I have been testing different effects in Corel Painter Essentials trying to get a softer feel to images. I tried the effects on some of my self portraits, this is one you haven’t seen before, it was taken a couple of years ago in the grounds of Stanton Manor.
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Collated info on the CSCS (7th March 2010):
In August 2009 the government announced plans to reform the Civil Service Compensation scheme in such a way that it made it look the Trade Unions had agreed to the terms. Although the Trade Unions and the cabinet office had been in negotiations since the previous autumn no [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 2nd 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Proverb
A special post for Cherry-Pie Sunday.
19 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2010
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The Tapeworm Diet
For the second annual Blogger’s silly week.
I received an email with some pictures of 1930’s ads and this was one of them. The original was headed with “EAT! EAT! EAT! & ALWAYS STAY THIN!”
Yuk springs to mind and I think I will stick with a more healthy method of losing weight.
There is a really [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 1st 2010
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Fresh Start
I have been well intentioned with trying to lose weight for more than a couple of years. My weight has stayed much the same despite fluctuating up and down a few pounds here and there. It probably isn’t a good idea to decide to lose weight when life itself is a bit up and down [...]
19 Comments CherryPie on Jul 31st 2010
The Government has recently ended its £750m border security contract with a Raytheon-led consortium and said it had no confidence in the U.S. company.
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£755m UK border contract scrapped
By Lorraine Turner
Friday, 23 July 2010
The Government ended its £750m border security contract with a consortium led by Raytheon yesterday, saying it had no confidence in the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 26th 2010
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
Horace
22 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2010
