Friday Five

1.  This courtesy of the SITS girls this morning on Facebook.  Love it because a. It's word art and how can you not love word art?! and b. It's pretty much what I've been focused on doing this year before I turn the dreaded 3-0 (yuck!)

2.  I've already confessed my love for all things British, as well as "A Bit of Fry and Laurie." (or maybe I just love Fry and Laurie: it really is a toss up!)  So it may not come as a surprise when I say that work's been pretty sparse this week so I've been indulging in some YouTube perusing.  This, so far has been my most favorite sketch.  The pay off is ridiculous but it makes me laugh every time. (of course, I have a sick sense of humor so that may explain that...)

3. Picmonkey:  As someone whose a little too cheap to buy into all the Adobe products, no matter how cool they are, I've had to find other ways of making my not so artsy pics, artsy.  Picmonkey is the perfect site to use to do that AND it's free to boot!  You can use all the fun lighting tricks that come with Instagram, but it also has tools touch up photos, add text and about 20 other things, as well as create collages of pictures.  It's about the most fun I've had with editing photos, ever.  I'm already dreaming of uses for the photo collages.  I see quite a few posts on photos coming your way!

4. Pinterest but it comes with a caveat.  Ok, so I joined Pinterest under protest.  I've been hearing about it for the last year but it's never really sparked my interest (heehee).  Two things happened that made me give it a shot.  1.  The bestie who just joined Facebook last year (she's a little behind the tech times) joined a few months ago: How in the world did she jump in before I did? and 2.  My aunt and my mom asked about it in the same week so I figured I should jump in with them so we could all be confused and amazed together. 
The verdict you may ask?:  It still confounds me!  It's been a week and I still haven't figured out all the intricacies of the Pinterest world.  I've got re-pinning down and I think I might even have gotten the hang of pinning, but how in the heck do you use it on an iPad?  Can you only re-pin stuff by using the app?  I've been trying to figure that out for the last 3 days and I can't seem to solve the riddle! Also, what's wrong with "favoriting" things, doesn't that work just the same?  On the other hand, I seem to have created my very own Tastespotting from the favorites on my Google Reader so I guess that's pretty cool...

5. The Instagram #photoadayjuly Challenge: I am without a doubt absolutely in LOVE with this idea.  (Thanks Aunt Mil!)  I've tried other photo challenges before but I get lost in my head and can't decide what to snap.  This challenge supplies a subject without the pressure of having to take millions of shots.  And others are doing it too so I get the added bonus of inspiration.  Too fun!  Below is the collage (made with Picmonkey: told you I was obsessed!) of the first 6 days of shots.  You'll notice that there are only 5 photos.  Why?  Because Tuesday's is too ugly to share again.  If you're that curious you can check the July 1 post (that's cleverly linked above) but I hate that darn picture and am choosing to not ruin a perfectly good collage with it (that reason AND I couldn't find a template of 6 pics to create.)


Happy Weekend and  Stay cool!