First off, I would like to thank:

EVERYONE on my friends list, again, for the birthday wishes! You really brightened my day.

defiant_angel for the 4 beautiful blinkies.
rubyfirefly for allowing me to raid her gallery.
hisescape for the adorable best friends blinkie (especially), and for the 2 other super cute surprise blinkies.
beautiflhypocrt for the 3 fantastic surprise blinkies, you totally made my day.
alienstranger for the 2 virtual gifts - your kindness is much appreciated.
jademurasaki for the friendship you've shown in this short amount of time, and the awesome virtual gift. Thank you honey!!
miss_anya & crazyfanto3 for stopping in to my journal to wish me a happy day

Everyone @ juicy_grapes that took the time to wish me a Happy Birthday, and last, but CERTAINLY not least, the anonymous person who was gracious enough to gift me with 2 months extra paid time, and 2 months of extra userpics. I appreciate more than words can say *hugs*

Current Tags: birthday, thank yous

I made a new set of blinkie boxes tonight. And because I don't want to hear later that I "stole" someone's boxes, I am making a public post with the blinkie and instructions on how I made the boxes. If someone STILL wants to make an issue of it, I will go in and screen shot the entire process step-by-step.

THE BLINKIE:

^ Example is for brandywine1979

01. I went into AS3, and opened my pixel, and started a new canvas (15x15).
02. I selected a dark green color (#394A18) from my pixel and used it to draw the inner & outer lines on the box. I then duplicated my canvas twice for a total of 3 frames.
03. I chose 3 more colors from the pixel (#CEDEBD, #849C5A & #6B844A).
04. Starting with #CEDEBD, I placed a dot in the lower right hand corner of the box. Above that, I placed two dots of #849C5A and above that 3 dots of #6B844A. I continued this alternating pattern until the entire box was covered, each time adding one more "dot" then the last.
05. I went to my next frame and repeated the pattern from step #4, this time starting with #849C5A.
06. I went to my last frame repeated the pattern from step #4, this time starting with #6B844A.

I left the animation speed at 10. That is pretty much it, if you have any suggestions on how I could make these boxes better, I'm all ears. Otherwise if you have any questions, please reply to this post, and I will try my best to answer them.

Current Tags: tutorials

And so, it has come to this. With everything that has been going on, I felt it was finally time to make my journal Friends Only. If you want to get to know me then there are a few things you must do for me to add you to my friends list.

1. You MUST comment to this entry.
2. Please fill out the form found at the bottom of this entry *UNLESS you are responding to a "Friends Finding" post in which case just leave me a comment*
2. We MUST have something in common.
3. I WILL NOT tolerate abuse in my journal. Not to me, and not to my friends.
4. DO NOT add me because I make graphics and you want me to make one for you. Sorry, but I don't take requests outside of my communities. You have to become a really and I mean really good friend before I would even consider making something for you.

PLEASE FILL ME OUT:
Name: Username: Previous Usernames: How did you find me: Why do you want to add me:

Current Tags: friends only