Hummie's World

In 3D!

2012-05-26T14:52:00.005-05:00

Hubby and I made a song for you for this 3 day weekend! Of course, please do remember why we have this long weekend.

It is called Memorial Day for a reason. :)

We made this with an iPhone app call LaDiDa. It takes no time at all to record. I downloaded it via the email I sent myself from the app.

Then I used iTunes to convert it from the aiff format and pulled one image and the music into a video software to create it. Yes, it took a little while to make, but I get sidetracked doing fun things like this sometimes.

In Flanders fields

2012-05-26T07:04:00.000-05:00

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

Why am I so techy?

2012-05-25T10:03:00.002-05:00

Since we are so busy scanning photos, I decided I'd start sharing just a few of them. There is a photo theme (join us here) in the forum on gadgets and I saw this scanned image about the same time as the challenge was put up and thought I'd share it for my photo.

This is my Grandpa and his corner of the kitchen. I have no idea what all those gadgets are for, but I do know it was his ham radio and that he used to talk to the truckers as they drove by St. Louis. I remember being in his house and the truckers calling out to his "handle."

I love this black and white photo of his set up.
I also see Grandma's electric knife plugged into the wall.

Grandpa always had to be the first to have the newest gadget, whether it was a television, radio, video recorder, or tool to work on cars in his garage. Grandpa worked for Union Electric, so he had a lot of electrical knowledge.

Although gadgets are much different now, I find myself always drawn to the computers and phones and other things, such as televisions and gadgets. I know where I got those genes from!

Fotki Phone App

2012-05-25T09:29:00.000-05:00

I've been with Fotki since 2006 already! Wow!
Back when I did digital scrapbooking mainly with a Yahoo Group, we would share our creates through Fotki for others to download. They had to download piece by piece, but it did allow for .png's, so it worked well.

The cost of the site is reasonable and you can catch deals. I am paid up until 2025!

Then Flickr came along and, although Fotki does have a social aspect, Flickr was much more popular and I was drawn to start putting my files there as well and stopped using Fotki so much for blog hosting and sharing.

However, Fotki is still better for its own reasons as I'll explain below, but recently I discovered they came out with their first phone app (as seen above) and I was super excited!

I can see all my private photos easily and choose them and download them to my phone if I want to share them, or instead of having all the photos on my phone of my family, create an album of photos to share with people in person and hand them the folder on Fotki, provided I have a connection wifi or through the phone service.

Here are some reasons to use Fotki:

1. Password protected folders or albums.   I love being able to upload photos for a specific group of people and password protecting it, then sharing that link and password with just that group of people. The photos can then be downloaded individually by those people in full resolution.   I have shared photos with the band, church, scouts, reunions, weddings, Big Brother, Big Sister, weddings, and the like.

2. Comments. Recently, we have begun a huge project scanning old family photos. I am putting them in password protected folders, one for hubby's family and one for my family, and the family is coming in leaving comments on the photos as to who is in the photo and the location.   Of course, they can download the full version of the photos at any time too.

3. Upload via FTP. I love that I can use FTP to upload my photos to Fotki. I create the album in Fotki and then I upload very quickly through the FTP.

4. Upload via email. This is a very special attribute of Fotki! You can assign an email to each folder and share that email. Anyone can send a photo by email to that email address and it goes straight into the folder. For instance, I offered my folders to this group and all of these photos were uploaded by people other than me so that people I do not even know could come and comment on the photos to share who is who.

I have set this up for weddings also and spread word of the email address and into a password protected folder so entire families can share the photos they took easily. They can even be taken with phones and sent to the folder via email on the phone. The sharing can happen in private instantly. Love this!

5. Organizing photos. The features to organize photos exactly the way I want them are great too. Flickr folders can be confusing to me, but the folders on Fotki feel just like the folders on a computer and are easy to understand.

I am also in the process of putting all my photos up on the site as a back up, but now with the access via the phone app, it will put every photo I ever took at easy access.

You can pay extra to add videos, but they charge by the gigabytes (I think it is .08 cents a gigabyte which is not bad). I haven't been willing to pay that just yet, but may in the future. The charge is also for playing the videos, not just hosting them, so if I do so, I would limit access to the folder and just use it as a back-up. If I wanted free hosting for videos to share, youtube does that for me.

So, bottom line is that I tend to use Fotki for backup and for family and I use Flickr for social things online.

The Rose

2012-05-24T16:52:00.000-05:00

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze." Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked.

She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends.

Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know."

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began:
"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

"You have to laugh and find humor every day."

"You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!"

"There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability.

The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change."

"Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose." She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

At the years end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

The Rose
Artist: Bette Midler
Words & Lyrics by: Amanda McBroom

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleed
some say love it is a hunger
an end less aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dyin'
that never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose

Author Unknown

Photography Theme: Gadgets

2012-05-24T09:09:00.000-05:00

Oh, digital scrapbookers are gadget geeks too, are they not?!!

This should be a fun theme. I'm tempted to post some old photos too of gadgets my grandfather had!

Click here to join us in sharing your photos of gadgets.

New Pages app

2012-05-22T11:23:00.003-05:00

When I logged into my Facebook ap from my phone this morning, it offered me to download the new "pages" app, so I did. I remember when they offered me the new "messenger" app too. I actually just removed that app from my phone yesterday because it never made sense to me to have the messages in two different apps. I could read them from my main Facebook app and, in fact, had to access them through both apps to get the new message alerts to disappear, so it was annoying to me. I'm sure having two apps also puts more drain on my battery power.

But I downloaded it anyway to test it out for a while. I did find that if I just "favorite" the pages I own so they show up on the left rather than buried, I can access them just fine from the main app. This new app might be really handy for people who own more pages than I do. I either own or help run 5 pages; not too many. It must just be a ploy to get us to remember Facebook and use it.

Night Photography

2012-05-22T10:08:00.003-05:00

I recorded and put up a new lesson for the photography class today on Night Scene Photography. I really had fun preparing for this one and playing with my own camera and long shutter speeds.

I took the above photo last night and as I drove by looking for something to photograph for the lesson, I realized that this National Guard Armory sign might be cool because my son will be coming home from boot camp next week and it might be something I can use my digital scrapbooking skills on and make a gift for him. I'll share if I get it done. He's been gone since January 15 and we are anxious to give him a hug.

These photos were taken in downtown Cape Girardeau. I love the complementary blue sky against the amber lights that have light rays coming from them.

This one was taken at an intersection so there were cars going by in both directions creating an interesting streak on the rule of thirds line.

I like this one because it shows the clock and the bridge, as well as the cars going by. What fun it is to sit and play, but of course, you have to be tough and ignore all the people looking at you funny with your tripod set up half into the street! Don't get hit by a car!

You are the individual . .

2012-05-22T09:02:00.002-05:00

“The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.” Charles Towne

How many bananas does it take to . . .

2012-05-20T19:39:00.000-05:00

9 days and a wake-up (as our son says is military phrase) we will get to see our son who has been gone to boot camp since January 15.

Do you think this is enough bananas to make banana bread for 45 soldiers? They must get ugly brown first so they are sweet inside before I can make the bread. Our son wants us to bring the bread and is telling his soldier friends. I sure am hoping they like the bread as much as my son is building it up to be.

I asked him if other mothers were bringing something to "family day" before boot camp graduation day. He said, "nope, just you."

Okay, I admit, it warm my heart inside and makes me feel good to be a mom.

How to Get Photos Unstuck from 1970's Album

2012-05-20T12:26:00.000-05:00

Hubby and I have been working hard to scan in old photos from both sides of the family. We have some family get-togethers coming up soon and we are having to priortize this huge project to the top of our to-do list. We will be SO glad to get these done though! These photos need to be returned to other family members. As we are doing it, we are realizing that when we are done with these projects, how many things in our own basement that need to be scanned. We have photos, of course, but also a box of cards and letters I saved. These could be scanned in for the boys as they won't have any desire to keep the originals, and then discarded. There are many many things in the basement and we want to continue this process. Digital is good enough and can be backed up online somewhere and easily distributed to many electronically either via discs or online, so they are in many locations. We are running into these old 1970 albums that I remember were "awesome new technology" that "would not harm the photos." The photos are stuck to the pages and we cannot get them off very easily. An idea hit us to use the hair dryer to make the sticky soft again and so we tested it and wanted to show it to you in the below video.

PhotoShake app

2012-05-18T16:37:00.000-05:00

I tried out a new ap today called PhotoShake and I'm really excited about it! It's great for combining photos into one image to share on Facebook and the internet.

There are so many fun options to play with, from frames, to corners, to borders, to photo editing tools including photo effects, and balloon speech bubbles.

When you are done with your image, there are many options available to share the image. I just saved my image to my phone folder and then used my favorite aps to share the photo too.

Here's the image I made. I love the waterdrops on the frame that I added as a texture to the frame. Observe that the photos have curves on them too, which was an option.

I think it's my new app to play with.

Quick Tip - Keyboard Shortcut for Changing Font Size

2012-05-18T12:00:00.000-05:00

See it in action as you change the font size! Know right away what size works best.
Click here to view the video in the sample area of the forum.

Originally posted Aug 26, 2008.

Tax Assessor

2012-05-18T10:33:00.000-05:00

A tax assessor came one day to a poor pastor to determine the amount of taxes the pastor would have to pay. The following conversation took place;

"What property do you possess?" asked the assessor.

"I am a very wealthy man," replied the minister.

"List your possessions, please," the assessor instructed.

"First, I have everlasting life (John 3:16).

"Second, I have a mansion in heaven (John 14:2).

"Third, I have peace that passeth understanding (Philippians 4:7).

"Fourth, I have joy unspeakable (1 Peter 1:8).

"Fifth, I have divine love which never faileth (1 Corinthians 13:8).

"Sixth, I have a faithful precious wife (Proverbs 31:10).

"Seventh, I have healthy, happy obedient children (Exodus 20:12).

"Eighth, I have true, loyal friend (Proverbs 18:24).

"Ninth, I have songs in the night (Psalms 42:8).

"Tenth, I have a crown of life (James 1:12)."

The tax assessor closed his book, and said, "Truly you are a very rich man, but your wealth is not subject to taxation.

Author Unknown

Template 87

2012-05-18T07:55:00.000-05:00

Oh yeah! Template #87 is up! To see thumbnails of what all 87 templates look like, please review the guide. Click on the various "sets" links to see them all.

All of these templates are available immediately to you at the monthly subscription rate of $5.50. It's a great class and way to be able to get a lot of layouts jump started to get some scrapping done.

This template, as always, is free for a limited time. Click here.

Name Tags on Birdhouses

2012-05-16T22:56:00.000-05:00

Originally posted Dec 30, 2007.

This is a hybrid project I did as a gift.

I made the names with digital scrapbooking, printed them out, cut them out, and decoupaged them to small pieces of wood to hang from the birdhouses.

I used ModgePodge decoupage and it should keep the wood protected in weather/wet. I applied it to all sides of the wood.I made the chain (uck, tweezers) and it is pushed into the back of the wood with a tack.

I used a spot of glue-gun glue at the top of the chain to hold it in place against the wind.

New Photography Theme! Purple!

2012-05-16T20:27:00.000-05:00

Urple, purple!

Yep! It's a great theme Tammy has shared for this time of year with all the blooms. Those are her great blooms in the above photo!

Click here to join us (anyone can!)

Now I've got The Flying Purple People Eater in my head!

What is David Actually Saying?

2012-05-16T08:56:00.000-05:00

The Lord is my Shepherd-
THAT'S RELATIONSHIP!
I shall not want-
THAT'S SUPPLY!
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures-
THAT'S REST!
He leadeth me beside still waters-
THAT'S REFRESHMENT!
He restoreth my soul-
THAT'S HEALING!
He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness-
THAT'S GUIDANCE!
For His name sake-
THAT'S PURPOSE!
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death-THAT'S TESTING!
I will fear no evil-
THAT'S PROTECTION!
For thou art with me-
THAT'S FAITHFULNESS!
Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me-
THAT'S DISCIPLINE!
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies-
THAT'S HOPE!
Thou anointest my head with oil-
THAT'S CONSECRATION!
My cup runneth over-
THAT'S ABUNDANCE!
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life --
THAT'S BLESSING!
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord-
THAT'S SECURITY!
Forever-
THAT'S ETERNITY!

Author Unknown

CS6 is here!

2012-05-15T16:58:00.000-05:00

CS6 is here!! Since mine is two version old, I will need to upgrade, but I do not have funds now.

I'm wondering how many of the readers here are getting it and when.

Take 12 on 12 May

2012-05-15T09:59:00.000-05:00

I did these on Saturday for the Take 12 on the 12th of the month challenge. I'm just now able to get it blogged. I don't think I was ever able to blog April photos, but they are on my Flickr and I do tweet them as I take them.

Come join us in the forum here and share if you do this on the 12th of each month, no matter where you post them. We have been following each other as we tweet them from Flickr, but you can share wherever you do it and we will come and check it out.

If you take 12 photos and do a layout with them, do use the gallery to upload and share our layout in this thread too.

It's more fun to do it together!

As always, I get up every morning and as the sunlight is peaking through my blinds, before I get out of bed, I roll over and start working in the forum.
Will we ever finish the scanning process? We are trying hard to scan in all the old photos we have from both sides of the family.

It's great that our phones now have speakers so that we can multi-task.
Returning movie at Blockbuster.

Shopping for graduation gift.

Enjoying mother's day flowers from another mother.

I'm putting on my glasses and getting my eyes a much needed break.
Writing a little graduation note for our niece.

It is amazing how expensive the things are that fit into small packages.
Our banana trees are newly planted and still look mostly dead.

Rose bushes and all my flowers are exploding with flowers.
Deep purple cone flowers are blooming!

EXTRAS -- I couldn't stop taking photos this time! Mr. Turtle is doing his job holding down the Vinca vine so it does not grow in the wrong direction.

This container used to belong to my grandparents.
I can never remember the name of these flowers, but they are spread out everywhere in my garden.

Dinner – the hubby way – no vegetables. No bun is my way!

A Day in the World - Take Photos Today and Share!

2012-05-15T09:16:00.001-05:00

Here is the forum post to chatter about this and share as we take photos today.

On Tuesday, May 15th, there will be a Worldwide Photo Event called “A Day in the World.” This happening is being touted as the single largest one day documentary project ever. All photos included in the project must be taken on the 15th.

Go to http://www.aday.org to learn more.

The focus of this project is to show people from all over the world with 3 main categories Home, Work and Connections.

To participate, you must register at www.aday.org and create a profile. You can submit up to 10 images. Images should be tagged for easy searching and contain info about who, what, where and when.

I have added the "Digiscrap" as a tag for a digital scrapbooking team!
So after the photos are public, you will be able to search "digiscrap" to find other digital scrapbookers who have participated.
When you are keywording/tagging your photos you should add Digiscrap to them so that all of our photos can be seen as a group.

Here's the team information page: http://www.aday.org/team-up

There is also a Facebook page at www.facebook.com/adayorg .

Please post your images in this thread
1. From the gallery here.
2. From Flickr using the bb code
3. From your smart phone with tapatalk or forumrunner to post images in this thread.

What do you get from this quote?

2012-05-14T09:50:00.003-05:00

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Treat yourself !!

2012-05-13T08:21:00.001-05:00

Having a Calgon Take Me Away Mother's Day bath-- and playing with phone apps !! Ahhh This is the life!! Tetchy meets comfort!!

PS. I do not like the new Blogger app as it does not allow me to place photos between text anymore!! Backwards disimprovement!

All about minds . . .

2012-05-13T07:03:00.002-05:00

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Making Digital Stamps

2012-05-12T23:25:00.004-05:00

I'm SO excited that the Amazing Digital Scrapbooking Race is once again visiting Hummie's World!

I love meeting other digital scrapbookers!

I made this video on how to make digital stamps, just like the rubber stamps you can buy for paper scrapbooking or crafts!

You can see it in the forum here.
It's also a part of the designer class, so when the video is gone from the Race forum, you can find it in the designer class (or on Youtube and later in the sample area of the forum when I have some time).

I made a layout with one of the stamps! It was great fun! Oh yes, he IS my monkey, even at age 52 and counting!

If you are not in ASDR, as always, I would love to see what you do with the video challenge. So even if you are not participating, please do this free lesson and share your layout by uploading to the gallery. You can use any products. It's okay! Just be sure to post in the layout in the forum somewhere because I stalk the forum more than the gallery.