Hey Guys,

Unfortunately with our last release, and its instability, we were forced to roll back releases. Unfortunately in doing so, it would seem that our notification system has been broken somehow. Our engineers are working on this issue as quickly as possible. We hope to have a patch within the next day, so we can deploy our code and fix the notification system at the same time. Please *bear* with us ;)

Currently all notifications are being queued up so they can be processed as soon as the fix is pushed and verified to be working correctly.

Thank you,

I'm missing one of the birds but it was similiar to Crown. I don't know who got the lion one but you are so lucky. I wanted it sooo bad but didn't get my christmas bonus until the next day - I nearly cried! I did buy the penguin one though...

Crown and Adorn:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/4165087650_c8073a1953_o.jpg
Time:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2654/4163815233_2b654614d6_o.jpg
Strong:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4155846542_d0a02fc920_o.jpg
Glance:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2687/4163815185_645956ea50_o.jpg

The online picture does not do it justice.
Love Love Love.


( Within reach of lips. )

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Как-то одного мальчика спросили:
- Земля круглая или плоская ?
Он ответил:
- Она и плоская и круглая, одновременно.
- Плоская земля. Потому что я вижу перед собой только плоскость.
Горизонт тому в мое подтверждение. Я вижу своими глазами плоскость.
И верю своим глазам.
- Но она и круглая. Потому что мне показали и сказали,
что оно имеет форму круга.
- Но, своими глазами, я не видел землю со стороны, из космоса,
что бы сказать что она круглая.
- Поэтому я верю как и своим глазам, так и тем людям которые говорят это.

п.с. но на самом то деле, она имеет овальную форму. Только это сукрет) ш.ш.ш.

( несколько примеров оптической иллюзии )

«Обезьяньи мозги» это лучшее приобретение современного человека,
по сравнению с другими более интересными хайтековскими гаджетами
и устройствами сего мира.

Почему именно обезьянка ?
( : text : )

Look at this cute doll that Wendy Kay made with my Skeleton Key fabric!





I'm so excited, this is my first customer picture from the fabrics. Here's hoping there will be many more! Now I just need to get printing....

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

to those of you who asked about prints at the next show:
yes, there will be an exclusive print edition at Jonathan Levine Gallery.
its an edition of 150 and most will be first available to in-person guests at the gallery of the opening night.
and whatever is left will be sold by request via email/phone.

dont worry if theyre gone though,
because we will do another Time Limited print edition in the beginning of next year.
will conduct a poll just like last time. ;)

some new skins are up on Gelaskins!!!
you can find two new designs of mine HERE.
(they can fit for iPods, iPhones, and Blackberrys!)
and you can easily browse other artist skins HERE.
happy holidays!!

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For those of you who missed these on Kurt's site, Kurt sent the remaining to Art Star to sell:

http://artstarphilly.com/shop/prints/halsey74.html

- Buy/sell/trade. eBay allowed. One top-level-thread per person per post. If you have (unsuccessfully) advertised something before, you may comment to this post with a repeat.

-- Watch out for the "for sale" tag: you can quickly access all selling-posts that way, newest first.

-- No off-topic comments or discussions

-- Proceed with caution and common sense

Forgive me for pulling out a picture from last year, but I promise to snap some new shots soon.

I hope everyone enjoyed a lovely holiday week! We visited both sets of my grandparents and I think I've finally recovered from the birthday & Thanksgiving gorging (both of us had a birthday last week & got to pick a restaurant). This weekend Justin and I were clutching our bellies and crying for salad.

I am *so* ready for Christmas this year, and have already spent a week with Christmas movies. The (tiny) tree is up & decorated, and we are constantly having to keep guard with a water squirt bottle because Indy is obsessed with chewing on the fake tree's needles/leaves. We have this problem every year, but he get's over it after a week or so (or maybe he just learns to chew when we are sleeping?)

I think it has been two weeks since I've gotten any printing done. Partially because I ran out of fabric, and the busy holiday week didn't help, but today I was able to print off some more owls in red on white. I love that printing with the same colors means I don't have to re-photo & edit everything for the Etsy listing, but it does make me sad to not have any new pics to share on here. I do have some new color combos and some new crafts coming up soon though!

So much going on lately, I'm sure I've forgotten something!

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