Photo editing...too much fun

I have way too much fun playing with pictures and editing them. We recently went to a pumpkin patch up in Michigan. Rylie wore this cute hooded yellow shirt and I thought it would be a pretty to take a picture of her in front of some purple flowers. And yeah, it looked nice...but I wanted to "fix" it. LOL The first picture is the original, the second is my edited version.

Hm, well, those pictures did NOT look that little bitty when I made them. I am just not having much luck figuring out how to put pictures on this blog. I'm thinking I am going to have to go in and put them in the HTML thing. But, I've kind of forgotten how to do that. I'll have to go back and re-read some old things.

Yeah, those little pictures just lose too much detail.

Well, it's almost 1 am, waaaay past my bedtime. G'night ya'll.

Can't sleep...

Well, it's almost 1:30 am and I'm having trouble sleeping. So I went through some of the pictures I took of Christopher dressed up for homecoming and played around with them in Paint Shop. Of course, while I was taking pictures of Chris, Rylie had to go and put on her "fancy" dress and get in on the action.

Here are a few of the pictures I took. This was before the death of my beloved camera.

Christopher is the next oldest, after Rylie. He turns 17 this February and Rylie will be 5 in March. They're my babies...

PS~I don't think I am liking uploading the pictures through blogger. That was the "large" size and I think they look really small.

Okay, guess I'll try to get some sleep now. Ta-ta!

My right hand is gone...

Okay, well maybe not my "hand", but my digital camera has passed on. {{{sigh and sad pouty face}}} I almost always kept my camera on me. You have to when you have a four year old, six kids and three grandchildren. You never know when the moment for a great picture is going to happen and I've been caught too many times without my camera. I've missed some moments when I could have captured some really neat memories.

That means that unless I get a new camera for an anniversary gift (yeah, right, the past 10 years have gone by with our anniversary always being forgotten) I am going to miss out on getting pictures during the upcoming holidays. I feel almost nekid leaving the house without my trusty lil' camera.

Nikon has this really awesome looking camera out now. No, not one of those little itty bitty ditties. I want a camera that feels like a REAL camera. I kind of miss my old 35mm, I loved being able to set all the "bits" myself. I want a camera with a super fast shutter speed. There was such a lag on my digital camera and a few really cute pictures got lost during that couple seconds lag time. I'd like to be able to push the button and have the camera click off 2 or 3 rapid shots. But it has to be digital. I LOVE being able to upload right to my computer and emailing pictures right after I take them.

Yep...those are a few of my wishes for my new camera. Just in case anyone wants to let the ol' man know. LOL

Well, maybe I'll take some time to play around with some old photos. I love photo shopping!
Have a good one,
Jill Marie

code bX-zcvzxcv

Okay, first things first...for those of you who may get this weird code:
bX-zcvzxcv , don't worry. It is not as bad as it may seem. Okay, I can't guarantee that, but it wasn't for me. I went back to the blogger login page, I think it's called the Dashboard. When I got there I saw that the aol journal I was trying to transfer was there. So I clicked the link...it brought up my old aol journal on it's new blogger page, EXCEPT there were NO entries.

Well, sheesh! AH! So I clicked on that CUSTOMIZE button up top. Then I went to POSTING, now look at the bottom see where it says "Return to list of posts". Click that. Now upon arrival I see all my entries, although they are not posted. (Well, I didn't have a lot of entries on this journal anyway) But NO WORRIES...At the top of that little box check the SELECT ALL, now just to the left of that you'll see a drop down box thingie (I know, I shouldn't talk in such technical terms), if you look to the bottom you'll see where it says "Publish", do that. Now your blog should have all the entries posted...well, mine did anyway.

I hope this helps for anyone else getting that nasty ol' bX-blah-blah-blah.

Good Luck!
Jill Marie

2022 Ohio State cheerleader?

Good Morning! Here are two shots of Rylie in her cheerleading outfit. This was her "prize" for learning to sleep in her own bed. Believe me it was well worth the $18.00 to be able to sleep without a tiny little foot shoved in my back or a lil' leg thrown over my neck.

Last evening she heard the Ice Cream Man in the neighborhood. BTW, she thought the fella'a actual name was Ice Cream Man, lol, too cute. So I went and got my wallet. I came outside and she was waiting at the end of the driveway, looking for the truck. Well as soon as he turned and started coming down our street Rylie began jumping up and down, waving her arms and yelling "Ice Cream Man! Ice Cream Man! Ice Cream Man! Stop! Stop! Ice Cream Man!" She was too funny, even the Ice Cream Man said "Someone is a little excited, huh?" LOL

I wish I had my camera with me at the time. Oh well, next time I go for my wallet...I'm grabbing the camera too.

Have a great day!
Jill Marie

****Transfer to blogger editing. I had a great graphic of those 2 pictures, but it doesn't all show up on this skinny lil' journal, so I just posted the pictures. Even though I click "medium", for some reason it still transferred them real small.

I'm going to have to figure out how to post pictures saved on Image shack or flckr here. I am still a wee bit confused on all this new stuff.

Tags: Rylie, Ohio State, Buckeyes, cheerleading

My girls

I took this picture of Rylie and Samantha sitting in my garden yesterday. Sammi doesn't like it so I hope she doesn't see that I posted it here. I think they both look too cute!

I cut it down a bit, added a border on both copies and then lowered the level of color on one of the copies. I think they both look pretty.

Have a wonderful week!
Jill Marie

Tags: Samantha & Rylie

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A few recent photo's

Here are a few recent photo's that I just got done "framing". The first one is the sunset Rylie and I saw after we left the Wood County Fair.

This next one I took as Rylie and I were leaving a store the other day. She walked out and leaned against a brick wall as I dug for my keys. I grabbed my camera and she flipped up her shades and popped on the model smile. LOL And yes, she put a bunch of her little lip gloss on. Everytime she see's me put on some lipstick she thinks she has to pile on her clear lip gloss. It is too funny.

This one I took just yesterday. It is Rylie, Aubreigh or as we call her Aubber Gaubers (Ry's niece and our grand-daughter) and myself. When I took the picture I forgot that I hadn't put any make-up on and had been cleaning. Well, there ya go...my happy home make look, lol.

Yep, Rylie has another stye in her eye. Grrrr. Poor kid, I don't know why she keeps getting the dern things.

Have a good one!
Jill Marie