This month the weather was front and center from trying to keep puppies warm with no power, shoveling, and driving to hating that groundhog that predicted an early spring…. It was a sentimental month with the puppies, we had Rave’s first go home and Sophie’s last….. We had a visit with the new grandboy…. and [...]
Spring
In my Beyond Beyond class, the challenge (or opportunity) this week was to use Kim’s photo and accompanying video tutorial to enhance on of Kim’s photographs. I opted to use one of my own, and follow the video. The photo is of the spring decor on our back porch/main entrance….. The egg wreath was a [...]
On the Menu
For challenge two, I combined a little of the chalkboard lesson with the template layout lesson. I decided to do a little muti-tasking and use photos that will be on my other blog with the recipe so cropping time is reduced. I’m not sure I like the combo, but lesson finished and the photos are [...]
Chalkboard Fun
Part one of this week’s challenge involved creating chalkboard art in PhotoShop. The lesson was about the techniques involved in altering a font to make it look like chalk. Because I didn’t think I’d be doing this a lot in the future, I made the decision to take a “shortcut” and simply use available chalkboard [...]
Chair Love
This week for Beyond Beyond Kim shared one of her fabulous photos for us to play with….. on this imaged I used some of Kim’s Downton textures and the new stamps from Cloth and Paper… and this version was ‘Rad Lab”… I always feel funny messing with Kim’s perfection – even when it’s invited. I [...]
Instagram February 2013
A few of my favorite Instagram shots from February. There were some of my special people… Hearts for Va;Valentine’s Day a bit o’ scenery… our family dogs….. and a little bit of everything else….
From Above
Our 2B aka Beyond Beyond challenge for this week is a “from above” shot. I’ve taken a few, but this is the one I’ve had a bit of time to play with. I took a wee bit of time to use Kim’s new Cloth and Paper collection – they are fabulous! I know it’s not [...]
A Collection
This week our assignment was to try different focal points with the same subject. With so many puppies in the kennel and wonderful families contacting me to make sure they provide the perfect home, I haven’t spent as much time focusing on our assignments as they deserve. This week, I took the easy road with [...]
Instagram January 2013
The first month of 2013 just flew right by. I began playing along with FatMumSlim’s Photo-A-Day Instagram prompts last year and enjoyed it enough to not only continue this year, but to also add TakenTodayJanuary’s daily prompts a few of my favorite furry faces… oh and some humans too… the weather in Staunton the last [...]