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Can You Read This?

Friday, May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I have had a few emails saying that some of my readers have not been able to get onto my blog. According to Known Issues For Blogger there’s been a problem with Internet Explorer loading some blog pages. It seems to have something to do with the followers gadget…..so I have removed it temporarily. Grr! [...]

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Give Me Your Best Shot #15

Friday, May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

If you must know, this is not really my “best shot” from the week. That prize goes to this shot of AJ throwing a shoe-shaped rock into the river. But this next photo, taken a half hour before the river shot, is another favorite, for a completely different reason. I have an identical picture of [...]

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Fix-It Friday–Ponytail Princess

Friday, May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This week’s Fix-It picture is of a sweet Ponytail Princess. I thought that today would be a perfect time to try out a few of my new MCP actions in Photoshop (I have CS3). A few weeks ago, I won a gift certificate for some MCP actions and just decided on the Quickie Collection (part [...]

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Foto Friday–The Big Picture

Friday, May 22, 2009 By 6 Comments

People often ask me how I get the photos on my posts to be larger than the standard blogger uploads. There are actually three ways that I regularly use, so I thought I’d spend today sharing my not-so-secret tricks. Here’s a typical blogger picture, centered (“large” selected at time of upload): And here’s the size [...]

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If I Were a Butterfly…..

Friday, May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This came home in Twizzler’s back pack today. He is way too literal for his own good. We need to work on his imagination…. The prompt: If I were a butterfly, I would…. His response: Fly as much as I wanted, drink nectar a lot, mate and get married, lay eggs, then die.

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A Thousand Words Thursday (Finally a Picture of Me!)

Thursday, May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s always at the end of my kids’ birthdays that I remember to have someone take a picture of me with the birthday child. But I rarely actually like the pictures. On Monday, I had CandyMan snap a few shots of me with AJ–my big 4 year old. Too bad he was licking the frosting [...]

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Writer’s Workshop–Busy, Busy, Busy

Thursday, May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I wasn’t sure which of MamaKat’s writing prompts I was going to chose today. Here are the choices:1.) Share a love letter. (not feeling particularly lovey today–I have had a headache for the last several days. It won’t go away!) 2.) Memorial Day Weekend plans?? Do share! (birthday party on Friday, two photo shoots on [...]

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You Capture–Sweet

Thursday, May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This week’s You Capture theme is Sweet (I’ve got a lot of that around here) But I am dying! Today I took 40 pictures of filled candy jars…what could be more sweet than that? But it’s all top secret. Part of a big project I have going on that is set to debut very soon [...]

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River Rocks

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Want more Wordless Wednesday? Visit 5 Minutes For Mom, Go Graham Go!, MomDot , Three Peas, and The Not So Blog! See my Wordful Wednesday HERE (more river hike pictures) See my special request at the bottom.

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Wordful Wednesday-Isn’t it Nice?

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Isn’t it nice to go on a leisurely hike with your brothers and sisters? And isn’t it nice when, at the end of that hike, there is a clear, cool stream waiting? A stream that whisks your favorite pink flip flops away….. and catches them in the the tree roots across the deep part of [...]

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