Relax & Surf Sunday Blog Hop

Just joined the Relax & Surf Sunday Bloghop and have already found three...or was it four? new blogs to follow! It's 12:43 in the morning... and I am teaching Sunday school in a few hours...so I better get to bed! More blog hopping tomorrow! Good night and er... uh... good morning!



Blessings,

Another Sunday Blog Hop

Sunday Blog Hop

Just Joined In on My First Blog Hop!

Blogbamboozled!

Twice this week I lost complete blog posts... 'n of course I didn't feel like trying to pull them back together and posting them again. sorry. I am a bit frustrated & blogbamboozled!  So all you fellow bloggers out there: Do you type your blogs up in an alternate word-processing program & copy/paste or do you just risk it and type in the form and hope for the best? I really think I know what the problem is, though. On both occasions I had walked away from my computer, and later returned to pick up where I left off or put some final touches on my blog. When I hit the button to publish I got nothing but a scrambled screen of html. I am figuring the site had timed out or signed me out. That's the only thing that makes sense. So my only way to remedy this, I suppose is to use my word-processer. I can't always start a blog post and finish it in one sitting as there are always interruptions in this house for whatever reason! lol! I know there are more bloggy momzies with the same problem?
 

Overcoming PhotoshopAphobia

Between teaching the kids, doing the laundry, cooking the means, and keeping the house in order, I know we moms find it rather hard to squeeze in the time to learn something for ourselves. We're never to old to learn, though. This past few days I vowed to do just that! I wanted to build a background for my blog. I had finally got over what I like to call PhotoshopAphobia and built a really basic background image, but I wanted a little more bling so to speak. Next, I built my "signature" apple. Following that I worked on a header. These things have popped up one by one on my page, though I am sure you haven't noticed them as nothing has cued you in to visit my page without even one new post popping up. I've been so busy with photoshop that I have not made even one post.  I maybe got a little obsessive with trying to overcome my PhotoshopAphobia, when I should have been getting a little bloggy. who knows? I really, really wanted to fancy it up a bit, though.

Most of you veteran bloggers out there, probably have no problem throwing together a fancy background, but you really have no idea how overwhelmed I was with the program. I am usually up for learning new things, but just taking the time to sit down and do it was my problem. Every time I would get into it, something would interrupt the process which would leave me to learn nothing and have to start over again! and the tools... so many and not a clue what they were for! That was oh so fun! Finally, though I decided... I was going to do it.

I think I mentioned before I joined an online scrapping site. I did this in hopes to learn the basic of Photoshop Elements 8. This is the version I purchased months ago and would barely touch. Now, I am not afraid! lol!  I was pleased with the pointers and tips I got at the website, and of course joining the subscription gives me a monthly scrapbook kit and discounts to other kits on the website. I am hoping to use these kits to do something with the thousands upon thousands of pictures I have my Mac.  I did visit several other websites, too. Some helped and some didn't. I have an entire bookmark folder full of photoshop links still to check out.

I am open to new weblinks though, if anyone has any good ones to share.  Feel free to reply with these addys. I'd be ever so grateful. As I visit some of the sites I've already found, if any are exceptionally notable I'll throw them up here to help others.  And just as soon as I get another free moment, I'll tell you a little bit about how I designed my background, where I got my graphics (noting credit where credit is do for a couple of things), and I will explain a few things I made my self. Most things were trial and error, so I won't yet be able to tell you how I actually created things step by step, but that will come in due time.

The good news is, my daughter has taken an extreme interest in what I am doing, so that will be the fun part. We'll learn together. I will be posting some of the things she creates. I know she is dying to play around with the paper doll kit I purchased & downloaded from the site I joined. More on that and the site to come, too. Check back! Have a great day 'n God Bless!

Undecided

Okay, I am very new to blogging! Actually I started a while back with a blog HomeSchoolBlogger.Com that I didn't keep up. I decided I was going to try to commit this year, so I created a new one there again today with practically identical information as I have posted here. I will play around with both blog sites for a little while to see which one I like best. So visit me here as well as there at iLive! iLuv! iTeach! and tell me which blog site you like best! I could really use some input!

Thanks so much! :)

BOMBarded by School Work!

We received our homeschool materials Tuesday evening right at the end of dinner. My mom is out of town, so I had invited my dad to come have a good home-cooked meal with us. The boys and the men were still raking in the food, but definitely slowing down! They probably would have been done at this point had they stopped talking about everything under the sun! The UPS man came rolling up the drive just as I was excusing myself from the table. I grinned from ear to ear & looked at my kiddos letting out a loud “wahoo”! I then joked that since the materials were here, we could just go ahead and start school! ha ha!
My little guy didn’t like that idea very much, I suppose! umm…go figure! lol! As my daughter and I trotted excitedly outside to get the materials from the UPS man, the wheels were just a turning in that little mind! He got a grumbly look on his face, rolled his eyes, let out a long, exaggerated groan, and then that grumbly face switched to a mischievous grin! In a fit of giggles, he told his daddy and paw paw that he wished he had a stick of dynamite! Everyone was laughing pretty good when I came back in the door! My hubby informed me our ds wanted a stick of dynamite! Sadly, I didn’t quite get it! I couldn’t imagine why a 6 year old would need a stick of dynamite and why in the world that would be so funny! My husband went on… “Well, I’m thinking it is to blow up those boxes ya got there!” rofl! Way 2 much Looney Tunes episodes with “TNT”, ya think?