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OK, I know this is totally geeky, crafty and nerdy….but I LOVE the new digital scrapbooking I have been doing!  I have Photo Impact Pro to manage and work on photos and I recently discovered I could do digital scrapbooking with it.

I was working with Shutterfly over the summer and I liked it, but I couldn’t do some of the things I wanted to.  My biggest pet peave is that you can only put wording in certain places.  I wanted to be able to put in as much as I wanted and write at an angle or over the pictures.

I download a bunch of freebies over the weekend, but I am very excited about the pages I did from some photos I had.  My only problem is it takes me a couple of hours to do a page because I am very picky about how I want it to look.

The background was all one picture that I cropped in half to create two different photos.  then I enlarged them.  So in my photo album this will cover two pages.  Unfortunately, I didn’t check my resolution before I saved them together, so on a photo page they aren’t very clear.  But that made them small enough for me to be able to post them here!

 

I finally broke down and took the dog to the “professional” groomers.  We bought some dog clippers so Brittney and I could clip her, but we were not very successful. 

 

I almost didn’t recognise her as my dog!

Unfortunately, she had some really matted hair, so they shaved her very close.  Now that it is getting a bit chilly, she doesn’t want to go outside.  I think Brittney should knit her a sweater.

We went to the container store – one of my favorite stores and I found this great door organizer for our pantry.  I think I will get one more bin for on the bottom.

Declan wanted to show off his puppy to you all too.

While Steve and Cindy were down in January, we went to the Helotes Market Day by accident I think.  Although Paul, may have know about it, I can’t remember

 

They had music and some different groups doing different things. 

They had three FREE blow up jumping things.  We like blow up jumpy things, but the usually cost $2.00 for 5 minutes, so we don’t always go to them.  This was great!  If for no other reason, we will probably go back each month!

 

They had benches where you could rest and watch the groups perform.

Not to mention that they had food and drinks and booths to buy things and antique/junk shops to look in.  All in all, it was a very nice way to spend an afternoon outside in January!