Showing posts with label StormyAries Creations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label StormyAries Creations. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2012

I write..

I write because:
I write because most of the time it comes naturally to me.
I have written in one form or another since I was little.

I write because I have forgotten things I would have liked to have recorded in some way and shared perhaps only with Mackenzie. I write to record thoughts, feelings, events, pictures... etc.
I write for my children to share about their childhood unfortunately its the good and bad.
I write for Mackenzie for all of the time he missed and everything I want to share with him. I write for Mackenzie.

I have had a blog since my old life. I remember my first blog on Livejournal. Its still there 
I have used Yahoo 360, Myspace, Xanga, Open Diary and other pages.  Look here
I blogged then to vent I am sure my friends were tired of  me nagging about one ex or another.
I still vent on my blog but I try not to get as deep as I used to. I wonder if that's why my comments and views went down since I became an Army Wife. 

I have a blog to write my experiences as a wife, daughter, sister, friend, Army Wife, Army Mom, and mother to kids of all different ages. I write as my experiences dealing with Aspergers. I write with my experiences in my journey as being a spouse and step mom to someone in the Military. I write for those of who've dealt with depression or mental illness or any illness at all. I have. I have overcome challenges. I defy odds.  I write for you if you can relate to being a widow, a new mom, a military wife, a military mom, I write for you.

I write because its an outlet. Its an outlet for me to express myself without laying my crazy head on some one's shoulder. I am very well aware that I am a lot to handle. The pure number of therapists and their exasperation at me wasn't my first hint. Very little people can handle all this so at least as I lay it out in a blog its in bits and pieces and you can tune me out, X out of my blog, and never come back. But I want you to come back. I love comments and feedback for the good and the bad (just not too bad okay?) I write for me.

I write because I am an emotional person. I am a talkative person. Its therapeutic for me to write.
Its therapeutic if I can read what I wrote and remember everything about that moment. There is comfort in my blog. In my home away from home

I write for the memories. Memories fade especially as you get to be elderly or you loose childhood memories as you grow so I write for my future self. I write for Alex, James, Skylar, Rick, and William.

I write because I have met many people over the years in my Mommy Support Group online and they like to hear about things I might forget to email. A lot of us have moved on from the email groups because our kids are growing up, we have started working, gotten busy or whatever the reason. Thanks to Facebook and my blog they still have a view into my life. I write for my Online Friends and Family. I write for my Mommy Group Friends.
I wrote while my husband was deployed so encase I didn't get to talk to him on the phone or I forgot to tell him something I would write and rant about my day to day on my blog as long as it wasn't too personal. I write for my husband. After all I owe my blog for introducing us ;)

I write because we are a military family. Being a military family the best way to share what is going on in my world with my extended family spread all out is to share it on my blog. I wish my mom had internet and a computer.. maybe soon. I write for Rick's family and my family.

I write because I wouldn't remember my cat's birthday's LOL. I blogged about when we got Tinker Bell and when we got Mittens.

I write on a blog because paper is too easily destroyed, misplaced, or worse. When I wrote things down in high school and middle school I used a special type of Five Star Notebook with the spiral on top. Do I have those now? No I wish I did even though my poems are probably embarrassing it was me at 15 & 16. I have been published I don't have any of that either. I write this because things are lost and forgotten.

I write this blog to inspire. Perhaps a new military wife will read this blog and realize she has the strength to survive a hard deployment. A single mom has the fight of fight left in her. A lost Christian can find their way back. A widow will learn it doesn't heal but it does get easier. I write to a mother who has lost her husband or her child as I have and just tell her to hold on. If I can educate one person with my experiences my blog has done what I want it to. I have survived child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, I've been widowed, lost the rights to my child, and I can survive two deployments! Go me! I write this blog to spread laughter. I am no comedian but I am sure something my kids have done is funny or perhaps a funny story or graphic made you smile.

I write on StormyAries Creations http://stormyariescreations.blogspot.com/ to show off. To teach. To keep track of what I do and what I create. To list ideas. To try new ideas. Its my creative side.

I write because its who I am.









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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

StormyAries Creations or Army Wife Designs...

Hey Ya'll I may be morphing! I learned how to make simple things using Paint Shop Pro over 10 years ago. Over time I have gotten more and more into it. The more my family grows the more my priorities change and I loose interest in Graphics for awhile but I do it on demand... based on when I need something or inspiration tickles me... Like Scrapbooking. I guess I have Hobby ADD.. I don't stay with one and get intense with it for one reason or another. My friend over at Steph's Designs needed a new blog header/ Etsy Banner/ and of course while I was digging around in there I made her a bunch of other stuff too! She's been really pushing me and encouraging me to do this for real.. like a small business venture? Dare I? I HAVE been doing it for ten years.. mostly free to my friends etc and as gifts. I worry about the Graphix police and copyright infringement when working with companies for a new design. So I try my best to do it based on my knowledge of what that particular Terms of Service is. I don't want them or I to get into trouble. Especially them... that would be embarrassing! I know of a few people that do it. The beautiful Masto Mama & some forums Chubby Cheeks Graphix : Crumb Snatchers : VIP Signatures too... Like I said I have been doing this for ten years the good, the bad, the ugly and ohmigoodness there were some ugly ones in the times of the unexperienced or uninspired me.
Here is my Gallery or Portfolio... whatever you want to call it... Here. Look to the right for the sub menu's...
I have a design blog already in place here... StormyAries Creations. I put in there my scrapbook creations, my PSP and Graphic creations, and anything else I may create. I may start there and move to grander scale once I figure this all that... I am considering Army Knights Lady Designs as a future part time business if it goes well. Of course its a hobby and always will be a hobby I can share... but what's a few extra dollars in my Paypal account? LOL

I am thinking the price menu may go like this

Simple Siggy with a doodle, simple graphic etc small in size $1 - $2

I do not make the graphic normally (I might have to learn how) it is borrowed or bought!

A Graphic Siggy (for blogs, websites, forums, email) using Pictures or digital scrapbook parts. May or may not contain these but is more complex and may or may not be animated $5- $8

Extra's might be because of the price of the scrap kit etc
Need your photos watermarked? Ask for a quote
Blog Banner or Layout: I haven't made buttons yet... but I will try soon! So a complete Blog Banner, Back Ground, Button and Siggy is $12 again price could go up depending on if the graphics you want cost me anything. Just the Blog Banner and background $10, Blog Banner by its self is $8

Etsy banner ask for a quote 

Custom printables (I make you print!) ask for a quote... This would be for a picture, Birth Announcement, Invitation, or Greeting Card... etc

Logo Design  ask for a quote

Sorry I don't make blinkies yet. I have tried for years and I haven't mastered it... or even close.
Any questions just ask.. Oh yeah and feedback would be great too. Tell me do you think I am worth it?