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Saturday, November 7, 2009 "Please Mom?"
That is what mom hears when I find another free download of a photoshop program.  So far, I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (yes, it is really old...) and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 (another older version), Adobe's Artweaver, and now Picasa. The other day I found out what neat things Google's Picasa can do. So I downloaded it. (if you do download it, be warned that it can be a headache and you might end up reinstalling it because you did it all wrong...) Probably my favorite feature is the handy "collage" button. You select the photos, and in one click you have a collage. It takes a few more clicks to get the settings right though. This collage was mady with 250 photos, or something close... The only problem is that with so many photos it makes them really really tiny! Well, they aren't tiny until you resize it... But there was no way I was putting a picture that was abut 5000 pixels wide on my blog! 
Here is another one I made with only pictures of Elisabeth's face.
Speaking of faces, Picasa has the neatest feature where it can sort faces! Its really hard to explain, so if you'd like to read about it, go here: http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93773 Its really good at it too! Only once did it think that Alison was me. :-) Even the computer thinks we're twins! LOL!
This last one is just a few random pictures that I've taken that I really like. I'll probably make quite a few more collages with my pictures! It's really fun!
I've learned a few things about Picasa the hard way, but now that have figured a few things out not to do, I'll never never NEVER do them again! LOL!
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Tennis Practice
The crowds cheered wildly as I sentt the ball flying back across the net to my dad. Wait--the "crowds" were the high school kids playing soccer, and they weren't cheering for me--they were cheering for their friends. Oh well.  The other day a friend of ours let us have his tennis equipment for a while. Today, after an exciting visit to the high school, (read Alison's post about this) we finally got the key but at the time, people were using the courts. So this afternoon we got Dad to take us to play. Well, you can't really call it playing. We had never played before. So dad taught us how. We still aren't very good but it was lots of fun! I can't wait till we get to go again! Sorry there aren't any pictures. Our mom didn't come along with the camera and I was either chasing balls, or hittng them.
I might not change my template soon after all. I think I'll make the header over again. So, keep checking back! |
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Monday, November 2, 2009 Announcement
| My blog might look crazy for a few days... I'm going to attempt a new template that has an image map in it--something I've never really tried before. So if it looks like a disaster, ignore it. I might start blogging soon, and I don't really like the template I have... |
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 giveaway
Saturday, June 13, 2009 giveaway
Monday, June 1, 2009 announcement
I've decided that I'm going to quit blogging for awhile... I'll still read a few blogs though. Now I won't have to feel quilty when I don't post... :-)
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 Science Experiment
Yesterday, we went to a friend's house with a other homeschool families to have a "shoebox science fair". (your experiment had to fit in a shoebox). We had lots of fun, and over all it went well, except for my project...
For my project you need:
2 balloons
a candle
matches
First, fill one balloon with air, and the other one half with water, and half with air. Light the candle and put the air-filled balloon in the flame. It bursts... Now, stick the half-filled-water balloon in the flame. It doesn't pop! Why not? Because the water in the balloon is absorbing the heat. Eventually, you would boil the water inside the balloon, and then if you waited even longer, the balloon would burst.
Sounds like a fun expirament doesn't it? Well, everything went fine, until I let the flame go a little too close to the top of the balloon, letting the hot air get inside the balloon. The balloon popped and water went all over the place... Thankfully it was only water. :-) So I learned not to put the balloon so close to the flame next time...
What would've been really neat, is if we had gotten a picture right as the balloon had burst, and water was flying everywhere... :-) |
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Thursday, April 9, 2009 Surprise Package
Yester day Elisabeth came into the house with the mail for the day and handed me a package! I was very surprised because I knew I hadn't orded anything lately... I figured that if my mom had ordered it and did n't want me to know, she wouldn't have had it addressed to me, so I opened it. It turned out that it wasn't from my mom at all! It was a "gift" from Mission City Press! I had entered the "God is Not" essay contest at www.alof.com, and although I didn't win, we're thinking that this must be some sort of honerable mention prize... Anyway here is what was inside: Dear Elsie. This is a book filled with questions that girls have sent in, and then "Elsie's" answer.
Now my ALO F collection consists of the Laylee Colbert book, all the Kathleen Mackenzie books, and Dear Elsie. My favorite of them all is probably the second Kathleen book. I got the Laylee book for my birthday this year, from Elisabeth, and the Kathleen books were a gift from my parents, a few years ago.
Tomorrow we are going to a friends house with a few other homeschoolers to have a "shoebox science fair". Your experiment has to fit in a shoebox or a something smaller. I'll post about mine in a few days. Other than that, there isn't much excitement to post about... (except for on the 16th when I get braces!) |
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 Dentist
UUUUUGGGGHHH!!! This morning, I was playing around with my camera, a,nd I accidently deleted (yes deleted) EVERY picture on the camera card!!! There were about 9 folders of pictures on there... Oh well. Things like that happen! So I immediatly started taking pictures again. :-) And today was a great day for that, because...
...Alison got braces!!! I was supposed to get something else that they call "appliances" (ovens? Stoves? Refrigoraters??? LOL!) But one of the impressions didn't work out, so I had to do a new one today. :-p. Actually they aren't that bad as long as you only do the low er one. The mold of your top teeth is just horrendis! (so is that spelling! LOL!) So, sorry if you have to get molds made soon. :-) But anyway, since my teeth are moving so fast, and coming in so fast, the dentist changed his mind again (I think this was about the 3rd time) on what he was going to do. :-) So in a couple of weeks, I get braces on the top, and this "appliance" on the bottom. And then a couple of weeks after that he pulls teeth... :-p.
But anyway, Alison got braces today. I think she looks great in them! Since the whole process took about 2 hours, I entertained myself with talking to one of the nurses who was cleaning up a room, and find out all about everything in the office. :-) Its the cheap way to lea rn dentistry. LOL! Quite a few of the nurses asked me if I wanted to be a dentist or a dentist assistant, because I was asking so many questions, but I told them, "no, I want to be a stay at home mother". :-) |
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 New bedroom arrangement
Ev er since we got bunk beds, I've always slept on the top, and I've thought that it might be nice to have a bed bed. Whatever that is... :-) We've rearranged our room quite a few times but with a fan in the middle of the r oom and bunkbeds, you can't do much because the person on the top might get their head chopped off. LOL! So yesterday, Alison decided that it was time to rearrange the room. So we switched the place of the dresser and bed around. But I didn't like it that way and so I suggested that we take the beds apart and put one on each side of the room with the dresser in the middle. This resulted in lots of measuring to see if it fit. (Alison measured. I had already don e that a while back and new it would work) So we attempted to pull the beds apart, (After taking off my mattress) and after much grunting, pulling, pushing and groaning, we finally got it apart! We very stupidly forgot to take before, and in the progress pictures... But I did take after pictures as you can see. We are soooo happy with our new arrangement! We don't have quite as much room, but we still have plenty... I'm finding that spend more time in our room now... (you might be able to tell what it used to look like from these pictures... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BookLover/413300/) |
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 Misc happenings
Nothing much has happened this week... *edited* if nothing much happened this week, how come I came up with so much to say??? LOL!* I didn't feel very good Monday, T uesday, or Wednesday, but I feel fine today... That is, if I don't eat a lot. :-) On Wednesday, I was horrified to realize that I hadn't taken even one picture since Sunday!!! So I got my camera, and took many pictures of some roses that my dad gave my mom. This one was probably my favorite...
And then, since I was feeling silly... Mom got us a pair of brightly colo red ankle socks, and since I had two pairs sitting right next to me, I couldn't resist making a new match! I took them off right after I took the picture... :-) I love bright colored socks, but I don't wear socks very often... I wear bare feet, or flip-flops... :-) Except that today I had to wear socks and shoes to go on the roof... (that's still coming--keep reading!)
The other day, I was looking at lionbrand.com for free patterns, and I sa w one for a rag doll wig. So I printed the instructions out, got started and decided that I didn't feel like doing this after all... :-) So instead, I started playing around and ended up dying my hair!!! Do yoy like it? LOL! Thankfully, it wasn't permanent. 
(warning! this is the longest paragraph, and its all about being on the roof!) I n our family, when you turn 6, you get a Bible for your birthday, and then you start with reading a few verses every day and work up to a few chapters. When we turn 11, we get to help in the church nurs ery, but that is only when there are enough babies... (we usually only have one...) When you turn 12, you get to go on the roof with dad, and when you turn 13, you get to sit in the front seat of the car. So today, when dad went on the roof to work on the swamp coolers, he took Alison and me up with him. You can see quite a lot up there! (you're thinking, "you took your camera on the roof????" Yes, I take it everywhere. ) While we were walking along the very top of our roof, it reminded me of when Anne in Anne of Green Gables walked on the ridge pole, so I had Alison do the same. The problem is that our roof isn't very sharp so it doesn't look very impressive... LOL! I would post pictures of the view, but it wouldn't be very interesting... And the last thing about the roof, is that we saw some sort of hang glider with a motor flying around town! I got a picture of it (I'd post it, but I figured that they paragraph was long enough... I was going to take a video of him, but my camera batteries died... What perfect timing! LOL!
And lastly, its sprin g!!! Our cacti are finally blooming!!! Its my opinion that the ocotio has the prettiest flowers of all our cacti...
I would post pictures of the stove/oven that I made today, and the little clay mouse (?) but this post got longer than I thought it would... I'll post about that next week. (unless something else exciting happens and I post about that instead.... |
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Friday, March 6, 2009 The day's happenings
Today we tried to get most of our school done in the morning, because we were going to the park and library in the afternoon. And mom had to go to Walmart this morning so we did school without her. Even though I did get all my school done, I must admit that I spent alot of time taking pictures too. One of my favorites is this one of Alison. :-) I won't post any of the ones she took of me. I have a good excuse too -- they were all of my brushing my hair. LOL! (yes, I know what you are thinking: "Weren't you supposed to be doing school???"  ) Its amazing how many destractions you can find when you are supposed to be doing school...
We had great fun at the park! (at least I did!) When we first got there, passionforpurple, cherryblossom, brandon, and another friend of ours were all geocashing. We went and looked with them, but they gave up. :-) Well, I didn't do much looking--I was too busy taking pictures of the flowers. (of course) The park we went to today didn't have very many veriaties of flowers, but the park really close to us has quite a few different ones! We went there yesterday, and while mom watched Emily and Betsy played, I ran off to the walking trail and took pictures. I might get around to posting them someday... (along with the other hundreds of pictures... Maybe I shouldn't take so many pictures that I'd want to post...)
After the park, we went over to the library and I got three photography books,  By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman (no, I can't spell that from memory--I had to look at the book. LOL!) and three math books. (I surprised my mom!!! ) Two of the math books were too easy, (that is what I get for not looking at the while we were still at the library...) and the photography books just make me want to go somewhere with LOTS of little kids and flowers, but I like them anyway.
One of the reasons that I wrote a post with so few pictures (I can't believe I actually only put in three!!!!) is that Alison just gets soooo excited when I "post text", so I thought I'd let her get excited for a little while. She'd BETTER leave me a comment!!! *hint hint alison* But, I suppose its not a bad thing to post alot of text... In fact, it was kind-of fun! Maybe I'll do again soon. *thinks about it* |
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Monday, March 2, 2009 Purple Flower
Instead of posting more pictures of my family and that kind-of stuff, I'm going to take a break and post some of my photo-shopping results. They are mostly all the same flower. This flower picture has been a great one! Its been in GGM, and the colors contrast so well, that you can do almost anything in a photoshop program and it will look neat. If we had more flowers around here, I'd start a blog with this header: (well, maybe I wouldn't start a whole new blog--maybe it would be a category...)
I did some more of the "center color" on this lily. I think it kind of looks like its glowing...
I did quite a few random features, but they all ended up looking really similar. :-) I really really like the colors in this picture--they are sooo bright and happy!
This next one is a little different, I must admit. It would be neat to find a flower like that, but I don't think I ever will. LOL!
Now that I got all those in here, we can move on to another topic. I'm thinking about changing my blog to a photography blog, because I basicly only post pictures anyway... So I'd like your opinion on wether or not I should just leave it how it is, or change everything around and confuse you. |
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Saturday, February 7, 2009 Action!
Time for the action shots...
In this first one, I had Alison jump up the ladder to the monkey bars, and pull up her knees to make it look really high. I took quite a few of this kind, but I think this one is best... (it kind-of looks like she has her hair in a crazy bun. )
In this next one, I unfortunately cut off her head but I still think it was neat.
If you look closely, you can tell that her one hand isn't even holding on yet... Scary!
I got quite a few with the ball way up there, and one of them even had the ball in the basket (it took a little while to find it...) but I chose this one. No special reason...
So now you can all go and take some pictures that are better. :-) |
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Friday, January 30, 2009 Pictures Part 1: The Great Outdoors
I couldn't believe it when I saw that I hadn't posted since the 19th!!! Oh well, I have quite a few pictures to post. This post is for pictures of outdoor stuff, except for one picture:
The one with black eyes is mine, and its twin was a birthday gift for a very special friend. I've had sooo much fun making sock monkeys! I'm in the middle of making one right now, and I have one other that is already done. I'll post pictures of them all soon.
And now for the outside pics--first the flowers. Yes, I know that I'm always saying that there aren't any flowers around here... Exception: at church, there are a few, and our neighbors have a few on their bush. AND, we do get a few cacti flowers but they aren't very pretty...
 
This one is a panorama of part of one of our parks. (from the top of the playground) Click to enlarge it.
This one is one of my favorites because the sun is on the trees, not the background, which kind-of makes it look like the trees are glowing. (it does that more when its really big) The day I took it, we had some really neat lighting sometimes... I had lots of fun taking pictures of the sky, with the sun peeking out from the clouds.
I have no idea where I took this picture... I don't remember any trees like that at the park, and there definantly aren't any at our house...
So there you go. I will probably post my action pictures next. I had sooo much fun taking pictures of people jumping off the playground! It always works best when you have them pull up their knees so it looks like they are higher in the air. I'll post them once I get a good amount of comments on this post. :-) |
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Monday, January 19, 2009 My favorite present
Thanks for all the birthday comments, and posts! I'll post pictures of all my presents later, but for now, I'm just posting pictures of my favorite present. (sorry the pics are kind-of blurry. I was in a hurry...) My grandparents got here last night and they gave me their old camera (they wanted a smaller one). Its used, but to me its new, and its in great condition so it doesn't matter!
This is a view of the front of the camera, with the lens cap on:
This is the back of my camera.
And lastly, here is the front of my camera again. The lens cap is off, and the screen is flipped around to the front. A handy think when taking your own picture!
This camera has sooo many features on it! I think I'll spend one of these days reading the booklet. :-) One of my favorite things is that while taking a video, you can zoom in and out--a feature my mom's camera didn't have! It also has a view finder, so I can turn off the display, and save the battery. I like using the screen better, but the view finder works fine too.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Happy Birthday Amy!
Happy birthday Amy!
( Yes Amy, Mom already posted this but I was going to before)
Amy turned 12 today. I couldn't help but give her a birthday post.
Please Leave her lots of birthday comments!
Betsy (carrotlover)
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Happy Birthday Amy!!!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Artwork
For the past few weeks, I've been listening to a few History Adventure tapes for History class. While I do that, I also do art class. :-) Its actually so I have something to do while I listen. I have this notepad with paper about 3x3, which is the perfect size to do full page scenes. Here are a few I've done:
These first two, were inspired by a bookmark of mine. :-)
 
I got the ideas for these two on old cards we had:
 
This girl reminds me of Pippi Longstocking, except that she doesn't have long hair. :-)
And on this one, I love the little boy's round tummy.
Does any one having any ideas of what else I could put in beside my poodle. I have an idea, except I couldn't draw it.  The poodle is cute though! I love her crossed arms!
 And last of all, I have this picture that I don't like, and I don't know why I'm posting it, or even why I drew it... Please ignore the smudge marks on the girl's face... That is what happens when you erase the mouth too many times. :-)
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Saturday, December 27, 2008 Photoshop
I know its been a long time since I posted last, but I just had no ideas. I thought that since I had been playing around with photoshop, I'd post the edited pics.
This is one of my favorite color effects to do:
 And on this last one, I was just playing around with random effects in my photo shop program. Do you like my photo shopped sunlight???
Here is a picture that I did of Emily. All I did was make it a negative.
Here is a banner that I made using Xheader. Its not hard when the backgrounds are provided for you and all you do is add text. :-) Click on it to make it bigger.
This last picture is a pic I drew a while ago. I've been drawing a bunch of really cute pictures that I'll scan and post in a few days.
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