Are Californians Just Plain Stupid?

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Could they have honestly forgotten Jerry Browns past? They voted down prop 19 , (legalization of marijuana) yet they voted "Moonbeam" back into office.

Heaven help us!

Orange beach Alabama

Firefly season? I dunno I just know it's hotter than hades

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LAKE TAHOE

Early morning in the off season ( which only lasts about 2 months )

Morning View

Taken from my bedroom deck

No one Like Bill

Comedy like only Shatner can deliver....
I love it!
Controversy over the name? Come on people...
the fact that its "symbols" is part of the humor
it wouldn't be funny if they said the bleeping word

oh.. and read the shows inspiration.. Justin Halpren's blog

or find his book at Amazon

Funny stuff... maybe i should be keeping a blog
"BLEEPING Stuff My Husband Says!"
-giggles-
XD Love You Hon!

OMG - I'm embarrassed... Republican?

This poor guy if you read his ideas http://politics.freesitenow.com/basilmarceauxforgovernor/ and really think about it (and you're going to have to, to understand it) you will see his thought process is sound, however; he would do well to find a speech coach and writer. Maybe i'm wrong becasue I'm hoping he's not as ignorant as he sounds and I'm not reading more into what he's saying.

I hope not...

um.... yea!

'nuff said...

One July Evening

I saw this beautiful rainbow.. well actually just the end of it, so i stopped and pulled out my camera. After i took rainbow pictures i looked around and was in awe of the beauty (I so miss my home town)so I took pictures facing various directions from where i stood. I got in the car a drove toward the rainbow but it disappeared in a patch of dark clouds. on the other side of the cloud patch there was the rainbow again further down the road and this time just both ends.. i stopped and took more pictures! LOL

Julie

As American As Apple Pie

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I'm Excited

It's been a while since I was excited about a layout...
I think since the Flashback August 8, 1969 one I did over a month ago
This one I started for Rasmuth over at indie music works
Once I got started on this I couldn't stop! I call it
SLEEPY HEAD




credits: Dreaming Angels by Kasia Designs at Shabby Pickle Designs

New Music Stuff

Working on new banners and Cover Art

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On The Road Again

My Niece graduates from Kickapoo High School today so my mom and I flew out to Missouri from California last Thursday... yea I'm behind again! I had asked my niece to take me for a drive so i could take some photos. I saw some beautiful sights but she was going to fast to get any pics.... I did anticipate a shot and told her to stop right on the other side of the next hill... she did... i got out and snapped this

Color, Color Everywhere!

I have really been struggling the past few months.. the doc has been playing with my meds and i have had it with the cold gloomy weather so i did what i usually do when life gets bleek, i took my camera and went out in search of my muse!
This is what I found -

Yes, I'm Alive!

LOL.... it's been a month.. or more....

I've been keeping a secret...

I entered a 6 week Contest hosted and sponsored by The Shabby Pickle and After Five. It was an anonymous contest. we were all issued a number and had to register in the galleries with that number rather than using our regular gallery that is tied into our user names. The sites alternated weeks as far as issuing the topic of the week, judging, and creating a collab kit for that weeks theme. The collab kit didn't need to be used in the layout you submitted in the main round but if you did any BONUS layouts they had to be done with 100% of that weeks kit. Contestants got 50% off the kit... all six weeks kits seemed to use the same pallet (and not my favorite one i might add) Each week was judged by designers and ct members of that weeks shop plus some guest judges from other sites. No one got eliminated but you had to post in each weeks main event to be eligible for prizes. each week the top 10 layouts went up for a public vote... (a way for extra points) it was all about the points... I thought wow! of all the contests i have seen this one seems more fair than any!....

Week two I was disenchanted... not because my layout didn't make the top 10 for week one but because of a number of other things!

1. many people waited to post their layouts until the last minute and crashed the server


2. as a result they were given several extra days to post (5)


3. top 10 were never posted until almost the end of the following week


4. bonus round points were given by lottery and NOT per layout


5. judging criteria was NEVER posted


6. We NEVER knew where we stood point wise during the contest


7. people could vote as often as they wanted during each rounds public judging phase

so about mid week three I started referring to it as a challenge... how can you compete against the unknown??? I enjoyed the topics they really stretched me but to be honest, 6 weeks was a long time to do layouts and not be able to post them anywhere but the contest galleries... the final scores are not in but I am certain I didn't win anything, I never made a top 10, i never was drawn as a bonus round winner... but hey I finished and that was important to me... I was frustrated and i didn't quit!! hooray!!! LOL and I met a lot of nice people... err numbers LOL

So, here are my layouts... you'll notice i stared strong with the bonus round layouts and when i realized how that was working i backed off and then didn't do any LOL

Week One Topic - It's So Me...

something that shouts YOU.. a color an article of clothing, a place etc.. something that when people see it they will say that's so you!

MELLOW - I used a picture I had taken a few days earlier

Week One Bonus Round

Week Two Topic - FLASHBACK

Should transport you back to a time or a place

AUGUST 8, 1969 - Charlie Manson, The Manson Family and Sharon Tate

Week Two Bonus Round

Week Three Topic - A Moment In Time




Week Three Bonus Round







Week 4 Topic - Sing Me A Song

Use lyrics and/or title of a song that brings back memories or you just cant get out of your head

Elton John's Tiny Dancer - My daughters First Dance Recital age 4





Week Five Topic - Color My World

Use some type of photo treatment

Week Six Topic - It's a Bird, It's a Plane

inanimate object photos or no photos - i used a picture I took last year of the San Diego Temple

My First

DIGI DARE

the dare ...

1. list 5 things that consume me right now

2. use only 2 sides of the layout for journaling etc.

3. include on photo or extraction of an item that consumes me

4. include the words "right now" somewhere in the layout


I listed what consumes me right nowbut couldnt bring myself to really journal it... maybe another time...

credits: I used Maya's new kit BLUE MOON from Scrapbook Graphics ribbon and frame from Hung Up On Love by Aneta Branch AKA Sweet Made at ashaleeandsweet Stamped Word Art from Lie Fhung's ARTiculate Soul Searching at Ztampf I used Lily Designs Dark Angel kit from After Five for the the layout within the layout and that layout can been seen here http://tinyurl.com/ccoxwz fonts: metalic avacodo malapropism

The Julz Special Treatment

I think it started when I was in College and working in a small upscale boutique in downtown Napa during Christmas vacation. I believe it was reinforced when I spent so many years in a department store as an "exempt" employee.. I know over the years I have continue to add to and perfect my craft... I have even taught a class about it at church once.. It's a silly thing really... But it has come to be something I am known for... At gatherings of family and friends everyone knows which ones came from me...

the GIFT package!

While at the boutique I was embarrassed because my packages weren't as pretty as the others. At the department store, I spent many hours picking up slack in the gift wrap department.. Since then I have worked on perfecting the seamless wrap and mastered double sticky tape. It's well known that I can't just slap some wrap on and be finished, if I have multiple packages they have to coordinate... all the packages under my Christmas tree are color coordinated... just giving home baked cookies... yes those have to packed up pretty too... the smallest of gifts needs to have that extra touch or it just doesnt feel right to me...

recently I bought a gift... it came from England, Instead of having it shipped directly to the person i was gifting it to in Germany, I had it shipped to the USA so I could put my mark on it and ship it BACK over seas to Germany... The person I bought the gift from ask me what the Julz Special Treatment was...

Well here it is...

Struggling

AS LONG AS I HAVE HOPE,
I'M STILL IN THE GAME!!
(looking for something to ground me in the here and now)

Reaching

Trying desperately to shake the winter blues...
Reaching into the unfinished folder and finishing up some layouts in attempt to stay busy!
I started with my adorable Grandson.. this about 1/3 of those! Who knows how many total unfinished layouts I have....











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