CT Time

Happy New Year's Eve.  This morning, the previous hour before this picture, there was green grass - what happened?

CT Time

After Christmas day, the rain washed away all the snow and now green grass.

Baby Time

Now ain't she sweet!

Note: Quick Page from jessicasprague.com 'Up and Running Photoshop' class. The digital paper and elements credit to: Katie Pertiet at designerdigitals.com

NYC Time

The other day, we took the train to Grand Central Station (NYC) and the subway uptown to walk 4 blocks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. When we left at 7:00 am it was raining +11 C and when we were driving back from the train at 9:30 pm it was +3.5 C. The next day, looking out our window, no longer saw snow but there was green grass. Can you image, so much green grass in December, it looked like April/May out there.

On the way to the museum, Lexington and East 84 St was a Luncheonette with pop (soda) bottles in the display window. Thought it was pretty neat.
The day at the museum was fantastic. We tried, but just couldn't see everything. Was a fun day.....

Baby Time

I have just finished Lesson 1 of Up and Running. A self-paced class at jessicasprague.com  This is my digital template layout from class.  I learned important stuff like photo resolution is 300 ppi for scrapbooking; general rule of thumb for text is 12 pt in size and 18 pt in leading. Original layout with layers is saved as .psd file. Save as .jeg for printing or cd storage. When saving .jeg for the web, resize layout from large printable size to web friendly size  using Image, then Resize, then Image Size and setting Resolution: 72; Resample Image: checked; dropdown box: Bicubic Sharper. I expect to be saving my documents with extensions documentname.psd; documentname-Finished.jeg; documentname-WebSized.jeg
If the document is not going to be printed or externally saved or sent to web then just leave at documentname.psd which contains all layers for editing purposes.  So far, so good......

Scrap Time

Played a game on wescrap.com called Tag Your It based on a kids game "Telephone".  Starts out with one person getting a layout to scraplift. That person has 72 hours to do the lift and e-mail their layout back to the coordinator, who will send the completed layout to the next person on the list. All layouts are kept secret until the end, when the revel is done and everyone gets to see all the layouts and how they changed from beginning to end. There were two teams that competed against each other. It was fun.

Traffic Time

Traffic came to a stop today (and it wasn't because of me!) In the other lane, a postal truck had his emergency lights on, and was trying to figure a way to get a really big turtle off the middle of the road. I wish I would of taken a picture. This turtle was not happy. It was truly amazing and I don't know what happened. I didn't go back to see.

Video Time

I like this video - can apply to any stressful time !  Just click on the title "Video Time" (I don't know how to publish the link differently.)

Seminar Time

I attended the Get Motivated one-day seminar, this past week, at the Hartford Civic Center along with 19,000 people at this downtown event. The Get Motivated seminars is a Florida company run by Tamara and Peter Lowe who deliver similar events across the country. A full day which included many high profile speakers on topics of perseverance, motivation, leadership, sales, negotiation, business skills and teamwork. Tamara Lowe was one of the speakers along with Joe Montana (NFL Quarterback), Zig Ziglar (Motivation speaker), Steve Forbes (President and CEO of Forbes, Inc), Rudy Giuliani (Mayor of NYC durng 9/11), General Colin Powell (Soldier-Statesman) and Special Guest Laura Bush (former First Lady). I thoroughly enjoyed the information and stories throughout this event.

Quiet Time

Once the sun goes down it gets really noisy outside with the night life (grasshoppers). I like listening to them.

PC Time

Every Tuesday night at 9:30 EST I like to watch paperclipping.com (live tab). It is a live scrapbooking program with Noell Hyman. Can also watch the archives of the show.

Scrap Time

Scrap Time

Scrap Time

August 1, 2009 - baby day

Baby Time

Bath time is a sad day for baby Nova. She is not a happy camper when wet. But so sweet when asleep.

Food Time

Blueberry Salsa

This looks so yummy!

Check out www.recipegirl.com

Radio Time

Whenever I listen to country925.com, shortly after 12:00 noon, they play the National Anthem.

Book Time

Now, doesn't this look like the most yummiest cookbook with lobster rolls on the cover. I think I'll have myself a read.

CT Time

Notice how the traffic lights are in the middle of the intersection. And there is a light for each lane of traffic in all directions. This is very common and I quite like this.

CT Time

In Stafford Springs these paintings on the side of a building

Baby Time

Today, she is two weeks old

Movie Time

Saw the movie and enjoyed it immensely. It just didn't seem right to go home and have ham and eggs after a movie like that. At least it wasn't pizza.

Food Time

Cooking Class: Perfect pizza dough

Making pizza dough -- what fun!

Baby Time

Nine days old - Nova Dawn - happy baby

Town Time

Instead of having a wallet full of cards, I use key tags. My next tag will be starbucks. The tags are with the car keys.

Baby Time

First car ride from hospital to home, yesterday

Movie Time

G-Force -The best part of this movie was the previews. Good movie to take a six year old. After the movie, walked by a six year old saying "That was a great movie!"

Baby Time

Beautiful baby

Baby Time

When I can figure out where the saved pictures are on the blackberry or I get computer photos, then I'll post our granddaughter Nova Dawn Axhorn - 7 lbs 2 oz, born 7:04 pm on August 1. Baby is wonderful and so are parents, grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends. August is a good month!

Class Time

Last week, at Stamp and Scrap Nest, took a card class instructed by Nathalie Metivier from Magenta. She autographed her book for me and she is currently writing her second book due to be out next spring.

Shopping Time

From ebay, got a comb made from a yak. A note came with it with a picture of yaks and a map showing the flight route from Tibet to Shanghai, across the ocean to me. The note says, "This wonderful product comes from Tibet is located in west China and Shanghai customs is in the east China. This product first departs from Tibet, crosses the whole China, arrives at Shanghai customs, and then leaves China by plane to your country. This is a very long journey and takes several days. Therfore, please forgive its late. Thank you very much for your understanding and best of blessings to you!" I thought this was a nice note.

Movie Time

After everything that happened in the movie, my favorite line is, "Marry me, then we'll date".

Town Time

Graduating high school is quite an event around town. As a note of interest, during the school year, the yellow school bus picks up and drops off kids at the end of their driveway.

Class Time

Today, I registered for the free class on Photo Editing: Frames Ups & Special Effects at http://www.jessicasprague.com/ which starts on-line July 6.

Movie Time

Confessions of a Shopaholic

- Read the book and watched the movie. Not quite the same but both amusing and enjoyable.