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Turning a favorite photo into a Canvas Print

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If you’ve been reading my site for a while you know that I love photography. Actually if you read my site this week you probably already know that I just purchased a new SLR digital camera. So I’m really excited about photos and photography this week.

Then I discover this great site called Canvas on Demand. This site allows you to have a favorite photo printed on canvas. You can have your photo manipulated to enhance the color and or features of the photo, or you can have a light brush stroke style applied to your photo to make it look more like a painting. You can also have black and white photos colorized, or converted to sepia tones to give them an aged effect. Canvas on Demand will also restore damaged photos for an extra fee.

The site is very easy to use. You can upload a digital photo that you’ve taken with your digital camera, scanned using your scanner or if your photo is a print you can mail it to them. The easiest and fastest way to have a favorite photo printed on canvas is to upload it directly onto the Canvas on demand site and follow the simple step by step directions that you’ll be given in order to complete the process.

Within three to four days of placing your order your photo enlargement and or enhanced photo will be printed on a high quality canvas material and shipped to you.

I’m going to do this. I just have to decide exactly which photo I’ll get made into a 16 x 20 canvas print. I’m excited! Within a couple of weeks I’ll have one of my own photos on canvas!

At this moment I’m thinking of getting a beautiful macro photo of a monarch butterfly on a lilac hibiscus flower made into a canvas print. I took the photo last summer after chasing the butterfly around my yard. It was a hard won photo and it turned out beautifully. The bright colors of the monarch look spectacular against the soft lilac color of the rose of Sharon hibiscus flower. Yes, I’m fairly certain that that’s the photo I’ll use.

I’ll be sure to take a photo of my canvas print when I get it! Maybe you’ll want to do this too?

Update: Yes I’m going to use the monarch and rose of Sharon photo that I mentioned. I’ve just placed my order! Here’s what the photo looks like:

Monarch and Rose of Sharon

What do you think? I think it will be beautiful on a canvas!





I need a ME day

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I think I’m going to go on a shopping spree this weekend. I need to get some new pants, maybe I’ll splurge and get a pair of true religion jeans. I just love the look of those jeans. They’re fantastic! Have you tried them?

Oh and I’ve got to get my hair cut. It’s getting way too long. I like my hair short – just like my avatar in the blog header. That style. Of course my hair doesn’t look anything like that right now since I’ve needed a hair cut for a few weeks!

Yeah I think Saturday will be a ME day. A little shopping for some things that I need and a nice new hair cut.

Do you ever do that? I mean plan a shopping day or a day to treat yourself? I think we all have to some times.

Thinking of furnishings for our basement recreation room

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Chris and I are always talking about our home renovation projects. Yeah we’re not doing the projects so much as talking about them!

We talk about what we want to do, how we want to accomplish the reno and what we’ll do with whatever room when it’s done. I’m a full participant in our renovations – don’t be thinking Chris is a handyman … it’s me that does the planning and a good portion of the actual reno! Considering I’m sick that’s the main reason we’ve stalled on our renovations. Chris could start up on his own … but no …

Anyway. One of the big plans we have for the basement when it’s done is to make a den/ rec room out of the space. We’re going to get another HDTV for the basement and we both think it’d be cool to get home theater seating to complete the look and feel of the room.

We’ll have a regular movie night with our friends and or family. I can’t wait!

Do you have a room set up with an HDTV and home theater seating?

I love freebies!

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I almost forgot! My sister is a jewelry engraver but every once in a while she gets orders to engrave plaques, trophies and things like that for businesses. Basically if something is engravable she engraves it.

Well, it turns out that she’s got a box of promo pens sitting in her office. The company that wanted her to engrave the pens with another businesses motto messed up. I don’t know if the lines weren’t the correct lines or if there was a spelling mistake in the original order but something messed up.

It wasn’t my sisters fault. Just to be clear. Whatever happened was the company that brought the work to her fault.

So the company is now giving her a whole new order of promo pens to engrave and they’ve told her that she can keep the first case of pens that she did. They paid her for the work too.

My sister can’t use all those pens so she’s offered to give us half of them. They are really nice pens too.

I’m always looking for pens here because my husband is the biggest pen thief in the world so this is a great bonus!

Actually I’ve received some pretty cool stuff from my sister via messed up engraving orders -none of them here fault. We have a couple of nice silver beer steins and a few other cool things. It all gets used.

Do you ever get any cool freebies because of other peoples mistakes?

No call telemarketer list – get on it!

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Last night my husband and I were watching a 24 hour news channel. My husband likes to watch this channel for a few minutes before he goes to bed. We saw one of those ticker lines go by that said that 3 women were sexually assaulted in a drug store in our area.

Wanting to know more about the story we went to the channels website but we couldn’t find anything on the story. I thought that was odd … but even odder that three women were assaulted at the same time? Or was it the same day? Or perhaps it was just a total of three women in that particular store? That’s what we wanted to know. I still don’t know the answer.

While I was on the site I saw another news article that caught my eye. It said something about the new no call list that would stop market research and telemarketing companies from calling your home if you got yourself on the list. It said the site was about to be approved.

Hmmm that was another odd one for me because I signed up on the official site about two years ago. What did they mean the site was just being approved? Unless this is a new site their reporters are way behind in the news!

Once I signed onto that no call list we almost stopped getting calls from telemarketers and market research companies. Yes we still get a few calls here and there, but we went from getting five or so calls a week to maybe one every two or three weeks. A dramatic improvement.

The list I’m talking about is in Canada. If i find a link for it I’ll list it so you can sign up. If you aren’t in Canada you might want to see if something like that is available in your area. I know the people that call are just doing their job but it’s always dinner time or when I’m busy doing something else. I just don’t like the calls and I’m so glad to have found a way to cut them down substantially.

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