take a sketch

... from the fun pencil lines site and work it your own way.

excellent for an inspirational shove :) Have a go at sketch 104 that I used here - and link me to yours if you do!

and to update in response to my emails of questions...

YES

I am running lightbox! wooohoooooo!!! 

Not quite how I hoped, or not even straight forward-ly {english teacher spins in grave, sorry} but hey, a girls gotta take what she can get. -Someone sent me an anonymous {oooo spooky!}  link for patch to download, and fix LR2 errors. It still wouldn't load on my hard drive after the patch but *bingo* a light went on somewhere in my head and I discovered it would load and work with the patch if I put LR on my external hard drive! ta-da! LOL its been bloody bloody hard and stressful and I've learnt so much. Stuff I kinda could of lived without mostly, like where plists are on your hard drive, what a .lock file is, WHERE a .lock file is. how to copy preferences from user to user without logging out and in and out... but the largest learning curve was customer service. Adobe are USELESS at support. utterly utterly. Apple rock at it. Completely. May I never ever have to ring Adobe/email Adobe again for anything. and I learnt and had underlined that blog readers are very very kind. Thankyou :)

Yes the birdies are fine. the Budgie forum are reassuring me and saying all the right things. can somebody tell me again what we did before the internet??

 The boys are starting to 'chat' {budgie chat, not quite our words yet altho with Mollies insistent how to talk lessons, they will prob be talking up a storm asap. or become deaf .. one or the other!} chat is good, and it makes a nice change from squawking and freaking out too. They also like to sing, or chirp along with some of our itunes library. Not all of it. But Elizabeth Mitchell's children's music is  popular. {with them and Daisy....}

If you ever visit and want to know where the budgies are... this guy gives it away everytime...

He's been very good with them {so far...} he does the staring, which roughly translates as 'I'd eat you if Mum wasnt in the room' and he now naps on the table which is in front of their cage. With one eye on them if they get noisy. He is a little bit wary/scarred of them too however I'm not totally dim, I do shut him out of here if we go out, or to bed. 

LOL this room I sit in, and the budgies live in, also has the gerbil in too. Temptation in every corner for Hugo cat!!