Julie Magerka

I think if I hear/see the phrase "Black Friday" this many weeks after the actual one, I will scream!

Happy trails, Sue! You will be getting a break from the cold and winds of the prairies and using a brolly instead I think. Looking forward to the layouts to come from the trip.

This seems to be a layout that is a hybrid between the November Word Challenge (Cold) and the December (Christmas) Challenge. Just playing with lots of elements and basing it on a layout I saw on Jessica Dunn's Curio Pantry site.

Makes me feel warm & fuzzy that others have this going on too! I will swear it's a Wednesday, for example, and then realize it's Tuesday. Better to call 'em brain f@rts than senior moments.

Here's what I came up with for COLD. A pic I took last winter or one before of a squirrel waiting for food. I can't help it; I feel sorry for them in bad weather and do the handouts for them and the birds year round. Costs a lot more than it used to! The background is a paper from somewhere, vector frames with bevel. (Might have used the photo here before?)

I think I might try this one. I used to have one I really liked (can't recall name), but then started using builit-in Windows snipping tool, but it's limited for adding embellisments. Thanks for the tip. The Mac has a much better built-in screenshot captor, but I tend not to use it b/c I can't use PSP on it.

Thanks for taking the plunge for us, Suzy. I used it a bit years ago for genealogy pages. Was OK but didn't continue with it. I can do that and so much more with PSP and Carole and the whole gang here.

That is so cool, and very creative.

These are gorgeous. When I read all the tools/steps, my head starts to hurt! But you are the master at intricacy!

Sorry, it was the best I could do! 🙃

D = dark chocolate

Usually you can use a home phone for two-factor authentication. They will send a recorded message with the code to your phone. Enter it and you're in!

I don't know if that's the one I watched quite a while ago, but I had to stop when the cameras were filming one who was dying of thirst and heat under a scraggly tree. All I could think was, give him a drink for goodness' sake! And anything is better than what the Kardashians were filmed doing.

B = bananas flambe

I'm a sucker for anything with meerkats! Love it.

I think the frame works well. Draws the eye well and low enough opacity not to be intrusive. Love it.

Making me hungry for some!

One of my favourites from the British lexicon. Read it or hear it often in books/TV series.

Yikes, that sounds so complicated and frustrating! I think I'd give up on that! Some days just are lost days, no matter what we try to do to improve them.

You're fortunate to have someone to take care of your computer hiccups. I had to learn years ago to do it for myself, after I lost my go-to helper to ALS. He seemed to know everything and was always there (online) to help. Bless him.

Even before it was called Kentucky Fried Chicken, it was The Chicken Place (at least here in the part of Ontario I live in).

O = Orange Julius (hot dogs & orange drink)

Me too! I would drive far to get a good noodle place.

Something turned up on my FB feed that caught my eye. Normally I don't pay much attention to them, but this one was from David Attenborough's fan club (or so they say). I googled the images to check for the veracity of this phenomenon, and it appears to be true. The natural wonder of it is quite astounding. And since we have a Welsh person in this group, I threw together a layout using a template to save time.

J = Jack in the Box, a US chain restaurant I've never been to.