The Story of My Life

Make a Smilebox slideshow

I Really hate scrap booking. Sorry to offend those of you who are avid about it, but I got all the junk, did 2 pages and threw it in the trash. Not crafty. No patience. Can't even cut a straight line. Too much overhead and mess factor. I discovered scrap booking with Photoshop and did a few things of my own, setting it to music and printing collages, square prints. I downloaded some Digital Designs and it was really fun. Very tedious and took me a long time because I am so picky and would work FOREVER on one design. Then one of my students sent me a slideshow on Smilebox . It was SO CUTE. And um, SO EASY. I downloaded it and used it for free to make a few things. Slideshows set to music, Digital moving scrapbooks, Cards. All customizable, all downoadable, can burn to CD , DVD, email, post straight to blogs and other major site. You can choose embellishment levels, if you are not really frou-frou, like me. A WONDERFUL, fast, EASY way to make something beautiful. I paid the fee

I am all about pictures. Obviously, Huh. I have done some neat things with my own pictures and with my students that I want to share. Kinda a tech review. I have already told you about where I order my prints, Mpix .com, the greatest photo lab on the planet. I discovered a few programs and websites lately that are really cool tools that I want to share with you as well. I did a portrait of each one of my students, on a brick wall at the school. We took those portraits and used Picnik .com photo editing website. There are easy touch ups, amazing filters (effects), text, stickers, collages, cards....all that you can used for the most part, FREE and WITHOUT registering. Just upload, edit, download, print or share. You can choose the Premium membership (29.99 for the year, reasonable, really) to access some extra special features, but most of the necessary tools and lots of cool effects are free. You can also access your Facebook , Picasa Web Albums and many other services where you m

Ok ... if you are my true blogging friend and are still checking this thing, Thank you. Since Christmas, I have been in a funk. I do not like January and February. All the happiness, joy, business and fun of the October-December festivities just make for a BIG let down for me after New Years. We have had sick folks, passing away of family, COLD, school projects....more COLD. I promise, I will be back to my self soon. When spring arrives. Kids and family are fine. I am just- tired. Of being...a grown up. I called my husband and resigned as a grown up today, but somehow that did not work. Who needs responsibility? (Although he was helpful and did say he would call the "service" to see if they could send him a replacement. Umm ....not sure if he was being helpful OR NOT?) I just wanna do what I want. Is that too much to ask..... Sorry- I am happy, really- just need SPRING. MEANTIME......in real life..... I have still not ordered prints from my Christmas pictures or my family a

Revised because of Google searches.......from stupid people. Isn't she the little model? Tucker Park- we trespassed at the cabin and it was worth it. I slipped her over the fence and I stood outside. She went on the porch and did her thing. Can you tell she has had her picture taken a few times??? .........And you know I had to change the title of this original post AND remove the PHOTOS because SICK people out there search for in appropriate things ON GOOGLE AND FIND THIS POST about my innocent beautiful daughter's birthday portrait sitting. You never can tell what some people will take and make ugly. Shame. Shame on you if this is YOU. GO AWAY.

I have been tagged many times for this list on Facebook . So I thought really hard and narrowed all my randomness to 25: 1. I do not/can not collect anything due to by tendency to OVER DO any idea even resembling a collection. ( Some say I am Obsessive Compulsive. I say not. Well, OK , I am.) 2. I LOVE to shop, but go alone, get what I need and get out. I am not a browser or group shopper. Macy's is my favorite store. Only because I can't afford Nordstrom's . 3. I can never just buy ONE pair of shoes or one tube of lipstick. 4. My hair has been every color imaginable. Which one do you like?? Check out HAIR posts in my blog if you really wanna see all 761 colors and styles. 5. I secretly want to be a biker chick and wear Harley Davidson clothes. Maybe I will one day. 6. I could live in a house with no TV AND be just fine. 7. I never learned one thing in a computer class. I am self taught-Bought my first computer at Walmart in 1993. One gift I have is just tech