Jill Marie's Memories

Good Morning!  Here are two shots of Rylie in her cheerleading outfit.  This was her "prize" for learning to sleep in her own bed.  Believe me it was well worth the $18.00 to be able to sleep without a tiny little foot shoved in my back or a lil' leg thrown over my neck.

Last evening she heard the Ice Cream Man in the neighborhood. BTW, she thought the fella'a actual name was Ice Cream Man, lol, too cute.  So I went and got my wallet.  I came outside and she was waiting at the end of the driveway, looking for the truck.  Well as soon as he turned and started coming down our street Rylie began jumping up and down, waving her arms and yelling "Ice Cream Man!  Ice Cream Man!  Ice Cream Man!  Stop!  Stop!  Ice Cream Man!"  She was too funny, even the Ice Cream Man said "Someone is a little excited, huh?"  LOL 

I wish I had my camera with me at the time.  Oh well, next time I go for my wallet...I'm grabbing the camera too. 

Have a great day!
Jill Marie

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I took this picture of Rylie and Samantha sitting in my garden yesterday.  Sammi doesn't like it so I hope she doesn't see that I posted it here.  I think they both look too cute!

I cut it down a bit, added a border  on both copies and then lowered the level of color on one of the copies.  I think they both look pretty. 

Have a wonderful week!
Jill Marie

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Here are a few recent photo's that I just got done "framing".  The first one is the sunset Rylie and I saw after we left the Wood County Fair.

This next one I took as Rylie and I were leaving a store the other day.  She walked out and leaned against a brick wall as I dug for my keys.  I grabbed my camera and she flipped up her shades and popped on the model smile.  LOL  And yes, she put a bunch of her little lip gloss on.  Everytime she see's me put on some lipstick she thinks she has to pile on her clear lip gloss.  It is too funny.

This one I took just yesterday.  It is Rylie, Aubreigh or as we call her Aubber Gaubers (Ry's niece and our grand-daughter) and myself.  When I took the picture I forgot that I hadn't put any make-up on and had been cleaning.  Well, there ya go...my happy home make look, lol.

Yep, Rylie has another stye in her eye.  Grrrr.  Poor kid, I don't know why she keeps getting the dern things.

Have a good one!
Jill Marie

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On Friday Rylie and I drove down to Bowling Green to have dinner with Samantha and her friend, Dayna.  After dinner I took Rylie over to the fair.  She got tired walking around but she had a lot of fun.  Unfortunately you can't see Ry's pretty blue eye's in any of the photos because she insisted on wearing her shades the entire time.  LOL  She's way to cool to be seen with me.

 

 

Have a great Sunday!
Jill Marie

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Rylie and I love nail polish.  One day a week ago we sat outside and painted our nails.  The photo shows the end result.  And yes, that is a huge hole in the knee of my jeans.  They are just so darn comfy.  If you think the knee is bad...you should see the bum of the jeans.  LOL

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These are just a few pictures of some of the flowers in my garden.

 

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These are just two random pictures I took last weekend.  I had walked for awhile and decided to sit down on a bench for a few minutes.  I pulled out my camera and snapped these two pictures.  One is my view looking up from the bench, the other is my view looking down.  Now I'm wishing I had painted my toe nails.  LOL

Have a good day!
Jill Marie

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There was a question about how I'm doing my borders, so I thought I would share it with everyone.  It's quite easy really, if you have a photo editing program.  I'm using Corel Paint Shop Pro.  I do most of my editing with the picture in it's original size because it is so much easier to see.  (Yeah, these old eyes, lol)

I select the area in the middle that I want.  Then I cut that part and paste as a new image.  I add a border if I want one.  Then  I copy that new image and paste it as a NEW LAYER back onto the original.  (Well, it's not really the original.  I do all of this with a copy of the original so I can keep the origianl picture)

Then I can adjust the property of either layer.  If I want a faded look to the border I just right click on that layer and adjust the property of it to whatever I like the look of (usually between 72 and 80 percent transparency)

Or I can go into the Color and adjust the Hue and Saturation to make it look black and white by taking the saturation all the way down to -100.  Or if I just want it to look like faded colors I can take adjust it to where ever I like the look.

Oh, and on the last picture I added a halo effect to the border to get that soft fuzzy look.  I like that one alot. 

It is a lot of fun to play with...and very addicting.  LOL

If you don't have a photo program, look around online.  You can usually find a program trial period.  That way you can play around with it to see if you like it first.  There are also lots of great tutorials online to help you learn what all those cool little buttons will do.  The layers and the different properties can be a little daunting, but it doesn't take too long to figure it out. 

Feel free to email me, or leave a comment if you have any questions.  I will try to answer them, if I can.

Also, if you have any photography advice, I'd really appreciate that too.  I am working with an HP photosmart camera, a measly 4 (Oh NO!)...I thought it was 4 MP, butit's only 3.2 MP and 3X optical zoom.  Digital camera donations can be sent directly to me, LOL!  Well, dang...considering what I am working with...I must be a very good photographer.  LMBO!

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It was just too beautiful to stay inside, so Rylie and I packed PB&J sandwiches and went back to Wildwood Metro Park today.  Of course, I took my camera along.

I hope you enjoy the pictures!

I just can't seem to leave the pictures alone.  I keep playing around with them seeing what they look like if I do this or that.  LOL

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Here are a few pictures from our trip to the Wildwood Metro Park on Sunday.  It was a wee bit overcast, but it was a really nice day.  Rylie and I had so much fun with Daddy, it was good to just get out of the house and enjoy the beginning of spring.

The first two pictures are the same one's I used in my little collage in my Housewife Journal.  I just love these two faces!

This was taken shortly after Daddy had put Rylie down to walk and she collapsed to the ground saying she couldn't walk because her legs hurt soooooooo bad.

Our Angel in front of an empty fountain.  I'm surprised she smiled so well, she really did NOT want to stand there and pose for this photograph.  I think the little fairy was kind of freaking her out.

This is a picture of the view from one of the trails we walked.

A picture of Rylie and Daddy (my loves) on the trail.

Rylie, who couldn't walk because her little legs hurt, running to the playground!

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