my stuff

now for my latest.

I was going to submit this layout for THREE CHALLENGES. And I didn't make it. Oh well. It's not my fave. This beautiful flower is called the Melody LISA Dahlia. Awesome!


Sneak peek of my Riff Raff DT layout. The orange fish is a UV sticker (the one you put on to tell when you need to apply more sunscreen! I saved them years ago in the hopes they would come in handy one day!!)


I reused the Thank You card Veronica gave us for her birthday. My grandma rocks!



And I learned something new camera-wise. I have never been able to figure out the whole F-stop thing on my camera (if you set your F value as low as it will go, you can take a pic where the object in the foreground will be super in focus and the background will be blurred). now don't ask me what the F stands for, or for any actual technical terminology regarding this one...I am just making it up as I go along! Most of the things I do with my camera are by accident i.e. because I bumped a button with my elbow or something. I do know that I need to have it on the Programmable setting, (for these shots I used Super Macro) and then I can adjust the F value (I think for this pic it was on 2.7 or 3.2, don't remember).

It helps when you have as cute a subject as Lucas and his trains, but not so much that he kept stealing the trains I was trying to photograph, and he kept moving around so I have lots of pics of his foot and butt! But I think this one turned out super rad! I am so proud of myself! Maybe I can make use of this on my trip.