Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 24th, 2007
Merry Christmas!
I’m sitting here, having just come back from Christmas Eve lunch with the kids at McDonald’s, reflecting on the past year. It’s been pretty darned amazing, hasn’t it?
While I’ve owned this website for well over ten years now, it’s only in the past few months that I’ve been so heavily involved in it and excited [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Twelve Days in Africa?
I don’t normally post video links - there are just so many hours in the day and YouTube can suck most of them away - but this one is so charming and funny and season-appropriate that I just couldn’t resist. Enjoy!
Tschüss!
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
The Dark Side of Digital
I feel contaminated, covered in sludge, weighed down by sewage and just plain dirty.
“Why?” you ask.
Well, I’ll tell you. This weekend I traipsed into a discussion of digital piracy at DST and my eyes were opened to the underbelly of digital scrapbooking. Not that the pirates were posting at DST (let me make that clear) [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
How to Hack?
With Google’s release of their annual roundup of top search inquiries, I couldn’t help but wonder how my own top searches compared.
Google reports top celebrity searches for Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, all coinciding with negative occurences in the young starlets’ lives. My own statistics show traffic from celebrity searches including Shabby Princess, [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
The Secret (for Digital Scrapbookers)
Go to PhotoshopEssentials.com - like now. I’m serious. They’ve really got their finger on the pulse of Photoshop users. This is a GUY! And he actually gets it that people are using Photoshop for digital scrapbooking. And he’s writing tutorials targeted at digital scrapbookers.
I loved this site before because they produce clear, simple tutorials that [...]
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
The kids are watching animated Christmas specials while I work on a few more designs. They’ve got Polar Express and along with some Barbie thing that I really don’t want to know anything about.
I thought I’d throw together a gingerbread alpha because one of my visitors completed a layout about her gingerbread baking project and [...]
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
Computer Took a Sick Day
Have you ever had one of those days when nothing seems to work?
Today was like that for me. I woke to my alarm but couldn’t wrap my brain around where the sound was coming from and how to get it to stop. Then I went to wake my younger daughter and she was almost [...]
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
It’s Actually "Freebie Friday" Today
Our time with One Night in Bethlehem is coming to a close, dear friends, but I didn’t want the week to close without giving you one, last gift. It’s wordart, in keeping with the holy theme of this mega-collaboration kit organized by Amy W.
Click here to download One Night Wordart (Sorry, download link has expired.)
Make [...]
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
The First "Noel" of the Season
I thought I was done buying Christmas kits this year (and possibly for the next several years until I get tired of the stuff I have) but then I had to get a glimpse of the new December kit at Songbird Avenue. Gah!
Now, how can I pass this up? It’s just gorgeous! And [...]
