Queen of the Screen

20 June 2009 @ 10:02 pm

Because people are still friending me...

Even though I haven't posted an entry in over a year people are still friending me. So this isn't my best work, but I feel I owe ya'll ... you're awesome :D

Everyone have a great summer ... just in case I'm not back for a while!

Current Mood: happy

happy

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09 January 2008 @ 02:45 am

Happy New Year! ... I know, I know, it's been a while... but I come bearing gifts :D

Happy new year to you all! I am saftely nestled back in Htown, and since I felt compelled to reward myself for not having murdered a single family member throughout my almost-3-week-long stay, and those AMAZING new Helen photos emerged just a short while ago... I couldn't resist making at least a few graphics!!

First, REALLY quickly ... I need to give a big WELCOME TO LJ to an RL friend of mine (i know! GASP! hopefully we won't all scare her to death)

lapetiteleo and my little brother

raffikee (have fun in Florida and HAPPY BIRTHDAY little brother!)

Second, I feel like i need to give credit where credit is due concerning these graphics... so a HUGE THANK YOU....
To

evastefania , for showing me that awesome trick ... you know the one!
To

adgraphomany for showing me that more subtle icons without much colour hold a beauty of their own.
To

frail_elegance for showing me that purple can be a very classy colour (go check out her beautiful new header.. you'll see what I mean!)
and last, but certainly not least, to EmmaBear (

barcelonamme), the best second set of eyes a girl could want!

Hope you all like them!!! 16 icons and 3 headers in all :D

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And now for the headers... (if anyone actually wants to use them but would prefer different text or dimensions just let me know!)

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL day!!!

Current Mood: happy

happy

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01 November 2007 @ 05:33 pm

I PASSED!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED I PASSED I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!! I ACTUALLY PASSED THE TEXAS BAR EXAM!!!!!! I'm a real attorney now!!! (well, I have to get sworn in or whatever, then they send me this nifty gold Bar card, but
I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

HI everyone!!!! I'm SO sorry I've been missing for so long, but you all knew I had to study, then the exam, then vacation, and I kept putting off posting an entry not wanting to answer questions anyone might have about that AWFUL exam. But I'm BACK!!! Now that life has decided to start straightening up a bit!!

hehe.. my hands are still shaking! I PASSED!!! J-O-B here I come!

No picspam today, but I'm going to do something I've been meaning to for a LONG time. I'm going to post (pretty much) every site I have where I find Helen Pictures... ready?

I'm guessing I don't have to put up sites like wireimage, getty, corbis, Isifa, Polfoto, Alamy images and whatnot since we all know to check those... but here are some of the slightly more obscure ones"

1) http://www.daylife.com/topic/064G2vqcxf2Ke/photos/1
2) http://socialitelife.com/categories/celebrities/helen_mirren/
3) http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Helen+Mirren&s=rec
4) http://justjared.buzznet.com/tags/helen-mirren/
5) http://www.tv.com/helen-mirren/person/71953/photos.html&pg_pics=0
6) http://www.starpulse.com/Actresses/Mirren,_Helen/Pictures/
7) http://www.superiorpics.com/helen_mirren/pictures1.html (updated rarely - but I still got a good post or two out of them)
8) http://updates.absolutely.net/index.html - (and AWESOME find with large, unwatermarked Wenn images!!)
9) http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?ei=UTF-8&p=Helen+Mirren&datesort=1&fr=&c=news_photos - small thumbnails, but they have a lot of pictures out before others do, and on more obscure subjects like the castle DHM bought!
10) http://www.viewimages.com/Search.aspx?mid=72958427&partner=Yahoo&epmid=3 (unwatermarked Getty images!! but you cant right click to save so you either have to printscreen or, with firefox, use the page info (then go to "media" and scroll down) to save the images.
11) http://film.wp.pl/id,5504,idPhoto,94019,type,23,osoba_galeria.html - (yes, it's Polish, and they haven't been updating lately, but they have wonderful large AP photos!)
12) http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/gallery?open&artist=helen_mirren&page=1 (these guys are worth checking out because they've been updating pretty consistently lately! yay!)
13) http://teamsugar.com/celebrity/Helen_Mirren
14) www.filmmagic.com (username: mvento, password: humane1 - although they don't give you the "full size" it's still larger than the itty bitty thumbnails!)

A couple I didn't list because they aren't mine to publish, and some I didn't list because I JUST found them (as in, last week!) and i'm trying to amass enough to post another list for you all soon enough if you guys like this list.... The ones I put up today, however, are the ones i've been checking for a long time :)

and just because I CAN"T BELIEVE I PASSED!!!!!!!!!!! ONE photo that says it all:

sigh... it's good to be back :D

Current Mood:

ecstatic

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12 June 2007 @ 05:33 pm

You won't regret having worked too hard, but you will regret not having worked hard enough.

I've been trying to live on those words for a few weeks now... but it hasn't really sunk in. This week is going much better so far, and all too soon I'll have disappeared almost completely. I HAVE to study like I've never studied in my entire life, nor will ever study again. Just until the end of July, and I hope you'll all hang in there and forgive me for not commenting on every entry. It's just not possible right now :( .... of course I'll be checking in! so ya'll behave yourselves ya hear? (yes

dayweletgo and sissa - I'm lookin at you two in particular!!!) ... (as well as those of you out of town and on summer vacation! beware the idle hours that lead to mischief!) ::wink::wink::

I know I haven't posted in a Loooooooooong while, and it will likely be a month and a half before I post again, (ok, that's WORST case scenario, but very likely the case) so I tried to make today's picspam really wonderful. I hope I succeeded! *fingers crossed*

Yes, that's a new header!! lol.. I couldn't resist... I LOVE that particular photoshoot ...sigh... those eyes... I may bring the other one back later though... it had a soft, calming effect on me.

There isn't much going on with me :) ... just mailed about 40 thank you cards today (FINALLY!) so now I can REALLY concentrate on my work.... and that's about it! lol, yes, very boring life right now :D

Since I really don't have much to say, I guess we'll just get on with the picspam!! WOOHOO!!! (oh! but first! a shout out to newbie

roxierocks5!! welcome to LJ lil Jane!!!)

First we start with VENICE PART TROIS!!!! (part trois? you ask.. but where are Part un and Part deux? well, big sissa Megs (

maggiesheridan) posted them!! If you haven't already GO check them out! SO AWESOME!!)

lol... how much do you want to bet that cameraman/woman just about fainted at this look?

Tags: picspam

Current Location: mon apartement

Current Mood: working

working

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26 May 2007 @ 07:54 pm

All by myself, don't wanna be, all by myseeelf anymoooooooooooooore!!

WHERE IS EVERYONE!?!?!

Oh, I forgot, you guys are allowed to have lives right now! hehe... lucky devils.

Sissa

maggiesheridanis out of town, Turtle (

alataye) had something to do this weekend that I can't remember,

miss_analystis sleeping, and I think the rest of the world has joined

frail_eleganceat the movies to see Pirates 3.

I hope the rest of you wonderful people are out having fun too!!!! You HAVE to, yes that's an order, so that I can live vicariously through you :D

Everyone in my RL refuses to speak to me ("you should be studying"!) Yes, I think we've established that! But I'm feeling awful, my dog is sick, it's been raining all day, and I NEED a helen picspam to put a smile on my face and motivate me to hit the books again!!!

Here is a Pictoral Representation of how I feel at the moment:

This concludes todays visual demonstration, hehe.

UGH, I hate feeling this way! I'm normally one of the most happy people I know, but today has been awful.... so here's how you all can help! Tell me a joke!!! A fun fact!!! A silly story!! ANYTHING!!! ... I mean, you dont HAVE to, even a simple "hello" would go a loooong way at this point, but it would REALLY brighten my rainy day!

At least I have a new header, hehe, or I'd be staring at it right now going "I really need to change that." Oh, that reminds me - Does anyone have any idea how to change layout styles? (i.e. coding/HTML/whatever) and where I could possibly find some tasteful and simple ones?

TIME FOR PICSPAM!! I know GODESS HELEN makes me feel better... I hope she brings a smile to your face too!!!

I'm going to start with some pics from earlier this week, I think I found one of my all time favorite Helen looks: FLAWLESS!

Her legs look really good in this pic!!! :D

NOW.... here's a lovely set of pics I found recently from the press conference held on July 19, 2006 for Elizabeth I
(I had a few already, but the following is a whole set that came together :D)

THE END.

Current Music: Pop goes my heart - Music&Lyrics Soundtrack (yes, I'm serious)

Current Mood:

indescribable

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19 May 2007 @ 10:39 am

[Insert Witty Quote Here!]

I'm BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! Graduation was HOT but SOOO wonderful! I still can't believe my 97 year old gramma made it this long and was able to come and see me graduate! Her, and my favorite uncle being able to come meant THE WORLD to me!!! I got more gifts from my family than I could have imagined! (most of which made me cry they were so beautiful and meant so much to me)

The party was AWESOME! a TON of people showed up. No one got a head count but I think it was about 70 - 80 ish. Mom really went all out, and everything was PERFECT!!! The kids loved the bounce house too! Which I thought was a bit over the top, but nope! apparently not! This also means that i have a TON of thank you cards to write!! woohoo!

Tons to say, but I don't want to bore you all!! hehe... so I'll keep it short 'n sweet :D
OH! and, OF COURSE, A HUUUUGE THANK YOU to all of you who were SOO INCREDIBLY SWEET and congratulated me :D you guys ROCK!!! and I MISSED YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH while I was gone!!

Now that the partying is over time to hit the books!! (well, monday, techically) ... what books, you ask? THESE BOOKS!! Why this small mountain of books weighing in at approximately FORTY POUNDS!!

Oh, and that's just the BarBri books, I haven't gotten my MPRE ones yet... but those are only about half the size of these ones! ... I'M SO DEAD! TWO MONTHS! I have to learn all this in TWO MONTHS!! *THUD*

Quick meme! Sissa

maggiesheridan tagged me a while back... it's the 10 strange things about you one, so here we go! In no particular order:

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY!!

1) HUUUGE pics of Tao
2) A few from UNESCO gala
3) LAST instalment of the Getty unwatermarked pics!! (FINALLY!)

These Tao ones are SO HUGE that if you want the full size I'm putting a link at the end of them so that you can go save them :D

hehe... if you ever wanted to know how many freckles our Dame has, download the full size of this pic and count them! lol!!

Yup, a SUPER HI-RES pic of our FAVORITE COUPLE!!! (p.s. this one will work for the counting freckles thing too! ;)

K, so if you want them in their FULL GLORY ... download THESE!
With WIll Ferrel - http://www.sendspace.com/file/zf0yu7 (1810 X 1989)
With red drink - http://www.sendspace.com/file/b4lzwj (2029 x 3000)
With Hubby! - http://www.sendspace.com/file/e14jb8 (2006 x 3000)

Yah, photobucket kept reducing the size, so the above links contain the massive files we all love! :D

k! onto UNESCO - these are the ones i found... though some you may have seen before:

During the day:

Current Music: The Fire - James Newton Howard - THANK YOU KELLY!!!

Current Mood:

cheerful

Current Location: mon apartement

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05 May 2007 @ 10:35 pm

"Let's Go Get Something To Eat, I'm thirsty."

First and foremost I AM SOOOOOOOOOO SORRY GUYS!!!
Why, you ask, is she sorry? In the next 7 days I have a dozen errands, two exams, two graduations, one gigantic party, a VERY messy apt to clean up before the invasion of 7 relatives, a doggy to take to the vet and get a prescription filled, and I'm sure other stuff I can't think of at the moment... in other words... I WILL DISAPPEAR OFF THE FACE OF THE PLANET (aka LJ) for one week. I'll TRY to go back and at least skim through some of my friends list next Monday, but I can't make any promises!! I'll still be on AIM, but likely not very talkative (send me a message anyway ;) ... it'll brighten my day!)

Wish me luck :D!

Before I disappeare, however, here is a short meme and a long overdue picspam!

The wonderfully ingenious and super fun

alataye, in her infinate wisdom, gave me the letter "G" for the meme where you have to list 10 things you like that start with a letter you are assigned. (If you want a letter let me know in your comment!), and so... without further ado....

1. Geffen Gala pics! (or Georgina, or anything Helen-related that starts with a "G"!!!)
2. Greta Garbo
3. Godiva
..... Urg, ok, so the letter "G" is not as easy as it looks! thanks Taye :P ....
4. Great ideas
5. Graphic making!
6. Giving
7. Gifts
8. Graduating :D
... the creativity well has officially run dry....
9. Grover
10. Groucho Marx

AND... I lied ... well, I didn't lie so much as not realize how many "watermark-free" Getty pics I had, so you all have another picspam to look forward to AFTER this one! So I guess, instead of this being installment 3 of 3, it's 3 of 4!!

To start with, here are some I found a few weeks ago (no idea if they're "new" to you all) but they were too cute to leave out! It seamlessly blends into the getty pics since I had the same event from that batch as well.

And We're OFF!

LOVE the expression!!

k, everyone have a FABULOUS week!! and drop me a line so I can be distracted (just a bit!) from what I really should be doing!! hehe... :D

Current Mood: working

working

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26 April 2007 @ 11:27 am

Ah, ha, ha, ha Stayin' Alive, Stayin' Alive...!

OMG!! HOW CUTE was our Dame last night!?!? LOL!! Yes, I realized that I ended up watching 2 hours of the utter TORTURE that is American Idol for a grand total of less than 30 seconds of Helen... BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!! Ok, for those of you who didn't get to see it click on THIS for the stayin' alive video!! ... and because I can...

It's been HOURS and I still can't get over how PRECIOUS she is!!!

Was anyone else really disappointed with the DVD of The Queen? As an avid (almost rabid) Dame Helen fan I wanted MANY more extra features!!! sigh... i guess we can't have everyting :(

On a happier note, GRADUATION CAP AND GOWN ARRIVED!! :D phew! fancy shmancy! And mom and dad want to take studio pictures cause my little brother is graduating and they think it would be precious to have some pictures together... i guess it would :D And apparently mom is planning this HUGE party where the entire city and their dogs are invited! SO EXCITED!! :D

Also, announcements go out tomorrow (they were SUPPOSED to go out today... UGH!) you'd THINK we know our relatives NAMES let alone their addresses!!! I can't tell you how many times we were stumped by how to spell people's names... or even just figure out their REAL name!! I assured my mom that Maggy was NOT born Maggy, but alas Maggy it is since we have no idea what her real name is!! (that is just ONE of the hundreds of headaches we had getting these out!)

Yah, and somewhere in all this I'm supposed to be studying for finals, finishing up group projects, etc. hehe... stressed? oh... of COURSE NOT!!! LOL!!! :D

HELENIFICATION AHEAD!!!
Enough about me!!! Onto Helen picspam!!!
Because we all know that this makes it AAAAAALLLL better :D
K, so today: Part 2 of 3 of "watermark-free" getty images
and Part 2 of 2 of "Prime Suspect 5: memorable moments"

Hehe... we are going to start AND end with the most precious couple EVER!!

and closer....

Now with the red DGA background...

Until next time!!
HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!!!
(and a big sorry to gemmi_joo and english_dwarf who found this post last night before it was done! sorry guys! no idea what happened to your comments after I made it a "private" post!!!)

Current Music: Delta Goodrem - Together We Are One

Current Mood:

exhausted

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17 April 2007 @ 03:24 pm

Quality over Quantity! (at least... I hope so!) - Losing Chase Icons!

So... here are the results of my "study breaks"!!

A VERY BIG THANK YOU to my BIG SIS MEG!!! (

maggiesheridan) All the icons with any clever text on it were ALL her ideas!!!! No better Big Sis in the ENTIRE WORLD!!!

These are for everyone... (of course)... but especially to those of us whose heart Chase Phillips stole.... (you know who you are!)

... Just FYI... I tried to give most of the icons the kind of crisp airy look the film itself has... I hope I succeeded! hehe.

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Tags: friendsonly, icons, losing chase

Current Mood:

indescribable

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12 April 2007 @ 02:06 am

T - 4 months and counting...

I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how stressed out I am (so I won't!), but whenever it does get to be too much, I take a "time-out" and make an icon :-D or search for pictures :-D My life will be changing in so many ways within the next few months that the pressure is starting to get to me ... WHY can't i just stay in school forever?? WHYYYYYYYYY!???????

Enough ranting!!! ONTO OUR ITINERARY!!!!!

OK, today we have

1) A piece of Helen randomness and a piece of school randomness that MUST be shared!!! (promise they'll make you laugh!! - well, i hope!)
2) BIG pictures - have we seen them before? no idea! but they're huge and i just found them, so i'm posting them anyway!
3) GETTY IMAGE PICTURES WITHOUT WATERMARKS!!!! AHHHH!!!! (I literally FREAKED OUT when i found these!!!) - (actually I was thinking twice about posting these, but our ever-so-amazing HNG (

crown_the_queen) told me you guys might like "savable" versions of these photos without ugly white marks across it! - so here they are!); and
4) Prime Suspect 5 - Most Memorable Moments - Part One

So without further ado!!!!

2) BIG PICTURES!!!!

I left the tags on cause they asked me so politely! :-D (that and i was lazy! tee hee)

This is the "whoosh" picture i posted more than a month ago... just supersized!!

3) GETTY IMAGES WITHOUT WATERMARKS!!! (Ok, now, i have over 200 of these, but CLEARLY I can't post them ALL at the moment ... so this is part 1 of ... 3?) Enjoy!

4) Prime Suspect 5 - Memorable Moments - Part 1 !!! (A lot of us seem to be on quite the PS kick lately so I knew the next "memorable moments" would have to be a PS... and I chose PS5 for one reason... FOR MY WONDERFUL SIS

maggiesheridan!!!!!! (who happens to be obsessed with it right now)

HAVE A GREAT DAY EVERYONE!!!

Current Mood: anxious

anxious

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