Fixing My TV

I have done, or tried to do, several things in my life. However, I NEVER had fixed a TV before.
My TV went dead last Friday (of course!). I only allow my kids to watch TV on Friday and the weekends. Needless to say, they were not happy.

Lights on the TV console blinked... Manuals??? Where are they when you need them? This time, I did not even spend any second to find: I just googled and got the manual online.
My diagnostic: the lamp (it is a projection TV). With all my experience (yeahh, right), I was sure that was it. Ok, may be not... :-)

Google again... How to fix it? I found some videos on YouTube. It sure gave me confidence (ok, a little bit).

Friday night, I looked how much it would cost. Oh, no... Another stone on my way: the lamp had a new model number... Questions on my mind... I decided that I had information overload, and would only think about again on Saturday.

I found this store and decided to order from them. Next problem: the change of models. Even though I do not like to talk to sales (I rather order online), I decided that I needed to ask about the model number. The guy mambled, and that was enough for me to just go ahead and order.
Oh, wait a minute... He decided to ask questions. Well, he asked about the sound on the TV. With all my experience, I finally told him what I heard... Did it sound right? Who knows :-)...
Ordered my lamp, very nervously, as I really do not know what I was doing.

Lamp arrived today, I did the things that I could remember when I watched the video. Put things back to the TV, and the final moment: turn on the TV, and expecting it to blow :-)
Ok, I am an electronic engineer, but never worked as one: I worked as a Software engineer (that was my grad degrees). My child was like: mommy, get away from the TV. That shows confidence:-)

TV is working!!!! I am so happy. See, you can do it!

Thanks for "listening"
-luiza

Changing My Blog Organization

After a lot of thinking, and noticing the blogs that I like, I decided to separate this blog into 4 others. The decision is based on what I've noticed in terms of the blogs that I enjoy visiting often: they are focused in one particular thing. Because I have tons of interests (there goes the busy), I better separated the interests into different blogs.

I republish all the articles in the new blogs, according to their categories.

One is dedicated to my needlework crafts. The url is: CreativeBusyHandsNeedle.blogspot.com

The other is dedicated to scrapbooking, usually digital :-) The url is: CreativeBusyHandsScrapbooking.blogspot.com I will be posting the rest of the album in this blog.

Another blog will be dedicated to any cooking recipes that I like to share. The url is: CreativeBusyHandsCooks.blogspot.com

Finally, the other blog is for publishing technical stuff, usually related to Gimp and Ubuntu. The url is CreativeBusyHandsTechie.blogspot.com

I am still setting up the new blogs. However, if you use Firefox you can subscribe to them already in a Reader.

I have to try this organization. If it does not work... I will return to just one blog.

Thanks, -luiza

Album For Teacher - 7

Still working on my mission: build an album for a teacher.

For this layout, I used the Travel Kit Collection from ScrapbooksGoneDigital. Great kit for boy and travel!

To get the effects that I wanted, I used some tricks... The Journal Tag was "rebuilt". I took the journal tag from the kit, desaturated, and used as a template. After that, I created a layer big enough to "hold" the journal tag. Then, used the overlay feature on layers to produce the tag with the colour that I wanted.

The other effect is the left side bar. I used the bar available in the kit, then deleted, using a background color similar to the red paper, each hole. It did not take too much time at all. You only need to make the size of the brush the size of the hole or a little bit bigger.

Now for the "ribbons". They are just the tag elements that were resized to be a reasonable ribbon size.

What do you think?

Album For Teacher - 6

For this layout, I used the Rider Kit from ScrapbooksGoneDigital. Great kit for boy layouts!


For this layout I used the stitches element available in the kit, and repeat, using duplicate layer, to "stitch" around the frame. The "Happy Birthday" tag was made using the Blank License, also available in the kit, as a template. I shrink one of the paper, only big enough to "fit" the license.

What do you think?

Album For Teacher - 5

Still in my mission to finish the album for a teacher.

For this layout, I used the Graduation Kit from ScrapbooksGoneDigital. This kit has great colors for boy layouts, I think.
For this layout, I also used name "lkane_temp01". I wish again I had the site to give an accurate credit.

I used the background of the template as an overlay. The overlaid paper is part of the kit mentioned above.

The element behind the photograph is one of the tags in the kit. I oversized and treated as a normal paper. One of the buttons is also an element that I oversized.

What do you think?