Monday, April 29, 2019

WoW 3


This week finds us in another short week since we did not have to use any of our allotted bad weather days.  We have a girls/college campus looking trip scheduled this weekend so there are things to look forward to.  With that in mind, it is never to early in life to remind your children to Never forget where they came from and to never lose site of where they are going.  Goals are important and working towards them needs to be a fundamental life practice instead of just existing day to day.



We get too busy in life, focusing on what needs to get accomplished we forget sometimes to just enjoy our journey.  Without a smile on our face, we can give the impression we are not happy or that we are stuck up.  I like to remind J that a smile is the prettiest thing you can wear.




How many times have we heard "it's what's on the inside that counts"?  Too many to count in my lifetime, we say that but honestly do people believe it in the world we live in today?  
I believe that people will remember the kindness of your heart rather than what your outward appearance was.  I chose to remind 
J this week of that very thing. 


As J prepares to drop her next cover song on Instagram, one can always send a  reminder to work at putting out her best material.   If she is happy with it, that is all that matters.   Work hard in silence and let success make the noise. 



                                                


College Campus visit trip ?  Yes, college will be 2 years away after she completes this year, but it is never too early to have your eye on a prize, acceptance into the Musical Theatre Dept of the college of your choice 😉.

Friday, April 26, 2019

Digital Media Friday 2


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Welcome to the 2nd installment of my Digital Media Friday post.
My knowledge of filters for photos have been limited at best. I get what I get when I take a picture.  My daughter has been asking for filters for her Instagram account.  What? They make preset filters for photos... why yes, yes they do.


I took my introduction to this through Creative Market to look at the available filters. Never knew there were so many options.  I concentrated on ones that worked with the app Lightroom since my phone is what I use to take pretty much all of my photos these days.  

Here are some of the ones that drew my attention.



The 70+ Travel Lightroom Presets is described as a wide variety of effects to be applied to travel photos, the presets contained in the collection have been carefully created to give the phots of landscapes an exceptional light and tones.

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The Summer Pack Travel Blogger Presets is described as having everything you'll need to edit your travel photos.  It has 16 presets that were made with 'Summer' in mind.

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The Dreamy Lightroom Presets has 5 presets for Lightroom and Photoshop along and 5 presets for Mobile Lightroom. It has as a bonus a "Basic Tool Kit" with 64 Tool Presets to help correct white balance, contrast, saturation, noise, sharpness, brightness, etc.

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The 60+ Instagram Trend 2019 Lightroom Presets is a collection  that can be used with Photoshop and Lightroom that includes 60+  Lightroom Mobile Presets to enhance your phots.  This is the preset filters that we purchased for my "Instagram posting daughter".

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The Magic Touch Lightroom Presets will give your images a bright, clean look. You need it if you’re a fan of clear and white look, especially if you like modern, bright decor. It really lightens pale tones what adds freshness to photos.

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Hope you find these ideas useful when you get ready to look for some Lightroom preset filters.







Monday, April 22, 2019

WoW 2


This week we rolled in to Monday with...
    My daughter loves the movie and soundtrack from Mamma Mia. 
I loved the music of the group Abba back in the 70's and hear it in the movie Mamma Mia can sure take you back in time.

Tuesday was "recording day" for her Instagram singing channel so she needed something to remind her of why she decided to start the channel...



Wednesday brought the pause to appreciate all that was good in  your life...






Thursday, the last day before a holiday weekend when you just want to be done … her love of turtles inspired this one










Friday, April 19, 2019

Digital Media Friday 1


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I feel like I have started late to the party of finding the wonderful website called Creative Market.  The market themselves as the "world's marketplace for design".  I started looking and found I could spend hours looking at all of the available items....  I decided I would focus this week on some of the wonderful font bundles that caught my attention. 

I love all of the different fonts to chose from.  Who doesn't like having a unique font for the items that you create? The beauty of this is that on each font you can type in wording to try it out.  Yes, you read that correctly.  Besides just seeing the typical "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" lettering, you have to option to see the wording of your choice in the font !  How epic is that!


The Pretty Script Bundle as seen below, is described by the designer as most favorite and popular fonts and includes a varied range of styles including brush calligraphy, signature, luxury scripts, hand lettering, sans serif and more.  My fav from this bundle would have to be the Ever Enigmatic font.
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The Rustic Font Bundle as seen below, is described by the designer as the best farmhouse chic font options for those needing a collection of beautiful shabby fonts for your project. My fav from this bundle is hard, but if I had to chose, it would be the Magnolia Plantation Inline.

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The Farmhouse Collection Bundle as seen below, is described by the designer as a giant country bundle that boats 12 fonts, 30 pre-designed logos, and over 270 hand drawn farmhouse vectors.  Wow! is all I can say... My fav from this bundle is undoubtedly the Magnolia Merchant Extras.
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The Handwritten Font Bundle as seen below, is described by the designer as having 23 font packed in 17 font families.  My fav from this bundle is the Think-Pink and Think-Pink Extras.
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The Calligraphy Font Bundle as seen below, is described by the designer as The Handlettering Manuscript is a scratch font calligraphy pen with 44 different font types in this bundle. My fav from this bundle is the Belanda Line. 
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Monday, April 15, 2019

WoW 1






Middle School years can be tough on kids, my daughter was no different.    I decided that I needed to provide her with a "thought for the day" , something she could focus on.  Words you impart to your child are always good, but seeing it in print seems to provide a lasting influence. 



For the past 5 years, every day when she gets out of the car to head into school, I text her her Words of Wisdom for the day.  I try to make it relevant for what she may be dealing with.  Whether she is walking in for an audition,  needs a boost of confidence, basic encouragement, or just something funny to make her laugh.  



I am not sure what she will tell you about it, but I can tell you it does this mamma's heart good when I get my return text of "thank you".  I would like to believe that it does make a difference in her day.  



Get ready for my "Words of Wisdom" from 5 years past and current...
Feel free to use and share if any of these touch your heart.












The winner of the week 😊