Well hey, walkin--nice to see you pass through even if you can't help directly -- it's just nice to know you care :) lynn, hey, you want to split a membership? :) Do they have an entry for "group membership for the terminally 'frugal'"? And Thanks, Jodi! I found that too but of course you know I want to know...um...what that one piece they have on record went for :) I'm sure it's not much, but a girl gets curious... And amy, correct as always :). I also found some classic Oregon art pottery there today by Wally Schwab. I MUST stop (sure...with things like this waiting for me--yesterday I found an amazing, masterful opalescent gold/purple inside/crimson rim ribbed blown, signed glass vase--I should take pics. It's just incredible, the art around here). The Jennison is such a darling little picture -- I have it just to the right of my head, up against the wall. It's a little owl with huge eyes, peering out of a hole in a tree trunk. In oil pastel. In a simple very cool mitered walnut frame with an offwhite mat and nonglare glass. Her signature is in small opaque white caps, very easy to read. It's in a group display with two serigraphs, one huge, one smaller, that I got from my favorite gallery as well :)--all of them have a dominant vertical orientation to tie them together. Yes, I'm hopeless. :)

I've messed around with a few photo apps (Photogene, Fotoir, Juxtaposer). But I find the greatest versatility simply using Keynote (mostly on the Ipad now) and then taking a screen shot of the finished product. When I was playing around with pulls/knobs, I used one of the photo apps to erase everything but the picture of the item, and then used Keynote to place them on pics of my cabinets. I'm sure there are easier ways, but I'm familiar with these programs, so it was quick and got me there good enough. Have fun experimenting!

Sorry..I had company come in after I posted this! That's perfect,Chloecat! I'm so sorry if I neglected to thank you before...but I'm thanking you now, for the other one..AND this one! It'll probably be about a week before I get the block done (gotta get Christmas packed up for another year), but I promise to post pics of the finished block! Thanks again so much. I have a couple of old photo editing programs..but they're pretty limited on what I can do in them!!

I have spent days at my computer trying to organize, sort, prioritize and find a medium to deal with my photos that have been taken with my iPhone. Our oldest grandchild is now 8 years old. It was at that time that we began to have grandchildren and that we both got smart phones that the photos began to pile up. One grandson lives close so he has been with us a lot and I would always take a photo of what he was doing and send it to his Mommy throughout the day. Then, we have two more that don't live close enough that we actually see them much, but their parents send almost daily videos and photos of things that they do. Needless to say, my computer has become a place where photos are/were resting in every corner. I had to begin to sort through and put them into some categories that made sense and to bring them all together where they can be seen. There were multiple copies of them, everywhere!!! It was a mess!! After days and days of gathering, placing in files by category and then editing through everything from Photo apps, to thumb drives, to external drives, to old computers. I have finally gotten them corralled and have begun to selectively edit them. What a lot of photos that never should have been kept! Those are easy to get rid of. You know those photos. We all have them. Then, there are those multiple quicks shots where you end up with ten photos of, basically, the same thing. What to do with the ones that make the cut? The idea is to take a selection of them and have them printed up and to give each of the grands a book of photos that we had taken of them. The rest will go onto remote media and a few will remain on the computer and the phone just to have to use once in a while. I hope to clear all of my digital files and empty the trash. What has painfully occurred to me is that, once grandpa and I are gone, who is going to ever look at them again, unless the grands maybe have a copy that is easy to access. The idea of photos has changed in modern life. So many photos are just a flash of the monment and are not meant to be saved. That is the modern way. These photos are but one more thing that I need to clear out so that I can appreciate what is there, so that it can be put into some medium that makes sense, and that my kids won't have to deal with after I am gone. There are still so many photos that have to be dealt with. There are vintage ones from past lives and there are boxes of school pictures and 4x6 prints from when the kids were coming up. What a job!!! I have been at it for days! Anyone else care to share their experience? What a realization that a photo does not mean what it once did. I have very few from my past life.