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Fog on the Dike http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/533601/ http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/343912 Hello all...I wanted to post this photo my husband took with my old camera last week. I wish I could say I took it but I was home working on Persona designs while he enjoyed the last day of hunting season.  The iGoogle theme is available, too and called Early Morning Fog by MaDonna. We did our Christmas decorating over the week end. Instead of lots of tinsel and shiny things we chose to do a more natural look. So we went out and cut holly, western red cedar, Alaska yellow cedar, noble fir and pine boughs from our trees. We put them on the hearth and coffee table. The smell is wonderful and all the little cones on the boughs are so pretty. I had some left over boughs, so I filled a big clear glass vase with greenery for the dining room table and a smaller clear glass vase for the kitchen table where all the food will be. Of course we put up some of the old standards, ma...

Family Values http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/307601   I was so surprised this morning when I checked the Up and Coming Persona's to see that one I made just for my own enjoyment was gaining popularity. These are cherished family photos. My parents wedding picture, my Dad in his Army uniform and with the car he was so proud of, my beautiful Grandmother and the Great Grandparents I never got to meet. This will be short and sweet but I was so happy to see others actually using this specific design when everyone is busy and thinking about the holidays that I just had to post this. It made my day. Thanks to all who are using it and now you will know a bit about my history and how much I value my family.

December Sunset Barn December Sunset http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/338537 December is here and time to start thinking of Christmas decorations. Time to take the fall decoration off the door and put the reindeer on. The latest news is I got a new camera and haven't really learned how to use it and all of its settings yet. Probably never will. It has an automatic setting and I am sure that is what I will use most. I did use the sunset setting the other night so I could try it out. The December Sunset Barn shot turned out really well and the December Sunset Persona turned out clearer than my old camera, so that is good. I discovered that a bunch more of my designs are on iGoogle now. Took a long time for them to show up and in the mean time I gave up and threw the paper away with the names of the designs on.!  I use iGoogle as my home page and am really happy with it. You can set it up to your liking and that is why I like it so well. Anyway,  if you use iGoogle and...

As you can see I managed to change my blog header picture from the sunset photo to a photo I took Thanksgiving Day of our barn while it was snowing. I will probably go back to the sunset at some point but wanted my blog to look a bit more like Christmas. I am thinking of using this as our Christmas card this year. I always make our Christmas cards as I like them to be personal. Hope you like the change.

Country_Christmas http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/335506 Thanksgiving is over and it was a wonderful day with family. We had a snowy Thanksgiving day this year. It was beautiful but it made getting around hard for people and many didn't get to be with family they had planned on. We had family together for dinner and it was great. Our youngest great grandson got to be with us and he is growing too fast. What a joy they can bring. There is no way you can not feel good about everything when they bless you with a dimpled smile. I am working hard  on Christmas Personas right now. I have way too many finished so should really quit but have many ideas. I have made some collage themes using old wallpapers of Christmas houses all decked out with decorations and lights.I love the old homestead, farmhouse pictures because I think that is when Christmas was celebrated the  way it should be. Today Christmas is so commercialized it really upsets me. Seeing Christmas advertisement...

Waiting for Santa http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/326800 I decided to re-work my blog "look" last night. I will change it to a winter design around Christmas, I hope. The forecast is for snow tomorrow and over the week end, so I may even replace my sunset photo if I can get a good shot of the fresh snow. The Persona I am showing today is a picture of my 2 oldest kids sitting on the stair steps. I put it on our Christmas cards in the late 1950's. They aren't  cute chubby faced kids anymore, but have grown into wonderful, caring adults and have children and one has grandchildren. I am very proud of my family as you can probably tell. I have Personas with my parents and some of my grandparents in designs. I am even making designs with some of the family dogs!  I am really missing my desktop and Photoshop. I have a file all ready to work on when my grandson brings it back. It needed a turbo boost to be able to keep up with me. For all of you that have Firefox the...

Christmas Chickadees 2 http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/329405 Well, I finally got back to my blog. I have been very lax on posting again . I just get so busy with work and life that I fail to get on like I should. But then again, I think I warned everyone in the beginning I might not keep this up like I should I have been very busy with designs. Making many, many in advance. I have started putting on Thanksgiving and Christmas designs. Even a few spring ones. I am ready for spring already and we haven't even had our first frost here. I had to let my grandson (computer genius that actually made my desktop) take it home with him to update it. The hardware is getting a bit tired and this last week Explorer started crashing. I know I work too fast, copying and moving files around, but that is me. I just work fast. My husbands favorite words are "Slow down!" But if I slow down, I am afraid I might not start up again! I am always finding bruises and can't even rem...

Brother and Sister http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/325343 The above Persona is made from a photo in an album my Grandmother gave me when I was 6. And that was a long time ago! It is a photo of my Mother and her brother in a field at the family farm in Iowa. I think it is a very sweet photo and hope others will enjoy it also.  I am sorry I haven't posted for awhile, but I actually have a good reason this time. I ended up in the hospital for a couple days. I still don't know what the problem was for sure, but they seem to think it is cluster headaches. It is a headache you never want to have as you can not function with it. So, I just could not get on and post anything and try to sound up-beat. Needless to say I haven't been working as hard on designs this past week, but I have lots of them already finished and ready to submit, so if I don't do anything today or tomorrow I have a back log to use. I want to start working on Christmas designs. And will try to ...

DOUBLE RAINBOW http://nature.desktopnexus.com/get/487845   Last night I went to pull the shade and t here was the most beautiful rainbow I have ever seen and it was a double! It was raining and I had my pajamas on (again) but I ran out and took a bunch of photos. This one is one of the best, but my camera doesn't do it justice.    Double Rainbow by MaDonna http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/319049 Of course, I had to submit a Persona to match! The problem with Personas is there is not enough room to show much of a design. So, this was the best I could do. Hope you all like it. Personally I think it was worth getting sopping wet to get the shot.   Last week was a pretty good week. Our great grandson got to spend Friday with us the whole day. You can imagine how active a 5 1/2 year old can be. He loves bull riding, and since we don't have a real bull, he gets to "ride" the foot stool we inherited from my Mom. Needless to say, it is not in the excellent condition...

Wednesday Morning Horses http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/315775   I decided to post a design I put on this morning. On my way home from getting groceries yesterday morning (I do my shopping very early) the horses were standing in the sunshine enjoying the early morning quiet. I swear they were posing for me! I also put a desktop wallpaper on line (the link is under the details on the Persona site). In the far background if you look real closely you can see the Canadian Mountains. There was frost in the shade at the lower part of the design as the sun hadn't hit that part of the pasture yet. It is so funny how or why some designs get popular and others just sit there. I can make one that I think turns out great and a few people will use it. Then I can put one on I am not real happy with and it will get used.  So I guess I am not a very good judge of nature.    I got a pretty good shot of a sunset a couple nights ago. I went out in the pasture in my pajamas b...

By The River http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/312528   This is one of my favorite fall designs. I had it on last year but smaller. This one makes it so you can see more of the river.   I haven't checked in for awhile and to  my followers I am sorry. I just get so involved in life and everything else I just didn't take the time. I know everyone says it, but I swear the older you get, the faster the time goes by. I wish I had the energy to get up real early every day and start doing what I want to do. But, I don't. The things I HAVE to do get in the way! And there really is only so much time in a day.  I have been working on a few holiday designs but nothing really exciting. Anyway, I don't think so. Every year it gets harder to get in a holiday mood. Families get older and everyone has obligations.  Family get-to-gathers get harder to arrange so the most can attend. Sometimes I feel like chucking it! I won't but sometimes I feel that way.   We went ...

Sunset Fishing http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/470933/   Well, we went on the photo shoot I had been thinking about all year and it was kind of like everything you think about for a long time. It is always better in your mind than the actual thing! All year long I could remember this beautiful sunset shot I didn't get. But last year there were more clouds in the sky so the sun had more light to reflect off. Needless to say I was very disappointed in what I got a photo of, but thought I would post it anyway. The guy fishing in the middle of the river was having a good time, though. He will never know he had his photo taken.  Fog in the Pasture http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/309132   I did get a shot that I really liked on the way home though and I will post it as a Persona. There is a field at the bottom of a hill and the cattle were grazing by the pond and the fog was just forming. I thought it turned out great.  If you like it, the link to the w...

Signs of Autumn http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/308030 The start of the new week and I have been busy working away. I made this design this morning and was very pleased with how it turned out. I also have the wallpaper on line at:  http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/467769/  It looks great on the screen. Very bright and colorful.  I spent most of the week end working. It is funny, sometimes my head is full of ideas and then once in awhile, there is nothing! But last night a couple ideas popped into my head. When that happens I grab a tablet and kind of draw it out or at my age, I will forget! Half the time, the idea won't turn out, but once in awhile it does... Right now I am concerned about our oldest grandson who was taken to the hospital this morning with chest pains. I am hoping it is just stress since they have a new baby and he just started his own business and is very busy. Please God, let that be it. He is a wonderful, strong man with too much en...

Mount Shuksan and  Image Lake We got to go on a photo shoot yesterday. We went to Artist Point and Twin Lakes. I was amazed at the beautiful colors already. They were so vibrant, but alas, my poor digital camera is not up to the fantastic beauty of the Pacific Northwest. But I try!!! The photo I added today is of Mount Shuksan and the lake below that some call Mirror Lake and some call Image Lake. It is a favorite spot for photos and photo takers. You have a hard time getting a shot without people in it! I loved getting away for the day and going to one of our favorite places, the mountains. We drive the many mountain roads and  I take tons of pictures, but I usually get one or two (if I am lucky) that actually turn out. But being together, enjoying the sites and one another is better than going to some fancy hotel or spa for us! We would feel like total outcasts. About 20 years ago, my sister was in a play at a theater in Seattle and we went there to see it. We got a fantas...

Puppy with No Name http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/301780 I got a surprise visit from my sister this week and she brought her brand new puppy. As of right now it has no name, so that is what I called the Persona I made for her. He looks just like the dog we had for a long time and was so very much loved. I still miss him and just can't find it in my heart to get a new "best friend". It just hurts me too much to lose something I love and just can not go through that again. But I can enjoy her puppy and know it has a wonderful home and will be loved by a good family. My sister is a very creative person and her head is full of ideas for "things", too. She has a blog you might be interested in reading. She challenges other creative people and is much better at writing every day than I am. You can check it out at :   http://asafeplacetocreate.blogspot.com/ I have done a lot of designs this past week, many of them fall oriented. I guess it is because of t...

Rays of Beauty http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/299418   As you can see I am not very good at signing in and posting, but I see I have more followers so thank you all.  I hope I don't disappoint you.   This is one of my favorites that I have made lately in Photoshop. I have a desktop wallpaper to match it and have that link posted with the Persona. It is a kind of between summer and fall theme I guess you would call it. If you read my blog last week I was hoping to get a sunset shot of the river. Well, it didn't happen. I was wrong on the month. It was early October of last year when I saw it, so have to wait and hope there is sunshine during that week!  Firefox Personas is getting very popular. There are almost 200,000 designs on line. When I first became a part of Personas group I had an idea in mind of what I hoped it would be. I wanted it to be a place where you could individualize your Firefox with class. I am a bit disappointed with some of the "stuf...

Seasons in Order http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/297292 I am in kind of a funky mood today. This is the first day in ages where I haven't even "tried" to work on a design. Which is ok as I have many ready to submit. The above design is one I submitted today. It is a collage of the 4 different seasons. Wouldn't it be great if the seasons were actually like that? Beautiful and colorful!  We are in the in-between seasons here in the Pacific Northwest. Which is about all the time, actually. Today the sun is supposed to come out, but so far it has kept itself hidden. I found a spot on the river last fall about this time of year where a beautiful sunset picture could be taken, so I am hoping the sun comes out so I can actually get that shot! If I do and if it turns out, you will see it, either as a Persona or desktop wallpaper and if it turns out really good, both. But you can take 100 photos of 1 thing and sometimes, if you are real lucky, you may get one good o...

Dolphin Dance http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/293903 This is the  latest design I have on line. I made a wallpaper that matches it using Photoshop.  Using the layering is a challenge for me. I don't think I am using it correctly, but it seems to work out in the end, although sometimes it takes me twice as long. This is a sad week for me. Eight years ago this week my Mother passed away. I just read my sisters blog and she is feeling it also. Our Mother was someone everyone loved. You didn't meet her and not love her. I wish I were more like her, but I am afraid I have a lot of my Dad's traits. Stubbornness for one. My wanting to create things came from my Mom, though. She was always doing craft work or sewing. Always! Up until the very end she was having me help her put things together. As I was dusting our bedroom today I dusted 3 different things that I helped her make . O ne should be thrown out because it is getting very discolored, but I have a hard time doi...

Trees of Winter                 http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/288542 Today is an absolutely beautiful autumn day, but we all know what comes after the fall. Winter!!  I don't care much for winter as my body doesn't like the cold, but I am submitting some winter Personas because when winter is in full bloom with snow, it is beautiful. I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day week end and enjoy the last summer holiday.

Fall in Love http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/288637 I can't believe it has been so long since I checked this blog. I knew I wouldn't have a lot of time to keep it up, and I feel bad about that! (If anyone out there actually reads it.)   I had the idea for this Persona over the weekend. I saw the words fall in love and thought, "what a neat idea for a design!"  My head is so full of ideas of things I want to do, but then there are things I have to do so the things I want to do, don't get done! But that is life. We have responsibilities and we should be glad we do, I guess. But I did take the time to work on this design this morning. And I am proud of the way it turned out.  I will try, (I said "try") to check in at least once a week and I thank all of the people that support my Persona designs and wallpapers. And I wish you all a good week. Enjoy the last days of summer because winter is just around the corner.

Greeting the Sun http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/282428 I really like this Persona design.  I have always loved anything Native American and am working on a few more designs. When I was a little girl, my brother and I would play "Cowboys and Indians", and I was always the Indian. A few years ago I got into working on our family genealogy and found out I actually have Native American blood in my veins. So, maybe it comes naturally. We have been having abnormally hot weather, but today you can start to feel the nip in the air in the morning. Fall is coming quickly. I am proud to say we have a new member in our family.  Our second great grandson, William Michael was born this week and we welcome him into our family with open arms. You all have a good week and I will check in soon.

Tropical Colors http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/279066        Wow, but I have been having so much fun working with Photoshop. I think I may be finally getting it down. Well, part of the time . There are still a lot of things I don't know how to do. But I have been working on desktop wallpapers and Persona's to match. This one is very popular. If you want to use the desktop wallpaper you can find it at: http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/425381/         I have some more ideas so going to get back to work. Have a great week end and thanks for dropping by.    

     Today is my Mom's birthday. She died in 2002 of ovarian cancer.  I made a Persona in support of the research to find a cure for this horrible disease.       So, today is a sad day for me because I still miss her so much. Happy Birthday Mom, and no more suffering.  If you would like to use this Persona you can find it at: http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/274954  

Sunsets Reflection http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/277242      It is beginning to look like fall here. Gives me an excuse to work on the computer more. I submitted this Persona today. As you can probably tell, I love sunsets. I think they are calming and serene. What could be more romantic than sitting in front of a bonfire with the one you love, watching a sunset? I have been married for 53 years, which to most of you is more than your lifetime, but he is still the one I want to be looking at sunsets with.       I hope you all have a wonderful week. I am sure I will. Thanks for stopping in.  

Its a Wonderful Life       http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/272884        I thought it was time I made a Christmas design Persona so I made a collage of Its a Wonderful Life photos. This is my daughter's favorite movie and she watches it all year long.       I have been very busy making themes for my other project and it is going very well. Now, if we can just sell a few it would make some of the time I spend here worth while.       I still enjoy designing the Personas, though and will keep at it as long as people use and enjoy them.      Am loving the warm summer weather. Y'all have a great week end. 

                             http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/268161  I call this Persona Autumn Images. I have a desktop wallpaper that matches and you can find it at:  http://nature.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/413954/ It is hard to believe it is August already and the leaves will be changing into their beautiful colors. I think fall is the prettiest time of year but it means the cold weather is on it way and I don't like that very well.  I hope you all have a beautiful Sunday. Thanks for stopping by.

Aquarium Collage http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/269093 This design turned out very well and I hope you all like it.

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/268119 I decided to put on a winter design today.  I said I would check on the iGoogle Themes I have on line and they are, Framed Sunset, Butterfly Abstract, and My Universe (which is really nice) Have a great day.

I have made a few iGoogle themes to match some of the Persona's and Wallpapers. Some people like everything to match so this works out great. It takes quite awhile for the iGoogle themes to become available for some reason. But if you like my Sunset Over Water Persona, the iGoogle theme to match is called Framed Sunset.  I will get a list of them soon and post them here.

I am totally new at this "blogging" stuff so you will all have to have patience with it.  I probably won't have time to check in every day, but will when I can. I spend most of my computer time designing. I am working with someone on another project also and as soon as it has become  available I will post the web site here.