How to Kill a Day

I had the whole day to myself yesterday. I could have caught up on things I wanted to do after I came home from yoga. Before yoga I started gathering pictures into a folder in iPhoto for a magazine I was thinking of doing. However, sometime during the day I got sidetracked (diverted to distraction??) and thought of getting a picture for a digital Christmas card. Then I started looking for some cute things to do with photoshop and after watching a couple of videos realized I hardly know how to do anything in photoshop.
I tried a bunch of things, still not getting why my text doesn't work right but was able to try some new things. So after staying up until midnight I came up with these, which I'm not that impressed with.
Hopefully I do something a little more worthwhile today like practice the piano or clean up the office.

I made this one using a picture from Friday night but it is much too formal.

This was the original picture of us that I wanted to use.

When I came up with the Holiday "Cheer" I thought I needed a better picture showing cheer and chose this one and got a little more creative with the santa hats.  I like this one the best, a little goofy.

Fisher Event

We went to the most elegant event last night at the Wegman Conference Facility celebrating the success of the Vision 2020 Campaign for St John Fisher College.  The facility was decorated beautifully and from appetizers (they could have been the meal) to dessert everything was delicious.

 This was the entry way into dinner.

Tree is up

While I was at Yoga, and cooking and out for coffee with the girls Larry decorated our tree and the mantle.  I did help with fixing the lights on the first day but he did all the rest and a really great job.  This year is a white and red year.

I did the table a few days later.

Christmas Cards

This year we're actually going to send out Christmas cards and early too.  The reason - I used the 5 free card promotion from Shutterfly as an inspiration and of course I waited until the last minute to do it.  Once I started to place the order I realized that the card I picked wasn't part of the free ones, so I added 5 different ones too.   Now that I ordered the cards lets hope we write and mail them.  We had this picture taken on a cruise and I thought it was good enough to share.

Stationery card

View the entire collection of cards.