Two Pet Peeves....

Ok, first and foremost, I swear I think I am going to snap the next time I go to 4shared and see "12th to download, 1st to comment. Thank you from me and the 11 others before me." Are you kidding me? Every time I see one of these comments, it just strikes this chord in me and makes me want to yell! I mean, really, are you making yourself look better by pointing out other people's rudeness? How do you think the designer must feel seeing that you are POINTING OUT how many people DL'd without commenting? Ya know, the numbers are there for everyone to see, but why on earth would you rub it in? And above and beyond that, it is comments like these that I have to seal with day in and day out coming from my 3 year old! "Mommy, Maddy didn't close the drawer!" My inevitable response to these tattlings is "Well then, why don't you go fix it and not worry about what other people are supposed to be doing!" I swear, if there is ever a point where I am making things to give away, and someone leaves a comment like that I will explode! Ha - maybe I should leave a bogus comment as the first one just to nip this in the bud lol!

Whew! That's better! Not that anyone besides me is reading this blog, but I so had to get that off my chest....

And the 2nd part of this rant isn't nearly so impassioned, but SHEESH I really NEED that darn Vector Tube script by Gary Barton! There are so many amazing tubes that I would love to have, but they won't do me any good without this darn script. If I had more of a clue about writing scripts, maybe I could try to figure it out, but I'm just barely getting my feet wet in PSP X2 as it is, so I guess that it'll have to wait for another day.

On the subject of scripts, I managed to make a rudimentary little script to prune the dead space from around my PNGs. I played with it for a while last night and discovered that it really didn't make much of a difference in size on most of what I had, but it definitely made it easier to see the small images that were just swimming in nothingness! However, I was a little surprised by a few of the files I used it on. There were all kinds of random stray pixels scattered around the images, and I had to clean all of that up to fix them. Thank goodness for the modify selection > hole and speck removal tool lol!


Ok, 'nough ranting for now - I have to work tonight and only have about an hour to get anything done before I go!

Grrrrrrfffff! I am so sick! I think I've got the flu, and I know that it is making me very cranky, whiny, and tired! I am in some serious need of retail therapy, it seems, but thankfully I have been pretty good about looking and not buying. I spent an hour at a local scrapbook store this morning, and about 15 minutes at Hancock Fabrics, but didn't buy anything! However, when I went to the grocery store to buy something for tonight's dinner, I walked out with over $100 worth of stuff!

As icky as I'm feeling, it is killing me to get anything done. I did start on cleaning out my craft room the other day, though. I used Nichole's blog as inspiration for getting my room organized, and while I'm still a very, very long way off, I started by storing some of my ribbons like she demonstrates here. It was fun to do, and once I'm done, there will be a huge open spot in the middle of my floor where all my ribbon used to be! I really should take some pictures of the mess just so I can remind myself of how I DON'T want to live!

Trying to get in the habit

You know, I think if I just try to post every day, I'll get in the habit at some point lol! I adore all the amazing blogs that get constant attention from their owners, but I swear I have no idea how they do it!

I am trying to get my life organized right now. My sewing/craft room is a total wreck, and I am determined to get it together. I am really blessed to have a huge bonus room over my garage that is all mine, and after seeing some of the gorgeous craft spaces other people have, I am totally inspired to work on creating my own space! No more stepping over piles of fabric to get to my ironing board, and no more avalanches when I go looking for the particular punch or stamp set I need for a project lol!

Good heavens!

Yeah, it's been a while....

I feel downright guilty for not keeping up with my blog, and I keep telling myself I'll do better, but I still put it off. Let's try this again and see how it goes lol!