Just in case you missed it…today is the last day of July. For those of you who have children, this means that school is about to start (at least on a traditional calendar). For me, this means we’re one day closer to Fall temperatures (I cannot even wait!). It also means that TOMORROW IS MY MOM’S BIRTHDAY! Be sure to wish her a Happy Birthday while you’re here.Anyways, if you’ve been participating in the Scavenger Hunt each week, I hope this week’s items inspired you. If you’re new to the Scavenger Hunt…WELCOME! Next week’s items are...

Last week, I missed Branson’s Edit Me challenge (or have I missed it for two weeks…anyways). This week, I had a little more time in my schedule so I decided to take a shot at this week’s photo, submitted by Beth from Our Typical Life. I did not write down my exact steps, however I do know that I started my edit in Lightroom. I actually used a lot of Caroline’s steps from this week’s good to WOW tutorial. I then brought it over to Photoshop and applied an action I’ll release tomorrow during Scavenger Hunt Sunday. I also added the word “innocence”...

Many of you may know that I am a proud Class of 2004 Peace College graduate. Peace is a women’s liberal arts college located in the heart of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, founded in 1854 by William Peace. On Thursday, July 21, 2011 the current president and Board of Trustees announced that the school would 1) change it’s name to William Peace University and 2) become co-ed beginning Fall 2012. Now, I’m all for change…Peace College has been changing for many years. However, many of us (alumni) found ourselves a bit shocked/heartbroken/betrayed that such a...

Welcome to the 29th week of Shoot and Edit: Part 2. Click HERE for all the details and upcoming prompts/themes (also including previous editing tutorials). This week’s theme or prompt was to show us one “Laughter” SOOC shot (this was just a suggestion, you can show us any SOOC shot). Hopefully you linked up with Jill’s blog earlier this week. Typically, each Thursday, I take my SOOC shot and provide a simple/basic or advanced Photoshop/Photoshop Elements tutorial. This week Caroline, of the Frog-Photoblog, will walk us through some simple processing tips in...