It’s such a fun I Heart Faces Fix-it-Friday this week! We get to edit this photograph of a beautiful and happy little girl taken last week by Amy Locurto.


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I’ve spent the past few days ignoring the pending articles I have to write and concentrating on a new index layout. I wanted something more in the style of a magazine and though I searched high and low for a WordPress theme that would meet my needs, I did not like any of the options. So I tore the WordPress loop inside and out, dusted off my PHP ( Read more... )

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Folks, I am days behind in editing photos. Because of this, there will be no Friday Finds this week. I’m sorry! You can browse through previous weeks and check out my currently surfing page if you want to find some great links!

This week I purchased Patti Brown’s Kaleidoscope Light Set and MCP Action’s Quickie Collection and All in the Details. ( Read more... )

Take a moment to look at these and let me know what you think!


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More experimenting tonight with Kaleidoscope textures. I promise, I’m getting it out of my system and will not be using them so heavily in all my pictures from now on.


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Building a Better Blog is hosting a Photo Improvement Contest and I thought this would be an excellent chance to play more with the Kaleidoscope textures without having to go and shoot. Hopefully I’ll get my submission entered in time; it was a woefully short entry period of just two days!

The challenge is to simply improve this photo:


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Tonight I purchased the Kaleidoscope Gallery Collection from Patti Brown. It’s a set of textures and overlays and they are truly beautiful! I can’t wait to try them out on my photos! I would really have loved the Light Set, but that was $20 more so I’ll need to save up for that. If we can budget for it, I want to be able to spend $40-$50 a ( Read more... )