For the county fair I also entered this black and white photo of Cookie playing her guitar. It won a superior ribbon (the best you can do). A also really love these two photos of Cookie. She loves taking guitar lessons and practicing! Her older cousins asked to play for them and they were impressed. I […]
Split Sisters Photo
I thought I’d share a project I created for our county fair in the digital arts category. I took pictures of two of my daughters, Truffle (age 13) and Fudge (age 11), and combined them side by side to create a split sisters photo. Here’s Truffle: Here’s Fudge: Can you tell that it is two […]
Five Ways to Immortalize School-Year Memories – Without Scrapbooking
As another school year starts to wind down Heather, the guest blogger for today’s Establish a House post, shares some ideas for keeping track of the memories that have been made. Welcome, Heather! We’re nearing the end of another school year, and if you’re like a lot of parents, you’ve taken your fair share of […]
Five Minute Friday: Beautiful
Today I’m joining Lisa-Jo Baker for Five Minute Friday. Write for 5 minutes flat with no editing, no worrying about perfect grammar, font, or punctuation. Join us! This week’s topic: Beautiful Go! My oldest says it on the way home from the family BBQ. “Is it just me or was the sky particularly beautiful this […]
How Do You Organize Your Photos?
My current project – creating photo books to be printed. It is a HUGE project! Because of my digital camera I have taken more pictures than ever. Unfortunately, I have very little pictures actually printed. Thus my goal to at least get a few photo books. I was able to get a couple of good […]
Family Proclamation Photo Essay #3 {Blog Hop}
Some of our family photos from this year paired with phrases from The Family: A Proclamation to the World All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God. Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny. In the premortal realm, […]
Online Photo Editing Programs
Picnic, a photo editing program associated with Flickr, is now gone. What do you do when that was the basic program you used for editing your photos? Did you know there are a several photo editing sites online that are absolutely free? PicMonkey – my favorite for quick editing with a lot of options. It’s […]
Living in Thanksgiving Daily
Our minds have a marvelous capacity to notice the unusual. However, the opposite is true as well: The more often we see the things around us—even the beautiful and wonderful things—the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the […]
Eucharisteo
{early morning light in my daughter’s bedroom} For the last few months I have been on a personal journey. I’ve realized this is the only real ‘goal’ I want to carry forward going into the new year. Not because I don’t want to accomplish other things or better myself but because this one thing has […]
Family Proclamation Photo Essay Blog Hop
We, the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, solemnly proclaim that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children. All human beings—male and […]
I ♥ Faces: White
I think it’s been over a year since I’ve entered an I ♥ Faces weekly challenge. I used to enter every week! I’ve decided to try and do that again. This week’s challenge is white . . . in a color photo. No black and white photos allowed. I took this photo of Hershey the […]
i♥faces: week 24 “All About Babies”
Get your fill of cuddly, munchable, sweet little babies this week at i♥faces. Of course, I have a multitude of baby photos. Do you know how hard it is to narrow down my entry? In the end I decided to go raw – no accessories, just baby Hershey by herself the day after she was […]
Sprinkles of Sunshine
Glimpses of our week… Sunday Special Dark drew a very detailed tractor. Can you spot the treads on the tires, where it says “John Deere,” the smoke stack with one long trail of smoke, and dust coming behind the tractor because it is going so fast? Monday Eating grass… Boy cousins swinging Tuesday Roasting HUGE […]
Wildflower Help
Anybody know of a good website to identify wildflowers? We went and picked these wildflowers last week but have no idea what they are called. I must say, with all the rain and cooler weather we have been having it sure has greened up what would otherwise be a very “beige” landscape. It’s been beautiful […]
Lovable Squishable Kissable Hershey
Hershey is 7-1/2 months old! Where did the time go? She is definitely starting to develop a little personality all her own. She’s a petite little thing, much like Bon Bon was as a baby. She only weighs 15 pounds. We just started feeding her baby cereal and other foods a couple of weeks ago. […]
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