Cool fact. The bridge is 24 miles long. It is the longest bridge over water in the world.
The Whimmsey Shoppe will be open starting November 1. The hours are Tuesday-Saturday 11-7 and Sunday 12-4.
The owner is Kathleen Peterson.
Kathleen and me
We just met and you can already tell we are BFF’s.
Cool fact #2: Our birthdays are 4 days apart and our favorite color is green.
This is the place where art meets antiques. Gator Girl Art is here with prints, giclee’s and original works of art. In downtown Covington there is no sales tax on original art. Win/Win.
Kathleen finds great stuff and makes it better. She has lots of mid-century furniture and cool new items. This can be your one stop shopping for eclectic gifts.
I am totally happy and relieved today to have completed my first parade as a Pussyfooter. I have an idea now what Mardi Gras will be like. The Krewe of Jingle Parade was 2 and a half miles and family friendly. The Krewe of Muses Parade will be 13 miles and big crowds. I’m thinking insoles.
Waiting for NenaMy first parade.
After the parade.
I woke up one morning last week thinking, “I wonder if anyone just downloads my paintings?”. On the blog, I usually post works in progress. I sometimes put low resolution copies on-line. But sometimes I put high-resolution copies on-line. I know some of y’all are doing the same thing or thinking of doing the same thing with your art. I don’t like to think so, but maybe all art lovers aren’t ethical.
I contacted my could-be-daughter-in-law and she sent me this link, http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/watermark-images-photoshop/. I downloaded a free 30 day trial of Photoshop CS6. (Make sure you close all windows before you start the download and beware it takes 15 hours to download.)
The things you can do with this program are amazingly fun.
This is so funny… WordPress won’t let me show you my cool watermarks, because they are copyrighted. Good job WordPress!
I will tell you how I made the watermark that I like best:
1. I used a low resolution picture to be double-protected.
2. I drag/dropped the picture onto Photoshop CS6.
3. I made a Text box.
4. In white, I wrote Gator Girl Art in a cursive font.
6. To rotate the watermark diagonally, I selected the Marquee Tool, right-clicked the text, and selected Free Transform. Hovering over any corner, you will see a small curved arrow letting you know you can rotate the image.
There are many, many ideas if you go to the article. The watermark I like the best is embossed.
In a perfect world, my daughter could marry her girlfriend and photo images wouldn’t need watermarks. Someday…
Gator Girl Art 