Ok. So for you out there that love to play with around with your photographs. Here is a fun little free toy. It is supposed to make your pictures look unreal, or like a toy by changing the tilt and focus of the photograph you upload. You can upload photos on this site for free and have some fun. Here are some of my photos I did.

Before (No it wasn't our car.)

After. I think this one looks a little toyish. It certainly gave the picture more impact.

All of these are after adding Tilt Shift

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Now, I really must tell you that the photos I made into Tilt-Shift Photos aren't the ideal for this type of manipulation. Ideal photos have small people in them, cars, buildings. Those can really look toyish when you are done. And, you can do a much more elegant job with Photoshop. Here is a tutorial. I am sure to try to get some photos with small people in them now, just to try this out since I do have Photoshop. How fun!

So, I decided to do an entire post about this subject for anyone else that might ask or wonder in the future. I told you in a previous post why I blog. While my blog started out as just a place to journal my homeschoool the Lord soon turned it into a weapon and tool for Him. I believe that in everything you do must have a purpose, glorifying to the Lord. My main mission now is to encourage ladies in the Lord.

I had a fussy toddler tonight. So, what did I do? I thought I'd get down on the floor and try and entertain her and take her picture. I got a couple of good shots when she wasn't trying to climb all over me. But, here are two shots from tonight:

Abigail with her Little People

Midnight The Cat (our Christmas kitten that showed up on our doorstep last year)

Sooo cold outside!

The kids and I have just finished reading the Long Winter and once again I hear familiar words in the kitchen, "Don't be so picky!  Laura had nothing but potatoes and brown bread for months!"

I love this book for reminding us all how good we have it now.  I love the line, "Don't get up, I'll shovel the snow off you as soon as I dig your Ma out."  And that was inside the house!

They wrote letters using as few words as possible to make the most of the paper.  A letter was a rare thing.  Every few years depending on where you lived and then months between sending it and the person getting it. 

Food was seasonal.  No greens until the snow melted and everything grew large enough again.  Candy on Christmas day.  That was it! 

I wonder about privacy.  The girls wait until Pa left to do chores to dress.  No mention of bathing.  Of course during the worst of the long winter they only ate bread twice a day.  They rose late and went to bed early because their was no lamp or candles,     They burned grass to keep warm so I imagine that boiling water to make a bath was a luxury they could not manage. 

Blizzard after blizzard for seven months and a town left to starve because the train could not get through.  This is a great book.  I read later that this book was edited because it was too sad for a children's book.  makes me wonder what was left out. 

Laura speaks breifly about faith in this book, memorizing scripture,praying and singing hymns together.  Mary's testimony is in here as well and if any of them were truely saved it was her. 

Anyway, this book is a family tradition.  I love how my girls react at certain parts.  Like Laura describing Cap Garland... She really had a crush on him.  How Almanzo thawed his frost bitten feet with snow and still did his share of the chores with feet so swollen that he had to borrow his brother's boots.  How Laura describes working with her father in the field even though ma did not like her working like a 'foreign woman' though relented because Pa did need the help..  However, she did not allow Laura to go to town to help Pa, it wasn't proper. 

Now we have started in on The Little Town on the Prairie.  These books are more and more appealing as my girls have grown. The courting of Laura and Almanzo.  For me it is the way Laura expresses the bitter sweet feelings of the changes in her life.  The amazing bond and love for family and the necessary parting that comes.

Back in the Victorian era, tea parties were an event to simply get together with your friends, with whom you shared common interest with, to have an enjoyable afternoon. Today in our century we don’t host “tea parties”, but we do plan events to get together with people and families of whom we enjoy their company. I have always thought very fondly of hosting a tea party, all dressed up, as the Bennett sisters would have been, or even as Anne and Dianna did in Anne of Green Gables (though theirs ended in disaster)...Read more

We had company last night. These are our friends with SIX boys (as of recently). Their baby is 7 weeks old. Here are two pics of their Little Man, and one of the whole gang (minus the baby).

Which one referred to a spiders web as an analogy for the situation of an unbeliever?

Which one was good with a hammer?  Who knows?

His name is always related to a dutch flower?

Who is known as a prince?