Little time away!

We are headed out tomorrow morning for Bodega Bay! A beautiful inlet town with lovely beaches and no electronics!
My parents camp host an RV & campgrounds, so it is a very relaxing time. My mom is furiously baking cakes (my Dad's birthday 68th) is Friday! So we will have a nice ham dinner, eat all day, sing Happy Birthday and relax staring at the water! It is chilly still, and will be a bit rainy, but it is still beautiful!
We will spend the day there, then head for Napa (my parents home, but they aren't there!) to spend the night and still be away! lol Is a nice get away for us, as time off is very rare and precious!
I am shutting the laptop now, and beginning my away from it! I tell you it is hard! lol, but it so refreshes my brain and creativity.
Before I sign off, Easter is this weekend. A time of hunting eggs, eating chocolate bunnies and families getting together. I ask you to think about the real reason of Easter; that Jesus Christ died for all our sins and conquered death and the grave and rose again. That He is so worthy of praise and to stop and check your heart and life according to His word. Are you born again, do you have true assurance of eternity with Jesus Christ?
Easter is the day of His resurrection! I gave my life FULLY to Jesus Christ 2o years ago, and it is a life changing experience...the bible says, you must admit you are a sinner (that about covers all of us), and REPENT (turn from the way you are living to the way JESUS wants you to).
I have met so many lovely people thru scrap booking and this blog, but life is just a drop in the bucket according to eternity. To live and laugh for a mere 80 plus years (if we are lucky) and not know Jesus and stand before him, eternity is a long time...
I ask if you do not know Jesus,
call on his name,
admit you are a sinner,
that you know He died for you and in place of you for YOUR sins,
and that HE rose again over 2000 years ago,
ask Him to come into your life and forgive you of your sins and that you WILL be obedient to His word and live for Him the way He wants you too.
I wish I could sit with each and everyone of you and explain the supernatural love and grace and hope of Jesus Christ in my life...but you can have this in your life if you want.

I hope you understand my urgency and love for you all...
Think about Easter and God's incredible love for you!



Thanks for reading!


Anne



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FREEbie- Easter Time Brag Book Blog Hop

FREEBIE LINK
or
click the image!

Welcome to Claudi's QP Team Blog Hop!

We have been busy making beautiful quickpages for all of dear Claudi,
but took a bit of a break to give back to the scrapping community!
Please join us in a FREE 10 page bragbook! Here is my two contributions!
They are zipped together, just click!


These are all made with
Claudi Designs
Easter Time

available at
Inspiration Lane or Digital Freebies

These brags are perfect to drop in those Easter Egg Hunt memory pictures!
I think we all fell in love with the Easter Bunny inside!

so lets start this hop out, you hop to where you want and pick up each artist contribution!
Please have patience as we are on different time zones and continents,
so some are still sleeping, and others are in tomorrow already! lol

ScrappyCharmer

KayC

Ellie80

CrazyKeira

Gone with the Wind

AnneofAlamo <----click here for my FREEBIE LINK

you can go and fill your basket, hop from one to another, and finish with a HUGE brag book!

I also made some clusters for the Easter Time Kit, available at Digital Freebies:
Okay, that's it...I think! woo hoo, don't forget to collect all those brag pages!

Thanks for reading!

Anne


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Charlie! I am late! eeek!

Just closing the puter, and I popped in to see if I had any new comments on the post on Charlie's new kit Funky Love Birds! I am rather proud of this kit, because I got to make some new things for Charlie! A whole brag book, cover and back page, and 3 page clusters! It was an easy task, as the kit is so huge. So I pop in and oh my goodness, I forgot to create it or post it! Goober that I am, I settled in to explain all that before I get into the fun parts!
The clusters practically made themselves due to the huge amount of elements in this pack! The are all so different, yet just compliment each other perfectly!
I mean look at these brag books, it gives you an idea of the rich and vibrant papers in the kit! I had never done so many so quick! But gosh, they are addicting to make! ha ha
love the size, and imagining pictures in them.
I sent these all to Charlie and opened up CS to just do a layout! My browser opened to Funky Love Birds, and I got to layering some more elements, and found this picture of Abby at the park, with the perfect look Abby gives. You know how you catch your kids in a photo and you see it and are like, "YES!" because you know in years to come, you will look at it and still see this look but in a much older face? This picture really captured our Abby's personality! Plus Charlie's kit; Funky Love Birds matched Abby's headband and sweater! lol, you know I love it to match...ha ha..so the layout was born!
So, I was done, felt rather proud of myself actually, mojo flying and did some major scrapping for Charlie and was quite content. No stress, opened up another blank canvas to play, and wanted to do one of Anna-Bo. We had gone to the park and there is this weird pole that you stand on and spin. The girls love to go on it...I get nauseated watching them, but the giggles that come out of them can cause strangers to smile! I snapped tons of pictures and really liked getting her hair in front of her face...so I copied over and over and played twisting and turning...
started going thru kits and for crying out loud, Funky Love Birds popped up again! It was perfect! So Dizzy Girl became yet another layout!
So this kit, in less than 4 days was made into mulitple layouts, clusters, and brags! Just imagine what you can do with it!
Now Charlies DigiScraps is exclusive at Enchanted Studio Scraps (ESS)
Listen to this deal for the kit!
Charlie has included in the store a JUMBO pack..(30% off also for 1 week).Buy the kit and Brags and receive the cluster's for FREE. That's savings of over.......30%
Now, hey, save and get more...that's good math!
So now, I can close the laptop and do an hour of uninterrupted scrap. (the kids just went to bed)
Hope you get the kit, or brags, or clusters, or all 3! If you do, I would so love to see them used!

Thanks for reading!

Anne
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It is full, completely Full?!

External hard disk drive:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An external hard disk drive is a type of hard disk drive which is externally connected to a computer. And mine is full! It has 500 GB, that is giga bytes, and when I bought it last year, I never thought I would fill it up! I did!
So I don't have a DVD burner on my main computer, so I am going to make CD's of my PSD's (PhotoShop Document) and take them off the drive? I am flabbergasted that it is full, but I have been working like mad doing layouts, QP's, clusters and I save everything. Gosh but that is gonna take a while! I know puters are supposed to save time, but the filing and all is a pain!
Do you all save PSD? I like to take the ones I am going to print and resize to 8x8 and add journalling.
Would love to hear some of your solutions!

Thanks for reading!

Anne

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My girls grinning from ear to ear!

Little background! We moved from New Mexico to Northern California a year ago....and the town we are in has one of the largest populations of Punjabi, which is people from India! Turbans, and the most beautiful sari's I have ever seen! The colors are always just breathtaking....
So my girls have been coveting them from practically day one...we have scoured the thrift stores, but they have all been way too small for them...
then a girl named Angel in their class Mom came to visit the classroom in her sari. Anna mentioned that she and her sister were getting one one day...The lady said, oh goodness Angel has some that don't fit her, I will bring them tomorrow! and she did! I had taken a few pictures rather quickly, and then Doris sent an email saying she had a new kit today out...Spring Glamour from Scrap Book Graphics. I opened it and the colors were perfect for the outfits! I played for a bit, and was able to do a layout of them...

Thanks for reading!

Anne


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My first paying work!

Well kinda, I did sell a QP a while back to Doris Castle, I had forgotten. But that was after I had made a layout and she wanted it in QP format. These are bonafide Quick Pages, made with my own hands...and mouse (tee hee). I am not going to be rolling in the duckets from selling any of them but it is kind of exciting. So if you want a collector's edition of the 1st for profit QP sold with your dear friend Anne of Alamo's name attached, pop over to dear Claudi's store, Inspiration Lane. I love the papers in this kit, and I just finished an 8 page brag to it, and am going to do some cluster work with it also! If I could get my path pen to cooperate, I am going to render up some word art for Mother's Day. Very fun, this QP business! Claudi is a fun sort to work with also! Some neat things I am learning, moderating a forum...now mind you it is only a few ladies who are the most patient with me...but we are having fun!
Why am I up? Iced Coffee at 4pm..but oh it was good!

Thanks for reading!
Anne

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I switched and maybe I am the last person on the planet that did?

Yeah, I'm a geek, but I wasn't always a geek. Really, I used to look down my nose at my hubby as he spoke of mega bytes, CD burners, buying extra RAM and ISP, and other little acronyms that I figured was good he knew how to do it, because this chick was not interested AT ALL.
Then, I began to scrap with help and encouragement from the online community. Like most of you I was a download maniac! I learned where to go, what time of the day was the prime to get best connection to get the most downloads in the fastest! ha ha Next was getting Mr. UnZip Them All! This revolutionized my whole system...quick and painless unzipping of tons of files. I am still waiting for the Mrs. File those For You, but it hasn't happened.
But.......................with all the problems and viruses going around, my downloading came to a screeching halt! Then I couldn't open some blog sites of people I knew...it would crash my browser. Lock it up tight and have to do a complete reboot! Drove me nuts.
So...after months of my hubby saying trying Firefox.
I love my favorites folders and have organized and arrange all my numereous CT duties, the forums, stores and blogs ever so nicely. I have freebie favorites, sites I can just learn something new on EVERYTIME I go to, and an occasional snarky scrap site that makes me smirk! I didn't want to refind them all, and refile! I am stubborn to the point I don't listen....
well.........
I couldn't get to Charlie's site...this bums me, cause I should go there at least once a day. She is my original boss lady!
I downloaded it, humbly asked my hubby to help me transfer my files into the server...it worked. It took me a few days to get used to where the buttons are at, but oh goodness, this is so so much better!
Then I had to download a kit, with 16 downloads, there is a built in download manager, which means you see what you downloaded and you can do 6 at a time!!! If my internet goes out, it holds it til I reconnect...not time out and you are out of luck try again later...which IE (internet explore) would do!
Firefox still doesn't file my stuff, but I really really like it! So if you are having a hard time getting places with your IE, try it, I think you may like it.!








Thanks for reading!
Anne

Never lose your joy!