I'm glad I have a forced rest right now. (See the post about the whole stupid foot-in-an-inflatable-cast thing.) I'm happy to be able to catch up on some photo organization and scrapbooking. In going over my stuff I realized I had never printed the photos from the Spring Musical that my son, Jonathan was in. (Working on the scrapbook ...
Scrapbooking
Project Life (or How I Scrapbook My Real Life)
I have been an avid scrapbooker for years. In fact, I still have my original high school photo albums. You know which ones I mean. The magnetic kind with the fading 70's Kodak Instamatic photos with the captions typed out on a real typewriter. The ones we later found out are the very worst thing you can do to photographs because of the high ...
Why I’ll Never Have My Own Cooking Show *sigh*- A Giveaway
I still have so much more to tell you about my trip to General Mills and the Betty Crocker Kitchens. I have some very cool recipes I want to share and also some fun stuff to giveaway. There was so much to take in that I can't possibly write about it all in one post, so I will be writing about this for the next week or so (I'll also do ...
A Week in My Life or Why I Love Mondays
I often wonder how my Cuban grandmother spent her days. I wonder what she cared about and how she decided what to have for dinner. I have stories, of course, from my mom, about how she would make desserts every night. Homemade desserts EVERY NIGHT, people! Doesn't that just sound glorious? I know some things just by word of mouth. She ...
Picture perfect
Okay. So I know this photo is completely out of focus. And I know my hair looks witchy-weird (it actually was performing really well, but you can't tell from this picture. *sigh*) But in spite of all that, I love it. I love that we were caught by our neighbor practicing our salsa dancing on the front lawn. ("Those Darbys are at it ...
Now and then
I love making connections with my photos. This is why I don't scrapbook chronologically. I just like to tell my stories.I like it even more when my photos tell a story on their own. I don't even care if the photos are blurry. I figure it's the story that is more important. Such is the case here. Here are Jonathan and Eric ...
Making Christmas
"Making Christmas" is usually the mom's job. At least it's always that way at my house (I'm guessing it's that way in most homes). I do a lot of stuff anyway, but in December I kick it up to Warp Nine. =D This year I was especially busy because I took the time to make some special homemade gifts: 1) ...
Celebrating Summer
We So Cal people don't really "do" weather. We just don't know how. When the weather cools a bit, (which it really hasn't considering we are about a month into Fall, but that's not important right now) we pull out socks to wear with our flip-flops and exclaim "Fall is here!" (you think I'm kidding, ...
dan•ger•ous (adj) – able to inflict injury or harm.
Okay, so now I know just enough to be dangerous. I've been taking some online classes. Specifically, I'm learning how to scrapbook digitally using Photoshop Elements 6. I'm still just doing the assignments from class, but I'm all proud of myself and I wanted to share.... The journaling is from a blog post I did about a year ago. (journaling my ...
What about my needs??
Today....Mountains (not kidding here!) of post-vacation laundry are done, folded, and put away.The kids are at the movies with friends, which means that the house is blissfully quiet.My to-do list has all tasks neatly and very satisfyingly crossed off. (Ahhh!)I do have two more weeks of final school stuff coming up plus plans for a recipe I'll ...
