i have had some of the most wondrous templates pass through my hands and loved them with all my heart, but not wanted them. i loved the blue fire and it was really everything i thought of when i thought of me.
it fit me like an old favorite pair of jeans.
with a old comfy flannel shirt you'd stolen from your Dad.
and some hunting socks without shoes.
curled up in front of a fire.
on a wintery day.
alone.
with a good book.
on the softest leather cushy couch.
with Everclear (or your favorite band) playing in the background.
yes, i loved that template more that chocolate.
well, maybe not dark chocolate with raspberry filling, but you get the idea, right?
i still do, love that template, i mean. i may come back to it one day, but this one just tickled at the back of my mind for a while.
i had the picture and a few others that i was looking at. i'd found them in Getty images and they struck me so that i saved them even though they weren't what i was looking for. i even went so far as to put them in their own folder in my "progress" directory.
(i have three directories for templates - 'Used', 'Open', & 'Progress')
i have been stopping by to just look at them when i was working on other stuff. Suddenly, today, i couldn't just move on. i had to do it. i was compelled to make something with these images. so i played with them a little until i had something i liked and the rest was history.
or, more to the point, 'Blue Flames' was history. don't fear, i have it locked up somewhere, it's not all the way gone.
by the way, i hope you said 'goodbye' to the older/guestbook layout, too . . . i moved to a consolidated look today. i even made a links/rings page!
ok, so i'm going to go to bed now and snuggle up to my honey as he is in there sleeping right now. Poor baby . . . he's going to give up smoking at the end of this pack he's on right now. i don't want to bring him down or anything, but he's tried before and decided that he just isn't a quitter . . . he's going to need some strength. Seriously. Go tell him you're proud of him or wish him luck or support him or something.
confessed on Friday, Feb. 07, 2003