Focusing on Life Week 34

Add Something. . .

Our photo task this week from Sally was to simply add something to a photo with any editing program or app we desired. I've been playing around with the A Beautiful Mess app for a little while, but really haven't done much with it. As well, the photo I chose had already been altered in Instagram with a filter and some resizing. (I'm CraftyHope in Instagram if you want to follow me.) After all that editing and addition of the things, this was the product.

Pat and I took the nieces to the beach a few weekends back. This is the the three of them (Pat and the girls) out in the water as he was teaching them to boogie board. It was a really great day.

Feel free to link up here and/or just check out what everyone else added!

Focus on Life Week 31: Hues of Blue

Blue is my favorite color so when I received Sally's prompt for this week. I was excited. However, this week ended up all kinds of wonky for me and almost nothing got accomplished.

At long last this morning, I got on the challenge while making breakfast. My dishes are Fiestaware. . . all in shades of blue.

I love my Fiesta sets. They make me happy.

I took both those pictures on my phone and added to them with the A Beautiful Mess app (that I just downloaded this morning and needed to play with some).

While playing around in my phone I also discovered a photo collage saved on there that fit this prompt perfectly.

I think the above collage was created as part of another photo challenge last year when the prompt was something like "your favorite color".

To see more blue head over to Sally's blog, The Studio Sublime.

Whine Rant and the iPhone

CAUTION - Whining Ahead
I REALLY wanted to post yesterday. Unfortunately, I wasn't feeling so well, left work early, and vegged on the couch until LOML* took me for sushi. That made me feel better - until the dang TiVo didn't change channels to record Project Runway, and I had to wait an additional hour before Bravo re-aired it. Right now, it's the only show I look forward to all week. Earl (My Name is Earl) has actually come back on from its hiatus and Lost will be back on by the end of the month. So, there is more life to TV. Of course, I believe that there is more to life than TV. With the end of the reruns, I guess we need to move the exercise equipment back into the living room (dangit) since we moved it out for the ladies to come over several weeks ago. The whole idea of having that stuff in the living room was to promote us using it while our shows air. Yet, after a while, we forgot it was there. Maybe bringing it back out will inspire us to start using the equipment again. We can hope.
END OF WHINE

Besides the ball this past weekend, I got really excited because LOML* got an iPhone. He communicates with his co-workers mainly through IMs and e-mails and the iPhone works well for those apparently. He did research for several weeks to find a phone that would meet all his needs for work. We hoped he would find one on our current cell provider, but they didn't really have a phone with all the options he wanted. Now, we have to switch providers so we don't have two bills. We thought the contract was up on our current plan but apparently it's only up on his. Mine should be up in a few weeks. AND, he says he'll get me an iPhone too!!! I am super excited about this because it will make blogging a little easier. I saw a blog post from another crafter yesterday and she used her iPhone to take a picture, place it in her blog, and then post the blog. With an iPhone, I can capture all the smaller crafty projects I undertake so much easier. I am a bit worried because I am hard on electronics, especially phones. The iPhone is super easy to break so we'll have to check if they have insurance for it and a good protective case before I can get one. I've gotten to play with LOML's* and I like the ease of use. My current phone is simply used as a phone even though it also has a camera and games on it. The pictures are blah and I have a PSP and a Game Boy, so I don't really use those functions. Anyway, if you have an opinion on the iPhone, lemmie know!!

*LOML = Love of My LIfe