Money Tree

SEE - they really do exist:

                 

There isn’t a lot to this story, just…everything: the UPS guy showed up at my door with a box, and I opened it, and it was a Bonsai Tree (it’s called a Money Tree!), and it was from my BF Patty who appreciated me helping her with some blog/coding stuff; even though she knows that I LOVE doing it and that I view it as HER doing ME a favor when she lets me play around in her stuff.

There’s just nothing quite like the love of your best friend, who always seems to know exactly when you need a “hug,” is there?  For now, back atcha Cakers:
 

OCD Triumphant

You’d think that I just passed the bar exam for crying out loud, but I am still so excited:  I created my first button!!  Well, there’s two actually because I couldn’t decide which one I liked better (this is for the blog for the sock swap I’m in):

         

What’s sad is that it took me 3 days to do this, and all because I was listening to my son who insisted that I needed Photoshop to do this (”this” being to create the image itself that I had in mind); so I finally gave in after spending countless hours on the internet (researching how to make beveled edges on a photo without photo-manipulation software) and installed his old, unused Photoshop CD; and after spending countless hours trying to figure out how to use that puppy to get the effects I wanted…I ended up producing the results I was looking for exactly where I started in the first place before I was told “you won’t be able to do it in there” - POWERPOINT!  I had figured out Photoshop enough so that all I had to do was pop the whole image in there, click a button to select the bevel I wanted, save it, and voila.

I don’t even have a “pro” version of Photoshop and I’m convinced that you need a PhD to figure it out; or at least you need to understand photography and/or graphic design far better than I do.  If this were something I was going to do ’seriously’ I’d probably take a class.  But don’t get me wrong - even with the frustrations it was a lot of fun and certainly educational to go through the whole process.

Next on the OCD list I believe is to figure out how to create just a little bit of animation.  But that can wait a couple of days since I’m quite a bit behind clackin’ my needles together!

Little Tiny Feet & Big Huge Canis Lupus Familiaris

Say what??  Canis Lupus Familiaris is “dog!”  I didn’t know that either.  See how educational I can be?

    

I’ve been a bit distracted with my tech-head geekiness lately and forgot to post my latest finished projects.  The first is just an adorable pair of little “Baby Uggs.”  They were just too cute not to knit up.  It takes very little yarn and less than a day to make a pair (and probably less than that for knitters who do not have ADD and don’t get distracted with a million other things).

                    

The second project is my finished Snood for the MN Greyhound Rescue Organization.  I blogged about this a little while ago.  This one, too, is very easy and very quick to knit up.  I’m on a cable binge right now so was excited to volunteer my time on something that had me knitting cables. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next on the block:  who can decide?  I’m thinking of taking a Lace class at DE and would make an accessory scarf…but I also really want to get my vest finished…and then the sock swap is going to start up pretty quick here…but I still haven’t done my Mother Bear yet either…and I had a great idea for another market bag.  Sigh.  Such pressures I’m under.