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My snow leopard drawing is now available as a print. It is on a standard print account so it will not get reviewed by quality control until an attempt has been made to order it, so if anyone has any spare cash, y'know, I've enabled even the smallest ones so...yeah xD

BLACKLAVA PRINTS will be available through the new account ~blacklavaPRINTS. There are NO PRINTS AVAILABLE YET, I want to get a premium print account on ~blacklavaPRINTS before I do so. I will write a fat journal entry spamming the link as soon as prints are available.

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So I've been packing a lot lately, getting ready to shove off to my boyfriend's. I can't wait, but I think I've packed a lot. I'm usually a light packer, and I'm letting myself off this time, y'know, since I'm like moving in rather than going to stay. I've been making a lot of cakes, tried my hand at a whimsical topsy turvey cake on the weekend but it failed - well, no, I say it failed, it was my second go, and I got the cake itself right, it was just when I went to put the fondant on it that it went wrong. It was a trial run for my boyfriend's youngest brother's birthday cake, and we've decided that instead of fondant we're going to use buttercream. It'll go up on ~Cakeums when it's completed - if it's good enough, anyway. I'm muuuch more experienced with buttercream than fondant so I have more faith in it.

I've been posting a lot of pictures lately, although in my "unsubmitted" folder on my PC, there are only about 3 more photos to put up, and I'm relatively out of ideas. I want to move away from using myself in them, because I'm fed up with the number of ones I've been in lately, but unfortunately, I don't have any other ideas. I took a couple of pictures of one of my dogs yesterday, and 2 of them don't look bad, they just look a bit plain. I will submit them because they're good quality and I like them, but there's not really much to them, so if you don't like them, I'll understand.

Once I've left Bristol, I intend to take my photography to different sides. I want to try landscape and animal photography. However, I mean animals like stray or wild, and, obviously, the best I can do there is going to a zoo. I don't like that, but I'm going to give it a go. I'm not going to just see a snow leopard casually strolling around outside a shopping centre, am I? So yes, I will be making a trip to London Zoo, and I really want to go to Bristol Zoo while I'm still here but I neither really have the money, the time or the transportation to get there still, London Zoo will be good. I'm also intending to go to the Natural History Museum soon and see if I can get any good photos of dinosaur bones. I hope I can, I love dinosaurs, and it would just be so different in my gallery. I'll give it a shot, eh? This will all probably take place some time within the next 6 months, so it's not exactly next week, so don't expect them any time soon. As for the landscape ones, I'll have access to the seafront and countryside very easily, so I think that won't work out too badly. I'm not too fond of skyscapes at all, so I'll probably avoid those, but if I do post some I'm either desperate, or I like them. They'll get deleted from my gallery within a month after though.

I've been debating setting up a print account. My problem is, I want to keep uploading images with watermarks - don't worry, I have 2 versions of all of my pictures, one version has no watermark and the other does which are the ones you see - but I don't want the print to have them. I don't know if you can submit the view for the print with no watermark and have a second file on the same submission for the print itself that doesn't get seen by anyone but the printers or what. I want to get a premium print account as well, but not until I've decided whether or not I want to do this and have thoroughly checked it all out. I think, though, because I have to send all this stuff to another PC, I'm only going to keep the watermark-free ones of HALF of my photos, as in the better quality ones, and the ones that look best that I think would sell. In this case, if there are any photos you'd like to see as a print, click on the "request as print" clicky thingy on all those images, and that way I'll know which would be best to keep as prints and which wouldn't. I think my earliest ones will be the ones to go, being that I was a) inexperienced, b) had a bad quality camera, and c) they are low resolution. But, regardless of that, press the "request as print" button on all of the photos you'd like to see as a print - however, remember, the prints themselves will not have watermarks on them.

That's me done for this journal, although I'll probably reiterate about half of this journal in my next few submissions.

Thank you for reading this far, that was quite a lot I said there...



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