Ain’t this THE Awesomesauce?

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Here is what I made…

Bam!

Happy Friday Love Buckets!

Jodiann

These actions are the ones I have built to do basic chores. Two were built by friends and given to me so I know they will not mind me passing them on. Some of these I use every day. Hopefully they will serve you well. I delight in the speed and heavy work these Actions do for me.

Enjoy!

Always Free for personal use, CU pass for the entire year of freebies only $5 bucks!! Weeee!

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Happy Thursday!

Jodiann

So how to resize a few pictures in your email?  Quick and easy. Don’t want the hassle of buying and learning a program or even downloading a free one?

shrinkpictures.com is what you want. Fast, Easy and nothing to download. Just 5 simple clickable steps.

When the picture is shrunk you can save it to your computer or email it to yourself or another person RIGHT from the website.

Didn’t I say it was easy?

Here is a little video. So your not confused when the narrator says he is resizing by 50% he accidentally hits the 25% button. Simple mistake any of us could make. If you know its coming you can just pretend he said  he is resizing by 25% instead of 50 and it will all make sense. After you do this a few times you will find the size you like to use. Send a copy in an email to yourself and see how it looks to you. That’s the best advice I can give. If your happy most folks viewing it will be happy too.

To be fair there are fancier sites, there are slicker programs for pay and for free that will do this for you as well. Don’t be surprised if you tell people about this and they say…I use Picasa, Photoshop, MS Paint, or this ( fill in blank) program I got off the internet for free. Those all work fine and if you find you are wanting to do more with your photos and want to invest your time to learn any of those programs…GREAT! This is just to get your pictures emailed so you can get on with your adventures and take more pictures. 

Again that website is shrinkpictures.com

Love you Mom!

Jodiann

What a glorious day! Heading out to see what’s what on our latest outdoor project…can’t tell you about it until its done. We are getting there, though!

In the meantime, here is a great little freebie from my old store. Fruit Templates. In PNGs, TIF, and PSDs. Included too are the fancy PNGs in the preview.

Don’t I always take good care of you?

Speaking of taking good care…thanks to all you have laid their money down on the CU pass. I feel so supported by your generosity!! Very Sweet Peaches all of you! Just gives me hoobiepuckers every time.

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Big files, so broke them up by the fruit. *wink*

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Orange
http://min.us/mbbr7lR7WY

Strawberry

http://min.us/mbeYjepELS

Apple
http://min.us/mZpWGH22H

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Orange

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Strawberry
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Apple
http://www.mediafire.com/?55w43us1ylwxgv4

Happy Wednesday!

Jodiann

“Jack Darlin’ ? Who you going to believe ME or your lying eyes?”

“Love those PURPLE shoes”,  is what the good husband said.

Smart Man.

But not always…Working with mostly women and at an Imaging Clinic where Mammography is done there is a fair amount of pink, heart candies, ribbons for breast cancer awareness, pink scrubs with ladies in them, can mess with a man’s head.  You know my Jack, if he has an opinion everyone is going to know it. He over-shares. So when Christine ( CT Tech) left her PINK pen on his desk and he picked it up like it was poo ( finger and thumb, held out like a dirty diaper, face twisted)  and dropped it on her desk with all that Jack-Drama I love…its fair to say …she took notice. She’s a fairly observant lady or is it Jack’s an over-actor?  

NAH!

This is what happens when you mess with an observant lady’s favorite color…

Jack’s Desk and Chair

Hope Flamingo is housebroke?

Notice the offending pen, now in its element

“Jack’s”  MRI machine wasn’t spared

“Welcome to the Jungle”

Jack left this flip flop art piece… the patients LOVE it. Anytime one shoves a person into a scary machine looking for body betrayal ALL laughs are appreciated. I think we need one of these actually…even if it’s pink. Oh My! What am I saying?? Pink is insidious. Another Purple Shoe, may-haps?

The chair was also left as is …a warning maybe?  Could just be no time to unwrap… *grin* Work DOES go on there, I am pretty sure.

The pink ladies took most of the goodies home, none of it came here, surprised? 

Happy Tuesday!

Jodiann

I watched a movie on Netflix Streaming Sick Fat and Nearly Dead and went on a 10-day juice fasting reboot the moment the credits rolled. More on this in a later post. It absolutely CHANGED my life…for 10 days! LOL! How to keep the good thing going became a challenge. The dilemma for our family and for most families is we don’t eat enough vegetables so when I started to re-integrate food through a 15 day juice during the day + dinner at night I knew I couldn’t go back to the way I used to cook, ( Meat as a main course, Starch, Vegetable, Bread)  I also knew I could not go fully into a full on micronutrient exclusive diet either, ( Fruits, Vegetables, minimal to no cooking) I might be able to make that big of a switch, but I have 3 others I prepare meals for and they need to be drawn in a bit slowly. I decided to offer my family 5 vegetarian meals a week and the other two days would be vegetarian meals plus meat.

Now this seems like I am being picky with words and I am because those 2 meals a week would be less meat than the traditional meat meals I fixed before. Whereas I once cooked my most nutritious meal, a stir fry with 3 lbs of boneless chicken, 4 cups of rice and 18 oz of Broccoli…now would make that meal with 4 lbs of roasted vegetables, 2 cups of rice and 1 lb of chicken. The goal is to integrate this nutritional  change into our lives completely by first shopping vegetable heavy at the grocery, second choosing local and seasonal fresh foods at the grocery, third, adding to our food garden production, and finally seeking out farmers outside the grocery system to support.  Once we have these steps fully integrated then we can change yet again, possibly by dropping meat all together or taking a baby step and adding 2-3 Micronutrient Exclusive Meals a week. We’ll know better when we get there.

Anywho… I am learning to cook with different emphasis. Picking foods for quality, texture, taste instead of price. ( it actually turns out to be cheaper to shop this way…again will need an entire post for that so stay tuned)

I found a list of 100 quick vegetarian meals on the Martha Stewart Website and ran down the list picking out ones I felt the family would like and adding them to the menu calendar and dropping the ingredients into my shopping list. Not thinking too much beyond that. A trick that helps me not get overwhelmed by change.  Each day I tackled a new recipe not really knowing if my family would eat it, but trying not to twist myself up over if it be a hit or a miss. There is always cereal/milk if a meal misses.

First miss? Meal number One. Curried Tofu Over Rice. More on this when I get that recipe down. So far I’ve made it twice, Not quite there yet.

This Veggie Chili Recipe was a hit. I can’t EVER follow a recipe completely so you will see notes I made. I will say, being married to an Oklahoma man who regularly orders chicken fried steak and gravy with fried potatoes for  breakfast out and two chips off the old block I expected most of these recipes to be a miss. They surprised me. They like GOOD quality, TASTY food. If flavor is delivered they eat and like it, meat or no meat.

So here goes!

Right click to save this recipe as an image. View and Print  Original Vegetarian Chili Recipe: Martha Stewart Living Website

Happy Tuesday Friend-ohs!!

Here is a little favorite of mine. They can be used clipped to photos for nice edges or stamp out a paper border. Nice as a photo mat as well. Just fun whatever you try!!

Brushes and PNGs, nice and big! Weee!

Enjoy free for Personal Use or buy a CU pass for the entire year of freebies for $5. Special thanks to all who plopped their money down. I spent a bit of your generous support over at Atomic Cupcake today. Sorry to see a legend close. Had to grab my favorite actions. Visit BriAnna today she will be closing soon.

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Happy Tuesday Buckaroos!

Jodiann

Grab it Right away at Sugar Hill Co. FULL Reveal after the jump.

Won’t last long at this price!!  79% OFF!! WOW!

While you there pick up these perky lovelies…  25% OFF! Weeee!

Delightful Goodies!

Happy Tuesday!

Jodiann

Check it out and do some fun present dreaming of your own. See if you can find the photographer reflected in each spoon photo. Yes! I AM enticing you to spend a hour of your life wrapped up in observation, or worse…shopping!    I admit it.

The busy world will not miss you THAT much! You know you want to.

Happy Monday!

Jodiann

Did this little drawing last week and had the foresight to scan the pear I used. Doesn’t happen often…the foresight part, so don’t get used to it. *grin*

Thought it might make a good element for a kit? I socked it away greedily, even made a swatch…

( right click swatch to save)

…named it too… Tulips and Pears. Then I changed my mind, might not ever make the kit. Hording the element that inspired it seems well…greedy. Pitching both pears to you creative folks to see what you will make. Personal Use is always free. Commercial Use will cost you $5 for a CU pass of a year’s worth of Freebies.  Let me see what you build, who wouldn’t love to see their designs in action? 

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Happy Monday!

Jodiann