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Man vs. Beast. (Or @#$%! We Hit A Deer!)

Anita Cross — Tue, 14 May 2013 03:56:01 +0000

With our crazy schedules, it isn’t possible to visit Mom for the weekend. We have to drive up and back on the same day. So this Mother’s Day, that’s exactly what we did. We had a really pleasant visit with my husband’s mother. We brought her irises from our garden, and a nice new vase [...]

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George E Owen Memorial Rose Garden

Anita Cross — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:00:33 +0000

I have a passion for landscape photography. I don’t particularly like camping or hiking, yet I’d pack up and spend a weekend in the wild any time, as long as I can take my camera gear along. So imagine my surprise when I discovered I had knack for photographing flowers. I still love going out [...]

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Leighann Dobbs Starts A New Mystery Series

Anita Cross — Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:02 +0000

Having been labeled the “spelling nazi” by a number of my online friends, including Leighann, it only seemed natural to her to offer me the opportunity to to edit her latest book. I jumped at the chance. Three weeks later, I had the manuscript in hand and was busy looking for those little things that [...]

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Plustek OF8200i: A New Toy-ool In My Photo Arsenal

Anita Cross — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:00:22 +0000

And it’s about time! In the years that I was using the Canon Elan IIe, I took thousands of shots on professional grade color slide film. In the beginning, I paid a local printing company to scan them on their high-end flatbed scanner. It really did a nice job, although it was too costly to [...]

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Chocolate Pearls Are Stunning In Rose Gold

Anita Cross — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:00:28 +0000

To be honest, I hadn’t even heard of ‘chocolate’ pearls until a few months ago. I was looking for ‘chocolate’ diamonds over at Amazon when when I stumbled across a chocolate pearl pendant that was incredibly beautiful in 14K rose gold. After doing some more searches, I realized that I prefer the chocolate pearls in [...]

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Vintage Recipes From The 1920s

Anita Cross — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:00:32 +0000

A Glimpse Into The Kitchen Of The Roaring Twenties A long, long time ago, I came to possess a cookbook that was published in 1927. It was a one-off publishing of a fundraiser entitled “Selected Recipes Chosen by The Woman’s Board of The Jackson Park Sanitarium Stock Yards Day Nursery” I was still a teenager, [...]

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Digital vs. Film Photography

Anita Cross — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:00:25 +0000

A World Of Difference In The Resulting Images The only way to get a true representation of the difference between a digitally captured image, and a film captured image is take the photos of the same subject at virtually the same time, with the same lens and camera settings. However, you can still see some [...]

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Another Dozen Roses

Anita Cross — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:00:53 +0000

My Sony Cybershot Turned out to be a very good camera for closeup shots of roses and other flowers, with macro capability at the press of a button. The problem with changing from one camera to another–from film to digital, or point and shoot to dSLR–is one of experience. As you work with a camera, [...]

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One Dozen Roses

Anita Cross — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:14 +0000

In 2003, I was still using my Canon Elan IIe and slide film. Here are a dozen photos of roses I took over the course of that summer. I had only come to realize I had an eye for floral photography the year before, so I spent a lot of time at the local rose [...]

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My Love Affair With The Camera

Anita Cross — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:00:13 +0000

Long Before The First Digital Camera I started my on-and-off-again love affair with photography in high school, when I took my first photography class. My desire to work behind the camera never waned, to tell the truth, but my resources were often too thin. Until the last decade or so, the serious photographer–hobbyist or professional–not [...]

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Fast & Healthy Stir-Fry Meals

Anita Cross — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:00:24 +0000

Healthy, Quick and Easy Stir-Fry Over Rice Wouldn’t it be nice if you could whip up a healthy meal as quickly as heating a brand name frozen casserole in a microwave oven? While it may not be quite as fast, the fact is you can create a healthy and satisfying stir-fry in short order, with [...]

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Decorative Art Fused Glass Round Vases

Anita Cross — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:00:19 +0000

I discovered Cressida Glassware while searching Amazon for a tall vase to use with silk flowers. I was so intrigued by the vase I found, that I immediately clicked on the link for the manufacturer. I wasn’t disappointed! I felt like a kid in a candy shop as I found one vase after another that [...]

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How To Modify Amazon Product Images

Anita Cross — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:00:44 +0000

This is Part 2 in the series. If you haven’t already, please read Part 1, Using Amazon Product Images Effectively. After seeing images with borders and drop shadows on a friend’s lens, I looked at the source code for her page, and ‘reverse-engineered’ the image commands. The thing was, there were other things I wanted to [...]

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Using Amazon Product Images Effectively

Anita Cross — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:00:35 +0000

If A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Shouldn’t your product images be enticing whether you’ve created a sales page for a specific niche, or added a few related products to an information page? Well, it can be with just a little effort, and the addition of Amazon’s own image commands. This series concentrates on [...]

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Life With Smidgen Today

Anita Cross — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:00:34 +0000

It’s been more than three years since we welcomed Smidgen into the family. It wasn’t really our intent to keep her, but we never found out where she came from. And I think all was lost as soon as we gave her a name. (If you haven’t read the story of Smidgen’s Rescue, click here.) [...]

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