April is Stress Awareness Month

This short monologue by Ellen DeGeneres does a great job of summarizing April as Stress Awareness month.


And here is a good summary of how to cope with stress.

Feb 14th Faces - Ellen and Portia, True Valentines!

Since I created portraits of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi earlier in this challenge, I thought it would be appropriate to combine their faces in a heart to celebrate Valentine's Day. :) There are people out there who (sadly) want to condemn others for being in same-sex loving relationships. They are wrong and they are mean to try to interfere with true love! Gay marriage will be legalized in all fifty states in the not-too-distant future, as it should be. In the meantime, this is my tribute to true love in its most genuine form. Happy Valentine's Day to everyone, and especially to Ellen and Portia. :)

I'm happy to add that Google feels the same way, and also supports gay marriage. :)

Feb 8th Face - Phphphffft!!!

I created an Ellen DeGeneres face for my challenge yesterday and then today she addressed her critics from a group called One Million Moms who don't want her to be the spokesperson for JCPenney. My mouse face today is giving the 'raspberry' to the narrow-minded haters (from One Million Moms) who feel that way.

Ellen and JCPenney ROCK!!! :)

Feb 7th Face, It's Ellen!!!

I was watching Ellen DeGeneres yesterday when she had Jim Parsons on (Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory), and I thought she'd be a good subject to use as a model to draw for my 29Faces challenge. I actually started my Ellen project yesterday, but finished it today. It took soooo long. I won't be doing many face projects like this one very many times this month because it just took so much out of me to finish, but once I had started it, I knew I would finish. I'm thrilled that I did, and I'm delighted with how it turned out. It showed me what I'm capable of when I put time and effort into my art. :)

Chris' "Throwdown" Dance Move

Chris Matthews really got grooving in this ROTF-hee-LAR-ious video from 2008 when he was doin' the Ellen DeGeneres show. You may have already seen this, but if you haven't you WILL laugh your butt off (unless you have absolutely NO sense of humor).

The first video is the day of his visit with Ellen. It's about 10 minutes or so long, but you don't need to watch the whole thing. Just the dance part at the beginning (including the "throwdown" move) and some of the discussion with Ellen that followed. Then the next video is the one that really hits it out of the park with Ellen explaining exactly what happened.

Chris Matthews does Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres does Chris Matthews

The reason I've strayed from posting helpful Inkscape tutorial links or terrific greeting cards is because I sometimes have rough days (dealing with all my physical hurdles) and coming out of those kinds of days I just want to laugh. These two videos never cease to succeed in making that happen. :D