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  • Craziness & Picnik Closing ....

    Craziness & Picnik Closing ....

    Life has been craziness the last 2 months

    with some family things that have

    taken my attention ~

    Times like these completely make me

    realize what truly are

    the most important things !

    On another subject though ......

    So I kind of freaked out a bit when I heard

    Picnik is closing !! Oh my goodness !!

    I am a total computer

    goofball and learn my thing

    to do on my computer and

    once I get it that is it .....

    don't throw new stuff in there

    because my brain freezes!!

    I have been using Picnik since

    the beginning of Picnik

    ( however long that is ) and now

    I have been trying to teach

    myself how to do my photos in

    Photoshop Elements ~

    I have been doing the pictures with

    the frame thing forever ~

    and now they are frame-less .........

    which I kinda like !

    I am all about a clean look and it makes

    my website look less cluttered ~

    Haha.... you wouldn't know that I don't have

    a drop of A type personality

    in my body by that statement!

    Anyway today I added more things to my website

    and am trying to transition my brain and website

    over to Photoshop Elements pictures ~

    I am going to kind of miss the

    collage thing though !!

    Does anyone know how to do collages with

    anything else besides Picnik ?

  • Playing with Picnik

    Playing with Picnik

    I just finished listing this dress form on my website with my new found wide pink ribbon obsession ~

    I tweek all of my photos with Picnik ~ if you haven't given it a try, it is so much fun !! They have added alot of different things too since I joined a few months ago ~
    The dress form photos have been edited with a sepia tone which I love but it really doesn't look so great on my website so I am putting them here :o)

    You can also do collages super easy ! They are really fun too ~

    Have fun picniking !!

  • Easy & Inexpensive Ruffle Curtains

    Easy & Inexpensive Ruffle Curtains

    I just wanted to show you a quick, inexpensive

    and super duper easy ruffle curtain ~

    This is what I am working on

    today so I thought I would

    show you the steps as I go ~

    Curtains like these have been shown in

    blogland before but

    I am not sure where so if

    you know let me know :)

    Ikea was my spot to get the curtains because

    they are a great price and

    the fabric is awesome !

    They say not to dry them in the dryer but

    I did and the fabric came out kind of like a

    lightweight drop cloth feel ~

    First I cut the white set to the length

    I needed because they come real long ~

    Then I ripped 2 lengthwise strips of

    the darker about

    9 inches wide and sewed them together

    to get the correct length for gathering ~

    Then I used my handy dandy ruffle foot and

    pleated them ~ If you don't have a ruffler just

    gather any way that you would like ~

    Next I measured and pinned

    the ruffle to the bottom

    and sewed it on to the curtains ~

    I left the edges raw on the ruffle

    because I like them like that ~

    For the ruffle it just took one of

    the darker panels

    so I have another one left which is tons

    to make pillows out of ~

    It would be cute to add another ruffle too !

    These are actually for my bedroom but

    I would love some outside too !

    The pictures kind of look weird but

    I was having fun in grittiness with picnik :)

    Later today:

    I made a pillow with the extra

    curtain panel ~

    I love the ruffles and rose

    {I bet it was hard to tell I LOVE ruffles :) }

    You can find it on my website ~

  • Playing with Picnic

    Playing with Picnic

    Sometimes it is fun to play around with photos in Picnik ~

    I love the look of Sepia and I love the look of Black and White ~

    It is hard to decide which is my favorite ~

    I guess it just depends on what the picture is of or what it

    is being used for ~

    This one is using the black and white and framing it ~

    This is black and white with everything blurred except the crown ~

    This one is sepia which is what I tend to lean towards most of the time ~

    I guess because it has a warmer feel ~

    You can do tons more ~ I love to use the collage which I probably do

    a little too much but it is fun !