All this week I have been thinking about how much detail is involved in the way the Lord dressed our earth and everything in it and beyond it.  When I found the word "Prink" in the dictionary one day, and read that it meant "to dress for show, preen," I couldn't help but think of that being what a designer does, then prints it, and tries to bring it to a place of usefulness or share it in a place which displays its beauty.  God is the author of that.  And I love being a part of his creative spirit. But in this great scheme of things, there comes a time when things need to be revived. That is as much a part of the natural way God created things as new design is.  Revival, Renewal, Re-enlightenment, and Restoration are a part of the cycle of life. It is time that our nation seeks it, that our families seek it, and our churches seek it. The commitments of our forefathers and the dreams of our youth need to be revisited, and the truths of prosperity need to be revitalized. All of the things that make our lives continue on means that we must revisit them and somehow address their needs to be dressed up when they begin to look shabby.  Why do we always get so gloomy when we see the need?  We don't mind buying new clothes, or new food, or going on new vacations. Our world needs some Prinking. Like a bird preening feathers after the rains, we need a resituation everyday of our lives in some way. Let's get "prinking!"
My prayer is that the Lord will abundantly provide. AMEN

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In my newest learning endeavors, I have been playing with creating brushes and patterns for Gimp projects.  Funny how some things have become so second hand easy, and others still don't click.  Not that it's hard, but that I can't keep the correct sequence in my mind to get the desired results.  But practice makes perfect.  I decided to make a file into which i just put the stuff I was playing with, and I went ahead and made a brush or pattern file that I can take to the gimp files when I need them, instead of just filling up the dialoge boxes with something I might not use often.  This way I can copy them over long enough to use them and delete them when I am not.  I get tired of the same old swirls and curves so I ususallly make fresh ones these days anyway.  But the grungies and scratches, smears and blobs take time to get good results, so it's best to have a variety of them made which are large enough to move them about and use only parts of them.  I discovered that I can use only parts of curls and swirls too to cast shadows and erase out swaths of color.


 

This is a disconnected set of curls,
connect them and they become lace.



I love ceating my own Capital cursive letters.
Roughing them up a bit using several filters and
brushes enhances them.



I designed various settings and styles of this potential brush. 
Filling it with a marble pattern already available in my gimp
patterns gives me a cool look without having to create the pattern.