My First Giveaway!

I will be participating in a wonderful event called One World One Heart that begins on Monday  January the 19th through February 12th and you can too! 

Its a Blog Giveaway!!!!

Since I am still new to blogging I think this is a great way to introduce myself and my work and make new friends (and maybe win some cool stuff too). Its the beginning of another year, a chance for all to things to begin anew, new dreams that give birth to new ideas, so I think my gift to you will be in that same spirit. I will choose a winner at random on 

February 12!!

 

Click to learn more about http://www.oneworldoneheart.typepad.com

By the way--the message above is a clue to the gift I am giving

This will be open to everyone that leaves a comment starting Monday January the 19th!!

Good Luck!

Quick Update

I have added a few more links to some great artists. If you love art and inspiration, you should really check them all out. A special "Thank You" to Stefania Morgante of  Gufobardo for the mention on your blog!! I am honored and constantly humbled that people appreciate my work enough to take the time to mention me on their blogs. 

Till Later,

Rosanna

WORK! WORK! WORK!

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year!! This week my little house will go back to its usual self, clean and simple with a nautical air. Now its time to return to work as I send the kiddies back to school.  I have been working on a simple little wing tutorial for Gail at Mind Wide Open. I will let you know when its up and running. I have a series of 13 girls I am working on relating to Fairytales, ofcourse!!! I am very excited to get this going because I have been planning and gathering supplies for months.  After that I have another little project planned(has a little bit to do with cultural beliefs/myths) and in between I will be presenting the little Orphans. I am also teaching myself Photoshop to incorporate everything I love into cool images and starting a personal journal to track my goals. 2009 is going to be a creative year for me, less planning more doing! PHEW!!

Now I gotta get back to work.

Best wishes to everyone,

Rosanna

This is for my Journal-just thought I would share my new love of Photoshop with you all!!

ONLY 3 DAYS TILL X-MAS!!!!!

Wow, I can't believe that Christmas is in 3 days and that 2009 is only a week and a half away!

I have been working on many things. Sorry I can't yet show the commissioned piece, I was asked to wait until after the holidays so I don't ruin the surprise. So instead I will show you what I did on photoshopCS4. My uncle gave it to me a few days ago so I started messing with it and I LOVE IT!!!! I have only managed to make a few things because I didn't have too many images on my computer to work with and they took me forever to cut and put together...okay maybe it was 3 days.  I used over 100 layers on the frame image!!

I also got the gigantic manual for it and all I can say is-- I doubt I'm going to read it-i think I will just try to figure it out. I have a ton of ideas and an ephemera collection to photograph so this is going to be a fun new direction for me. 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!

A Pretty Little Christmas!!

Today is the Blog Party for A Pretty Little Christmas so in honor of it I am putting some pictures of my decor for this year. I really didn't have the energy or the $$$ to do too much this year so I kept it simple. The family tree is the white one with all of the kids ornaments and favorite colors as well as my more traditional tree in green and red by the hallway. The gift boxes are all going to remain empty until Christmas Eve because our curious kids pick them open and peek every year, so this year it will be a real SURPRISE!! hahaha! 

I wish I had more time to put up more pictures but there aren't enough hours in the day for me, maybe in 2009  I will start a flicker account so I can share more everyday pics with everyone.

Happy Holidays to All of You!!

Ms. Whisolbautum

Allow me to introduce to you Ms. Whisolbautum. She is and has been a social worker for orphans for as far back as she can remember, which doesn't say much since she has dementia and is forgetful. Ms. Whisolbautum suffers from cataracts and is hard of hearing but she is unaware of this.  

She is applying for work at MRSBO's in order to transfer her cases and maybe have better luck. For some unknown reason she has had several unfortunate incidents and accidents in her former orphanage. Also, her "precious" and "charismatic" orphans keep getting returned to her after just a few short days. She believes this is the result of living in an unsafe neighborhood filled with irresponsible uncaring adults. 

Ms. Whisolbautum has never married, there was no time for this. She had too many cats to raise and her duty and responsibility is and has always been to help the children. She won't retire until all of her orphans have been adopted...Unfortunately she isn't aware of the year and with her cataracts she can't tell that she keeps being given new children. And just between you and I--She also doesn't realize that out of the 50 years she has been working, she hasn't had a raise in 47 of those years! This makes her a highly desirable candidate for employment. 

She will begin introducing the orphans as soon as she finds employment and is settled in somewhere safe. 

also...

first off, let me just say-I am electronically challenged!!

that includes phones, cameras, DVR, MAC, etc. If it has a battery or a plug I will mess it up.

So with that said...

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but when I try to enlarge the pictures I post, it doesn't work! If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. Thanks

I know i need lessons on all things listed above but my poor kids just don't have the time or patience to deal with my extremely short attention span and outrageous hypothetical situations.

Just kidding-sorta!