Friday, September 26, 2008

Yay for a weekend!!

This was a verrrry long week for us. Katie started with fever and vomiting on monday, luckily the vomiting settled after a day and a night but the fevers stuck around for 4 days. She is still moody and unlike herself which makes life a bit trickier than normal.

I'm still suffering away! Sunday will take me onto my third month of pregnancy, so hopefully only 1 more month of yuckiness to go and hopefully it will settle down a bit and I can feel a bit more human. I am just taking one day at a time, one hour at a time and sleeping ALOT! Because when i sleep I don't feel nauseas hehe.

Anyways, I still haven't scrapped :( Although today was my first day that I wish I felt okay enough to do so, so I guess that is at least good! So I thought I would share some layouts that apeared in SC a while back (I don't think I've shared them on here yet?) They were all birthday themed and centred around different ways to journal the event :)




The gorgeous Ania, told me about the newly released freebie actions by Totally Rad, I love their actions, in fact I own their first set and use them alot to make my editing easier hehe. There are some interesting ones in there, one that will be fab for boy photos, to 'dirty' the photo up a bit.

My favourites is the Lux freebie. This was the original photo.

Lux at about 60%, see how it just softened and whitened it all out a bit! Can you imagine this action on wedding photos! YUMMMMM! Or even photos with too much colours, nice action to soften it all out!

And a BRILLIANT one to sharpen your photo is the 'slice it like a ninja'. You will see a fantastic improvement on your own screen with your own photos, it just made Katie pop from the background, her eyes are more sharp and it added a bit of light and contrast, LOVE that action. Well worth the quick download if you are an action gal .

Have a gorgeous weekend! I realize I have neglected some awards and things I have received for my blog. Hopefully when I feel a bit more human I will play catch up on all the fun things, thanks so much for those passing those awards along!!

I'm off to attempt vacuuming and cleaning! And then relaxing!

xx
Jolene

4 comments:

kerry said...

Thats no good to gear Katie has been so unwell we have had it in our household for nearly two months between all of us.I hope you are feeling better.Love the pic.take care Kerry xx

Wendy Smith said...

these are beautiful Layouts Jolene

Hope Katie gets better soon and that you all start feeling well

Chloe said...

Congrats Jolene! Have been wondering where you'd gone to (at Memories and More) but now I know! Karen Day told me (doing her online mini album class atm!) I hope you are feeling better really soon and goodluck with your pregnancy! Thinking of you!

Chris Millar said...

Hi, I stumbled across your blog last night and downloaded those free actions and just wanted to say THANKS! They are so much fun!
Congratulations on your pregnancy and I always enjoy seeing your work in the magazines.