Dan Greenwood

In the 1980's, I worked with Gina, a lady of Italian descent, who always brought pizzelles for carry-ins. Although her family made them with traditional anise, she knew that many people don't like black licorice flavor, so she only brought in vanilla cookies. We became good friends, and I asked for all the details of how they were made. One Christmas season in the late '80's, I was in Chicago, shopping the Miracle Mile. I was looking around in Marshall Fields and I happened upon an electric pizzelle iron. But it was $50! (Worth about $145 today.) I really hesitated to spend that much. But I had never seen one in my hometown and didn't get to Chicago very often. (And this was before online shopping!) So, I bought it. When I told Gina, she made me promise to never bring in pizzelles at work, because it was her thing. But my family loved my pizzelles. Especially because I experimented. I've made chocolate, pecan, almond, chocolate/peanut butter, cinnamon, peppermint, orange, mocha, cherry, and even rose flavored pizzelles. This year, I'm painting them with luster dust edible glitter, to make them even more magical for Christmas! I guess that wasn't too expensive of a purchase, considering that it's been nearly 40 years that I've been using that same appliance!

Thank you for this class! Also, for your Black Friday classes! I just viewed "A Beautiful Mess," and the mention of Brusheezy.com alone was worth it, as it got me free watercolor brushes. Which I used to create this:

Here is my lesson 7. Sort of a different valentine. I added the outlines because I think it makes it look like a travel brochure!

My lesson 6. Revisited my earlier "cruising" theme. I found I had a gold rope picture tube and I just used Arial Rounded MT Bold for the letters.

Here is my lesson 5.

Thanks. It was a photo of the sea and sky, lightened a bit from the original.

Here's my lesson 4. The text is CAC Champagne.

Here's my lesson 3. The words appear to be off-center, and it's because Paintshop takes the spaces between words into account when centering. I could use a return instead of a space at the end of each line, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the text wrapping.

Dang! I don't usually do scrapbook pages, so I forget about the drop shadows. Here's lesson 1 - again! BTW, the filler in the letters of the title is an actual photo of the sea and sky. But it's hard to picture that in such a small space.

Here's my lesson 2.

Here's my lesson 1:

Hello everyone. I haven't taken this one, so I can't wait to see what I learn.

Thank you, Ann!

Here's another. These are two of our sons, whose birthdays are both in December.

Here's my July page, as an example. I used the Vervelle font for the month days, because it has glyphs. These are two of my grandchildren, whose birthdays are in July. Their favorite colors are pink and green, so I faded those colors as a background.