Home! NYC was Awesome.

Home again!

Wow! New York City was amazing. Completely mind-blowing. So different from anywhere I’ve been in so many ways. Candice is a GREAT tour guide, mixing in equal parts shopping, sightseeing, and eating, three of my favorite things. ;) We spent Sunday and Monday going ALL over the place - Union Square, Herald Square, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, the Anthropologie flagship store (!), H&M, Uniqlo, a phenomenal chocolate shop called Max Brenner, and I took like 250 photos in 2 days. LOL I’ll be posting some of them later today when I get more time to sit down.

I actually have them all edited in Lightroom already. I can’t say enough great things about Lightroom for editing lots of pics in sets.

So it took a few days to recover from this trip, which was almost a week long! Whew! I’m so glad to be back home. My heart starts pulling towards home after being gone for a couple of days, so by day 6 I was definitely ready to come and snuggle on my family.

I came down this morning to find Rowen in her new tutu and her pj shirt, spinning circles in front of the TV. Elliott was in his pj shirt, pullups and his “stomper boots”, playing on the back patio. Apparently pants are optional today. Spread the word!

Rowen is out of preschool today, and it’s raining, so we are heading over to the Hopper’s House (a cute little neighborhood play place with big inflatable bounce toys, a play kitchen, all kinds of toys and games - perfect for too-hot and too-rainy days). And a good chance to hang out with my kids in a place they love.

Okay, don’t forget that registration begins on Monday for Stories in Hand! The class size is unlimited, so you have until right before the class begins (November 8) to register. :) We’ll be putting up links here and on the home page of JessicaSprague.com on Monday at midnight. Thank you so much for helping me get the word out! I am SO excited! :D

Comments

[Allette]

Hey Jessica, you mentioned lightroom. I have been loving it as well. Do you have any tips or links to simple tutorials for it? I haven't done any batch editing- just making them into web slideshows.

thanx!

[sandee]

I am both excited and nervous about taking your class. I know you said it was for all levels but I am having so many problems with Computer Tricks for Scrapbooking 2 that I can't begin to tell you. I went to creatingkeepsakes.com/CT2 but the link doesn't work anymore or it has been changed. Plus I cannot afford to sign up for your classes and having a heck of a time trying to figure this out on my own. I guess I thought your book would explain more the basics..::sigh:: I guess I am just in over my old head. I will try your class though and hopefully will learn something else new!

[Candace S]

Hi Jessica,
I was wondering if you might be thinking about offering editing tutorials for lightroom and when to go to photoshop and back to lightroom? That is confusing to me. Thanks! Glad to hear you had a great trip!

[Kristin from Switzerland!]

My kids too have pants opitional days, kids are funny like that!

[Julie L.]

Jess--love your post...it must have felt so good to get home to your lovely fam, but having some fun in the big apple sounds like it was fab, too! I can't wait for your class! I second some other posts--I don't have an idea on how to use lightroom...any suggestions on how to start? Do you need CS2 or 3?

Thanks! :) happy friday!

[Anke]

It's always great to come back to the comforts of home. It's good that you had a great time though, what a fun job you have, LOL

[OR Carol]

It's exciting to hear about your Big Apple Adventure. Also hearing about your homecoming is pure sweetness! Love those kids, I can just see them in my mind hee hee! Hugs and kisses!

[Nathalie]

I just put a post on the "Willow Trader" message board about your class. I am planning on signing up and hope to get a few friends to sign up too :)

[shell (shmoop)]

glad ur home safe and sound! what a trip!

[Krista]

What is Lightroom? I have never heard of it and you just posted about it. I probably have missed when it was discussed. Could you help me out?

Glad you made it back safely. Can't wait to start the class.