a new little somethin', somethin'

While doing my nightly blog roll I came upon something really cool on BooMama's blog. If you look in my sidebar on the right you'll see a new widget from Skribit. Now you can click over there & leave me suggestions on what to blog about. You know, since I seem to have hit a blog wall & can't think of anything exciting to write about. Now I'll let y'all do some of the work. ;o) So, give me some suggestions & I'll see what I can do.

one more...

The first one is straight out of the camera & I edited the other two. Man, this is addictive!!!

which do you like better?

Just messing around in PSE with some pics I took this evening while Jonathan played in the pool. Which one do you like better? Originally I thought the only difference in them was the amount of "burning" at the edges, but now it looks like the color might not be the same in them. Hmmm. Anywho... I'm still trying to get the hang of this photo editing thing, but I'm having fun doing it!

some crazy cakes

I came upon this site on Major Bedhead's blog: Cake Wrecks, check it out, hysterical!!!

I promise one of these days I'll do a real post!

wordle

I saw this on Kim's blog and thought it was too cute not to share! It's called Wordle. You put in your blog address, and it pulls together the words that you use most often. Here's mine:

Photoshop Friday: ShaZAM

A few months ago I learned of Jessica Sprague's Photoshop Friday from Rebecca. At the time I hadn't even purchased Photoshop Elements so I didn't really pay too much attention to it. Well, today I received the Photoshop Friday newsletter & decided to give it a whirl. This weeks tutorial is called ShaZAM! I found this adorable picture of Jonathan from the birthday party last weekend; don't you love his hair!

Here is the before/after using the tutorial. Pretty cool, huh!


In the tutorial Jessica mentioned "burning" the edges a bit. I had never done that before so I pulled out my copy of "The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digitial Photographers" and ta-da... burned edges. Can you tell in the picture? I'm loving this book. I've turned to it several times and it's very easy to understand and apply.

Well, I'm off to bed. Until next time!

a few pics

Just a few pics from the birthday party Saturday.

Probably the most creative birthday "cake" I've ever seen. Isn't it cute! I guarantee you it was tasty!

Me & my dad. Happy Birthday to us!

And of course, the boy. Doesn't he look grown up in this picture? Where is the time going?