A short hiatus~

Well, I am back! After trying to post photos last week and learning I had used up my free 1 gb of space on Blogger's Picasa, I finally installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 on my pc. College Girl has been nagging me to do this, yet I blissfully put off downloading it because I knew there would be a learning curve involved. However, the day had come to either pay up ...for more Picasa space... or stop procrastinating! I installed PS Elements and now know how to resize my photos. If photos are under 2048 x 2048 when I post them, there is no additional cost and they do not count against my gb total. Yeah!

I made this layout as a surprise for a friend. She and I have been computer pen pals for about 10 years. Her son just graduated from college and she shared some photos with me online. They were so good I just had to scrap one! lol~ I am going to mail this to her this week~

 On this page I first used Lindys Stamp Gang 'Starburst' as a mist, then used blue Making Memories paint (on the edge of a ruler!) in the upper left and lower right corners. Other products use are:

• Tim Holtz Idea-ology ornate frame & film strip
• wood alpha tile
• Websters, DCWV, Tim Holtz and Bazzill paper
• vintage book page

I entered this page in two challenges over at Scrapbook.com, where I also have a gallery of my work. I can't wait for my friend to see it :)

  A special friend gave me a Cuttlebug for Christmas (oh, she spoils me!) and I love creating with it. I just bought a Spellbinders  set and a QuicKutz embossing folder, and I made this card tonight~

I used a little bit of Stickles on the balloon, too. Now I am off to have a cup of chamomile before bed. Did you know that besides being a relaxing thing to drink, chamomile is also great for a gassy tummy? It is an herb, so it is not  really a tea but tisane. Chamomile has no caffeine either.

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Did you know ?

Today is May 4th, also called "Star Wars Day". Can you guess why? This day is considered a holiday by Star Wars fans as a day to celebrate the movies and culture. And the proper salutation for this day is, "May the 4th be with you!"...lol :)

Notice the lack of photos in this post? Just wanted to share something I recently found out. Guess I should have known before, but when I started my blog I had to wing it and create it without tech help, and it was all so new to me! Blogger allows you to use 1GB of storage for all the photos you post to your Blog. I was using photos stored on my pc, and had no idea that when you post a photo to your Blog, it also goes into a Picasa album. You may use photos of a certain pixel size that will NOT count toward your total. However, if the file size for the photo is larger than this prescribed size, the photo goes into the Picasa album and counts against your total. Now, here is the bad news...once you have photos in your album that reach the 1GB total, you either have to pay for more Picasa storage or resize all future photos before posting. See here:

Picasa Web Albums stores all photos uploaded to Blogger (including custom domains). A few things to know:

• Each blog that includes photos will have a corresponding Picasa Web album (with the same name) for those photos. The album cover in Picasa Web will be designated with a small orange Blogger icon.
• Blogger album visibility are automatically set to 'Limited, anyone with the link.'
• All photos posted to Blogger are included in the 1GB of free storage allotted to Picasa Web Albums. Files under certain sizes don't count towards this limit.
• When you delete photos from your Blogger album in Picasa Web Albums, the photo will also be deleted from your blog. Likewise, if you delete a photo from Blogger it will be deleted from Picasa Web Albums