Cocoroos Corner

2010-01-01T08:41:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to everyone! I hope your year is a wonderful one!

Sunday Musings

2009-03-15T13:02:00.001-07:00

Today is Sunday and I have been over my sinus infection for a week now. It is nice to feel human again. At church today some of the talks were about hardships and having faith to get through them. I was reminded that prosperity and depression go in cycles and what have we learned from history? Do we prepare as Joseph did in Egypt during the 7 years of prosperity for the 7 years of famine? We have had many years of prosperity and yet how many thought it would last forever and never put anything aside for the lean times? I am guilty of not putting enough away to last through however long this recession/depression lasts. I thought of spiritual preparations also. Do we have enough oil in our lamps to last through the spiritual onslaughts that come at us from every side? Will we try to borrow some at the last moment and find that there is none to be had, even in the marketplace? The marketplace in this time period probably has some of everything, except the precious oil that we need to light our lamps in times of present darkness in the world. I fear that it will get worse, as it will not be popular to be a Christian and have standards and values different from the world. It will be in those times that we will have to ask ourselves, am I ashamed to follow Christ and His teachings? Am I willing to share the gospel with others? Do I have the oil in my lamp full for when the Savior comes again? Just thoughts......

:o) Happy Day

2009-02-15T09:46:00.001-08:00

Finally the sinus infection has subsided. It is nice to feel human again. It has been raining a lot the last week or so, so it has been nice to stay indoors, but it is better to feel good. LOL

Tuesday blues

2009-02-03T17:17:00.000-08:00

Well, I have a full blown sinus infection today, complete with stuffy nose, sinus pain, ear ache, headache, and chills. So much for playing tonight. :o(

Hopefully it will pass quickly. I have to work tomorrow (and today). Well, I have seen pictures of our newest baby but haven't seen her yet. She is beautiful though. I can't wait to meet her, but I will wait until the sinus infection is gone.

Not much more to tell.

Claire Ellis

2009-01-11T22:12:00.001-08:00

It is so nice to welcome our newest grandbaby, Claire Ellis. Such a beautiful name to go with a beautiful girl! Chris and Tab sent us this gorgeous picture of her! Now I really can't wait to go up and visit!

16th grandchild! Hurrah!!!

2009-01-07T12:49:00.000-08:00

On Sunday, January 4th, Chris called us to let us know that Tabitha had just given birth to our 16th grandchild! Both Mom and Baby are healthy, well, and doing good. The baby's name is Claire Ellis and she weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 21 inches long. I haven't seen a picture of her yet, but I know she is adorable. After all, all my grandchildren are adorable. hehehehehe I can't wait to go up to their house and meet her!

Manda is due in March with number 17, a boy and we are looking forward to meeting him soon!

Tarena and Dan called us Sunday night and announced that they are expecting again and will be due around the end of June. That will make 18 grandchildren for us. What a wonderful surprise! Our family is growing and we love all the new additions! What a great family we have!

New Year's changes

2009-01-05T09:47:00.000-08:00

Today I am back to work, working on creating an Internship class for the seniors at one of the high schools that I work at. I think it will be fun and I am looking forward to it, but I am a little overwhelmed at the prospects.

I also changed my blog around so that I have a separate page for my scrapbook and photoshop pages and a separate page for my doll fashions, both for sale and to show off. That way, people don't have to hunt around on this one to see the things they are interested in. I think it will work out better. I don't know how to move the information around to the different blog pages without losing all the comments, so will just leave what is on this page as is and will continue to add things to the new pages. I hope you find it easier to navigate also.

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T14:18:00.001-08:00

Wishing everyone a very happy New Years!

Learned something NEW!

2008-12-31T07:34:00.000-08:00

After spending over an hour copying and pasting all these little hearts one at a time for this page, I learned a wonderful tip from Lady Shannon at http://ladyshannonmemoriesmadeeasy.blogspot.com/2008/12/children-papers.html who makes the cutest papers.

She told me to:

"Get your image that you want to use as a background. I make mine 1.50inch - 2 inch. I click on the tab marked "EDIT"scroll down to "DEFINE PATTERN". That should pop up a box and hit ok. Once there just open your pattern pallet and it should be the last one in the list."

So using her instructions, I created this new hearts page. WOW, it was fast! It took about 3 minutes to create this page and it is actually all uniform! Thank you Lady Shannon!!!

Now I look forward to creating many more papers using this handy tip. Now I just have to learn how to put them all in a file for sharing.

January Calendar page

2008-12-28T20:23:00.000-08:00

I have been having fun experimenting with Photoshop Elements 7 program and came up with a January Calendar page, using my favorite dolls, Ann Estelle's and Sophie. They are enjoying a wintery January day in the snow. Of course I had to redo the page once I had I finished, because I forgot and put January 2008 on it. I haven't figured out what I will do with these pages once I have finished, but I am sure having fun playing with it.

Noah's ark

2008-11-23T21:52:00.000-08:00

I have been working all evening on a scrapbook element. It is an Ark from Noah's ark. Next I will be doing the animals. I feel like it is taking forever to build my ark and get it loaded with animals. LOL I don't know how people do it who put out a freebie each day. Anyway, when the ark and animals and papers are finished then I will have to figure out how to use one of the web sharing programs to let others use it. So many things to learn......

I know it is late now beacuse I am getting loopy. I put Travis' family in the ark to see how they look. Sorry, Janell, that is the only picture I could find of you both. I will change it when I find another. But I do think it turned out pretty cute.

Painting the roses yellow

2008-11-22T11:21:00.001-08:00

I am so excited! I learned how to do something new in Photoshop. I took a picture of a pink rose.... see below....

then turned it into a yellow rose! I think it turned out pretty amazing for my first attempt!

Digital Scrapbooking Grandchildren

2008-11-20T21:15:00.000-08:00

I am learning a new hobby, Digital Scrapbooking. It is much more fun for me than regular scrapbooking and takes a fraction of the time. One thing I want to learn to do is create my on graphics for the pages. These are my son, Christopher's children, when we last went to visit them in September. They are great children and we had a fun time!

Friday, Vacation Time!

2008-11-14T18:47:00.000-08:00

Today we drove up to Utah to visit our grandchildren and Fred's Dad. It has been very interesting this trip. I was able to be online the whole way up. I have become addicted to the digital scrap booking phenomenon and spent the whole day arranging and uploading fun things to make pages with. I am having so much fun with the silly uploads that I have no time for actually making the pages. HAHAHA Obsessive compulsive, anyone?

Anyway, I hope to post some of the pages I make here and some of the other fun things I am working on. I love to do print minis and paper modeling and designing paperdolls. I hope to be able to do all these things on the computer, one day soon. And YES Karen, I need to finish my book. Sooooo just updating and then getting back to work.

1st Entry

2008-11-09T17:42:00.000-08:00

Hello. Tia told me that I had to create a blog so here is my first entry. Hi TIA!!! This post is for you!