the old white house: picnik

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

"picniking" on the riverwalk...

Last week I brought my camera on our River Walk.

We have just over 8 miles of paved trails around town all on the river!
It is very rare to go for a walk and not see people jogging, biking or roller blading.

This is the first part of the regular walk that Duane and I take for our daily excersize.

(we do not do all 8 miles on our walk, but we are planning on increasing our regular amount)

no pain no gain

what crazy person said that?

I have been wanting to play with picnik since I took these, Picnik is a new creative outlet for me : )

We have 3 of these iron bridges on the trail, aren't they gorgeous?

Here is another of the iron bridges, this one is curved at the top like the other,

but I still think it is beautiful.

Our town received a 'cool city' grant a few years ago so many of the stores got

makeovers... front and backs.

The store owners picked the colors and the awnings.

I love the different colors they picked.

This steeple just pops out at you when you cross the bridge in town.

I wish I could tell you all of the textures that I used in Picnik,

I just played with each one until I liked what I saw and then I layered 3 or 4 on top of eachother.

I suppose having a pencil and paper handy would be a good thing... hmmmmm?

I don't even think I could duplicate these!

Good thing they are saved to the computer, or I'd probably forget I even made them!

50 + menopause + low thyroid = some serious brain fog

keeping it real...

Happy Tuesday!

love,

Theresa xoxo

ohhhhh it feels good to be back!

: )

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

rain rain go away...

All of the dreariness of the day has me wishing for more motivation than just trying out different settings on my camera... but there you have it.

along with the rain, John has just left to go back to school and I'm not going to mince words here people, as I watched him and Cam pull away the tears flowed like the rain outside.

I think the idea that he graduates on Sat. and then will be moving across the country has hit home and hit home hard. :(

that is life and I want nothing more than to see my birds spread their wings but it doesn't make it any less painful when they do.

(sorry just keeping it real.)

back to the collage...

All four of these shots were done with the manual setting.

I am ashamed to say it (but I will anyway) but I didn't even know my camera could take a sepia or B&W shot without editing on the computer!

I bought some dill from Aldis and thought I would use it for Easter dinner. I was unsure what I was going to make with it at the time but it just smelled so good! Then wouldn't you know it, I made my "moms famous dilled carrots" but used the dried dill I always use in the recipe because I FORGOT that I had bought fresh dill. ugh.

I should be ashamed to say that too, but there you are... apparently I have no shame! LOL
so now I have a little pitcher of it to use as a photo prop!

(the carrots were delicious by the way)

you are welcome Boo! xoxo

While I was playing on Picnik I made a couple of thank you cards to go in my packages from

the old white house

I actually turned them into collages so that I could print off more than one at a time.

For some reason (the reason being that I need MY computer fixed because I had that one figured out when dealing with the printer and I don't have Cam's figured out at all!) I can only get Cam's computer to print one at a time so the collage worked great for the cards. I will just cut them apart to add to the package.

There are a few things I would change about them and I could dr. them up a bit but I can only justify so much play time on the computer. And I NEEDED to talk to all of you today, it has been a week since I posted last! Where oh where does the time go?

So do you all PICNIK?

I still haven't upgraded to premium but have been tempted on more than one occasion. For now the free version works just fine. (I like anything that is labeled FREE)... just saying.

and just in case you thought that maybe I haven't had my hand in any creating... I did manage to make a couple of market totes. I had an order to take care of and while I was printing on that miracle transfer paper I thought I would make something new. Love the bees, of course not really fond of them when I'm relaxing outside, but they are cute with crowns, are they not?