Yes, I'm in the lovely state of New York for the week, visiting my family and working from their house. So I haven't had a lot of time to pop on here until now. Been spending some time with my Grandpa (he LOVED the digital art I made from the photo of his house!) and my extended family and getting my day job work done in between visits. I get to glom off my parents' neighbor's WiFI, so I can stay connected and operational...

My creative team has been hard at work and they've created some lovely things lately that I'd like to share. First off is a wonderfully introspective layout from the recent-birthday girl, Robin.

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Next is from Lilian, a beautiful vintage-y layout:

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And last but never least, Muka sent me a link to this quirky goodness last night, which made me laugh out loud in the best way:

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Not much else is new. Been trying to sneak some designing time in while I'm here but haven't been able to yet. Maybe tonight I will be able to do so. I hope everyone is having a great week!

Oh, I know what I can tell you... the present for my parents that I was working on has finally been given, so I can talk about it here. My brother and I got them a really awesome (and pretty high-end) digital picture frame, and I spent a LOT of time gathering photos for the 4GB-worth of memory cards we bought for the frame... editing, cropping, cleaning up, resizing, and doing PhotoShop magic on them. I am starting with 700 photos for them, but I'm really just getting started and will add more images as I have more time to scan photos in, etc. I told my parents I'd add new photos to the frame every time I visit. A lot of the older family photos that were scanned in needed a lot of work -- color correction, scratch-fixing, getting rid of dust, etc. To be honest, it was a blast to work with all of the pictures. It just took me a long time to edit them the way I wanted them, since I'm such a perfectionist. It's very entertaining to just sit and wathc the frame cycle through the photos. I included stuff as far back as great great grandparents to present, so it's a family tree, in digital shuffle slideshow mode!