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Picnik-Photo Editing Software made fun and Easy
February 5, 2009
If you are looking for an EASY, FUN way to edit your Photos…Try Picnik!
In addition to editing photos you can make collages and fancy collages.
This program offers a lot its editing tools for FREE! I chose to upgrade to the premium membership for $24.95 per year for the additional options using curves and levels.
Here are some of my favorite features:
- Easy to upload AND save pictures to/from computer, flickr, facebook, myspace
- You can layer actions
- A history is saved for each photo
- Makes adding Text, Shapes, Frames to photos simple
- Keep up to 100 photos in your “bucket” to work with at all times
- Picnik continues to add new features all the time. Just added “Picnik-in-a-Box” with allows you to add Picnik photo-editing to individual websites (WOW!) and a few new “actions”.
Here is a quick DEMO to show you how easy it is.
1. Upload Picture from Computer- This picture is Straight out of my camera
2. Boost the color to 50%
3. Premium-Velvia Action (one of my favorites)
4. VIOLA! Finished photo
I do use Picnik everyday to enchance the photos for my blog. If you haven’t tried it yet…go ahead..It’s FREE!
Hand Painted Love Boxes
January 31, 2009
I visited a friend last year who had a collection of “Hand Painted Love Boxes” of which I was instantly SMITTEN!
These treasure boxes make perfect gifts for girls 8-100 years old.
I purchased this one for my Daughter as a Christmas gift. She loves Russian stacked dolls and green, so I couldn’t resist.
Each box is loaded with detail including a “Quote” inside the lid. This quote says “Beauty will save the World”, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Every box is different. If you would like to see more of these special Hand Painted Love Boxes check out Tiffany’s Etsy Shop.
Perfect English
January 25, 2009
Book Title:
Perfect English, by Ros Byam Shaw
Category: Home and Garden
Synopsis:
This book is filled to the rim with beautiful photographs of homes/cottages in the English Country Side. A tremendous amount of history, technique, and explanation is provided. It is promptly displayed in our library and is picked up and enjoyed by anyone who spends time there.
Blogs I Visit
January 11, 2009
DAILY READS/LIFESTYLE
Simple Mom
Tracy Porter
The Pioneer Woman
Soule Mama
Tara Frey - Bella Pink
Dooce
Donna Downey
MOMMY BLOGS
Clover Lane
Momversation
Girls Gone Child
Finslippy
Sippy Cups are for Chardonnay
COOKING BLOGS:
Orangette
Hedonia
The Pioneer Woman
FABRIC
Anna Maria Horner
Heather Bailey
Amy Butler
FARM LIFE
Sugar Creek Farm
Freds Fine Fowl
Chicken Blog
ARTFUL BLOGGING
Inspireco
Poppytalk
A Fanciful Twist
Ilkas Attic
The Cottage Nest
French Toast Girl
Annie Howes Keepsakes
Rochambeau
DESIGN/DECORATING/FASHION
The Inspired Room
Mrs. Blandings
Villa Anna
A Beach Cottage
I Suwannee
Modish
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sadie Olive
Miz Booshay
Bower Studio
Anne Kelley Studio
Shutter Sisters
GREAT BLOGS ABOUT BLOGGING
Darn Good Blogging
Blog Coach
Pro Blogger
Write to Done
BUSINESS BLOGS
Seth Godin
Four Hour Work Week
Jim Collins
Malcolm Gladwell
E-myth
Gifts and Give-Aways
January 10, 2009
Today I lunched with one of my best friends Colleen. Colleen is one of those people that I feel naturally connected to. Not only do I laugh until a need a “poise pad” when I am with her, but it seems that moments of serendipity bite us constantly.
Recently when traveling for Christmas we realized that we were only 2 miles apart on Interstate 95. We had no idea before we left when the other was leaving. I made her stop at the next rest area to snap a picture.
Shawn: Where are you?
Col: In North Carolina.
Shawn: Me too!
Col: I am at mile marker 8.
Shawn: No way, I am at mile marker 11.
This stuff happens to us all the time.
Ok, back to the gifts. The purpose for our lunch was “holiday exchange”. Since we both have a love for reading, we decided many years ago that for Birthdays and Christmas, we would exchange a book. This year she surprised me (broke our pact) with a thoughtful little gift.
She knows how much I entertain and thought this menu-board would be fun in the kitchen. I LOVE IT . After I oohed and aahhed over the menu board for a bit, we moved on to…the book…drum roll please……….
Me: I love it! Thank you. Now you!……drum roll please……..
Col: I love it!
Of course we were cracking up about it…another “SERENDIPITOUS” moment in our friendship.
I picked this book for Colleen, because I had read it and LOVED IT. Seth Godin is one of my favorite writers on Marketing and Business theory. The inside jacket reads “The Web can do amazing things, but it can’t provide leadership. This still has to come from individuals–people just like you who have passion about something”. Seth writes in short essay format which allows the reader to pick up this book and enjoy it for 2 minutes or finish it, like I did, in 2 hours. Every essay can stand on its own but is also woven into a bigger message.
Good News! I have an extra book to GIVE-AWAY!. This is LABF (Lifeatbuttercupfarm)’s first! If you would like to own this book, please leave a comment below and let me know if you have read any other Seth Godin Books. If you have, what is your favorite? If not, just leave your name and maybe this can be your first. Comments close on Sunday Night, 7:00pm EST. I will announce the winner at 9:00pm EST. Good Luck!
And the winner is….
January 10, 2009
Our first official Life at Buttercup Farm Give-away!
WE HAVE A WINNER. Since there were only three of you, Mr. Buttercup rolled a dice for me.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
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