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Photoshop Actions and Tools for Black and White
Here is a quick little comparison of some various techniques for converting to black and white in Photoshop (CS2). Here I’ve started with a straight out of the (point and shoot) camera shot of Mike, my great-uncle six times removed (or however that works) on the maternal Italian side. He did not want me to…
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Cream Tea Scones
To celebrate Julie’s delicious gift of fresh lemon curd from Merry Old England, I made another batch of scones this morning. Last time I posted about the King Arthur Blueberry Sour Cream scone mix, and mentioned I normally get the ‘plain’ kind. So here are the pictures of the King Arthur Cream Tea Scones. Yummy!…
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Nifty Photo Collection by Peter Funch
Someone posted this on facebook, and I don’t usually take notice but the title was interesting… it was something like images of NYC composited over time but not space. I thought it would be something like, pictures from the 1920s through current day of the same location, which would be interesting, but it wasn’t. Still…
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Wine Aficionado
(or water aficionado, as the case may be)
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Busy Easter Weekend
Since it’s Easter Weekend we have a ton of stuff to do.Yesterday we went to my Mom’s cousin’s house down in Connecticut for a Good Friday supper. It was a lot of fun, and we got to see Auntie Carol, Noni and Uncle Eddie plus a bunch of relatives I haven’t seen since I was…
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I don’t really like Blue Nails
Let me share with you my little nail polish saga from Wednesday. It began with my trying out a ‘new’ shade. I bought China Glaze – For Audrey when I got everyone’s Christmas nail polishes, but I hadn’t tried it out. After seeing the Greenport nail polish that I wrote about before, I decided I…
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I Heart PB & J
I really need to find more creative lunches that are healthier than PB&J … maybe peanut butter and broccoli? Or spinach butter and mango jam? Well, maybe not, but I think next time I’m at the store I’m going to buy the Polaner All Fruit spread instead of the liquid purple goo they have turned…
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Moss Scapes
Since our ‘grass’ has been… unmaintained for a number of years, it basically no longer exists. However, much of our large yard is covered with delicious, fuzzy, luxurious, verdant moss. So I wanted to encourage the moss and make a lovely moss garden… I’m starting with an area in the back behind the pool. While…