deboratibi

I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't because, in my admittedly somewhat biased opinion  the shrubberies are pretty much the only item worth using on the foreground layer. ?
@deboratibi teases me endlessly about how I use them all the time, lol, but it truly is because there's no decent alternative. ?

@Emily I agree! I like to be able to tuck things into other things and, well, like you say, some back and foreground items are so freakin' BIG. I've always had a huge problem with how so many of them look because they tend to add way too much to them, over-crowding the space with multiples of the same item and they look really bad. So it's a thrill when they come out with something really usable like this. ☺️
I've used the snowdrops from today too, my lab rat's getting to enjoy those.
They are pretty giant snowdrops,  but peeking out through my beloved shrubbery they look good, not over-the-top or anything. ?

This is an excellent idea! There's no avatar, trophy, or anything for EA jobs. There is an HST of sorts, but it doesn't award any trophies or prizes (and also doesn't reset, so the top 'scorers' have tens of thousands of jobs completed--i.e. doing all 5 jobs every single day for upwards of 15 years). I would love to see an avatar for reaching a certain rank, or even just randomly when completing a job. 
I would really like to see more flash game avatars released. My personal preference would be for Jubble Bubble, since it's the one game I'm really good at! And those Maraquan Shoyru and Jubjubs are soooo cute! Along the same lines, I'm up for anything that actually requires skill/practice rather than these recent ones that are completely random/luck-based. 

Don't look at me like that, a Grarrl needs roughage!

Hewn Stone Table  NOM NOM‼
Anyway, this isn't about my suitability for pet ownership, lol, it's about what that table has done...
I fed them this 3 days ago, this is the resulting effect on their fullness.
 

my_friend_Cora says 'That really hit the spot!'
my_friend_Cora was fine, and now he is very bloated!
 
And now, 3 days later?

 
STILL very bloated‼
I'm most intrigued by this and I'm wondering just how long it's going to be before they need feeding again‼ I mean not only did the table take them from fine right up to very bloated in the first place, but keeping them that way for days? It makes perfect sense, if any of us ate a great slab of rock I'm sure it would have a similar effect, lol, so I wonder if it is all intentional. If they ever get hungry again imma feed them a wardrobe next.
 
 
 

I recently bought the Halloween cat with the pumpkin. Her name is Potion. Cute name for a little Halloween kitty.

If you're new to the contest, or simply want a reminder of the rules, they can be found right here.
I also just want to remind everyone that taking a screenshot of your entry (or asking me to make one) is always okay; some items just look a little weird in the still image DTI provides.
Current theme: Outer Space!
Description: Anything related to space, aliens, exploring planets, being on a spaceship/space station, etc.
Entering period: Monday, September 24 - Sunday, September 30
Voting period: Monday, October 1 - Sunday, October 7
Let me know if you have any questions, and I'm always open to theme suggestions as well!

Being slim and being a perfect woman are two completely unrelated things. Please remember that. We live in a society that puts so much ridiculous focus on weight, when that should only be a tiny part of who we are. Your weight does not define you. I know this is something that might not be easy to fully embrace, since it's drilled into us from a young age that weight is important, but it's really important to try to remember that what we weigh is not who we are. There's a movement called 'I_weigh' started by actress Jameela Jamil (from The Good Place, which is an amazing show, btw), which emphasises that we are not our weight, and we should stop focusing on it so much.
Your health is more important than your weight, and you are no less than any other woman just because you're not skinny. ❤️

The "what ifs" are the scourge of humanity, they're like some mental health bludgeon. Don't give them any room in your life.
Life: But what if?! ...
You: NO ?
 

A brand new spooky themed avatar has been released! To obtain this avatar you need to place in the top 50 of the high scores table for Brain Tree Quests. Our Brain Tree Guide has some helpful information to help you complete these quests.

Don't forget to check me off your list!

I've decided the BD needs more realism. I think if your pet goes into battle whilst bloated, which they invariably do! Then they should get chronic indigestion.  ?
Full pet in BD: Urgh, no please, I don't wanna fight, I'M TOO FULL ?
They'd totally fight their best on an empty stomach!
Hangry pet in BD: You wanna piece of me?! BRING. IT. ON.  I've not had any breakfast yet, I might just eat YOU instead. >8[
This thought stems from my pet, taking a plate of cookies into battle with him. ?

I got 3 codestones today, 1 reg and 2 red.
@DragonPhoenix I have that same fear about CC, but I like to think that even if they do go back to categories one of them's pretty likely to be books, because there are the BD books that people are constantly accumulating, so TNT need us to get rid of them. So I feel that no matter which other categories they choose books, and food, will always be there. I guess I'll find out if they DO go back to the regular method, lol.

After doing some googling, it appears that Windows 7 seems to only support emoji in black and white; upon release it didn't support emoji at all, but emoji functionality was added in a later update. You'll need Windows 8.1 or higher to properly see emoji in colour.
Additionally, Chrome on Windows 7 doesn't seem to support emoji at all, but IE and Firefox do.

Wow, what an awesome opportunity! I also love the theme. Good luck to everyone entering! 

OMG, ME!!! I just had a flashback, lol. In second grade, we made a book for our class, so everyone had to write a page about themselves. Here's a snippet from my page:

 

  
I'm not usually drawn to shiny things, but that dragon had me mesmerised! If I ever see a smaller version of it, I might just get it. 
Anyway, I made the mistake of checking out their website, and now I'm obsessed with this one too:

Help 

Ah, I now remember that when I had to go back to my equally antique old laptop the emojis were an older version, I'd forgotten about that.
Not quite to your black and white/silent movie version though! I guess that's browser-related though if you use Chrome and I use Firefox.

OMG, ME!!! I just had a flashback, lol. In second grade, we made a book for our class, so everyone had to write a page about themselves. Here's a snippet from my page:

 

  
I'm not usually drawn to shiny things, but that dragon had me mesmerised! If I ever see a smaller version of it, I might just get it. 
Anyway, I made the mistake of checking out their website, and now I'm obsessed with this one too:

Help 

OMG, ME!!! I just had a flashback, lol. In second grade, we made a book for our class, so everyone had to write a page about themselves. Here's a snippet from my page:

 

  
I'm not usually drawn to shiny things, but that dragon had me mesmerised! If I ever see a smaller version of it, I might just get it. 
Anyway, I made the mistake of checking out their website, and now I'm obsessed with this one too:

Help 

My daughter's LOVE the Beanie Boos! From the ones you have pictured we have Pixy (the white unicorn with rainbow horn), Cinder (the gorgeous green dragon in front) and Darla (the pink dragon to the left of Cinder.) Pixy and Cinder are in the smaller versions like Darla is. My youngest has a rainbow unicorn as well and I can't remember it's name at the moment. We have two identical dogs named Duke. The giraffe on the left with the green sparkly horns, my daughter gave to her best friend for her birthday in May.
Russ has similar ones to the Beanie Boos and we have a few of them as well. I have several Disney Store plushies too. My oldest is a plushie addict and she's only 7 years old!
That shiny green dragon, Cinder, is soooo adorable and I love him! He was the prettiest one the store had at the time. My middle monster got that one and Darla belongs to my oldest.
I've also amassed a small collection of Official Disney Lithographs and pins that are exclusive to the Disney Movie Club. I love that club! I can get movies far cheaper than in-store and it's such a great deal to get a mass quantity for birthdays and Christmas. I'm waiting on a binder for my lithographs and I will now have 3 pins I think. One is currently in the mail being sent out with my recent order.

ROFL don't worry about it! Being here a long time means nothing when you're as scatterbrained as I am  Pointing out what's obvious to most people often helps, actually 
Ah, that explains a lot... my computer is at least 7 years old (but I'm guessing 8/almost 9). And I use Windows 7 Home Basic. So, there's no helping it? 

The 'new' emojis are just the same Unicode emoji used widely on, well, nearly everything. Different operating systems will display them differently - different phones (Android, iOs, etc), different computer operating systems (Windows versions, macOS versions, etc), and I believe if your computer is old, it may not support the unicode version required to display emojis. How old is your computer and what operating system are you using?

I need to say sorry now for feeling the need to explain to you where the TDN emojs are, Deb, seems I forgot momentarily that you've been on this site a lot longer than I have.
Those sketch ones are fun, I don't really like a lot of the new ones because there's too much detail for such small images, so it's often hard to tell what they're actually meant to be.
The little bald guy looks like Dr. Evil, now we need a one million dollars! emoji, lol.
I wonder... once this is fixed/resolves itself, if any used emojis keep their altered look or switch to how they should have looked. I'd imagine they'd update.

My husband has these ones on his Samsung GalazyS7 Edge I believe. He sent me the frowny face one and I was like what the heck is wrong with your emoji's. Forgot to ask him about it tonight when he got home and he's in bed now. Have to try and remember tomorrow.
I'm not having any issues seeing the emoji's and they're visible across my iMac. So I'm no help to you on this. ?

Wow, what an awesome opportunity! I also love the theme. Good luck to everyone entering! 

How cute!!! What is the little pink owl on the right called? They're so sparkly! I've never collected plushies before, but I had a huge book of pokemon cards, annnd world of warcraft cards. Which I dont have anymore. ?  I do currently collect disney trading pins but its by no means a serious hobby. Just when I stumble across one here or there. My favorite are Nightmare Before Christmas pins.
 
Here are some of my favorite ones. They are a little hard to read due to the cut of the pin and the lighting. ?

I love collecting a type of stuffed animal called Beanie Boos. 

I know all of their names by heart (they come with name tags). Does anyone else collect stuffed animals? 

My brain did a dirty on me and didn't let me submit my Runway entry, nor even let me come on here at all for the past few days, so I'll post mine here instead, lol.
I went for Osiris, the god of life and death and the flooding of the Nile. He's one of the ones who married his sister (Isis), though I think they pretty much all did that didn't they.

 

I was pretty pleased with myself for being able to portray his bandaged feet, though I wonder if they were like that from permanent athlete's foot from causing all that flooding. ? and why on earth was he green?!