DreamCircle.com - The online workshop of ELANA: creative artist, female geek and breast cancer fighter

Quick update… a bit of an improvement…

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 04:57:10 +0000

I’m too damn tired to write a long post, but I’ll just say that in the last couple of weeks, I managed to (a) find a good new place to live (b) get enough volunteer help to get me moved there before the deadline.

The new place is better then the old place in a [...]

“Ain’t She Dead YET?!” (dark humor alert)

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:07:25 +0000

Dammit, I should be really, REALLY offended right now, but I am actually suddenly laughing. And thinking.

I just had a very interesting email conversation with a wonderfully intelligent online friend about my attempt to launch Dreamcircle as a new creative place for me to express myself and offer nice things.

About a month ago, [...]

PET scan results :(

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 01:31:38 +0000

I saw my oncologist yesterday. Here is an excerpt of the PET scan results she gave to me.

Excerpt from my PET scan

Translation: Back in 2009, my normally-fast-growing type of cancer came back and had spread to my liver. After more than a year on chemo, there seemed to be very little tumor [...]

Bad news… I’m facing losing my place to live :(

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:14:18 +0000

Well it seems that my 7-month effort at creating a new website with neat, new stuff on it for people to love may turn out to be not as possible as I had hoped.

To be creative, you have to have enough energy. To have enough energy when you are a cancer patient, you have [...]

My PET scan is TOMORROW (tuesday!)

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:38:54 +0000

I just got a call from the cancer center… my next PET scan is TOMORROW. I thought it was a week from now.

Positive thoughts requested from everyone for good results on this cancer scan… thanks.

“Conchy” by James Childress: my humble, hand-made tribute brooch

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:54:56 +0000

Imagine a different world, a parallel universe where the well-loved comic “Calvin and Hobbes” simply ceased to exist before it had a chance to be discovered by so many people who love it nowadays. Sad thought, isn’t it?

Fans of a long-lost strip named “Conchy” completely understand what that feels like. Back in the 70′s, [...]

How to make an impossible dream come true: a few hopefully-helpful thoughts

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:09:05 +0000

This post summarizes a few good nuggets of wisdom I have learned in my life about the process of going for dreams you had thought were impossible. Seems a lot of people on the net are searching for this info and landing on Dreamcircle. That was because I once had a page with the title [...]

XKCD and cancer survival: the best visual explanation I’ve EVER seen

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:09:19 +0000

XKCD is a webcomic for people who love science, tech and engineering. The artist behind the lines is Randall Munroe. Last year, his then-fiance was diagnosed with breast cancer. He then drew this amazing comic below.

I recently printed out this graphic and gave it to my oncologist as a mini-poster. She was IMPRESSED. She [...]

ASTRONOMY JEWELRY: My “Pillars of Creation” brooch

admin — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:55:28 +0000

Check this out… I finished it about 2 weeks ago.

With black border

One of these days I should make a blog on the entire evolution of my new works so far. For this blog post, I’ll just share with the attempt which came before this one. Something about that blue border doesn’t quite [...]

Travel Bug Mission Cards (special note just for Geocachers)

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:48:34 +0000

Looking at my site stats, I am seeing quite a lot of attempts to locate an old PDF file that was on my old version of Dreamcircle. It was designed to help out geocachers. Might as well address that problem now.

Hi geo-crowd! Welcome to my re-born Dreamcircle site! :) The “TB Mission Cards” file [...]