Hi my dearest friends and watchers, I hope you all had an amazing Easter with your families and friends with love and peace.

Pardon for my absence, but you all know what happened to my husband so I've spend all the time I can with him now, helping in everything he needs. This is what I feel I have to do right now, tho I try to take a little time to update you in he's state and my life.

He is feeling better and I thank you all for the kind prayers and loving thoughts you all showed us, we appreciate every single one and I feel that he is better thanks to all the positive energy you all sent him. For that I'm grateful for life.

I missed some friends birthdays but I will try in the days to come to solve that issue.
Thank you all for the features and the presents during my absence, you are all so amazing and loving people, I'm very lucky to have such amazing friends.

I've read all your journals and saw all your art, I apologize for ing and run and for not posting a comment, but it just piled up, I'm so sorry you all had to deal with art thieves, rude people, crazy people and especially for some I feel so so so sorry that you had lost loved ones and some having a tough time now.

I've read Hedieh aka is leaving dA and my heart broke, I loved her so much and loved her work so much that I feel terrible that she feels so bad she feels she needs to leave. Also to Jessica aka she has lost a loved one so please keep them both in your prayers.

Will try to sort out all my messages in the days to come and I'll make my slowly return to dA, my husband still needs a lot of my help, so I only will do stuff in the times he's sleeping or resting ok? Please bare with me, I know I was a very active member of the community and now I'm not but I promise I'll return as fast as I can.

Until then with all my love and my heart, I wish you all an amazing week and inspiration to create all the beautiful art you create.

Love and Peace Maria

A little update on my husband's condition:

I was at the hospital with my husband all day today for his surgery but he only got it after 13:30. He was in the operation room until 17:30, the surgery took almost twice as long as it should. The doctor said it went well tho, but it was a very complicated surgery, he has a lot of material inside ( screws and metal plaques and such) and they didn't let him come home today, because of the pain he will suffer tonight. So I came home all alone and I feel horrible.I saw him before I left and he was looking so vulnerable, he was awake and we talked for a little, I was explaining why he couldn't come home and I was trying hard not to let him see I was a wreck.  He felt bad for not being able to come home and I was trying so hard not to cry, thank God for his father being there with me or I think I would cry.

Please keep me and him on your prayers tonight, I feel terrible for being alone and let him be alone tonight on that hospital. I hope he doesn't get too much pain tonight and I can't wait for tomorrow to see him right here with me.

Hi guys, this last days have been very heavy on me.
First, I wanted to thank you all in mine and my dearest husband behalf for all the best wishes you guys sent us, I'm so emotional right now for having such amazing people worried about us. You are all the best and I love you all, thank you so much for supporting us in this awful time and for being here for me.

Second, I want to apologize for ing and run with no comment, I've been trying to keep my messages on a low rate but it was almost impossible,seems every time I log on dA my message center is bigger and bigger, so I had to just open the deviations and started to all the amazing and beautiful pieces I saw all my wonderful friends made this week. You all rock and you do so amazing things and so beautiful, I'm so proud to be your friend.

Third, a little update regarding my husband's condition, he's getting surgery this Wednesday, I'm terrified but oh well I just need to be brave. I'm going to stay with him there until I have news he's ok and the surgery went well. So I'll still be away from dA.

Last but not least, I wanted to say happy birthday to all my dearest friends that had their birthday's this week and that I missed. I'll make you a present as soon as I get the time to sit down on a chair and go through the lovely stock I got and try to get some inspiration.
I didn't forget about you and I hope you understand why I didn't offer you a gift yet.
Thank you all for your patience and friendship, I'm still here but not available has I wanted to be. Hope you all understand

With love and peace, Maria

Well our vacations were spoiled, my dearest husband broke is wrist during our tae kwon do practice this Wednesday......
He's in serious pain and he will need surgery since the bone broke in a wrong way and some bone chips are spread around the tendons and all over the place. It's a "simple" surgery but there is always risks and I'm terrified to be honest, tho I won't let him know.

So this means we will spending Easter at home after all and we won't go any where like we planned before. I'm so sad for him, this last two nights we didn't had any sleep, because on Wednesday we staid at the hospital until 1:30 am and the next day we had to wake up very early to go make his blood work and all the exams needed for his surgery, and last night he was in so much pain he couldn't sleep and I was so worried I almost hadn't any as well.

So this is the bad news I have for you guys, won't be taking any pictures and will be off the grid for some days now, because he needs all my full attention at the moment. Will be here only for support, don't think will post any work for the time being.

Thanks for your support as usual and for all the 's and comments you leave, I appreciate every single one of them

Love and Peace, Maria

Hello my fellow watchers and lovely friends, the rain as gone from where I live so I could finally took some stock pictures for me and for you all. I'l upload a lot more tomorrow or later today, because I took a lot of pictures from our next door woods. They are all free for your use the rules are bellow this journal on my Stock Rules, but they are so simple to follow and so free that well it's more of a moral agreement then anything else . I hope you enjoy them and can do amazing art with it , can't wait to see what use you will give them. Don't forget to it for others to see and use it too.

On another matter, I'm taking a time off from dA this next two weeks, it's spring break and I want to spend time with my daughter. Besides I'll be busy making stock photos and since it's almost Easter and I'm going to travel to my father-in-law place, I'm planning to take some pictures of the nature around there too.

I wanted to thank for all the 's and sweet comments on my latest pieces and for all the features my sweet friends do to my work, and the amazing gifts I've got this week.

Gifts I'm part off



I'm so lucky to be part of this amazing gifts

So If until then I won't post anything else, have a wonderful Easter surrounded by friends and family .

OH and you'll probably see my name change, but I promise my avatar won't for now . Thanks for all the suggestions and I've decided to go with what most of you suggested. My name

Hello dear friends and watchers, after some serious thought and after three weeks of being flagged as spammer.....I've decided three things.

I'll stop answer people who come to my page thanking me for the or for 's, I give too much favourites to answer to them all when people come kindly to thank me. Don't take it personally and i don't want to be rude at all and it will kill me not to say it's my pleasure but it's getting out of control and then I can't comment on other matters as well. Please notice that if I did favourite your art it is indeed because I loved it .

Second, I know I should thank every single I get, because the person took the time to see my work and favourite it, but I'll only will be doing so If and only after I thank the people who comment on the piece and only after I comment on my friends works, sorry but I do think it's a priority to me to comment on my friends, because I hate to and run. So I'll be taking longer to thank for 's.

Third, I apologize deeply but If I see the person who my work as the sign saying not to thank for 's I'll only thank if the person comment on my piece.

This kills me to do, because I was raised to thank people who are kind to me, but I'm getting so much messages at the same time it's getting hard to answer them all, and I've been called so much for social events with my friends that I have less time to be here thanking people, besides I'm having serious thoughts on commissions as well so if I start doing them, I'll have even less time.

I hope you understand and know that I do thank you all deeply for the amazing support all have been showing me and all the love I get from all my dear friends and watchers at dA.

For the first time in 6 years of being a deviant on this site I gave my first unwatch.
Well as I've been saying time and again I don't consider myself a good artist at least not yet. I have much to learn and I'm doing things step by step, learning, looking to other's work and amazing myself with the great job all the artists in their own crafting do.

But I won't and I mean never ever allow myself to watch someone who bash down other's people work and craft. I don't care and will never care for someone who says loud and clear that this or that can't ever be consider art and that is easy.....

No piece of art is easy, rather if you paint, build, draw, manipulate, sow, photograph, etc....
If I read in any journal  I watch talking trash about any type of art, I will unwatch you and will even consider, letting out in the open you are unconsidered and extremely rude. You can't ever say you're better then the next person and that your art is better then the other, you don't know them, you never walked in their shoes, don't say it's easy or it isn't art.

I look at painting of famous artists and I might think it's not for me, or I might think it's weird but does that give me the right not to consider it art? Or that it took two minutes for them to paint?  Or that those artists took the easy way out and made easy stuff?

If you bash someone's art  because you have the audacity to think you're better then them, I will unwatch you. This is my first and only warning.

It is with great sadness that I got some disturbing news this morning.

is leaving dA and so are a lot  more outstanding artists. The stock crisis with sxc and the continues works being stolen from the site and the copies across the site as well made all this amazing artists give up on dA. And these are very disturbing news, when artists, such as herself, feel that the site where they turn too are abandoning them and don't care about them, something is terribly wrong.

I though dA would care first about the well fair of their artists and premium members, but it seems more and more premiums are leaving and with them a lot of dollars/euros on sells, premiums, points,etc....

This continued insult on a lot of people coming on this site creating accounts to have access on "free images" to crop and post crappy text on top and spreading them across FB is something a lot of artists can't stand any more and I'm totally with them.
Artists need to follow this amount of rules that the site force us to endure, the Cv's, the stock providers, the groups, etc, etc and then when it comes to secure us from abuse there is nothing done.

This can't continue, the dA community is breaking and loosing it sense of self and the little artists like myself are loosing our source of inspiration, our teachers, our mentors, our friends and loving artists, and dA is doing nothing. It's turning into a corporation only caring for money and exposure but not attending to the artists witch are their first source of income....

Something for us all to think about on the weekend

This is getting more and more regular...this is a small list with pages on FB with thousands of stolen art work from people around DA and some even editing them.
And the list grows and grows....

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I'll keep updating this journal when I get more links, please spread the word and help all the artists bring this damn pages down!!!!!! I'm outrage right now!! This sickens me

So to clear out the air and to breath deep I'll make a feature of all the amazing art I loved this week and also I want to show the amazing gifts I got .
Besides I wanted to share with all of you a good news. I have a friend who is a professional photographer and he was about to win the World Press Photo this year. He works with amazing models and do amazing campaigns for important fashion magazines and commercial companies . He practice Tae Kwon Do with me and we were talking about what we do and when he knew I was this newbie photoshoper he said he was interested in seeing my work. He didn't see it still but even tho he wants me to make a piece for him with a high quality picture he is going to send me and he wants me to go wild on it and do whatever comes to mind. I'm so nervous about it because he is an amazing artist and I'm just.....well me . So I'm waiting for him to send me the piece and can't wait to see what will I come up with. Hope I do well and who knows maybe get a shot on being his photoshoper on the campaigns and work with him on post production

So I got this amazing gift from I was so surprised, he is an amazing artist and he has a breath taking gallery and I love all his work, please check his gallery he is an outstanding artist

I wanted to congratulate as well my dearest for her DD on this piece it was well deserved because it is an amazing and emotional piece :Love:, congratulations sweetie

And now for the delight on your eyes:

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Please check this artists and give them all your love I know I do



Forwarded from  thank you

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Have an amazing week, love and peace Maria

I must say I'm still in shock when yesterday evening I came to DA for my evening round before going to bed and when I was going through my messages and all I've noticed I was blocked by a fellow deviant.....no warning, no why, no nothing, I was just blocked by the person without any reason.

I've tried my best to avoid any drama with anyone, even when I read mad or sad or even annoyed journals from my fellow deviants I try my best to smooth things up and try as hard as I can to understand and walk on that person's shoes. Even when I see two deviants argue I don't pick sizes if I'm watching them both because sometimes people get mad at each other for no particular reason and even for miss understandings.

I think I was never unkind or rude to anyone here, I try to be a good friend to everyone so I don't understand why I got blocked. Besides I never did anything to hurt the person in question.

But if this is what I get for being nice I can't even imagine what will I get from someone around DA if I ever do something wrong.
I never thought I would agree with a lot of artists when they say this site is just a bunch of people who just want to succeed at any cost and that most don't give a damn about others and they just want to live under the spotlight. This was never my intention on this site, I never expected to succeed or to be noticed by anyone, but I feel very happy for all the nice comments I get on my work. But if any of the people who comment on my work do it because they want more spotlight for commenting on  and to get more features please do me a big favour and un friend me right away.

I won't stand people calling me dear, sweetie or anything else if it isn't meant, you don't need to do that to please me, a simple thank you is enough and we avoid a lot of heartache. And I'm serious about this, I won't unwatch anyone just because they are not sweet or fluffy to me, I follow a lot of people and they don't even say thanks when I comment on their work or .

Same for the If I do follow you, it is because I do really like your gallery, there is no need to watch me back if you don't want too, again I follow a lot of people who don't follow me back and I'm not hurt or sad because of it, I do want watchers but real and truthful ones, not just because they want to return the favour, I don't work like this.

And all this babbling for someone who I watched and returned the favour blocked me out of the bloom for no reason at all and had in my opinion the worst attitude it could ever had. Do me a favour all please, only follow me and like me if you really want too, not because you think you have too

I've been tagged by

Rules:
1. You must post these rules.
2. Each person must post eleven facts about themselves in their journal.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post, and create eleven new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4. You have to choose eleven people to tag and post their icons on your journal.
5. Go to their page and tell them you have tagged him/her.
6. No tag backs.
7. No stuff in the tagging section about "You are tagged if you're reading."

My facts:
I'm 33 going on 34 with a 5 year old maturity sometimes
I'm always singing in my head and I dance terribly
I love to cook but I hate to clean afterwords xD
I'm always day dreaming
I speak English at home with the husband when I don't want my kid to understand me
I help out everyone I can, even if that person was mean to me
I'm hopeless romantic
I love sushi
I'm a Star Wars geek
I flirt a lot, with men and women
I love nature and all it has to be with it


My questions/answers:
Did you make any New Year's resolutions for 2013?
yes
Have you kept those resolutions, if any?
Trying too
Where would you most like to go, anywhere, right now?
Japan
Why do you want to go there?
Love the culture and the food
What do you like best about you?
My heart
What do you find toughest when you create art?
Finding good stock
What comes to you easily when creating art?
Inspiration
Art concept comes to you first more often, or inspiration from peers, stock seen, or other?
All of the above
Any new movies you want to see?
Yes, OZ
Funniest thing that you ever saw or ever happened to you?
All the Jerry Lewis movies
Don't you just love these tagging things?
OH yes I do love them all

I tag:



Now for my 11 question hmmmm:

What is your biggest dream?
Do you sing in the shower?
Have you ever played truth or dare?
Do you ever had a crush on a cartoon character?
Do you like cookies?
Are you flirty?
Do you like Fonzie?
What's your favourite colour?
Do you fall in love easy?
What would you do if you win the lottery
What is your biggest fear?

Just for laughs, don't be mad at me please

I came to realize that in the pass few weeks my journals are full of negative thoughts and feelings.
I've been a little depressed with things that has been happening in my personal life and specially with my 10 year-old daughter. She is an amazing kid, she has good grades but she's not very social. She has always a bad time making friends and when she finds a friend it always ends up badly. Most of the kids call her a mama's girl because she calls me mama and she never lends stuff to her class mates and says "my mama doesn't let me lend stuff".
She is very emotional and she cries easy and whenever she feels stressed or nervous she just cries. I've tried to toughen her up, I've tried not to spoil her too much but it seems that no matter I do she doesn't change much.

Her father is a rotten person, he keeps saying stupid things when she is with him, like..."your mother doesn't love you, she will leave you when she has another baby",or, the worst for me, "If I could, I would kill her and have you for myself forever", this type of conversations hurt her and makes her have bad dreams, she has been crying and always feeling afraid that I die, she keeps having dreams where I die and those sort of things. I've talked to her several times about this and I keep telling her it won't happen, that I will be with her always, that I won't die not for now and not for a long time but she keeps being afraid of it. That ass hole is messing up my baby girl and there is nothing I can do about it, I could bring him to court but my daughter says she wants to keep seeing him, because she wants him to love her and to care for her. He hurts her like hell but she still loves him and wants his approval and I hate that.

This makes me go into a bad and dark place....makes me feel like I lack of purpose and that I'm a bad mother for letting her go to that awful place. She passed the carnaval with him and his family and in the 4 days she was there, she didn't take a bath or change her underwear, she arrived at my house with her hair looking like it was wet with the amount of grease it had  and don't even get me started on the underwear......I was pissed beyond belief and so mad at the guy that if I would have picked up the phone and called him, it would end up badly for sure.

But she still wants to be there with him, she still likes him and wants his approval and hurts me like hell, she has such a good example in my house, my husband is a caring person and love her and respects her, he treats her like his own daughter and give her discipline, love and everything she needs, but she stills wants that other guy, the one who gave the genetic material to make her......

And this is why I've been in such a dark place, in such a sad and bad mood. It's a damn problem that I can't fix without hurting my baby either way.....

This takes my sleep and my motivation and the will to do better in all the rest of the aspects of my life....


Skin by ~alealara

I shouldn't be mad on Valentine's Day but I am....
So as you all know I've been sick with the flu, today was the first day after almost a week I ran through all my messages and went through all the art from all my wonderful friends and DA being the great site that it is, let me look into all of them beautiful art made by them.
But to them all and to leave a comment now that is a different story, not only the click and drag isn't working at all, so I need to each one individually to it's proper folder, more then half my comments weren't accepted because it keeps flagging them as spam....Seriously? Spam? So I can't comment a big amount of art from my friends? Since when that happens? Second time this happens to me, so I just and clean because it's impossible for me to go through 1k or more of deviations and I'm not even looking at groups anymore, with great shame I must say.

So DA made my job a lot harder after a week away from being sick, thank you so much......

This been said, I promised I was featuring the wonderful gifts I got this last weeks so there you go enjoy them all as much as I did



And now a little feature from all the lovely people who keep supporting me enjoy them all and show them all love in their galleries

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Skin by ~alealara

copied from Nina Lipkin Art FB page:

*To those who insist on harassing me, I am asking you to please stop. I admit in the past I have asked assistance from many talented artists. Several have helped me & have even gone to the extent to actually create items within my images. While I am truly thankful for this, I should have proudly credited them...

All I wanted was to succeed in this field & possibly make a living or enough to pay some of my expensives. I admit I was hungry for success and sadly went about it the wrong way.
I am grateful for all the help I have gotten especially to a few who went the distance (programs, stock & other various items) in order for me to rise within the digital world
I have clearly learned my lesson and while I still intend on creating & rising in this field, I will also take my time in order to do it right and call it my own.
So I ask you humbly to please give me a chance to prove myself & earn the respect I am striving for. I Thank you sincerely*

So the rumors were true after all, she was indeed a fake....When I read that tears fell from my face because she was one of the artists I looked up too since my early days on DA and made me think of my own stuff. I wonder if such an amazing artists, lied and stole from others, her friends, people that trusted her to credit them in the end and she took all of the credit to herself......what chance do I have to succeed?
I'm not even close to being as good as she was and she was a fake.....

I'm so sad with this and hurt at the same time.....who knows who else I look up too is the same....feels like I can't truly trust anyone indeed


Skin by ~alealara