As everyone knows, there are two parts necessary to make a snow globe, the globe and the base.  Never saw a snowglobe without both.  I have always loved snow globes, since I was a child and I want to give a great big thank-you to Delores of the Plain Vanilla Graphics site for teaching me the basics of globe building a year ago.  I have since embellished on the idea and gone a little wild - designing my bases first and then the globes.  We all know where the ideas for the globes come from - it's the base that is most difficult because it comes from the imagination.  I have standard globes I designed and use for most, but this site called for more.  The standard globes look fine until you start displaying more than one globe to a page, then it gets a little hum-drum.

I only found the globe ring a couple weeks ago.  Until then, I only did custom work with the globes, designing custom ordered, unique, one-of-a-kind globes for people who wanted their own globe to display on their sites that no one else had.  It gets real boring real fast when you see the same graphics and works on every page you visit and custom work for unique material is time consuming because I first have to please 'me' which is most often the hardest part and then I have to please the client, sometimes using material they have sent me that require two images to be turned into one and often, a new idea pops into my head in the creation of custom work.   But, I charge for this service - if I didn't, I'd have a million and one requests and the income is used toward my medications and keeping me on-line.  I have always felt bad that some visitors can't afford to spend even the dab that I charge, and have wanted to do something they could use but couldn't imagine how to go about it without the work being saturated through the internet world, thereby becoming hum-drum and mundane in the effort.

I am offering the globes on this site (excluding pages otherwise posted) to be used as 'link ware', meaning you can post the globe on your 'personal' web site provided you link it back to this site.  My logo appears on every globe.  Should I happen upon one of my globes somewhere without the required link, I will ask the site owned to either apply the link or remove it from their site.  For those of you who prefer that your pages offer viewers something fresh and unique, I suggest you contact a designer for custom work using your own photos or graphics and have a custom globe designed with your name or site name on it for your pages.  POSTING TO COMMERCIAL SITES IS NOT PERMITTED in that I don't generate income by their use, I decline to generate income for others! Owners of Commercial sites will need to order and pay for a custom globe and then where they post it is their business.

Until I happened across the globe rings, I wasn't aware there were so many people out there interested in them.  By setting up this site for the sole purposes of offering globes to others and joining the globe ring, I have not only found a way to display my work and offer it to the owners of personal sites across the internet but I have found a way to offer my services as a custom designer AND to guide you to other designers interested in doing custom globes for you.  My hope is that you will find one that can please you as I know I couldn't possibly please everyone.

I have posted a link to my custom work site on the home page for those interested in my service.  You can clik on it to find out more about what I offer (it's the graphic of gift sets at the bottom of the page that shows one of the gift sets I designed for a client that wished to give a special gift to a special net buddy);  you can't miss it as it is basically purple.

For the rest of you, enjoy the trip on the globe rings - I am sure you will find a globe that is right for your pages;  but please remember this:  If it is not posted that you may display their hard work on your own pages, ASK FIRST.  Copyright infringement is a very fine line and a very expensive one to defend against.  So many people have the notion that if it's posted, it's okay to take it despite the thousands of notices posted everywhere that it is illegal to steal someone else's work.  Not only is it illegal, it's in poor taste to take someone else's work and post it on your own site without proper credit even if you have permission to use it.  It's like saying you designed it - and that's stealing - no matter how you look at it.

Once again,  you are welcome to post any of the globes on this site to your own 'personal' site provided you link it back to this site.  I've taken care of the credit on the base the same as I put the client's name of the custom globes.  I feel the need at this time to make it clear to everyone that the individual components in the globes are not necessarily mine.  Some are, some aren't.  There are a lot of nice people out there who offer tubes and graphics to be used in designing other works and don't expect anything in return except maybe someday happening across some of their work in someone else's creation and some of the graphics used in my globes are the works of those good people.  I only lay claim to the finished product.  You can't simply download, change or scan something in and make it yours - so I can't in good conscience say the components in the globes are mine, ONLY the globe and it's assembled scene is mine.  And I'll take just a moment to say Thank You to everyone whose work I use.

When someone sends me a graphic to incorporate into a globe for them, I am assuming that they have acquired the right to use that graphic or photo if it is not their own.  I have received a couple requests accompanied by graphics that I knew were copyrighted work and I immediately informed the people that the graphic/photo they sent is known to me to be a copyrighted work and ask if they have obtained permission to use the graphic before I continue with the work.  In all honesty, I do not believe people should post their copyrighted material with out expecting it to be chopped, cropped and used because once that is done, it's impossible to discern where it came from;  but that's not the way the law reads.

This page was entitled 'Me, My Globes and Long Wind';  now you know why!
Most appreciatively,
CSGreen