I found PicMonkey...

As a blogger I know it's all about the photos. Nobody cares about the words I write. They want to see what I have to share.

I've been trying to catch up on my favorite blogs today when I buzzed over to Sweet Bee Cottage. Janelle has shared a cool site called PicMonkey. She told me that I had to drop everything and go check it out. So I did and the creation above is what became of my playing around for just a few minutes.  It's like having your own photo editing software online. It seems some of the peeps from the old Picnik website, that recently closed up shop, have created this new dynamic website www.PicMonkey.com They have an awesome sense of humor, too.

This is what the photo started out looking like. I finally got around to photographing the Cherry keyring that my friend, Heather, from Dragonfly Lampworks designed a bead for. It's the cutest little thing with Cherries on both sides. Now I just need to "get around to" placing it in my Artfire.com shop for sale. So many things...so little time...
Do go by and monkey around at the PicMonkey photo editing site. You'll have fun.

Some Creative Time

It is such a beautiful morning here in Tampa today. I'm sitting on my front porch enjoying a cup of tea while listening to the birds sing. Life is Good! We had a mini "cold front" come through after a little rain on Thursday and the temperature is just perfect outside. There is just the nicest breeze out to make it all that much better.

A few weeks ago I pulled out the ole Cricut Expressions to try my hand at a card that I have seen pinned on  Pinterest. There is a wonderful video tutorial here if you are interested in seeing exactly how the original was created. You can see that I made it my own using totally different paper and accents.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.

I Baked a Cake

Sunday was my friend Anne's Birthday.  I was a little late but I whipped up this cake for her on Monday and took it over to her when she got home from work.  Just a box mix with some Nutella, my favorite, in between the layers.  She said that she loved it and that it was really moist.  It's only about 6 inches wide and a little taller than that. I put little mini chocolate chips on the top of the cake.

I, also, gave her my favorite candle from Anthropologie. She loves the Aloha Orchid fragrance as much as I do.  It has a really sweet smell if you like that kind of fragrance.

Bad News...Good News

Ugh! I've been Laid Off....

Bad News...yepper...I just found out Tuesday...sigh..

Right now I'm looking at the positive side of things. 

A) I wasn't asked to clean out my desk

B) Hopefully, I'll be back in 30-60 days

3) I now have time to blog!!

I had just come back from a mini vacation of 5 days off to celebrate the "Birthday Week".

It was an awesome week of celebration, time spent with wonderful friends, and very special gifts.  The thing I like most about my birthday week is that I get to spend one on one time with my wonderful friends/sisters.  We checked out a new tea room, lunched, went to the movie, people watched at the mall, had a massage and spent time catching up on each others lives. 

I was feeling pretty special and luckily had no clue as to what would happen next.

Remember that saying "When one door closes another door opens".  While the door may not have closed, more like I just got locked out, it has come at just the precise moment.  Right now there is a wonderful new "top secret" project that I now have the time to work on with my wildly talented friend Heather at Dragonfly Lampworks.  I'll let you know when the big reveal happens...wink...wink. ;-p



Hearts have arrived

As I promised last weekend, here's what I created to put in my office for Valentine's Day. The little display above sits on a round work table in the middle of the office.

This is the whiteboard that is behind my desk.

Here's a close up view of the banner. It spells out Employee Relations.

I think it turned out cute considering it was my first attempt at a banner. I wonder what I can do for Easter...hmmm??