AAUW Breaking Through Barriers for Women and Girls

AAUW Breaking Through Barriers for Women and Girls

My Recent Disaster

As those who have visited me recently will know, I had adopted a policy of not putting links to the zip files of my scraps on the blog because I had seen my scraps shared in groups and on other web sites, which I didn't want to happen. My scraps are free for anyone to use in almost any manner, with the exception of someone claiming them as their own, but I wanted scrappers to visit my blog to get the scraps. That action has come back to bite me in the butt... I recently had my netbook crash, and as a result, I lost almost all of my scraps. Only two of them survived the disaster. So, I am going to be reloading those two -- 'Love Is in the Air' and 'Thanksgiving at Blue Nile' - and providing links to them from my 4Shared account so they can be downloaded by those scrappers who want them. From now on, I will do that with all of my scraps and hope that those who use them will abide by my TOU. I will also be creating some new scraps to share. I hope everyone will bear with me while I get things back up and running.

New Scrap Watermelon Summer

Hey, I'm on a roll! Two scrap kits in the same month! Just finished the new one, Watermelon Summer, last night.... or should I say this morning, because it was four a.m. when I finished it!

Why Watermelon Summer? When I was a kid, back in the early 30's, as a friend of mine used to say, my great grandparents had a farm in Cass County, Texas, and one of my favorite pastimes was going out to the farm for the weekend. There was a pot load of cousins who would come, too, because Sunday dinner at Grandmother's was a not-to-be-missed occasion. We would help Grandmother with some of the chores, like milking the cow, gathering eggs, and feeding the chickens. But one of our favorite things was when we could sneak off into the watermelon patch and eat the watermelons, sitting out in the middle of the rows. They were better tasting than any watermelon I've eaten since. Even Granddaddy finding us eating the melons and threatening to take a switch us all couldn't change the enjoyment of eating them.

Anyway, the prieview is below. Anyone who would like to have the kit can email me and I;ll be happy to send it off.

New Scrap: Ice Cream Shop

Yesterday, I had an 'Aha!' moment when I finally discovered the wonders of the autocrop tool on my PSP. It was an ephiphany because it made me start looking at all my scraps and discovering that I had been leaving a lot of blank space around them, thus making my kits bigger in size. Then, I started checking out the kits I had snagged from other people and discovered that I wasn't the only one who was adding nothing (as in blank space around the graphics)... a lot of other scrappers were doing it, too.

Now, I'm not the blank space police, but I have seen kits by scrappers who apparently love kits with hundreds of pieces, (and there's nothing wrong with that) but the kits wind up being divided amongst five files, even on Megaupload. I have to pass so many of them up because I only have my little netbook with its teeny tiny memory, and I got no place to put them! I've already filled up two 8 gig flash drives with stuff and just started on a 4 gig. So, it would be most thoughtful if my fellow scrappers could start cropping the blank spaces of their graphics, not only for my sake and that of other scrap lovers, but it would probably take a load off of their own memories!

Okay, enough soap-boxing for the nonce. I have been dreaming of ice cream lately, and so I cobbled up this little kit for those who share that obsession. Of, course, these days, I have to resort to the low sugar alternatives bt they still taste yummy! Anyone who would like to have the kit can email me at penneyn@gmail.com and I'll be happy to send it off!
The preview is below.

New on Blue Nile Scrap Design Today!

Just added BNSD to a blogger top site for digital scrapping. I hope all of my friends will drop by and vote for me! Hope you will all recomment me to your scrapping friends.





New scrap kits coming soon! Please visit again to see the new items.

True Love Valentine Quick Page

Hello, fellow scrappers! I know it's been a few months since I've had anything to share with you, but the long dry spell seems to finally be over! Today, I have a Valentines Day quick page for you. It's called 'True Love' and it's intended for you and your true love, thought it can be used for any two photos you'd like to use. If you are interested in Valentine having it, please email me at penneyn@gmail.com, and I'll send the zip to you.

I am also working on a full size kit, which I should be able to post before Valentine's Day

The preview for 'True Love' is below.

An Homage to a Great Actor - Dennis Hopper

Yesterday, I woke up to the news that Dennis Hopper had passed away at the age of 74 from prostate cancer. I was very saddened at this news, because I had always found him to be a very unique actor and enjoyed many of his performances, from his role as Billy in 'Easy Rider', the evil yet zany Deacon, leader of the Smokers in 'Waterworld', and the maimed, homicidal ex-cop, Howard Payne, in 'Speed'. However, my favorite of all his roles was as King Koopa in the critic panned 'Super Mario Brothers'; I will always see the embattled Koopa chasing Mario and Luigi through the city, trying to kill them and yelling, 'Plumbers!' Even after seeing the movie countless times, it still makes me laugh. Dennis was expert at giving his own interpretation to a character and making you love him regardless of whether he was good or bad.

For all of his life, Dennis was a maverick, a renegade, doing things his way. Terms like 'star', and 'icon' do not do him justice. He was a true original. There is one less light shining in the firmament of Hollywood tonight, and the world is just a bit less colorful for his loss.

In homage to him I have made the quick page memorial you see below. If anyone else was a fan of this talented man and wishes to have it to honor him, please email me at penneyn@gmail.com, and I will send you the zip file. It would be nice to see his memory honored on a thousand pages.