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Saturday night I watched the whole 4hours of Pangea Day live online.

I wasn’t sure if I would watch all of it… Usually I am browsing around online while doing other things but not this time, I was totally hooked!

What is Pangea Day? Well Pangea was the big continent of the world before it split up all those millions of years ago. You know… when Africa was attached to Europe and Europe was attached to the U.S… or something like that anyway!

So basically Pangea day is the day when the world comes together. To understand that we are not so different after all… They were broadcasting live from multiple places - U.S, U.K, Egypt, India and more so it really did bring the world together for a few hours.
There were lots of videos and people talking… all really rather amazing. It’s certainly opened my mind.

Videos and talks included an ex child soldier, soldiers of Iraq and Palestine meeting each other (with no weapons!) and realising war is not the way. A look at planet earth from a different point… Plus so so so much more.

All of the videos and an hour of the show are availabe at the Pangea Day website if you are interested… or even if you are not interested… I think everyone should watch a few minutes if not longer just to see if it opens your eyes.

I have started a new blog project - Creative Artists Blog. I know, I know another “website”… I just can’t help myself!! So that’s… 4.5 sites now. The .5 coming from the half completed but not live photography gallery site.

Anyway… the new blog is for me to be able to feature talented artists/photographers work that I find on my travels through Zazzle and Redbubble. It’s all very well for me to add them to my favorites and say “I love that!” but I want to actually be able to share my finds - For other people to see how amazingly creative and talented these people are.

It will also be where I share my photography news… post my latest pics so if you like to see my photography that’s usually posted here please head over to the creative artists blog so you won’t miss anything!

In time I also plan to do interviews with selected people, a little peek into there creative lives… These will be the people who’s galleries I look at and love everything, where choosing 1 favorite is impossible!

If you are on zazzle or redbubble or even greeting card universe and want to have your work featured just drop me a note in the comments and I’ll take a look at your gallery/work

I found a site whilst browsing redbubble (thankyou yanmos!) that helps with the copyright issues us website owners / photographers / creative people have. You know… with people thinking everything they see online they can use.

I don’t want people to use my work unless they have paid to do so through the stockphoto sites I belong to but at the same time I want my work available at zazzle, redbubble and to be able to post new pics on my blog.

Here’s a snippet from the myfreecopyright website -

“MyFreeCopyright.com provides a third-party, not-repudiation, registered dating of your original digital creation. By using this service, you publicly associate your digital copyright and defined rights to you.”

Basically what you do is submit your website url or upload your work whether that’s a photo or poem or whatever and you get an email with the date/time registered so you can “prove” it’s your work.

So I know some people are still going to take my photos or use my content but this might help deter them.

From past experience myspace is the place I have had most trouble with people taking my card images and using them in people comments and as profile pics etc but that’s another story and mostly fixed now!

My darling Charlie cat (aka pursey) died Wednesday evening

She was 15 and a half, all very peaceful… I was stroking her paws til the end.

Miss her so much though… Just trying to plod on at the moment. Feel a little lost without her… can’t get used to her not walking in the front door again

RIP Charlie babes.

A new greeting card now available at Emelegifts!

A hand drawn peacock feather all occasion card… Perfect for sending to a friend who loves peacocks or to keep for yourself and frame as a stunning art piece.

Only 1 available at the moment.

Peacock Feather Card - $4.50

I discovered the TED website through the 16 steps webinar / course that I’m doing.

Basically TED is full of videos of presentations/talks that people have done at the yearly event. The tagline of TED is “Ideas Worth Spreading” and the website is summed up with “Inspired Talks by the World’s Greatest Thinkers and Doers.”
It’s an amazing place… something for everyone whether you are an artist, scientist or a techy geek Very inspiring, so glad I found it! Think this site will be my haven when I loose my inspiration or just need a little push to get going again