Hello everyone, This is Jessica's bestie Erikka here. Jess is currently without a computer right now and she really hopes veryone will bear with her untill she can get hers fixed or get a new one. So untill then she is hoping everyone will understand that she is unable to reply to comments, favs, etc at this time. We're working on the problem and hope to have her back with us here in a few weeks time... If anyone has a more personal or serious need to contact her please note me at my account and I can relay the message to her,, Please bear with us
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On an aside note, has anyone else noticed on your dA age the links to facebook, twitter,etc ? what those buttons do is allow anyone at all, non members as well to post post a thumbnail of YOUR work on their own blog, page, etc! DevaintART has now decided to not only allow art theft but make it easier. a little excerpt form the dA terms of service for your enjoyment follows....

"deviantART does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service, you grant to deviantART a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Please note that when you upload Content, third parties will be able to copy, distribute and display your Content using readily available tools on their computers for this purpose although other than by linking to your Content on deviantART any use by a third party of your Content could violate paragraph 4 of these Terms and Conditions unless the third party receives permission from you by license."


Everyone who reads this needs to make your voice heard loud and clear that this is unacceptable !!! please read this post at [link] and this news article at [link] for a bit more info.. many thanks to my dear friend Paula for catching this travesty.






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Hi sweethearts

I am so so sorry that I haven't been able to thank you all in person for your faves and watches. I try to answer to every comment, but if it takes some time I apologize. Please know that I am so so grateful for your support and every little word means the world to me. It's a great comfort for me in my life right now to both create art and watch your beautiful art and see your uplifting comments. Thank you so so much.
I also feel like I should give a little fair warning...I love creating what I do right now but I have for a long time wanting to break more free and explore different themes, styles and genres. I have been doing this a long time but never really had the "guts" to put it out there. Partly because I know a lot of my watchers watch me cause they expect a certain sweetness in my works and I think I might have been scared to offend. But when it comes down to it, art is art, there's no rules. I have to create from my heart, and what's within my heart is not all joy and rainbows all the time, and I don't think anybody expect that of me. For the longest time I actually did believe that, that people are so used to seeing me as that happy positive little ray of light that I would disappoint them if I ever showed anything but that. I think I have to give the people around me some credit though, both in my personal life as well as here. I think we all know that everything we feel, think and create can't always be dipped in unicorn sweat and puppy kisses, that there will be some things that might smell a bit rotten sometimes and might even scare some away. So be it, I have to be true to myself and my art, and stop hiding what I create. I love what I do right now and will never stop that, but it's so many sides of me and my art and I guess what i'm trying to say is that i'm sorry if any of my future work will offend you...but my art is very much like myself, filled with light and darkness, rain and sunshine, tears and smiles, rainbows and dead mice. Not that i'm personally filled with dead mice that I know of, but you know what I mean

I hope you are all doing lovely, and pleasure forgive me if I take some time sometimes to thank you or comment on your beautiful art, i'm trying to get back up in the saddle. Big hugs to everyone






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Hi everyone

When we're challenged greatly by life I think it's only natural for us to feel weak and tested. And maybe it is a test, and maybe the result of that test doesn't come from endless nights with dry cheeks and false smiles. Maybe it all comes down to how hard we tried. That we made it. That we survived. Maybe we don't have to make everything perfect to be winners. Maybe a little belief in life and most importantly in ourselves will shelter us enough from the storm to get us through.

Looking back at my life, I have so many things I feel like I could have done better. Things I feel like I could have prevented or people I wished I could have saved. I greatly believe that if life kicks your ass, then kick it back, right in its lifey balls! But sometimes I wish I could do the very opposite. Just put my arms around life and hold it really close. Not asking it why it keeps on hurting me or how I can get it to slow down. Just hold it...and be thankful that it's in my arms.
Life doesn't have to be perfect, neither do we. I think our biggest strength is the way we can love, the way we can believe.
And I also believe that you have to in many ways create and contribute to the world you WANT to live in. When people say that happiness is 90 percent in your mind I believe them. Our mind, our hearts and souls are so much stronger than we think. Using only those three things we can forgive, move on, find hope, love and smile...And that's all that really matters. The darkness and the storm is there so that we can appreciate those calm mornings when the sun wakes us by gently kissing our cheeks. We might be woken with a bit of messy hair and torn up clothes from the night's storm, but we're still alive. Still smiling. And if you're ready to kiss the sun back with bruised eyes and dusty knees, then nothing can kill your soul...

I now finally have some time to feature some lovely artworks that I love here! I want to show you some very special pieces before that have been made as gifts or dedication to me and they mean so much.



















And here some other gorgeous artwork:

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