It's play time and I rock the Picasa...

OK well maybe I need to be a little less dramatic and say I am beginning to rock the Picasa. I mentioned before that I had started to play around with Picasa (you can download it for free from Google) but I rarely get the time to sit and mess with it. Tonight, I came home, prepared dinner, ate with the family and did the dishes... then announced that I am spending some quality time with my computer and beloved pictures. And these are what I have come up with, not bad for a start right? Of course you can't go wrong when working with babies, gorgeous eight year olds and donkeys can you????

I am 99% sure that given some time and decent software I really can do wondrous things with my pictures, it's the time that's the problem these days. However, I'm enrolling in the thing with a long name that Spudballoo is doing here.... and with a little coaching I can do great things. I did study art in school and was fairly good at it... I believe that with some encouragement my creative/artistic side can come out again. My mother is a super artist, she really has a great eye and imagination, in her day she did some fabulous drawings and paintings, she studied art at some college in London before marrying without graduating.... silly woman. So I am claiming a tiny bit of those genes and I'll put them to work. My M-I-L is also very good and definitely has true talent, she should create more now that she has a little time on her hands, I don't think she's done anything in a long time. Of course I can't claim her talented genes but I can pick her brain now and again and get her input on the pictures.

I tried printing some of my pictures the other day and whhoooaaaa they looked like crap. I'm putting it all down to the printer and will order them online in the future. Of course it could have been the paper, cheap photo paper from Office Depot so if you have any ideas how to get better prints from your home printer just let me know. I'd be grateful for any comments.

If you saw my post this morning you'd realize I am craving this time alone with my blog and my pictures... thank you Lord for hearing my prayer!!!!!!