Mom M, improving every day!
Dec. 6th, 2001 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sugarplumkittyI just got off the phone with the nurse a few minutes ago. Mom M is now LIFTING one of her arms up to her chest! She's moving the other arm a little. She's moving her entire feet instead of just toes. She's cheerful and smiling, smiling, smiling!! The nurses are all delighted. Needless to say, so are we! YAY!
Two nights ago I watched the second half of The True Story of Jack & The Beanstalk and drew a holly background for my Christmas card. Last night, I scanned it in. My hubby bought me a refurbished flatbed scanner for my birthday this year. I'm still learning how to use it. I wanted a line drawing, but that doesn't seem to be an option with this scanner. So I had to scan it in color. That meant the white sections weren't really white and my blue ink stayed blue. Even though I'm using smooth art paper, it still picked up some texture. Flood fills don't work right when there are pink and purple dots all over the place. I couldn't even flood fill the blue with black. It varied in shade from pixel to pixel. Argh. It was frustrating, but I got it almost to an acceptable point by midnight. Blue lines look cool with the green and red. I also decided I liked the texture if it wasn't too thick. The spray paint tool allowed me to thin out the larger areas. It's the corners of the leaves and things that gave me the most grief. There's still a little touch up work to be done on them. But it was midnight and my eyelids were sticking to my eyes because I don't blink enough when I'm creating. 6am came waay too early this morning.
Now to decide expressions for the cats and us and what kinds of candles to draw...
I guess I'd better get some bugs fixed here at work, too. Work! The other thing to do at my office! LOL
Two nights ago I watched the second half of The True Story of Jack & The Beanstalk and drew a holly background for my Christmas card. Last night, I scanned it in. My hubby bought me a refurbished flatbed scanner for my birthday this year. I'm still learning how to use it. I wanted a line drawing, but that doesn't seem to be an option with this scanner. So I had to scan it in color. That meant the white sections weren't really white and my blue ink stayed blue. Even though I'm using smooth art paper, it still picked up some texture. Flood fills don't work right when there are pink and purple dots all over the place. I couldn't even flood fill the blue with black. It varied in shade from pixel to pixel. Argh. It was frustrating, but I got it almost to an acceptable point by midnight. Blue lines look cool with the green and red. I also decided I liked the texture if it wasn't too thick. The spray paint tool allowed me to thin out the larger areas. It's the corners of the leaves and things that gave me the most grief. There's still a little touch up work to be done on them. But it was midnight and my eyelids were sticking to my eyes because I don't blink enough when I'm creating. 6am came waay too early this morning.
Now to decide expressions for the cats and us and what kinds of candles to draw...
I guess I'd better get some bugs fixed here at work, too. Work! The other thing to do at my office! LOL
