So? What d'ya think? Love? Hate? omg Jan, change it back?!!!

heh.

This redesign has been a long time coming. My crying little girl with the ice cream, cute as she was, bored me to tears after a few weeks of looking at her. She wasn't supposed to stick around as long as she did, but hey - I've been busy ;)

I'm hoping, in the next little while, to get this place cleaned up and organized. A new look is all well and good, but it's kind of like cleaning up your house by tossing everything into the closets, y'know?

*ahem (don't look at me)

So while I still have a lot of work to do around here, I'm happy to get the bare bones up and running. Finally. The way I've been going? it would be Christmas 2011 and you'd still be looking at that crying little girl with the ice cream while I run around prettying up everybody else's place but mine. The mechanic's car syndrome, I swear.

Let me know if you find any mistakes, bugs, errors, naked men ... errr ... yeah.

I hope you like it :)

Head over and tell her how beoooootiful she is :D

A twoscoopz makeover will do that to ya ;)

Go tell her she's looking mahvelous dahling.

Never done?

Yeah.  Same sort of thing around these parts.

While I toil away making everybody else look all pretty, my little place here sits around looking like something the cat dragged in.

Totally unacceptable.

So I've been working on it on the sly,  all stealth-like and sneaky.

Yep.

We should start a betting pool. How long until she actually finishes the darn thing. heh.

Go check her out and tell her how gorgeous she is.

Before she breaks it all ;)

(which, considering the wonderful post she wrote for me, I may forgive her for)

(maybe)

Go tell her how good she looks ;)

The shame of it all!

The Savvy Photographer brings you inside the home of Ria Czichotzki from Rialee Photography.  Check out what she has done with some of her fabulous shots and get a little bit inspired.

And then, if you really want to turn green with envy and drool all over your keyboard, check out her studio.  omg LOVE!

Finally, I am absolutely LOVING this project.  I have a small collection of vintage look frames that I keep adding to with (again) the idea of a photo wall in mind.  Alas, they're currently stacked up in my garage.  Amber has done an awesome job with her fabulous wall of frames and gives some great tips on her blog.  Go see!

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I Heart Faces has a great tutorial from the talented Rita of Coffeeshop fame here.  I Heart RITA!

And while you're browsing around at I Heart Faces, keep in mind that Week 8 of their Photo Challenge starts on the 22nd.  The theme is "hands on" and I already have a few ideas floating around.  Fun!

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makeuseof.com is offering An Idiot's Guide to Photoshop, free in PDF format.  Download Part1 here and Part2 here.  There's some really awesome info in there for newbies and refreshers for seasoned users who may have forgotten their basics along the way.

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Around the Web is a mixed bag of stuff I find and like, well, around the web!  Nobody pays me for this stuff.  Nobody asks me to do it.  These are MY picks that I want to share with you.

But you know what?  I like it better in black and white anyways.  Stick it, Mother Nature :)

I was messing around earlier (when am I NOT messing around?) making some digital elements for scrapbooking and I made this for my 365Project ...

which I thought looked pretty cool.  But when I put it on the photo,

I don't think it looks right.  It's distracting, isn't it?  I see other people do stuff like that and I think it looks great.  Hence the wasted hour spent making mine ... LOL!

I dunno.  What do you think?

EDIT:  forgot to post the original shot!  LOL!!!

So yeah, I cropped it to get rid of the building and make the engine more of the focal point, and added a bit of a glow to the black and white version.  But see what I mean about the exposure?  I'm getting the train nice and black (she's a beauty) but the dismal sky and crappy snow are wonky.

Try, try again!  I think I'll have more luck in summer.

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You can find my 365 project on flickr or check out the flickr group for Shutter Sisters.
For all daily photos posted here - Click project365 in the Category list in the right sidebar.

You can almost tell what the weather is like here from my shots.  Two stills in a row tells you it's really cold outside and I don't want to go out there!

And of course, I played around with some textures and whatnot ...

Textures from Shadowhouse Creations (Skeletal Mess) and Paree Erica.  Ali Edwards official font.

Sunflowers from my bathroom :)

I think I may stop uploading my photos through wordpress.  The images aren't as clear as they are on flickr.  Any ideas why?

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You can find my 365 project on flickr or check out the flickr group for Shutter Sisters.
For all daily photos posted here - Click project365 in the Category list in the right sidebar.