Having Fun Diagnosing!

Posted by Ashley

Hi everyone! I'm baaaaack! Haha...
I was MIA last week because I had to fly to Lynchburg, Virginia to take my very LAST masters level class! The class format is called an "intensive" because students fly to Liberty University and cram one semester into one week... that's right... we learn what most students learn in 16 weeks in just 5 days! They don't call it an intensive for nothing! I have to say that I really enjoyed this class because it was all about diagnosis with regard to mental health disorders. It was crazy busy, but super interesting at the same time. There's a little book called the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revised) that is considered the Bible for mental health practitioners and I became VERY comfortable with this textbook over the past week. After the first day, I realized that I could not find the mental disorder categories quickly enough, so I made a trip to Target to find some tabs to help me organize. As you can see from the photo below, I had a blast labeling each section. I think I may have discovered a personality disorder in myself... I may possibly have obsessive-compulsive tendencies!!! At least I acknowledge it, right?!?



Needless to say, the past week was one of my favorite classes ever, which was a great way to end my masters program! Now, I just have to begin working on my internship! The end is near!!

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful day and I'll see you back here soon!

Let's Party...

Happy Middle of The Week !!!
I don't know about you, but my week has been going so SLOW!!! Probably because I have so many things on my to-do list. Sometimes I feel like a hamster running in a wheel!!

Here is the card I made Mike for his birthday~Can you believe I didn't even add ribbon (it was hard), of course I had to add a button, LOL!

I pulled out a really old SU! stamp set for this one (I think it may have even been a hostess set, way back when), called Let's Party, which I do use often. I really need some masculine stamp sets (but I always end up buying flowers, LOL!). Maybe my next PTI order I will have to break down and get a boy-ish set.



Supplies used (PTI unless noted): Let's Party (SU!) stamp set; Kraft/Tangerine/New Leaf/White/Pure Poppy/Dark Chocolate/Tempting Turquoise (SU!) cardstock; New Leaf/Pure Poppy/Tempting Turquoise (SU!)/Tangerine ink; Square Punches (SU!); Edge Punch (Fiskars); Pure Poppy Button; Twine


I am plugging away at my color correction course, and learning so much!!! Thought I would post a side by side of a sooc (straight out of the camera), and my color corrected image (I am only a quarter of the way done, so there is still lots to learn). I highly recommend the class if you want to learn how to identify color problems in your photos and edit/color correct in Photoshop!!!

happy mail day...

don't you just love it when you go to the mailbox and get some "happy mail"? I mentioned last week that I am going to be starting Snapshots of a Good Life photography class by

Karen Russell on 3/30 and I am so excited!!! I cannot wait for the first day of class!!!

when I went to the mailbox yesterday this is what was inside a box from Karen R...isn't it packaged so cute? I just had to take a photo, LOL!

have a good one!