Not my favorite activity. Sarah’s post gave the idea to mess around with some filters, but I ended up liking this best as is.

Thanks to the BPS class "Get a Load of This," I am making steady progress on my Christmas Journal. Here are three more pages.

How To Decorate a Tree:

Christmas Guest:

Cookies:

HS: MS  Cold: To be a low temperature. Show us ‘cold’ in your space.

It"s a bit of a cheat since it’s raining here today, but it WAS COLD for a very long time. This photo is only a few weeks old.

1.8.08 Her Space:  My Space Bling: All that sparkles and twinkles. Show us ‘bling’ in your space today.

Actually I’m not much of a bling girl so there’s not much around to photograph. This is about as much sparkle as you can find here.

The "Get a Load of This" class at BPS has inspired a lot of scrapping. I’ve completed several pages for my Christmas Journal and an acrylic Gratitude Journal that was inspired by Ali Edward’s Christmas Journal and Beth Johnson’s gratitude journal.

Her Space: My Space for 1.7.08
Fold: To bend something over itself so that part of it covers another. Find ‘fold’ in your space today.

Here’s one of my favorites from vacation although the web version is more washed out than I wish. I never seem to "see" the bokeh when I’m taking a photo and always surprised when it shows up.

I’ve spent quite a bit of time here recently. In December I went to three of the Apple workshops (free). One was on Leopard, the newest Mac operating system, one on i Works, and one on iPhoto. They were all excellent overviews of the programs, and I’ve been using a lot of what I learned. Today, however, was my first appointment at the Genius Bar. This morning I opened up one of my subject specific email folders and discovered that everything in the folder was gone. I started looking around and there were significant losses in nearly all folders, but a few still had all the saved emails. Dates didn’t seem to be related. Not all folders were empty (but most were). My Christmas folder had 2 of perhaps 50-60 emails with receipts, scrapbook projects, and other goodies that appeared in my inbox during December. Why were two still there? The wedding folder from 2006 lost nothing. It appears totally random. We couldn’t figure it out, and sadly, neither could the resident Genius at the Apple Store who was as perplexed as we were. Who’s to know? One of the features I haven’t started on Leopard is Time Machine which backs up your computer to an external hard drive on an hourly basis. It’ll be working before I go to bed tonight!

We’ve had intermittent internet for the last several days, so I’m a day behind.

Friday 1.5.08:

Perfume
   

A fragrant liquid. Show us ‘perfume’ in your space.

I couldn’t decide which view I preferred so here is the original and an "antiqued" version from the effects palete in the new iPhoto 08 program.

And here’s today’s self-portrait. I’ve wanted to try this ever since I saw Kirsty’s before the holiday.