After many long, sleepless nights of trying to figure out

how to use Photoshop, I have FINALLY  mastered it!  I am

pretty much a professional Photoshopper now. 

"Photoshop Extraordinare" if you will.

 Call me anytime you are ready to schedule your

professional photoshoot!  Ok, maybe I am getting

a little ahead of myself.  Does that really surprise you?

The fact is , I stumbled across You Tube video tutorials

that showed me step by step how to use some of 

the Photoshop programs.  I was hooked, for a while at least, but 

that wasn't enough.  By the time I was working on my own pictures

I had forgotten everything the nice gentlemen on You Tube had told me.

   So I did the only thing I knew to do....

I started clicking all kinds of buttons, and just played around

with the pictures.  After that I had to break out the ol'

Photoshop for Dummies book to figure out how to get my

pictures here on my blog.  It was a lot of trial and error, more 

error than anything, but I finally figured it out.   

Okay fine, don't twist my arm...  I figured it out by accident!

Thankfully 1 out of the 1,000 buttons I clicked was the

correct one.  And just as I was asking my hubby to show me

  where in the world I sent my blessed pictures to...I saw them, tucked

away quietly in the My Pictures tab on my computer.  I am

pretty sure I heard Angels singing the Hallalujeh chorus

in the background!  

So without further ado... Here it is....My very first

and possibly last photoshopped picture.

I hope you are not expecting me to tell you in detail

everything I did to this picture in Photoshop, because

I honestly have no clue.

before

                                                                           after

                                                   


                                              That was exhausting, I must go lie down now.

I have tried to post something on my blog these last few weeks.  No, really I have!  It's just that I have been so busy lately.  What with kiddos, work, a crazy, dillusional cocker spaniel that decided to rip a hole in my nice perfectly hole free up until that point couch.  That dog is LUCKY he is still alive!  LUCKY I tell you.

As busy as I have been lately I can tell you what I haven't been busy doing, and that is .... Getting my roots done.  Can you say call your hairdresser already. It's been long enough!  Also I haven't been busy selling any bows, oh no my friends I am afraid that ship has sailed. Bye-Bye bow career. Mom, Dad, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Friends,  it doesn't matter- if I know you then you can expect to be receiving a bow for Christmas! What,  its the thought that counts, right?  And I think I have a lot of bows that I need to unload!  Me-in a bit of a tizzy? Nooo!-why do you ask? 

 I also haven't been busy practicing photoshop, or practicing any other machinery, yes that is what I call those things.   You know those big scary machinery devices known to you smart people as Silhouette machines,  scanners, printers, all of those monsters that I prefer to keep locked up in a closet for fear I might have to actually learn how to use them.  Yes that is where they are and have been since I became their freakishly weird proud owner.  And truth be told they will probably stay there until I get a wild hair  and get them out and read the instructions for what feels like 100 years, then realize that the instructions might as well had been written in French because they are like a foreign language to me, then I will pack everything back up, nice and neatly of course because that's  how I roll, and I will proceed to forget about them for the next few months until the wild hair strikes again.  It's a vicious cycle.  I go round and round with this cycle and the cycle ALWAYS wins.  I am 100 percent certain I have some sort of condition.  Maybe it's procrastination, or perfectionism, or laziness.....The possibilities are endless!  I'll google that when I have more time.  But for now I am going to go clean something.. See that is what I do when I am trying to avoid doing something else like reading my photoshop book :)

Where have I been you ask ?!?!  I have been snug in my bed crying my eyes out for the past few weeks.  Do you want to know why?  Well I am glad you asked, let me tell you.....  It is because my first born, my baby boy....  are you ready for this?  He done went and started drivers education classes!  The nerve of him, he is squashing the idea that I had of me being the one who drives him anywhere he needs to go. FOREVER!!!  I knew this day would come, but I thought maybe in like 100 years, not right now! NOT RIGHT NOW!!! I have to go back to bed now.

                                       (Ignore the dates, this is my daughters camera and she gets her lack of technical skills from me.)