Time Is Flying!!

I know I promised you some retreat photos, but I haven't quite figured out photo resizing yet. And then I caught the dreaded spring cold! Ugh!  

And this past week we went camping! 

I did take care of myself and my cold is much, much better. I think camping along the beach, enjoying relaxed times and no stress helped me get over it quicker. It was a really nice week!

And we spotted a pod of Orca's.  Unfortunately, I jiggled when I shouldn't have. :-(

He was headed back down by the time I got myself ready, but it was fun!

This is the little class I helped with at retreat. We made snack mats. :-)

The pattern came with a panel of sewing sayings to make different designed mats.

And then I had to try making one center with my embroidery machine. 

It was a fun little class. 

I still need to get the binding on the second mat. Oops. ;-)

I am off to try to figure out more photos~

Until next time--

Happy stitchin'!!

 

Ok, Now I Am Really Back!!

I was only 'half-back' in my previous post because I couldn't figure out how to post photos.

Guess what?!!  I am getting there!!

I found this free download called FastStone Photo Resizer.  has anyone heard of it?

No adware and extra junk~ just the program! So I downloaded and played around with it a bit. I like it! :-)

You can add text to your photos, or a watermark if you have one made up.

You can resize more than one photo at a time!! I have to play with cropping and stuff yet, but here are the photos of my Bindi Bag that talked about in my previous post.

I'll be back soon! I have so much to show you!  But I need to take photos and get them ready. ;-)

Until then, Happy Stitchin"!

I'm Ba-a-ack!

Goodness! My last post was the middle of April! 

Time sure does fly!!

I was having some computer issues in April~ mainly the 'blue screen of death' was popping up way too often!  And when I got back from my retreat, I could not get my computer to start at all.  No matter what we tried, and hubby and I tried a lot of things!, it just wouldn't fire up. It is a good thing we were hunting for a new one as soon as the blue screen became a problem!

We got the new one set up this past weekend and I have been loading programs, trying to remember passwords~ goodness I have a lot of passwords!! :-o  And trying to get used to Windows 10 (I had XP and I loved it!!)

So photos~  here is where I haven't been very successful.  Does anyone have a free photo resizing program that also can do watermarks?  I would love to know about it!  I cannot get my older version of PhotoShop to load on my new computer, it gets to a point and stops. :-(

I can show you the may bag in the Designz By Nancy Stroop Collection. :-) This one is called the 'Bindi Bucket Bag'.  Check out all the tester bags. :-)

~sigh~  I cannot get my photos resized. :-( 

If I figure this out, I will be back with pix of my bag.