First I want to wish a Happy Birthday to one of my newest friends, bt_kady !!



I hope you had a wonderful day! Strangely enough I had to re-upload this pic into my Photobucket account. I made it the other day and had uploaded it into the appropriate folder, but today it was gone. And I also noticed that my storage space went down from 69% used to 50%. Umm....? I doubt this pic above violates their TOS. I have made quite a few others like this one, and they're still there. Maybe it was some technical glitch? I wonder what other pics are missing from my PB... *sigh*

Anyway, that pic from Colin Ford's Twitter inspired me to make some new art today. I actually made it with GIMP and got some ideas from a tutorial or two I found. I've got a banner and a wallpaper (2 sizes). If you like please take. Credit not totally necessary but always appreciated.

Wallpaper, 1024x768 size:
Wallpaper, 1280x1024 size:


Banner:

Hope you like :)

As if I didn't have enough of them... *g*

The pics I posted some time ago are ones I uploaded to my flickr account.  Which are all well and good, but I was in a hurry to upload and share them all.  And I wanted smaller ones up on that site in case some kind-hearted souls decided to steal them ... NOT anyone I know here on LJ or any of the SPN sites, but just anyone crusing along on flickr or surfing the internet who happened to find them.

After going through all my raw pic files, I found I could save them as larger sizes and the quality isn't half bad! *shock* LOL, see I'm really not experienced much when it comes to taking photos. 

So, I've gone and edited the original files again and saved them all in my LJ scrapbook.  The album is called "Day 3 HQ", and while they're not necessarily "HQ", they are higher quality than those I posted on flickr.  They're from the breakfast, Jared and J2 panels (I already had some higher quality Jensen panel pics).  The breakfast ones still aren't that great, again because of the crappy lighting and the fact that my hands were shaking a lot - AND I didn't have a tripod with me.  But still if you like any of them and want to take, please go ahead.  Just credit me.

There's 153 of them.  Find them here: Higher Quality Pics

Few teasers:


 

Hope you like. :)

Oh, and angels_cordy , I got your Christmas card yesterday! Thanks so much, hon!! And there will be more Puppy Picspams to come in the New Year *g*

*hugs*

Sorry I'm spamming so much today, lol

Here is the last part of my SPN con report.  This covers the photo op and autograph sessions on Sunday with Jared and Jensen. WARNING: some potentially annoying fangirling ahead.  Non SPN fans might want to turn back. *g*

The Jared photo ops were held right after the breakfast, so everyone had to race into the main theater room (they were first come first served, and they would call you by rows).  I was pretty much near the front of the line.  As I finally got into the photo op room, I saw Jared sitting on a stool for the photos and he was wearing a hat (the one he wore during the Q&A panels)... *sigh* I seriously almost asked him to remove it, but I just couldn't. Heh.  Anyway, when they were ready for me, Jared pretty much gave me a "Hi!" He had his arms out like he was ready to put them around me.  I asked him, "can I have a hug?"  He said, "A hug? Oh, sure!" and pulled me into a hug.  I can't even begin to describe how it felt being cuddled up to him.  And he smelled so good!! After the pic was taken, I gave him a little "thank you."  He seemed almost surprised that I thanked him.  He nodded, kind of widened his eyes and said, "of course!" He looked so much like a puppy, I almost had to bite my tongue to keep from calling him "puppy." LOL.

People were lining up for the J2 sandwich photo ops already when I got back.  And shortly thereafter they lined people up for the Jensen photo ops.  Again I was near the front of that line.  When it was my turn, Jensen was sitting on a stool like Jared.  He looked at me with this sort of grin and gave me a big "Heeeey!" in that lovely voice of his.  I kind of blurted out "hi!" He asked how I was doing and I told him "I'm doing good." That was all I could say because they went through them pretty quick and I really couldn't think of anything else to say. *g*  I didn't get too close to him, but I did put my hand up on his back.  After the pic was taken I thanked him as I did Jared, and he kind of shyly nodded and smiled.  (why didn't I get to close to him, you might ask? Well, ( here is why... )

After the panels ended, they quickly started the autograph session and moved people through pretty quickly, telling us the boys had a flight to catch back to Vancouver for filming.  Unlike the guests from Fri and Sat, they couldn't personalize, just sign their names.  Being in Row A I got up there pretty quick.  I really wanted to thank both of them so much for doing this show, that I really enjoy it and I've met so many nice people thanks to it... my 62 year old mom and I watch it together, it's "our time" we share, bla bla blah. But I decided to keep it short since Creation kept stressing they were in a hurry.  Jensen was given my photo and after he gave it back to me I said to him "thank you so much for coming." He was already signing the next person's photo so he wasn't looking at me, but he said "oh, thank YOU for coming."  He did that eyebrow thing that makes me weak... you know, where his forehead gets wrinkly and his eyebrows arch upward? I have a weird obsession with it, which will most likely come out when I start my Dean picspams. *g*

Recovering quickly from the eyebrow thingie (LOL), they gave Jared my Sam photo and as soon as he said it he went, "oh, awesome." Heh... it was the smiley Sam one from Playthings.  After he signed it, he gave it back to me and looked up at me, smiling.  I told him the same as I told Jensen, and he said (still looking at me)  "oh, no, thank YOU for coming."  I blurted out "I'm happy..." and I'm sure I looked like a loon standing there, so I quickly added "... to be here."  He nodded and said, "awesome."  Hee! My legs felt like they were made of jelly.  It was such a cool experience!

( And some sillier con ramblings )


So here are the autographs and photo ops.  Warning, I look bad.  Particularly bad in the Jensen one.  I swear I'm grinning like a loon.  I really don't look this bad in real life. Really.  I guess I just don't photograph too well sometimes.  Plus my hair looked like crp.  I had over blowdried it and it ended up looking really flat and straight (my hair is in reality on the wavy side).  Look at your own risk... or just ignore me and concentrate on Jensen, lol.

( Autos and Photos )

First let me say how sorry I am for taking forever getting these pics and reports posted.  I honestly didn't think it would take so long to get the pics edited and uploaded... and between that I had holiday obligations and work...  But I suppose better late than never, right? *g*

Here is my report of Jensen's Q&A panel, along with pics...

This isn't going to be in any particular order ... again I couldn't take notes as I was too busy taking pics and laughing.  But here is what I remember.

Like I said in the J2 panel report, he was asked about the rocking out to Eye of the Tiger he did after the broadcast of Yellow Fever and the whole leg guitar bit.  He did demonstrate it for us :D 

He was asked what episodes he liked the least.  Someone in the audience threw out "Bugs"! and he echoed it.  He also mentioned In the Beginning from this season, because he spent so much time on it while Jared went to Hawaii for the week, lol

Someone told him about Jason Manns mentioning a BB gun incident that took place between the two of them.  Jensen got up and demonstrated what happened (from what I remembered it involved one of them getting shot in the butt or leg?)... he was hilarious!  Then he mentioned something about getting Jason up there to play some music.  We all said, "as long as you sing along!" Then Jason started walking into the room.  Sadly they didn't do it. :P

He mentioned that sometimes he and Jared go down to Washington (state) to do some target practice at a shooting range. 

He also mentioned what car he has.  He drives a Toyota Tundra SUV.  He mentioned his love of chocolate, something about having something dipped in chocolate, with chocolate icing (welcome to the club, Jensen... *g*).  He said his grandmother's chocolate pie is his favorite, and his mom's pumpkin pie is his second favorite.

One of the funniest IMO was that a girl went up to ask a question, and she said to him "this question was for Jared, but ... maybe you could answer it?"  It was about Jared/Sam's hair, LOL.  You could tell Jensen felt a bit awkward, but he was still like, "that's awesome... it's shallow but I'll try to answer it."  The question was something like "Sam's hair was so different in S1, so neat, and then S2 came and what happened?"  He pretty much gave a non-answer, kinda said that sometimes you want a change and he compared it to Michael Rosenbaum having to shave his head everyday for Smallville.  He said, "I used to have hair Jared's length and I don't miss it."  He also added "I think secretly he wants to cut it."  That resulted in a lot of boo's from the audience, lol.  So he quickly added ".. but he won't."  Heh. :D

He told us that supposedly season 4 was going to be the final season of SPN.  Most of us were staring in disbelief.  But he said that Kripke then saw that the ratings for the beginning of the season were excellent and he went, "oh CRAP!" So they might stretch the plot into this season and then finish it up in season 5.  But apparently they were just going to do four seasons so they'd have enough for it to be put into syndication.  Thankfully the ratings are so good that they're going into season 5. (*phew*)

He talked about some behind-the-scenes stuff.  For example the "magic fingers" that we saw in some eps, like Houses of the Holy, was just some guy shaking the bed underneath the set.  He also mentioned the hotel room set for Provenance, the way it looked so wild and made the boys take notice and go, "huh."  He also talked about the gag reel for season 3, about how so much of it was spur-of-the-moment stuff, like in Jus in Bello when Henriksen takes the gun out (when they're in the cell) and Jared just starts screaming and jumping up and down.  Jensen just looked at him and then started doing it as well. 

Oh... there was also a girl who asked him if she could have a hug.  I think she'd mentioned that she got one from Jared and wanted to know if he could give her one as well.  He obliged (lucky girl... *g*). 

There was also a girl from China who didn't speak much English and she was trying to teach Jensen how to say "I love you" or something like that in Mandarin.  LOL, it was so cute trying to hear him repeat her.

Another cute moment was that a girl from Switzerland (I met her, but for the life of me I can't remember her name... I'm so awful with names... *blush*) had a question.  She said English wasn't her first language, but she said she's learned so many words and expressions thanks to the show, like "cakehole" and "pig in a poke." *g* It was cute the way she said "pig in a poke."  Jensen was all smiley at that and also said it was cute.  He even imitated her saying it in her accent!  She asked if we could teach her more sayings, so people were calling out things to her as well as Jensen and she was saying stuff like "but what does it mean?"  Aw, it was priceless. :)

That's about all I remember, but I enjoyed his Q&A too.  He kept getting thrown off the questions 'cause he was laughing and had to keep stopping and saying "I'm sorry". *g*

I have 135 pics edited and uploaded from the Q&A and you can find them HERE. If you want to use these for anything, feel free, just please let me know you're taking them and credit me. :)  

And here are some previews...



(being asked about leg guitar during Eye of the Tiger... *g*)


(and giving us a demonstration! :D)




(aww... laughingJensen!)

Again I'm sorry for taking so long to get these up.  I should have my photo ops and autographs ready to share in the next few days as well, and then the Friday and Saturday panels.

So, after editing and uploading over 250 pics from the J2 panel (phew!), I finally have the next batch of report and pics to share.

Again, the report isn't too detailed as I was too busy taking pics etc to take notes. But here is what I remember the most.

At the end of Jared's panel, I think he'd received a certain question and wasn't sure how to answer, when suddenly Jensen appeared, kind of crawling up onto the stage. Jared looked over by him and proclaimed, "saved by the Jensen!" Hee :D Jensen took one of the chairs and was about to set it down next to Jared when he grabbed Jared's hat and made like he was going to throw it into the audience or something. Jared was reaching out to grab it, almost like he was afraid Jensen would get rid of it, LOL! I had to stop myself from applauding Jensen for doing it (yeah, Jared was cute in the hat but I was still kinda peeved that he wore it for the photo ops! *g*). Jensen gave him the hat back and set his chair down next to Jared.

Someone asked them both if they had action figures for Sam and Dean, what would they want them to do. Jared mentioned his favorite word of the day - "ipecac" (teehee) and held his hand out to mimic Sam exorcising demons. Jensen said his action figure would have poseable arms and would have fried food in his hands for him to eat.

I don't remember too many of the questions in particular, but I know there were a few people coming up to the microphone who would say "I'm a Sam girl, but my mom is a Dean girl", or "I'm a Dean girl but my daughter is a Sam girl." Each of the boys would be encouraging them, like Jared telling the Sam fan who's mom is a Dean girl, "you're going to go far in life" and Jensen telling her "you should listen to your mother." LOL, silly boys. They are just so cute.

They were both asked how they got into acting and what their inspiration was. I can't remember Jared's answer - something about how he got into it when he was in school. Jensen said his dad was his inspiration.

The "Eye of the Tiger" bit that aired after Yellow Fever *was* mentioned, and of course everyone wanted Jensen to do a demonstration of it. He did do the leg-guitar thing for a bit! :D The boys were asked about certain fears I think, and Jensen mentioned something about being in a very small plane (11 seater I think) once and there being a lot of turbulence, that he was fearing for his life. Jared mentioned the time when his car flipped when he was doing Flight of the Phoenix and he thought he was dead.

One of the questions I loved... Jared was asked if there would be a Gilmore Girls movie, because it had been talked about. Right then, Jensen cried "PLEASE!"*g* Jared said that if they did one he'd like to play Dean in it, something about him being the "original Dean."  To which Jensen said, "there's only one Dean." Heh.

There were a lot more questions still left and some people had more for Jared, but Jared was given the signal that his time was up and had to get going.  A lot of people went, "awww."  He got up and went over to sign the Creation banners, and then headed off stage.  But not before he took one of the smaller chairs meant for the audience and put it up there, meant for Jensen I believe as a little jab at how he's shorter than Jared. LOL.

That's about it for that panel.  Next I'll have a report and pics to cover Jensen's Q&A.  Sorry it's taking me so long to post... I didn't realize editing pics would take up so much time!

Like I said, I have over 250 pics of the J&J panel.  They're all HERE.  Again you can take these and use them for art or what have you, just please let me know you're taking them and credit me. :)

Here are some previews:


"Saved by the Jensen!"


Aww, Jared wants his hat back...


This pic is dedicated to all the bonafide J2 fans out there... *g*


Jared demonstrates the Ipecac Sam action figure


Hm.. all I remember from this is that Jared was saying that this can was his "Monster" energy drink.  Jensen I guess is reacting to the name, or the contents (like Jared really needs an energy drink given how full of energy he usually is!).  Whatever it is, his expression is priceless. LOL


More to come soon! Jensen's panel, and then all the Friday and Saturday stuff.

This report isn't going to be in order.  I finished editing and uploading my pics from the breakfast Sunday morning, so I thought I would start with that.

It's not much of a report either because I didn't take notes.  I was too busy taking pics and laughing my arse off to scribble anything down, LOL.  But here are the bits I remember off the top of my head.  The boys did mention a spoiler of sorts, but I'll stick it behind a cut.  Wasn't much but I want to be safe.

First of all...   Alisa and I were at the dessert party the night before.  I'll give more details on that after I get the pics edited and uploaded.  But I was extremely sleep deprived thanks to not having slept much in the previous two days so I didn't stay the whole time.  Everything was delayed due to the autograph session running late, so Jason Manns' concert started at around 10pm (instead of 9 or 9:30 like it was supposed to), and the dessert party started a bit after 11pm instead of 10-ish.  I went up to bed around 12:10am.  Alisa came up soon after.  When I was leaving, there were already people camped out with pillows and blankets/sleeping bags for the breakfast the next morning. 

Alisa asked for a 3:30am wake up call.  Yes, we woke up at 3:30 and got downstairs at 4am. For a breakfast that wasn't supposed to start until 8:45am.  The things I do to get a nice view of the boys (no, not thinking dirty thoughts here... *ahem*  *straightens halo*).  I dozed off a few times and ended up curling up on the floor against the wall.  Yeah, I'm sad.  *g*  Bambi joined us a little while later.  They started letting us in around 8:30-8:40.  Alisa and I ended up getting a pretty decent table, though.

They called us up by table to get food and told us the boys would be dropping by around 10am.  When it got around that time, Adam from Creation stalled for time and asked where everyone was from.  Then finally the boys came in.

*fans self*

Jared wore what looked like one of his SamShirts... not sure which one it was, but it looked like one.  His hair was so pretty and flicky (note to SPN hairstylists: let him have his hair this way on the show!!).  Jensen looked quite hot in a button down shirt with pullover sweater as well.

There were two bodyguards with them.  Both looking like tough mafia types.  Seriously, one of them kept looking in my direction as I was snapping my pics.  It unnerved me.   *nervous laugh*

Anyway after they came in, Jared asked how long some of us had been there, if we had been waiting long.  Some people said they'd been there since the crack of dawn and some stayed overnight.  He said something like "the coffee makers of Chicago thank you."  He also asked if anyone had seen the rallies after the election in Grant Park, that he and Jensen saw it on TV, people being rowdy and stuff.  Jensen said something like "I wish we had that kind of turnout."  One or two people said "I'd vote for you, Jensen!" Jared agreed he would vote for him as well and we all clapped.

Both boys were really hilarious.  A few people made comments about Jared sweating, and some girl gave him a couple of ice packs.  He started stuffing them in his pants pockets and then his shirt pockets. 

Jensen spoke of Dean's crazy eating habits, basically shaking his head and saying "Oh, Dean, Dean, Dean..." in a weary, disapproving way. *g*

( slight late season 3, early season 4 spoilers )

Jared asked if we had any food. We all said we ate already, and he was literally looking around and sniffing the air for food (come on, look me in the eyes and tell me this guy isn't a giant puppy! LOL).  Bambi still had food on her plate, and he appeared to have found it because he pointed straight at her and went "there's something!" She said she wanted to tell him to come over here and get it.

Someone told him about what Samantha Smith said about his dog Harley and the confrontation he had with her little dog.  Apparently he knew about it because he and Jensen had found vids of the previous panels on YouTube before they arrived (heh... oops).  He said something about his dogs being a lot bigger and weighing more than her dog.  Jensen said something like "his dogs are even bigger [or weigh more, can't remember] than me."  Jared said he should bring his dogs to meet all of us, and that they would probably eat all the food here.

That's about all I can remember.  Jared was such a big puppy full of energy, while Jensen was the straight man and kept looking at him with this amused grin on his face.  They were really hilarious.

I thought they were going to drop by the different tables like the guests did the night before at the dessert party, but Adam told them it was time to start photo ops, so they said their goodbyes and left to get ready since Jared's was first. 

So that's about it for this part of the report.  I've got all the pics uploaded from the breakfast HERE.

Here are some previews. :)






Again click to enlarge.  There are many more pics at the link above (I've got about 119 up there).  If you want to use these for anything like art, icons, etc., you are welcome to it.  But please let me know if you're taking them and give me credit for the original images.  Thanks. :)

I've got some of the pics from the Friday panels done, need to finish them and move to Saturday's panels.  As soon as I have those done, I'll get started on the Jared, Jensen and J2 panels.

Back to grueling field work tomorrow so I'll be calling it a night.  More over the next few days! :)

I am totally, totally, totally wiped out.  I had a really awesome time at the SPN con.  Great fun, great people, great guests (and a couple of extremely hot guys... cannot forget about them, nope).  But yeah, I am just wiped out.  Got about 2-3 hours of sleep Saturday night :P  I'm still trying to make up for it.

So this post will unfortunately *not* contain a con report or lots of pics.  I've almost used up two memory cards in my camera this weekend. I took just about 1000 pics yesterday alone when the boys were there.  I've also got to scan my autographed pics and photo ops.

But I thought I'd leave you with a little preview...  from the breakfast yesterday morning:



Click to enlarge.  If you want to use this pic for anything, feel free. But please give me credit for it. 

I will have more pics to share over the next day or two. Luckily my brand spanking new camera came through for me and I got some pretty nice pics. *pets camera*

But for now I'm going to watch the last episode (which thankfully my DVR recorded on Sat. while I was at the con) and then get some sleep. 

Can't wait to share everything with you all. Nighty night. :)

So I'm back.  We ended up going to Applebee's for an early dinner.  Then I realized I hadn't bought a Father's Day card. Oops. We stopped at Hallmark in the same shopping center.

Thanks guys for the help for dl the Supernatural episodes.  Once I get ready to cap season 3 I should be set. 

Forgot I had a ton of art I wanted to share for the longest time.  Icons mainly but also a banner and some wallpapers.  If you like, please take. Credit not totally necessary but appreciated.  Comments are love.

35 icons: 2 x Jensen (1 magazine shoot, 1 SPN promo pic)
           3 x Jared (2 SPN promo pics, 1 Dallas con pic thanks to gloriaoliver)
           23 x Sam
          1 x Dean and Sam
          6 x Dean

 Sam and Dean icons are from episodes 1x18, 2x02, 2x03, 2x04, 2x08, 2x09, 3x10, 3x12, 3x14, 3x15, and 3x16.

Teasers:


1 wallpaper, 3 different versions.  Uses S1 promo pic (thanks to jr24tw ). Click on thumbnails for full size.



1 banner and 1 header.  Header is from 3x14 and is 800x400 size (click on thumbnail for full size).  Banner is from 3x16 and is 600x180.


*whew* I think that's everything.  Hope you like. :)

I've done it...

I booked a flight to Chicago and ordered tickets for the Salute to Supernatural con in Chicago coming up in November.

I got the Silver weekend pass, a photo op with Jared and a photo op with Jensen.  Didn't get the "sandwich" one... I really couldn't decide if I should just get that one and not the individual boys pics at first.  But I really want individual pics, and it's a bit too much for me to get all three, so I settled on individual pics with each of them. *squeees*

I was so worried about money but it turns out I had more put away than I'd thought I had. 

So on Nov. 14th I'll be heading out to Chicago with lovetheguys to meet other fellow Supernatural fanatics as well as our boys :D  I can't wait to see who else they're going to add to the con.  The silver ticket gets you autographs from everyone so that'll be fun.  Shame the gold passes are sold out, but I really don't need all the extra stuff like the dessert party, breakfast and concert. 

Was talking to my mom and she actually wanted to go, but then said she didn't know what she'd be doing job-wise at that point (she sometimes works weekends during the Fall, so she might not get to take off).  She said she might be game for a SPN con next year though.

I'm so thrilled though, I'm going to meet Sam and Dean!!! er.... Jared and Jensen!

*squeee*

lol, I must sound like a 13 year old :P