Swimming Lessons are Done!!!

Andrew had his last day of swimming lessons yesterday – a fun day!  They had the slides turned on and kids could do whatever they wanted.  Andrew started off on the big slide and then made his way to the…diving board!!!!  Yup, he jumped off the diving board.  He started off having his teacher catch [...]

Trying something new…

I’ve never done a scrapbook “contest” before, but a friend of mine talked me into joining the Croppin Paradise message boards for a Survivor Contest they are going to be doing.  If you are interested, check it out Croppin Paradise, and wish me some luck!!

Photo editing class – day 11

This class was about how to take a photo, change it to black and white, and then selectively color in some areas.  Here is my before:
and here is the after:

Weston Fest

This weekend was Weston Fest so tonight Andrew and I went to the park for fireworks and an outdoor showing of “Open Season”.  We made it through the fireworks and 1/2 hour into the movie before Andrew asked to go home because he was getting tired…heck, it was 10:30, I was tired too!  I’m so [...]

Photo editing class – day 9

I’m making some real progress here!  The days I haven’t talked about mainly were putting everything we have learned together at once.  I didn’t feel the need to share my samples on those days.  In this class, we learned how to do an edge burn making the outside of the picture darker than the subject [...]

Photo editing class – day 5

Two classes in one night!!!  I’m trying to catch up!  Anyway in this class we learned how to add textures to give pictures kind of an “old-world” feel.  This is the pic before:

Here is the pic after:

Photo Editing Class – Day 4

Yup…I’m still slowly plugging along with my photo editing class.  In this class we learned how to use something called “clipping masks”.  I don’t really know how to explain it but this is the picture I started with:

and this is how the picture looks after adding the clipping mask:
It just added the “grungy” looking border [...]

Swimming Lessons

Andrew started his 2-weeks of swimming lessons yesterday.  This year we decided to do the lessons at the outside aquatic center.  Andrew is doing GREAT!  Last year, he was hesitent to put his face in the water, didn’t want to let go of the teacher because he was afraid he would sink…etc.  Take a look [...]

Just wanted to share this cute scrapbook page…

This turned out too cute not to share:

Wisconsin Scrappers Virtual Crop

Hey scrapbookers…join us at the Wisconsin Scrappers message boards through August 16 for a huge virtual crop!  We will having tons of challenges/great prizes/some chatting/and lots of fun!