So this is #19, I think. I like to play with Paint Shop Pro, can you tell? I was not happy with the lettering and I may get up to #30 before I am. If at first you don’t succeed…try, try again. ; )
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I have a really nice $30 book I got for cheap because someone ordered it at Border’s and never picked it up. It’s for PSP6 and I have PSP7, so I had to figure out where a few of the pull down options were.
To make the lettering ‘all cool’, you have to make it a floating selection. And in PSP7, the metallic is all built in the color selection! I should have figured that out. Thank goodness for books.
I hope you like the ‘sculpted’ lettering. It was really easy. I also have a glowing letter header that I need to finish.
I definitely earned this button:

email I just received after selling on eBay for over 6 years. Not bad…

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Sean and I went for our 2 year check-up at the eye doctor yesterday. Brian went at the end of September. Brian didn’t need new glasses but we did! Sean and I both had trouble reading the chart. We are both near-sighted. I have no problem reading books, stitching or other close-up work.
That’s gonna cost something this time because Sean had a plan before that paid for his glasses-two pairs to be exact. We will probably go to America’s Best Eyewear where I got mine a few years ago. I got two pairs for under $200. One pair was sunglasses. Prescription sunglasses are great and I recommend them! I’ll probably just keep the sunglasses I have and not get new ones as I don’t wear them a heck of a lot anyway. It’s too bad when your eye glass prescription needs a little tweaking in only two years. I like glasses over contacts as I don’t wear them all the time. I wear them when I go out driving and shopping. I wear them when I watch tv. I like picking out new styles though.
Oh yeah-my eye were dilated for over 6 hours!
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Barbara asked what am I doing with all the yarn. Probably using it to make a few hats for my mom and charity. I made a hat for myself but I have to play with it a bit as it was a design with a lot of holes. I look like Jenny from ‘Love Story’ when I wear it. I may weave some ribbons in and out of it. I wonder if I steam it, it will stretch? It’s made out of Italian cotton yarn.
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Brian has a ton of leaves to clean up tomorrow. We are trying to get Sean to help more, but he is full of excuses. Start them early gang! Guess mom here better take an interest.
We are probably going to have our first hard frost tonight. Bye-bye flowers. ; (

My mom has wanted to go to the restaurant up the road from her since her birthday. That was my original plan until my sister-in-laws changed the location. Turns out mom didn’t enjoy what she had at that restaurant and craved ‘The Little Inn’s’ crabcakes. I know all too well how good their food is there. I use to go in there with Brian when we dated and had late night snacks-mostly their chicken salad clubs. I promptly gained about 20 pounds in two years! So I had another chicken salad club yesterday and mom got a fried seafood platter with her beloved crabcakes. She said The Little Inn’s crabcakes were so delicious next to the other place. She took most of her meal home (she eats like a bird) and I took a quarter of my club home. Sean was there (remember Penn State is about 4 miles from my mom’s). He was working on an English paper. I decided to take the impatiens and other flowers back outside. I told mom it wasn’t worth trying to save them. Then I started to sweep and vacuum and just tidy up. She is pulling boxes out of bedrooms and one had all these loose family photos in it, many of which are fading. I should get that box, sort them and put them in a big album. Mom started to weep because of the shingles/sciatica pain she has daily. She needed a hug and an ice pack.
After a while we went to a local shopping center where we went in a store called ‘Five Below’ (everything is $5 and under) and I got a few things for my brother for his birthday. We then went into a new Mexico restaurant so Sean could get dinner (I got a kiddie meal to share with mom until she ate the rest of her lunch). We then ventured into JoAnn’s and I picked up some yarn. I am getting addicted to yarn.
When we got home, all ‘my’ shows were much better than last week. So it was nice to settle in and enjoy them. I then went looking for a neat background for my blog and borrowed the one from a Conan O’Brien site (I was checking in there to see if his wife had baby #2 and she did, a boy they named Beckett!). I lightened the star background a bit and made a new banner. I got my eyes nice and tired for my eye doctor appt. today-not smart.

Your Birthdate: November 19

You are resilient, and no doubt your resilience has already been tested. You’ve had some difficult experiences in your life, but you are wise from them. Having had to grow up quickly, you tend to discount the advice of others. You tend to be a loner, having learned that the only person you can depend on is yourself. Your strength: Well developed stability and confidence Your weakness: Suspicion of others Your power color: Eggplant Your power symbol: Spade Your power month: October

Barbara asked if any of the above rang true. And actually most of it does. I surely have been tested as being an only daughter and sister. I am from a broken home. I feel like I had to grow up fast. I was ‘working’ (babysitting) for spending money from age 11 to 20. I have held a number of jobs since those early years. The most important ‘job’ to me is being a mom for 19 yrs.
As for being a loner-I am more of an introvert, but when I go out to social events or even the post office, people seem to like to talk to me. I certainly don’t need to be lead around by any individual or a group of people. I have plenty to keep me entertained at home, so I am never bored.
I may be suspicious of older men because of my father.
I prefer the color aquamarine/teal over eggplant.
I had Sean in October, so that month means a lot to me.
The next time I go to Atlantic City I’ll look for spades!

I guess we will take a daytrip to Dover, DE. for my birthday. Someday we’ll have to go to Dover Downs, the racetrack, but Sean is always with us and he’s under age. I love this big store there called Atlantic Book warehouse-it’s huge! Then we may go to a few other stores and then to dinner. That is about exciting as it gets.
We’ve been to Smithville, NJ and then Atlantic City one year. Other years we went to Bucks County to Peddler’s Village and ate at a great brunch and strolled among the stores.

Today’s “Stitching Blogger’s Question” was suggested by Dawn and is:
When comparing large projects versus small projects, which do you get more excited about finishing?
I am extremely pleased with myself for completing any project, large or small. To tell you the truth, if it’s too big I am usually sick of it and glad to start something else.

I had to get a filling late this afternoon and had my first laser treatment. They use it on teeth that don’t contain metal. I didn’t have novacaine and it still hurt. I almost freaked. It was a pricey procedure as it was over $200! I feel like double checking that charge. My tooth looks like new but it was bothering me a bit tonight.
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Jon Corzine won for NJ governor with 53% of the vote, in case you are interested.
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I hit a great sale at Peebles, the nearby dept store. Got a load of a nice Halloween things for 75% off! I plan to put them away for next year for eBay. I have quite a few containers that look like antique paper mache candy holders. So cute.
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I’m slowly but surely getting my Love Quilts squares done. That little bear on the hat box is a pain with all the color changes in shades of off white. Give me a break!

Ok, I am so glad not to see those butt kicking ads on tv between John Corzine and Doug Forrester after today. Especially since I don’t even live in New Jersey! We share Philly tv stations with southern Jersey, lucky us. Even the gals at ‘The View’ had something to say about how bad these ads have been. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is a Republican (the only thing I don’t like about her are most of her politic views) said she won’t vote for Forrester either. Forrester contacted Corzine’s ex-wife for his ads. How stinky is that?
I hate, and I mean hate campaign ads in general. Makes you want to just watch cable all the time. Do I plan to vote today for people who I don’t even know ‘just because’ it’s election day? I know I should, but I probably won’t. I don’t know the candidates anyway. So bad, but whoever gets whatever isn’t that important to me since I live in an area that slants so much one way, if you get my drift.

I’m definitely having fun with this blogger template stuff. I have made at least 9 banners. I am almost at the correct length, but it’s shaping up! If you think the blue is too dark, let me know. Thanks to you all for you comments of interest and encouragement!
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I bought 3 crochet magazines at Borders Books yesterday! They have some really cute things in them and I started a Ponchette from ‘Crochet Fantasy’ magazine (oh yes, don’t we all fantasize about crocheting!). I am a little hung up on the main design area. It’s amazing how much more patience I have now with directions.
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I’ts 1:11 am and I am wide awake. I better sign off and do a little reading to get me tired.