Recovering from surgery

I'm in some pain following surgery on Monday. Finally getting to my computer. I only have a little time before I have to lie down again. ~I had a heel spur removed so I hopefully can walk without pain for the first time in over 4 years. I've been neglecting my blog following starting a new job in April and hopefully next week when the swelling has gone down and I am able to spend more time on the computer, I post all about everything happening.

I had a little help

Hello Readers! I haven't posted for about a month! Time sure flies by. I had some wonderful help today. I had read a great tip to make your links open in a new window, so you can keep reading here, but have a new tab open with any links. Neat idea! Well, it didn't work for me and I wrote the lovely lady who had the tip for help. It turns out, when you edit your HTML at the bottom it had a little orange box with "Preview" in it. Click on that and you get what looks like your blog, but it isn't quite! The links weren't click-able in that Preview page. But, when I loaded my blog from the normal link, it worked perfectly. So, just a little precaution when changing your blog and you are testing to see if it worked. Don't just go by the Preview! LOL

Now, I got this awesome tip from the wonderful Fryske of YouandI DigiDesign. Her digital design blog (with lots of wonderful freebies and views of her beautiful designs) http://fryskesdigiscraps.blogspot.com/ and her fabulous blogger design blog (with the fantastic blog tips) http://youandibloggerdesign.blogspot.com/ The specific link to make links open in a new window is here: http://youandibloggerdesign.blogspot.com/2009/03/open-in-new-window.html Fryske was so helpful and she responded right away to my request for help. She also makes gorgeous blog templates! Please visit her yourself to see!

Oh, my allergies! I am suffering already. I just saw this funny photo and had to share! LOL

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I made a Video!

Proud mommy that I am, I made a video of my little girl's talent show performance. Note, this is my first time ever making a movie and I don't know how to dub or edit the sound, so it is filled with background noise. {If anyone knows how to substitute the recorded music or remove the background noise, please let me know.} So here is Melanie and Melody as they dance to a song by Selena Gomez "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" at their school's annual talent show. They made up their own choreography! Melanie is in white pants, Melody is in green pants.



You can also view it on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3AVRGdGIS0

Free Wallpaper

Edit: I fixed the Box.net link, I put the 4shared one again by mistake. Sorry!!

I have a freebie for my readers! I meant to post this yesterday, but I ran out of time. This is a St. Patrick's theme wallpaper, made from my kit, St. Patrick's Celebration; available at Heritage Scrap HERE. It is on sale currently for 30% off! Here is a preview of the kit:
And here is my gift:
It is in 2 sizes, 1280 x 800 and 1024 x 768. Click HERE for the download link.

And because there is a rumor going around about someone somewhere who got a virus from 4shared (I've yet to hear of anyone who actually did, but I know some people would rather err on the side of caution), I have also uploaded to Box.net. There is no place to leave comments on Box.net, nor do I have the ability to see how many have downloaded, so if you use the Box.net link, please leave a comment here, on the blog. Thank you! Here is the the alternate link.

Enjoy!

Layout shares

I saw this cartoon today and thought it was adorable:
It reminded me of Calvin & Hobbes, the cartoon strip that ran from 1985-1995. Here is one similar one:And here is a link to see more, some really funny and slightly twisted ones too! LOL : http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

I'm determined to catch up! I have all the photos on my Flickr, but I'm behind on scrapping them. Luckily, I've already 'journaled' on each photo on Flickr, so I only have to copy and paste the captions for each photo onto the layout. I'm going to work on more this weekend. I did 2 today:

(credits can be found HERE)

(credits can be found HERE, Frame styles: Gimme Glitter by BubblyKori available at Heritage Scrap (Oh, hey, that's ME!! LOL))

And one of my little cutie:

(credits can be found HERE)

Viewing PSP files in Photoshop

There are lots of PSP users switching to Photoshop and a number of Photoshop users who admire PSP Tubes and files and each seem to think the program files are not compatible. There is good news! There is a fix to be able to use PSP files, files that are created by PaintShop Pro, in Photoshop. (I first received this wonderful information from Lara Payton, another designer): To use those psp tubes, you have to get a psp converter plug-in. Relax, it's FREE! Also note that it says for PSP version 5-9, but it works on files created with more recent versions. http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#pspformat ~ PSP Format is the plug-in. Put it in your Plug-in folder (while PS is NOT open), then open PS & open the file via PS. Works great! The fix works in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements both. Note: It only opens one layer at a time, so if the PSP file has multiple layers, you'll need to keep opening it and selecting a different layer each time.

My daughter sent me this Flair on Facebook this weekend. LOL
And a fun note for us photo nuts and scrapbookers:

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Quick Photoshop tip

I just read the coolest tip! I was testing an awesome new action by my friend Camela and she tells you to load the action OR just Drag into your action pallet. It worked! So did dragging her style onto the style pallet! I haven't tried other pallets, but I suspect this will work with them too. This is wonderful, you don't have to navigate all over your computer for the folder you are storing the presets in, you can just drag the preset on to the appropriate pallet. What a time saver!

If you want to see some of Carmela's beautiful work (she has a fantastic style of her own and some excellent products for sale) you can go HERE. She has some samples for you to try so you can see how good a quality her items are. The prices are in AU Dollars, not US Dollars, so here is a converter link. As of today $1.00 AU Dollar = $.65 US Dollar. So her prices are very reasonable.

Here is one example of what she has:So her price of $8.50 would be $5.48 US, so 50 gold styles for that price is amazing! She has stuff for Photoshop, PSP, scrapbooking and tagging. Well worth the look!

Oh, the actions I was testing? Well, here they are and they are excellent!