Chark Tales

That's shark, with a 'C'! Blogging by Charlene Runge

Too Gone Too Long

Posted on | July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

One of my favorite songs, is the title of this post (Randy Travis will always be one of my fav country artists). It’s been a fair while since I updated my blog and I feel ashamed. Okay, not really. Life has been really complicated and busy of late.

As an update, I’m still bowling and still suffering from headaches and tension (when my meds seem to stop working, which seems like every 3 to 4 months). My mother was in and out of the hospital and rehab the last few months. Soon as she came home, she reverted back to her eating habits of old, which really is bad for her. She finally realized that if she wants to feel marginally good, some things just have to be cut out. Bread and ice cream say bye-bye.

My dad is still battling his cancer. He’s been doing chemo every two weeks for what seems like forever. One of my sisters was diagnosed with diabetes recently. That now makes two of them. I worry about my family. I worry about my friends. I worry about almost everything.

Hopefully, I’ll get back into the habit of posting updates here and freebies :) . I got Adobe Design Premium CS5, so I’m looking to be creative again.

Category: Day to Day, Everything Else, Family, Odd Moments
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Freebie: Tiled Pattern ‘Paper’ – Swirls, Stars, Dots

Posted on | October 14, 2009 | No Comments

Had a moment to try and learn something new with Illustrator the last few days and tackled creating a tiled pattern which I turned into a black and white pattern.

Swirls, Stars and Dots

I’ve decided to give it away as a freebie in 300dpi 8.5×11″ paper and 12×12″ paper.

If you like and you take, please leave a comment letting me know. Thanks. Enjoy the design, because I had fun making it.

Category: Hobbies, Scrapping
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A Logo Idea…If I Were Predatory

Posted on | August 11, 2009 | No Comments

I saw a tweet from LayersTV_RC about not being able to sketch a logo for his own identity, and I’d never even really given it a thought for myself.

But I had a few minutes and decided to sit down and sketch out a rough idea for this site. I used Photoshop to clean up the sketch a tad bit. Didn’t want to spend too much time on it. Here’s a scan, click on the thumbnail to view larger image:

Chark Tales - Hand Sketched Logo

Let me know what you think.

Category: Hobbies, Web Stuff
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Neighborhood Cat… Now Ours?

Posted on | August 10, 2009 | No Comments

First noticed the cat about two months ago, hanging out on the back porch trying to stay cool in the afternoon sun by hiding under the deck seating. Can’t resist cats, so I went out to pet her. She purred from the beginning.

She kept coming back and well, I have a soft heart when it comes to animals so I started feeding it tiny little tuna cat treats. It’s since escalated to feeding her and her ‘adopted’ brother, twice a day some days. They originally come from the house two down from us, but the owner says they wander all over and are happy with whoever feeds them and gives them attention. So, I guess that would be me :) .

I went out this evening to take a picture of the female. She’s so pretty and so affectionate.

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