New Header

Well, well, well, I just spent 2 hours making the new blog header.  Again, I can thank Jessica Sprague for helping me to learn some new tricks.  Her video's are so helpful and informative. Her classes are very easy and straightforward.  They are all done via video and you can pause, rewind fast forward and play them over and over again.  The screenshots of Photoshop Elements are very helpful and it's easy to see where you should be making adjustments to the tools and layers etc.

Today on Jessica's blog she mentioned how addicting her classes are.  And honestly to me they have been.  I want to take every single one of them and look forward to the new year and new classes.

Making this new header was really fun.  Being creative is such a good outlet for me and very relaxing. This weekend I'll be diving into a new class that I picked up off of Jessica's web for one dollar.

Rounded Photo Corners

As I was catching up reading some blogs, I came across Pioneer Woman's weekly photo challenge. This week's challenge was creating rounded corners on your photos in PSE or Photoshop. They were pretty easy and since I was feeling creative I added a texture as well. Here is the finished project.

Halloween Project

Last year Scarlet Lime Kit Club offered a cute special project for Halloween. Unfortunately I missed out on picking up one of the kits. But this year I was able to pick up their kit project for Halloween. Using last year's directions and this year's kit ideas I was able to construct my own "Spooky" banner. This project was super fun and I enjoyed just putting all the cute little embellishements onto the banner. I've attached a few (not so good) photos of my completed project.

Been a Long Time

Been a long time, Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely time . . .

These are familiar lyrics from a Led Zepplin song. This song came to mind tonight as I realized I haven't blogged in almost a month. Honestly, I was never really consistent with it, but a month between posts is ridiculous.

The new job is very, very busy and that keeps me tied up most of the day. My new digital scrapbooking hobby is also taking quite a bit of time. I love it and enjoy the time I'm spending creating pages and learning new techniques.

Today was a beautiful sunny day in Georgia. Not sure how long it's been since the sun has been out. So we decided to drive up to Dahlonega and visit Matt and his girlfriend Jennifer and go to Gold Rush Days. The festival was nice and it was great to see so many people. Mitch, Meghan and I were able to meet a lot of Matt's friends as they all were enjoying the nice Fall weather too.

The photo of Matt and I was taken on Matt's deck outside his house that he is renting with 3 other guys. They are having a blast and enjoy the house. It sits right above the river and they tube down the river and walk up the deck stairs to their pool. The other photos are the view from the deck up the river and the pool. The house is actually built into the cliff and there are huge rocks along the back side of the deck. It's quite the setup.

Hope you enjoy the photos. Make sure you enjoy the beautiful weather for as long as it's here. It will be winter before we know it.

Happy Fall!