Things I Love. ♥

In honor of the month of February (which I can’t believe is almost over!), I am going to show some pictures of things I really love.

 

1. My chucks.

 

 

 

They’re just a year old and I love them. They match with everything and are just amazing.

 

2. Yellow & Black

 

3. Water

 

4. My glasses.

 

5. My friends.

 

6. My “family”

 

 

7. My REAL family

 

I love about a gozillion more things. But the person I love the most is GOD!

What do you love the most?

I Heart Faces: Fix-It-Friday 45

It is once again time for Fix-it-Friday over at I Heart Faces.

 

Here is the original:

 

Here is my fix:

 

First, I cropped it until I liked it and ran PW’s Boost action. Then I lightened the picture some. I ran PW’s Seventies action and lightened up her eyes just a tad. I added a texture by sanami276 from deviantART and chose a normal blending mode. I created a new mask layer and with a black brush made the little girl’s face more visible above the texture. Or however it is you are supposed to say that. (:

 

Head on over to I Heart Faces to join in the fun, or just to look at other people’s fixes!

 

You Capture - Shapes

This week, like most weeks at I Should Be Folding Laundry, Beth is hosting You Capture. This week’s challenge is SHAPES. I love shapes. Especially circles. Sooo amazing.

I love how shapes are everywhere. I mean pretty much everything has a shape!


Happy capturing!

Go check out everybody else’s awesome Shape entries!

More Texture. ♥

Yes, I have fallen terribly in love with texture. I’ve been playing around with some pictures of flowers I took.

 

Here are the results:

 

 

This last one isn’t necessarily my favorite because of the blending mode I chose. But it’s ok.

 

Hope you like them!

Musical Texture.

This afternoon, I decided to download some textures and play around with them. I had previously downloaded Jodie Friedman's FREE texture applicator which is super amazing and if you, like me, had never used textures before, you will love this! It takes you step by step, pretty much! So, I downloaded two textures for this picture, both from deviantART. One was just a music texture and the other one was called Vintage Musk.

Here is my picture:

 

I'm pretty sure it looks overdone. But I was just playing with those specific textures and wanted to see what I could get. I think my smile also looks pretty posed in this picture and I don't exactly love super posed smiles. I like the natural, carefree, REAL smiles. 

On another note (bwahaha), we are facing a cold front or however you are supposed to say that. So, we are getting a lot of rain! I loveee rain and I am fascinated by the fact that it has rained pretty much all day today. Even though that is a pretty typical Costa Rican day!

Gone with the Wind.

We have two little rose bush thingies in our "yard." It's so small I don't think it should be even called a yard, but that's what it's called anyway. Sometimes we just leave the roses there or we pick them and put them in vases. This little bud was left there and the wind blew away all the petals and I thought it was way too cute.

 

I love this picture. My mom happens to think it is not cute at all. What do you think?

Old goodie.

Today I was randomly at one of my ex-teacher's blogs.
And I found this picture:

This is me and my classmates in 6th grade. I'm in 8th grade now so it wasn't that long ago, but it feels like it was forever ago! Livz, So, JCook, Yayo, Savanna, Mr. Turkeyman, and me of course! Only three of them are still my classmates. Mr. Turkeyman, Yayo, and Savanna. We've all changed so much since then that it is hard to believe that was us, but it was! (I would never wear clothes like that right now!)

Oh, and I know this picture is like super bad quality, so I'm sorry!

Love to all!

Of Friendship and Love. ♥

I personally think that February is one of the best months. Ever.
I mean, what could possibly be better than friendship and love? Yes, you’re right, NOTHING! I mean like it’s a Fruit of the Spirit and it’s mentioned all over the Bible. What else could you want?

Lately, I’ve been writing reports about the Boston Tea Party and John the Baptist, reading books about girls who find love in Italy, solving multi-step equations, drawing maps with tectonic plates, and not taking many pictures.
I know, terrible!

So since I’ve been such a terrible, terrible person, I will show you a pretty picture. Hehe.


I absolutely love this picture. The old vintage-ish feel to it is just amazing.

I thought I’d tell you some random facts about Valentine’s Day:

• Women buy 85% of all Valentine’s.
• In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
• The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

 (Head on over to St. Valentine's Day to see the rest of these fun facts.)