Sometimes A Girl Just Wants to Game

A few months back I purchased a rather nice computer and ended up with a pretty decent 'gaming' PC. I usually play a lot of console games, but since this purchase I've been playing games on the computer more and more. I don't play often, but sometimes I'll really get sucked into a game and it'll be a few weeks before it wears off and I don't feel like playing again. There are a few new releases games out this year that I'm really looking forward to though. 

Sometimes a girls just wants to game!

-- J

More Work Stuff, But Good Times!

I had a fun weekend doing work things. We had a booth at a local event that I look forward to every year. Unfortunately, this year was a bit more complicated to get going than last year. But, I think we pulled it off. Hopefully next year we will be able to really plan well for the event and be more prepared. I'm just glad we were able to make it out there at all. It seems like everything went wrong. I need to get some more scrap pages going this month, so I'll use some of the photos from the event and explain more later.

-- J

Busy Busy

I'm still working on balancing my time. This week has been busier than previous weeks when it comes to the day job portion of my life. We are currently moving the business to a new location and all things have just been more difficult than they need to be. It seems that if it can go wrong, that it most definitely will. I'm looking forward to being open again and having a regular schedule even though these past few weeks have been nice being able to just work from home and set my own schedule. Sure makes it easy to give myself the time to be creative. It also allows for the dreaded procrastination and the want to sit around and play video games instead of housework.

It has been really nice using the new computer. Sometimes you just need to splurge on something nice for yourself. I've been able to run Photoshop effortlessly, it's so smooth and nice. I've also gotten myself into PC gaming, which I'm finding that I enjoy more than I'd thought. I always like playing games, but something about online gaming and making friends has been a really nice touch. Currently I've gotten myself sucked into Fallout 76.

Nothing all that creative to report this week, it's just been a lot of gaming and spending time with my girls.

-- J

And Now Life Gets a Little Busier

Moving into mid-week and post holiday, the day job work begins. Not only that, but the kiddos will be here as well, so I'll have a full house this week! I'm definitely looking forward to that since it's been a few weeks since the girls have been able to come visit.

Here's a couple more scrapbooking Layouts I put together yesterday for the challenge:

A trip we made back in 2018, this was actually our last stop before we headed back toward Oregon.

Gosh those kids are getting big, and that was 4 years ago! 

I've got about an hour before I need to start thinking about day job work, so I've got time for my coffee and to think about what I'm going to be creative with this morning.

-- J

Digital Scrapbooking

Who knew that it was so easy to forget how to do things on Photoshop?

I guess after 10 years of never touching the program a lot has changed. Has anyone tried out that new Beta AI generative fill? I was playing around with it yesterday and found that some of what it can do is amazing, and some of it, not so much. I should have saved some screenshots of some of the edits that it did for me. Some of them were super hilarious. 

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Day three of being intentionally more creative. I've started trying to digital scrapbook again. I've had to learn how to do many of the things that had once been a natural thing for me to do in PS. It's fine, the updates to the program have made a lot of things easier than before, so I seem to be picking it up rather quickly. I've decided to do some challenges on an old Forum I used to frequent.

Here's a look at the first page I've done in a lot of years. Not too bad, but I'm definitely rusty. I have about 9 more to go to complete the full challenge, but since I've got all month to do it, it should be a pretty easy task to complete. I've been trying to download new digital kits, but our internet has been slow and out of commission since last week, so what should only take a few minutes has been taking hours! How frustrating. I might have everything that I've purchased on my computer by the end of the day today. Things seem to be running a bit smoother than they have been.

-- J