Author: vanessa joie

picnik

August 3, 2009

Thank you everyone for the feedback. And thank Vanessa for suggesting Picnik. For only $24.95 a year I decided to try it out. I like it. I like it a lot.

My stupid, stupid scanner is insisting that it is not connected to my computer… which is obviously a lie since I can see the connection… it’s RIGHT THERE… see? But I’m too pooped to put up much of a fight.

So I used one of the photos I already had uploaded and played around with it for a little bit. What do you think? Have you used Picnik?


original

picnik-ed

picnik-ed

picnik-ed

I do love Polaroids just the way they are… but it was fun playing with the colors.

feedback please

August 2, 2009

In order to make my little blog home a little cozier and prettier I’ve been playing with the layout of my blog and I need some help.

Are you having to scroll to the right to see the full screen?

Does the font for the “about me” section on the right look different than the rest? Does it look squished?
(I’ve looked in different browsers and can’t tell anymore)

Any suggestions or feedback in general? I know I need a new header but am currently without photoshop.

Anyway please be honest (but be nice too k?)

Thanks very much in advance.

photo by Jen Gotch

ready, set… freak out

August 1, 2009

My brother and his family are coming to visit for a week. I am really excited to see them but it will definitely make for a stressful week. My family loves the drama. I’m trying not to completely freak out before they even get here. I can’t wait to see my niece and nephew though… they are the cutest kids ever.

Right now I’m taking a late night break from cleaning and getting things ready for them. Getting some sleep will probably keep the stress at bay.

photo credit

If by Rudyard Kipling

July 31, 2009


If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master;
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run –
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!

(one of my very favorite poems)

photo

quirks

July 30, 2009


Inspired by Emily’s post here are a few of mine:

I like to drink milk with pizza and Mexican food.
.
I don’t like anything that makes your feet look like hands (i.e. toe socks).
.
I have very specific soda preferences:
out of a can = Pepsi, from the fountain = Coke.
.
When I’m really sleepy I get cold.
.
Watching anything with Keanu Reeves causes rage blackouts (okay, not really but close). Even thinking about watching something with him makes me crazy. Sorry Keanu…
.
It drives me crazy when people use “oh” as a number. It’s a LETTER… Zero is a number.
.
The overuse of quotation marks drives me bonkers.
.
No matter how much stationary or how many pens I have I will always buy more.
.
I name things – my car, my TV, my toaster…
(note: I don’t talk to the things I name I promise.)
.
I can’t look at people who put their fingers on their face/ in their mouth (nail biting etc.)
.
I love the feel of cold water on my hands.
.
If I am drinking something hot I have to have something cold to drink in between sips.
.
I can only drink water when it’s ice cold.
.
When I’m alone in the car I sing the songs from “Annie” at the top of my lungs… and after being in the show I know them all.
.
After reading Sarah Palin’s resignation speech I’m even more uptight about good grammar and punctuation.
.
Sometimes I will still read a children’s book
(right now it’s The BFG.)

What are some of yours?

photo credit

a strawberry house

July 29, 2009

Okay, so it’s a shop not a house but still… these photos of a Sanrio shop in Tokyo on Jollygoo’s blog and all my dreams of growing up to be Strawberry Shortcake came rushing back at me. If I ever move to Tokyo I’m living in a stawberry shaped house for sure.

prettiest polaroids

July 28, 2009

Some of my favorite bloggers take the prettiest polaroids. Want to see?

Jen Gotch got me hooked on Polaroids whether she knows it or not. Her photos are beautiful and the composition is lovely. You should check our her Flickr page.



I love Melanie’s (of You Are My Fave) polaroids. I love them so much I signed up for her Polaroid subscription. There is nothing happier than getting Polaroids in the mail.



I very recently found Taza and husband’s blog. She shares my love of Polaroids, Holgas, Dianas and most recently Holgaroids.



There are more but I’ll start with these three lovely ladies.