• Blog - Crafts

    Cleaning led to cards

    February 17, 2013 - By 

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    Little J and I have been on a cleaning and organizing mission lately. Yesterday, it was in the craftroom. We got both work surfaces completed cleaned and organized.

    I should have taken a picture…darn.

    Anyway, my mom had picked a bunch of my blank greeting cards and asked if I’d make them into birthday cards for her with stamps, labels etc.
    She likes them ready made…no need to write to much these days.  Just teasing…

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    After completing those,  I was inspired to keep going. 20130217_1426 20130217_1427 20130217_1428 20130217_1429

    Of course, those pesky chores like meal prep and laundry made me stop for a while.

    Little J isn’t going to be too happy with me when she gets back from the neighbors. I’ve succeeded in making a mess of the work surfaces again.

    Maybe I can knock out a few more cards then get it all cleaned up before she gets home….or not. 🙂

  • Blog

    Scanning slides

    February 15, 2013 - By 

    I’m working my way through a crazy amount of vintage slides.  Ranging in age from the 1930’s to 1970’s.  20130215_1421

    I have the vast majority in slide trays already. That makes it so much easier to go through and mark with a china marker which slides I want to scan.  The bummer is that my projector bulb just bit the dust…

    I found one on eBay and am now waiting for delivery. I can’t tell you how fortunate I feel to have been able to find one at a reasonable price. When I pulled out that blown bulb  with a very weird connector I thought…”oh  man do I have a big job ahead of me looking at each slide individually to determine it’s value”.  Thank goodness I thought to look it up!!!

    I have to mention what a treasure these slides have been so far. We started doing slide shows with the neighbors on the garage door several years ago. It was so much fun!! Ok…so we maybe we are easily entertained. But it was fun. My neighbor and I even picked up some slides from garage sales and would make up stories to go along with them as we had the slide show.  So much fun!!!  Again…easily entertained.

     

     

     

  • Blog - Photography

    I finally moved in….

    February 14, 2013 - By 

    …into WordPress, that is.20130128_1340 copy

    Please excuse any oddball entries, misaligned text or photos and any other anomalies.

    I transferred all my blog posts over from Blogger. I know that some of the formatting is a little wonky with those posts but I’m not worried about that.

    This is a good move. Starting over without really starting over. Like moving to a new neighborhood. It takes a bit of time to find your way around, develop those shortcuts and feel completely at ease but I know it will come.

    Happy Valentine’s Day!!!