Fiddling with photos and music

Today begins Kim's Skinny Minny course on using PSE8.  Some of this I guess I'll know but Kim is so talented that I just want to pick up all that I can from her.  The first class was a tour round PSE8's workspace and then the second was adding text and cropping.  I have done this before but it made me just look at a picture a little differently so I could add text.  Oh and of course textures which also are Kim's work.  Talk about creative.

No words here but textures abound.  Spring is sprung and some of the flowers are already losing their petals.  This climbing rose surprised us when it bloomed with a mass of tiny yellow flowers.  It looked a bit worse for wear and we weren't expecting much from it.  A new garden is always interesting as the seasons wind on.  There are little things popping up around here I never knew were here.  

A request please.  I have a new car and it takes a usb stick that I can load literally thousands of songs on.  So of course I have downloaded all my golden oldies and some really are oldies.  Remember I said some time back that for about 13 years I never listened to anything but christian music, so MC banger, hammer, whatever and hip hop, jump up, jump down, swing your partner all around, etc, well they are not as familiar to me as to some of you maybe.  But I love music, all sorts, except dirty songs, yuk, why would you, and heavy metal.  Hip hops not my fav but a little is ok.  So I have been trolling the net listening to youtube etc and putting songs on my little stick,  370 odd so far how cool is that!  Jamie  at Lyrical Journey has pointed me in the right direction through her amazing blog, which includes a song for every occasion.  So my request is please, leave a comment about some of your favourite songs, so I can include them if possible to my collection.  It'd be really neat to know that I am listening to your favourites too.

A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

THE BEGINNING

So Hi to everyone who might stumble across my blog. I hope you like it, no I hope you love it. I just want a place to talk to you, to share with you, to laugh and cry and argue and debate the things that make our lives interesting. And first cab off the rank,

• Movie Songs

Yeah those songs that seriously make you jump up and just dance when you hear them. They make you sing out loud, out of tune and most of the time the wrong words. We all have the songs and the movies that do that to us. Like on Sunday night we watched Mama Mia and who doesn't know every Abba song in that movie!! Well as it turns out I don't oops so I just sing out loud the wrong words, who cares I'm having a ball and the teenage daughters are going nuts. And my next fav sing along is from My Best Friend's Wedding you know which one don't you, yep sitting in the restaurant, cracking those crabs or lobsters and they all start singing "Say a Little Prayer" I love it, love it love it. So tell me what's your favourite sing out loud, out of tune movie song?

I want to share some pictures with you too, pictures that talk about my family, the things that make me happy, the pictures that stir memories. We all have them, those pictures that can bring back even the smell of the ocean, the feel of the salt on our skin, the sting of the sunburn, the laughter of the holiday. That's what this picture does for me. A late afternoon walk on the beach with my husband and two of my three daughters. I love pictures of people walking. I love to imagine what they were talking about, where they intended to go, did they actually get there? Were they in a hurry or just wandering...I wonder.

So until next time take a walk, sing some songs out of key and loudly......have funxx