Some lessons don’t come easy

 I could never be a professional photographer. Know why? I could never be one because I don’t like having client deadlines looming over me. I tend to procrastinate. I often do the same thing when it comes to cleaning.


So rather than edit the school photos taken in April (for Pete’s sake), and the graduation photos I took in June, I figured I’d procrastinate even more and fool around with a few of my camera apps (for Android). This first one’s called Photo Grid.

view from my chair under the dogwood tree yesterday afternoon

This app will pull up pictures from anywhere on your camera and create a collage with them. There are plenty of grid templates from which to choose as well as the free style grid that I used above. Not many backgrounds but I like the leather one I used in this collage.





The app is available for the iPhone or the Droid. Not a ton of creative control, but fun to play with nonetheless.

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And as far as Instagram is concerned . . . the jury’s still out on it for me. Today I created an account, only to find that I’d already done so a couple of months ago. Then I remembered how confused I was back in March after it asked to link to FB. I ended up figuring I hadn’t really created an account and then never went back. Today it told me that someone with my name had already created an account, so I signed on in, and was surprised to see that I already had followers. I still had no idea what to do, or how to start. So I just googled instructions and went from there.

Shared on Instagram

Taken with Camera 360, edited in Little Photo, then in Be Funky.

Just because I can.

It’s fun playing around in Instagram and as far as sharing goes, I like it fine. But for editing and effect purposes, I find it completely lacking compared to every other free app I have. In my phone I use Be Funky, Little Photo, and Camera 360 for editing, and they were all free downloads. Today I downloaded Magic Hour to see what that’s like.

Update: I am loving Magic Hour almost as much as I love Be Funky.

Shared on Instagram.

Taken with Camera 360, edited in Be Funky.

Shared on Instagram.

Taken & edited with Magic Hour, then Instagram for the tilt/shift.

This is my favorite pillow.

Please try to contain yourselves, people.

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Ok ~ enough of this nonsense. Let’s have something fun to drink.

I really want to make this.

I think it would be worth the effort,

and there’s rosemary in our garden.

{Rosemary-Tangerine Cooler}

(i’ll keep you posted)

This also is something I’d like to try.

{Watermelon Agua Fresca}

Maybe with a little silver tequila . . .

or perhaps not.

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Love this song. Girl is a walking miracle.

And with that, I will leave you until next time my friends . . .

Update: For those who asked, my Instagram name is katydid56