Coxsackie Christmas by the River

I'll be showing again this year at Coxsackie's 14th Annual Christmas by the River. I made a quick website for it, in case people are searching the web for details this year. It's www.christmasbytheriver.com. I hate that GoDaddy put ads on the top, but I didn't feel like shelling out $60 for a year of hosting! C'est la vie.

I've got a birthday dinner party for 9 to host tonight, and Thanksgiving for 10 to host on Thursday. AND I have to finish some window treatments for a customer to be installed tomorrow at 11am. Can you guess I'm a little stressed? I'm actually just on here to grab some recipes, and figured I'd post. I got my Wacom tablet, but I haven't had much time to play. I'll probably have time to show you some of my creations next week.

In the mean time, if I don't post before then, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

Blog Makeover

So...what do you think? :)

More Fun with Photoshop

I know I posted that picture of Kathleen in a tree on here before. I think it was around one of her birthdays. Anyway, I broke it out of the archives to put it in that little frame on the wall. I can't get over how little my little girl has really changed, in the whole scheme of things. You can see the little smirky glint in her eyes and in her smile at the tender age of three! (I think that's how old she is in the pic...three or four.) And she's got the same smile NOW, at 14! She cracks me up. I took the bigger pic of her this fall on a picnic table at a fall festival. I snipped her out of that picture, and put her in this layout (that I made from the kit I bought the other day....see my post from two days ago for a link to her blog and store.)

I've had a Wacom tablet on my Amazon wishlist for a while now, and I finally broke down the other day and bought this one. I got the least expensive factory refurbished one, because I don't even know if I'm going to be able to USE the thing. If I love it, I'll upgrade.
I'm waiting for it to arrive. I can't wait!