Have some fun decorating your computer desktop with some great Christmas wallpapers.

Thanks to Smashing Magazine.

Free tree seeds on our freebies page today.  http://snazzywin.com

Subway is offering a FREE Subway Kid’s Meal when you buy your kids a healthy subway kid’s meal.  There are four different choices for the bag, all with beautiful animals, and they benefit the World Wildlife Federation with Subway donations- and they are good for the environment.  Subway’s Fresh Fit for Kids meals come with a healthy sandwich, apple slices, and 1% milk, for a healthy and satisfying lunch that is good for your child’s health!

Click her for more information on Subway Kids

Found this teeny tiny tree at Food Church today..and the greatest thing about it is…after a month or so, we get to eat that stale string of unflavored popcorn! MMM!

ok second post of the day..

a couple of weeks ago i saw a promotion on gmtv for free virgin vie lipgloss and thought i’d let you guys know (uk only)- you just pay the £2.50 for delivery.. you can officially only order one product, but if you create more than one account you can get as many as you want all for £2.50 each.. really good for christmas presents/ stocking fillers/ things for you : D

check it out here..

http://www.vieathome.com/essentials/

There are plenty online TV listing services that detail what programs are showing in your area. Then again, you probably don’t care what’s on every single channel. Create a person

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FreeGuide grabs data on only the channels you’re interested in and displays them in a list or grid format. You enter your region, ZIP code, and time zone while setting up the software, as well as whether you’ll be using a free or paid channel listing guide, and FreeGuide sets up your personalized listing window. You can search for shows by channel, time, title, or sub-title, and highlight favorites so you can find them quickly in listings in the future.

FreeGuide is available as a free download for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. It requires at least the Java 2 Runtime Environment v1.6 or higher to work, and Mac users will also need to grab XMLTV

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Xmas 2009 is fast approaching and I have a whole host of goodies to giveaway.  Everything on the list below is FREE, no hidden charges, no postage, completely GRATIS!  That’s right, I’m offering to give you something for free AND pay for the postage!  Am I going crazy?  Possibly…but wait up, because there is method to my madness.  I want to raise some much needed money for The Stroke Association, and so this is my idea…YOU get some goodies to keep, or give as Xmas pressies, FREE!  All I ask is that IF YOU CAN, pop along to The Stroke Association donation webpage (see below) and donate WHATEVER YOU CAN.  It could be 50p or £50, it is whatever you can afford.  No guilt trips, no begging, just an honest request from me to you to help raise some money to fight the third biggest killer in the UK.  If you do donate, and feel like sharing the amount with me, I will double it.  THAT’S RIGHT…I will double the amount you donate.

So come on…let’s make Xmas truly great.  Take a gander at the list below.  Some of the items are productions I have worked on, or are by friends, or are just items I no longer want/need.  Everything works and is in good-mint condition.  You can pick up to 3 items, and the first to get in touch is the one who gets the goods.  If one of your items has already gone I will get in touch to see if you would like something else.

To claim your FREE goodies simply email the items you want to me at thebigpair@googlemail.com

The quicker you are the more chance you have of getting what you want, and the more chance I can post it to you in time for Xmas!

THIS IS NOT AN AUCTION…the first to ask for something is the first to get it!  I am asking for NO MONEY from you.  But please, do consider donating whatever you can to The Stroke Association.

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If you would like to help find a cure for stroke, and fund help for those suffering from stroke, please consider donating what you can to THE STROKE ASSOCIATION:

CLICK HERE TO DONATE

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So here’s the, rather long, list of goodies…good luck!  And don’t forget, if you do donate, let me know how much so I can double the amount.  I’ll then reveal the total amount donated at Xmas…my deepest thanks in advance

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TIP OF THE DAY:

Good news for those of you who wanted to catch the Mary A. Hall presentation on Healing With the Masters, but didn’t make it in time. Due to popular demand, host Jennifer McLean has re-posted it (this is the second time for re-posting!), but just through midnight tonight (Sunday), so take advantage of this situation while you can. You can also access the replay of Marci Shimoff’s Happy For No Reason presentation through the same link. This is a great way to start off the rest of the holiday season!

REPLAY: http://www.healingwiththemasters.com/audio.htm

Enjoy, “Zippy”

www.allonetogether.com

TONS of FREE MP3s from Amazon.com & more new free stuff on our freebies page http://snazzywin.com

As a way to promote Twitter on Xbox 360, Microsoft have provided a free avatar item for Final Fantasy XIII. They asked the community to tweet and tweet on the subject until… a Chocobo was revealed.

All the tweeting has been done so now all you need to do is visit the necessary webpage click Register Now and fill in all the necessary gumpf.  The items will be sent out mid-December.

Here’s a preview of what you might get:

Greetings World:

  We’ve started a website called, www.BuzzIt.TV that’s designed to give you what you want, what you need and help you get where you’re going, all on one page.

  Yes, it’s a lot of information at your fingertips all on one page. But, if you take a minute to look around, I think you’ll see what I mean.

  For example: Thinking about going to a movie? Click “Local Movie Times & Reviews”. You’ll be able to find local movie times, buy tickets and even watch trailers and read reviews.

  Yes, lots of sites have that. However, that is just a very small part of what www.BuzzIt.TV is all about.

  Now, just try to think of anything you’d like to have delivered, what’s on TV, where should I go on vacation, what’s happening in the news, what’s the weather forecast. You name it. We have it at www.BuzzIt.TV

  We have live streaming news from every reliable source!

  Plus, our site gives you FREE access to our FREE CLASSIFIEDS. Go ahead and sell some of that junk in the basement and make some money!

  You say you want to go shopping? Get out of here. We’ve got thousands upon thousands of items listed. And we’ve scoured the internet to get you the best prices available.

I’m not sure if you’ve ever had a look at the prices on some non-stock photography sites (pictures of Gummy bears for $769.00 anyone?), but they reach far beyond the budget of the typical designer/developer. However, many places online allow you to obtain high-quality stock photos for free, giving the average starving artist a chance to create wonderful works of art/design without having to use next month’s rent on stock photos.

Dedicated free stock photo sites

1. stock.xchng

stock.xchng is all free, all the time. Their advanced search is only basic by paid site standards, but hey, did I mention that the service is free? They have over 350,000 images contributed by 30,000 photographers. The one downside to getting photos from stock.xchng is that they’re quite well known, so designers may find that the smaller subset of quality images on site are quite heavily used in many other places, making it difficult to be original. Stock.xchng is a Hungarian site and was founded in 2001.

one of the most popular paid stock photo sites – iStockphoto, sponsors them. There’s a good selection of illustrations and vectors for free on stock.xchng, which you just don’t get with the big free sites.

Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers

2. Freerange Stock

Their admirable goal is to provide stock photography for both commercial and non-commercial use, for free. They give away their collections with the hope that they are useful and enjoyed.

A small team of in-house professional photographers supplies the photos in the site. After each upload, the color and image is sharpened and they are keyword-tagged by professional photographers. This is a great place to get high impact and good looking pictures, but the focus is on quality, not quantity so the collection isn’t as big as other sites.

Aimed at: all creatives, most pictures are reasonable resolution

3. Morguefile

Morguefile is for creatives, by creatives. It started in 1996 and is highly recommended by many web design and development professionals. Morguefile currently contains 9,148 pages at 24 photos each page, and the photos are very good resolution. It’s called “morguefile” in reference to the term used for a place to keep postproduction creative materials.

The photos are mostly great quality, and you can filter your results by several characteristics, which is handy. Keyword tagging is relatively basic, with between five and fifteen tags per photo, so use a few terms to search. If you use a photo from Morguefile, you’re asked to credit the photographer when possible. The site can be a bit slow to load sometimes.

Aimed at: Illustrators, artists, designers, teachers and all other creative pursuits, according to the home page

4. Pixel Perfect Digital

The name is certainly not misplaced as the pictures on the site are quite polished, especially the illustrations. There are around 7,500 images on site currently.

The photos, although quite small in number, look good and have been post processed by professionals. Each photo has an accompanying short story, which can be quite handy, and certainly endearing! You can either browse categories or use the very basic search facility.

Aimed at: Both web design and print designers (photo resolution is usually excellent)

5. Free Media Goo

Free Media Goo has a memorable name for a not-so-memorable site; it certainly has some good features, but is more a niche search engine. The site was created by web developers for web developers, hence the presence of free Flash and audio as well as stock photos.

Alongside free stock photos, the site also has free textures, audio and Flash movies. Unfortunately, the collection is tiny and many photos are a bit amateurish.

Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers

6. openphoto.net

openphoto.net has been collecting free photos since 1998, with contributors from all over the world. Many people use it is a photoblog site, so you might find many Flickr-style personal shots.

Search is extremely simple (keyword only), but you do have the option to browse categories to find images (which is probably the easiest way). Keyword tagging is very basic on the site and in many cases, a photo has only one tag. Unless your search is quite literal, you are better off browsing the categories of openphoto.net. Almost all photos have a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

Aimed at: Web designers and developers – images are often too low resolution for many print jobs.

7. Flickr

Flickr is one of the largest online photo sharing sites on the web. There’s an enormous mix of complete amateur pictures and professional photographer images. The admin team at Flickr numbers almost 50, and the site was recently purchased by Yahoo! so a great group of folks manages it.

Use the Advanced Search and check the ‘Creative Commons licensed’ box to find pictures that can be used in your web design and development. The site has excellent tagging so it’s quite easy to find images under the subject that you’re interested.

Aimed at: web design and development professionals because most of the photos featured on the site have too low of a resolution for print design work

8. Stockvault

A reasonable sized collection of quite good photos is available at Stockvault. They have just over 16,000 stock photos from 4,000 photographers. All images are licensed under a Creative Commons attribution license. The site began as the personal site of Bjorgvin Gudmundsson in 2001.

Keyword tagging is quite basic, so explore the site with both the search option and the categories. The resolution is what most ordinary stock photo sites would call “small to medium”. You can download pictures, logo templates, clip art, textures and backgrounds without signing up on the site. Stockvault has a nicer and friendlier user interface than many stock photo sites.

Aimed at: mostly web designers

9. NASA

Yes, this image site is ‘the’ NASA. All photos are space themed, but the collection is large and the photos are very professional.

Keyword tagging is good and the resolution is invariably 640px x 480px, so they’re not ideal for print design. Many of the shots are better as textures/repeating background than actual pictures. The size of the collection is substantially increased by checking the external collections.

Aimed at: People interested in space exploration, but useful for web designers looking for textures or space themed shots

10. deviantART’s Stock Images section

deviantART is a popular website for digital and traditional media artists to showcase their work. They have a great stock photography section on site. deviantART is a big site, with a big team and big ideas. The site is full of personality, as the name suggests.

The images are gorgeous, image resolution is enormous, you can download without registering anywhere, oh, and did I mention that the images are gorgeous?

Aimed at: Artists, print designers, and web designers.

Free stock photo search engine

11. Everystockphoto

It was only a matter of time before someone found a way to aggregate free stock photo results and monetize the concept somehow, and that’s what Everystockphoto does. There are a huge number of pictures indexed on this site, numbering in the millions. For example, there’s over 67,000 results for the search term “clouds“.

You can search free stock photos from Morguefile, Freerange Stock, Photoxpress, Flickr, stock.xchn, NASA, Wikimedia Commons and more, in a single site. They have good sorting and filtering options to help you find the perfect photo, but not heaps of search options, though. You may be able to search all the different sites here, but you still have to sign up for accounts on the site that hosts the image.

Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers

12. Creative Commons Search

The Creative Commons Search finds images through Google and Yahoo, Flickr, Blip.tv, jamendo SpinExpress and Wikimedia Commons. Probably the largest collection of free images in one place but beware, some search results may not be Creative Commons so do your homework before using a photo.

You can search for a single term across quite a few different media quickly. You can refine your results by commercial use and modification allowances. You have access to each site’s own search features instantly, but have to log in to download the image in some cases.

Aimed at: Web designers and web developers, illustrators, print designers

Free areas in paid sites

13. Dreamstime’s Free Section

Dreamstime has one of the largest libraries of stock photos on the net. At the time of writing, they have just under 7 million images, and just under 80,000 contributing photographers. In order to stand out among the huge crowd, Dreamstime photographers often put their photos in the free section of the site. A search for house, for example, yields 26 pages of 20 results each. The site has been online since 2000.

Most free photos require no attribution to the photographer in your design. Photos at Dreamstime remain on the site indefinitely. Unfortunately, you can only search photos by keyword; there are no advanced search filters like orientation, color or model options, etc.

Aimed at: Web and print designers

14. Fotolia’s Free Section

Fotolia is one of the oldest stock photo sites on the net. Their free section is quite good, but changes every day and the free photos that were there yesterday, may not be there the next. Fotolia has an office in France and their global headquarters in New York.

They offer ten to twenty free photos every day. If you have the time to download and tag all of them every day, you could build quite a library of photos. You won’t find isolated shots, and photos are frequently just a tiny bit lower quality than you’d pay for.

Aimed at: Fotolia in general has photos, illustrations, vectors and videos for download for many digital media professions

15. iStockphoto’s Free Images

iStockphoto is one of the most popular stock photo sites on the net, with excellent quality photos that are often Photoshop’ed to within an inch of their lives already (which is either a good or bad thing). iStockphoto has a responsive helpdesk and a comprehensive FAQ.

They only offer one free image a week, but it is always high quality. Free images from the last three weeks are kept available for download. Similar to Fotolia, you’ll have to make it a habit to download and tag these photos yourself so you can search them on your own computer.



Boca Surprise Meatless House Party- The gang is in for a great night of fun, games, recipe sharing, fabulous food,
and of course, surprises that everyone will enjoy.
http://www.freakyfreddies.com

TIP OF THE DAY:

There is going to be a special show premiering on PBS Nov. 27 – Dec. 10 with Michael Bernard Beckwith. Beckwith explores and celebrates “heart sets” and mindsets for self-discovery, and his unwavering conviction about creating a world that works for everyone is contagious and encouraging.

Find your local air dates, video clips, music and much more at the link that follows. You can also sign up for a free chapter from his new book The Answer Is You and to receive daily inspirational messages.

 http://www.the-answer-is-you.com.

Enjoy,

“Zippy”

www.allonetogether.com

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Hey guys and galls out there! I found this really cool site called Lockerz! This place is invite only so if you want one for the coolest place just email me at simpsonsfan1995@sbcglobal.net and leave you email (this is 100% safe once I send the invite I’ll delete your email).

Lockerz is a FREE online place where you can win ptz (points) by doing polls, logging in each day, inviting people, and when you first sign up play a game (this is one time only). With your Lockerz points you can now redeem them for off the hook prizes! Just click one of the categories.

You can redeem for stuff like; computers, iPods, skins, DVD’s, games, gaming systems, e-gift cards, shirts, watches and much much more! Now if you want to see what people have won look at the YouTube videos below.

So if you guys want an invite email me at simpsonsfan1995@sbcglobal.net and send me your email address.

I love to make things from scratch for the holidays, and with the holidays upon us, I am off to the store to buy all the ingredients I will need to bake my ass off again this year. Much of it will be shipped to friends and family across the country, some of it will be offered as gifts to our new friends in our new home. As it turns out, the phrase “from scratch” also applies to my love life. I’ve got a fresh start here and I can pick and choose my own ingredients for whatever recipe for love I decide to cook up!

The dream recipe for my guy has taken years to perfect (in my mind). He’s around 5″11, beautiful smile, strong features, and amazing hands that fit perfectly in mine. He’s usually bald, or salt and pepper, little dimples, and it matters little what he does for a living or what his body type is, because when I am with him, the whole universe evaporates anyway. I am safe and warm and I fantasize (see my blog Destiny—- from August 2009) he is the one I run into in my new downtown on December 15th. He’s the guy that will pick up my bags as I clumsily drop them enroute to my car (or something like that!).

But in all actuality, what if he’s not there? What if I have to continue to bake this dream, define it, test it in the kitchen before I can offer it to someone else wrapped up with love along with all the other homemade confections? As I “cook up” this fantasy of finding my dream man in the beautifully decorated streets of my town, what if he’s still in the oven? What if he’s still friggin married, separated or recently widowed? Crap, what chance do I have then? My warm, chewy, delicious gingerbread man, isn’t running down the street away from the little old woman looking for his wonderful new woman, he’s still laying on the cookie sheet in a toasty 350 degree oven…..wait for it….. getting crispy and perfect without ME! But, but, I’m ready NOW! Out of the oven, dammit, I’ve waiting long enough to frost your cute little face!

Baking is an art. Finding the love of your life is evidently a culinary art of its’ own. You don’t just throw some flour and sugar and a couple of large Grade A eggs into a bowl, mix for 4 minutes or until smooth, and roll it all into Mr. Perfect! Even on my best baking day, I couldn’t pull THAT off! It’d be nice… but that’s another blog entirely…

I’m going to bake this year. And as the eternal optimist I am going to be on that square on December 15th. I will look fabulous – for me. I’ve accomplished all I’ve ever wanted so far in life and being here only solidifies my certainty that I will very soon fufill the rest of my dreams. Of course they include my dream man, but I’ve been “baking” long enough to know that even if I am “done”, he might not be. He might need some more time in the oven so to speak. He might need to catch up with me, like the gingerbread man in the book begging all to join in the chase for the elusive warm cookie.

My melt in my mouth moment has already happened. I am living it every day of my life. I savor in every bite, enjoy the flavor, and go back for seconds, just because my life is sooo delicious right now!

I’m going to look for love – from scratch this time. I love the possibilities it offers. Like a recipe, I will try to follow the directions, I’ll put alot of love into the bowl of life, and hopefully if it all makes its’ way into the oven and I time it just right, the end result will be a perfectly baked love – from scratch!

I am exactly the girl I knew I would be when I was five. The trick is finding the guy who makes this cookie feel “whole” and frosted from head to toe – with love. I pray for all my readers to find the “sweet love” of their life!

Love,

Mel

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Is there a specialized mantra for this sort of thing?  Cause I would love to get me one of these things!