Feeling Froggy

Would you believe this is the only picture out of 300 that I

managed to get to Adobe? It has been a wonderful, wild two

weeks and I am still trying to get myself together. Work wants

to punish me for leaving it alone for so long and I am playing

catch up there.

Lucky for me I did get to stay an extra day in New Orleans with

my sister due to fog and plane cancellations. I came home to

my little girl Bailey, Geary had picked her up from my sister's

house so I could have her home that night. He even gave her

a bath...first one in all her 8 years for him. She must have

thought her world was coming to an end!

I am also sitting in front of a beautiful full screen HD monitor.

Geary was so excited about getting it. I have to admit it is a

beautiful thing. Really it is great to be back home.

Going away is fun, but the coming home is always so

much better. I beleive my husband really missed me this time!

I am STILL rocking and rolling from the swells we had at sea.

I wonder when will it go away, or if it could be something else

like an inner ear problem. More than anything, it is an

annoying problem.

So over the weekend I will get through the pictures, put most

of them on my Flickr page, and share the special ones with

you all. I promise I won't be boring, cause you've probably

seen a lot of them on other blogs.

I just want to add another thing. Heather puts on the

BEST cruises ever...that girl makes them better every year.

This year was especially great with all the sponsors who sent

stuff for the gift bags. They were SO full of great goodies.

It was like Christmas in the Tropics.

I loved seeing my old friends and making new ones.

The teachers were spectacular, Mary Hettsmanberger's class

was very inspiring and loads of fun. I made the best clay beads

Heather's class. Not as good as hers but I don't want to be...its

more fun getting them from her!

New Year, New Look

I thought I'd start the New year with a little change in the
look of my blog. (Thanks to Aqua Poppy Designs)

I'm taking down the tree tonight and putting away the

Christmas stuff. For some reason I am holidayed out

and feeling ready to face the New Year.

I had lots of fun with my family over the holidays and

now everyone has gone home and its time to get back to

everyday living. Although the thought of going to work

tomorrow makes me want to scream...lol.

I didn't make any major kind of resolutions for the New Year,

I've found that over the years its just been a waste of time

and usually made me feel like a failure. Who needs that?

But I do have a calender and I set some goals for myself.

I'm marking time frames on the months, so I know when I

need to start something and when it needs to be finished.

Of course there will be the lists, I am good at following

things that I write down...most of the time.

I am getting my Etsy shop up and running this month.

Heather spent an afternoon with me, showing me how to

take pictures and how to fix them with PhotoShop. Since

we had that one day though, there hasn't been another

one with sunshine so I can have some natural light.

But...I did take notes and I have been looking them over.

My original picture above. Artificial light and bad background.

Even fixed it looks bad.

Original picture with better background and natural light.

Same picture, this one has been through PhotoShop, and is ready.

Looks so much better than the one I did. Thanks Heather,

now, can you make the clouds go away so I can take more?