Things are getting moved around and such, so broken links may abound until I’m done, but hang in there. I seem to do this at least once a year anyway.  The art and stuff has been moved to a coppermine gallery so you can actually comment and stuff, some of the animated things thumbs look weird, but I assure you the normal image works dandy. Ignore the layout. Working on it, among other things.

I was thinking I might make the headers on the main site rotate though.. *ponders*

Oh and theres like, a ton of new avatars. Go! Look!

So, tada! Nice, clean site thanks to Ardamis.com.

As to what’s new, well for now I’m uploading the new icons, I’ve got some ideas about how I’m going to fix up the blends sections and such, I want them too look better. I think I’ll install lightbox again since I’ve learnt how to wrangle with it a bit better now.

Also, how about a little life update for those who don’t follow my blogs.

I’ve been doing various things over the last few months, notably a heck of a lot of RPing and research on some things. Marauders Life restarted just the other week and we’ve been at it. I love ML, though admittedly this is the third time we’ve restarted, and Sammy and I kind of managed to get Bellatrix and Rodolphus kicked out of Hogwarts within an all time record of three school days approximately. So much for going slow.

Those I get the distinct feeling some of the chaos was induced by the fact Sammy and I were finally talking on microphones and were plotting - therefore Krista and Jamie had no idea what so ever we were up to until it happened. It just so happened we blew up a few students and castle parts. Namely the great hall.

But a lot has been going on over there, it’s quite fun, actually.

I’ve also been keeping track of the dreaded Strikethrough 07. That wasn’t the most pleasant situation I’ve ever been unfortunate enough to watch, especially with company representatives openly mocking it’s user base. As a person who enjoyed livejournal enough to pay for an account since two months after I joined, I was utterly appalled, though I admit not too shocked as this was some time in from the beginning of the pissing contest. It is needless to say that I have moved, and may possibly just blog here, if I find any other sites lacking. Though I am quite enjoying greatest journal (which I was already a member of for ages anyways) and insane journal, though neither is exactly what I loved about LJ, and that makes me lonesome some, but you can’t win them all.

In other news my mother need to grow up. And she knows where this is, so:

MUM IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS UTTERLY IMMATURE TO REFUSE TO GO TO CHRISTMAS DINNER MERELY BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LIKE YOUR UNCLES WIFE. JONE IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO BE THE ONLY PERSON THERE AND FRANKLY I’M A WITCH, I DON’T CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS ANYMORE PERSONALLY, AND I’M GOING WITHOUT COMPLAINING. PLEASE JUST GROW UP.

That said she’ll probably only notice this next July.

Uh yeah, it’s late. I need to go. I’ll finish with some more stuff soon, I promise. And also? Sometimes I upload without adding it here. it’s bad of me and I’m sorry.

P.S. Theres like 60 new Harry Potter Icons or so.

If this is the first time you’ve been here for a while you might notice two things, one we have a new layout, it’s called the Book of Life and two there is an ad down the bottom of the page. The layout was a long time in coming and is I think my best thus far, I got the idea from Autumn Pixels a few months ago and it kind of stuck, the name, I think I got from Enya.

The ad bar, just below the layout is there in the hopes that this site will eventually come to pay for itself, I can’t offer incentives for people to click them but if you see something that interests you or you just want to help me earm some cash, feel free to click on the ads.

I’ve also opened a Cafepress store for the domain: Crowned Meadow’s Ye Olde Shoppe, there you can find original designs by yours truely. All funds go to keeping me feed and internetted and such, so uhmn. buy something, if you can

I seem to have abandoned LJ somewhat, which is both bad and good, I’ve had more time just to be myself, to sit outside and such. I do love all my lj friends and stuff though and to any of them that see this, I’m sorry I haven’t been around.

I need to talk to my hostees, I haven’t heard anything from them recently, with the exception of Steven and I think that Ellie is still having problems with her ftp though I’m not sure why, so I’ll have to work that out, but it works fine for me which is really odd

I’ve also started work on an Environmental/Metaphysical/Spiritual and Paranormal webzine and if anyone is interested in being staff they should comment here or email me. Oh and I think I can update more often now, so keep watching.

He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said today.

It is understood he was killed by a stingray barb that went through his chest and reportedly into his heart .

He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas filming an underwater documentary when the tragedy occurred.

The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) was called about 11am (AEST) and an emergency services helicopter was flown to the crew’s boat on Batt Reef, off the coast near Cairns, with a doctor and emergency services paramedic on board.

Irwin had a puncture wound to the left side of his chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Irwin’s body is being flown to Cairns.

Tasmania Police this afternoon confirmed his wife Terri was traveling in the state at the time of the tragedy.

A spokeswoman said police had made contact with Mrs Irwin and “passed on a message relating to the death of her husband”.

The Irwins have two children - a daughter, Bindi Sue Irwin, eight, and a three-year-old son, Robert (Bob) Clarence Irwin.

Steve Irwin - known worldwide as the Crocodile Hunter - was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchcry “Crikey!”.

In an sad twist, it has been reported that his new documentary was aimed at demystifying the stingray.

Irwin’s Crocodile Hunter program was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the world on cable network Discovery.

He has also starred in movies and has developed the Australia Zoo wildlife park, north of Brisbane, which was started by his parents Bob and Lyn Irwin.

Tributes have already started pouring in for the larger-than-life character.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who used a photograph of his family at Australia Zoo for his official Christmas card last year, hailed Mr Irwin for his work in promoting Australia.

Irwin was heavily involved in last year’s “G’Day LA” campaign.

“The minister knew him, was fond of him and was very, very appreciative of all the work he’d done to promote Australia overseas,” a spokesman said.

A Tourism Queensland spokeswoman said the death was shocking and paid tribute to Irwin’s “enormous contribution” to his adopted state.

“I don’t think we could even estimate how much he brought us through his personality and his profile and his enthusiasm about Queensland,” she said.

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I’m not saying I care, but it’s Australian news >.<

Well, the school holidays have come and gone again, and its getting deathly cold, because its you know, winter, despite popular belief it actually gets incredibly cold in Australia in the winter.
I haven’t been doing much, I know and I appolguise, I’ve been busy and thus a lot of stuff
remains incomplete.

I’ve been doing a fair but of writing, and will probably get around to fixing the writing section up soon. Most of it is fanfiction of the Harry Potter kind, which is my favorite kind, infact, LotR fanfiction is hard to write, because… well my fellow LotR fans are scarier then my fellow HP fan ^^.

I’m currently planning to write a chapter story on Bellatrix Black-Lestrange’s life, it’s called “Roses in December.” It’ll be from birthto death and have different ratings per chapter, I suppose. Links to everything will go in the writing section and on here when it goes up.

Also, you might wanna grab a look under icons, there should be new ones.

I wont be doing much on here this week, my friend Kate died
and her funeral is on friday.   :’(

We have a new hostee, my friend Bree and her site Black Poppit,
which I’m helping her get into the swing of things.

Oh and it’s named ‘Everybody Else’s Girl’ and the lyric at the bottom ‘She’s been everybody ese’s girl, maybe someday she’ll be her own’ is from the Tori Amos song ‘Girl’ off her ‘Little Earthquakes’ Album.

Vundi would like to say the following for which I have no responsibility:
Me: I just made my site a layout
Vundi: THAT’S A GOOD WAY OF BEING DISTRACTING. LEMME SEE IT
Me: http://crowned-meadow.net/
Vundi: Hot.
Me: hehe
Vundi:
Me: Muhaha, I love my site.
Vundi: It’s SEXY and COOL and DISTRACTING.
Vundi: Y’know maybe it’s just me, but your site is very white.

ETA: Two posts in one night … wow…

ETA 2: This layout looks a bit funky in firefox, so viewing it in IE or Opera is reconmended. (preferably the latter )

A major casting change has been made on the filming of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange was to be played by Helen McCrory.

But she’s now had to be replaced as she’s expecting a baby and would be heavily pregnant when her scenes in the Ministry of Magic were filmed.

Newsround can exclusively reveal that she will now be played by Helena Bonham Carter, who played Charlie’s mother in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

EDIT: Lea informs me she was the corpse bride also, hmmn interesting. And I’m strangly not suprised by this either.

You can find images of her on google by clicking here..

Well, what do you think?

Hehe.. sorry.. had to.. Bella is a godess