Wednesday Wordart???

Ok - so it's not really Wednesday but I wanted to share this "word art" with you anyway.

T and I have been making a lot of agreements lately about what is expected of her around the house and especially in her bedroom. After explaining what should be done in her room every day she replied, "I can't remember all of that!"

At first I was just going to write up a list to pin to her wall to remind her, but I worried that her friends might see it and tease her. I decided instead to make up a word art I could frame. This is what we came up with:

I just did it up quick in Adobe. I would have added some colour, but I am out of colour ink right now :(  I'll have to let you know if having the reminder on the wall is effective or not. Here's hoping!

Read the Manual!

I am telling you, some days I feel pretty dumb! Today is one of those days.

A while back I was telling you all about my photography "skills". I am working on getting better, but I am not going to run out and spend a bunch of money on classes and stuff because I'm too cheap! I am also not going to buy a new Nikon (or whatever brand) "will do everything for you, just point and shoot" style thousands of dollars camera. 99% of the pictures I take are just snapshots of our daily life and they really don't have to be works of art. There is that 1% of the time though when I really wish I knew what I was doing.

M bought me my first digital camera six or seven years ago. I was so excited to finally be rid of my film camera (which was just a basic, basic camera - a $25 jobbie) and be able to see my pictures before I printed them! It was a Kodak EasyShare C533. It was a simple camera - 5.0 MP and 3x optical zoom - but it took beautiful pictures and for a few years I was more than happy with it.

In June of 2008, I went out west for a visit and saw the mountains for the first time. My little Kodak still took beautiful pictures of the landscape, but I was so disappointed when trying to take pictures of the wildlife. I admit, I got camera envy! My sister had this Sony camera with 12x zoom and was able to get so many amazing shots. I called home to M to see if he was okay with me buying a new camera. I was a little shocked when he told me to go ahead! Off to the mall I went and bought myself a Sony Cybershot with 8.1 MP and 10x optical zoom! It wasn't as fancy as my sister's camera, but I was pretty pleased!

I have several friends who are photographers. Real photographers - they get paid to do this stuff! I love them dearly and they are always trying to give me photography advice. They use weird terms like F stop and shutter speed and scatter shot. My response to them has always been, "I don't think my camera does that." I have only ever used the preset options on the little dial.

Today I found the box for my camera and inside was the manual. I don't think I have ever looked inside of it. There are entire menus for manual settings and I even found my camera DOES have a scatter shot option! I even discovered that there are many additional lenses I can get! It's like a whole new world! I can't wait to get back to the girls and see what they can show me now!