Odds and Ends

Five on Thursday and a Miss K Update

Hmmm, maybe it should be Three on Thursday only because it sounds better to me.  :)

In the past few days I’ve posted some digital layouts I’ve done as part of Jessica Sprague’s Up and Running course.   In response to one of them a blog friend (Sian of From High in the Sky) mentioned a book she has on Photoshop Elements 8.   I checked it out and found that my local bookstore had 1 copy left.  Ever since then (aside from helping to replace the kitchen tap) I’ve been checking it out.   It’s called “The Missing Manual Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows”   There is a Mac version too.

Speaking of books, I’ve mentioned it last year but I think this book is really worth a re-read.  “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows is one of the most memorable fiction books I’ve read in the past few years.  I’m just sorry that there won’t be anymore books by them as a pair.

While working on a couple of my digital pages, I decided I needed some beach/summer type  embellishments and did an internet search.   I found this sight that I’m really liking – ScrapGirls.  Here’s a sample of one of their kits and they have freebies.

 
 

Digital scrapbooking somehow always brings me back to Katie Pertiet from Designer Digitals.  I love her 
designs. I’ve lately discovered her blog and it’s quickly become a favourite.  Check it out.

And finally something for all you cooks out there.  I’m loving my new Le Creuset French Oven.  It not only cooks great, it’s part of my new weight lifting program once I’ve got it full of whatever I’m cooking – like the stew the other day.  :)

 
 Now for an update on my new little Great Niece, Miss K.   We got a facebook message today that at 6 weeks she has now more than doubled her weight and is at 6 pounds 7 ounces.   Thanks everyone so much for all their thoughts and prayers for her.   Can’t wait to meet her next month!  Sorry no new pictures.  I’ll have to get after Mummy, Daddy & Grampie but with my niece going down there this weekend with her family for the holiday I’m sure there will be some up on her site next week.

It Seems I've Dropped Everything

This week the book I've been reading got put aside as well as everything else (except for my online class, Blogging for Scrapbookers through Shimelle.com, - I got a Kindle & of course just had to try it out immediately.  :)For those of you who don't know what a Kindle is - it's an electronic reader put out by Amazon.com.

I've been wanting one for what seems like ages - well actually since I first heard about them and when I heard last Wednesday (I think that was the day - who knows though with my memory) it didn't take me long to order one - ordered it Thursday & got it Monday (would have been Friday but the UPS driver that day decided that our address did not exist  - course it would have helped if he'd checked to make sure he was on the right street (ok gripe over).  But 10:30 Monday I had it my hands and was soon ordering a book to read on it -  Patricia Cornwell's "Scarpetta Factor" (love her books).

Don't know when I'll get back to that other book as I'm enjoying this one so much I've just ordered Scarpetta too.  :)
 

Thanks so much Paula for all your comments about it that helped me make the decision to go with it instead of the Sony one.

Book That I Read This Past Week

A few weeks agom my favourite morning radio person mentioned a book she'd read in her blog - "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini.   She talked about how much she enjoyed it so I checked on our library's website for it - WOW over 200 holds for it and they have loads of copies too.   So after adding myself to the hold list I checked out what other books he had written and found "The Kite Runner"  and put myself on it's hold list.   Last week it was my turn for it and I must say it was a really good read.  Now to just wait for those other 140 people to disappear off of the first hold list.    :)