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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Banging my Head on My Desk


So I've spent my day jumping from photo editing program to program trying to find one that likes me.


So far...nada.


I am no good with his stuff and reading directions doesn't work. I need someone to SHOW me how to work this stuff and I got no one. So I am getting nowhere.


What I am trying to so is create a poster for my son's open house.


I scanned all of his old school photos and baby pictures along with his senior photo. I wanted to put his senior picture right in the middle then create a border or something with smaller images of when he was younger.


How far have I gotten...his senior picture is in the middle.


With Adobe I can't figure out how to add new photos. With Microsoft I can add a new photo but not resize it right so everything goes downhill from there and with paint...nothing goes right there at all.


I hate this.


I hate not being able to do something I set my mind to do.


I have a free 16x20 canvas from uprinting that I have to claim by April 30 or I lose it. I wanted to make this collage and put it on the print and surprise my boy with it for his open house. I thought it would be really special.


Too bad I can't get anything to work.


This is why I stick to writing.


When I dabble with art I do it the old fashioned way- with pen, ink, paint, glue, and scissors - these digital photo programs are giving me more gray hair than my children.

Friday, April 16, 2010

Free Book Friday: Hers for the Evening by Jasmine Haynes



HERS FOR THE EVENING
Berkley Heat
May 4, 2010
978-0-425-23417-4
$15.00

Bestselling erotica author Jasmine Haynes returns with three super-hot novellas about modern day courtesans who help men and women devise steamy plans to seduce and ravage the loves of their lives.

In “Three’s a Crowd” a couple’s steamy ménage a trois fantasy seems destined to tear their marriage apart. So husband Seth consults the ever inventive Courtesans on a way to completely fulfill his wife Courtney’s every desire- by giving her his undivided attention.

CEO Devon Parker realizes she is going to need find a “Stand in” when her entire body burns for CFO Hunter Nash every time she sees him. So the Courtesans help her devise a perfect plan except for one thing: the real Hunter is watching.

In “Surrender to Me” Haley’s husband has died in the arms of another woman, and she can hardly forgive his business partner, Simon, for keeping it a secret. So Simon consults the Courtesans to devise a plan that might just help Haley lose her inhibitions, and her heart.



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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hotter than Hot: New Erotica Releases

For those of you who enjoy the sizzling books that are put out by authors like Maya Banks and Jasmine Haynes, good news- here's a list of some of the latest (and upcoming) erotica releases you are not going to want to miss!



Masquerade by Sheri Whitefeather (who also writes as Cherie Feather)

A national bestselling author delivers a tale of two loves who must make one desperate choice.

Bombshell heiress Amber Pontiero is looking for fun-and she's going to find it in Luke and Jay, two former lovers now eager to complete the perfect threesome. There are no rules-only soul-stirring pleasure. But things change when Luke starts looking into Amber's family tree. Specifically, her great-great grandfather Curtis, who was at the center of an infamous love that ended in murder and a royal scandal. It's a path of consuming desire repeating itself a century later, leaving Amber to realize that when it comes to love there is a point of no return-no matter what the risk.



Tease Me by Tracy Wolff

The "edgy and erotic" (Shannon McKenna, New York Times bestselling author of Tasting Fear) author of Tie Me Down and Full exposure offers another steamy novel of sex, lies, and sultry games.



Burned once too often, true crime writer Lacey Richards has sworn off love. Instead, she explores her deepest desires through her anonymous- and very provocative-blog. Anonymous, that is, until her dark and ultrasexy neighbor discovers her dirty secret.



Stockbrocker-turned-carpenter Byron Hawthorne gave up life in the fast lane, hoping to start over in a new city. When he learns his alluring neighbor is the one writing the sizzling blog that keeps him up all night, he can't resist offering to fulfill her fantasies in the flesh. But Byron isn't the only man provoked by Lacey's writing. Now Lacey doesn't know who she can trust-and who she can dare to tease.




Sweet Temptation by Maya Banks

He was a by-the-book cop who broke the rules in the bedroom...

Micah Hudson has painful secrets he's run hard from. He has new friends, a new life, but he's about to be confronted with the one person who reminds him of all he's tried to forget--Angelina, the sister of his oldest friend David. She knows everything about his past, including how he and David fell in love with the same woman, and how they decided the best way to prevent her from tearing them apart was to share her between them. But then a terrible accident left Micah alone...

She was willing to do anything to make him see the woman she'd become...

Micah lost the two people who meant the most in the world to him. Angelina lost her only family. And she kept her deepest secret close to her heart. Her love for Micah. No longer willing to wait, she decides it's time to go after him and bring him to his knees. She knows his secrets, his desires, his kinks and fetishes, and she'll use whatever it takes to reel him in. Behind the easygoing, loves women exterior lies a man with dark needs and passions. She can give him what he wants. But will he decide she's what he needs?




Hers for the Evening by Jasmine Haynes


Three sexy novellas about the Courtesans-and the men and women who hire them.



Jasmine Haynes jacks up the sexual tension with the Courtesans-a venture that helps men and women devise steamy plans to seduce and ravish the loves of their lives...



In the first story, a husband plans to fulfill his wife's every desire- with a little bedroom help from the ever-inventive Courtesans.



In the second, a female CEO hot for a male CFO consults the Courtesans, who figure that sleeping with a lookalike should suffice. A perfect plan, but for one thing: the real guy is watching.



And finally, one woman's husband has died in the arms of another, and she can hardly forgive his business partner for keeping the infidelity a secret. So he forms a plan with the Courtesans. And in it, she might just lose her inhibitions-and her heart.

Now onto my favorites...the paranormal erotica....



Impulsive by Cathryn Fox

The latest dark paranormal novel in the erotica series about shapeshifters.

She's fled her alpha wolf-and the entire paranormal community of Serene. A free woman-wolf, Sunray returns to Chicago-and the last thing she expects to find there is her reincarnated lover, who died the night she was changed into a lycan a century ago. Still, Sunray knows they can never revive their passion. Because now he's a lycan hunter-and she, his prey...

Kane doesn't believe this beautiful lycan's story. Still, he recognizes Sunray as the sexy woman in his recurring dreams. For now, prey and predator have forged an uneasy truce as they join forces to capture a rogue shifter. But after their work is done, will either be able to resist a passion that could consume them?




Vampire Mistress by Joey W. Hill

The fifth book in the sensational series of "sizzling paranormal erotica." (Fresh Fiction)

Joey W. Hill returns to the dark and seductive landscape of her Vampire Queen novels as a desperate woman named Anwyn finds herself trapped between the desires of two men, each with his own mission of the night: vampire hunter Gideon Green and vampire Daegan Rei. But when Anwyn is attacked by a rogue bloodsucker, Gideon and Daegan must become allies in order to save the woman they both love.




Velvet Haven by Sophie Renwick

The first in a brand new series about a world of shapeshifters, from the author of Hot in Here.

Hidden from mortals for eternity, Annwyn, the Otherworld, is home to shapeshifters, wraiths and dragons. On the border with the mortal realm stands a nightclub called Velvet Haven. The shapeshifter king of Sidhe, Bran, comes there searching for his brother, Carden, who's ensnared in a centuries-old curse. He looks to Mairi, a mortal woman with an unusual aura, for help. He usually just uses humans for sexual pleasure in order to restore his magic energy, but Mairi's lush curves and teasing caresses inflame him like no Sidhe ever has. He has no idea that the woman he's falling for holds the key to his destruction-or his salvation.

I don't know about you but my reading list just got a whole lot hotter !!! :-)

The Notebooks of Madame B

Here's a set of three sexy books you might enjoy...

The Notebooks of Madame B

Introducing a scintillating new erotica series: Tarcher Sensual Awakenings

Meet Madame B, the extraordinary hostess of an exciting new line of erotica. In these delightful collections of sensuous and, at times, scandalous tales, the mysterious Madame B shares with readers the many wild and sexy escapades women have shared with her. For some reason, women gravitate to Madame B, confiding their innermost feelings-and their most shocking erotic exploits. To protect their privacy (as well as her own), the mysterious Madame prefers to remain anonymous.

In the first book in the series, The Notebooks of Madame B: Seduction, no desire will remain unfulfilled if passion is allowed to take hold. Stories include:

*"Ménage à Trois": A voyeur is invited to share intimate quarters with her next-door neighbors.


In the second book, The Notebooks of Madame B: Desire, women share their most extreme stories of sensual abandon, such as:

*"Going, Going, Gone": A businesswoman sells her body to the highest bidder and is willing to submit to whatever pleasure-or pain-is on offer.

In the third book in the series, The Notebooks of Madame B: Ecstasy, ten women reveal how their darkest (and dirtiest) fantasies became true, including:

*"Car-ma Sutra": Fantasies about sex in public lead a young married couple to an unexpected midnight encounter

In The Notebooks of Madame B, private indulgences are stripped bare for all to see, proving that the best erotic stories can't remain secret for very long.


I had the chance to peruse these scintilating books and they look like a very interesting collection of erotica, defnitely worth a second (and third) look.

If you enjoy steamy, naughty, tales then you'll probably enjoy these books.


Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Win a HAAN HS-20 Handheld Deluxe Personal Sanitizing Steam Cleaner

Would you like to win this awesome
handheld steam cleaner?

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and leave a comment so you can be entered to win this amazing Earth Day giveaway!
No, you do not have to be a bride to be to win this contest.