Susan Ewart

Being adopted I find all your ancestry stories to be fascinating. Thank you for sharing them so openly. Ann, I didn't even notice until I read your post about you putting the two halves together.

I just check it out and it's a cool script. I'd also add to watch the video, it's very good. Michele, does all those brushes shown in the video come with that script? that alone is worth the price!

These are perfect fireworks! They look like flowers with a stem.

T = Twenty Ones (21's) Usually for db bicep curls; 7 reps from the bottom to half way, then, 7 reps from half way to the top, then, 7 full range of motion reps. 21 reps total is 1 set.

I love how you wound the ribbon through the Font. What a stunning layout and that photo is outstanding!

Q= Quadruped doing exercises while on hands and knees (lots of ones for the glutes, abductors)

This sounds wonderful. I like that size, there is nothing like the feel of a physical book in your hand. I cant wait for it to be published.

I come from a long experience of quitting. Once I got into my 50's I decided enough of that! Thanks for the vote of confidence...I could have used you when I was younger.

hahaha, I love that one too!

Thank you Monique! It took me a long time to play with that template to find some kind of vision. I almost gave up.

I know, I feel the guilt too. At work one time (there is floor to ceiling windows in parts of the warehouse) we were working in front of the windows and there was rabbits with babies and we were so delighted at seeing it. Then, the ravens came and they were picking off the babies and dropping them from high. One staff ran out and picked up a baby but it passed in her hands. We were horrified. I love ravens and I love bunnies. I get the whole circle of life thing, but I don't have to like it or watch it unfold. I moved to where I couldn't see out the window.

N = No pain, no gain...did we have this one. If ever there was a silly quote this is it. If there is pain, that's not good. Sore muscles are one thing, pain is quite another, listen to your body.

Day 7 I changed the template completely (started with the Diamond Day 7 template). the little tag is where the journal spot was and the title is in the same spot as the template. I did add shadows but they arent going to be visible, except on the screwhead. I originally wanted to use a label to cover up the alligator clip but thought it would look more "specimen-y" with it. the title and the outer frame have an inner bevel. Filled with a gradient (all the frames) and a pattern called Black Gold for the fill in the title. Fonts used: Herkings (Creative Fabrica), and Arial (Windows) Tag: my tag from the Vector Workshop (highly recommend this workshop!) Thank you Carole for another wonderful workshop. I'm always so delighted to re-remember the things I forgot from the last time through. I saw so many beautiful and inspiring layouts and often thought; "that's awesome, why didn't I think of that"?

You are so lucky. I would love this! I had a Merlin in my yard on Sunday. I was most excited. He/She came, sat, pooped, and left. But we watched for about 15 minutes. I can never get enough of birds. Your layout is beautiful.

How cool to be able to photograph the same church as your father did. Imagine you standing in roughly the same spot your dad did. That gives me goosebumps.

Have a fabulous trip Donna. I'm looking forward to seeing the photos of your adventures.

Thank you so much Cristina, that means the world to me.💖

I worry mine will go down that route too. I do understand your worry. I am a world class worrier and I get so tired of worrying. And I know I wont be needing to deal with that as I get older too. Aging is so cruel.

I didnt know that, about the bug. What is the script called?

You just did a huge project with your travel/trip double pages, no wonder you are tired out. This is great...and this is also not a race.

So pretty Julie. I love "naked" tree silhouettes.

I never thought to do that before. I always forget to try things even if I think it's silly. There was several blend modes that looked good too. It was hard to pick the one I went with.

Ann, that is so wonderful that you are caring for these feral cats. You might be the only love they know. I like that house, is it from amazon? I heard also to only use straw, as blankets can freeze.

Thank you Carole. I will look at how to do that. I never thought about it being the auto-preserve (I dont even know what that is or how to use it other than seeing those folders that show up) but that sure makes sense. Is this something I would want to normally keep on, or can I just turn it off for good?

Carole: Here is the message I got. I clicked okay and "thought" it wasn't saving it at all. Well, clearly I had been in another folder before I did that because it was saving it into that folder, clearly I wasn't paying attention. I kept saving and saving and I could see it wasn't under my Day 6 folder....so, I guess the hitting okay worked fine (the operator obviously didn't work fine -ME!). But other than that. Why do you think it was going to "fail". At the time I was trying to find a nice fill for the font and was trying out all kinds of gradients, then patterns and different settings. Do you think I was just clicking too much too fast and it got messed up trying to save the temp files fast enough?