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It is all over the forums and made 60 minutes the other night. Rumors of a virus or worm that is already on your computer set to active on April fools day. Now we never know if a rumor is just that a rumor but I am leaving a post today to remind you to always be prepared. Go to Microsoft and do your updates. Before you go to bed tonight. Update your virus software and run a scan on your computer. Think about installing and using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. Do a back up tonight also. Shoot set a restore point on your system. I'm not sure if that will help but it won't hurt anything. :) If you have no virus software running. Do a search for AVG free. Make sure that is exactly what you are downloading and not some other pop-up that showed up. Before downloading anything. Do a Goggle search and make sure it is legit!!! Holly had a worm attach her system called Anti Virus 2009. We had to do a complete system reinstall. So do your research before you just start clicking a

Click on the image for a bigger view. I am in love with this image of Holly. :) My baby graduating from High School this year. Where did the time go? I know... she looks serious and almost sad but this is the true Holly. She is deep and serious and walks around with wrinkles on her forehead most of the time. This image truly captures her essence. Here is a tip I did on this image. I wanted to have the background darker so when you looked at the image you would be drawn to her face. To try and work with a layer mask would have been to difficult with all of her fly away hair. So I used the lasso tool. I drew a selection about her hair and body. Gave it a nice size feather, Inversed my selection to affect just the outer edges. Ctrl, Shift, I is the invert shortcut. Hit Ctrl J to put my selection on it's own layer and changed the blend mode to multiply. I didn't think the effect was dark enough so I used Ctrl J and made second copy and lower the opacity of the second layer a bit. I

Click on the image for a bigger view. I'm doing my "Happy Birthday Dance"! So I have a present for all of my subscribers. :) A 5x7 frame in a png format. You get the background and the frame together with a piece of tape across the top. I have been working on my clear tape. Still not as good as I would like but it is getting there. You just add your image behind it and resize. If you are a newbie... Ctrl T to resize. Send to print as a 5x7 and you have a pretty cool image. This is Simone. Isn't she a pretty girl!! Everyone say.... hi Simone. :) your present will stay up just for today, so grab it while you can. sorry, time is up. if you show up here and you missed out... Subscribe!! Hope your day is good enough to have your own happy dance! hugs & kisses ~kimi~

Click on the image for a bigger view. Here is your "Thank You for Voting freebie". Now did you vote? Don't you dare take your freebie until you go and give our little Grace a vote. I will know.... I will hunt you down. ;) So, I made a nice grungy damask overlay last night to give out as a thank you. When I got up this morning, I thought I would throw together a paper so you could see what it looked like. I ended up with four different versions. So in the folder you will find the overlay and 3 of the different paper versions. I will let you decide which one you like the best. :) I took some water and froze it a while back for a texture. The white dots you see are from the ice crystals. Also an image from one of the leaves off of the Magnolia tree that lives at Grace's house. It seemed to fit. Thanks again for voting. Hope you enjoy the freebies. Now go back and vote one more time!! sorry, time is up. love to all ~kimi~ I will leave the link up for 24 hours.

Click on the image for a bigger view. Click on the image for a bigger view. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE!!!!!!! please... By now everyone knows my little buddy Grace. She is in a Cover Cutie Contest. So go on over and give her a vote or two. Her Mom sent in these two images. Just pick which one you like best. Click here to vote for the Cover Cutie Contest. A big thanks to Jonni in New York for pointing out to me that she noticed Grace's image in the contest. The link came from a friend she has in Louisiana. Now that is a small world! I'm working on a nice freebie as a thank you so stay tuned. OK, Freebie is made. A nice grungy damask overlay. I will post first thing in the morning and will leave it up until the freebie sites find it and post a link. I love giving freebies but they are for the people that are nice enough to subscribe. So check in the morning and make sure you have subscribed! Happy Weekend Everyone! ~kimi~ BTW... is it cold where you are? We will hit the 80