I have implemented many “Git r done” routines in my life.  Whether online at todoist, or in real life on a post-it note, to do lists are my bread and butter.  (I actually really love bread and butter. )  When I get to the root of it, to do lists are my attempt to feel [...]

Yesterday was a great Saturday for exploring new places.  Adam and I watched our first roller derby game.  We sat in “suicide seating” which was on the ground right on the rink.  Even better, our home team – the Charlotte Roller Girls – won their bout.  Next Adam took me to a great burger joint [...]

After yesterday’s photo word art centered around the quote “You can’t plow a field by turning it over in your mind“, I still had remnants of inspiration.  Last summer my father came to visit, and I was thinking about our adventures because he is going to be returning again.  Last visit, he discovered an amazing [...]

I was listless last night when I stumbled across this quote: You can’t plow a field by turning it over in your mind.  It inspired me to use a tree picture I had taken and turn it into inspirational word art. Here is the before. Here are the afters. This is my second favorite of [...]

How to create your random superhero name courtesy of NiceGirlNote’s post titled “You Villain“.  You take the pattern or color of your shirt and creatively combine it with and object to your left. Adam is Master GreyFace.  (He was wearing a grey shirt and was next to a face mask from our last sanding project.) [...]

In honor of my word of the year “Be”, I played around in photoshop using a dandelion picture I took on my summer road trip to Wisconsin and the quote, “If you want to be happy, then be”.  These are my results: Image 1   Image 2   Image 3 Image 4 Image 5 Image [...]

Archiving family photos can be a monumental task. Scanning tons of photographs, editing them, and keeping track of what information might be on the backs of those photographs is generally an incredibly tedious process. Especially when there are hundreds or thousands of photographs to scan! Using the GIMP scripts and plug-ins described in our earlier [...]

Sometimes photographs have important information written on their backs such as who the image is of, and when and where it was taken. Keeping track of which backs-of-an-image front match can be maddening if you have hundreds or thousands of archival images. Using the method described in a previous post, you can scan multiple backs at once and have them automatically [...]

Recently, I’ve taken it upon myself to archive some of my grandmother’s pictures of our family. Archiving photos is a daunting task for anyone who does it correctly. Hundreds of images, (many of them with important information on the back such as names and dates) need to be scanned (matching both front and back image), [...]

For archiving scanned images of family photographs, I modified some scripts to use with Gimp to speed the process along. This post will explain how to install these scripts to the correct folders in order for them to work. First, You need to install Gimp photo manipulation software.  This is similar to photoshop, but it [...]