrible at keeping up my journal though as you probably know! Some people do one every couple of days! I just don't have that much to talk about!
One thing though, I find it interesting that how I feel about colours changes randomly. At the moment I'm going through a blue stage...would wear blue every day if I had a heap of blue clothes! Just a while ago it was purple and I DID live in purple for a while!

Aaaaand some things to be grateful for after having a heap of trouble with our water pump for a couple of weeks.
1. A tap that actually has water flowing out of it when you turn it on
2. A hot shower that doesn't turn it itself off when your head is covered in shampoo.
And last but not least and the one that I'm still waiting for...3. A toilet that flushes by itself without the aid of a bucket.

          Just a quick edit, voting is now open for the Draw Tom RIpley contest being held by To vote go here [link] I had a hard time choosing...I had four favourites. Go and check it out there are some awesome entries.                





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SOPA & PIPA apparently just a ruse to keep your attention away from the real culprit...ACTA. If you value your right to freedom, your right to share important information such as this, your right to freely surf the internet, your right to generic drugs, your right to have food grown with unpatented seeds, yes they are going to patent seeds, just like America did in Iraq and Afghanistan, (this means that they will have total control of the food grown and you can kiss goodbye your organic veggie patch because that would be infringing on their patent!) your right to have laws & acts passed in a democratic way by people who have been voted into government, then you must act now against ACTA...which is going to be voted in, in the EU this week!

What is ACTA?

ACTA is an international trade agreement currently negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia as well as other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counterfeited goods (hence its acronym: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). BUT it goes much deeper than that.

This means that your internet server will have to police EVERYTHING that goes in and out through your computer. If you have any form of copyrighted material on your computer e.g. a link to a photograph or an article on something, then you will be fined. They will implement a three strikes system where you could not only be fined but jailed and your internet disconnected. This also means that we will have no way of fighting further amendments to this law, we will have no way of sharing such information in the first place let alone fighting it!

Is this the first step into the NEW WORLD ORDER? Where all our rights as human beings are stripped from us? THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH AN ACT BEING PASSED!
We will be totally isolated and helpless against them and they will be able to make amendments to this act to include other things.

HERE IS THE LINK TO SIGN AN INTERNATIONAL PETITION [link]


For information on ACTA  see [link] & [link]

For information on how to act see [link]
AND NOTE THAT IF ACTA IS ENFORCED THEN I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THIS!! Sites like Youtube, DA, Twitter and Facebook would be gone.

Please pass this information on.

Awesome deviation above by
To sign the petition go here [link]


For non US citizens here is the link to sign the petition [link]

Thanks to for the link.











Since being made aware that some of my artworks (7) were on a wallpaper website thanks to I will now make something perfectly clear.

ALL of the deviations in my gallery whether they be photos, photomanips, digital, traditional or any other are copyrighted. None of them are to be uploaded ANYWHERE on the internet without my written permission. Note also that I use stock from people here on DA in my digital works and those works are copyrighted by the owners of the stock also.  DA is the only exception to this where everyone has my permission to feature any if they so choose to.

You cannot use any of my artworks to make any kind of art from without my permission.  If anyone wishes to use any of my photography for reference or for making art, tattoos etc. with just please ask first.