Ok, so the title is a little misleading…

This photo of Kari’s son Liam (who holds a special place in my heart because he and Jasper were born on the same day!) was actually pretty fab as is.   In fact, …

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I don’t know if the NAET treatments are finally working or Jasper has just grown out of some of his “issues” but he has been such a good boy lately that you must allow me to brag!

This past Sunday …

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If you too mourned the recent passing of Poloroid, you will be as excited as I was about Poladroid!

You click and drag your images onto the poloroid camera on your desktop and it even gives you that Poloroid …

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I don’t know how useful you found Part I, but Part II is up and running!

http://www.becoming-mom.net/photoshop-tutorials/photoshop-tutorial-maya-part-ii/

Question For those of you that watched: I know I was rushing because the longer the tutorial the huger the file, were …

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I finally did it! I had to break this one tutorial down into three parts because the file sizes are so damn big.. and there are a lot more ums and ahs than I would have liked, but I …

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Seconds after I wrote my last post, Jasper rolled from back to tummy for the first time!!!

You would think he’d won a McCarthy Genius award the way Jeff and I jumped around, cheered, hugged and high fived. (I don’t …

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I know, I had really hoped to post my first tutorial by now, but I have a good (well, bad really) excuse, Jasper has been sick. And of course, Jeff came back sick from Hong Kong, so I almost had …

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Dear Jasper,

Today you are five months old and unfortunately you got your first fever yesterday. But you are such a trooper! You are laying on your playmat smiling at me right now, being the happy good natured boy that …

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I am SO pleased that so many of who requested photography posts have access to Photoshop! As you will see as we get further into these posts, the post processing of the photo is where much of the magic happens.…

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I have a busy morning, but will hopefully be able to post my first photoshop tutorial this afternoon.

Of course I have lots of pictures from my files, but I thought it would be fun to actually use photos of …

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