Love blogs

Robin posted some of her favorite blogs to read, so I thought I'd list some that I like to visit. I have soooo many it was hard to narrow them down. But, I liked the idea of seeing someone else's favorites. Robin actually listed a few of mine, so I guess we have something in common. Here's my list:
Jana Eubank: http://www.frommyfeatherednest.blogspot.com/

Michelle Wooderson: http://michellewooderson.blogspot.com/

Andrea Walford: http://andreawalford.com/

Sue Nelson: http://www.heartprints.net/ Cards galore

Keisha Campbell: http://abiteast.typepad.com/abiteast

Robin Gibbons: http://heartfelt.typepad.com/my_weblog/

http://www.pencillines.com/

Hope you have fun checking out some of my favorites.

Photoshop Photos

This is a photo I took of Braquel holding a rose. I made a duplicate in black and white. Put that over the colored photo and then erased the flower. I love how it turned out.

Last week, we were to take an old photo and he taught us how to repair it. This photo is probably over 100 years old, and the paper is starting to break down and crack. I was able to scan it and then repair the scratches and cracks. I think it actually turned out fairly well.

Tomorrow night we are to take ads from magazines, and we're supposed to learn out to make billboards from photos or write on photos. Should be fun.

Last Saturday

Friday night, we drove to Boise after work and met Tori for dinner at Red Lobster. OMG...I love eating there. Jeff was kind enough to share his lobster with me, because mine was tiny...I didn't get much for my money. It was so sad...I took my purse in with me, and sat it on the floor. When we left, I forgot it! We got clear back to Tori's apartment before I realized it. It was nearly 10:30, and Tori tried calling them, but they didn't answer. I drove back over and went in. Told the girl I'd forgotten it, and she said the manager had it in his office. Everything was in it...what a relief. Geez...am I losing it or what?

Saturday morning we were meeting Darin and the family for breakfast, but he said they were running a little late. We had talked about 9:00 and they wanted to wait until 10:00, so we drove around for awhile and finally went to the old train depot and I took about 4 photos and the battery in my camera went dead...I'm batting a 100 here aren't I?

After breakfast we went to Idaho Camera because I'm looking for a new camera. I sort of think I want the new Canon T2i, but they didn't have one in yet. So, I'm still waiting. Jeff did get a new pair of binoculars though.

After that, we went out to the Simplot fields to watch Connor's first soccer game of the spring. They just barely finished indoor soccer, so it's year round for he and Jaden. He made a goal when he hit the ball with his head...He was pretty proud of himself.

Here's a couple of photo's that I took at the depot.

Easter Cards & another photo of Ellie

I have a ton of photo's from Ellie's birthday party. I couldn't resist sharing another one. This is the official cake eating...without clothes! She was so cute. She didn't know if she could really just eat with her hands, so she started out really dainty, just barely sticking her finger in the icing, then a little more and finally got into the cake. I think she was so full though, that she finally just started throwing the cake on the floor...that's when Mom said..."You're done!" Don't you love that little, tiny, ponytail on top of her head?

When I went to Boise to do inventory for our store there, I went to Archiver's after we got done Friday morning. They were having a make & take, and the store was crazy. But, they had such cute Easter paper, that I thought I'd get some and make some cards. I think I bought 2 sheets of the polka dot, one of the large circles, and one with Easter words and pics on a yellow background and one of large Easter words. So...five sheets and a sheet of Easter stickers. I figured I could make several cards with that....but 30! Wow. I guess I went a little overboard. I couldn't believe how many cards I got out of that.

This is some of the stickers that were on the sheet. I thought they were so cute!

When I ran out of stickers, I stamped a few images and used those. I'm not sure who I'll be sending all these to, but I better find a bunch of friends.

Ellie's First Birthday

Danelle and Gary invited us up for Ellie's first birthday. Danelle did it in a cupcake theme and she had balloons tied to the backs of chairs and cupcake's hanging from the lights. She had a pink polka dot table cloth on the tables and pink polka dot napkins. It was really cute. Of course, the star of the show was Ellie. She had a tiny little ponytail on top of her head and was dressed so cute. She was just smiling and going from one person to the next. She loved it when Leigh and Woody showed up. You can tell she just loves them. She was excited to see all the cousins and the young friends that came. She is just so happy all the time. She opened all of her own gifts and loved looking at the cards...just like Braquel did. It's almost sad to see her turn one, because she's probably our last "Baby"...unless Tori gets married and has kids. We're running out of babies. Until the grandkids start having them I guess. Boy...am I getting old or what?

Here's a couple of photos of Ellie with her Grandpa Jones, having a cupcake.

March 7th Challenge for the Retreat

The challenge for this week (for our retreat in April) is to use a punch on your layout or card. I did a layout of a trip Jeff and I took to Jarbidge, NV last spring. The fall before, a fire started there, and since it is part wilderness area, they did not try to stop it. Unfortunately, the fire spread very quickly and burned hundreds of thousands of acres before they finally got it contained. We went down to see how bad it was, and it was sad. We had always spent time hiking in to see the wilderness on the other side, and to see everything charred was sad. We also saw a wolf on this trip. At first, I just thought it was a coyote, but Jeff said..."no, it's way too large to be a coyote. That's a wolf". He didn't seemed to even be bothered much by us, just stood there and watched us. Made me nervous though.
I wish more people would share their challenge work with us. Makes me wonder if anyone is looking at the blog or not. Of course, I never really know if anyone looks at mine either. I just think of it as my "Journal" more or less. I enjoy sharing it, but even if no one ever looks at it, I have a record of my thoughts and happenings in my life.

March exchange cards

The theme for the March exchange, was ribbon. I love having these themes, because you can make any type of card...just use whatever the theme is on it. I scraplifted this card from some website...don't remember where, but I really liked how it turned out.

I am not sure I like putting patterned paper behind the card when I take the photo. It looks like the green check is part of the card...it isn't. I loved this paper though.

This one used lots of ribbon, but I'm not sure it was one of my favorites. A little busy...but okay.

I like this one. Loved the papers, and liked the cupcake stand. Thought it turned out cute.

I didn't do this one for the exchange. Just used leftovers from the card above. I have soooo many scraps, and once in awhile, I think to just go ahead and use them up while I have all the matching stuff out. Amazing huh?