A Place For Everything...

What does Cam like to do on Sunday afternoons?

Organize his dresser.

I'm more of a lay-around-the-house-and-catch-up-on-television kind of gal, but who am I to say what makes the best use of time?

We have the pants and shorts...

and the shirts, stacked by brand.

The crowning top drawer glory: underwear and socks. And scout badges that wait to be stuck on a shirt or something.

That boy loves to organize!

I'm thinking of renting him out by the hour.

Junior Manscaping

Troy started it. He bravely let the world see that big, tough men can benefit from a well-groomed brow.

And so can big, tough 9 year old boys.

Aaron was all smiles, excited to get his brows waxed. Yeah, maybe I encouraged him just a little bit to do it. But it was his choice.

Honest.

This is what we're dealing with - fine, blond, errant hairs. Ooooh, and there's a pretty good uni brow brewing, but I forgot to take a picture of it. Trust me. Aaaahhhh...like soothing warm honey

Zzzzzzzzzziiiip!

And again.

Just breathe, Baby, just breathe. You're almost done.


Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
And the redness goes away in a day or two.

Thanks, Aaron - you look so good! You are one brave kid.

Oh...and I won't be doing any Dishes and Laundry at all next week. No doubt I'll be doing dishes and maybe some laundry, but it will be at Bear Lake! Woohoo, family vacation time.

Enjoy the summer!

Favorite Way to Clean? The Mouse.

Bit by bit, I'm learning how to use a few photo editing tools.

I use a little finger icon to smudge out identifying information:

I can lighten and brighten and crop Troy's big ol' foot out of this shot:

See...much better.

I removed an unsightly blemish from the tip of my lip and even calmed a little of the rosacea redness from my cheeks for my new blog photo.

Yeah, it's subtle, but I can tell. I really can. I just wish I'd used the clone tool and placed teeth over my chewing gum.

But the best editing I've done is on this one:

Look at that baseboard.

And now look at the baseboard.

It's not perfect, but it no longer looks dirty, chipped, scratched and like it has a 5 year old paint job. It no longer distracts from the puppy.

So I'm all excited about what I've taught myself on Photo Impression 6. I had Troy sit down at the computer and I showed him how I cleaned up the baseboard.

"See, I make the brush this big, then I find an area with the same color that I want to have over the dirty spot. Then I press shift and click the mouse and then I click the mouse over every spot that I don't like. See how it changes it? I did it on the walls too. See how clean it looks? How awesome it that?"

"You know," Troy said tentatively, choosing his words carefully, "you could just clean the wall and the baseboard. But this is really cool too. You're pretty smart."

I think he just threw in that last part to save himself.

What do you think?

Scrub down the walls and baseboards...or keep using the Photo Impression 6 Quick Edit Tools?