April 7th, 2010
I just got home from a long day of doctors and hospitals that was spent largely chasing our tails – to find a lovely note in my email box that led to a link to these beautiful royalty free animal coloring pages to print. I think I’m going to relax with a few of them myself – or maybe I’ll whip out my favorite Mandala drawing kit for something quiet and mindless that nevertheless manages to focus and quiet my mind after a long and harassing day.
New Mexico Night Sky Mandala
This is one of my mandala coloring creations. You’d be surprised how easy it actually is to create and color a mandala.
April 3rd, 2010
The job at the nursing home did not work out. Two words. Sexual. Harrassment. Ugh.
Things have been looking pretty bleak. Even after the Census called and told me they were putting me to work in a couple of weeks, we were pretty worried about having actual CASH until then to gas up the car. The chickens were out of food. I was down to my last $20 and hanging onto it to take the hubby for his second surgery to create a fistula next week. I was pretty worried that when the Census called me to go to work – I wouldn’t have the gas to get there!
But you know me. I was affirming away, praying, lighting candles, and casting my dependable little silver spell with my last dimes. The moon turned full.
The Census called yesterday. Today our tax refund came. We did a happy dance. We drove to town to cash it and buy chicken food and gas. While we were in town, one of the little hot springs motels I had put an application in at – called me for an interview! They asked when I could come in and I was delighted to tell them I was IN town and could come right by. The manager is a wonderful, lovely lady – as you would expect with a place into holistic healing and care. Her needs and our needs seem to dovetail nicely and I will start doing housekeeping for them tomorrow. This means I will have a steady cash flow until the Census calls. The hotel knows I will go to the Census – but also that it is temporary. It is quite agreeable for all for me to return to my housekeeping duties when the Census releases me!
Which is to say that my ship has come in, the miracle has arrived and we are going to make it through this time of transition in good form. We may be a bit tight for cash now and then compared to when the hubby was working, but no one is going to starve and he will be able to get to all his doctors appointments and so forth. I very likely have a job that will be able to be flexible and change with us as our needs change.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how much time that will leave me for Internet work. I will do what I can to keep things updated. If you don’t follow me on Twitter yet, now might be a good time to grab that or FriendFeed (I am foovay on both) as I can probably at least zip by and say “I’m alive” in 140 characters or less now and again.
The good news though – is that I will have the necessary funds to keep the webhost and domains paid for so nothing is going to vanish overnight – just maybe not get the constant grooming and updates we’re all used to.
Although there have been a couple of small sales on the coloring book shop it is just too little too late and I’ve decided to let it go. Right now $10 is enough gas for at least one or two trips to town – and will almost buy a whole bag of chicken feed.
I just really don’t know how often I’ll be able to draw new coloring pages. I’ll add when I can. If you want to help us out – there is a donation button on the right column.
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
March 30th, 2010
Bush Dog Coloring Page
Once again, I am proud to hear from Ian, the gentleman who teaches at an orphanage in Mexico, with a request. This time he asked for a Bush Dog Coloring Page. These amazing little creatures were once thought to be extinct, but still live in Central and South America. Tough looking little guys, aren’t they? I don’t know if I really caught it in the line art, but in the photos you can see these powerful jaw muscles that make them look like they could snap your hand off like it was nothing. Ow!
Summer Fey Foovay
March 20th, 2010
moar funny pictures
How could I resist captioning this LOLZcat!
I haven’t drawn any new coloring pages lately. Doctors and social services seem to feel like we should be at their beck and call 24-7! Add a brief foray into the job market for me and poof, there goes all my drawing time. My concentration is also not what it should be. Thus I have been doing “easy things” like these Squidoo lenses:
Coffee Mugs for Dog Lovers (with my art)
Garden Art (with my art and photos)
Color Me Green
So far – The Color-Your-Own.com coloring book shop is still live. It has just barely managed to pay for it’s $10 a month self. I got to looking at the coding though, and I can definately create something more SEO friendly. If I ever get the time.
Meanwhile – I’ve got stuff to do! TTYL
Summer Fey Foovay
March 10th, 2010
As you may know, my husband has ESRB and is going to be starting dialysis soon. Although he can no longer work his job as a short order cook, disability doesn’t think he is disabled yet. You gotta laugh. So I’ve been job hunting.
I got hired yesterday to do housekeeping at a nursing home. Part of the hiring process was a tour of the home – they have both full care and also assisted living areas. It’s a beautiful place and I think I will really enjoy working there but what really struck me as we walked through was several beautifully colored coloring pages proudly displayed in residents rooms and the activity room. Made my heart all warm and stuff – even though they were not my coloring pages – it just kinda made me all warm and squiggy to see that other adults loved to color. I never get over it. It gave me an idea for some more coloring pages, too – LOL.
Between doctors appointments and working I may not be able to add pages as often as I would like. The fact is that it doesn’t matter how many pages I add or how often I update, the coloring pages website seems to have reached a plateau of $50 a month more or less in adsense income – and has been there for three years now. That’s nice, but it won’t support us now that hubby cannot work.
I have managed to keep the digital coloring book store open for another month. If it doesn’t pick up enough to at least pay for itself – $10 a month – this month, then it’s gone. So if you were one of the people writing and saying “Oh, you should make coloring books and I would buy one or more” then you better get in there and get one, and share that link and such like and so on.
The next couple of weeks look pretty hectic as far as doctor’s appointments and new job stuff going on so you may not be seeing much in the way of new coloring pages. Rest assured, I will continue to draw when I do have the time.
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
February 20th, 2010
Search and rescue dog on a snowy mountain
Many people owe their lives to brave search and rescue dogs and their handlers. While doing the research for these drawings I found an amazing variety of breeds being used from German Shepards to Pit Bulls, Aussies, Golden Retrievers, Newfoundlands, and of course Bloodhounds. It was hard to decide but I finally settled for a Shepard type that could be used for many breeds or mixes, and a long haired dog that could be a Golden Retriever or other shaggy sort of breeds. The coloring pages are linked to the thumbnails or use the links below
Search and Rescue Dog
February 17th, 2010
Airport Detection Dog Coloring Page
Airport Detection Dog - Beagle
Detection dogs have become a familiar site at many airports. Some are searching for explosives or drugs, others search for other types of contraband such as certain types of fruits. Many different breeds and some mixed breeds are used from the German Shepard type dog on the left to the smaller Beagles on the right.
Here where I live in New Mexico, the German Shepard detection or sniffing dog is a familiar site at Border Patrol stops where they inspect vehicles for drugs, guns, and other contraband.
Detector Dog inspecting a vehicle coloring page
The thumbnails are linked to the full size coloring pages, or use these links:
Enjoy!
February 16th, 2010
If you were one of those people who went on and on about how great it would be to have a coloring book from the Color-Your-Own.com line drawings or coloring pages you have until March 2nd before the store closes and I toss the whole wasted mess into the recycle bin of my computer to buy the coloring book you claimed you wanted so much. Here’s the link to the coloring book store for while it lasts.
Yes, it’s easy to say – oh I would buy that – and find when the time comes to cough up the small fortune of $6.00 it is just impossible to do. Too bad that I wasted about two weeks, as well as someone elses time and effort, to create these coloring books – and then more time and money to set up the store and pay for it. Luckily, I did NOT spend $600 or more on the AdobeInDesign program to make them. Really really glad I did not do that. That would have paid our rent for a month, or bought groceries for six months or gas for four months and we need our roof, food, and transportation a lot more than a wasted investment right now. 
Live and learn. One more “make money on the Internet” scheme eliminated from the list of possibilities.
Anyway, if you really did want a coloring book, you have two weeks left to get one before they are gone.
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
February 16th, 2010
Bomb Sniffing Dog Coloring Page
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[/caption] Continuing with my theme of service dogs this week, these two new coloring pages are of the courageous bomb detection dogs that work with our military in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world. Not only do they save soldiers lives by sniffing out bombs and bomb making materials, they also improve morale in the units they work with. You can read an excellent article on them
here. Click on the images for the full sized coloring pages.
I am so glad I did not spend $600 on Adobe InDesign to find out that you folks are not actually going to BUY my coloring books so many correspondents said I should put out. If you did actually want one, you better get it soon as I plan to let the store expire the end of the month. Live and learn. Here it is, enjoy while you can
February 15th, 2010
Human Remains Detection (Cadaver) Dog Coloring Page
Human Remains Detection (Cadaver) Dog Coloring Page
Of all the wonderful and amazing ways dogs assist us poor humans, the Human Remains Detection or Cadaver Dogs have one of the most unusual and fascinating jobs. Unlike Search and Rescue dogs, Cadaver dogs are trained to track and find human remains. Dogs sense of smell is so sensitive they are able to find human remains that are hundreds of years old, buried, or even under water! You can read more and even see videos of some Cadaver dogs at work at these two sites:
Cadaver Dogs
Cadaver Dogs – Videos
You may know or remember that I originally set up Color-Your-Own.com to create line art for the players of Orbis Games, including Sandbox Farm. I am still playing over at SandboxFarm because part of the fun is being able to create new animals and add them to the game. This weekend I added several types of service dogs, such as the cadaver dogs and I will be adding corresponding coloring pages or line art to the collection at Color-Your-Own.com this week, too.
Don’t forget that after being asked by so many people to create coloring books you can download and print out I finally did – they are on sale here Of course, only one has sold since. LOL. I have to pay monthly for the shop itself, never mind the time I wasted, so if sales continue to be this bad I will soon close it and the coloring books will go into my computers recycle bin. So where are all you people who kept saying I ought to make coloring books?
Hope you had a great Valentine’s Day weekend!
