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  Past Layouts


Version 26 - Point Assassins
[®] Image: Joanna Dark from Perfect Dark Zero on XBox360
[®] Font: Perfect Dark
[®] Date: 12/31/05 - 4/13/08
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[®] Explanation: We had recently bought our 360 and were playing Perfect Dark. Then I thought, hey why not make it a layout. This layout stayed up for forever and a day! Wow. I really did like it, and I was a bit lazy with my site and never did anything with it for a while. I'm so glad I finally changed it.

Version 25 - Vibrant Incidence
[®] Image: Fall Leaves
[®] Font: 7 Days Rotated
[®] Date: 11/16/05 - 12/31/05
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[®] Explanation: I kept wanting to make a fall leaves layout. I ended up with this just because of time, and this really wasn't what I wanted. It was time for a change though.

Version 24 - Purified Aurora
[®] Image: Orange Lilies - Flowers
[®] Font: Helmsley
[®] Date: 3/5/05 - 11/16/05
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[®] Explanation: My longest lasting layout. There was just something about all the oranges and the setup. I really did enjoy this layout, though it wasn't my favorite. It stayed up forever since I didn't feel like making a new layout.

Version 23 - Strawberry Hearts
[®] Image: Strawberry Runts - Candy
[®] Font: Cheri Liney
[®] Lyrics: "I Love You More Today Than Yesterday" by Spiral Staircase
[«] Brushes: Heart Brushes
[®] Date: 2/7/05 - 3/5/05
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[®] Explanation: Not a good layout, but I wanted one for Valentine's Day. I picked the song because it's one of the ones Sean kept listening and referring to when we first started talking.

Version 22 - The Intriguing Stampede
[®] Image: Vash the Stampede - Trigun
[®] Font: Inkburrow
[®] Date: 11/17/04 - 2/7/05
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[®] Explanation: It was all about the crazy Vash picture that I just had to use. A darker layout, but a fun one.

Version 21 - Luscious Fascination
[®] Image: Butterfly on Stargazer Lilies - Flowers
[®] Font: Byte Police
[®] Date: 7/20/04 - 11/17/04
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[®] Explanation: One of my favorites. My favorite flower plus my love for butterflies, and then all of the bright pinks are what make this one. I probably could have done a better setup, but that's not what this one was about.

Version 20 - Suntan
[®] Image: Faye Valentine - Cowboy Bebop
[®] Font: Trubble
[®] Date: 6/15/04 - 7/20/04
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[®] Explanation: I had to do one sexy layout. No time better than the summer to do something like this. I used the picture in a link button, so I just decided to expand upon it and make it a layout.

Version 19 - Don't Blink
[®] Image: Barbara Eden - Actress
[®] Font: JD & Kudasai
[®] Date: 4/12/04 - 6/15/04
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[®] Explanation: My one and only side scroll. Very pink. It was originally going to be an I Dream of Jeannie layout, but instead just turned into a Barbara Eden in swim suits layout.

Version 18 - Pure Existence
[®] Image: Mermaid - CG done by Yukirin
[®] Font: Dear Joe
[®] Date: 3/19/04 - 4/12/04
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[®] Explanation: This was one of those where I saw the picture and just had to use it.

Version 17 - Visions Yet to Come
[®] Image: Space View - Outlaw Star
[®] Font: Speed Bowling
[®] Date: 2/15/04 - 3/19/04
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[®] Explanation: One of my favorites. This was more like the personal site layouts that so many people use. So simple, yet pretty.

Version 16 - A Love That Will Last Forever
[®] Image: Sean & Me
[®] Font: my handwriting
[®] Date: 2/1/04 - 2/15/04
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[®] Explanation: My lovey/cheesy Valentine's Day layout dedicated to my first and only love. It was bound to happen at some point, so why not just get it over with. Especially with all of our crazy love. Note: I scanned my hand writing and then went and colored it with a paint bucket, so that is why it looks kind of yucky.

Version 15 - Stargazer Symphony
[®] Image: Stargazer Lilies - FSlowers
[®] Font: Dear Joe
[®] Date: 1/12/04 - 2/1/04
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[®] Explanation: My first Stargazer Lily layout. It didn't quite show off my favorite flower like it should have, and the background was kind of annoying, but it did exist.

Version 14 - Celebrate Your Holidays With English Crackers!
[®] Image: Gromit & Feathers McGraw - Wallace & Gromit
[®] Font: Penguin Attack
[®] Date: 12/21/03 - 1/7/04
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[®] Explanation: My love for Wallace and Gromit made it so there was going to be at least one layout featuring them. Not the one I had been planning on doing, but seeing as it was Christmas and all, I found it quite suiting. Plus my mom's side of the family would pop English crackers every Christmas. It's tradition.

Version 13 - Snow-Filled Thoughts
[®] Image: Chilly & son with the evil snowman Frosty
[®] Date: 12/13/03 - 12/21/03   -&-   1/7/04 - 1/12/04
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[®] Explanation: This resulted from my inside joke with Sean about how Frosty the Snowman is evil. Then you throw in the pet penguin named Chilly which could have happened if we had had our house/zoo in northern California, and here you have my winter layout.

Version 12 - The Power of Chee... er... Vegeta!
[®] Image: Vegeta - DragonBall Z/GT
[®] Date: 11/15/03 - 12/13/03
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[®] Explanation: I love to hate DragonBall Z, and I love Vegeta. I copied the first Vegeta layout I did, and just changed the collage in the middle. It's hard to say which one I liked more. Unfortunately I still didn't get rid of the white surrounding the images, but then again I didn't try...

Version 11 - Pick Your Poison
[®] Images: DragonBall Z, Trigun, Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi
[®] Date: 9/1/03 - 11/15/03
[®] View: goku vs vegeta, vegeta, trigun, escaflowne, suzaku, seiryuu
[®] Explanation: Had I used skins, this would have been about 100 times easier. I had fun making every single page for each layout; I had six copies of every page. I loved it though. My two favorites being Goku vs Vegeta and Trigun.

Version 10 - Summer Simplicity
[®] Image: Naru - Love Hina
[®] Font: Red Star & Red Star Bold
[®] Date: 6/15/03 - 9/1/03
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[®] Explanation: Hadn't seen any of this series when I made this layout. Probably not the best idea seeing as I may have hated it. I liked the colors and the setup, and this was my only layout using a left-sided scroll bar.

Version 9 - Eradication with Style
[®] Image: Matrix - Movie
[®] Font: Matrix
[®] Date: 3/10/03 - 6/15/03
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[®] Explanation: Had I actually used the symbols which is what the matrix was coded in, it may have been better. I wanted to do binary, so that was that. I liked my font in the two pictures. I think that was my favorite part.

Version 8 - Darkness Looms Over Pure Intentions
[®] Image: Diane Heidkreuger - Model
[®] Date: 1/9/03 - 3/10/03
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[®] Explanation: I used a model I had never heard of simply because her name was Diane. I'm an odd one. I liked the light blue on black.

Version 7 - Doesn't Get Much Better Than This
[®] Image: Vegeta - DragonBall Z
[®] Date: 11/24/02 - 1/9/03
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[®] Explanation: I love to hate DragonBall Z, and Vegeta is my favorite character. He had to be in a layout. I liked the light blue and yellow on blue.

Version 6 - Remotely Dreaming
[®] Image: Rei Ayanami - Neon Genesis Evangelion
[®] Date: 10/12/02 - 11/24/02
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[®] Explanation: Very, very simple. I'm not a big brown fan, but it can be cute with certain colors. This was definitely a starter layout.

Version 5 - Xander Xone - Too Much is Not Enough
[®] Image: Vin Diesel - Actor
[®] Date: 9/2/02 - 10/12/02
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[®] Explanation: Unfortunately for me and everyone else, I liked Vin Diesel as an actor at one point. How horrible that bright red background was... Just shoot me for this one. The only thing this had going for it was the dark grey background with white text seeing as I like to use dark grey.

Version 4 - Dreading the Drive
[®] Image: Greenwheel - Band
[®] Date: ? - 9/2/02
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[®] Explanation: I was addicted to the song, and I had to make about a 45 minute drive to and from school each day. Saddly colored a bad green. Circle navigation anyone?

Version 3.1 - Summer's End
[®] Image: Belldandy - Ah! My Goddess
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[®] Explanation: Belldandy again. And for some unknown reason, this was named version 3.1 instead of 4 like it should have been. Screwed up my numbering and I was stuck with it. My first upside down picture since everyone was doing it.

Version 3 - Belldandy's *Star*
[®] Image: Belldandy - Ah! My Goddess
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[®] Explanation: The beautiful Belldandy. My first layout with the dark overlay over part of the picture for the content section. It isn't my worst though.

Version 2 - Treaspassers Will Be Shot. Survivors Will Be Shot Again.
[®] Image: Girl & Her Gun
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[®] Explanation: I have no idea what happened when I took this screenshot since it wasn't lined up like it was supposed to be. And that horrible red border...

Version 1 - Blue Girl End
[®] Image: Ending picture - Outlaw Star
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[®] Explanation: My first pop up. This was back when my site was called "Dazzling... Meaning Weird". My pop up layout should have been a little bit smaller to be the height of the picture. I could have had a worst first layout... it could have been the Vin Diesel one... but sadly that came about later.

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