Everyday Chatting & Waffling {2026} Let's get to know each other!

Well here I am playing catch up in this thread. Sorry ladies, I just can't seem to keep caught up.

As mentioned, my disabled brother has moved and since he is now close to his siblings, I have been helping him a lot more, but it has been exhausting. I am hoping he gets some homecare soon to take the strain off.

I have barely done any scrapbooking since I returned from my Portugal trip and really want to...but other things keep coming up!

The weather here doesn't know if it is winter or spring so everyday is a mystery and the time change doesn't make it better. Anyone else having that issue?
 
Route66 said:
Well here I am playing catch up in this thread. Sorry ladies, I just can't seem to keep caught up.

As mentioned, my disabled brother has moved and since he is now close to his siblings, I have been helping him a lot more, but it has been exhausting. I am hoping he gets some homecare soon to take the strain off.

I have barely done any scrapbooking since I returned from my Portugal trip and really want to...but other things keep coming up!

The weather here doesn't know if it is winter or spring so everyday is a mystery and the time change doesn't make it better. Anyone else having that issue?
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Don't worry about staying caught up with us, Karen. You do what you can do!

And yes, the crazy winter/spring thing is happening all over the U.S. My allergies don't know whether to be relatively clear or clogging me up. The next 2 days are supposed to be near freezing here, with it being back to spring by Friday (I guess Friday is technically Spring, but we've had snowstorms past that date before).

Have a good Monday everyone! <3
 
Happy Monday, all! It's winter again in Kansas. It is BITTERLY cold outside. Yesterday, our house kept popping as the winter winds tore through the area. And in two days, it's going to be in the 70s. Oh my.

I'm cheering myself up by wearing a really cute Minnie Mouse cardigan. It's "fancy" because the buttons are mickey mouse shaped and have sparkly crystals on them. LOL! It's the little things that keep me going! Ha!
 
Love that Ane! And Lynnie. HOPE family is a given. Well..... :sneaky: some days.

Okay scrapping, not so much anymore, dangit. But I love making my cards. I just wish I had more people to send them to. I keep asking anyone and everyone to send me their addresses and dates, but... And then I do love giving away my cards to the assisted living community down the street, so that helps.
 
How wonderful Lynnie! Where do you teach your card classes? I take part in a card group that makes cards for several of our senior centers. We make over 600 cards a quarter. I teach at least one of the cards that we make, but they're very simple cards that can be reproduced quickly. I'd really love to start a card class, but I have no room in my house and we don't have a home church. I attend online. o_O
 
Carla, I will be doing a Cuttlebug card this time with embossing, die cuts and a matching envelope, I think. We have clubhouses where I live and the person who runs the paper rafting club has rented the rooms for the year. It is not that expensive…. 10-20 per day for the room and we all contribute. I think I have paid her $15 for the whole year!
 
We have a fun crafting group that has done the same thing... they've rented a space one Saturday each month and everyone who attends chips in about $10. They also arrange a potluck each month. They are kind enough to keep me on the invite list, but I rarely am able to go due to other conflicts. And sadly, I'm the only digi-scrapper there... so "my" table is at the far side of the room next to the outlets and I really just want to go to be social! LOL!! It's fun to see what everyone brings... card making, traditional scrapbooking, book folding, and one lady brings her Cricut and decorates those metal travel mugs (hubby calls them adult sippy cups). LOL.
 
I am in the same boat, Shana. I used to go with my mom and friends to quarterly scrap fest but now they are so expensive. They are called retreats now and you stay at a hotel out of town for 2 nights and then have to pay for the scrapping room which I would have to sit in an area with plugs ins as well as Shana does. Not so social anymore or affordable (cheapest is $400 for the weekend if you share a room.)
 
Jumping back in ...

What makes me happy .... my grandbabies of course. My family (which has its on days and off days ... lol!) But most of all being able to settle down and grab a cup of coffee and sit in my home office and scrapbook or do something creative.

I'd love to learn cardmaking, but I just never seem to be able to jump into it. I tried to make paper flowers one time with my Cricut and it was an "epic fail"!

Been spending a lot of time with family this week. My cousin is visiting from Texas and poor gal has experienced all four seasons here in PA in one week. LOL !!! I had to take my Mom to the cardiologist because they wanted to talk about her heart. She had stents put in over ten years ago and one area is something they want to watch. She is 73 and they don't want to do a heart cath unless it is absolutely necessary. But at least it isn't something dire that needs done now, we just have to keep her healthy and moving around. Which is hard to do because she likes to lounge in her recliner and watch a lot of movies and shows. She is the binge watch queen.

Well, I beter get out of my jammies since it is almost 11:30 am here and get ready. Meeting my cousin for lunch before she goes back to Texas tomorrow. Time flew this week .... especially when we as a family were having fun. Life is too short not to live it and have fun.
 
We used to have laptop crops with the Digital Scapbook Place before it closed down. I went to one in New Zealand once and stayed with one of the designers. We did them in Las Vegas, and Adobe Headquarters, then also held smaller ones locally. We would do a photo walk one day, then scrap a few days. It was awesome! We have held a few reunion crops since then, and they have been pretty special. There is something about meeting people in real life…I flew to Canada once to meet a friend there, it was lovely. One of the members became a great friend and stayed with us for months at a time - from ENGLAND! I live in California.

We also had a thing called the granny thread, which broke the site when it reached a million posts!! There were a few grandmothers who started up the thread and it morphed to an everyday waffling thread. I have tried to bring back that vibe here … a place where we can chat and share. The regulars would also have drive by drop offs of the pages they had just done. It was an amazing group of ladies.

We had flat grannies who used to go visiting places. We would make a little cut out of ourselves, dress them up and send them to a granny having an event. They used to go to all the laptop crops. They even went to weddings. I met flat @Jill at my very first laptop crop.

Having said all that, I remember going back to DSP when I was on the design team and raving about how lovely and welcoming this site was. I had dropped off a DSP page and got comments on it!! Unheard of!!!!! When DSP closed down, I didn’t scrap for a while, then I heard @Jill was here and came to visit. I have never looked back! This is the best site ever!!
 
Here is one of the pages showing Cathie, my friend from England. Sadly, she died a few years ago. I miss her. As did my friend, Mars, in Canada. They were both fairly young, my age. I am in the middle here and Cathie is on the right.
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FormbyGirl said:
We used to have laptop crops with the Digital Scapbook Place before it closed down. I went to one in New Zealand once and stayed with one of the designers
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YAY! That's when I met @FormbyGirl. I only went to crops in NZ but they were so much fun.
FormbyGirl said:
We had flat grannies who used to go visiting places. We would make a little cut out of ourselves, dress them up and send them to a granny having an event. They used to go to all the laptop crops. They even went to weddings. I met flat @Jill at my very first laptop crop.
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Flat me went to a wedding, that was a big event. It took ages to choose a dress (and a body for that matter). LOL
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Here is one of the pages showing Cathie, my friend from England. Sadly, she died a few years ago. I miss her. As did my friend, Mars, in Canada.
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Sad. I think I knew that Cathie had died but I don't think I'd heard about Mars.
 
@Julia it was a big shock for me when Mars died. Her husband, Ken, had heart issues for years, and I expected he would go first. I always called her in her birthday, and I left enmssage when she didn’t pick up. One of her daughters called to say she had died unexpectedly a few months earlier. She had a heart attack. I was heartbroken. We had such a great time when I went up to visit. We went to see my daughter perform, (she was on tour) and then we did a tour of the city. We were staying in someone's flat so it didn't cost anything!
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OMG! I am in desperate need of someone who knows PSE well. This morning it was my camera on my laptop. Got that figured out. But my underlying problem is the Marquee tool on my PSE. I do NOT know what "function" or whatever I hit or clicked inadvertently, but I must have and now the only marquee I can draw in an ellipse. When I draw a rectangle and release my mouse, it turns into an oval. Period. I just don't know what to do. It's driving me nutz. I can't even begin to attempt to scrap again if I wanted to try. I can't "cut" a photo apart and that's what I was trying to do! ARGH! I've asked on a couple of pages/groups and no one has answered to help me. 😭
 
I don't know if this is any use at all, @Carla minicooper452
If the marquee tool in Photoshop Elements (PSE) is stuck on oval, you likely have the Elliptical Marquee Tool active rather than the Rectangular one. Switch to the rectangle by clicking and holding the marquee icon to reveal options, or by pressing M. Ensure the tool is set to "Normal" and not a fixed size in the tool options.
  • Switch Tools: Right-click the marquee tool in the toolbar to switch between Rectangular and Elliptical.
  • Reset Tool: Select the tool, then right-click the tool icon in the top options bar and choose "Reset Tool".
  • Reset Preferences: If the tool behaves abnormally, reset your PSE preferences.
  • ALSO - check your options at the top and make sure you don't have a Feather value set.
 
FormbyGirl said:
I don't know if this is any use at all, @Carla minicooper452
If the marquee tool in Photoshop Elements (PSE) is stuck on oval, you likely have the Elliptical Marquee Tool active rather than the Rectangular one. Switch to the rectangle by clicking and holding the marquee icon to reveal options, or by pressing M. Ensure the tool is set to "Normal" and not a fixed size in the tool options.
  • Switch Tools: Right-click the marquee tool in the toolbar to switch between Rectangular and Elliptical.
  • Reset Tool: Select the tool, then right-click the tool icon in the top options bar and choose "Reset Tool".
  • Reset Preferences: If the tool behaves abnormally, reset your PSE preferences.
  • ALSO - check your options at the top and make sure you don't have a Feather value set.
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You're amazing.....

I've done everything you mentioned but the one below.
I know which tool is which.
Lynnie... where are you finding this..... top options bar and choose "Reset Tool".
I reset the preferences.
I reset the feathering, to no avail. Driving me nutz! (and that's not a far drive)

I'm not one to uninstall and reinstall. That always "scares" me, but as a last resort, I may have to, to reset everything and hope for the best.

This was literally an issue of using the rectangle marquee tool, with my mouse, pulling it across the page/picture/whatever and when I release it, it changes the selection to an oval/ellipse. (See below.... never mind the error message, it was because of where I was selecting)

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Carla, good luck with your technical issues. Wish I knew any additional tips to help.

Lynnie, how cool to be able to be at Adobe Headquarters. What was that like?

Well, it's Monday. I started the day by spilling my drink all over my brand new tote. Of course the drink was pink gatorade and the tote WAS white. Sigh.

We have gone from 40-degree weather to 99-degree weather, and now we are back to 40-degree weather all in a course of a week. I already have had a couple of coworkers email that they were home sick today. Yikes!
 
Shana, Adobe headquarters was amazing. We held our laptop crop in their education center, and had a tour behind the scenes and met some of the developers. It was beautiful! Here are a few pictures. It was back in 2008-2009 time frame. I miss the DSP days, but I am sure glad I am at GingerScraps now :) Back when I was on the creative team at DSP, we all talked about how nice the GingerScraps people were. I was over the moon that I got comments on the pages I dropped off here.

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The center was great and we had a huge display screen for the classes we did. Some of our designers were beta testers for the product and we got demos of upcoming features. It was a blast.

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The fun thing about this one is that we could see the new features on the board and comments from the meetings they were having on them. When we were done with the back scene tour, we got mouse pads with adobe short cuts and a pen that had a pull-out with the short cuts. It was so much fun! I still have my pen, but the mouse pad fell apart after years and years and years of use!

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This was the outside. I don't know if they are still in the same place, but it was huge!
 
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