Monday, April 20, 2009

My flash card experiments

CK convention has come and gone. Oh, what fun. I can't wait to get started on that small Winter book I got from The Paper Loft. Been playing around with flash card designs. Aside from scrapbooking, my second love is playing around with graphic software. Totally love Microsoft Publisher and my PChugware. I don't think I'll be able to upload pics from Publisher. Not a program that's recognized by, or intended to interface easily with other programs. The elements that make Publisher so fun to use, are the very same elements that can be a royal P A I N to transfer elsewhere.

Looking forward to this weekend. Sorry to see Scott and Darla move to Missouri, but I remember how excited I wanted all my fam and friends to be for us when we set out on our cross-country move from Michigan to Arizona. Everyone needs a dream to follow, and I wish them well. It will be fun to ride with them this weekend. Hope Al can bring the quads down from the cabin so we can enjoy riding with everyone. We sure have had a TON of fun and laughs with Scott and Darla. Wish Missouri weren't so far away.

Nope- tried uploading the flash card - no can do. Will have to print them out, scan and upload. Later, blog

Friday, April 10, 2009

Giving it one MORE try


I can't believe I'm doing this - It's past my bedtime - but I can't leave well enough alone. I've got to try if it takes me all dang night to get that stupid pink fuzzy giraffe picture on here. HA! I know it's spelled right now - I googled it and looked it up. Here goes nothing - I'm going to attempt to insert a picture right here. Right under these words. If all you see is a paragraph - I'll have to spend the rest of my time cleaning up the mess from my temper trantrum. It wouldn't be so bad you know if I could just delete this blog and start a new one with another site. But no - once you sign up for a blog - at least do yourself a favor and choose a name you don't really care about. That way if you want to sign up somewhere else, you're not stuck using some bogus dumb name that means nothing to you or anyone else. All right - here goes.

Oops - there it is at the top. I don't care if it was outside really - as long as I can see the dang thing. Now see? Wasn't that worth it? Piece of cake. NOW I blog.

I hate this blog template

I've just been trying to add a simple friggin' picture.
Anyone else:
Add image - click
Browe: click
Upload: click
View (whatever): click
short, sweet gasp of Ah HA! There it is, in all it's humble glory
Adding a photo on this blog:
Search and find "How to" (looks simple enough)
Go to post: Click
Find the little picture icon: Click
Browse: Click
Upload: click. click, click, click (it's not doing anything)
Go back to "How to"
Reread instructions
"I did that - it's not working"
Go BACK to post: click
Little picture icon: Click
Browse: Click
Upload: Click, click, click click CLICK CLICK dammit to hell CLICK =
"Humm -what's this? (I agree to terms) click
new window: Ah ha - there it is.
View Blog: click.
"Where is the photo - it's not here - it's not FRIGGIN' here"
Back to HOW TO
Nothing. Nothing at all. It's suppose to magically appear. I suppose for everyone on this dieing planet this works. Works for everybody else but me.
Come ON people - I have one stinking night a week to play with stuff like this.
I've already spend 3/4's of it just trying to post a lame picture of my stinking ribbon's out the BUTT, baby album with the stinking rotten dumb looking
idiotic pink fuzzy girrafe on it.
WHAT THE - - - -???
SPELL CHECK - SPELL CHECK - WHERE'S THE SPELL CHECK?
i FORGOT HOW TO SPELL FRIGGIN' FREAKIN' FRACKIN' GIRAFE - or giraffe - or is it
girraffe?
It's time for bed already.
I guess I'm not a blogger afterall

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Yes! I finally got to finish it

At last - I finally got Sugar and Spice baby album done and posted. I've had the idea for this book for so long - just didn't have time to set aside to work on it. I'm very pleased with it, I think I spent as much time figuring out how to use the Bind-It-All I got for Christmas to bind the book than I spent putting it together. It took 3 experienced scrapbookers one entire evening, and 6 ruined rings before we figured it out. It's not difficult - it's just something that's apparently hard to explain in words. Kind of like rubbing your tummy and patting your head at the same time. You reach a point somewhere you're tempted to just punch round holes and use rings. But I'm glad we stuck with it. Thanks Jen for finally figuring it out! Now that I'm starting on the boys album, I'm sure I'll totally forget what we all learned that night and I'll need help again!!!



Got my new store set up on ShopHandmade.com over the weekend. What fun. I like it WAY more than Etsy in a lot of ways. Etsy's too big now and unless you have TONS of time to devote keeping your face "out there", you're lost in the crowd.
My new store is: http://Sonshine.ShopHandmade.com
See all the pages in detail on:
http://picturetrail.com/Sonshinememories