RUN! Dont walk to Divine Digital! Royanna Fritschmann

In my spare time I am just like you..I like to surf the web and look for digital freebies that are 'outstanding'...I'm getting more picky about what I download..as you know...digital goodies take up a lot of space..so it has to be extra special to download...As I was surfing I was reading a blog where someone talked about this amazing deal....and I checked it out, in curiosity..All I can say is:

Run don't walk to Divine Digital...where Royanna Fritschmann has a deal you cannot pass up! It is perhaps the most amazing deal I have found ..and I DO love a bargain..For digital scrappers and designers..this deal cannot be beat! What is it? Why its a BUY HER WHOLE STORE deal for $29.00! omg! PLUS you will get a coupon for whatever you spend in her store good for the same amount to spend on goodies with her in 2009! How can you beat that? What an xmas present to give yourself!
Her creations are amazing..The lady has talent~ You will LOVE her stuff...Am I gushing?!

And no, I am not affiliated nor do I get anything for telling you other than the satisfaction of passing along a deal that I'd like to see others benefit from...
I sure appreciated reading about it on another blog...so I thought I'd do the same.Her offer is time limited and she will never offer this deal again (says the website) so I say..GO FOR IT..its an ASTOUNDING SAVINGS! You get $2,500.00 worth of products for only $29.00! plus the matching deal for whatever you spend with her for the coupon in 2009 on her new stuff! Just remember, the deal is good only for Royanna's store, not anything else within Divine Digital..But there is soooo much stuff!

Now, if you do go to get her deal..Let me tell you..
1. You will need A LOT OF DISK SPACE
2. Get an auto downloader program to load these things into like Getright which is free. This will insure if you freeze up or get blown offline somehow, that you will be able to pick up the downloads where the left off, instead of starting all over.
3. Make sure you are using a fairly fast internet connection to get these all downloaded.

Well, what are you waiting for?!

Karma and Ann Coulter

News reports are saying Ann Coulter, the vitriolic right wing pundit who writes very nasty things has had her jaw broken and wired shut.

What karma.

The Huffington Post has had over 360,000 views on the story, and seem to be only allowing through a small portion of comments. There are only a little over 200 comments based upon those views. It is noticeable that they are censoring the comment board. I would say because the comments about Ann Coulter's 'misfortune' with the wired jaw are probably giving Ann the same kind of treatment she gave the widows of 9/11.

What goes around comes around Ann.

HAIL TO THE CHIEF: President Barack Obama

I have to blog today. I am so elated. Barack Obama was elected to the United States Presidency late last night and I am gloriously happy at that result.
I fully admit, I have bawled my eyes out in joy, in shock, in AWE of this moment in History.
My husband and I watched television and bounced around on Internet sites for hours last night.
When Barack Obama was suddenly called as the Projected winner of the Presidency we were watching CNN and both my husband and I burst out crying and hugging each other.
What a Moment. What a striking time in history that we have came to, through hardship, struggle, through dark times..through slavery...through civil rights and horrific times..to come to this moment..

FUNHOUSE FRAME FREEBIE~

I created these a while back and had a lot of fun doing it. The original was just a plain frame, but the shape reminded me of going to a FunHouse and seeing yourself in all those mirrors and all the hilarious shapes your body contorted to. So I took the shape of the frame and added even more fun to it, with big bold dots and then, eventually the furr covered ones. The sizes of the frames are all generous as always, I like to make my digi creations bigger so that you can resize down without losing clarity.

Since I will not be having much fun next week, as I have to work at my job lots of extra hours, I thought I would go ahead and share these FunHouse Frames with you all and hope they bring you some joy. Try rotating the frames from the original position and you'll see what I mean about how much fun these can be with a photograph. I can see them being really great for a panoramic photo too.

I would like to add that if any of my visitors enjoy this site, consider please to add me as a link to your page if you enjoy my blog/freebies as a recommendation of sites you like to visit, I would be honored. I am trying hard to get my visibility online higher, and that would help a lot. I'd love it as well to be added to Stumbleupon!!! Link on right side of my page.
Thank You very much.

TO DOWNLOAD THIS FUNHOUSE FRAME FREEBIE SET CLICK THE LINKS:
dont forget to leave your comment~ They are so appreciated.

RHP FUNHOUSE FRAMES PSP XI FORMAT
http://www.mediafire.com/?emy8eznw3zd

RHP FUNHOUSE FRAMES PNG, PSD FORMAT
http://www.mediafire.com/?ceqldz1m4bg

So you wanna be on TV? A freebie Television Screen Frame

Recently I was exploring my creativity and came up with the idea to make a television screen to put pictures behind..Sort of like the idea of doing those mockups of magazine covers that you put a photo behind. I thought I would share my creation here with you all for a Redhead Pixels FREEBIE. I hope you enjoy it. Please do leave a comment if you download. The tv screen is large and can be resized smaller if you desire. I even added rabbit ear antena for a more old fashioned look and metal looking round knobs and a red remote light. This is not a totally 'modern' tv, but its a fun one. I thought I would make it big so that you all could decide how big you wanted it for your projects and it would retain clarity. The element frame is 3600x3600 and is PSP XI. If you desire another format, leave a message.
I would like to say how very pleased I am that my angel wings have reached 722 downloads! Amazing! I hope they have been enjoyed. It was real fun making them.

To download the Redhead Pixels Television screen frame FREEBIE in psp xi click below link

http://www.mediafire.com/?mgmjmac2zgx

as per request: DOWNLOAD link to Additional formats (png psd psp)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ymcfuzwsch5

Please remember, a warm thank you really helps me to want to do more ...73 downloads and five real thank you's or comments ...that doesnt instill me to want to share my creativity much.

Please be kind and leave your thoughts if you download. Thank YOU~

To Thine Own Heart be True~ a quickpage freebie

To thine own heart be true.

Now that is a powerful statement isnt it? I have always loved that quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

I wonder how many of us have or are being true to our own hearts? Being true enough to our hearts to know the path we wish to tread. Yes, going where we wish to in life, instead of one that was planned for us by someone else. Being a leader of ones own destiny, instead of following someone elses ideal of what we should be or do. Takes a lot to be an independent minded person and to be able to stand up for your own belief and value system. Its highly personal isnt it.

Because if one cannot be true to oneself about the desires of the heart, one cannot be truthful about much else. Sometimes it takes a while to realize what is in our own heart. Perhaps that has to do with being taught as a child denial of ones heart desires rather than to encourage free thought and spirit.

Having raised three children, now all in their twenties, two of which are already parents themselves, I realized what I lacked as a child myself growing up was something I needed to try hard to instill in my own children. Independence, a heart full of spirit and determination. Belief in oneself and ones ability to tackle the tasks at hand. Standing up for what one believes in, no matter how much someone else who does not believe the same way, tries to pressure you.

It is something I work on every day for myself as well. To realize what my own hearts desire is, and to try to achieve what may seem impossible at times. For me, that has changed in recent years, that is to always try to find balance in my life, to try to recognize what my own personal needs are and to try to take better care of myself not just others. The older I get, the more I realize how much I have set aside in what I wanted to do and now have time to do for myself. A mothers main focus is her children, until they are old enough to grow up and be on their own. But what happens when your children grow up and move on in their own lives, just as they should. A mother comes to realize a different path is ready to be trod. How exciting! There is now more time to achieve goals of personal nature.

So, in order to bring to the forefront today "To thine own heart be true"...I am offering my online friends here on the blog a quickpage on that theme. I hope you enjoy it.

Available in the most popular formats. Take note that the journaling areas are blank for you to fill in with your own words. The sampler is just my own interpretation of the quickpage.

Please do leave a comment if you download.

Enjoy~

Vicci aka Redhead pixels

Download To thine own heart be true quickpage in

PSD format

http://www.mediafire.com/?td2tt21uyne

PSP format

http://www.mediafire.com/?xtzdd0vx0yj

JPEG format

http://www.mediafire.com/?dgg4gwc2d1d

PNG format

http://www.mediafire.com/?yyvx1pijvhx

Spring has sprung! A Be Jeweled qp Freebie to Celebrate~

WOW!
Spring is finally here and my yard is growing lots of blooms for the future. Soon there will be open blooms of tons of peony in many colors and much more. Tulips have been blooming the past week or so. My lilacs are either blooming or starting to bloom. We have 19 Lilac shrubs in the yard, most of them in different varieties. Last year we missed the blooms as frost came and killed them off before they could bloom. So this year is special. We are expecting a frost tonight and are praying that we will not have our fruit trees and shrubs effected.
We have been very busy outside with getting our vegetable garden ready, the herb wheel, prepping our flower gardens, and mowing grass. The past several days I have been planting lots of flower seeds to fill in empty spots left in the flower gardens from last years terrible drought we experienced. We lost some flowers, trees and shrubs. I hope Mother Nature is kinder to us this year. I started wintersowing my seeds in baggies and have already got tomato, pepper and flower seedlings started up. We have got a lot of heirloom varieties I have traded for and I am excited to try new ones out. Tomatoes are my favorite summer veggie! We home can and freeze our vegetables and this year will be no exception, especially with the economy the way it is.

Looking back, its been since February that I last posted. Indeed it has been a while. But behind the scenes, I am still creating as much as ever and have gotten quite a few good lessons in on digital creation. I've been having lots of fun doing it. I have not forgotten my blog, as I visit here often. I love to come here and just listen to the music list.

We have a new granddaughter born in October and she finally got to meet us about a month ago, when they all moved back here at home, from Washington State. She is a joy and such a good baby! We have already gotten to babysit for her twice. I am so glad to have her here!

Anyway, to celebrate Spring in 'Royal' style, I have created a Be Jeweled quickpage to share with you. It is available in several different formats.
Be jeweled is the perfect foil for some special moments you might have. As you'll notice in the sampler pic, I took two photos of my Mother, who died when I was just five years old, which were in black and white, and re colorized them. Most of the photos I have of my Mom are in b&w and so I really wanted to see how my Mom looked 'in living color'. I think the Be Jeweled quickpage was perfect for her photos. I hope you'll enjoy the quickpage and add some of your own special moments.
Be Jeweled incorporates some of the new lessons I have taken to be creative, including my hand drawn scrolls, gems, the journal papers, velvet ribbon, as well as the frame used. The background paper was one I created quite a while ago but put it through some processes to achieve a more time worn look. I really love the colors and hope you do too!
If you download, please leave a comment.
For Preview: Be Jeweled, a quickpage



To download Be Jeweled in JPEG format:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nywlzhn1dgn

To download Be Jeweled in PNG format:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wgedhmwyjoc

To download Be Jeweled in PSP XI format
http://www.mediafire.com/?jfdj2eq1wjy

To download Be Jeweled in PSD format
http://www.mediafire.com/?pmkzw0d1zj2

N Joy~

Vicci aka Redhead Pixels~

Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

Memories of my Grandma

As I was compiling a list of songs for this blogs playlist jukebox I was overcome with memories over certain songs. Does that ever happen to you? Perhaps you had not heard a song in years and it wisked you back to a certain memory, time, place, and emotions.

Music has always been a way for me to connect emotionally. But some songs are more so than others. Such was the case with memories of my Grandma Toby. She was a woman who lived her life simply. I lived with her for a few months after my Mom died when I was five. She babysat many of her grandchildren anyway when her sons and their wives worked so I got to know my cousins a little bit better because at that time (we are talking the mid sixties here) kids were left with family members when their parents worked.

Grandma Toby's simple living has stuck in my head and heart. She had a pot bellied coal stove in her house and it kept the little brown house warm. I remember her making breakfast for all of us kids and we had oatmeal and hot buttered cinnamon sugar toast from her gas oven. (No toaster and it tasted better than any I have had since).

I remember her 40's and 50's styled furniture and the big floral patterns of slipcovers or heavy, scratchy upholstery on the furniture. Grandma did not have an abundance of money but she sure had an abundance of love for her grandkids.

When I was older I became aware of the music Grandma listened to. My Uncle, her youngest son was only a few years older than me and he had vinyl albums of Carole King and Neil Young. It was then, in the 70's and I would visit her and we would listen to the music on a small turntable. She loved the song 'Old Man' by Neil and whenever I hear it to this day, I think of my Grandma Toby. It lifts me up and makes me remember her with a smile though she has long passed away, memories of her have attatched themselves to bits of music, smells and tastes, colors and patterns of things.

It was due to these memories I created "Remembering Grandma" a digital scrapbooking quickpage. The flowers in this qp remind me of the 40's and 50's style of patterns found in Grandma's little old brown house. It is a comfortable 'feeling' I get from it.

I miss my Grandma Toby very much. This qp is in her honor~

It uses some of the handdrawn Paisley designs I have been creating for ages and oil painted roses. I will add a photo here of the qp. Those that wish to leave a comment and put their email address in the comment will get the link to the download for "Remembering Grandma".

I enjoy creating digi scraps. I would like to share them with others, however, they will only be offered in exchange of commentary from now on. I think its a small price to pay for getting these creations in exchange. If you wish to have this please leave comment, with email addy and preference as to what format you would like "Remembering Grandma" quickpage in. I will send you the link to whatever you prefer.

A New Year ..The Little Red Hen...and a new Freebie~

First, I wish to extend you all a Happy New Year~
A new change here at RedHead Pixels for the new year, an offering of music to listen to. You can get your own playlist player too for your page. Music is so important to me personally. I really think I rely on it so much for a mood lifter. I hope you enjoy the tunes here and maybe even find a few of your own favorites in the lineup.

Yes, 2008 is finally here and this year we are hoping for a much better one! Last year was not so great for many in the United States, including my own family. This year has got to be better, right?!
There are so many things that are making life difficult, from the constant nonsensical rising prices of gas, food, energy and the lowering value of the dollar in the US, to the sad state of the lack of equal and fair Health care for ALL in the US and this stupid war we have been in that is not doing anything but putting America's future children in debt for generations to come and making enemies across the world due to our military being there.

I am hoping that this year will be a year of change for the way the Government is ran and how it trickles down to America's citizens. We are desperate for positive changes in this country.

It is important that we all VOTE for CHANGE!
Off my soapbox for now on that subject~

On the issue of Digi scrapping and Freebies.....

Despite the lack of posting, I have been very busy with creative juices running rampant~
This is a 'good thing'. You are going to benefit~
I love a good digi scrap freebie. I am getting picker about what I download as I have so many designs on here and its hard to sift through them and have spent more time creating than downloading of late. There are many beautiful designs out there to buy, but it seems like more and more designers are getting tight with their 'nicer' designs and going for profit. While I can see nothing wrong with making profit, it would be nice to see more quality freebies being offered to not only inspire the digiscrappers out there but as a general nice thing to do.

This goes back I am sure to respect for the creative output by designers. If the majority of down loaders fail to be kind in return and give a comment to the designer, well it doesn't do much to inspire them to share does it.
That being said, doesn't take much to share a kind comment...but those lamenting the drying up of quality freebies should realize, the lack of kind commentary, leaves the designers not wanting to share further quality items.
Reminds me of the tale of The Little Red Hen. Remember that from childhood? A good moral tale. If you don't know the story here it is:
The Little Red Hen Tale

The gift of giving....
Holiday money being tight this year, we gave our loved ones homemade gifts. I have to say, everyone seemed to appreciate the effort put into what we gave. My husband makes his own wine and so he gave wonderful bottles of his Homemade Pumpkin Persimmon, a Homemade Sangria (out of this world good) and Elderberry wines. I gave my special blends of homemade soaps in packets. I also made a baby quilt for my new granddaughter (first pieced quilt I have ever done and needless to say it didn't turn out quite square but they loved it anyway ). The other thing that took a long time was I scanned photos in of my kids and printed out photos for them as well as the in laws. They really appreciated them. I was able to use my digital creativeness and that was a lot of fun for me, as well as they enjoyed the results immensely. Paint Shop Pro is my favorite program and I love what all I can do with it.

I highly recommend homemade gifts over store bought. There is so much materialism in the world and we do not have to 'buy buy buy' all of the time. Nothing says love more than a gift from the HEART. Gift cards say "I didn't have time, or I don't know you well enough to choose a gift for you".

Speaking of gifts from the heart, if you're still with me, you re asking about now, is there a 'freebie' in this blog post? Well there is! In fact, there could potentially be more than one, if you remember the tale of the Little Red Hen. What ever do I mean? Well, today I am posting for your enjoyment, a new quick page to download. I just love 'plopper' type quick pages. It makes things so easy and quick for creating a gift. This newest one was made because of two things...my desire for Spring to come SOON and my love of all things Victorian; lush jewel tone and gold colors, velvet, floral and other Victorian textures.

So my offering today is my new Redhead Pixels Bring Me Spring quick page. Bring me Spring was made from some of the papers and elements I have been busy creating for months. I have many of these in different lush colors for different looks and I will be combining them in more quick pages in the future for you all.

You will remember as well back a few months ago I offered some of my Paisley designs. I have been creating new paisley elements for a long time and I have not forgotten that I said I would be offering them in a kit for you all. It is going to be a 'create your own' paisley design kit when I am done and you will all be able to create your own pages from the elements and papers I have been busy creating.

Those who are kind enough to remember the Little Red Hen and LEAVE A COMMENT, with their email address, will get an email from me providing the download link to whats in the gift box, a special gift of Thanks for Appreciating what I am doing here.

Those that don't, wont, Its that simple.
Redhead Pixels Bring Me Spring quick page has lush colors and rich textures. Hopefully it will inspire you to be thinking of Spring!
For me, I had so much fun creating everything, then putting it together in this quick page. I am happy to be offering it here for you all today as a special Freebie. I think it shows a definite improvement in my skills as a digital designer from past offerings, as I learn more and more with each creation. I just love the rich velvet ribbon. I made it in other colors as well and each one turned out looking just as realistic as this one. The enjoyable thing for me is after I have learned a new technique to put it in practice and then get better and better at it.

RHP Bring Me Spring quick page will be available in several different formats in order to please all the different programs being used for digi scrappers out there....PSP format, PSD, PNG and JPEG:
Download BMS in PSP format
Download BMS in other formats

Don't forget your chance to get whats in here!