Steps

Remember when I used to sit in my car and read while Whitney was at art class? Well now that I'm a step-counting, pedometer-wearing girl with a goal of 11,000 steps a day I've been using that time to walk. It's funny that I never even considered doing that before, but it's an unfamiliar neighborhood and I like to read so it just didn't occur to me until recently on a day I needed more steps.

I only had 6,318 when I dropped her off at class today, so I drove over to this hill, parked my car and walked. The one flaw in my plan was that I parked at the top of the hill, which meant I had to hike up it when I was tired and ready to be done, but other than that it was great. I had 10,220 when I got back to my car, so I'll easily hit 11,000 by the time I go to bed.

**Have you gone walking recently?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I put myself to bed at 7:20 last night!! I read for an hour but was asleep by 8:30. I felt soooo much better today. I'm like Debbie-Downer when I don't get enough sleep!

Blog Banner Retrospective--2009

I saw a post on someone's blog (a link of a link type thing) showing all her blog banners for the year, and thought it was a great idea for a post, so here are mine. Apparently a few of these overstayed their month because I only have 9 for the whole year dang it.

This is the one Michelle made for me, sadly her tutorial didn't stick; my skills remain remedial.

This was my first and last successful use of Adobe brushes. It's a good thing I downloaded a ton of them, and then only ended up ever using these swirls.


This is one of my favorites because creating that photo with my stash of used postage was serious thinking outside the box for me.


I took this picture while Kristi was in the house sewing my bag for me during our Women's Conference weekend. I had a photo shoot with my tulips (which Michelle planted for me the previous fall) and loved the results.

Simple yet lovely.

This one made me a little bit giddy. This photo was from my birthday dinner at Los Hermanos with Lori, she bought me a fancy a drink.

This one feels like a confession.

I took this photo in the fall of 2008 through Betsy's windshield while driving to her house from the airport; I was totally enamored with Michigan's fall foliage.


This one was thinking outside the box for me as well because I had to print the "Dear Santa," out on my computer in a typewriterish font and then put it in the vintage typewriter.

**Which ones do you like best??**

Comment Window Tidbit: I did 2 Blog Banner Retrospective posts today, will you comment on both?

Blog Banner Retrospective--2008

This was my blog banner for about 2 years and was created by Randy (with my input) using a photo Michelle took of me in what I termed "my uniform". I loved the way this banner turned out and kept it for a long time because I wanted it to be in the book I intend to make of my blog, but then I realized I could include different banners so it was time to move on.


This was my first banner attempt since deciding I was going to change them regularly. I was giddy when I thought to take this photo.

You can tell I was baby-stepping my way in blog banner creation.

I really like this one.

I have such a love of nature photography and spring that this one was happiness to me.


I love this photo but don't think I kept this one up all month.

This one was up for the rest of the month.

I took this photo during our city carnival and love how it turned out.

This is a shot from Seven Peaks.

This is one from my vintage typewriter and is the one I got the most positive feedback about.

I love this one because I love glimpsing the "mess" of my studio space.

This one was so simple, but is the scene we see so much of during soccer and flag-football seasons while at the sports park.


I love the colors of these leaves and that I had taken this photo in Michigan the month before.

This just says Christmas right?

**Which one do you like best?**

Comment Window Tidbit: I did 2 Blog Banner Retrospective posts today, will you comment on both?