JFlah's Blunders

This video was surprising. I like how it was calm - no one getting angry, although everyone seemed to be firmly entrenched in their own belief systems. There's a clear presentation of evidence, or lack thereof, all done in a respectful way that would make any thinking person stop to examine what and why they believe what they do. I know it's a long video at almost 40 minutes, but it's worth the time investment.

These are the fonts I like at the moment. Some of them I'm chomping at the bit to use, but since they're a little out there, I'm going to have to wait for the "right" kind of design to place them into. Most of these are available at dafont.com or on one of the other free font sites that I have a tendency to haunt when I'm looking for a way to spice up a boring design. My top favorites are Exo , Ash , Credit Valley , Great Vibes and Crixus . I get to use those on various things pretty often.

Here is a line-up of some of the simple Christmas stockings I made this past weekend. At church they're needing some stockings for a mission trip they're taking in October and since I can't go I thought I'd contribute this way. My favorite ones were the ones with the red polka dot patterns on them. I only had green ribbon for the hangers, but I think they look alright. The one with the penguin pattern is from a pair of old sleeping pants I got from a friend a while back (never did fit me, she's so skinny) and think I've put them to good use making a few stockings out of them. If you want to make some stockings too, let me know - I can get details and a pattern for you. They're being sent to Mission, TX with our mission team.

Found this sketch of Jacob and Esau by jesusonlysavior.deviantart.com while I was doing research for a sermon title slide a month or so ago. The reference for the sermon was going to be the reuniting of Jacob and Esau after Jacob had swindled his older brother out of the birthright and ran off. I downloaded a copy of the black and white sketch of this scene for inspiration - inspiration of the kind of emotional quality I was hoping to achieve with the slide. The actual sermon slide ended up being some visual pun about burying the hatchet. The sketch sat on my desktop for a week or so before I felt compelled to colorize it. I wish I was better at the whole light source thing. I tend to ignore the light sources when I'm coloring and tend to color whatever part however I feel like coloring it. I'm sure if I started keeping that more at the forefront of my mind, the end products would be better overall. Anyway, I enjoyed working on this. I've posted it on my deviant art pa...

Yep, that's a broken shed door lock. I cut grass over the long weekend and when I went around to the shed to get out my mower I realized I didn't need a key to get in. Someone had pried the lock. Thankfully nothing seemed to be missing or tampered with, but I keep thinking that they just pried the lock in preparation to come back and clean the shed out. Now I'm going to have to replace the lock doohickey and for good measure. I think I'm going to board up the cute little shed window - board it on the inside, cause it's so cute. Should anyone decide they're going to knock the window in, well, I guess I'll board it on the outside then. I've got to go to the hardware store to get something to replace this broken one with. Every night I've been praying that God scares the culprits into staying away, at least until I can manage to get the lock system replaced/upgraded. I almost hope it was just some juvenile kids instead of some of the other malconte...