It's as easy as a Picnik!!!

I have an obsession photographing things!  Birds and flowers mainly (with the exception of the bazillion photos of my littles!!)  So my 14 year old had been using this editing program to make rather interesting pictures out of generally ordinary pictures of her friends.  I tried it out for a while (it's Free, Free, FREE!!!)- and decided that it was something that we would use alot - so I paid for the upgrade.  Did I say it was FREE???  There are a lot of super great options available in the free categories - and way more available with the paid upgrade!

If you haven't heard of Picnik - go check it out!  It is so much fun!
http://www.picnik.com/  



You can make cards, scrapbook pages, collages, or fun edits to your regular photos!  I was playing with some of my flower pictures this weekend and discovered the 1960's button!  It puts a little antiqued look to the photo and rounds the edges!  It is my new fave!!!

I will leave you with a few that I absolutely loved!

Snowball bush

tulip after a rain

I have 4 peony bushes - they bloomed beautifully this year!





double rainbow over an old farm!

BLESSED

It's the simple things in life that give me peace.

Spending time looking at my flowers.



The quiet things that relax me.

Feeding my birds!  I love it when my littles yell to me from the other room - "red bird is back!"

The little things that bring me back to my childhood.

These were my granma's favorite!  She had them planted around the big pine tree on the hill that the glider swing was on.  These are on the West corner of our house, the smell brings me back to my granma's!

The littlest miracles that make all your worries disappear.

These little babies need to have prayers sent their way.  We have had terrible wind the past couple of days.  I was out in the yard with my boys tonight and saw this clump and flipped it over to find it a nest.  Lying close were these 3 robin eggs!  We gently placed them back in the nest and put the nest high in the tree.  We have been watching out the window to see if we can notice a mama coming for them.  I hope she comes back.!



God Grant Me The Serenity,
To Except The Things I Cannot Change
The Courage To Change The Things I Can
And The Wisdom To Know The Differance.

They grow up way to fast!

This is my brilliant daughter Kaitie!  She is 13 years old - almost 14 going on 30! 

Her passion is music!  She sings - oh does she sing!  All the time!!!  I think she might even in her sleep!  She plays the trumpet in the Jr. high band.  She is currently seated first chair!!!  That's my girl!  Show those boys what you're made of!  

She received a guitar 2 years ago for Christmas.  We thought - that if anything her uncle could help her with the basics to get her started!  Well the guitar sat for a year - her frustration grew!  She wants to be the next Taylor Swift you know! 

So we gave her guitar lessons for her 13th birthday!  Figuring that after a couple of months she would get bored of it and want to quit!  We are now on month 10 of lessons and she is loving them!  I can not believe how well she is doing!  Well actually I can because anything she puts her mind to she far exceeds it!!

  

this is her with her teacher!  He is awesome!  Gerry Cane! You can find him at Main Street Music in Marinette WI

The other night I was sitting by my sewing machine working and this song started to play.  I listened for a bit and then she says "aaarrrgggg"  I didn't know it was her playing!  I thought it was her ipod!  She never stops suprising me!! 



I wanted to capture her love of music so one night we set up a mini studio in the living room!  These photos are what we came up with!  I will do the same with her trumpet also!  I think they turned out great!  You can really tell that she enjoyed having them done!