Sometimes a little voice can say the biggest thing

Every evening after dinner, I sit down with my laptop in the living room. My husband watches the news and I usually pretend to do the same. Oh, I can hear it and I can see it, but sometimes I just want to ignore it. So I open my laptop and begin fiddling around with photos I’ve taken, or I check my mail, or I visit a blog or two. I fiddle around with my photos using Photoshop, a program I taught myself to use.


I’m not a genius by any stretch of the imagination. And I’m not going to lie and say it was easy learning this program. I used online tutorials, and bought a Scott Kelby book for CS2 (the first PS program I had). I can get around in Photoshop, but only peripherally which is good enough for me. I rely heavily on actions I’ve gathered, and textures I use from my photo files to enhance my photographs. An action is a recording of a sequence of editing commands, and a texture is a picture that can be layered on top of the photo that I’m working on.


Here’s an example of what a texture looks like:

Sarah Gardner Textures


I am into Sarah Gardner textures lately, and she offers a ‘try me’ package for free.






This is my favorite photo of the past week.


Last fall, I brought my geraniums in and cut them back to winter-over in the house. And this weekend, I noticed that a couple of them have blooms.

Sweet ~

The rounded edges are a free action I downloaded – probably from The CoffeeShop Blog.






I also repotted my spider plants last fall, taking the babies and beginning a pot for them. They’re doing fine, I see.


In the photo above, I used a free brush from the Kim Klassen Cafe. A brush is sort of like a stamp. (My watermark is a brush I created myself). Kim has a tutorial on her site on how to make a watermark, if you are interested.


Watermark tutorial – Kim Klassen

Moving along . . .

It was extremely busy at school today. And I’m sad to say that I haven’t walked in days. This is not like me, and I can’t stand being lazy.

Ok, let me rephrase that. I love being lazy sometimes. But only sometimes. And if anyone who was new to the blogging world asked me what my best piece of advice to them would be, I’d have to say it was to exercise.

‘Nuff said.

It's just a little voice
and if you're listening
Sometimes a little voice
Can say the biggest thing
It's just my little voice I've been missing

~ Sara Bareilles

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(I love her voice.)

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