I’m actually INSANELY late with this post, in fact I’m a month late with it, but now that I have a minute to catch my breath I do want to post my adorable award and say thanks to Britt from All Night Noise for making BeautifulSin.net site of the month for January 2012!

Kicking off the new year as All Night Noise‘s Site of the Month is Faith’s awesome site, Beautiful Sin. Faith has a great collection of templates and PSD’s available for download, as well as other cool resources for Photoshop users.

Formerly a fansite that has morphed into much more, Beautiful Sin is now an awesome resource site, and all artists should give her a look.

Thanks, Britt!

Tagged with: 2012 • All Night Noise • Awards • January • Site of the Month

Posted by Faith on at 12:15 pm

Flyby update of 1499 HD screencaptures from Sherlock season one, episode ten entitled, “A Study In Pink” added to the Screencap Archive:

Tagged with: A Study in Pink • BBC • Benedict Cumberbatch • DI Greg Lestrade • Dr Watson • Episode 01 • HD • John Watson • Mark Gatiss • Martin Freeman • Rupert Graves • Screencaptures • Season 01 • Sherlock • Sherlock Holmes

Posted by Faith on at 10:59 pm

I meant to post this almost a week ago, but it took me longer to get the holidays sorted out than I thought it would – you can thank my mother and her ever-looming presence for that, as well as my disorganized life which is getting in the way more than I can stand at this point.

At the moment I’m in the midst of re-reading chapter twelve of The Sitting Swing, a fantastic biopic novel by Irene Watson. She talks in the book about her childhood, a very sheltered and even scary time that eventually led to severe problems later in life that landed her on a journey of, what I think can be called, rehabilitation.

I was really drawn to the concept of this novel, having been a child of abuse myself I understand how it can lead to a mess of personality and psychological problems later in life. I wasn’t in the same boat – cut her 5 miles to school in half and place me in Utah and it becomes obvious that my problems were different. My parents weren’t over protective, I wasn’t sheltered – they were hands-on abusive with my stepfather being so violent that he’d happily turn an oak dresser over on a child because they had a messy room, a room which they then had to clean or they weren’t fed ( no bathroom, no water and no sounds of any kind) until it was done.

The author writes at length about everyday worries and the urge for freedom from an oppressive and sheltering family. Stories about feuds with her mother over friends, school and everything in between and her relationship with religion.

Irene recounts the urge to flee, the hanging on for dear life of a single friend (Margie) and the undeserved vilification of that friend, the put downs and beatings. I over identify with so much of it. Of course, unlike Irene’s mother my stepfather wasn’t worried about whether my sister Laota and I were being poisoned against my parents by a friend, they were far more obsessed with whether or not we’d tell the police what was happening. As crazy as it sounds, we were always too afraid to. Looking back on it, now, I wish we had. I didn’t understand at the time that it couldn’t get worse by involving child welfare.

In The Sitting Swing, Irene also talks about her inspiring road to recovery and the somewhat normal life and easier relationships that people like us strive for.

Throughout the story you come to empathize with Irene. It’s so well and simply written, the story is so easy to immerse yourself in. Her story is very inspiring, I hope you check it out – I can’t recommend this book enough!

Tagged with: Author • Child Abuse • Children • Irene Watson • Recovery • The Sitting Swing

Posted by Faith on at 6:55 am

That makes it sound like I’m a corporation, doesn’t it? Lol! Click on the image below to get to the animated holiday card – Happy Holidays, everyone!

Tagged with: Christmas • Hanukkah • Kwanzaa • Solstice • Yule

Posted by Faith on at 8:16 pm