Plugs & Reviews


I totally stumbled and missed last month’s Songbird Avenue kit, but I didn’t want you to miss out on this opportunity.  For the month of May, Songbird Avenue’s guest designers have come together to create a big, beautiful collaboration kit to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. This kit is created by Shabby Princess, Dianne Rigdon, [...]
For those following the misadventures of Donnie Hoyle in You Suck at Photoshop, there’s a new episode up on the site.  This one’s featuring some fabulous tools - I can’t wait to give them a try. You Suck at Photoshop #10 Tschüss!
I think you’ll agree, if you’ve been using any version of Photoshop for any amount of time, that it’s a fun program to use and even more fun as you begin to unlock its secrets.  I started using Photoshop over ten years ago but didn’t even begin to grasp its power until I started using [...]
For all those who, along with me, are enjoying watching the devastation being wrought in the life of Donnie Hoyle as he teaches us Photoshop, here’s the latest installment… You Suck at Photoshop #9 While it’s easy to overlook the value of the training here, you really can learn some advanced techniques from watching these [...]
Every January, there’s an urgency to clean out and organize and I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that way.  I’m not sure whether it’s driven by advertisers and retailers or whether our natural patterns as humans have directed marketing efforts but the advertising circulars that end up in piles on my counter [...]
I love brilliance.  I get excited when I see and hear about ideas that are “outside the box” and intensely creative.  So, imagine the heart-pounding excitement when I stumbled on TED. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.  It’s an annual conference that brings together the brightest thinkers from these three industries to work together.  Each speaker [...]
Snow. We finally had some. For a brief, beautiful half-day yesterday, we had snow on the ground and fat, fluffy flakes floating with fairy-like grace to settle into drifts and piles.  The kids got excited.  I dreamed of magical photos with snowball fights and well-dressed snowmen. Alas, it wasn’t to be.  The temperature inched up and up until [...]

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