Textures

Today I decided to try my hand at usung textures in Photoshop Elements 7. Nichole's mother-in-law is an awesome photographer. Recently, Connie took some beautiful photos of sunflowers. She was not happy with the color of the sky since it was an overcast day. Since I had read about textures in the PSE User magazine I decided her photo was the perfect chance to practice some texture techniques. Below is the result.

I've also attached a family photo from the reunion in Austin. This is my entire side of the family minus my brother and nephew, Joe. How about those shirts?

Family Reunion and PSE7

Today's post is about using Photoshop Elements 7 and a picture from the recent Puzio family reunion.

Last week the majority of the Puzio family descended upon Lake LBJ just outside of Austin, Texas. My sister, Shelley owns a lovely lake home right on the lake and we rented a home about 4 doors down for the week. There were 22 of us split between two homes. We had a great time. Fortunately we had the opportunity to take some family photos. As some of you know I worked incredibly hard to tie dye 24 t-shirts just for the photo shoot. The shirts all turned out great and everyone really enjoyed wearing them. The photo attached is of me and my 4 children at the lake wearing our shirts.

The reason the title of this post includes PSE7 is because the frame and word art was added using PSE7. I'm taking a free photo editing class from JessicaSprague.com. She has lots of great video tutorials on using this wonderful photo editing tool. Feel free to check it out. You'll also be seeing more of my family reunion photos enhanced with PSE7 as I learn more skills.

Thanks for visiting.

Beach Fun

Hi Friends,

Checking in while on vacation. We've been having a wonderful time down here in Satellite Beach, Florida. The weather is beautiful and very warm. Our condo looks out over the water and has been very relaxing and enjoyable. Wish we could have a place like this year round. Oh well. . . maybe some day.

This morning we got up at 2:00 since we were hoping to catch the shuttle Endeavor launch. Unfortunately, they scrubbed the launch due to a hydrogen leak. They thought they had it fixed from Saturday's scrubbed launch but apparently not. Fortunately for us we checked the news before leaving to go to the park to watch the launch. This is the second time we've been in the perfect spot to watch the shuttle and it was cancelled.

Meghan and I did get to go horseback riding. It was very hot, but the scenery was lovely. The trail was through the Florida coastal forest and quite unexpected since there really isn't much of it left due to condos and Disney World development. The ride was enjoyable and we had a great time.

As Jimmy Buffet would say "The weather is here, wish you were beautiful." This song has been going through my head all day.

Here are a few photos from the day today.

New Photos

Tuesday on my way home from work I was going to shop. But got sidetracked when I saw this beautiful Magnolia on a tree. It wasn't in anyone's yard or on a company owned piece of property so I drove by twice before stopping to pick it. I brought it home and took a few photographs of it. It's just placed on the lawn as I thought the green grass would add a nice texture and make the flower pop. I'm pretty pleased since I just used my 28 to 300mm all purpose zoom.

This second photo is of the butterfly pictues I made for Jessica's friends for graduation. Jamie Payne created the original design for our Scrap Retreat project. Jessica liked it so much that she thought it would be neat and different to give to her friends for graduation gifts. I made a few modifications like changing the ribbon color and stamping on the tag. But all in all I pretty much left the perfect design in tact. Hope I did your design justice Jamie! Many thanks to Debra and Jamie for helping me gather all the flowers and other items to make these beautiful gifts.

JESSICA YELTON

JESSICA YELTON

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Memorial Day

Posting once a month is just not going to cut it. Not sure how to make updating my blog more manageable, but something has to be done to improve updating my posts.

Project 365 is coming along. I'm behind, but then so is Becky Higgins. While she is not that far behind it was nice to know that she is not perfect either. She is however, quite the inspiration. Her blog post on Friday got me motivated to work on updating my Project 365 and trying to catch up.

Yesterday we worked in the yard and managed to plant 4 Hydrangea's, 3 Knock Out rosebushes and several of the pots on the deck. Now if only the rain would stop.

Since today is Memorial Day, I would like to thank all veterans and those four men in my family that have sacrificed many hours (and their lives) to serve our great country. Mitch's father, Rebel, was a career Naval officer and was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese bombed on Dec. 7th, 1941. My father, Fred, was a career Air Force officer and served in Viet Nam. Mitch, a career Naval officer like his father was blessed by not having to fight in any wars. My brother -in-law, Ron is still serving in the Air Force and is currently the Air Defense Attache' in Brazil. He also did a tour for the 2nd Gulf War. To these wonderful selfless men I give my whole hearted thanks to serving your country and helping to perserve our peace and way of life.

Prom and Birthday

Gee, it sure has been awhile since I posted. My apologies. But I am back with news of prom and my birthday. Both were on Saturday the 25th. The weather was fabulous and very warm. Perfect day to have the girls out in their gowns on the grounds of a lovely historical home site complete with arbors, Gypsy horses, pillars and sunshine.

Prom was held at The Foundry at Puritan Mill. You can check out their website by clicking here. The pre prom meal was at Luckie's Diner which is Brandon Hannon's aunt's restaurant. Tara had the entire upstairs patio reserved for the kids and they had bar tenders, waiters and a DJ for the time they were there. They had a blast.

The picture of the iris are from a bouquet that Matt gave me as a birthday present. They are one of my favorite flowers and proved to be perfect subjects for my Project 365 photo for today, Monday the 27th.