Photoshop before and after

I shared this photo back in October, but I processed it a different way for today.
SOOC:

Orton effect using ReDynaMix plug-in, cropped, cloned out wires, blue sky using Smart Brush tool in PSE7, USM for web at 50/0.3/0.


Another from back in the fall that I hadn't shown before.
SOOC:


Same Orton technique as above:

Shamrock

Cake and Snuggies

DD's birthday cake. It looked better than it tasted.

I got her a Snuggie for her birthday. It was worth the money just to watch her crack up when she opened it.

13

Thirteen years ago today my little baby girl was born.

We got this in the mail a few weeks later. It was one of those, "Hey, thanks for spending a bajillion dollars with us!" gifts from the hospital where she was born. It's porcelain and about 3 inches long and has all her birth stats. Sweet memento.

Well, except for this:
Her name is Delaney, not Deloney. We did get a huge kick out of imagining the worker who personalized it saying, "WTH kind of a name is Deloney?" And this little shoe is why one of her nicknames is Baloney..

Photoshop before and after

Before:

And after. I didn't do much, just boost contrast and color and USM:

Suckage

We've had over two feet of snow in the last week. Last night the power went out and didn't come back on until late this afternoon.

Cam went out to clean off the satellite dishes so we'd be up and running when the power came back on.


That's a four foot fence. The TV satellite is almost completely covered, and the internet one is caked with snow.

My dad always wants to know how much snow we got in the latest storm. It's always hard to tell when there's already snow on the ground. Last night we got this much (that's the light on my garage):

We think it was somewhere between 18 and 24 inches. My in-laws got 3 feet; they're 1-1/2 hours north of us.

Who needs Craig's List?

Who needs Craig's List when you have Uncle Henry's weekly swap it or sell it guide? You can buy a car, a gun, livestock, puppies (that's how we found Baxter), computers, old exercise equipment and on and on.



One of my favorite categories is "Free for the taking":
Take out the bit about the stray beagle, and it's like he could be selling me.

"Good for pets or soup." Heh.


I also like the "Wanted" category:
Yeah, that's not creepy at all. "Excuse me, m'am, but I'm going to need to do a strip search. I'm an officer of the law."


Family jewels and old jugs. That just appeals to the 12-year-old in me.