Pictures and Stuff

I don't know if you've picked up on this or not...but I sort of like pictures. :)

Last month, when I met up with Kari for our belated Christmas celebration, I went armed with my three latest scrapbooks, done through Picaboo. I've decided to do all my scrapbooks the digital way now. (I'll pause in case you need to gasp. This news shocks some.) Picaboo has a great program that lets me still "scrap" with fun backgrounds, but it also lets me make my pictures bigger - even up to the size of a whole page. I like that for the extra wow pictures.

As Kari flipped through the book of my vacation to Tennessee with Faith and her daughters, she stopped at the picture of the lion. The lion was part of our visit to the Louisville zoo, and he was one fantastic animal. I shivered as I zoomed in and took pictures, because he stared me down through my camera lens with a look that said he knew what I was doing and he wasn't happy about it.

But as she paused on the picture, she asked if I'd ever thought about adding a verse to the picture and having a print made. Well, no, but now I have!

So...I went home, pilfered around for a good lion verse, and added it into the picture. I emailed it to Kari, and she loved it so much, she wanted a 10x13 print of it!

A few days ago, I told this story to Rachel, because she's a good little photographer herself, and she told me about this website: Nations Photo Lab. She'd used it to order some prints and liked the prices and the quality. So I checked it out - and discovered they are running a special on enlargements. SWEET! So as a trial, I ordered my lion print and paid $11.06 for a 10x13 - shipping included! And Thursday....this arrived:
You can't tell from the picture, but it's printed on a linen paper - thick and extra classy looking. I'm so impressed.

I took the picture to work, where I received an order from Kari's mom, who wants a print of her own! My mom has requested one too - and she hasn't even seen it live yet.

So there you go. My new addiction. I may or may not have doctored up three other pictures thus far....