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I knew it was going to be a great day!

January 6th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, YUDU, cardmaking, cool stuff

My status update this morning was:
Good Morning! Getting ready for the day, it’s going to be a great one~
and it surely was! We woke up happy, got breakfast and got Jordan off to school with no problem. When Jalen and I got home, he started on his book report and I fired up the Google [...]

Happy New Year!

December 31st, 2009 · 6 Comments · Alabama, Family, Hawaii, Holidays, Two Peas in a Bucket, cool stuff, house

We are so glad to be home safe and sound in paradise. It is humid and warm, and my hair is not happy about that. Troy ordered me a Yudu for Christmas and had it delivered to his parents house as a surprise. He had no idea it was so huge. I was worried about [...]

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Tags:DT·Flying·Holidays·Jalen·Jordan·Joscie·Troy

How to make a high tech bokeh shaper…

December 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Photography, cool stuff, scrapbook, tutorial

Heeee, I love these things! I can’t remember where I first saw this, maybe it was Tara Whitney? or maybe it was Ali Edwards? anyway. here is what I use to make shaped bokeh:
my Canon 40D

50mm f/1.4

lens hood

black foam or cardstock.

scissors.

take your cardstock or foam and cut out a circle in the size of the [...]

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Tags:Photography

Bishop Museum

September 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Family, Hawaii, blog, computer, cool stuff

The past few weeks we have taken to goofing off on Friday afternoons/evenings. This has, unfortunately, lead to spending most of the day on Saturday dealing with Jalen’s homework. This week, I decided that we would come home right after school and work on homework like every other weekday. Jalen finished his assignments, and that [...]

audiobook love and other shopping indiscretions

September 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Publication, blog, computer, cool stuff

Did I tell you I started reading the Harry Potter series? (finally) Jalen has been reading them since last year and this past summer he read and reread them. after going to see the half blood prince I decided I’d start the series. I love it! At first I was having a hard time not [...]

the inevitable, and happier things

July 25th, 2009 · 8 Comments · Family, blog, cool stuff, flatJoscie, navy life

Troy’s ship is getting underway soon for a 3 month deployment. His last time away from us for an extended period was when Jordan was just an infant. We have had the weekly (every 6th night of duty=sleeping on the ship) and other short trips but this one is for 3 months. and they are [...]

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Tags:Family·flatJoscie·Food·Jalen·Jordan·Joscie·Troy

Hawaii Collector’s show

July 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Family, Hawaii, cool stuff

Last Saturday we went to the Blaisdell Center to check out the Hawaii Collector’s show. I had read a story in a newspaper that there would be a group who dress up as storm troopers and other star wars characters would be there. Of course I kept that part quiet and just told the boys [...]

Flickr Friday and the half blood prince!

July 13th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Family, Hawaii, Photography, cool stuff

Every month on the second Friday of the month, we get together at noon for lunch at different spots around Honolulu. The group is usually a moderate sized group and various levels of photography skills and equipment. Every one is friendly and helpful and always willing to field questions and I really am thankful for [...]

Click-a-Pic Challenges

July 10th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Photography, cool stuff

Over at Peppermint Creative we have been starting up new challenges, possibly the one I am most excited about is the Click-a-Pic Challenge, a weekly themed photo challenge. The photos have to be taken during the time frame (Friday through Thursday) post processing and actions allowed, resized to no larger than 600px wide or tall, [...]

i love scrapbooking

July 1st, 2009 · 9 Comments · DT, Memory Makers, Publication, cardmaking, cool stuff, scrapbook

I have been meeting a lot of new people lately (and through facebook reconnecting with long lost school mates) and I’m never quite sure what to say when they say what do you do? I usually say this: I am a stay at home mom with two boys. I do a little photography and I [...]