When you don't want to be a back seat driver...

Take up embroidery:

Seems like just yesterday

My mom, me and four of my sisters and first born son in the buggy--along with a couple of neighborhood kids. A couple of times every year we would go to the the park, have peanut butter, tuna fish, and baloney sandwiches and cool aid. Our family wound up being nine girls and two brothers. Almost always, my dad and an extra two or three kids from the neighborhood were part of the march.

Photoshp Manipulation, After the Rain

You can find this tutorial on YouTube "click here for link". Run your mouse over the rain drop to see the AFTER effect.

Photo Manipulation | Water Splash in Bulb

You can find this tutorial on YouTube "click here for link". The tutorial took me about one half hour. Using my mouse to manipulate the paint brush--a different story. Aaaagh! Am I the only one who can not manipulate a desktop mouse? Run your mouse over the light bulb to see the AFTER effect.

Our Photo Backdrop is No More

Gone, but hoping to see her run again at some future date (click on image).

How to create a body of water below a skyline or landscape and then reflect it in the water

I love playing around with Photoshop; my favorite site is Blue Lightning TV with Marty Geller. You can now live stream Marty's tutorials online "click here for link".

I decided to try using my own image for this tutorial. It is a picture I took behind our house of the sun setting in the West--I was just curious how it would work, having a sunset reflecting on a body of water. Click on the image to see the result. Oh yeah, also wanted to see how to place a post from my blog in Facebook.

Wanted to do something with this old school desk

I painted the writing surface with chalkboard paint. I wound up giving it away. In order to keep it from tipping, when sitting in it, you would have had to bolt it to the floor (something I didn't want to do).

I Will Have to learn how to crochet all over again

My first and only afghan--now I want to do another one!

Another Photoshop Tutorial

If I can follow along with Marty Geller, Blue Lightning TV, anyone can. My first attempt at creating the look of Soft Graphite Portrait from a photo, below  (run your cursor over the image to see the results). The photo of our great granddaughter is a bit light so I will have to research on how to change the resolution (or whatever).



You can stream Marty's tutorials online "click here for link"

Creating a Rollover Effect on Blog Photos

I have been poking around on how to create a rollover effect (that doesn't require you're having to post your images into a third party hosting site). I found the answer over at Designer Blogs Studio..."click" here.

Caltapa Tree Started from Seed

Sometimes called Snake Tree--I started this from seed pod in 2012 (run your cursor over the image to see how it has grown).
 

2017 June 19 Lightning Strike

When I'm Not Photoshopping

My Latest Attempt at Animation

When it's raining outside one of my TO DO things is Photoshop...

What To Do???

I am always wanting something to do while sitting in the doctor's office. What works for me is embroidering pages for a quiet book Click here! --just need to bring along a piece of fabric, needle, thread, and my binocular glasses. After having cataract surgery I have 20/20 vision but needed glasses size 6+ (which I could only find online) for doing counted cross stitching.