This is the kit I'm working on:

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Baking Memories

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Christmas Kits at iScrapbook!

I have three Christmas kits at my store at iScrapbook! I can't believe it. The last one is almost finished actually and should be up soon. Visit me at

http://www.iscrapbook.com/store/roberta_taron.html

Here are two of the previews:

Silent Starry Night

Favorite things.

I will link the titles when they are up.

Hope you like them!!

Here are some kits from last year as well

Angels Sang

Old-Fashioned Christmas

Merry and Bright

Snowflakes

July already!!!

I have many new kits up on my site at iScrapbook . I would love you to go have a look. Here's a preview of my latest kit, Woodland Walk.

and a beautiful pair of Quickpages to go with it.

London Cabs

I was just watching a Miss Marple show and she was riding in a cab, and I remembered riding in London cabs.

Theresa and I took cabs all over London. We would take the train from Maidenhead where she lived, and spend a day in London. Their is something special about a London cab. The drivers are a much higher class than the cabbies here. They are polite and helpful. The cabs are very clean inside and out. Inside, small benches face each other with lots of space in between. The windows are nice and big for sight-seeing. The cabs are always black, and seem like mini-limos.

I would look out at the starkly white buildings, with their black wrought iron balconies, at Buckingham Palace, with its gold adornments, and St. James Park all along on the opposite side, a beautiful long stretch of green-scape. I remember shooting down Oxford Street past the best designer shops in the world, Harrod's Dept store and tiny ethnic cafes.

One day Theresa, Susan and I went to a top London hairdresser. The streets got narrower and narrower as we searched for the place. It was in a very high-density, well-used part of the city, the buildings thick with layers of paint that you could tell covered a multitude of sins. We thought we were in the wrong place. We went up a narrow dark stairway, and found a huge loft space and the salon. The hairdressers were so haughty, and the cuts we got were nothing special. So much for top London hairdressers! They cost a bundle too.

Black and white

I've been trying to improve my black and white photos in Photoshop. Learning about gradient maps and other adjustment layers to get clearer photos.

This one of Gabe surrounded by his presents I quite like.



This one of Mark and Wallace I used some textures on as well and put a little caption for fun.

...and a Merry Christmas to all

Wow it's been 9 days since I posted. Been a little busy, baking cheese straws, butter tarts for Theresa's Christmas Eve get-together, some babysitting, wrapping presents, decorating, well you all know what I've been doing because you've been doing the same thing.

Watched a great Jamie Oliver Christmas special and learned a few more tips about cooking and carving your turkey. He puts vegetables and garlic under the turkey while it roasts, then for the gravy he mashes it all together and lets it cook while he does everything else. Then sieves it and adds the stock. Sounds like more flavor to me. Then to carve he takes everything off the bones with a few well-placed cuts, then slices it cross ways very neatly. That way everyone gets the crispy outside and the tender inside. I remember watching the Two Fat ladies and learning to pour boiling water over the raw skin, that really makes the skin crispy. As you can tell, I love the turkey.
Just going to go make our traditional family Christmas bread for Christmas brunch now. I love Christmas Eve!

May all of you have a blessed Christmas.