Thinking of You

Good evening fellow bloggers. Finally I was able to get a card finished. I have several in various stages, and it seems that when time is available, I'm not in the mood...or if I'm in the mood, then something else gets in the way until my motivation has subsided. Does that happen to you? Anyway,
here's my card for this evening.

Miscellaneous

Good evening Friends, and thanks for hanging in there with me while I've been goofing off! After we got the sick pc home, hooked back up, DD flew up for a few days. Needless to say, visiting with her got a higher priority than anything else around here! <g>. We had fun, did some shopping - going out to eat, just having some good family time.

Today I had a super great class getting my Intermediate Copic Certification. Wonderful teacher, Cindy Lawrence (here).  Learned some different & more complex ways to shade, assess light sourcing, and a bit of  'color theory'. It was held locally -for me anyway- so no hotel bills. It was totally worth the cost of the class, and I left feeling as though I had learned a good bit that I hope will enhance my copic skills. It had been a while since I had the Standard Certification class, so some of the techniques being taught now, were different from the way I had learned.

Hopefully I will be able to get back on track with making some cards - sigh - as we'll be going away beginning next Sunday. First a family reunion on my Dad's side of the family, being held at his Home Place (Southern speak for where your family roots are - and actually where he was born at home) - about 2 hrs away from our area. Then we're planning to leave the reunion,  head to Washington, DC to meet our best friend, and see some of the sights in Washington. Primarily the Smithsonian. We've been several times in the past, but it was always a 'time limited' visit. This time we have 4 days, so I will be perfectly happy to visit a different section of the museum each day. As DH says, I have to stop and read every word on every sign at an exhibit, so I don't get through a museum as fast as most people do. <g>. So I gotta get at least a couple cards finished to post. Don't give up on me....I'll eventually get back in the groove.

Until then, have a Blessed Sunday, and enjoy whatever it is that you might have planned. Come again to visit & we'll 'sit & chat a spell'. Now that I have my Fav Bookmarks back, I can get back to visiting you as well. As always, thanks for stopping in tonight , and many hugs.

Miscellaneous

Good evening Fellow Bloggers. Between sick computers, messed up cookies, re-learning to find things on XP, trying to find camera software to load onto XP & Laptop, I have been MIA. Not doing any cards either. (But THINKING about doing some!Does that count? It's called planning). I did get out on one of our very pretty days and take some pictures. Mainly to make sure I had something in the camera to download, once I found the software cd, got it loaded, remembered how to work it! My Win7 pc has a card reader ?port?, so for several years all I do is pop out the tiny disk from the camera, slide into the card reader, and Wham, there are the pictures to import. I had to do some relarnin'. And folks, lemme tell you, it warn't easy! So here's the pictures of some things bloomin' around our yard.

The purple Iris is/?are? a clump of very old bulbs that came from my aunt's yard in another state. The original bulbs were likely planted sometime in the mid-50's, when she moved into her house. I got these when a relative dug up a large clump about 10 yrs ago, just before my aunt passed away. These are the most blooms we've had to date.

Miscellaneous

Hello and welcome. If you read my post of yesterday, you know that my computer is ill so I'm using an older computer to do 'business'. The one we normally use, has a card reader port, so that I can just slide my camera memory disk into the slot, and import the pictures. The XP that I'm using at the moment, doesn't have a port, so I have to hunt up the camera software, install it, etc. etc. I know the software cd is somewhere around here...Anyway, I was just checking email, and read something with a link to this really neat & welldone Youtube video about gelatos. It's yet another way to use this product, and one I will definitely try myself. For those who left questions about exactly what a Gelato is, this shows the product really well. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNH_-Bjwa_g&feature=youtu.be

If you can't get this link to open, go to Youtube and search for

Flowers with Gelatos by Darlene DeVries 

 I hope the link works so that if you have time, you can check it out. In the meantime, thanks for joining me. Hope to get things all fixed up and back to normal business soon.

It's DH's birthday. Mine is in 2 more months, so I asked him if 69 felt any different than 68, so I can get prepared if need be. He said "Yeah it does". Hmmmm...

Hugs & have a wonderful Monday and thanks for joining me today.