Ben's preschool has been a real treat for both of us. I had him go to a cooperative preschool this year, more for me than him (although it is an excellent school). As Ways & Means chair, I've already survived our pizza kit sale, now I have to line up grocery store gift cards & coffee sales for a local roaster. In the meantime, I've enjoyed two field trips with his class, one to the Leslie Science Center and this latest one, to a local orchard/berry farm/pumpkin patch.
I forgot to journal about the fourth picture in the top row; our farmer friend is showing us the wax tray from an (empty, phew!) beehive. If you know how terrified I am of bees and wasps, you will understand why this is a special picture! Perhaps I should do my own LO about that.
Best of all, just about everything for this layout was a freebie. Well, the main products were: a free October template from Simple Scrapper and a free kit from Tammy, a lucky participant in Jessica Sprague's Art of Design class. Not only is the class $$$, the software needed for it (Photoshop Creative Suite) is also $$$. Kudos to those learning design; I'm jealous, can you tell? I have a bunch of kit ideas in my head, now to learn how to design them with just (so far) Photoshop Elements 7.
To that end, I'm going to try to participate in Wilma's blogtrain this month...not really sure how that works, but I'm going to at least try to create some papers and possibly some elements from brushes I've downloaded. Patty Knox's digital art journaling class at Get It Scrapped was helpful in learning how to create papers and elements in PSE7. I need to review my notes on that!
I'm thinking of asking for Illustrator for Christmas. Maybe I need to move up to Photoshop CS instead?
I should have the blogtrain info up after the 15th. In the meantime, I need to update more often! ;)
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I loveeeee this Denise! I love love love love love the way you did the photos on a banner!!! I am gonna have to lift that idea! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds like preschool is keeping you busier than Ben. :)
ReplyDeletei just wanted to pop in and thank you for being you and for being so sweet and to tell you i don't comment on your blog as much as i should. but you already know that . . .lol.
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