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Today in our Sunday school class we studied the well-known bible story of David and Goliath. While we discussed a number of very applicable and insightful truths, there is one aspect to the story that doesn’t often get mentioned, but which I think is absolutely critical for God’s people today.
I was talking with my neighbor from California the other day and he was remarking how there aren’t any good resources online to find out where to go walking around Birmingham. In addition, he said that while he’s met lots of people from California who’ve moved to Birmingham (who knew?!) that there wasn’t any way to connect with them. As anyone who’s “not from around here” knows, it can be challenging to plug into a community like Birmingham where it seems like all the insiders know each other and if you didn’t grow up here, you feel like a real outsider!
It seemed like a good idea and I needed the exercise. We don’t walk enough as it is and the repair shop where I dropped my car off early in the morning (so I’d be first in line) was only 2 miles from my house.
I just uploaded a video tutorial series on YouTube on how to create a brochure in InDesign. For this series, I’m taking a brochure Beth created in Pages and I’m re-creating as a lesson in using InDesign. I find tutorials creating something “real world” to be more helpful than a generic lesson and I’ve tried to explain each of the steps as well as the features of InDesign that I used. For those of you already very familiar with InDesign, this will probably be more basic that you need. My target audience here are folks who are generally working in Word or in Pages and want to move to InDesign where there’s more flexibility than the basic word processors allow.
I’ve been wanting to build a dresser for some time now and finally decided to take the plunge. After searching for a long time to find one I like, I settled on a modified version of Ana White’s Kendal Extra Wide Dresser. This has an overall clean design and I like the way the drawers are inset into the frame & Ana did a great job with the design.
If ever I had a signature dessert, this would be it. While I can’t claim total originality on using a balsamic reduction in a dessert dish, this is one riff that I haven’t run across yet, so it’s as close to it as I’ll probably ever get! The balsamic reduction has hints of dark chocolate and wine and combined with roasted raspberries over frozen vanilla yogurt, this makes a truly unique and killer dessert.
Unless you are purposely making a custom sized canvas, One of the things I recommend with DIY art canvases is to stick to standard sizes mainly because you can save big money on custom framing. Especially if you paint or print on large canvases, the difference between a custom frame on a non-standard canvas vs. a standard canvas can literally be hundreds of dollars.
My busyness, whether that which comes with life’s seasons or that which I bring upon myself, robs me of my wonder and my joy. What I know with my head isn’t always consistent with what I do with my time, too often frittering it away as I confuse activity with effectiveness. I know this is true and I see the folly, but why don’t I translate that knowledge into the action of proaction, of margin and space, of quiet and reflection? I think that for me, there are several answers to the question and as these thoughts percolate in my mind, ideas gradually become coherent. There is much there, but it is still mostly hidden from me, like these roots.
I just uploaded a new video to YouTube on making a canvas, specifically a gallery wrap canvas. This is the first video I made, but it’s just the middle part of the process that I shot for a complete painting. I’m going to try to get to a video on the building of the frame which is easy and cheap if you do it yourself, then the whole process of priming it and then, maybe, painting the whole picture. For small canvases I recommend going to the local art store and buying one, but for the larger ones, you can definitely save money making them yourselves, assuming you have the tools.
As part of my series on “How I Went from Knowing Nothing About Adobe Premiere and After Effects to Producing a Client Video in 2 Weeks” I consulted a lot of videos and training resources as I attempted a crash course in Adobe video production.
