i got out my camera today.

Yes... I did! I went to the park with my 4-H group and took some pics!!!

I used Picasa 3.9 to edit these. I decided to put the edited and non-edited pictures together so that you can see the difference.

i went to the aquarium.

a deck of cards.

I love card games. Hearts, solitaire, spider solitaire, rummy, even Dutch Blitz. I LOVE IT ALL!!!

So, what card games do you guys like to play?

doodle buddy plus stuff on etsy.

I made this on the iPhone app (also available on other devices, such as the iPad), DoodleBuddy. It's free and fun! You can doodle on pictures or create your own work of art (see my work of art above).

DoodleBuddy upgrades are available for purchase at the app store.

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Here is some stuff on Etsy that I really want...

This is a Panda Bag, people!!! How cute is this??? To see it on Etsy, {click here}

To see more of this shop, {click here}

Is this funny or what??? It's from the same shop. To see

this shirt on Etsy, {click here}

i like these.

A couple weeks ago I talked Jarrett into letting me pose him for some pictures...

I really like how these turned out. These are unedited.

HEY!!! Notice my new design??? Let me know what you like and don't like!

{if enough people say they don't like a certain element, it will be changed asap}

P.S. Giveaway at Fashion, Trends, & More!

capturing it.

Hey!!! I'M BACK!!!

Cali was SUPER fun!!!

But, now I'm back, so I am going to enter a photo challenge ;)

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Okay, there are two themes: water and feet. Feet pics are my thing (ya, weird, I know). And about a month ago, it was raining, and I got some awesome photos.

a rose in bloom photo challenge.

Another photo challenge!!!

photo challenge with...oh yeah, me.

It's my thing to put a . at the end of every post title.

So right now, I'm actually thinking, "Photo challenge with...oh, yeah! ME!"

THEME: Black Without Being Black and White

oh...hard one!!!!

Example:


Remember, there is no prize. This is all just for fun! To enter, post your picture to your blog (or Flickr) and then comment the link ON THIS POST. Editing is allowed - but don't do black and white!

Link ups will end on Sunday (01-15-2012). I will post winners on Monday!

more photos...ya.

{click here} to enter yourself.

Have I really posted three or four times TODAY?! My gosh, Grace! Get away from the computer!!!

Well...there's this photo challenge....and...

I had to enter.

The edited is a little dark...but I do like the way the color was adjusted and the way it was cropped.

oh, oh, oh!

YAY!!!

WAHOO!!!

Okay, we all know you don't want to listen to me go on and on about how much I love this....

So let's cut to the chase.

That is an expression, right?

okay, okay...

a photo challenge!

if you have been following my blog for at least a week....

you should have seen that coming.

to all you new comers: i <3 photo challenges.

you have to know that to survive reading this blog.

So, here I go!
I took this picture a long time ago...2009 or 2010. I entered it in my local fair in August 2011, and it won Champion. It went to State and got a blue (if you don't know what that means, it means the judges really REALLY liked it). It was not edited except for cropping to get it down to a 5x7. I used a tiny point and shoot camera - the camera wasn't even mine!!!

crayons arent just for little kids.

I LOVE crayons!!! they are super fun! I doodle and draw and "design" every night with my box of Crayolas ;)

Here are a couple headers that I drew and scanned today (yeah, I taught myself to scan!!! I feel so uhh...techy. I know what you're thinkin'. 'Everyone can scan.' Well, my toddler friend can't! Where was I? Oh yeah, headers)



Okay, the thing that says these ARE headers that I made by Myself Cool, right? got cut off a little bit...just if you noticed that Myself is Mys and headers is head


And yes, I really write my "a's" like that. I "taught myself", er, "trained myself"

photo challenge with a ray of sunshine.

I FOUND ANOTHER PHOTO CHALLENGE!!!


ME SO SO SO SO HAPPY!!!

cookie cutter.

AHH!!! YAY!!! WAHOO!!!

Wondering what the heck that was for???

You must not know me.

I mean seriously....

You probably want to know, huh???

I ONLY GET THIS EXCITED FOR A PHOTO CONTEST!!!

The theme is color...So I HAD to use this one! (or two...)

totally edited yet toatally awesome.

It's been a while since I posted some pictures...


I found this crummy picture that I had taken from the car. I thought, what the heck, and went to work editing it.

It took two seconds. I just went crazy with the highlights and shadows.

And I have this:

I used Picasa, like I always do ;) I really like how the Dutch Brothers sign stands out, and how its SUPER dark at the bottom, and looks awesome at the top. You can see outlines of cars, and the sky looks totally fake. The original, blah. Edited, awesome! This wouldn't be a picture I would enter in fair or a photo challenge or anything like that, but it's cool to "have around." ;)

candle photography part ii.

I wanted the entire background in the above picture to be black. Does anyone know how to get rid of the red "specks"?

this is my least favorite, but I still really like it!