Susan Ewart

Beautifully done Julie. I cant even imagine what 3rd class even was. And the hardship it must've been for your grandmother, on her own with two young children. You succeeded in giving it a feeling of ragged and distressed. I got goosebumps when you mentioned that is the actual ship they were on. I'm sorry to hear about your sister.

We need a "Yummy" icon on our list of choices.

What a beautiful home Mary. I also have a white home with a red door. Your home is the style I like....can we trade?

I am glad I am not alone and in very esteemed company, in the "Over-Supplied Crafter Club" (OSCC for short). Yesterday I got rid one one thing, this morning I took it back, because...you never know, right?

I dare say I like to organize but I still feel super unorganized. Why do i need to keep supplies from crafts from 20 yrs ago, thinking I'm going to do them again, when I have some time. I dont have time for my current hobbies why do I think I'll have time for hobbies from 20 yrs ago. I wish I could be brutal and keep only what I need.

I love your background and your paper envelopes look real! I like this layout, it's nicely balanced.

yes it was mine too. The weird thing, and why I think the file was corrupted, is that it was doing the same thing in 2022 which I never have a problem with. That's what got me thinking int was the pspimage I was working on. when I started over again (the white template I use over and over- Shift D) I no problems. I think it's because I'm hitting buttons too fast and I think I'm this wiz on the keyboard, and reality is clumsy fingers hitting two keys at once while the shift or alt key is also pressed. I know the culprit was me, just dont know what I did, or when i did it. It might be a good idea to monitor it before using the last resort as you described. I dont relish doing all the customizations I do.

Thank you Jannette. I did not know about Restore Database.

thank you for mentioning this. It's good to know all the quirks so I dont spend hours wondering what "I" did wrong. I have been saving at various steps all the way with layouts, just in case I need to go back to them. and the Auto preserve comes in handy when forget to save often. At least I'm only a few steps behind with the auto-preserve files. I never knew what they were for before and I used to delete them. Now I keep them, but wonder if I should only keep them until the layout is complete, then delete them. Any thoughts on that?

I just saved it to my desktop and put it beside my PSP icon shortcut. I know it's got to be from too many clicks and hits two keys at once or something like that.

I think I will try this in the next couple weeks. After the next workshop. I ended up starting from the template I created for the Alphabet Photo Challenge. it was quick, just add the photo in and do the text. It worked as normal. But I think I got some commands that were overlapping each other or that somehow with over clicking or using the key board and using shift but accidently hitting another button at the same time, may have corrupted the file. Thank you for posting this as I remember something about resetting it but couldnt remember where I saw it. You have saved me some time in having to search. Thank you.

I love this layout, it's art! And it's therapy too to create when you in a darker headspace. I know people that make great works when they are in a darker phase. I am more paralyzed mentally if I'm stressed and can't focus enough create...usually that's when I organize(for some reason I find it destressing). (Note: dont read that as me being an organized person, I am organized to the T with work, but at home all bets are off- I'm a hot mess these days).

They say it takes a community. And today I needed it. After a squabble with my text tool I was able to get my L done with help and advice from Carole and Ann. I used this font (Liontine - which also was not playing nice!) because it had little hearts and this tiny little lock that I think came out of a christmas cracker years ago looks like a heart to me. I used two layers with two blend modes on the background (Riley B Graphics that was on CF but I dont see anything of hers on there now - good thing I dowloaded a ton of them) and also used a mask so the lock would show through.

I tried the ideas you both gave me, but with no success. A few weird things came up too. When i restarted PSP both the stroke and fill boxes in the materials pallet had a checkerboard. I've never seen that before. And when I opened the pspimage there is a vector layer, but has no object layer, no little arrow either, to indicate you can open it to see the object layer. I've been gone over 8 hours with the computer turned off and still the same results. It doesnt matter if I change tools or not. Its strange because Saturday everything was fine. could the layout itself be corrupted? Addendum: I started from the base template that I use for the Photo Challenge and copied my photo in and then used the same font and it worked ( I had wondered if it was the font). I think the 3 images I was working on got corrupted. A weird thing too was that the font wasn't showing up in the drop down list (this is after I got home from work) but was activated in Font Base. So I deactivated it and reactivated it and I could move the font around again (wonder if Font Base is the culprit). Now when I use a font the word "lock" shows up, because I stupidly clicked on the remember text button, not knowing what it was. Oh well, at least I can use text again. And I had a normal T in the object layer not the weird T with a box around it. Thank you Carole and Ann for you help. Now I can go watch some tutorials and destress myself. It's good to know that it's a known bug. My next idea was going to be saving with a different name at each step in hopes of seeing which step made it go haywire. I'm leaning toward clicking too fast and Font Base and PSP got confused. It did freeze up once and I had to do cntrl -alt-delete, which leads me to think I was clicking to make it work and it got confused.

I have several saved now.