National Human Trafficking Awarness Day.

January 11th, 2012

Today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. I have joined with Lora Innes and many other comic creators spread the word about human trafficking and the impact it can cause to individuals that are victim to this.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -Margaret Mead  
 
Wednesday, January 11th is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. To participate, we formed the Comic Creators for Freedom– a group of over 100 comic book creators who volunteered our artistic talents to raise money and awareness for this cause. You may not know it, but there are currently 27 million enslaved people worldwide- more than double the number of enslaved Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. UNICEF estimates that 1.2 million children every year are sold into slavery, most of it sexual. The US Department of Justice estimates 16,000 victims of human trafficking are brought into the United States every year. Unlike slavery in the past, what is happening today is happening in secret. It won’t end until awareness is raised, and people like you and me take a stand.   So here’s what we did: each creator contributed an original drawing of one of our own female characters, and combined them into a single wallpaper image! The wallpaper features characters from all over the web, including Girls with Slingshots, The Dreamland Chronicles, Kukuburi, Earthsong Saga, Looking for Group, Love and Capes, The Dreamer, and tons more! Donate today to download this unique, once-in-a-lifetime wallpaper.  

The Donations Drive will last for two weeks, from Monday January 9th – 20th. All proceeds will be split evenly between Love 146 and Gracehaven House- two organizations working on rehabilitation of victims and prevention of this crime. 

To learn more about the CCA visit www.comiccreatorsforfreedom. To learn more about the problem, visit http://love146.org/slavery. (Note: contains adult themes and actual accounts of sex slavery.)  

To those that have donated to this cause if you forward me your receipt of your donation I will do a free commission for you as incentives. Receipt of $50+ donation request of a Chibi/Mini fully colored no BG. Will only be available to first 5 that sends me their receipt for donating to the CCF.

If you wish to have this done by me forward your paypal donation receipt to phoenixcrash-at-gmail-dot-com.

 

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First post of the new year.

January 8th, 2012

Sadly I was going to post a Christmas post during Christmas week but I ended up being very sick that week. Actually for three weeks. I was sick before I went to visit my parents and then on the way there it got worse. While there I was coughing every ten minutes and then I got better just a bit. Went to New York for some strolling and then when I came back from New York I got worse. So I’ve been sick for the whole duration of my Christmas visit to my parents and I did not have much of a good time being sick. I was bed ridden most of my visit. 

So I’m going to work on getting more blog posts in this year. Not knowing what I should blog about though since I don’t generally have much of a very interesting life except to keep my daughter from breaking an arm or a leg. She’s a hyper, hyper child right now and I feel as if I’m getting too old to keep up with her. 

Speaking of being old, I had turned 30 years old January 6th. Yes I’m hitting that range of thirty somethings. Sometimes I cringe thinking about getting older but well you are only as old as you feel right? 

Well my resolution for this year, as always try to improve on my artwork, and get more pages done for my webcomic. I need to stop taking hiatuses. So I should clean up my desk this week to get that resolution started. 

Post more blog post to keep this site active and such. Cause I really don’t post as much as I should.

Learn some more Japanese. Cause I really like to be fluent in another language other than English. Although I understand Khmer just can’t speak it correctly. 

Be more active around the household. Keep my room clean help teach my daughter to keep her room clean.

Lose 2 dress sizes and 20 lbs. I would like to fit back into my favorite jeans again that I use to fit into just before I was pregnant. I think I can’t now because my hips might have expanded when I was pregnant with my daughter due to the vitamins I had to take. I would also like to get rid of my pregnancy belly fat that I have been flaunting for about the last 5 years. X_x

Make use of my youtube channel. Possibly put up some more art tutorials. I was actually going to vlog on my youtube but I don’t have the charisma to do so. I probably don’t have the likeability complex like most people I follow on youtube does. 

There’s more resolution that I have listed in my head but these are the main priority for me right now.

Well I do hope everyone else is having a great new year week so far. 

Here’s to a great 2012.

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Comic Creators For Freedom Work in Progress.

December 16th, 2011

I’m pulling this post from my comic website at Decimated Eden.com

For those of you who doesn’t know, Lora Innes of The Dreamer Comic is leading the Comic Creators Alliance again this time with a new name. The CCA is now known to as the Comic Creators for Freedom (CCF) and all information about this event is located at their website.

The CCA was created to help fight human trafficking and many of us comic creators have joined with Lora to make a huge digital wallpaper for the cause. Those that have chosen to donate will receive a digital download of the wallpaper for their desktop. I believe there are other ways to support the cause to stop human trafficking as well like buying prints for those that want to have a physcial form of the themed wallpaper.

Two years ago the CCA had raised up to $10,000 for the both Love146 and Gracehaven, last year $5,000. With over 100 comic creators participating last year an about 80 the year before. I would like to spread the word to my fellow comic creators or even ARTISTS out there that may be interested in joining. You don’t have to be a comic creator to join I don’t think, but it would probably be preferred since it requires you to have a female character to participate in the themed wallpaper. If you don’t have a comic but a character I’m sure it would be fine to use a link to your art portfolio or something. You might have to email the head director in all this to find out.

This is also a good way to get exposure for your site and it is for a good cause. You may also learn a thing or two about the cause and why organizations like Love146 and Gracehaven was formed.

Well I did get started on working on the image for the CCF yesterday and I’m pretty say I’m happy how it’s turning out. Although there are issues to the pose and stance that kind of bothers me. Especially the perspective part on one of the legs of the character. There is a 1 hour video posting of it on my livestream channel to see the process of the image piece. Though I doubt anyone would want to sit and watch how slow I draw for an hour. The image is at the stage of coloring right now and trying my best to make it look nice. Here’s the work in progress.

So far that is what I have. Hopefully I will get it done before the end of the month. I might have to bring my tablet with me to get it finished up or work on it with my old graphire tablet. I’m not very keen on bringing so many electronics to New York / CT with me though but if I have to get things finished I may have to.

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Hello Hydration

December 16th, 2011

Since I had bleached my hair blonde I have experienced a bit of dryness in my hair the past couple of months. I have no idea why because when I had bleached my hair blonde years and years ago, during my highschool and college days, my hair didn’t look so dried out. The last couple of months my hair felt dry looked dry and looked frizzy and I really had no idea what I could do to fix it. I also did the deep conditioning thing but sometimes that just makes my hair feel so heavy. I guess the day I switched shampoo to manage the color of my hair probably did it and when I recently went back to my previous shampoo there was a difference.

I started using Hello Hydration from Herbal Essences sometime a couple of years ago and then I decided to switch to Herbal Essence Color Me Happy which was decent for keeping the color rich and bright. Then I switched back to Hello Hydration then did a little bit of an experiment with it. I’m a Shampoo then conditioner type of person so I buy both shampoo and conditioner because I do not like how my hair gets all tangled up after washing my hair with the combination shampoo and conditioner. So after shampooing I used the conditioner and of course worked it in to the ends of my hair. Leave the conditioner in the hair for like 5 minutes then wash it out. Although I do not wash all of the conditioner out. I make sure to leave in enough then squeegee my hair out of any water it may have then towel dry my hair for a bit.

After my hair dries out there’s a bit of a shine to the ends of my hair and it feels soft and looks healthy.  It looks much better than it did before so to me rinsing my hair out but not completely rinsing the conditioner out seems to help my hair look healthier. It may not work for you but you would never know unless you try, right?

I’m also looking into the Essentials hair treatment line. I’ve heard great reviews about it and trying to pull up some cash to get the set and try it out. 

While looking for stock pictures of the Herbal Essences shampoo and conditioner I came across this product.

It’s a leave in hair treatment under the Hello Hydration line. I may go hunting for this product and try it out to see if it helps my hair any as well. Aside from using Wella’s Brillance Color Treatment that I got from the Beauty Social (which I love by the way I’m wanting to get the full tub of it because I’m running out of the sample) and Garnier’s Fruitis Color Sheild treatment, this probably would be useful in making my hair look healthy.

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Upcoming Holiday Events 2011

December 16th, 2011

Sometime last week a giveaway winner received her prize package from me. I’m not too sure about the other two winners though, I haven’t heard anything much from them about it, but I’m sure one will receive their package a little later due to being out of the country. I’m also glad that the giveaway winner loves the prizes and has a new favorite pair of lenses from that prize pack. <3

I’m setting up another giveaway with a couple more pairs of lenses and some lashes that I will be receiving sometime this month. There’s also going to be more for the prizes cause I’m probably going to gather them up when I’m visiting my family up north this holiday. The giveaway will probably be set sometime min January or early February and I want it to be somewhat early in the year as a Fresh New Year Giveaway or something. I have to think about it, but more information coming up on that when the time comes. :-D

So there is probably bound to be plenty of posts coming this next two or three weeks. I will be visiting my family in Connecticut and New York this coming holiday break. My daughter has a two weeks off from school and we will be driving up north, so I will probably be blogging the whole way through. If I’m not asleep on the car ride most of the way. I think the bigger concern is if my daughter can handle the 24-26 hours of sitting on her butt. I don’t think that would be possible for an active five year old. Honestly I don’t see much blogging when I visit my parents and sister because I usually go into hermit mode and lock myself away in the bedroom for a while. That and sometimes there’s nothing really much to do.  Unless I’m in the city then I go places. 

The plan is to make sure my daughter has a great holiday weekend and visit. She’s more concern that Santa Claus will not find her if she visits my parents and that she won’t get any presents cause he doesn’t know where she is at. We had to ensure her that she will get presents from “Santa” this year, and honestly I wouldn’t break her spirit cause she believes in the guy, I mean she’s five years old. Let her have her youth.

Biggest thing is that my mother gets to see her grand daughter at least once this year because we meant to go visit them during the summer before school started up again but never had the money to get plane tickets for that. So the change in plan was to go up during Christmas. That way it’s two weeks of them loving on their grandbaby/neice. My daughter is more into wanting to see her aunts and uncle though. Not entirely sure why is that. She is the only child we have so she is a bit spoiled, and by spoiled I mean she got her own DS when she was three. Most three years old have vTech handheld games, my daughter had a Nintendo DS. Also what five year old has their own laptop. Granted it’s a hand-me-down laptop and it use to be my husbands work laptop until he had to replace it with a Mac, but we did set it up to be kid friendly and she only has games like Hello Kitty, Peggle and Plants vs Zombie to play on. X_x

Ah what can you expect from geeky, gamer parents?

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