Hi! I'm a married stay at home mom to three fantastic children. I've been playing in Paint Shop Pro since the mid-90s. I probably started with either version 5 or 6 with adding names to sig tags and it evolved from there. I love using digital art as art therapy and can highly recommend to everyone.

From adding names to blanks, I then learned how to create my own sig tags. I had so much fun. A few years later, Incredimail came out and I fell in love with the ease of creating email stationery for it. I think it was either 2002 or 2003 that I discovered pixel painting. Around that same time, I got involved with two Yahoo email groups. The first is no longer around, but it focused on helping those pixel and country graphic artists in creating their own websites. I will always miss that group. The second is an Incredimail stationery group that focuses on wildlife called IncrediWild. Back then it was run by a wonderful lady: Cathy P. and is now currently run by the equally fantastic Kat (Guki Creations). Together, Cathy P. and the women in the web design group began to teach me about copyright violations, what it meant about what I had been doing and how artists who were trying to make a living were getting hurt by why we did.

Back then, I was known as MelsAttic and together with Cathy P., Teri Hopkins and a lovely lady, Lisa, we created a Yahoo class called Graphic Copyrights. We even started a website for it. Cathy P. had been copyright compliant for a long time. Terri worked in the film industry in Scotland working with copyright law as a job and I actually went to the U.S. government's website on our copyright law and read it over and over again. We created lessons and helped teach a number of PSP hobbyists about how easy it was to find and use legal images for their sig tag and email creations. The Graphic Copyrights group and website are long gone, though I do hope to get the lessons back online eventually. I started learning how to create my own art with pixel painting, digital painting and vector art. I loved that even though I couldn't draw a straight line in real life, I could be an *artist* online. Then my computer crashed and I lost everything. Every piece of artwork that I was proud of was gone forever. I took a break from it all then.

I did other things online such as creating websites for others and playing a LOT of Everquest II. But my need for art therapy has grown greater and greater over the last few months and I couldn't stay away any longer. My digital art interests are very varied. I still love doing pixel work and this site will be dedicated to that, but the main Daydream Lane site will be for other types of graphics and then I have a blog for digital scrapbooking over at Dream Scraps.

I have several memberships to pixel sites and hope to make that number grow. So, it makes sense for me to create a membership site myself so to have a place for all the stuff I create from my memberships. I won't be the fastest growing site and I won't ever be the site with the most stuff, but I will always be honest and fair.  I hope you will join me here.

I like doing things for others, so I hope you will find being a member here really fun.