Way to busy to smell the flowers

I hate it when I feel so busy I don't have time to stop and smell the flowers....
         even though I only have Okra blooming in the yard right now...
                would like to stop and smell them....
                       I wonder what they smell like......

Anyway.... back to my business.... I have started a new blog site for all of my photography stuff and getting a few lookers.... Secretly hoping someone important sees my work and says.... Hey your so talented, I need to buy your work for THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!!!    Okay okay, but a girl can dream can't she?  

     Oh, and if you have time check out the girls at their new blog  Canning for Beginner's   its a video blog and they are having so much fun putting it together!

Okay, I really just wanted to pop in and let everyone know that I am ALIVE and I am planing on blogging .... ummm.... just not sure when again.... But in the meantime check out the girls they are working hard on their video blog.


Until Next Time,


Amy

What a day!

Phew, what a day ahead of me.  My Post It Note list has now turned into a NOTEBOOK list! Here I'll let you peak at it.....

1. Buy Milk
2. Get water
3. I have yogurt to make (will post a blog about that) 
4. Make a meal for a friend  
5. Pick the garden
6. Make bread
7. Clear out room down stairs 
8. Price yard sale items
9. Clean up yard sale items
10. Make Children clean their rooms 
11.  do their chores
12. AND SCHOOL work
13. Start Pear Jam
14. Finish Tamales
15. Make Dinner (which may just end up being Tamales)
16. Take Children to Awanas
17. AND deliver friends Meal

That's the "List" and I'm sure it will grow before the day is over! I'll Let you know at the end of the day how successful I was.... IF, I'm still awake at the end of the day!

Over Not everything got done but I feel good about the stuff that did get finished! And Now I'm ready for bed! 


Until Next Time,


Amy

An Organized Garage

Have you heard that old adage, "out of sight out of mind?"  Well, that is the way our garage is for us. Only occasionally do I go out there and its more of 'open door.... throw... shut the door FAST!'  But I have learned that if you want to have a yard sale.... You have to have a place for all your sale items... thats where a garage would come in handy.  Or if you'd like your crafty husband to build you something.... He's going to need a work area and the living room is NOT acceptable.  And yes, I know this from experience.

So having the WHH home for an extended weekend we thought it'd be a great time to spend some quality time together... err... clean things up a bit.

We started with this....... Pulled a few things out and decided that we would end up with the same look, just without leaves and saw dust if we didn't get some totes... So Off we went and spent $40 on 8 totes (didn't use all of them... yet)

Over there somewhere is a huge work bench.... I know its there because about 2 years ago I used it to fix an earring. :~)

 I'm just not sure where all this came from.... or how it got there....

......after day one the work bench was an actual work bench!  Its so clean that you could eat off it... not really just another adage.

And by the end of Day 2..... if we wanted we could get one vehicle and the bike in the garage. Its not completely finished and won't be until that yard sale takes place.... hopefully in about two weeks.

And we both love the garage now. 

So I challenge you This fall pick one

 "out of sight out of mind?" 

area in your home and organize it, you'll be glad that you did!

Then tell me about it.

Until Next Time,

Amy

My passionate hobby

Ever find yourself thinking about something so much you can't remember the last time you thought any other thoughts?  For some it might be cooking, sewing or gardening, for me it would be photography!  I think about it daily! I'M talking every minute of everyday! So, I thought I'd blog about it....  ;~)

Anyway, I got this new photo editing program the other day.  Which we will call "Ed", you know I'm not getting paid to plug programs for companies so no free advertising from me! 

I have to confess, I am an old school photographer you know the film.... black N white.... you do it all yourself kind of photographer.   Yea, well I have a digital camera now and the dinosaur is now nicely displayed in a beautiful shadow box surrounded by some of my first Photographs **copies of course**     

Okay, back to Ed... So I got Ed a couple days ago and I've been dink-king around with some ol' (6mo) digital pictures that I have taken and then found one in my wedding dress that my biological mother took.  

               Okay Okay...  I'll stop yabberin' and start showin'

So I started off with this picture. I opened it up in Ed and thought I think I'm going to make myself look like I'm in the clouds.  Although this is a good picture I still really don't care for it for multiple reasons. 

Next I used this Picture....

I liked this cloud picture I took a few months ago because of the big puffy cloud in the bottom left corner. Although there is blue in the picture I didn't think there was enough blue. Sooooooo...........  I added this........

This picture was taken in Florida while we was vacationing.  I absolutely love the blue in the sky and the way the rays of the sun shine through the clouds. 

So I took these three picture, duplicated 2 of them to use the best in each picture.... And came up with this............ 

Now I can't tell you the exact steps that I took to have this ending result but I do remember masking, cutting rendering and moving all being a part of the process. Oh yes, and about 3 hours.....   I can't wait until I can play around with some more pictures, but first I have lessons to teach and dishes to wash. :~)

Until Next Time,  

Amy