awwwww.......

 

now back to work....

Where I'm at the local library has a somewhat extensive collection of native american tribes an associations. If you want I can look up some info and forward it thru this thread. There is a list of all the native tribes and I tell you...I never thought there were that many. Literally thousands. Just want to contribute in some way.

Can i put my 2 cent's in......

 

The wall need to be a darker shade or a bit browner for some contrast......

 

Look great.......... it's going to be a keeper

Its not a wall Robbie just a large texture to cut bits from if needed.... part of the PSD.

No, I got it right, I'd rather be skinning than doing my day job.

I THINK I would rather be skinning than doing my day job, but if my day job consisted of skinning, I fear it would become the same burden that my day job is, and that would be a pity.  

However, I think what vStyler means by "real life" is the family/social/activities of daily living that his skinning is getting in the way of.  To those of us with day jobs, or at least from my perspective, my day job AND my real life get in the way of my skinning.  Juggling commitments to my employer, my family and myself is a puzzle I have yet to figure out.

So...here's an update one what I have so far.  I'm having trouble slicing up the start menu and importing it into SKS6 so that the drop shadow doesn't turn into an ugly black mess surrounding the outside of the menu.  I've got an awesome start menu animation with the feathers blowing in a slight breeze, but it looks like crap, because of the black ooze around the start menu right now...stuff for me to beg vStyler's help on.

Looks great Karen. Sorry if my suggestion offended....I kinda like Dream Catchers and Buffalo. 

You didn't offend me (I had German immigrant grandparents who were doing everything they could to fit in with their surroundings, and my paternal grandparents were Dutch, but they were something like fourth generation, so there wasn't any real culture there...I grew up white bread).  I just know from visiting my father-in-law and from stories Brian tells me, you have to be really careful when trying to honor a different culture than you are, because you're viewed as an outsider, a poser, a total noob, and there's nothing those within the American Indian Movement love to moch so much as an outsider.  Brian took a LOT of harassment from both sides of his family, being as he was a half breed (Cher did not put enough eloquence in that song to cover it).

Lookin great so far!

Make sure you have the blur feature turned off on ALL parts of the start panel........see if that helps

Wow Karen! This looks awesome so far!

vStyler came to the rescue.  I didn't have semi-transparency turned on in the start menu.  And I got the start menu animation going!!!    It's so EXCITING!

Definitely want to watch the progress on this one. great idea

Latest changes....

Karen, it looks great....maybe a shade lighter to make the print stand out more for the old Washitu enhesse vlekcv (sorry, mixing Lakota and Creek...yeah, corny but it's all Creek to me). 

I'm disappointed you didn't mix in some Yiddish along with all that. 

Looking great! It's coming together nicely.

My Hebrew is better than my Yiddish and Ladino.

בבקשה, מותק....תבהירי את תפרית ההתחלה.

GAH!!!  I'm not even going to attempt that.  Cherokee is easier (interesting bit of trivia -- the word "Cherokee" is a Creek word, which means "of a different language.")

Karen, did I tell you that I grew up in Bristol, Tn.  and had a friend up the street named Karen Lowe? 

You might have...a lot of people tell me that know somebody named Karen Lowe.  It's rather a relief to have a fairly common last name.  When I was married to my first husband (17 years), my name was Karen Keach, and when I was unmarried (21 years) my name was Karen Kwekkeboom (pronounced QUEK-a-boom).  Lowe isn't as common a name as I THOUGHT I was going to have.  Before I met my husband, I had this on-again/off-again sometimes live-in relationship with this scummy little drunk with the last name of Porter, who said he wanted to marry me, but after I caught him red-handedly cheating on me, he tried to "make it up to me" by taking me to this little whole in the wall bar in Gulfport, Mississippi, and they just happened to have hired a new bartender that night...Brian Lowe.  I'm not going to say it was love at first sight, but it was powerful, and the door of opportunity closed on that Porter fellow.

Well...I bet THAT'S a lot more than you wanted to know, isn't it?

Kwekkeboom......wow!  If your middle name was Kathy....KKK!!!  

My cousin, Clive, married a Karen Lowe... here in Queensland Oz... a darned banker.

 

BTW, One Tribe is coming along great.... looking forward to the finished item.

I think I'm to the point where I will need some beta testers.  I've skinned everything that I know how (even some I didnt know how with a little help from my friends), and made a Vista substyle.  Those of you willing, please download this and give me some feedback/let me know if there are any problems I need to correct.  http://www.mediafire.com/?w1zjnznzorg

Is that Vista too?