Friday, September 03, 2010

Finally FWF!

Well, welcome, finally, to my FWF post! It has been one heck of a day. Two, really, since the desktop was misbehaving all day yesterday, too. I thought I had it all fixed and taken care of after a system restore. WRONG!!!!

I woke up to a blue screen of death. Um...what?? I can't get my shiny new photo uploaded to my blog if I can't get it onto the computer from the camera!! Holy moly, what am I gonna do?? Well, been working behind the scenes here. Deleted some new software I'd installed for one of my classes this semester. Ran scandisk, did some other safe mode stuff, "let" the spousal unit have at it for a while....ran a virus scan....watched some Clean House....tried to get back on the desktop - and it locked up. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Reboot. Make sure NOTHING opens. Cross fingers tightly and open Photoshop. Amazingly, I get the picture uploaded. And saved. Open googletalk. So far so good. Open Firefox so I can go post to the blog....system failure. Ctrl/alt/del does nothing. Wait a few to see if anything responds....still nothing. Another hard reboot. This time all I opened was an explorer window, just long enough to copy the photo file to a thumb drive.

For my card, I used Clean & Simple Stamping - Fall to Layout 104. Paper is Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety and the stamp is from Unity's matching Garden Variety kit, which is currently available in stores only. All Things Unity is still asking for us to show our style. I think this one is closer to what I usually come up with. I call it "cute and simple."For a full list of participants, check out the Unity blog. I've already seen some of the fantastic projects the peeps are showing today. And don't forget about the blinkie! It's out there somewhere!

9 comments:

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

OH NO--I do not like when computers are crazy!

This is a super cute card--those papers are so fun! LOVE IT:)

Unknown said...

Yay! You got your card uploaded, but so sorry for all that computer stress that you had! Carole, I love the color scheme on this card...great papers, and I call this card FABULOUS and simple! *smile* Have a fantastic weekend!

Lisa said...

Bad computer. No cookie!!!

This is one adorable card!!!! Love your style! :)

Lori said...

I'm sorry about your computer--hopefully it will be back up and running soon . . . Your card is adorable. Love the fun combo of colors and patterns.

Laurel said...

Oh I love it!

Shell said...

Very Cute!

Robin Gibson said...

Love the pattern combination you used! Sure is a cute card!

farmhouse-story said...

such a cute card, carole:) thanks so much for playing at atu-hope to see you again!

Wendy ten Hove said...

What a pretty card this is! Love the writing stamp, makes me remember learning to write and I was very happy to learn that, I love writing!

Hugs,
Wendy