ON BEING SINGLE…

It’s been a wet, blustery day here.

I did a small typing job this morning for a lovely lady who called me the other day to ask if I could type a letter for her husband.  They were from out of town so dropped the letter off to me this morning, I typed it then delivered it to them as the kids and I had a few errands to run.

Further to the Nintendo DS saga of the other day … Angus has decided that he doesn’t want to keep it – so George has stepped into the fray (willingly) and purchased it off his brother.  Of course now Angus is getting upset because George wants to trade in the game he bought.  Sigh!  A mother’s life is certainly never dull. 

The kids are all watching the Igor movie, so I thought I would spend a bit of time doing a couple more classes from Jessica Sprague.

I found some childhood photos the other day on a memory stick (which I had forgotten about!).  I thought I would use a few of those – nostalgia and all that!  This one is of my brother Paul and I – we were going to a family wedding (I think?) and Dad snapped this pic of us.  I must have been around 15 or 16 – still wearing the dreaded plate after having braces on my top teeth.  Don’t you love the flicky hair??  My hair is pretty straight and I always wanted the Farrah hair style in the 70’s.  Alas my hair didn’t do flicky – but obviously this day I’d managed to get it to do something other than just be straight.

The little “celebrate” stamp is a brush tool which you use in photoshop to make it look like you’ve stamped onto the photo.  Pretty neat eh?

This next photo is a vintage hand-tinted look.  I chose a photo which my Dad had labelled Hiawatha1979 – so I was 11 years old – in Intermediate (equivalent Year 6 in Australia) – the same age Angus is now.  I was such a tiddler Mum had to make my school uniform (they didn’t make them small enough!) and my school bag was just about bigger than me.    I reduced the tint in the original photo, and hand painted in the blue of my dress.  I’ll put the original photo below it as a comparison.

Photoshop is fun.  I’m enjoying having a play with the different tools and can see the software has amazing potential.

I hope you are enjoying the school holidays, if you have school aged children at your place?  I was very proud of myself last night – I tidied my room!    The kids were giving me a hard time about telling them to tidy theirs when mine was none-too-gorgeous looking, so that was the task for the evening.  Bella even commented on it when she trotted into my room for her morning cuddle this morning.  “Wow Mum, your room looks amazing”.  Now I just have to keep it that way.

Thanks for stopping by…

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