R.I.P Caylee Anthony. I Love You, Angel. "She's Going Places"

    "We will sing sweet Caylee's praises/
She's safe in the arms of God's good graces/
She's going places/"



   Caylee is one of the main reasons I look forward to Heaven. I want to get there see, hug, and say ‘I love you, Caylee’. And then tell her that I’m sorry for how she left the other world in such a tragic, torturous way.

    I would love to play in God’s meadows with her, Jesus, and the rest of the little children. I honestly can see that now. I can also see Jesus taking Caylee’s hand and walking down the golden walks of Heaven. Her skipping beside Him, singing “My Only Sunshine” like she did to her Great Grandpa in the nursing home. She would be singing it for Jesus and everyone. That song would be her beautiful praise! A beautiful praise from a beautiful little girl. Jesus being her sunshine and she and He is ours! I vividly see her looking up with those big, gorgeous, brown eyes and smiling that toothy smile of hers. I wish I could see her right now, but I will have to wait. For how long? I don’t know. However, I can’t wait to see Jesus, Caylee, my family who has passed on, face to face.

Ohhhh Looky Looky here!

Tied Destinies-       Grasped Fates   -     Echoed Possibilities

      Do you guys notice anything different from above book covers? Just think on it…think on it…think on it. Got it?

      If you noticed that there is a third Time With Seleste book cover. ^_^ And it’s says…BOOK THREE-ECHOED POSSIBILITIES. Does it add up yet?

Time With Seleste is going to be a TRILOGY! Ya heard me? A trilogy now! As in three books.

I’ve been praying to God for a trilogy, because the two part series wasn’t making it for me. I didn’t have enough plot to write a third book. Yeahhh…I was thinking on a origin’s book, but that wouldn’t considered YA. When it would be about the ancestor Specials. So yeah, that wasn’t going to work out.

But now it will! With an adding of a new crop of characters! And a new MC, that Seleste will have to share the spotlight with. Her name is Echo Feyth. She’s a blonde, light blue eyed, beauty. Well, she isn’t exactly, a new character, per se. She’s been in the first two books, but not a main character. She was pretty much a background character, working the behind the scenes in a quiet sort of way. Maybe I’ll have her help Seleste every now and then. :D

I can’t say much on this character or plot, because it would give some MAJOR spoilers. :p

Let’s say this journey, is going to take the gang into the not so far future of Specials and time travel. ;D Let’s say about twenty years? Where there is an even worse war that they are used to dealing with? And that there is a sickness going around, killing off Specials, slowly, in a torturous way?

     And that time itself is attacking the earth, bringing back past threats like Hitler into the future? And maybe even past threats such as the original Legacies that almost destroyed the world?

Hmm…sound interesting, yet?

I am very excited for this new add on plot! I can’t wait to start writing! But I have an obsession with outlining things anymore, because I don’t want to jump into this blind again. So it’s going to be a while, unfortunately. :/ I hate that I can’t speed write them and let my writer besties read em! I feel really bad about that! Like Jannette’s been waiting on my outline for the next draft of the first book and I haven’t even really got started. Then Hannah and Mariella, I’ve been running my mouth about these books, probably told them every single detail of them with my rants. And I have nothing to show for, unless the sucky draft I got done for Tied Destinies, counts for anything. AND I’m kind of ashamed for anyone to even look at that one. Such nasty grammar and plot line, that goes around and around in circles. It’s grrr…. Lol.

Anyways, I am EXCITED!!!! *says in sing song voice*

PRAISE JESUS for this inspiration!

Are ya’ll ready for this? I  AM!

    With lots of love, Kristia S.<3<3<3
    God Bless<3<3<3
    1 Peter 4:10 <3<3<3

This is out of the NORM. A Program Review! "Stoik iMagic 5.0"

   Currently Listening To: "Can't Shut Up" by Anthem Lights

   Watching: The Casey Anthony Trial (This is getting ridiculous)

   Many people have been asking on how I've been making my book covers, photo manipulations, banners, and blog layouts. And their first assumption is "Photoshop". Nope. ^_^ I use a fairly, free program called "Stoik iMagic 5.0" originally known as "Samsung Master", when it came with Samsung cameras. But recently they have renamed and discontinued the Samsung Master version, to Stoik iMagic 5.0.

   Sure it's not photoshop or anything remotely that awesome. This program you are limited by certain things, but if you learn how to use it right, you can come pretty close  (keyword: CLOSE) to the same results of Photoshop. It's taken me about two years to catch onto this program, and I can finally get pretty good results, that of similar to photoshop. This is because I have a lot of freetime on my hands.


Two of my newest designs

    I mostly use this program to make book covers that are on Inkpop and this blog.  Book covers for my books and occasionally for other writer's books as well.
   If I have the right pictures and got a good vision of a cover in mind, it'll take me at least a day to make a decent looking book cover. But I can make an amazing one in two or three days, where I'm a dag'gone perfectionist.
   The editing tools on this program is great, if you know how to use them, with when, where, and how. It's that picky.
I really like how I can select a certain section of a picture, like hair, eyes, skin, and lips. And change the color to your desire, with the Hue/saturation tool. Or adjust the shadow and light in Levels. These are the three most used tools that I use, while designing my picture projects, select section, Hue/saturation, and Levels.
  If you're having blocks in (pixel resolution) your desire picture you want to use. There's these pretty good options that works most of the time. Sometimes, there's just no saving a picture from its' blocky sickness. First, I try Resize option, where you can go in and up the resolution to my reccomendation 300 per units in inch. Any bigger than that you'll have a slack in the loading and editing, because it's pretty big now. If that doesn't work I use my last resort, Noise Reduction. To remove the blocks, only check off Smooth Sigma. It'll smooth areas, but sometimes it makes it look funky. However, you can work with it long enough to make the funkiness go away.


Book cover for my Christian Contemporary
novel "The Right Whisper"
(working title)
Models: Laura Mullins and Joesph Baird

    The font options are GREAT! You can put shadows behind your font, the shadows can be the color you desire. Of course, I download new fonts to add to my collection, from Abstract Fonts. That is where I get my cool butterflies from. ^_^

  The only two cons I have about this program.  It tends to get frozen on certain areas of editing and opening pictures. :/ And then whatever you're working on is lost, due to you having to close and restart the program, but it maybe just my computer. So I suggest constantly save, when you've done major edits, just in case.

   And the other one is the black background in the picture editing tray. Because when you are working on a project that calls for a black background, it gets pretty hard to determine where's the edge of your picture is, and to where paste the picture edits. I wish there was an option that you can change the background color.



A DVD cover for my newest music video project
with my friend Katie Mullins.
"Through the Darkness"



But anyways, I really suggest this program, when you are on a budget. It has a free version that only shaves off just a few tools, that you can live without for awhile. You can download it HERE. Comment in this post if you want me to do a tutorial on a certain area you need some help in. ^_^ I'd be happy to do it!

Well that's it for now!

With lots of love, Kristia S.<3<3<3

God Bless<3<3<3

1 Peter 4:10<3<3<3