September's Desktop Calendar

As those of you who've been with me for a while may know, each month I use a new desktop calendar from Shabby Princess Scrapbooking. Also, as you may have noticed the first of September came and went with no desktop update. That is why it is now the 19th of September and my computer desktop still has an August calendar up. Work is crazy! But don't worry, I couldn't even see the calendar because it was covered up with files (I know that is really bad to keep saving things to my desktop but it just happens overnight and I have to do a cleanup every other week or so - but there has been no time). Anyway, so I'm finally getting around to changing the desktop. Now, SP has a really cute calendar. Check it out:
BUT - this is my desktop for the month of September and most likely through mid-November at least. (Aww, heck - probably all of December to celebrate)!

(See, I cleaned up just for you!)

You can get yours at barackobama.com.

Also, there are ringtones. I find that interesting. I may check it out.

1st of the Month

..... And you know what that means! New Desktop!

I've been pretty upset about not getting a real beach vacation (or real vacation for that matter) this summer so to cheer myself up I thought I'd use fond memories of our 1st Anniversary trip last February to Jamaica and the Cayman Islands for this month's calendar.

Remember, get your free desktop calendar at Shabby Princess Scrapbooking!

New Blog Design

I hope everyone likes the new blog design. I was getting tired of the plain old white. If I had the formatting knowledge for Blogger I would have designed a better page that I have in my mind but I'm just not capable of producing it. Blogger is a little trickier than straight html so my Dreamweaver skills don't help me much. Just a little Illustrator/Photoshop work for this one.

I used the Olivia Collection from The Shabby Shoppe. I really wish I had more time to mess around with digital scrapbooking because it is just so awesome. One day I'm going to get really into it, but not today.

More posts are soon to come with all the info from this weekend's festivities and work.

1st of the Month

and you know what that means.... New Desktop!

This month is dedicated to my little Rafa!



Get this for yourself at Shabby Princess Scrapbooking

June - Desktop Calendar

I know it is a little late but I wanted to remind everyone about the free desktop calendar over at Shabby Princess. I've been so busy at work that I just got mine up yesterday.

Check it out: http://shabbyprincess.typepad.com/

Desktop Freebie

Since I've started looking into this digital scrapbooking hobby, I found this website (www.theshabbyshoppe.com) that offers a free desktop calendar each month. If you have the software (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Corel, etc.), then you just plug in your picture behind the layer. It is really simple and really cute. Here is a screen shot of my desktop! (Trust me... it isn't normally this clean. As I do with everything, since I am showing it off I had to do a little last minute clean-up.)


As you can tell, this is an older picture. Shorter hair. My hair has grown a lot! Wow! I still want it a little longer though. Anyway, this picture was taken in NY in August but I thought it was a really good fit since the sun is beaming down on us and we are in our shades. :)

Get yours free from Shabby Princess here: http://shabbyprincess.typepad.com/

Yay, me!

I am now officially addicted to digital scrapbooking after only two days of researching and playing in my spare time. I need a Mac at home so I can do this on my off time but this is freaking amazing! And... I just finished my first page while I've been playing around. I knew with my wedding photos I had too many to decide which ones to use for one page so I went with our engagement photos since I was just playing around. Here is what I came up with...


So more scrapbooking projects in my future! I'm so excited! I've always loved scrapbooking but several things hold me back.

• It is expensive. You need papers, letters, word art, ribbon, accessories..... not to mention the cost of all the other things like binders, cutters, glue, etc.
• It takes up too much room. If you do invest in all of these supplies, where do you put them? I guess now we have an office I could make space but it is so much hassle. And every time you feel like scrapbooking you have to get out all the crap and make a huge mess. This way... no mess.
• Lack of talent. I think I'm pretty good on the computer (better than average, worst than most graphic designers) and in my mind I'm pretty creative. But when I sit down with paper, scissors and glue, the image in my head never quite comes out like I plan in reality. With a computer, however, I can get pretty close

Now, I can buy digital papers, fonts, and extras and I will always have them. Plus, I can change colors on many things and use them again in totally different ways. And even better... I can put these digital creations on here to share with you.

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As I was writing this I got a phone call from Lucas. He is in Kentucky right now and was supposed to be on his way back home. As he was leaving, he got a call from his boss to go back to Indiana to fix the same problems they had last week that they were fixing. So now he has to go to Indiana and stay the night there and probably won't be back until late tomorrow night or Friday night. Who knows. I had to help him find a Target so he can go buy clothes, toiletries, and, yes, more steel-toed boots. I think from now on whenever he goes out of town we'll fix him an overnight bag just to be safe. Unbelievable!