On this New Year!

Just a quick note to thanks everyone for all your support during this year and I know that 2009 is going to bring better and greater things to all. May the blessings of my dear Lord be upon you and your family this new year!

Merry Christmas to all!

Hi Everyone!

Sorry I have neglected my blog for such a long time!! Between My work and the School I have been busy! very busy this last month! But now that school is over and a new year is about to begin ! I should be able to get on track again!

Well there are many photos i would like to share..but not o many Lo's! I need to create some..with all this photos!! Right! well I hope inspiration arrive soon! for now some recent photos of my familly on xmas eve at church!

Fa la la la
Originally uploaded by jackietphotos

Christmas Night! My Dear Son


Just One LO for today..bellow my Dear Hubby Grandchildren's + Daughter!

Here the Love of Live..My Dear Hubby

Gone with the Wind

Thanks God For Little Angels!

These are my DH grandson and two granddaughters, Nataly, Nicole and Dansel, they are our joy. This LO was made for challenge Neon and little of blank. Hope you like it!

Proverbs 22:1

This is Lo was created for my Challenge Continuing the Faith.
Proverbs 22:1 A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. (NKJ)



Here some extra details

Funny Halloween 2008

Just some funny pictures of my son Luis and his crazy friends ...having some fun with "Trick-o-Trick". I guess we will never be too old to have some fun and lots of Candy!

Here is Luis ...He got the look!!


Here my Friend Karina beautiful daughters! Amaris and Alanis! they are wild and funny!

Unlimited Potential!

Amazed!

Hello Everyone!

Just came back from my trip to Europe...No is was not for pleasure ..it was work! however ..I during the trip I manage to take a couple of pictures that I will like to share with you..

During my trip to took a quick walk around the center of basel and there was two things that capture my attention. The first one was this beautiful lady playing the accordion...for some reason it reminds me the lady with the birds on the Mary Popping movie...

The other was, the old man selling one of favorite winter treats! Warm Chesnuts! ...a very clasic thing you will find all over Basel this time of the year!

The city was beautiful and the weather great...here is a take of one on the two main bridges that connect the city with the rest of the land

Mont Blanc Mountain-Nyon

Mont Blanc-Nyon
Originally uploaded by jackietphotos

I just arrived to France by train from Basel…I’m completely dizzy..what a ride! ..but I survived and here I am ready for work, of course!! ...but before working..I could not help myself and as soon as I arrived to Les Hotels DeRive, I saw this breathtaking view of the Mont Blanc Mountain! The Town is beautiful full of vineyards and incredible buildings and houses full of character ..OMG what a beautiful place!! Tomorrow or maybe Friday, before I leave I will try to take more pictures!! I hope so!!

The Rhein river

Hello my blog friends! Sorry I havent been able to post this week, but I'm actually away from home! I'm Switzerlan, in a liitle town called Basel, just at the left of Zurich. Small funny place, full of bikes and tramps! Yea! basically that is all you can see everywhere. There are couple of nice tradicional stress and the local chocoloate is goooood! Here is photo to share so you could have a little bit of Basel too...soon I will post more....Tomorrow I be in France, anothor little town call Geneva (this was Christofer Columbus home town) as soon as I have photo I will upload it!! For now cheers!
Viola!

the Rhein river
Originally uploaded by jackietphotos

Creative Photography Retreat!

CPR has been the best retreat seminar I have ever take! This past October 10-13, in Stamford, Connecticut I was able to meet the most amazing photography instructors and a great group of amazing and talented friends!

I was surrounded by inspiring photographers who like me came to CPR to learn from some of the industry’s most qualified photographers and inspirational scrapbook experts. CPR’s interactive classes provided me with hands-on experience and opened my eyes to the top techniques for capturing everyday moments, creating priceless portraits, and will help make my photographs better than ever, not that I'm a "professional" but for sure I came out with a great set of tool that for sure will help me get better and enjoy more this wonderful word of Photo and Scrap...Or like Lisa B. said ..From now on ..I'm a SCRAPHOTOGRAFER!

During these days we played and we learned! My team of scavenger hunters were Dawn, Jenn, Kelly, and Marish! Wonderful girls! here our group photo



Additionally during these day we took a couple of photoshop courses and even that I didn't have any computer with me I was able to come home and start to play with what I learned.. obviously after much trouble, as all the program I had..were oooooold versions! I still need to get camara raw! :o( I haven't been able to find how to open it!!!..anyway..here some examples of the PS and Macro lens photos

Here My Two Latest LO!

This Guy is my Little One and My Joy! He is the most sweet boy in the entire world!!..and he loves Guitar Hero! So for the Scrap-Pack challenge of October I decide it to do this LO in honor of his passion for the game!


This one I made it last night...As most of you know my Son Angel left for college this last August...and as any mom...I miss him..The other night I was at his room and this thought came to my mind...so I did this LO based on that thought!

Something wild!

Something wild!
Originally uploaded by jackietphotos

This Photo was taken at the Zoo inside 6 flags, NJ..the poor tigers was going back and forward as the zoo employees were getting ready his food! He was a hungry one!! But for me it looks so imposing! Amazing Animal!

Homework #3 Less Is More

Heaven must be missing an angel

I take this picture for my Photography class... the homework was about "portraits"..so I started playing with this super cool wings I just bought! So I asked one of my son friends to tried the wings for me!! and this is the result!!

So what do you think?? Is a good photo?

Bad Girls Week #2 Homework

The Homework for this week was to play with Mixed patterns. Combining different patterns can be stunning and dramatic on your pages if you do it right. There's a trick to mixing and matching patterns and colors. You need a healthy dose of creative imagination and some courage to use variety

Principle 1- Colors
Color remains an extremely important aspect, particularly how you use it. Patterned Papers have a gazillion colors to choose from. So how do you decide which papers to mix?

Principle 2 - Gallon, Quart and Pint
This has been a design principle in Interior Decorating forever and it works in scrapbooking too. When mixing patterns, mix pattern scales as well. One pattern should be large, one medium and one small. If you decide you want a floral pattern as your attention getter, pick a large pattern. Then pair it with, say a thin, narrow pattern of stripes with similar colors as the large floral. Make the large pattern your "signature" pattern, the one that grabs the atention. Be sure that the other patterns are smaller and more subdued

Principle 3 - VARY PATTERNS
Mixing various types of patterns is a good way to get started. Think florals with stripes and grid paper. Using three florals together, even if they are different scales, will look busy and cluttered. As you can see, for this layout I chose a floral, a dot and a stripe.

Principle 4 - Play!
Remember...there's no right or wrong in scrapbooking. Experiement with mixing patterns and see what mix YOU like. Play with whimsical papers and designs that fit your theme. Play with colors in embellishments and trims. Sometimes you can break all of the rules and LOVE the result. Try a few different things until you get the feel for mixing patterns and you'll be hooked in no time!

Here is My take on the homework!

Just One More Photo!

Last Weekend of Summer!

Well today my dear son, Luis and I just went out for some "last picture" before Fall kicks in...we have a great time..We went to Donalson Farm...a little place close to home..here are some the picture we took...hope you like it!




Always so Happy to see you here! Cheers!!

Another LO's I just Created!

This LO was done for Week One for the Designer Academy 2008 - Bad Girls, the homework was layers...so I did layers of the same photo. I mixed black and white with one color..then I add some double layers on some of cut-outs and some owls which I love!! For the tittle I could not found any color or texture ..so I create this letter with cardboard and micro-beats
Materials used
Morning Mellow-SEI PP
Notewordy -CM
SEI Dill Blossom
Prima Suede Flowers

Finally The Cancer Walk Was today!

Hello My friends

Well Finally the Cancer Walk in NY City was today!! OMG !! I'm so tired...for now I will add couple of pictures tomorrow I will give more details!! as I need to recover!!

My Great Love!

Komen New York City Race for the Cure®

Hello Gals! Well this is just short update on how things are going these days!, With one child left at home and the older one in college...I guess my dear Hubby and I have more time to spend together ..which is a great thing!! ja!!

Well for many years I wanted to get involve on the Cancer Walk, actually the 3 days walk..but never got the time to really do it or take the time to train..well this year I mentioned to DH and he sign us to be part of the Pfizer Team !! Woo hoo!

Is not the 3days walk but..OMG is a great starting point..as I/we don't do much exercise these days!! I know so bad!..but the good thing is that for this 5K walk we actually started to train..Oh Yea...We started walking about two days a ago..and is great (everything hurt) !!! But I have time to spend with my DH and do some exercise..So we could actually do the walk!! How cool is that!

So, I will be posting some picture of us training so!! Keep in touch!


Here is a quick overview of the walk!
On Sunday, September 14, 2008, the Greater New York City Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure will be holding its 18th annual 5K run/walk. On that day 22,000 New Yorkers, including 1,500 breast cancer survivors, will come together to run breast cancer out of town.
Woo!! Lot of people!! Ha!!

More updates to come!!