Album for Teacher - 2

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

This time I used the "Wanted" element as a picture frame. I think it adds character to the layout.

What do you think?

Crochet Scarf

I finished another scarf. It was based on the pattern posted by Sonia Maria from falandodecrochet.blogspot.com. I forgot to keep the label of the yarn... But it is acrylic.
Here it is:

A closer look:


It did turned out very nice, and elegant. It has an "old" feeling to it. I love it! I am still not sure who would I give this scarf to...

What do you think?

Album for Teacher

I am in a mission to prepare an album to the teacher of one of my children. It was her birthday, and I celebrated with all the class and the teacher, of course :-)

I will be posting once a day the pages that I am making. The pictures of the boys will be blurred. Also, I had to make some minor changes. The real title of the pages is the name of the child. Each child wrote a message to the teacher. I substitute the message for something more general.

Here is the first one:

For this layout, I used the Graduation Kit from ScrapbooksGoneDigital. This kit has great colors for boy layouts, I think. I used a template provided by Amy Blaser.

What do you think?

More Hats for Preemies

I finished two more hats to be given to hospitals. I made one for a girl and one for a boy. The pattern can be found here. I make them with bold colors, instead of the soft pastel colors. Don't get me wrong, I like pastel colors. But I am just in a mood for bold colors.

Here is a picture of the girls hat.

Another picture showing the stem. It is so cute!


Now the flower. I decided to make a few french knots in the middle to bring the purple of the hat to the flower.


Now for the boys. Bold blue, and instead of flower, a leaf. Here is a picture.

Just another view.

These hats will be donated for a hospital in Brazil. It is a small Hospital in Mococa, Sao Paulo. A group is doing a wondeful work there. The hospital is being renovated in small steps. First was the ER, than the last time I went there they renovated the Pediatric part and the Obstetrics part. Really nice work.

What do you think?

Gimp and Picasa

I can finally have an environment to deal with my Digital Scrapbooking. Before you keep reading, I have to alert you that it kind of techie... But I wanted you to know what I been up to.

As some of you know, I love Digital Scrapbooking. I have lots of material. But I did not have an environment that really help me to get productive, and organized. Something that if I type give me, for instance, all the papers that are blue, and it would display for me all the papers that are blue! Simple concept, but few environments that support the two categories: being a paper, and being blue.

So finally I decided to put all my stuff in Picasa. It is great! It will be a lot of work to get into the shape I want, but I know I can do. Picasa can deal with several file types, including psd's (something that gthumb, fspot do not handle, even after all the hacking I did). Ok, I forgot to mention that I use Ubuntu - a linux distribution.

I use Gimp, as my image manipulation program. I could not get Picasa and Gimp to talk. That was a big road block. I almost gave Picasa up!

For the last 2 days (and I mean full days, probably more than 20 hours of research, test, and investigation), I figure out a way to get these two applications to "talk". Trick stuff, but it is done. Had to:

• edit the file /google/picasa/3.0/desktop/picasa-hook-mimehandler.sh.template,
• remove the .template and move to a place under my path (I moved to /usr/local/bin)
• I added the lines
  
• gimp-2.6 "$@" &
  exit 0
• remove the exit 1 line from the file.
  
  

Worked like a charm! However....

The last bit was Gimp not being able to re-use the opened instance.... even under Linux. After research, I found out that the way Gimp under Linux figures out that has an instance open is through D-Bus. It turns out that the D-Bus library in the Ubuntu distribution did not get recognized by the compiled version of Gimp (I compile it myself). This last bit was solved by downloading the source of D-Bus and compiling myself. As a by-product I got Gimp 2.6.6 up and running too.

I am happy!!! Now, it is time to take some pictures of the projects that I've been working on. I am spending just too much time with the Digital Scrapbooking stuff, including my other blog.

Thanks for stopping by.