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I haven't been blogging much. Duh...that's obvious. I've wanted to. I've felt like it, but then again, I haven't. Sure, we've been doing some stuff, but the ever-present subject is the house. And it seems like I'm saying the same thing over....and over.....and over. We're still waiting for some final info on the repairs. We had to extend the date for that 'till this Friday. It's a good thing they wanted to change the closing date to Sept. 15. We had asked for Aug. 29th. I don't think everything would be ready.

So, the most exciting thing for me lately is that I've been touching up/proofing photos. I usually hate doing this and have put off doing both our Europe pics and my Ukraine, and now I have thousands waiting for me. I'm not going to do them all, obviously, but there's so many good ones, how am I to choose. (and by good, I mean ones I like) It was taking me forever, and I wasn't happy with the results, and the other day I just happened upon this tutorial at 2Peas. I love Sande Kreiger's scrapbooking style and was checking out some of her layouts online when I found it, and let me just say, it was a total EUREKA!! moment. Now that I've used her method, I remember doing it before, but had lost it in the depths of my brain. It is making my life so much easier, and I can't wait to get them all done. Plus, it saved me $100 (for now, anyway). I was going to just buy some Itty Bitty Actions to help me, but I'm doing OK without it. It probably would make things easier, so I'll get them eventually. Anyway, I thought I'd share some of my results. The first one is the original, the second is one I touched up on my own, the third one I did with the new method.