LIFES A BEACH!
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Barbara..Im drooling.
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Just what you don't want to see on the beach.
Now this is more like it.
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Its nice to be among friends again.
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Booked a hotel for Hawaii in two weeks. Hopefully we will have time to enjoy some beach time. The pics are getting me in the mood.
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Barb, the beach looks like a dream...
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I just walked out the door and what did I see...
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Wow-much nicer here than on FB
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I was hoping to inspire our Faith, with a daisy for her speech
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How did you get the black background Lisa? I have a black cloth I use in greenhouses....
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Actually Barbe, I just used the darken button in Picasa,
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you start with something like this
and turn it into something like this..doesn't work with all the pix
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i had to go back to find the wild banana.. am so glad i did! wow! you get THAT when you google fruit.. i'm amazed. i haven't been on, and am running out of breath, but is it from the pics, or running to catch up??welcome back, dreamwriter. we need to come here more often, see all we miss?my save as picture option nearly burned out.heheheee 3jays0
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Good morning Beachettes.
Glad to see you splashing in the waves Dream.
You have amazing talent Lisa.
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Two hours and seventeen minutes to go before I'm on the biggest stage of my life.
I came in here to be among friends & calm myself down.
The bouquet of flowers would have me in tears, but I took a happy pill.
LOL.
But THE MOST AMAZING thing of all, is Sharon's post to our Dream-girl above.
The subject of my keynote is "DREAM."
Seriously.
It's the coda of my first book, and the moral of the story.
Jumpin' Jambalaya!!!!!!
Sending love up & down the beach -- to each.
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You may not grasp this significance, but last year their keynote was Ella Jenkins. This year it's little ol' me.
Give me another Jumpin' Jambalaya.
(She was 82 and is the grande dame of all things, children's music.)
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I wish we were all there to see your performance.
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Faith we are gathered here to stand beside you! Dream!!!!
Lisa, Picasso is amazing! Like Photoshop but online...right? I'm so impressed you use it.!
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Barbe, Picasa3 is a free download from Google..you can work with it offline on your
computer or online too and have a web album. I love it because it is easy
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3jays, really truly...! "Party fruit", pg 11. Glad you spent some time catching up with the beachies! lol
Lisa, I love your daisy photos. Thanks so much for sharing your download program. That looks like a lot of fun, with really cool effects.
Faith, I hope your presentation went well. We send you our collective sweet dreams!
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I did go to the real beach this morning., sunny and seventy
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That's gorgeous, Lisa! I love sea birds. The ripples with the bird's reflection are lovely.
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We're back in pitch-dark Florida. I can tell because there are palm trees.
The luggage all made it.
We have another hour to home.
Beachie kids...... I'm likely to be "high" for the next couple 'o weeks. This was such an awesome experience on so very many levels.
I was at this conference 48 hours before my BILAT, last January..... so returning and presenting the keynote, was such the cherry. Such a full circle. Such a full heart.
Everything went brilliantly. It was in a big theatre/auditorium. I had a crew of 4 tech/sound/light guys to my disposal for the entire morning.
The funniest thing happened during the sound check. A fellow was delivering the drinking water for the podium for me and he was listening to the first of my songs of my keynote. He quite innocently said, "Hey, I could dance to that!"
To make a short story long, LOL, he came back in time for the kickoff and danced with me...... I then asked if anyone in the audience wanted to audition for "So ya Think ya can dance" with us. In a heart beat, another 10 women were on the stage.
Anyhow, the water guy, Keith, proceeded to wow them with his moon walk, worm, popping moves. It was soooooooooooo cool & so much fun to start off with such a big bang. The others got a prize for coming up to help.
Then the very next song I used was my one where I use a lot of sign language...... Yesterday I met a group of three teachers who are deaf and their interpreter..... I asked them if they would be willing to join me on stage..... they assured me that they didn't want to, but after a LOT of coaxing they relented.
Their participation was brilliant. I wish I could have 'seen' them from the audience perspective. Stellar and amazing and heart-warming and and and and and and and and flat out awesome.
We ran out of product and will be shipping a lot of orders.
I'm still pinching myself.
A million contacts. My favorite is the curator of the local Art Museum who wants to create a display, where she would create work with students/children in response to my first book/quilts and culminate in my visit for public launch. I was able to show her the amazing photos from my NY residency last month and she was off to the races.
The only down side in all of this, is that I have like zippo pictures. I asked my friend to take them and somehow she garbled up the setting..... I have about 4 dozen pictures of what looks like frozen petrie dishes from a science experiment gone hay-wire. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
My biggest deal to date and no documentation: ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH
Oh well, you'll have to believe me. it was awesome!!!!!
I could go on and on and on.................
Golly, it's fun to do what ya love, isn't it???
Thanks for holding my hand when I need it.
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LOVE to all the beachie-kids!! Will I fall asleep tonight???
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Wow, sounds like a wonderful experience, Faithie.
My grandfather was deaf and I rememebr the enthusiam he had when he was in front of an audience, be it us grandchildren or a whole group. I was going through some of my videos and found one of my paternal grandparents. Both were deaf and it was beautiful to be able to know what they were "saying" in their silent home movies. (your story just spurred a memory, sorry for going off topic)
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What a wonderful memory for you Meece.
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Faith, it sounds like it was all meant to be, just exactly as it was!
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Way to go Faith. We knew you would wow them.
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Faith! You ROCK! What a fabulous time it sounds was had by all!
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Way to go Faith..now some much needed time on the beach..relax
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Faith, ocean view fireworks for you! Congratulations!!!
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Faith, you might be the only one of us who is surprised to hear how wonderfully things went! I love the water guy story, and the sign language part. Good things follow good people, so it only follows that these things would follow you. Hope all the contacts turn into positive leads.
Meece, don't you just love it when something comes up out of the blue and brings up a memory that makes us feel good? I had that recently with a food item ... took me back to my childhood dining room table with mom, dad, four brothers and one sister. Started an email chain among us recalling various memories from our youth. Fun stuff
Lisa, Picasa was pre-loaded on my computer when I bought it and was the first program of choice that would open after I downloaded my pictures from any camera. I love it too, although I haven't experimented nearly enough with the available settings. I just tried the darken feature (is that shadows?) Didn't seem to change it as much as yours, but still pretty cool - thanks for sharing that tip!
Here's before changing the shadowing
and here's after....can't wait to play more! this was at Longwood Gardens in PA last Mother's Day by the way ...
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pretty pretty Marlegal
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