A friend of fellow deviant ~princxtanya is currently in 2nd place in a singing competition!  If he comes in 1st place he will get the chance to sing on national television!  He is so close to coming in 1st place!  And there are only 8 hours left to vote!  

Voting is super easy!  You don't have to log in to anything or sign up for anything!

You just click this [link]  Scroll down the page until you see the blue button that says "Vote For This Video" Just answer the simple math question next to the video and click "Vote For This Video" And that's it!  

Thank you so much for your help!!!!!

I know I haven't updated my journal in a few weeks.  I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here!  I'm just busy!  I've still been uploading photos every day!  I'm so behind on my watchlist though!  Every time I start to catch up, something comes up and I get behind again.  Oh well, I'll eventually get around to seeing everything you guys have been posting, I promise!  I've mostly been working on editing the engagement photos I took for my friends!  I'm seeing them this weekend to give them their pics!  I hope they like them!  I had such a fantastic time taking their pics, that I am considering starting my own wedding photography business!  So we'll see how that goes!

Thanks for reading my journal X3

As many of you know, I am an Independent Scentsy Consultant.  This means I sell Scentsy scented candle warmers.  Scentsy warmers are a safer alternative to scented candles! Scentsy's decorative ceramic warmers melt scented wax with the heat of a light bulb instead of a traditional wick and flame!  The warmers are safe to be left on for 24 hours a day!  They are non-toxic and don't pose a fire hazard!  Plus, they smell amazing!!!!  Besides the scented candle warmers, I also sell other scented products like soaps, perfumes, room sprays, lotions... even stuffed animals!  I have had nothing but great experiences with Scentsy!  I absolutely love it!  I've been making great money and having lots of fun!  

Well, I have some very exciting Scentsy related news!!!  Scentsy is giving away free all-inclusive trips to Cancun to 200 of their consultants!!!!!!  

That's right!  200 Scentsy consultants will win an all-inclusive 5 day/4 night stay at the Moon Palace Resort in Cancun, Mexico! The trip includes all food, drinks, air transportation and baggage fees, and transportation to and from the hotel!  

So how can you win one of these trips?  

Well, first you need to Join My Team and become a Scentsy Consultant!  [link]  Being a Scentsy Consultant is very rewarding!  You get to be your own boss and work your own hours!  You can make it a full time career, or just a fun way to make some extra cash while you're in school, retired, working as a stay at home parent, or just for extra income in addition to your regular job!  You can make sales by having parties, or online with your Scentsy website!  When you join, you get a Starter Kit for $99.  This kit contains everything you need to start your business!  In just a couple months after joining Scentsy, I earned back that $99 with sales!  And that was just from online sales from my website... not even any party sales!  For more information on becoming a Scentsy Consultant, check out my website [link]  

Once you've joined my team, you can start earning points towards your free trip to Cancun!  Between May 1, 2013 and July 31, 2013, you earn points for things like making sales, attending events, and more!  The more points you earn, the closer you are to that Cancun trip!!!!  

If you're thinking about joining Scentsy and interested in winning free trips, but aren't able to join before July 31st, don't worry!  Scentsy gives away tons of free trips to consultants several times a year!  Trips to places like Hawaii, Costa Rica, New York City, Las Vegas, and Disney World!!  So if you're considering joining Scentsy, there will be tons of opportunities for you to earn free trips!  

Now, this particular free trip to Cancun promotion is only for Scentsy Consultants that live in the US and Canada.  But don't worry, Scentsy takes care of their consultants that live all over the world!  Scentsy consultants that live in other countries have plenty of opportunities to earn free trips as well!  

If you have any questions regarding Scentsy or this free trip promotion, feel free to ask!  And if you're not at all interested in this for yourself, but you'd like to help me earn the trip, you can do so by shopping in my Scentsy store [link]  


In the meantime, enjoy these beautiful Cancun features:

                                                                   

1. For each of the 10 first people answering this journal, I will put their avatar and the three deviations I like most from their gallery on the list! If you, anyway, would like to suggest your own deviations, feel free to do it.

2. If you answer, you have to do the same in your journal, putting the tagger on the first place. The idea of this is not simply getting a free feature, but spreading art around for everyone!


Features:

1. *DareDreemer

   


2. *painting-with-light

   


3. ~phunkprincesxxx

   


4. ~xxangelkittycatxx

   


5.   ~ilNeofita

   


6.   *charcoal1carly

   


7.   ~scream619

   


8.   ~metalmeister5582

   


9.   ~endlessimpossibility

   


10. *StripeKitten

   

=Dyaniart is giving away 850 points

Follow this [link] for details!  

You have till April 28th to enter!

Good luck!

So exciting news!  I've joined the Team over at *birthdays!  For those of you that don't know, *birthdays is the unofficial deviantART birthday database!  

You can view the birthday database here [link] and see what other dA users have the same birthday as you or see what dA users have a birthday today!

If you would like to add your birthday to the database, just follow the directions at *birthdays!

You can also get a birthday countdown badge for your dA profile that looks like:



Anyway, yeah, awhile back *birthdays was looking to add new volunteers to their staff, so I applied!  And I guess they liked my application because they offered me the position!  I'm pretty excited!

In other exciting news, my good friend ~MrsChibi got engaged yesterday!!!!!!!!!! Her fiancé ~D1G1T4LP1R4T3 put the ring in a box decorated to look like the Tardis, and inside the box it said "Be My Companion"!  How adorably awesome is that?!  So yeah, I'm super excited and happy for them!

Gallery | RagnART | +Watch ME | Note ME

Today is my husband's birthday!!!!  We did presents last night!  And we went and spent some time with his family last night.  His brother is home from the Army for a few days, so it was good to see him!  Haha, we did not do cake however because my husband is a weirdo who hates cake (and all things sweet!)  

I took my dogs to the vet yesterday.  My pug Fernando has a luxated lens in one of his eyes.  It means that his lens has been displaced in his eye.  They checked him for glaucoma, but his eye pressure is completely normal.  So the vet just said to keep an eye on the eye and take him back in if anything changes.  Poor little guy.  But he was such a good sport at the vet!  He just sat there calmly while the vet poked his eyes.  She was very impressed with him!  

My sister-in-law is moving to Chicago next month.  And my brother and his girlfriend are moving to Chicago this summer.  So my husband and I agreed that we will need to be visiting Chicago in the near future since we will both have siblings living there!  And since my husband and I both hate cold weather, we also agreed that we will not be visiting them in the winter!  So yeah, I'm excited!  I've never been to Chicago!  We'll probably be going next spring/summer!

So I used the AMC Walking Dead "Dead Yourself" app to turn my dogs into zombies!  The results were pretty creepy!

   


I hope everyone had a good St Patrick's Day!  I didn't really do anything.  It was a quiet holiday!  We had some friends over and watched some movies.

I spent much of today printing and framing photos!  I have tons of empty picture frames lying around and lots of empty wall space!  So I'm doing what I can to fix that!  


So here's what I've been ing lately:



                                   

I just booked a Disney Cruise for September!!!!  

My husband and I will be celebrating our 1 year anniversary on a cruise to the Bahamas on the Disney Dream!!!!

This will be our 2nd Disney cruise (or any cruise for that matter!)  We went on a cruise to the Caribbean on the Fantasy last September for our honeymoon!

I am super excited!!!!  I can't wait for September!!!

So if you read my last journal entry, you'd know that the transmission quit working on my husband's car.  And that it was going to cost more to fix his car than his car is worth.

Well, over the weekend we bought a new car!  Yup, that's right!  Not a used car, but a brand new shiny 2013 car!  Neither of us have ever owned a new car before, so it's pretty exciting!  Plus, he was driving a 2000 model car, and I was driving a 2002 model car.  So it's really nice having a car with brand-new technology... like bluetooth and voice commands!  Hell, I'm just happy I have a car I can play my iPod in!    

Anyway, we got a 2013 Ford Focus.  It's black.  We worked with a fantastic salesperson (a close friend of my family) who got us a really great deal!  

For day-to-day use, I'm driving the new car and my husband is driving my old car.  He only has a short drive to work and back, where as my job has me driving back and forth all over town each day.  But when we have errands to run or whatever, we take the new car.  And we fight over who gets to drive the new car!  

And we're really excited about taking the hour and a half drive to Greenville next weekend to go see for her birthday!!!  

Now that we have a new car, we're planning on taking some more day-trips and weekend trips here and there now that we don't have to worry about our cars breaking down on us hours away from home!  

The car came with 6 free months of Sirius satellite radio, so I've been enjoying my 80's on 8!  

Anyway, here's some pictures of the new car (and us in front of the new car) we took at the dealership:

   

It's been a pretty stressful past few days.

First, my husband's car stopped being able to reverse.  So we took it to a mechanic.  He said that to fix the transmission it's going to cost more than the car is worth.  

So now we're looking to buy a new car.  So we went to our credit union to apply for a car loan.  We were denied because I owe my doctor money from a visit in 2009 that went to a collection agency.  I remember owing around $100 to my doctor back in 2009.  And I paid of half the balance, so I only owe around $50 now.  And I remember going to my doctor back in 2009 on pay day to pay off the remaining balance I owe, and the doctor's office told me that my balance was paid in full and I didn't owe anything at all.  My dad was there with me that day, and he said he remembers them telling me that.  

So after we got denied for the loan, I went and logged into my account on my doctor's website... and sure enough, it says I still owe that $50 from 2009.    So now I'm in the process of sorting that out with my doctor to get it off my credit report so that we can get the damn car loan.

In the meantime, we thought we'd go to a car dealership to start looking at cars.  

Where we had a pushy, sneaky salesman tell us that the car we were considering is actually $15,000 more than it actually is.  (It's not.  We checked with another salesperson at the dealership.)  So he then tried to convince us to buy something we absolutely did not want.  And then he kept us at the dealership "working" with him for hours and hours so that we'd be mentally and physically exhausted when we left (and that it'd be too late) to go to a different dealership to look.  

And in the meantime, my husband is driving a car that he has to put in neutral and physically push in and out of parking spaces because the car won't reverse.  

So yeah, hopefully we can get the credit situation fixed soon.  And hopefully we won't have to deal with any more shady salespeople.  And we can get a new car soon.



Skin by =IamRinoaHeartilly

As many of you know, I work as a Scentsy Independent Consultant.  Meaning I sell Scentsy Warmers (and other Scentsy products like scented plushies, as well as scented bath and body products!)  Scentsy Warmers are a safer alternative to scented candles.  The decorative ceramic warmers heat scented wax using a low-watt lightbulb so they don't pose a fire hazard like candles do!    


The Special Olympics World Winter Games kicked off yesterday in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Well, Scentsy is supporting these amazing athletes with their current Charitable Cause Warmer- Champion.





For every Champion Warmer sold through February 28, 2013, Scentsy will donate $8 to Special Olympics International.

Additionally, for every Champion Warmer sold during the Special Olympics Winter Games, Jan. 29 through Feb. 5, Scentsy will gift a Champion Warmer to an athlete on Special Olympics Team USA or Special Olympics Team Canada, until every athlete receives one.

You can help support the Special Olympics by purchasing this warmer here [link]

So as some of you may or may not know, I collect Disney Vinylmation Figures.  Well, I've recently created a Flickr account exclusively for my Vinylmation Photography.  Most of what I post on that account will also end up in my dA gallery, but if you're on Flickr and you want to follow me, my account is [link]


And if you're not sure what Vinylmations are, here are some Vinylmation features to give you an idea:

                       

And here are some awesome Custom Vinylmations:

               

So I use AT&T U-Verse for my cable and internet.  And as many of you may already know, there was a major U-Verse outage this week affecting many states in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the US!  

Well, we were affected by the outage in my house.  We lost our cable and internet early yesterday morning.

It was finally restored around 10:30pm last night.  So we pretty much went all day without tv or internet!  

But it's fixed now, so yay!  And AT&T said they'd give us a credit on our bill for the period we went without U-Verse.  And luckily we were only without for one day!  There were lots of U-Verse users out there without service for 2-3 days!