Thank You Anam

Introduction: Russ and I watched this funny show the other night about a couple of geek roommates. One of them doesn't understand sarcasm and can't pick it up when the other roommate is employing it. He suggested the use of a sarcasm sign. If I had one, I would be using it after the title.

Now on to the post...

I was webbering just now, on Anam's blog, as I am prone to do, and I clicked on one of her handy icons and it took me through cyber-land to this awesome website called: "Altered Pencil Lines." If any of you are familiar with another of Anam's websites I introduced to you a while back called Pencil Lines, you will know how it works. For those of you who didn't follow my helpful links, Pencil Lines is a website that offers a sketch and asks for submissions inspired by it. Altered Pencil Lines takes that sketch a step further. And applies it to art in any other form. There is jewellery, art journals, bags, you name it. And there are some gorgeous works of art there! You should check it out. Especially you Andi, as I know how you and mostly your Mom are into the altered items!

http://www.alteredpencillines.com/


I also came across another neat-o website thanks to my Blogger Dashboard. Here is the blurb provided:

Shortly after Blogger launched photo uploading two years ago, one of our engineers whipped up a web page that would show us the pictures that were being uploaded in real time. The result was fun, often beautiful, but above all, compelling. We couldn’t stop watching. Over the years we’ve kept this photo scroller as part of the Blogger offices, on a monitor or projector, as an interesting (distracting?) slideshow, and a reminder of the diversity and vivaciousness of Blogger blogs. The fame of the scroller spread within Google, until one day we were asked, “so, when are you launching this?”“Um...,” we replied. But we knew a good idea when we heard one. We got our UI people to come up with buttons and fadey effects and we got our engineers to make the whole thing fast and robust. A bit of work later, and now we can share it with all of you

Blogger Play will show you a never-ending stream of images that were just uploaded to public Blogger blogs. You can click the image to be taken directly to the blog post it was uploaded to, or click “show info” to see an overlay with the post title, a snippet of the body, and some profile information about the blogger who uploaded it.

At any rate, I took a preview and it actually is pretty neat-o. There are of course the random family shots (at a petting Zoo, at Disney Land, camping, etc.), but there are also some taken from within a fantasy game, a couple of Britney Spears, one of Posh Spice and hubby getting out of their car, Mr. Sulu, etc. it's cool to just have going in the background. Plus you can save the photos or check out the blogs to which they were uploaded. It would be weird to see one of my scrapbook pages there!

http://play.blogger.com/

I'm working on my birthday photos right now. Ugh. I haven't even touched Lucas' yet. If Lisa "the other" or Veronica have any good ones from when we were all at the store and there was cupcakes please send them my way. Or Facebook them.

I can't wait for Mom to send me some wedding pics so I can scrap some nice things for a change!

I was going to give you a sneak peek of the page I did for Nadine, but none of the pics I took of the page turned out. So you'll just have to wait! Is the suspense killing you? Not yet? It will.