The lost was found

Posted on April 10, 2008 by Suzanne

If you read the comments from Monday’s post, you’ll know that my Mom did in fact have the book I was looking for.

Only, she didn’t have the patterns insert.

Turns out, I had that. But once I knew that I wasn’t really looking for a book, I was looking for a pattern, I actually knew right where to go in order to find it, so now I’m ready to rock and roll on that particular project.

Of course, I have plenty of other things I could or should be doing, so…

Moving on.

The weather is absolute crap. Still. Again. Forever.

We actually saw snowflakes on Tuesday, great big globby blobs of snow mixed in with the rain. Today is just rain, I think, but oh dear goddess, make it stop. I’m so tired of cold and wet and grey and……….

Moving on.

When you are around someone every day, you don’t always notice how much they are changing. Look at these guys. There are 4 years between the “now” and “then” photos:

This is the week 2 layout assignment from my latest class with Jessica Sprague. Way cool.

Well, I’d better go pretend to accomplish something. Like laundry. Whoopee.

Suzanne

Snuggling under a new quilt

Posted on April 3, 2008 by Suzanne

Sitting here at the computer, I have my brand-new, freshly washed quilt in my lap. I’d rather it were Maggie curled up there.

Sigh.

I’ve gotten some digi-scrapping layouts done in the past few days. I haven’t mentioned that I’m taking another class from Jessica Sprague. It’s the advanced class, and woo-boy, are we learning some cool stuff.

Here are the first two assignments. The first was done using all of the class materials, the only thing I added were the photos. I made the scalloped border and created that cool circular frame thing.

The second assignment was to practice things we’d learned in the first lesson, using our own papers, etc.

Lots of cool techniques here, I won’t bore you with all of them.

Although, you should make note of the quilt that Hannah is having her tummy time on. Look familiar?

You can click on both layouts to view them larger and read the text.

If you are interested in any of the digital products I used to create these, drop me a note and I’ll be happy to tell you what I’ve used.

TTFN-

Suzanne

week 4 class layout

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Suzanne

My sister posted some pictures of her cuties on her blog, and I just had to grab one of them to do my class layout for my Photoshop class.

Aren’t they sweet?

Sheesh. 3 posts in one day! I’d better stop before I hurt myself. Or you guys. LOL.

pb&j

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Suzanne

took these photos awhile back (sheesh, a month ago!) and meant to share, but just now got around to doing something with them.

click on it to view it larger.

these pics crack me up.

tomorrow: quilt content. promise!

It’s all about the speed

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Suzanne

My Internet connection is Wireless, it’s pretty quick, but when I try to watch videos, oy, those can be painful sometimes. I’ve been doing some investigating of my options this week, and found that I could switch to a faster wireless option for only $5 more per month. From 256k to 512k. Wheeeeeeeeeeeee………..I can definitely tell a difference, and it is totally worth the extra bucks.

I do have another option: 1.5Mbps DSL, for about the same price that I’m paying now (and only $10 more after the first year…), but that would work switching to a different company, and even though the techy geeky part of me is screaming “OMG that’s almost the speed of a T-1 line” the more practical side of me is saying “Yes, but you’d lose the awesome customer service you get from the current provider (it’s our local utility company and the guy that runs the network will come to my house whenever I need him to check on something…”

While speed counts for a lot, customer service counts, too. So, I guess it isn’t ALL about the speed. I’ll try this for a couple of weeks and than make a final decision.

And if your eyes glazed over at all of that, I apologize.

Speed also counts when you are sledding:

Mark and the boys went out to the farm several times in February to sled on the really humongous piles of snow that Grandpa had created whilst plowing. It really entertained me that so many of the shots of Will had him smiling for the camera at just the right spot. In theory, you should be able to click on the layout to view it larger. I’m trying something different with how the photos are uploaded.

This layout was created using a template from Jen Caputo, and papers by Amanda McGee and Amanda Sok. I really liked the really graphic look of having it on the solid white background, so I left that, rather than trying to add another paper element to the layout.

Here’s a shot of the hill of snow, so you can get some perspective. This was taken February 23. Thankfully, the weather has been warm enough that a lot of our snow is gone, baby, gone. Of course: there is a 70% chance of snow on Thursday/Friday. Doesn’t Mother Nature know that the calendar says Spring is supposed to start on Thursday???