7 posts tagged “snapfish”

Tiger Lilly

Another tiger lilly.  That seems to be the only thing interesting that I can take pictures of these days.  And somehow, I'm not sure they are as good as they could be.  Anyone have any ideas on how to take better pictures of tiger lillies?

Our parish picnic was today.  I made a couple of chocolate chip cookie pies (new recipe!) this morning, then worked from noon til 3:00.  It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it would be.  I'm not used to being outside in the heat anymore.  It was nice to get together with people that I don't get to see that often. 

I've been trying for three days to get some more photographs uploaded to iStockphoto, but nothing happens.  Don't know if it is my computer, or something else.  My slow connection doesn't help matters.  I was able to upload over 100 pictures to Snapfish last night. 

I've started working on a lap quilt made from homespun fabrics.  I was able to buy several new pieces on Friday at Wal-Mart.  Hope our local store doesn't close their fabric department! 

Dandelion with ants

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When I took this picture of a single dandelion yesterday, I knew the ants where there, but I couldn't see the stamens.  when I was editing, and looked at it and wondered what in the world all those brown curly things were.  I printed it at 6 x 8, and it is amazing.  I would love to see it at 8 x 10.  I may have to order one from Snapfish. 

Raggy knit place mats

I listed these raggy knit place mats on Etsy last night.  I ate too much bread yesterday; didn't feel up to doing very much.  Did get a lot of computer work done. 

I think I finally caught up with all my vox neighbors.  Sorry if I missed you.  After awhile, I couldn't remember which days I had read and which days I had missed. 

I had a lot of fun with these place mats.  I made them by cutting strips of fabric about 3/8 inch wide.  Each new strip is just tied on to the end of the last strip.  The knotted ends are an important part of the design.  Each row is knitted, so the pattern is easy.  I tryed to make complete rows of each color without leaving all the knots at the edges.  Some of the strips were only four or five inches long, and some were long enough to go all the way across.  The colors are mostly pastels, with just a few brights and darks for contrast. 

Two of my fancy iris are blooming this morning.  Need to go take a few pictures!  Later.

No new pictures today, so I'll share a recipe instead.  Don't really know what I did today, except take a nap this afternoon.  I did work on my raggy knitted place mats a little bit, but I don't really have anything else to show that I was alive today!  I did get some pictures sent to Snapfish and two sets of prints ordered, and some of the pictures deleted from my computer.  That doesn't sound like much, but as slow as my computer is, it takes time to do that sort of thing.  I did add some more pictures to my last Etsy listing, and I edited another listing.  I had added a border of one of the lovies I had made, so I added a new set of pictures.  I did do some work on the counted cross stitch project I have up here by the computer, and solved another Sudoku puzzle. 

Here's my recipe for the day.  I found it by doing a recipe search on Google, but it is from Cooks.com.  I tried it several weeks ago because I wanted to make these cookies from camp this summer and I didn't have a recipe.  It is for No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies.  They are really easy to make, and absolutely impossible to stop eating!

NO BAKE CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES

from Cook's.com

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup cocoa

1/2 cup butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

3 cups rolled oats

1 tsp. vanilla

Mix first four ingredients in large heavy bottom saucepan and bring to a boil.

Cook for three minutes, stirring occasionally.

Remove from heat.

Add the vanilla, peanut butter, and oats; mix well.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto wax paper.

Cool until firm.

Makes about 4 dozen small cookies.

Papa with his twins

Here's a picture of "Papa" with his one year old twins.  Their birthday was April 26th.  We went to their house yesterday for their birthday party.  We also celebrated their big brother's birthday; he will be three next Sunday.  It was rather cool, but most of the kids went outside to play.  The babies wanted to go out, too, but we kept them  entertained in the house.  They are wearing outfits that their other grandma made for them.  Very cute!

White picket fence

Here's the white picket fence that we all have been working on for a couple of weeks now.  It really looks nice, and it is nice to know that the little kids can go out to play and will stay in the yard.  The landscaping is the next big project.  They were working on the gates today.  They want a small walk thru gate on each side of the house, plus a large gate that you can drive thru on the garage side. 

It has been beautiful here today.  I went out and hoed my radishes again.  There is a little bit of spinach coming out, but very little.  No sign of the beans or beets.  I used old seed, so may have to replant. 

We had frost again this morning.  It was 34 degrees when I got up.  I took a chance and didn't bring my plants in last night.  It looks like they all survived. 

I added a border to the yellow and white baby blanket this afternoon.  It didn't look quite finished.  I took some more pictures, so now I need to edit my Etsy listing. 

I started loading some of my pictures from yesterday up to Snapfish, but it takes 6 minutes for each picture to load.  Wish my computer was faster!  Guess I should be thankful to have a computer at all. 

Really yucky weather in the city today.  Lots of sleet.  Thank goodness I turned on the TV before I went to wake up the girls so I knew they didn't have school. 

Couldn't find any hangtags I liked.  Anyone have any good ideas?  May just have to use this computer to make my own. 

Snapfish doesn't do notecards, just post cards.  MOO does do notecards, so I downloaded all of my pictures onto this computer, then uploaded some of them to Flickr.  Here are a couple of sunflower pictures I took last summer that I've ordered printed on notecards. 

Close up of sunflower backlit by the sun

Close up of sunflower seeds

Turns out, the one of the sites that has nice country graphics also has the best Americana graphics.  You would never know it from the name - countryclipart.  I'm going to take a look and see if they have designs for hang tags.  I've been using a homemade business card, but want something a little bit nicer.  I need a new computer and/or better computer skills.  There are still a lot of things I don't know how to do.  I want to check with Snapfish, too, to see if I can print cards from the pictures I have already loaded.  I would like to do some of the winter shots I took in December. 

Baby is taking his afternoon nap.  Hope he sleeps a little bit longer!

I did design my table runner based on the quilt design in . my quilting magazine.  I made it four rows wide because that is what it takes to complete the pattern.  However, I'm thinking I will like it better if I make it six rows wide, and repeat half of the design.  I'll have to draw that out and see what I think.  I even took time to figure out how many squares I would need of each of the fabrics!

I also got out a scarf that I began knitting in September, and guess what?  I finished it!  Now I just need to block it.  I'm thinking about listing it on esty and see how that works. 

I also want to see if I can get my pictures off my memory card and onto this computer so I can upload them to Flickr.  At home I use Snapfish, but it doesn't work as well to download onto web sites.  I may have to check into that. 

I hear the baby!