What are you working on (in April 2025)?

[Corrie Kinkel]

On 4/14/2025 at 8:10 AM, Donna Sillia said:

I have two varieties of daffodils in my flower bed. The daffodils in the circle are pictures that I took of them in various sides. The center cluster is from Adobe Express. The bottom is a photo from my garden that I made into layers and merged in Photoshop, edged with one of Carole's edge brushes. The from is Carole's photo circle script. The side plaid is from an experiment in FF that turned out well. The font is from a CF and called Juicy Snap Solid. I made the daffodils from AE into a tube and created the pattern fill.

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

[Donna Sillia]

12 hours ago, Corrie Kinkel said:

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

Thank you, Corrie. Because of the warm one day and cold the next, some of my daffodils haven't even bloomed yet. But, the ones that have bloomed are beautiful.

[Julie Magerka]

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Edited Wednesday at 02:17 PM by Julie Magerka

[Julie Magerka]

35 minutes ago, Donna Sillia said:

Thank you, Corrie. Because of the warm one day and cold the next, some of my daffodils haven't even bloomed yet. But, the ones that have bloomed are beautiful.

Warm day, cold day. That's the way it's been here too! Mother Nature is struggling with picking a season.

Edited Wednesday at 02:20 PM by Julie Magerka

[Cristina]

21 hours ago, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Julie, this is a lovely layout!

The small details complement the stars of the page, which for me are always the photos.

 

[Susan Ewart]

On 4/16/2025 at 8:16 AM, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Wow, this is so cool.  I remember party lines, we had one in the early 70's still.  I remember how bad my one brother and I were.  If we picked up the phone and other people were talking on it, we'd be snickering and they would be telling us to get off the line.  And we'd laugh.  We got caught and boy, did we ever get in trouble.  We never did it again.  I find the concept of a party line so bizarre.  Talk about no privacy.  I really like the background of your layout, it has the feel of that time period.  I agree, looking to the past in turbulent times is comforting.  

[Ann Seeber]

16 minutes ago, Susan Ewart said:

I remember party lines

Me, too. My family and I lived in Rutherford, New Jersey, and our phone number was Rutherford2-2032J. (The J indicated it was a party line.)

[Jannette Nieuwboer]

On 4/16/2025 at 4:16 PM, Julie Magerka said:

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short.

The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house!

I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office.

Ik dacht eerst dat men gezellig rond de piano zat, 😂 maar toen ik de foto wat vergrootte zag ik de oude telefooncentrales. 🎧

[Mary Solaas]

@Jannette Nieuwboer Yeah - at first glance it looks like an upright piano.

[Michele]

Not new, but I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

 

[Ann Seeber]

Happy Easter - here's a blast from the past...

[Julie Magerka]

6 hours ago, Michele said:

Not new, but I wanted to wish a Happy Easter to all who celebrate.

 

 

And a blessed Passover to you, Michele.

[kasany]

Nature's  Eye. My fractal, a frame of the pic - PSP.