Problem Somewhere in Blogspot

I couldn't help noticing a few of my pictures from previous posts all disappeared. Not a big deal as as it is only the Random Org. box and blog candy which of course was given away already. I won't even go crazy looking for them in all my discs to put back but a tutorial was gone so should you come across something you wanted to see and it isn't there, just ask and I will do my best to put it back on for you.

Hmmmm.....maybe it is not a problem with blogspot after all. I noticed that all the pictures that are missing are the same pictures I had deleted from my album on Picasa. It seems somehow the pictures in the album are "linked" in some way to the ones on my blog. Weird. I never linked them, in fact the blog pictures were uploaded on my computer and I just got the Picasa account so I can do the slide shows. It is really weird because there are pictures in an album that I didn't upload yet they are mine and from the blog. Wow...I will have to remember not to delete pictures on there.

Missing from my life is my brother, Roy Jeter

I lost contact with my brother Roy about 3 years ago. Who knows, he may be bored someday in front of a computer and put his name in just to see what pops up. The last I knew he was living in Pompano Beach, Florida.  So if you're out that way and see him, let him know I am trying to get in contact with him. Thanks!

(Inspired by Ladydoc Karen 2858.)

I have been reading "The Mating" and "The Keeping" by Nicky Charles

I got a Nook for my birthday and happened to pick "The Mating" to read since it was free. I had little hope of enjoying it really when I started because I am not one to like Vampire or Werewolf stories. I am so glad I picked this book because I couldn't put it down. This is more of a mystery/love story (adults only) and it just happens to be Werewolves. It isn't the traditional type of Werewolf that goes around biting every one's neck or tearing them apart all night long. This was totally entertaining and I had a hard time putting it down.

 

"The Keeping" really held my interest, I didn't want to put it down either. Again, this is not your traditional Werewolf story, this is more of a mystery with all its twists and turns and love story. It is just happens that most of the characters are Werewolves which leads into its own twist and sense of urgency and mystery. I just wish the writer didn't say that every female in the story was biting her lip. I figured by now the whole pack don't have lips...they chewed them off. All females (even when we don't know what to say) do not bite our lip. I found that redundant to the point of being annoying. Yeah, I know...I am nitpicking. Other than that I found the story very interesting....I mean to the point of being addicting. (I even burned dinner because I picked up the book to read "just a few minutes"  well, an hour and half later my eggplant parmigiana looked more like burned bricks.

Today I started the third in the series, "The Finding".
UPDATE: I finished the book and it was another good one. Some things, "I saw it coming" but others took me by total surprise. I do hope Nicky writes another book. She left that possibility open so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Changed Computers

Well, I think the day has come where I dig a hole in the backyard and bury my Dell. Whatever was wrong only got worse and it got to the point where it didn't even want to boot up. So goodbye Dell and Hello HP! Yes it is a laptop so believe me it does take getting use to especially the typing. However I am sure giving it time it will some day be a no brainer and I will be just as fast as I was on the desktop keyboard. I know you can add a keyboard to a laptop but the thing has limited ports so I choose to add a real mouse instead. I don't think I will ever get use to the one on the laptop no matter how long I try. I have a hard enough time typing and remembering to keep my wrists up so they don't touch the mouse. This is a trial and error thing and I will tell you it is very strange to me and boy strange things happen if I fail...LOL. So it is a bit of a change however I am comfortable enough to start posting now. I am so behind on my posts that things are backing up so I am going to try and do this easier than just posting a thread. If I succeed you will find something new and exciting to see by Wed. evening. So don't forget to check back then.

Orange Blog Hop Winner

I love surprises and I am sure everyone does...well, at least I think they do. So.....I asked "Randy" (Random.org)  who should win and this is what he said....

The winner is....#7

A big congratulations goes to Viji!!!!


Viji Siddharth said... 7

Lovely layouts! I am a follower and I visited and liked bath time fun! So very cute!

Viji, I need you to email me so I can pass it on to My Memories Suite so you can get your code for the software. I hope you enjoy it and congratulations again!

Orange Blog Hop is Over but here is a New Card

Now that the "Orange Blog Hop" is over I will be busy making a list of names for the drawing of the candy. Good Luck to all of you.

I made this Christmas card with all Stampin Up products. The one thing I should point out is that the tree is flattened against the scanner glass so it looks flat with like a two layer tree. When you pick it up the tree opens and the "flap" of the trees stand sort of straight out giving it a real 3 dementional tree.
The card is in a "Z" like pattern. I am not sure what the name of this type of card is but it is the first time I made one. I really love how simple yet pretty it is. I hope you do too.

Welcome to day two of the Orange Blog Hop

Welcome to day two of the Orange Blog Hop where members of Fiskateers, a community sponsored by Fiskars, is sharing their passion for crafting! You should have arrived here from Lyn’s Thoughts. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to The Fiskateers Blog  and start at the beginning.

For my project I did hybrid pages, keeping with our orange theme I did my Thanksgiving Pages from last year. I figured I should do them before Thanksgiving is here this year plus this is one holiday I tend to think of when using orange (Halloween being the other). My pictures are on a brownish mat and then mounted on an orange-ish background (that is the computer part done with My Memories Scrapbooking Software. Everything after that I did.) I took these pages and mounted them on white cardstock then my orange12x12 cardstock background pages. Each one is decorated using different items so I listed what I used below each picture.

As a reminder...I am aware some of these are not stitched together perfectly. My paper is 12x12 but my scanner is not so each page you see is really four different scans stitched to make the one page which means I have four chances of throwing my page off by tilting a scan or not getting it just so. Any ways, as you can see I did mess some up slightly so I ask you to just look past these. My birthday is coming and hopefully I will get the new software I wanted....PSE 9 or 10. (Did you know they came out with a Photoshop 10?)

Ingredients:

My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

Variety of stickers from my stash

Fiskars Celestial 3 in 1 Corner Punch

Brads

Ingredients:

My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

SVG from Treasure Box Designs

Fiskars Border Punch Kaleidoscope

Copic Markers

Reminisce Accents Cartridge (CM)

Small Leaf punch (unknown)

Page 6 Recipe:

Ingredients:

My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

SVG from Treasure Box Designs

Ranger Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Reminisce Accents Cartridge (CM)

George and Basic Shapes Cartridge

Fiskars Border Punch Kaleidoscope

Copic Markers

I hope you liked the pages I have done for day two of this hop. Of course you have another chance to win...

My Memories software is so easy to use and has fantastic paper to choose from. Even though I used the same paper on all my backgrounds there are so many to choose from. I like using this for hybrid pages (like the ones I showed you) but there is so much more than can be done using it. Check it out for yourself. I hope you like what you see because one lucky person taking this hop will be winning their own My Memories Suite.

How to win.

1. Be a follower.

2. Visit My Memories Suite and click the “New Kits” …pick out your second favorite.

3. Leave me a comment telling me which one is your second favorite and a way to contact you if you win.

While your there look around and explore the different things there. After all, that one person who wins My Memories Suite could be you!

I thank you for hopping by and I hope you enjoyed my Thanksgiving pages from last year. Your next hop is over to Tifany’s blog…. Ink Blots by TRD

Welcome to day one of the Orange Blog Hop

Welcome to day one of the Orange Blog Hop where members of Fiskateers, a community sponsored by Fiskars, is sharing their passion for crafting! You should have arrived here from Lyn’s Thoughts. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to The Fiskateers Blog  and start at the beginning.

I wanted to share with you my crafting scissors. We are all familiar with the ones we recieved when we became Fiskateers so I don't think I need to say much about them. We already know how great they are (and how everyone in our house knows to keep their hands off). Although I love mine I found myself needing to cut some small things and I love the Non-Stick Detail Scissors. They definitly earned a place in my scraproom. When I was picking these out I noticed another scissor there so a week later I went back and got the Micro-Tip. What great scissors these little things are. If you want to cut just a hair off of something, these are the scissors that will do it. I love these too. I am just kicking myself for not getting them sooner.

Now that you know what scissors I use on my projects, lets get to the projects.

For my project I did hybrid pages, keeping with our orange theme I did my Thanksgiving Pages from last year. I figured I should do them before Thanksgiving is here this year plus this is one holiday I tend to think of when using orange (Halloween being the other). My pictures are on a brownish mat and then mounted on an orange-ish background (that is the computer part done with My Memories Scrapbooking Software. Everything after that I did.) I took these pages and mounted them on white cardstock then my orange12x12 cardstock background pages. Each one is decorated using different items so I listed what I used below each picture.

One thing I need to add is that I am aware some of these are not stitched together perfectly. My paper is 12x12 but my scanner is not so each page you see is really four different scans stitched to make the one page which means I have four chances of throwing my page off by tilting a scan or not getting it just so. Any ways, as you can see I did mess some up slightly so I ask you to just look past these. My birthday is coming and hopefully I will get the new software I wanted....PSE 9 or 10. (Did you know they came out with a Photoshop 10?)

Ingredients:

My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

LMS Turkey Day Fonts from Font Space

Turkey Eyelets (unknown)

Turkey from Turkey Dinner SVG Set (bought from SVG Cuts)

Fiskars Lace 3 in 1 Corner Punch

Copic Markers

Brads

Ingredients:
My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

Turkey Eyelets (unknown)

Fiskars Leave it to Weave Border Punch

Fiskars Lace 3 in 1 Corner Punch

SVG of Fork and Knife (forgot which site I got it from)

Ribbon from my stash

Copic Markers

Ingredients:
My Memories Software

Cardstock (Orange and White)

Stamp (unknown)

SVG – Give Thanks (unknown)

Fiskars Border Punch-unknown (I wish the name of the punch was on it)

Copic Markers 

I hope you liked the pages I have done for day one of this hop. Of course I am sure you would like some candy too....and what candy it is...

My Memories software is so easy to use and has fantastic paper to choose from. Even though I used the same paper on all my backgrounds there are so many to choose from. I like using this for hybrid pages (like the ones I showed you) but there is so much more than can be done using it. Check it out for yourself. I hope you like what you see because one lucky person taking this hop will be winning their own My Memories Suite.

How to win.

1. Be a follower.

2. Visit My Memories Suite and click the “New Kits” …pick out your favorite.

3. Leave me a comment telling me which one is your favorite and a way to contact you if you win.

While your there look around and explore the different things there. After all, that one person who wins My Memories Suite could be you!

I thank you for hopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit. Don't forget to stop on back tomorrow to see more pages and another chance to win your own copy of Memories Suit.
Your next hop is over to Tifany’s blog…. Ink Blots by TRD