DDA Chapter 3

[UP Disney]

I made Glynis' pot roast for dinner. It was yummy.

I have to try this! It sounds so easy but yummy.

 

[tink2020]

I have something that I want to send to a good home. It needs to go to a serious Star Wars fan that likes toys. I thought I may post it on ebay but am not sure I want to deal with the hassle.

Got it. Well, my whole family loves Star Wars, but I think a toy would be better suited in a different home

 

[my3princes]

Have a wonderful time skiing! My family just went skiing and tubing this past weekend. I was so angry -- they wouldn't go for years when I asked them, and now the timing is right for them!

We took the kids skiing today. Of course we got there and the lift was BROKEN!!! The mountain claimed that they didn't have time to call each program to cancel. The lift was broken before opening this morning so they had several hours. The insisted that they could still provide lessons, the kids could hike to the top. Um...No...not my kids as they would be in so much pain from walking up hill in snowboard boots. They are usually in pain the night they snowboard anyway. So their instructors kept them on the baby hill. That was fine for Colby since it was his very first time on his snowboard. He was pretty cute. I didn't take my camera as it was snowing and I had enough other stuff to haul around. Nick and Hunter's instructor actually did a great lesson on the little hill. He took time to show them different techniques, things that when they are just doing mountain runs they don't take time to teach properly. Colby's instructor loved him and did a great job helping him stay on his feet. He would run down the hill next to him. On his last run he let Colby do it all by himself. He saw us standing at the bottom of the hill and aimed himself right at me. He came flying down, making no turns, just as fast as he could. I caught him and he gave me a big hug (after I got back on my feet ) I cannot imagine having enough trust in someone to do what he did. I'd be afraid that they wouldn't catch me and I'd end up in the parking lot. Oh to be 5 again

Mom set the sewing machine up for me. We didn't have time for her to sew with me but I'm going to play with the sewing machine this afternoon. I have a couple of things that need mending (Nicky's outfits) so after I have played a little bit, I'll work on those.

I played with my machine a bit today. I learned how to do shirring.

I thought I'd try and share my latest endeavor, actually I started it a long time ago but just recently got back to finishing it. It is a powerpoint presentation of our 2006 family trip, I found a program, Camtasia Studio 5 that will record the presentation so that it can be made into a DVD. This is only part of it because the whole thing is too long for YouTube,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xjpW4JYpdcA

Hope this works.

Very cool

I won't sew my fingers together because I did lots of sewing as a kid and teenager. I am just afraid of using the wrong stitches and having whatever I make look hideous when I get done.

I had this idea for a shirt in my head. It did not look like what I had envisioned and I finally just gave up on it. Good thing I was using clearance material to make a prototype. Nothing ventured nothing gained right? By the way shirring is pretty easy, it just looks hard.

i have a question for you guys. i want to know if i was right at being upset last night. i will first give you background info then tell ya what happened.

with the program i am on when i live with my parents i have respite hours. those hours are used for me to have my attendants take care of me if parents want/need to go out of town. i use those on top of my normal hours i have. so this weekend i have used them.

here is what happened: friday when we found out my parents needed to go out of town i called my night attendant(she also does weekend hours) and told her what was going on and the hours i needed her to work this weekend. she was fine with it. then friday night i went over the hours again to make sure she was fine with it. she said ok that shed work and they were fine. these are the hours she was to work: friday 6-12(normal hours 8-12), saturday 9-1 6-12(normal hours 9-12 8-12), sunday 8-1 6-10:30(normal hours 9-12 8:30-10:30). saturday morning she was saying that it was alot of hours. then saturday night she asked at 7 that she is only gonna have 6 hours of sleep and will be tired on sunday and wants off at 11 since she has to be here sunday at 8 and needs her rest.

i was upset last night because her hours are 8-12 and i wanted to stay up till midnight not 11. my brother was out too and i didn't even know if hed be back by then and i felt bad that i had to bug him to come home an hour earlier than he had too. i don't know maybe im making it more than i should but it made me mad. i was like do i need someone else to come in so you can have your rest and she was like no i just need to get home because i need my rest

This is not an easy question. I'm sure your aid saw your dilema and agreed to help, but It has to be hard working split hours like that. If she didn't leave until midnight and needed to be back at 8 AM that would be difficult for her. I know that if I were her working those hours I would not have been a happy camper in the morning as I need at least 8 hours of sleep to be my happy self I'm sure it wasn't convenient for you to go to bed an hour earlier, but if it meant that she showed up on time this morning and in a good mood then I would just let it go and move on. When you look back it is really just a little bump in the road.

So, have I mentioned that my grown up "crush" is Hugh Jackman? Seriously, he's so fine! Anyway, Alan knows all about my crush, and just kind of laughs it off. He just told me that he's been in contact with my cousin in London. Gone With The Wind is opening in London as a musical and guess who's playing Rhett Butler????? Yup, my Hugh!!!! Alan asked Shelley to get me a ticket to the show! That's my anniversary present! I'm seriously considering hanging around the stage door to get his autograph! Am I a dork, or what??? But what a great hubby, huh?

 

[tink2020]

Welcome home, Robyn!

Jennifer - tell me how you first got started with the digital scrapbooking. Where did you learn how to do all the layouts, how did you decide which embellishments to download, etc? Are there sites out there with layout ideas that I can copy? I need S I M P L E. Any good tutorials that you used?

I like the idea of mypublisher. I might make a book for Bob for his bday.

Um.... I'm not sure my answers are any good. I did some tutorials (that I'm still looking for links to, it's been a couple of years) on how to work with photoshop, but they have nothing to do with scrapping -- just photoshop techniques. They were incredibly helpful, though!

The layouts I mostly just play with like you would paper scrapping. Moved stuff around until it looks good to me, and sometimes just until I give up

As for embellishments, papers, etc, I started by downloading... um.... almost everything free on the entire internet (I'll post links to some sites from the desktop when I can) and then realized that sometimes I was looking for something specific... at which point I would go to "shops" online (some at the same sites, ebay, etc) and find something that fit what was in my head.

I swear, I'm a good teacher when I know what the heck I'm doing with completely different stuff . But seriously, I don't have much of a technique or rhythm to any of it. I'm sorry!

There are some sites, though, with either a) lots of layouts to "scraplift" and/or b) some layouts/templates that you can simply drop your pictures into. I think some of those you have to buy, but I'm not sure.

I'm sorry I'm worthless!


ETA: I think Clare knows about some sites that literally offer photoshop and/or digital scrapping "lessons". I haven't ever had the time to look into them, but I'm thinking they would be really cool!

 

[my3princes]

We have decided that the boys will not be going to that mountain next year no matter what the learn to ski program for our town decides to do. It has become abundantly clear that the current owners do not have the money or knowledge to run the mountain. Even when we got there today the entire check in process was a total mess and no one seemed to know what to do. They have high school kids teaching the lessons and they are actually doing a great job given the poor circumstances. We definately haven't gotten our money's worth.

I brought the new skis that my boss gave me and my old boots and took them to the ski shop to have the bindings adjusted only to find out that they were not certified to work on Rossignol How can a Ski Area not be certified to work on a common brand of skis?

Chris and I were not able to ski/board as we had planned so we were pretty bummed. After lessons Chris took the boys for a few runs on the tubing hill and the had a great time. The good news is that we got outside for a few hours even if it was 25 degrees out.

 

[marcij]

So, have I mentioned that my grown up "crush" is Hugh Jackman? Seriously, he's so fine! Anyway, Alan knows all about my crush, and just kind of laughs it off. He just told me that he's been in contact with my cousin in London. Gone With The Wind is opening in London as a musical and guess who's playing Rhett Butler????? Yup, my Hugh!!!! Alan asked Shelley to get me a ticket to the show! That's my anniversary present! I'm seriously considering hanging around the stage door to get his autograph! Am I a dork, or what??? But what a great hubby, huh?

WTG Alan! You are going to have a fabulous trip. I think Hugh is pretty cute, and I absolutely love Gone With the Wind.

We just got back from my nephew's birthday party. It was at his house, and the boys played football, basketball, Wii etc. It was fun for Andrew because he doesn't go to school with these boys, so it was fun to get to play with them. Most of them he's played sports with before. Unfortunately, my nephew picked a different cake this time -- german chocolate, and it was so yummy! I say unfortunately, because the cake he usually picks I can pass on, but this one was too good to pass up. I really need to get more serious on my diet.

I'm going to check my work e-mail and veg in front of the tv. See you guys tomorrow.

 

[Tammi67]

I have to try this! It sounds so easy but yummy.

It is both, easy and yummy!

 

[bear74]

sorry it was not a great ski day for you Deb

but glad all your boys had fun

 

[Tammi67]

Um.... I'm not sure my answers are any good. I did some tutorials (that I'm still looking for links to, it's been a couple of years) on how to work with photoshop, but they have nothing to do with scrapping -- just photoshop techniques. They were incredibly helpful, though!

The layouts I mostly just play with like you would paper scrapping. Moved stuff around until it looks good to me, and sometimes just until I give up

As for embellishments, papers, etc, I started by downloading... um.... almost everything free on the entire internet (I'll post links to some sites from the desktop when I can) and then realized that sometimes I was looking for something specific... at which point I would go to "shops" online (some at the same sites, ebay, etc) and find something that fit what was in my head.

I swear, I'm a good teacher when I know what the heck I'm doing with completely different stuff . But seriously, I don't have much of a technique or rhythm to any of it. I'm sorry!

There are some sites, though, with either a) lots of layouts to "scraplift" and/or b) some layouts/templates that you can simply drop your pictures into. I think some of those you have to buy, but I'm not sure.

I'm sorry I'm worthless!


ETA: I think Clare knows about some sites that literally offer photoshop and/or digital scrapping "lessons". I haven't ever had the time to look into them, but I'm thinking they would be really cool!

Thanks Jennifer. I guess I just need to do as Nicholas says......ask Google. He knows everything.

 

[Tammi67]

Deb - I'm glad that at least Colby had a good skiing day. Sorry you had so many problems.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

we don't have that much I promise (where's the fingers crossed behind the back smilie )

Have you been talking to my cousin? that is what she says!

Hi Robyn love the new signature

Love it!!!!!!!!!

 

[UP Disney]

I just wanted to show you that I do know how to sew. This was something that I made when I was 13 or 14 years old. It has a belt and a pair of pants that went with it. I still have the belt somewhere. Both my girls have worn it in school because it was in style again for awhile.

 

[babytrees]

Have you been talking to my cousin? that is what she says!


Love it!!!!!!!!!

we really don't get a lot of snow...last winter was odd....as long as you don't live in the mountains...plains don't get the snow.

 

[Tammi67]

I just wanted to show you that I do know how to sew. This was something that I made when I was 13 or 14 years old. It has a belt and a pair of pants that went with it. I still have the belt somewhere. Both my girls have worn it in school because it was in style again for awhile.

I made something very similar to that!!!! Except that mine was in an ugly flower pattern!!!

 

[bear74]

good job Vicki

 

[Blueeyes101817]

we really don't get a lot of snow...last winter was odd....as long as you don't live in the mountains...plains don't get the snow.

now if you could get my whole family there too, id be sold

 

[UP Disney]

I played with my machine a bit today. I learned how to do shirring.

By the way shirring is pretty easy, it just looks hard.

Ok, what is shirring?

 

[babytrees]

now if you could get my whole family there too, id be sold

you'd have to work on them yourself sorry

 

[babytrees]

Ok, what is shirring?

I'm glad somebody else didn't know it

 

[ReAnSt]

Ok, what is shirring?

Shirring is the when fabric is sewn through many times row above row and then pulled tight to make a ripple type effect. It is often used in shirts and dresses.