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Thursday, September 8, 2011

New52: Illustrator #New52

Several months ago I purchased Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard, and it’s taken me until the 28th of July to even open up Illustrator. Here’s my first doodles with my awesome Wacom Bamboo Fun Tablet that I use full time!

I drew these using the blob tool and without even setting up the pressure sensitivity options. Since then I have opened up Illustrator to draw the background for a playgroup activity (oh yes, playgroup is a New52 for me too!) and can’t wait to use it again!

New 52 challenge is keeping me on my toes – but I’ve made it 9 months and 14 posts! I’m finding that looking out for new experiences is helping me appreciate that my life even more. I have to say I have many more draft posts, just waiting for me to finish them! Read more New 52 posts:

What’s new for you lately?

Melissa

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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Scrap Happy Blog hop: Buy some happiness #New52

I've been loving reading Stephanie's blog about the Scrap Happy project over at Scrapworthy lives, so I was thrilled when I found out she's got a blog hop going. You have probably found me from Kiss and Tell Scrapbooking.

This month the theme is:

Buying some happiness.

I have to say this is a hard one for me, as we are on a budget right now, but recently we invested some money in upgrading our computer, so it wouldn't constantly crash when I was scrapbooking (I'm a digiscrapper and a power user!). My husband encouraged me to just buy a new hard disk rather than go through the hassle and stress of trying to back everything up and reinstalling everything.

Of course I did have a few glitches (turning off my DVD drive in the bios and wondering why I couldn't install Windows, and having issues getting Windows 7 to activate) it was the best investment we could have made. My PC is running like a dream and I can just get things done!

I've also made this post my New 52 for the week - yes it's been a while since I posted one of them!

Now we are past half way in the year I’m still going strong with the New 52 challenge, thanks for running it Peppermint & Christine! I’m finding that looking out for new experiences is helping me appreciate that my life even more. I have to say I have many more draft posts, just waiting for me to finish them! Read more New 52 posts:

Want more of the Scrap Happy project?
Here’s the other blogs in the hop!

Have you bought some happiness lately? Let me know about it in the comments below.

Melissa

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Sunday, July 3, 2011

New52: 8 Gigs of RAM!

Last week I headed over to PLE computers and helped myself to 8Gb of RAM for my aging Dell XPS 420.
Open up the case, install the RAM start it up and boom – press F5 to continue into the setup. Oh dear! Of course I had my trusty Microsoft Entertainment keyboard 7000 which is Bluetooth, and last time I checked my BIOS doesn’t support Bluetooth. Not to worry I’m cleaning out our stash of computer junk and there’s keyboard right here. Oh, it is PS2, so that won’t work. After climbing into the roof twice I realised I’d lent my keyboard to Lauren. Not to worry, I just rang Phill and got him to bring one home from work. Since out other Bluetooth keyboard already lives there the IT guy didn’t mind us taking one home!
In the mean time I switched of my PC and thought, hmm I wonder what will happen when I turn it back on again. Voila, Windows loads as if nothing has happened. Everything just runs a little speedier now Smile

I’m doing to reinstall the computer onto a new Samsung 2TB drive over the weekend – wish me luck! (This time I have the keyboard at the ready!). Oh and I only paid $14 more to buy it from the local shop than Amazon is selling it for!

Melissa