miss. jess

i love you with all my heart

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:30:57 +1000

i love you with all my heart

ARRH...

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:27:03 +1000

Don’t you hate it? All you do is work and work and work, and it feels like as if you have accomplished NOTHING. I seriously hate this feeling! I feel like that’s all I am doing is working my ass off to finally finish something, but I cant do it. Today my group partner and I got together and with the help of my wonderful/amazing boyfriend Geoff, we were able to knock something together =) Though it took a lot longer than I thought and Geoff has a lot of study to undertake, so I spent the whole time thinking that he should go home, but I needed him so badly and I was in this contradiction. I just feel at the moment like nothing is going my way. Geoff says to me, tell me everything, use me as someone you can talk to about anything that is troubling you. Yeh that is fine and I sort of already do but I know how much work he has and it would kill me if he failed or wasn’t happy with his result. He doesn’t realise how much he means to me and all the things I would do for him. I never want to interrupt him, cuz I know he needs to study, but it kills me inside that I cant talk to anyone… I mean I can, people say they are always here for me, but I don’t want to put my stupid problems on anyone else. I cant do this essay!!! Its terrible and I feel inadequate!!! Its horrible…why do I feel this way???!!!

I just feel so snowed over and I suppose you didnt want to read that either….

The start of the weblog world…..

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:13:04 +1000

The start of the weblog world…..

My linking blogs throughout the semester

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:18:46 +1000

http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/88576394/api-and-mashup

http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/101833186/web-2-0

http://jessabella.tumblr.com/post/106201363/multiplicity

The link to Production Project B - YouTube

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:54:41 +1000

The link to Production Project B - YouTube

Production B - Rationale

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:30:59 +1000

For the Production B Project I decided to do the Vimeo/YouTube video which looked at the site as a whole and how it operates. Testing its ability to broadcast yourself and let the world see what you have to offer. What is found on YouTube is pretty much anything you type into the search engine, the more tags and views a video has the more likely it will come up in the search and therefore the views and conversation of a certain clip go up. I decided to delve further into to YouTube and show through my own film what I felt YouTube was doing towards to society.

Youtube was first activated on the 15th February 2005 by two men who combined their engineering and creative skills, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen but it was not until November 2005 when the backing came from Sequoia Capital that the YouTube product took off. By summer of 2006 YouTube had become one of the fastest growing sites on the internet and the success for this site was “off the charts.” As stated by the creators themselves Hurley and Chen. As presented by www.evanmichael.com the site claims it is the 5th most popular and outwardly beating the rapid growth of myspace. Hurley also says that the company is now four times larger than Google Video (www.googlevideo.com) and yahoo (www.yahoovideo.com) both of which are trying to take over the top spot, where YouTube now sits.

My video that I am presenting as a YouTube clip goes for 2mins and 2secs. I found this time limit to really suit as for a regular user on YouTube; I find it easier for more people if the clip is shorter does not take so long to buffer and watch it quicker. I believe this is a positive as most people these days want something instantaneously and sitting around for waiting for a clip to load, most people get irritated and go onto something else. So I took the approach to make it shorter so more people would watch it and think about the messages I have placed throughout.

The short film looks at how people are spending more and more time on this site, typing in words that come to mind. There is a high chance that something will come up as there is so much material that has been placed on YouTube it is hard to find a word that something would not come up with at least one clip. I have proved this theory through the middle of my sequence from 26seconds to 1minute and 5seconds. This is the largest piece non-cut in the clip but it was also made the longest to show the audience how there is a large amount of clips to be searched. Throughout the clip it skips from people watching YouTube to a vacant lounge room, park, shopping aisle, road and petrol station. This is my contrasting against the idea that people would –prefer to sit and watch YouTube rather than be outside. As well as the fact the internet has a large quantity to offer a user and it is therefore more inviting to be on the computer than outside or in public places. Prefer to stay in the comfort of an individual’s own home.

The music I used for the clip is simple. A simple bass song performed by my brother with my mum singing in the background, I thought this would be very effective as I want my audience to focus on the screen shots rather than being taken into “another” world by the music. I like the music, feel as if it it doesn’t take away from the film but gives more substance than just being a silent clip, which is something that is hardly ever found on YouTube.

The clip delves into random shots of people posing in front of the camera. This part I placed in to show all the variety that is found on YouTube just from having a video camera and filming someone, adding it to the computer and then uploading it to YouTube and hoping that it will get many views and end up half way across the world being shown and talked about. It is the 15minutes of fame everyday people can get so that they can become their own celebrity. They can feel like people are interested and want to know what they are doing and then go around and chat about it.

It is part of human nature to express and show off to others and YouTube is the perfect medium to use to excel at this. Thus why through my clip I have got different people to do things for the camera to bring to light the idea of what YouTube is used for.

YouTube is the phenomenon that everyone knows about and is quoted all the time. It is a big part of youths lives as well as many adults. Doing this clip was fun and hope my audience understand and get further knowledge of what YouTube’s ultimate influence is on the society.

Finale Week 15

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:06:10 +1000

Over the semester everyone in network media were asked to keep a blog to respond and make more sense of what we have been reading and doing work on. It was a new concept to me as I have never kept a blog before and it was a bit hard in the start getting use to every week making sure I had written something. I was never one to keep a diary or anything, so reflecting for me was a bit hard, and considering I was not quite sure what was expected from a blog for the audience. I have tried throughout the semester to make sure that my blog responds to the criteria, as well as networking it to other sites and informative and looking at the idea of how the audience would enjoy the site.

Looking at my blog, it is suited to teenagers; I have used simple language and a very conversational tone throughout to make it more personal between the user and myself. Nothing too technical and I think the audience are people just beginning with the internet and blogging. Words that most people would probably not know are linked to sites and I think this helps my audience understand what I am trying to say and give them more background on the terminology used through the blog.

Every single one of my blogs has a background on what the lecture and tutorial were like as well as my own personal opinion. I think it shows more understanding especially when you look at it from your own point of view rather than just the lecturer or the tutor. As looking through my blog the audience can grab a light, interesting and simple look at how the internet works and what happens behind the scenes of the World Wide Web. As well as how every user on the internet makes an implication on how the internet works.

From having to use a blog all semester it has finally dawned on me how the social media works on the internet. How people are draw to their interests, but from that they click on hyperlinks and end up going to all sorts of different sites, just from a single click. A user can guide their way around the internet by using search engines, but then when reading blogs, most users if they enjoy blogs from a certain person will use a rss feed to keep up to date which helps the blogger to get more popularity. And once this happens, more and more people will be directed towards the site, through different hyperlinks and other people’s blogs who respect what this blogger has to say.

My blog is set up very simply, to try and attract a larger audience, by not making users feel bombarded with information, colourful images and music and moving words, rather I wanted something straight forward that could be easily be used by all sorts of people. I created it so that there is a clear line between each blog entry and I just use a simple approach. I have hyper linked words I did not know or understood previously to the lecture or tutorial or words I believe people would prefer to have a definition for or learn more about. By doing this I have network my site to other sites, so that users can successfully navigate my site to another site and from there to more sites. I feel like my blogging site, even though it does not have a lot of traffic it still helps people navigate around the internet learning more about it as they go. It is hyperlinked to a lot of sites throughout the internet and I think by making many hyper links around the internet gives my site more validity and encourages people to read what I write and then go from my site to another one, still looking at the same concepts.

The three post I have decided to nominate are “API and Mashup” “Web 2.0” and “Multiplicity.” I feel all these blogs fit the criteria as well as having substance and hyper-linking throughout. They were lectures throughout the semester and I think this gives a broader range of what was covered in the course. They look at what I thought, and what was learnt that week and I think these two components are very important when dealing with a blog. I enjoyed learning about these three blogs throughout the semester as before network media I had never heard of quite a number of things that were mentioned. It was really satisfying learning more about the internet, and being able to use the internet outside of class and think about what it is actually made up of. The sites we were shown especially in API and Mashup were really fun and interesting as they used more than one site combined to create an extraordinary site full of fun and information. Previously to this course I had never worked out how it worked and I never thought people would be allowed to use other sites for their own purposes but it makes a lot of sense to be able to do that. Web 2.0 I had only ever heard of in myspace and it was confusing at first to work it but then when it was explained during the lecture and then the tutorial I began to grasp the idea that Web 2.0 was just the next expansion of Web 1.0 just like all other programs when they are made better by their creators. Multiplicity for me as well was a lecture and tutorial week I really enjoyed. It was great to work out how these complicated sites worked.

Throughout the semester I have tried very hard to get better at reflecting and making a difference to my blog. I tried to network whatever I thought was appropriate. I have really enjoyed keeping a blog and with the knowledge I have know I should be able to make myself a more popular blogger =) I feel that my blog shows my aptitude to learning and really helps not only myself but others who are thinking the same questions as me. I am going to continue to keep a blog and hopefully one day I will be one of those really respected bloggers and people will take what I have to say honestly. Before this course I did not know all the interesting aspects of the internet and it has really opened my eyes on how it works and what is expected of the users and the creators of sites and programs that millions of people use every day.

Some more Youtube....

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:15:57 +1000

This week i focused on making my video better and better. I have got all my footage and added it all together. Today I got even further, I went for a drive and found a vacant road and petrol station, do you know how hard it is to find a petrol station in Canberra that has NO CARS at it??!! Very hard indeed, spent a lot of time driving. Though it was all worthwhile in the end when I finally found one! I have asked my brother and mum to compose a piece of music for me so that I dont have to worry about copyright issues and licenses, something I am not very confident about. Especially I would hate myself if I did it wrong and it implemented on my marks because I did not have the correct referencing. Now that I have finished my short film on youtube, I am trying think of tagging ideas so that it will maximize viewing and understanding of the short film. I am trying to think of common words people will type into youtube but also words that with distinguish it apart from videos and make it stand out. Not quite sure what to do.

I have been cutting and pasting a lot of different clips together to try and make the film look a big messy, a metaphor for how I see the way youtube is constructed. The only way to find things are through tagging, and I wanted to show that you find a lot of clips of just people in their own homes dancing in front of a camera trying to do something outrageous so that they will get the most views and people will watch and tell more then it soon becomes that people quote the short film.

I feel that the film has the main concept I want to convey, but showing that youtube has a lot of random and silly material that is watched by thousands of people. As well as the idea that people would now prefer to watch youtube, what they want, when they want just by typing in a word into the search engine. Of course something will come up, as there is so much on the site.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself =)

Sun, 24 May 2009 18:23:34 +1000

Well this week I have been busy thinking and planning my production B assignment. I am going to do the YouTube video and my main theme is going to be about the idea that people would prefer to be on the internet than watching the television, at the park or even out shopping. My clip shows groups of people enjoying YouTube while other public places are silent because everyone is home watching something on the internet. I then decided to delve deeper into the idea that YouTube is so full of different clips that it doesn’t matter what you type in something will always come up, no matter what your interests may be. By continuing this thought I got my friend to type in 10 randomised words and see what came up while I filmed her. As the clip progresses we then see people outside trying to make their own clip to upload, so they too can get as many views and comments and become “YouTube famous.”

Though at the moment I have absolutely no idea how to finish the clip, I have a temporary start but my ending needs work. So far I am up to the vacant shopping centre but nothing to tie the whole thing together. I have asked around but hopefully my personal viewing of YouTube can give me some ideas on how to manipulate and bring all my ideas together so the audience will understand and appreciate my work. I have also been looking at delicious, seeing if there have been any blogs posted about YouTube or anything that can help me with my clip. I feel my clip does analyse YouTube by showing how much effort we put into this ‘virtual’ television station. Where people would prefer to sit on YouTube and watch clips other people have uploaded rather than television shows. It is the easy way to watch what you want when you want. This week I am going to continue researching and hopefully very shortly I will have an ending which satisfies my thoughts and creates a suitable sum up of the clip for my audience.

Data. Everywhere

Tue, 19 May 2009 13:28:44 +1000

Data, data. data surrounds us! This week was all about data. We looked at data visulisations and they truly amazed me. Just the way all the data is processed and configured to make it interesting yet informative to the audience - it is the representation of abstract non-physical information (verses the depiction of physical artifacts).

We spoke about how certain images and sounds encourage humans to look and become interested. Primary looking for humans involves, scale, colour, shape, position and movement are the key things to add into a visualtisation to keep people interested and entertained. One website that I found which really has me captivated is, We feel fine by Jonathan Harris. It captivates the audience to click on the dots and learn more about the people who are placing these thoughts onto the internet, by gender, age, location, whether each segment is done by using colour, movement and shape mainly though there is scale and position as well. I found this site a very interesting and fun one to explore during free time. It is the idea of passive observation, people living as normal rather than being interviewed.

We looked at the delicious site on data and that was quite interesting, one site that really did catch my attention was data visulisation and infographics. It was a very informative blog which I enjoyed reading - you should take a look.

I have been thinking more about production B - and I have had a thought about what I could do. I was thinking about the video one and getting my room mates to show how much you tube has taken up our lives. Especially showing that some well known one can be made into t-shirts. How everyone takes quotes from all the clips and uses them in everyday life. Also that people are uploading what ever they feel like and if it embarrasses them, than that is even better because it will mean you get more ‘views.’ I am going to try and pose this idea in my movie. Hopefully I can talk to my tutor about this before I continue with to make sure I am on the right track.

Multiplicity

Mon, 11 May 2009 20:06:26 +1000

This week was all about multiplicity, did you know just for fact that multiplicity is a movie?? I did not know that until I tried to search for this topic on google and it kept coming up!!!!. When first hearing about it I was confused and what not sure exactly what was meant by it, but once reading over my lecture notes I realised that the perfect quote for multiplicity is indeed one said through the lecture - “group of people knew more than a single person did.” It made sense as I am now beginning to think of multiplicity as a collective group rather than just a single person like myself trying to understand the whole internet.

A bit of information on computers:
Did you know that they are digital (works with O’s and 1’s)
Did you know there are 44,000 little bits of sound per second on a CD
Did you know that on a CD there are 24/25 frames per second

Personally I knew a few of those fun facts, but on the whole it was nice to have them explained to me, and I thought I would share my knowledge with everyone =) I am still amazed that there are 44,000 little bits of sound per second, that to me is unimaginable, that number is so large it hardly makes sense…

Also in the lecture we were shown about scalability, interaction and anchoring… words that I had not really processed with the internet, though it was really interesting to listen to and understand more in the realm of the internet.

During our tutorial we discussed the outcomes of multiplicity and how it effects the internet. Then we went onto the delicious site and went though the tags which had been done for our class. I especially found the Michael Jackson thriller amazing as well as the artworks by Peter Funch. They were absolutely amazing and I can not comprehend how both artists did their work. It was great to see what can be achieved. I really liked seeing it and talking about the works. We also talked about our final assignments, I am thinking of doing the video one, but am yet to think of some sort of story/theory behind mine, though as soon as I do, I am going to write it down and it will not escape me, unlike me other ideas!!!

Well enjoy your week and I’ll catch up with you all later =)

Summer Nights - Grease

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:44:45 +1000

Summer Nights - Grease:

Stop motion video really interests me and this video is just well down with the lego pieces singing to Grease. I feel it captivates the audience as the lego pieces float across the screen singing. I think it is just worth while a look, go on… TAKE A LOOK =)

Project B - starter, or should I say not starting...

Thu, 07 May 2009 15:39:48 +1000

I have been continually thinking about what I could do for my network media assignment, Project B.

I like the sound of the youtube/vimeo but I don’t know if I have what it takes to make it spectacular… I want something that will captivate, make an audience never want to stop reading/watching my project, though at the moment I feel like I have hit a brick wall, I have no ideas or creative thoughts running through my head and it makes me scared that this assignment will pop up on me and I will have to rush as I have no idea what I am doing.

I also thought about the data visualization, but after seeing the one that was shown to our tutorial class last week, totally turned me off it, there is no way in the wide world will I ever be able to construct something like that. I know we were told that obviously it could be simpler, but it just kills to know what I could do, but really cant because I have no idea where to start. Everyone else around the class, seem like they have an idea. The assignment is due on the 5th of June so roughly a month away and if I do not think of something relative fast I am going to end up rushing and my finish product just wont have the flare that I want it to have.

Trying to come up with creative and non cliche ideas, but nothing is coming, I need to think outside of the box, but so far I feel like I am STUCK in the box. This box I am sure was not made properly. There are no exits, the box is just like a cube, a hollow cube that I can fit into, that does not open either side no matter how hard I try… Its just one of those things, I suppose though once I find something creative and ‘out of the box’ I should be able to find the exits and get out… Just have to wait for that day, which I believe is very close, or at least it should be because the longer it takes me to figure out how to do all of this the shorter time I will have and the bigger chance of disappointment for a grade.

ARRRH, maybe I just think about things way to much… but please, oh please let there be something in my mind that I can use for an assignment =)

Web 2.0

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:08:59 +1000

Wow, what a concept, I had only ever heard of web 2.0 on myspace, when they decided to change around their layouts and I could not figure out how to do it. Though listening to the lecture on Tuesday, it all started to make sense to me about how it works and what I am to expect. A few of the words mentioned to describe the next generation of web design are, usability, design, standardisation, folksonomies, simplicity, microformats, open APIs and data driven. These words got me thinking about how we use the web and what we expect it to do. How instead of the net only being a place where people go and “look” it is now a place where people are encouraged to add their own things, talk about what interest them and general information that someone across the world might be wondering the same thing. It brings the world closer together by the means of communication and with the new format of web 2.0 it will keep the web in some sort of order, simple and easy to understand for majority of people.

A study was conducted in 2006 and there were officially 1 billion users online with 80,000,000, using the web on a daily basis. In contrast the same study was carried out in 1996 and there were only 45million users and 250,000 sites to be accessed. When hearing this news, it made me think about when I first started using the web, and I came to the conclusion that it would have been around 2001/2 where it was being used as a enjoyment and recreational rather than just receiving and sending e-mails.

In the tutorial we talked about social media and its effect on the world, both in reality, by looking at the idea of privacy and in cyberspace where people say things that they would never say in person. They get a certain thing about them and ruin the well run forums that millions of people in the world participate in every day. We also looked at big companies, like facebook and myspace and how they contribute to the internet, a massive social network. As well as just talking about web 2.0 in general and what as a collective we knew and understood about the new concept of the internet.

Web 2.0 is architecture of participation - providing service, not a product, encouraging user contribution, using a collective intelligence, and making the web easy to re-use and re-make. This change was to also make sure that the user experience was easy to use, pleasurable, rich in social network and by improving web applications and interfaces, making then just that more readily available and easy to use.

So therefore, I think once most people start to understand the concept of web 2.0 I think it will be a hit and more people will wonder how they ever handled web 1.0!

BYEEEE

This is what I call a gorgeous photo, it can have so many...

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:37:47 +1000

This is what I call a gorgeous photo, it can have so many meanings…

Rationale

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:26:45 +1000

For Project A I decided to curate an online exhibition of photography. I found this one interested me most and I believe that it would show my skills the best. I have only just recently moved to Canberra and I decided to show the two different sides of the Nation’s Capital, from both a tourist and local point of view. There are things all around Canberra that are ‘considered’ only tourist attractions and then there are the things that only the locals know of. I thought that I would look at this perspective as I personally been to Canberra many times as a tourist and now I am resident.

For my photos which I took all around Canberra, I tried to capture the beauty which Canberra offers for all the people that come to experience it. I took 14 photos around Canberra, going from Cocking Green to the Parliament Houses and Telstra Tower, all iconic buildings which represent what the Nation’s Capital has to offer. Then I took 11 photos of what I do with my family around Canberra, which involved eateries, ten pin bowling, tennis, going out as well as just staying at home with friends.

I decided to use tumblr to execute my exhibition for my audience. There are 25 photos all up which is not a big exhibition but I felt by adding only a couple of photos to the page and adding a link to flickr made the tumblr blog not look as cluttered but gave the audience a snippet of what to expect from the exhibition and to encourage them to click on the link provided. I did a summary of what I thought was beneficial for the audience to understand about the photography so they could grasp their own meaning and understanding for it, depending on their own experiences in Canberra.

The online tools available for me were the use of hyper linking from flickr to delicious and from delicious to tumblr. Though in the end of the assignment I decided just to hyper link straight from tumblr to flickr, which I decided would make it easier for the audience to operate my site. Without being bombarded with different sites to visit.

My original plan for the exhibition I was going to have all pictures side by side so the audience could look at them together as a collective group but instead I decided to pick my favourite ones and add them to the main page and hyperlink them to other websites around the internet.
I found collecting all my work to be one of the hardest tasks as well as making sure all my hyperlinks worked properly. I did however find it a bit difficult to be satisfied with my work as every time I logged on I would feel as if I could do something better. I tried very hard to work out my own tumblr. layout but I found I could only change certain aspects, and I therefore used a custom layout which reminded me of a newspaper layout. I believe that this layout suits Canberra. It reminds me that the audience are looking through a newspaper deciding what to do in Canberra.

I feel I have made a suitable collection of photos for my assignment and I am very proud to present it.

Pixel Ads

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:16:25 +1000

Pixel Ads:

I think everyone should check this out, it is interesting, just one of the things you find while surfing the net in your spare time.

Carving up the World

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:10:52 +1000

This weeks lecture was all about ‘carving up the world.’ The structures and patterns that present themselves on the internet, making it easier both for the designer of the site and for the audience who will be accessing the information. We went through how depending on the object we accept it differently. Eg. clothes, are different according to culture and age. Food, what is legal, how to prepare it.

There are two things when dealing with the internet that are different to that of really space.

1) distance- -difference between online and physical space.
2) (physical) scarcity - only so much stuff can be kept in ‘real’ places unlike the internet where it does not matter how much duplicating is done, there is always enough room on the internet.

It then got me thinking when the comment was made, that if a friend asked me to send them a song or document, I could and think nothing of it and I would not only be giving them one but I would be able to keep my own. Whereas if they asked me if they could have my computer, I would be able to give it to them but I would not be able to also keep one for myself.

A quote which was mentioned in the lecture that I thought was very worthwhile was - “limitations provide context. Without limitations, structure is required.”

The one thing that I believe I should remember, especially since I want to get into network media is ‘folksonomy’ and ‘taxonomy.’

Folksonomy - the method of managing tags to categorise content.

Taxonomy - to arrange in hierarchical structure

These two definitions I believe I should remember.

No on to assessment 1, I think I am traveling really well, not quite sure exactly what I am trying to get at, but so far, so good. It is looking better every single time I go to it, I think by the time it is due (next week) it is going to be great. I decided to do the exhibition of photos, fingers crossed this is what they were asking for. As in the tutorial we just go to work on it, which was great, I needed that =)

Anywho, I shall be off, to finish more work =)

Who would have thought!! HAHAHA… Thanks to Frengo2.0 on...

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:39:56 +1100

Who would have thought!! HAHAHA…
Thanks to Frengo2.0 on Flickr for the wonderful, amazing photo!!!

Light Heart

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:01:13 +1100

This week there was no lecture, it was actually a shame as I quite enjoy a lecture gives me something to think about before the tutorial, but alas today I had to walk into the room, trying to think in a net work language without having a lecture running through my head. Today actually would have been my most nervous tutorial EVER. I had to go to the computer and show everyone my blog, as one by one everyone got up it just made me more nervous! I ended up finally getting up, but I felt like everyone could see me shaking! As I showed my blog I began to relax, as I feel I was on the right track.

Anyway for the assignment, ‘project a’ I have decided to do an exhibition of photos and place them on tumblr and relate them back to other famous works, problem is I have no idea what subject I want to do. I have taken shots all around Canberra, and of friends, but it is so typical so I have no idea and everyone else in the class seem to have deep and meaningful topics they want their audience to think about but yet again, just the say as year 12 I am doing something fun and enjoyable and yet again it seems like I have no depth to me, but I just cant do the hard, thinking things, I prefer to see the light-heart stuff of life, and I suppose that is just my personality, obviously it is, but just sometimes I wish I would think of a hard hitting subject which would shock people.

My tutor came around as he discussed everyones topics with them, and well it was great discussing my ideas with him, as it helped alot, though I still feel like I have alot of work to go and there is only 2weeks and this is the time when I get stressed and it is horrible!!!
Anyway, if I can pull of the light heart topic which I am yet to find, I think everyone will benefit from not having another deep topic. Something I am yet to learn how to do.
I did enjoy seeing everyones blogs, gave me something to aspire to =) just have to make mine like that!

Take care everyone and you will hear from me soon enough =)