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Digital Layout Week 3

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Two friends and I drove to Buffalo this morning to attend a bridal shower for another friend’s soon-to-be daughter-in-law. It was a brunch at The Pearl Street Grill. Great atmosphere, good food, and lots of fun. Before I left, I started the week 3 layout for Jessica Sprague‘s Now We’re Rockin with Photoshop. I’m pretty pleased with it, but especially pleased that I managed to solve all the little glitches on my own!

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It’s a 2 page layout, shown here 24 X 12. My computer slowed down a bit with all the layers and details, but held up just fine. One more to go, although the class officially ends tomorrow. There are also mid-week assignments, mini-books and challenges I never got to. I need to just keep plugging away at this. Some of the PSE commands are second nature now, but I still lack confidence on designing my own layouts.

Squirrels and Sketches

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I was hoping to hold on to my October decorations until Thanksgiving, but the squirrels had different ideas. They started out with a few nibbles, but the final result is here. We’re trying to figure out if they are especially hungry or thirsty (not much precipitation here this fall) as we’ve never had this problem before.

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And here’s another layout from Pencil Lines (Sketch #58). Most of the materials came from this months Studio Calico kit.

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Pat and Ian are the hosts of a wonderful B&B we’ve enjoyed for many years in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Unfortunately, for us, they’ve decided to retire and have sold the B&B. This photo captures both their personalities perfectly.

Balloon Launch

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This is the second layout I’ve done recently using a sketch from the Pencil Lines blog. I thought this time I’d email it to the blog but, once again, it didn’t happen. I’m really liking their simple layout designs. This is almost a complete lift of Sketch #57. These photos are from the Dansville Hot Air Balloon show we went to over Labor Day.

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Just a Week Behind

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I’m taking Jessica Sprague’s second level course on digital scrapbooking. I’m learning a lot, but need to branch out and practice, practice, practice. For now, however, I am merely trying to catch up. Here are the first two layouts for this class.

Week 1:

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And Week 2:

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Back

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We’ve done a lot of traveling–away the better part of four weekends in a row–so unusual for us. I loved all the trips, but it made keeping up with schoolwork more difficult than usual. We do report cards early in my district so one of the parent conference days will fall on Election Day, and they don’t have to worry about parking. So, finally, my report cards are done and parent conferences run from 1-7:45 today and tomorrow. Yesterday I finally edited some of the photographs from the trips and hope to have them uploaded in the Photo-a-Day (October) by tonight. Here are a couple of my favorites:

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A stand of birch trees at the Southern Vermont Art Center on a foggy October morning.

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When we were driving from Vermont to Hyde Park we stopped at a wonderful little farm market to pick up some pumpkins, gourds, and Vermont cheese.

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Grapes still on the vine in Ontario where we spent a weekend with our good friends, Karen and Mike. We saw a play at the Shaw Festival, visited our favorites wineries and found a few new ones.

And finally a layout I did for a challenge, but never uploaded:

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Green

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Today’s prompt:  Next to Yellow in the rainbow is Green.  Show us Green in your space.

A  Chihuly glass sculpture at the C orning Museum of Glass. We spent 3 fascinating hours there on Saturday.

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Yellow

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Today’s prompt: Our Rainbow theme takes us on to Yellow – Bright, cheery, sunny. Show us yellow in your space.

More fall goodies:

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Orange

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It’s rainbow week at HS:  MS. Following our rainbow theme this week, Orange comes next in the rainbow to Red. Show us Orange in your space.

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Red

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Today’s challenge at HS: MS is a color challenge:  RED–my favorite color. And here are my cute, new, shiny red shoes that I bought last weekend when I was shopping with Sarah. I might have passed them up, but Sarah quickly listed a variety of outfits I could wear them with. So glad she did. I love these shoes. They’re comfy, too!

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Closed on Sunday

When I was growing up in rural Ohio, Blue Laws were a fact of life. No stores were open on Sunday, and I remember being somewhat shocked when things changed. (Can’t remember when that was, however.) But now Sunday is just another day when I can run errands, go to the mall, whatever. Very few stores are closed–in our area, Aldi’s is the only one that comes to mind. So when Tracy suggested that Sarah and I could meet Sunday at the Paramus, NJ mall to have lunch and shop, it never crossed my mind that the stores might be closed. But closed they were, and was I ever shocked! I hadn’t expected to see Sarah until Thanksgiving, and I was so looking forward to this unexpected treat. Thank goodness for cell phones!! Sarah was just on her way from Princeton and was able to tell me how to get to the Menlo Park mall. We had a great lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, and a very successful afternoon of shopping. Best of all, I got to spend some time with Sarah.

Autumn

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Today’s prompt from HS:  MS is perfect.

The third season of the year. Show us ‘Autumn’ in your space today.

We spent Saturday in Manchester, VT. These photos (I couldn’t choose just one) were taken at the Southern Vermont Arts Center.

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More about our fabulous weekend when I get home.

Card

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Today’s challenge:  CARD–A Piece of thick, stiff paper. Find ‘card’ in your space today.
In a quick attempt to post today’s challenge BEFORE work, here’s a card I made for a friend:

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Wheel

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Today’s challenge on HS:  MS:  wheel–A circular object that revolves on an axle. Find a wheel in your space today.

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SOS on HS: MS

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School has been so time-consuming I’ve had to give up some of my daily pleasures. Playing along with HS: MS is one I really miss. But today is Show Off Sunday and here are two photos I like from my trip yesterday to visit Matt in Ithaca. There are several more in the post below.

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This is part of the first printing press used by the Paleontological Institute which runs the Museum of the Earth outside Ithaca. It sits in the entryway to the museum.

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Just a few leaves have turned color here. Another two weeks and it should be at peak. These were laying in the stream in Robert H. Treman State Park.

Fun Day

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Fun Day
Found this tonight on A Fancy Word for Simple:

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Fun Day

I have plenty of work to do–plenty of work for work, plenty of work for school, and plenty of work around the house. But, I’ve declared today and complete and total fun day. I’m a firm believer that it will make me work better when I finally decide to settle in and get some things done.

How will you enjoy yourself today?

"When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others."
—–Eda LeShan

And a fun day I did have. Tracy is in the Adirondacks backpacking with his friend so I drove to Ithaca to spend the day with Matt.

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We started at the Ithaca Farm Market. A lovely place with a wide variety of booths—lots of organic produce, beautiful flowers, crafts, and great food. Bought some organic veggies, a bag of apples, and a great breakfast burrito.

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The market is right on the inlet to Cayuga Lake, a lovely spot for a farm market.

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Next time I go back I’m going to buy a Ithaca Farm Market tee—should have bought one today.

Next stop was The Museum of the Earth where Matt had a project to complete for his Evolutionary Biology class. I took along Songs Without Words by Ann Packer in case I got bored, but no way. Lots of interesting videos and fantastic fossil displays.

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A mural of sorts composed of 45 tiles, one standing for a million years in the life of the Earth hangs in the hallway of the museum.

By then, Matt was hungry so we headed for the Commons. Finding a place to park was an adventure in itself since Ithaca was celebrating the Apple Festival. Lots of folks, lots of food, disappointing crafts. Bought an apple pie for Tracy.

Since neither of us had ever been up the east side of the lake we decided to take a drive. We went as far as Auroa. It’s a beautiful village, but there’s not much on the west side. The east side is more beautiful and there are several wonderful parks, wineries, and a fantastic lakeside road. But now we know.

We still had time before dinner so we headed to the Robert Treman State Park. First we walked to the Lower Falls since we didn’t have time to do either of the two-mile trails to Lucifer Falls.

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We took some photos and drove through the park. As we left we saw a tiny sign pointing to the left that said: “Lucifer Falls” so we headed up the road. Lo and behold, there is a second entrance to the park. From there the falls are but a quarter mile away. This is a much more beautiful part of the park and we’re so glad we found it.

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Trails to Lucifer Falls.

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Only a portion of the falls since I had my 50mm lens on the camera and left the zoom in the car. Not much water since it’s been such a dry summer.

Finished the day with dinner at Joe’s. I ate there when I was a student at Cornell. It closed for a number of years and reopened a while ago. Every time we leave town we drive by it so I was glad to check it out. The menu is diverse and the Italian food is just as good as I remember it! (And it’s certainly been a while!)

The drive home along Route 89 was stellar—a big yellow moon rising in the east and its light reflecting across the lake. It was a fun day.