Jobee's Journal

Ok so part of my job is helping teachers & students with using software on the laptops they are given. The laptops have an Adobe suite on them that includes Photoshop Elements. So to teach myself how to use it I've been trying to design some digital scrapbook pages - may as well learn on something that's useful. Yes I could go & get some of the ready made stuff, but that kinda defeats the purpose of learning how to do it myself! The last few times I've tried I've had little success, giving up before I get anything much achieved. I spent yesterday watching a whole heap of online videos about Photoshop Elements - it must have helped cause I finally got something done. The whole layers thing was confusing me. That and other things like having to accept the changes to a photo etc before being able to do anything else (including minimising the screen). But a whole lot of time today without interruptions (everyone else is on holidays) helped. I made the mistake yest...

E LOVES horse riding. She goes to RDA in the next town - RDA stands for Riding Develops Ability (used to be called Riding for the Disabled). In the next town they have it every 2nd Monday during Term 2 & Term 3 - it's generally too hot the rest of the year (for riders & volunteers) Riding started again last Tuesday. So riding on Saturday was the 2nd time she'd been back in the saddle since last October. You would have thought she'd been riding all that time. Straight up into the saddle - they have a special mounting ramp so it's easy for all the riders. She'd had to wait for a while - the adults went first. She collected her helmet & boots then sat patiently waiting until it was her turn to ride Nay. Nay is the horse she generally rides - Request is the other horse she rides sometimes. Nay is a grey horse - she tells us all grey horses are Nay! They have a course they follow - moving flags side to side, over a pretend bridge, posting a letter - all ...

Over the Easter weekend we go camping (most years anyway). We go out to P's cousins property & camp in the bush. This was the first time for SJ & we weren't sure she'd like it. See the smile on her face? It was there for most of the time we were there! She loved it. Early on she asked where the sink & bath were (the toilet had to be hurriedly put together when she needed to go!) She ran around most of the weekend with no shoes, playing in the dirt. We had to soak her feet on the last morning. It looked like she had a huge splinter in her foot - but it was just a cut that was full of dirt. The only bandaids we had wouldn't stick (I'd already proved that after I'd burnt my hand the day before), so she got her foot bandaged - she then ran around with 1 gumboot & 1 sneaker until I took her home. E & M love it too. The biggest attraction is the quadrunner. Fortunately they aren't big enough to ride them by themselves. SJ sits up front with who...

I'm playing with my iPod - found this app to write blog posts. I'm not that great at typing with one finger - but I suppose with practice I'll get used to it. Only drawback to having an iPod touch rather than an iPhone is that I can't take photos. Oh & I have to be where there is wireless to be able to post. Neither are biggies at the minute. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPod

Image'>http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=659">Image : Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net We have had a relatively quiet day. I've had a headache so haven't wanted to do much. We did go to our local Museum for the Australia Day ceremony. It wasn't much - a few speeches, a few awards presented & some Aussie poetry. The kids were really good - only getting fidgety right at the end. The Australia Day Ambassador was Noel Cleal - a football player from the 70's - 80's. I thought there would be more people than there was seeing as Rugby League is popular in town. And especially as Noel Cleal is involved with the Manly Sea Eagles where a famous player from our town plays. Maybe it was the heat or who knows? After the formal part the kids went & got their sample bags - SJ was very excited to get a flag - and then promptly broke it. We had sausage sizzle for lunch, then had a look through the museum. We've ...

I've had this blog set up for a while, but haven't done anything about it. I set it up with the aim of showing off some of the notebooks I make. I kept a Xanga blog for a while, but it's kinda been left to rot now. So the notebooks I make - there's an example to the left. It's basically a photo made into a notebook. The original instructions (which I'll post when I work out how to post links etc) has a photo for the front & back page. I did this to start with, but now work with recycled cereal boxes etc for the back cover. Inside are a mix of new & recycled pages - though some have all recycled or all new pages. And it's developed from there - I've made them out of cereal boxes covered with pretty paper, used the packaging from drinks, iceblocks & am making some now made from free postcards I picked up in Sydney. The photos are ones I've taken myself. So far I've used the one with the bottlebrush + a blossom one but I've got a l...