Tuesday blues

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

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!!!

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

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

Wishing everyone a very happy New Years!

Learned something NEW!

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

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.