Photo Tag

My teammate on Etsy, Storybeader, tagged me with an easy game of tag. It's simple and requires hardly any thinking, so I'm glad to play along!

The game is to search your photos and find the 10th photo in your first photo folder. It required a little tweaking because my first folder is pictures that came with the photo software. My next folder didn't have ten pictures. I ended up plucking from a folder that I have been putting pictures that I have been experimenting with Photoshop on.

This is a picture of the blue sky from Sleeping Beauty, a lady slipper from Shelving Rock, and a star flower and underside of a dead moth from Pillsbury Mountain.

I obviously still need some practice at whatever I'm trying to do, but I think it looks pretty cool.

I tag:
Journeys
Miesmama
Tulips Treasure Box
Spotted Cow Soaps
The Copper Cauldron

Happy Thoughts

I had a really craptastic week. Weeks, actually. This week was one of those weeks where really minor but irritating problems add up until it feels like one giant problem. Everything I touched was broken, empty, or expired. Actually, even the grand total of all the little problems was pretty mild compared to the last several weeks. Even so, the idea that anybody would want to even pretend to be me at this point is beyond my comprehension. But they did - with my credit card. My card was used mostly for purchasing hacking software and web hosting systems, electronics, and downloading songs. My favorite purchases were those made through credit bureaus and credit and identity theft protection agencies. Meanwhile, the reason I detected the problem was only because I was having trouble making purchases on the card. So that was a nice way to end the week. But now for some happy thoughts. Some reasons to smile and remember that it could always be worse. I have many things to be thankful for, especially in this economy where many others could not say the same!

I was tagged by Diane for a 6 Things That Make You Happy Meme, and luckily it has helped me remember what is important in life!

1. My family. First and foremost my husband makes me happy. I only get a few hours a week with him now that we work different shifts, so I cherish the time we do have! He is supportive and makes me laugh.

2. My two cats. Their personalities are so different, which provides us with endless hours of entertainment.




3. Nature. I think if insects and precipitation didn't exist (and if it was warm year round) I'd want to live outside!

4. Fire towers. I love climbing up to the top, overlooking the world. I enjoy the thrilling rush of "looking down" from the top, and appreciate their history.

5. Stringing beads. It's therapeutic in many ways - a creative release.

6. Pilates and kickboxing. Exercise is where I let it all out, good for the body and soul.


Here are the rules:

• Link to the person who tagged you.
• Post six things that make you happy along with these rules.
• Then tag six others (letting them know, of course).
• Let the person who tagged you know when your entry is complete.

I'm tagging a few people that appreciate the happy things in their lives :)

Deb the Storybeader
Lily
Ruthie
The H B in C
LazyT
CharlisMom (Whoop!)

Tag - Round Five

I'm quickly realizing that my blog networking is leading to serial attacks of being tagged "It". This round is similar to round 1 (Seven things about me) and round 3 (seven random facts about me PLUS seven strange things about me for a grand total of 14 things that nobody ever wanted to know about me all of which are all strange because I am far beyond normal), which I combined with Round 4, broke the chain, and just did a little feature on the two people that tagged me.

I began to wonder if I have such an interesting life that I even have six secrets. I decided I did, though not many juicy ones. I'm not sharing the dark ones because then I won't have any secrets, making me more boring than you initially thought. I'll just share the... lesser known.... aspects of my life.Still with me? So if I haven't already put you to sleep, here are six secrets about me.

Ok here it goes. Deb, aka Storybeader, tagged me. I have to tag 5 people. I'm going to tag the newest of the newbies on the Etsyblogger team, since I know quite a bit about the longer term members but not much about them. Initiation? Getting to know you? Whatever.

1. I am absolutely EVIL for about 1 -2 hours after waking up in the morning. Don't talk to me because I have nothing nice to say, however, your chances of surviving are directly proportional to the amount of coffee that you provide me.

2. I am jealous that Deb knows Stormy's real name. I am providing an Etsy Mini below of Stormy's work in hopes that I can bribe her into telling me her real name.

3. I'm not a hugger. If I hug you it will be awkward - it's nothing personal.

4. I TiVo programs on Discovery Health Channel and TLC. I also yell at the TV when shows and medical programs make ignorant and inaccurate statements and assumptions, particularly pertaining to the laboratory. For example, a doctor on General Hospital once asked another character to donate blood for a dying character because they too had the rare blood type AB and said that the patient could only get AB blood. False. They can get A, B, AB, or O blood. And the Red Cross tests donor blood for things like HIV prior to providing the supply to the hospitals. Obviously. I almost stopped watching. In sum, secret #4 is that I'm a big dork. Mmmmmm, actually, that's not really even a secret.

5. I have Dopa Responsive Dystonia. My fingers do stupid things, I like to think that beading makes them stronger.

Hearts of Wonder Earrings

6. As opposed to adult secret #1 when I was a kid, caffeine used to make me evil, thus I couldn't even eat a candy bar until I was about 12. There are stories of childhood me dressed up like Peter Pan jumping from couch to chair to other furniture after a grandmother had secretly given me a contraband Snickers bar for Halloween.

Sorry that Storybeader asked?

Anyway, now I tag:
Seaglasserie



ManderlyRose



Human Touch Designs



GirlWithaDesign



LeakyMouth



Welcome to the Etsybloggers Team!



Coffee picture borrowed from here.