There’s less than a month of school left for most — my teacher friends can probably give me an exact countdown. Which means it’s also the time for award ceremonies again. As an educator, I always dreaded award time. I knew the awards would make some happy and some sad. And I don’t think that’s what … Continue reading
Category Archives: All Things Creative
Well maybe not all things here will show creativity but they will at least show an attempt at creativity. Please share your creative work.
Rose Petals – Digital Art
This image is a digital art version of my image “Rose Petals”. Along with some other edits, I used the posterize filter in Macphum’s FX Studio. I love the arty look of the results and think it will make a wonderful poster or print to decorate someone’s walls. You can see a more of my digital … Continue reading
Scrapbooking Winter
Normally, I wouldn’t scrapbook snow pictures; but I’m trying to save memories of our everyday life. AND snow was certainly part of our everyday life during the winter of 2014/2015. Our part of Texas doesn’t always get lots of snow at once; however, last winter there were several storms that brought 5 or 6 inches. … Continue reading
Southern Cornbread Dressing: Memories of My Grandmother
My Grandmother Making cornbread always reminds me of my Grandmother. (And make no mistake; we called her Grandmother. Not Grandma, Gramma or Granny. She was Grandmother.) Grandmother made her cornbread in an iron skillet. She believed that cornbread just tasted better if it was made in an iron skillet. The truth is that she was … Continue reading
15+ Favorite Holiday Traditions and … a few that we miss…
How Important are Family Traditions? The other day I mentioned to a friend that we aren’t going to have a Christmas tree this year because we’re in between homes. This shouldn’t be a big deal – except it kind of is … Christmas Trees Not putting up a tree (or not decorating for Christmas) will … Continue reading
The Phone Photography Project 2
It’s a Learning Curve Here are some of my photos from “The Phone Photography Project 2” class I’m taking over at Big Picture Classes. This class is a lot like the photo challenge assignments I gave my students in Photojournalism and Yearbook. I bet my former students would laugh to see me getting assigned some of the … Continue reading
Jacob’s “Bike”
Here’s a photoshop photo that I worked on today. Pops was standing in the back holding onto Jackson. I decided to to cut out everything but the boys and add the background. It took me much longer than what I thought it would. It was such a cute thing because the pedal would fall off … Continue reading