Monday, January 14, 2019

Falling for a freebie

It all started when I signed up for the Betty Crocker recipe site.  They send daily posts with the most delightful recipes that I can adapt to my special dietary needs.  So far we good.  But one day they sent an offer to produce a 20 page 8 x 8 inch hard covered book FREE.  Shutterfly produced some books for me several years ago, and now that this offer came in, I'm going to make a new book. 

Most of the photos I planned to use were taken on my cell phone.  I downloaded Shutterfly  app to my tablet and started to work my way through the process of selecting photos.   My goal is to use my watercolor studies of country roads.  And maybe later a second one of my watercolor abstracts. 

Many of the photographs needed to be reshot with the tablet in order to facilitate uploading to Shutterfly.   Now I need to edit down the number of favorites. 

A book I had done on another site years ago is too chaotic.  I tried to put in pics representing too many types of art.  Much like my life. LOL It does show examples, and progression, but it's not cohesive. 

I don't want this one to be cluttered up. 

Its winter with dreary grey or  rainy days, so I like having a project.  And I'm glad to find out that I can do this without using the computers that are either hard on my eyes, or in the case of the larger screen, has an operating system I dont like.
I can hardly wait for Spring.