I Finally Figured it out!

Sometimes things are not the way you think they should be! This is so very true in the computer world. (Poor Programmers...they try so hard to make things as easy to use as they can and us poor users are so inept, We just do not speak computer-eze or think like a computer or programmer thinks.) Oh, well. Anyway I wanted to do a slide show but I didn't want to do the whole folder of items that is on my blog, but do you think i could find a way  to make a folder? Nooooo....grumble, grumble.

I was trying from the wrong end! I had been trying from Google and my Picasa photos on the Internet instead of doing it from Picasa uploader/admire-my-photos-on-my-computer! So i finally found where to make a new album and drug my photos (the ones that i wanted) to the album and voila! it worked. Then i uploaded to Picasa on the Internet and added my little gadget with my photos like I should have been able to figure out in the first place. IT's right there on the right---->

New Header for Blog

Hellloooo! I decided to make a header for my blog. I keep looking around at all that is available and did not find anything i liked. They are all beautiful; it just doesn't seem to find that spot in me that says "This is it! This is the one to use."And as I was playing around this morning this is what I did (referring to the header image). And I loved the colors, the way the blended, so decided to scan it.

I know it doesn't fit with the newly added background, which i really like but now does not fit with the header, so this page may look a little mis-matched till i get a background done. Edited to say I have my new background in place but I think it needs a little editing still. The Stamp is from Impression Obssesion and is an absolute favorite of mine. and i used the Yasutomo pearlescent color/paint box with an aqua brush by Niji. One of these days I am going to get a beautiful water brush with real bristle from Blue Heron but can't quite seem to fit it in my immediate list of wants with the amount of money i have to work with. This is a never ending problem it seems. I keep hoping to get caught up! I'm not doing too bad, though.

My new Computer

sure took a long time to get here and when it did I was in for a few shocks. (It arrived today)

My new computer, i made sure, had the 4 USB ports in the back plus the one in front. But is does no longer have the little round tailor made serial ports for the keyboard and mouse. This i didn’t know. It wasn’t mentioned on the web page i ordered from, but i thought they would never change that anyway. Well, the keyboard and mouse now come as USB port plug-ins. That is fine for some people but i have a digital tablet, extra hard drive, camera, Silhouette die cutting machine, printer/scanner (that used to have it’s own serial port and is now USB) and a super Logitech mouse with those side buttons that make it indispensible and uses USB instead of a serial port). Not only that but it does not look like my spiffy little computer that i love. This just is never going to work! Not only that but it has Windows 7 and I don’t think I am going to like missing my side bar that has a clock, calendar (so I don’t forget what day it is), memo pad (for short little notes i can’t live without)a little gadget that give me my daily Bible Verse, weather and Norton (so I know I am secure or i need to fix something to keep protected) and a meter (that shows me how much CPU or Ram is being used at any given moment)

I don’t know How Linda Duke is doing with her new computer…she went to The Other brand (Not Linux).

MY daughter is also having computer problems and is going to college on the internet so it is even more important that she have a computer that works (mine is purely emotional (if i can’t get certain things cut Silhouette does require a computer at all times) or info and photos put up on my blog or Flickr I will have a withdrawal problem. Also if i can’t check up on what everybody else is doing…the same). So I must have a computer..but not this one; i gave it to my daughter. (She is finally working so maybe we can get caught up on bill and other things) My little computer is hanging in though things have been pretty rough. It (The software) did manage to finally come up with it needed to check one of my disks….   On its own too!