Choosy moms choose... Gifs. Or at least the funky moms do!

Fun with animated gifs...  I was going through my photo stash (digitally, of course).  I have a "sport/speed" setting on my Canon.  It takes rapid photos, one right after the other.  I make pages with a handful of them, but the real fun is making animated gifs.  

Open all the photos in the series and place them in the workspace.  "Stack" the phones in sequence into one file so that each photo is a separate layer.  When you go to save (in PSE or CSPS), Save for Web - and check that little box that creates so much fun - "animate."  You have some timing options to choose - 1, 2, 5 seconds, etc.  Most are great at 2 seconds, but my samples are at 5.  Depending on the subject, they look a little too frenetic at 2 seconds!

They're just fun and take the memory that can be captured on a page -

and makes some fun for your desktop.  You can always keep it on a thumb drive or CD and add to your keepsake box, too.

Here's another from the playground.

Have some fun and Get Scrappin'!

End of Civilized-nation as we know it...

The End of Civility... I've seen it...

Gene Roddenberry knew it in the 60's... we should have realized it, too.  

The end of our civilized civilization brought about by the need to communicate...not with each other, but with computers.

When you needed info on the Enterprise, they didn't say "Computer, please tell me about so and so."  They said succinctly "Computer" and she, in Majel Barrett Roddenberry's voice, said "working."

It's in my hands right now; the portent of the end.  I need something from my ipad.  I say, "Siri, please show me so and so."  The "please" confuses her and she doesn't understand.  

So I simplify my request to exclude the polite phrases I have had beaten into me since childhood.  I decline to say thank you since it doesn't compute.

GR was such a visionary... if only we had realized what he knew.  We could have programmed computers differently.  To make them require hearing please and thank you from us before providing us with directions to wherever or the recipe for a delightfully quenching drink.  To have it respond "unable to compute" when it doesn't hear the basics of society's politeness.

Instead, we have been reduced to quick texts, have 

lost our art of conversation and are watching civilized 

civilization disappear.  Even I, who am a stickler for please and thank you, have reduced them to "pls thx" at the closing of texts and occasionally emails.  I won't be doing that anymore.  I will take the time to spell it out!  To take the TIME to hold on desperately to the remnants of the civilized-nation I remember.

Anything else... well... I'll be unable to compute...

Oh, Adobe.. whatcha doin' to me...

Adobe is killing Creative Suite; here’s why

As a long time user of Adobe programs - heck, I still use Elements 5 when I'm just doing a quickie adjustment! - I want to support them in their desire to improve their products and bottom line.  It's their right, after all, as a business to adjust their model.  It does mean I may forever stay with CS5, however!

Some people are REALLY mad about it.  Online Petition Against Adobe's Creative Cloud Approaches 9,000   Some just have walked away from Adobe.

I admit, that I'm looking at other programs.  A one time purchase feels easier than a monthly, ongoing subscription.  

In the mean time, I'll hold on a little more tightly to my "cereal boxes" of software and watch, wait and see if this "revolutionizes" the industry.


Now Get Scrappin'!  - either in the cloud or with your tried and true Elements 5!

February Journey 12 - ABC's of Love

February is the month of Love.  Love of family, friends, and pets.  We lost a dear pet this week.  She was fractious, funny and loved sitting on my arm while I was at the computer.  Yes, it made it tough to use the mouse and type, but she just wanted to be close.

The new February Journey 12 kit is available in the Shoppe and  is the ABC's of Love.

Available HERE

Here is my first page of the month.  

My scrapping resolution is still going strong. :)

Now get scrappin!

Scrapbooking Class - Luggage Tag Mini Album

I'm excited to have joined Citizen Scholar !

I'll be contributing to Education By the People, For the People

by teaching classes in the Katy area.

My first class is a Luggage Tag Mini Album.

This quick project will

introduce some techniques for a  

simple, fun album!

Great for kids!

Find out more at Citizen Scholar - Katy Meetup

My Class info is here.

So Let's Get Scrappin' together!

January has been Scrappin' Fun!

I made a commitment to schedule "Me" time every week to scrap!  I will have at least 52 layouts this year!

So far so good, my January is shaping up.  

I'm using Journey 12 - January, available at Polka Dot Plum.

 Today, I even made time to do some designing!

Life is good!

Now Get Scrappin!

Savings Plans... Need Some Jingle in my Pocket!

I really like the idea of the 52 week savings plan a friend posted on Facebook recently.  It goes like this -

For whatever number week it is of the year, deposit that much money into an account (or jar or mattress!).  I like the concept, but the reality is money seems to get tighter for me as the year goes on.

(graphic from MissDanilu of Spring, Tx.)

So I'm doing my own take on this (yeah, imagine that, me remaking the rules!).  It's the 48 week savings plan!  Because the reality is, you're going to want to spend that money at Christmas!  And, for me, I like the idea of smaller "payments" as the year continues instead of larger ones.

Here's my updated plan with deposit dates for 2013. 

It's only $10 short of the other plan, and I can spend it at Black Friday!

It's not too late to start on either of these plans.  Key is, you gotta PLAN!

Now Get Scrappin! er I mean Savin'!