Lemming moment

hildy says the latest thing is to explain one's icons. I'd love to do this with visuals, but that whole AOL/LJ thing is too much to deal with right now.

Most of my icons were built from the wonderful site Art Passions which is a compilation of fairy tale and pre-Raphaelite art. I just picked art to reflect assorted moods (busy, tired, gossipy, angry, sad, etc.) and turned details into icons. My default, the one of the brown-haired girl sitting with folded hands, is an Edmund DuLac of Cinderella. (Although I may default soon to another favorite, - the Arthur Rackham Alice in Wonderland.) My "Huzzah!" icon of the dancing fairy is a Rackham; she's dancing on top of a cobweb, but I couldn't show that in 100x100 pixels.

Other icons are clipped from fandoms - the "disgusted" one is Roy Dotrice as Father from Beauty and Beast. It's the perfect, "oh, PLEASE!" look. The one of the princess on the cell phone is from The 10th Kingdom, and it just amuses me (The character is Virginia, from a dream sequence; the actress is Kimberly Williams). I use it for techie type stuff. There's also a Belle from Disney's version of Beauty and the Beast, but I don't use it much.

There are three that aren't fandoms or fairytale art. First is one of me, laughing my head off at a gag gift. I use it, of course, for a laughing comment. Second is the Team Wench logo; the charitable outreach team that grew out of the local wench's guild and the other local rennie folk. The Prepare for Fair yardsale I ran last year and will run again this year is a TW project.

And finally, there's the fox that I've used here. I snitched him from an uncredited photo on Google News because I thought he was both darling and funny. I use him for cynical/bored.