Saturday

another beautiful Saturday this weekend;
Spring, how wonderful!
neighbors out mowing the yard
neighbors out washing cars
and children out to ride their bikes
Spring, how wonderful!



Easter in a week, I can't believe it!
On spring break in only four days, I can't believe it!
Sleeping in late for nine days, I can't believe it!

Love to all,
Melle :o)

.....some more bad with the good....

Actually, things aren't really bad, I just mean what I've said before - without the "bad" we can't appreciate the good. For example, with a rainy yucky day like today, we can really appreciate how gorgeous the day was yesterday. With working so hard during the week, we can really appreciate the weekend. With the first week of daylight saving time behind us, we can really appreciate sleeping in on Saturday.

-I did get laundry caught up
-I did get the kitchen floor mopped and the tub scrubbed
-I did get to have dinner with friends
-I did get to have lunch with my mom
-I did almost finish the thank you cards for our community volunteers.....almost
-I did get my art budget done for next year
-I did get to have movie night with my girls, The Princess and the Frog for McKenna and New Moon for Andrea
-and I did get to do some crafting, not finished, but close

The flowers are painted by some of my kindergarten students. I hope to put this on display at the upcoming student artshow.

Love to all, may you have a good week,
Melle

I am so lucky to have YOU!

(i made these tonight for McKenna's teachers when I should have been entering grades- thanks Heidi Swapp for the idea!)

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Love,
Melle

Goin' Digital

You know, I was thinking, I've been scrapbooking ever since Andrea was about 2, so about 13 years now and when I started I was a die-hard film photographer. I was sure I'd never use one of those digital cameras - how could I, it wasn't the real thing? And I fought it for awhile, but finally, once I didn't have a place to take my film to be developed locally, I finally had to make the switch. And now, I can't imagine photographing any other way. The benefit of taking hundreds of photos and not having to pay for film or processing is HUGE! Not to mention the benefit of getting to see your shot as soon as it is taken (although, I still need to remember to look at the picture before I let my subjects run of and play! :) )

And so....that brings up my current adventure....scrapbooking digitally? Yes, or no? Am I cheating? Well, although I'm still filled with some guilt, it is quickly being replaced with convenience and instant gratification....


I fortunately had the chance to get out and "scrap" for a few hours on Friday night, well, instead of dragging all of my "stuff" with me (since I don't know what I was going to work on, or what I might need) I just brought my laptop instead. Now, the layout above was still about an hour's worth of work because I am still teaching myself how to do this, but all in all, I was really happy with it and I know, I couldn't have created the same thing with paper and adhesive.

The following I just played with a moment ago and with a couple of clicks I'm still happy with the results....




Now, please don't miss understand, i am not about to give up my paper, glue, tools, and Cricut!
I still love the hands on experience, it's just now that I have my own space to create in out in the garage, I'm not as mobile as I use to be.....

Let me know what you think!!
and my apologies for a late post this week....lost that blogging hour to daylight savings time this weekend!

Love to all,
Melle

Well, I stayed up later than usual for a Sunday evening trying to edit some photos and then to post, only to find that the blogger site was not working when I was ready.
Also, I'm still frustrated with the photo editing software I have - urgh!
Anyway, there is a reason for everything - right?!
So, here is just a quick note to say "HI" and give a glimpse of where we went on Saturday. As a family we enjoyed an afternoon at a Scottish festival in Zephyerhills (how do you spell that anyway?)


So, that's it so far...... my classroom blog is updated and that tells more of what I've been up to.
The mom who wanted 75 invitations did not order any from the samples I made. Although the money would have been nice, I just really don't have the time right now. My student artshow consumes every free moment I have in the month of March.
Okay, off to work, love to all, may you have a great week!
Melle