over at GNO, there's a few of us who decided to challenge ourselves last week to perform a random act of kindness. i talked with my girls and hubs about what we could do... we reserve some funds each month out of our giving to put towards a current or urgent need that we find. i think it's important to let the kids see how we give as family...and they should be part of that decision too . as we were talking, and eating chinese...come on, you know there would be eating...i open my fortune cookie. and this is it!! i was out getting a few minutes of alone time and decided to pay hubs forward by getting jiffy lube to do the oil change. while i was there, i remembered how hard it was being a single mom. i remembered that the little things, like oil changes, suddenly became bigger things and honestly, more expensive things. *light bulb!!!* thomas rang me up for my oil change and asked if they had any scheduled appointments that i could pay for. he looked at me a little odd...
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what effect did you use for the first photo?
SO KEWL
~melody~
And I agree! Please spill the beans on your first photo? Is it an action in PS? If so, was it free?? C'mon momma--tell us!! " )
Usually it's me you find outside creating with it though.
i modified the pic in iphoto using the adjustment settings. i set the sharpness high, change the color temperature, added shadows, did some other misc. stuff and that's what it looks like. it's soooo much fun to play with pics! i need to post on how to do it...hmmmm
One weird thing though - you mention how easy it is to clean up, and I'm with ya there, except last week, Kiddo was decorating the driveway after school (while I was weeding away in the front yard planting beds) and she scooched through her drawings as she went. She was wearing these pink pants that she'd had on for school, and I didn't think anything of it.
But - the chalk STAINED her pants!! It didn't come out in three washings, even with Shout and Oxiclean. What the heck?!?! It was CHHHHAAAAAAALK for pete's sake! I'm still befuddled by that one!
Thanks for coming by my blog on my big SITS day! Love meeting other adoptive parents! Cheers!