This is my first post in months! I’m so sorry I’ve been away…it’s just with classes and work it’s so hard to find time to make icons anymore. Luckily for KI- there are five girls posting all the time now! =)

This is actually part 1 of a series of animal icons I was planning on making, however since there are just so many animals out there I actually wanted to allow all of you to request any animal you would want as icons.

PLEASE REQUEST ANIMAL ICONS ONLY IN THIS POST!


~Comments are preferred
~Credit to icon_candii or khushi_icons!
~No Hotlinking please!!
~Feel free to edit the bases =)
~ENJOY!

Teasers:



( Natures True Beauty )

Make the Best of IT"

Carrot, Egg and Coffee...You will never look at a cup of coffee the same way
again...

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and
how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it
and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed
as one problem was solved, a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with
water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first
she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed
ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.
In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished
the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed
them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning
to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me what you see."
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to
take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard
boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The
daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the
same adversity - boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in
strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling
water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer
shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling
water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however.
After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door,
how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am I? Am I the carrot that seems strong, but
with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with
the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a
financial hardship or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my
shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit
and hardened heart?
Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot
water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it
releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are
at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you.
When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do
you elevate yourself to another level? How do you handle adversity? Are you a
carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to
make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human and enough hope to make you
happy.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of
everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The
brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can't go forward
in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches. When you were
born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so at
the end, you're the one who is smiling and everyone around you is crying.