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Still Life Stills Features: GreenThe word green is closely related to the Old English verb growan, "to grow". It is used to describe plants or the ocean. Sometimes it can also describe someone who is inexperienced, jealous, or sick. In the United States of America, green is a slang term for money, among other things.
Culturally, green has broad and sometimes contradictory meanings. In some cultures, green symbolizes hope and growth, while in others, it is associated with death, sickness, envy, or the devil, or both, depending on the context. The most common associations, however, are found in its ties to nature. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth for its connections to nature.
Full article at Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green

Feature:July 2012Some yummy treats that have mostly been from my inbox recently that have really stood out either for it's photography, subject or as many of them do, both.
Enjoy.

In other news.
The summer holidays are about to begin here in the UK which means i will be busy trying to keep the peace between my kids who are like chalk and cheese. They have two very different personalities and clash very easily which makes for a very bad mix when i am trying to bake as my stress levels go through the roo

Feature: Food, food and more food? I love that people can be inspired by food for things other than eating! Jewelry, drawings, sculptures, so much fun can be had with the subject. Enjoy!

Still Life Stills Features ChocolateCocoa mass was used originally in Mesoamerica both as a beverage and as an ingredient in foods. Chocolate played a special role in both Maya and Aztec royal and religious events. Priests presented cacao seeds as offerings to the gods and served chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies. All of the areas that were conquered by the Aztecs that grew cacao beans were ordered to pay them as a tax, or as the Aztecs called it, a "tribute".
The Europeans sweetened and fattened it by adding refined sugar and milk, two ingredients unknown to the Mexicans. By contrast, the Europeans never infused it into their general diet, but have compartmentalized its use to sweets and desserts. In the 19th century, Briton John Cadbury developed an emulsification process to make solid chocolate, creating the modern chocolate bar. Although cocoa is originally from the Americas, today Western Africa produces almost two-thirds of the world's cocoa, with Côte d'Ivoire growing almost half of it.
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Feature: Crafty!I do apologize for my inactivity this past week, it has been a crazy one! I haven't even had a chance to bake anything as i have been so busy with the holidays, long bank holiday weekend and also my other half going away for 5 days for a music festival (of course the weather is really bad for him!) which he won't come back from until Monday.
Here are some of my favorite crafts on DA from cute figurines to scary lip balm!
Enjoy

Still Life Stills Features GlassGlass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. Glasses are typically brittle and optically transparent.
The most familiar type of glass, used for centuries in windows and drinking vessels, is soda-lime glass, composed of about 75% silica (SiO2) plus Na2O, CaO, and several minor additives. Often, the term glass is used in a restricted sense to refer to this specific use.
In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e., amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses.
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Still Life Stills Features CoffeeCoffee is a slightly acidic (5.0-5.1 pH) brewed beverage with a strong flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. Green (unroasted) coffee is one of the most traded agricultural commodities in the world. Coffee can have a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content. It is one of the most-consumed beverages in the world. ~~~ Info taken from Wiki, the whole article on Coffee can be found here
Enjoy!

Easter + Feature: MarchHappy Easter everyone. Hope you enjoy your day/weekend whether you celebrate or not. As for my family all we normally do is exchange eggs and have a family meal.
Here are some of the treats my kids have received this year so expect a lot of chocolate related treats to come just to use the stuff up!

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I have been very inactive these past few weeks due to illnesses hitting everyone in the house and such so this feature comprises all of the foods uploaded in the past month whilst i have been offline that has caught my eye for either it's creativity, photography, yumminess or all of the above.

Still Life Stills Features: PaperPaper, not as boring as you may think!
Origami, books, love notes, messages, the list goes on!

The mysteries of BokehLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, =SoulFighty consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco =SoulFighty laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, =SoulFighty consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco :d

weekly gallery selectionDon't forget to enter our monthly recipe challenge and our September Contest.
Every week we select a few favoured pieces from our gallery. Here are this week's faves.
If you missed it, you can see last week's gallery selection here

See you next week for another instalment of our weekly gallery selection.

Project Educate: Looking for Deviants!Hi!
Just a quick journal to say that we're looking for deviants from the community who would be up for participating in a September Community Week . Last few of these have been incredibly successful with community members writing educational and informative articles through our #projecteducate group, featuring other artists, exposing underappreciated artists, giving tutorials on deviantART features and functions and holding contests. Send me a note if you'd like to do any or all of the above!

Inspirational Artisan Crafts #8The AC round up for this weekish... artisan crafts that I found inspiring while browsing through the galleries, or were suggested to me.
The November Artisan Craft theme challenge is over, but we have a new one up, Winter Days!
Send me DD suggestions from the Artisan Craft gallery. I may take a day or two to get back to you, so please don't be offended. On a side note please, please, PLEASE, when you send a DD suggestion, send it to one moderator! We get really confused if you send us all the same thing
If you have any Artisan Craft related contests or clubs you would like to promote, (heck, anything Artisan Craft related!) note them to me and I'll post them in my journal and the next News letter.
I am also looking for any suggestions on how to make the Artisan Craft community a better place. Speak up, this is your community, I'm here to listen!

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December Holidays, Events and Awareness:iconcommunityrelations: #communityrelations :iconcommunityrelations:

DECEMBER HOLIDAYS, AWARENESS AND EVENTS

:iconhapholplz: I do love December. :iconsnowmanlaplz: The cold weather, the snow :iconshovelsnowplz:, the holidays, the decorations, the yummy food.... and hot chocolate. Sigh. Tis a wonderful time of year.
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December in the last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars, as well as being one of seven months having 31 days. December starts on the same day as September every year and ends on the same day as April each year.
In Latin, decem means "ten". It was the tenth month in the Roman Calendar until a winter period was divided between January and February.

December's Flower is the narcissus an

PE: Pixel Artist Interview with Cyangmou

Today I bring you an interview with a talented Pixel Artist by the name of *Cyangmou.
:iconclefairykid: How did you get started in Pixel Art? Was it your first medium or did you work with something different before discovering it?
:iconcyangmou: I worked with several other mediums before, but only traditional ones, like pencil, ink and water colours. I started with pixel art because a friend made a game and it needed pixel graphics, then pixel art became a hobby and after that I started to do visuals for games

:iconclefairykid: What is the thing you love the most about Pixel Art? What makes it stand out from other art mediums for you?
:iconcyangmou: Pixel art has the childhood-game-feel for me and it has the RETRO-factor. I played my first videogames on the SNES and my GBA brought me back those small but very detailed graphics with beautiful colours. The two most outstanding things of pixel graphics are form e that the graphics are us

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Feature: The Wet Stuff + Still Life Week!

Sat May 12, 2012, 7:42 AM

For all you still life photographers and lovers out there head over to

for Still Life Photography week! [link]
Project Educate is a great group, i have been following their articles for some time. I am always finding new genres to follow and some interesting info about the subjects but this week in particular is close to my heart!
For those of you you want to find out more about still life, not just food but the subject in general i highly recommend you check it out. It's going to be a great week for exposure of the subject, giving beginners and anyone striving to improve tips and advice and my favorite part? a Culinary Creations Still Life Photography Contest, so foodies keep your eyes peeled!
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I am fascinated by water, i love the sound, sight and even the smell of rain, waterfalls, water drops and such, a little odd considering i have a huge fear of water! I went swimming as a child with my dad who said that he would catch me if i jumped into the water, he didn't and i went under. It was a horrible experience breathing in so much water and the chlorine burning my eyes, so much so i only learned to swim as an adult. Even now i hate to be in or near deep and murky water so i admire water from a far and from the comfort of living room! Enjoy.