2025: Day 4....."Favorite Photo Apps"

I love photo apps to change up a standard photo.

(I used multiple ones on this photo but mostly the 

free app Brushstroke.)

I always like to see what other folks use and give them a try.

So here's some of my favorites.

I mostly go for free ones.

But I do pay for Photo Lab, Peachy and Live Collage.

Juxtaposer is free and one of my most favorites 

because I love changing backgrounds to something fake.

So don't ever believe I'm really in the tropics if you see that.

Snapseed is my favorite for adding highlights 

that can really make things pop.

Creative Fabrica (online) has a great background remover but

I also use Retouch with a free once a day feature.

Juxtaposer has one also that allows you to touch up

what they miss on the first go around.

iColorama is loaded with so many features 

I couldn't begin to describe them all.  

I understand it's made and maintained by a lady

in the Ukraine who's made other quality apps.

A favorite feature is the 'coherence' tab that

smooths a picture brilliantly and also has a huge amount 

of paper and canvas overlays that makes things more artistic.

I'm still on the learning curve on this big app.

I probably use Live Collage the most and I pay about $5 bucks

monthly for the pleasure of it's robust & user friendly variety of 

both photo and video options that work great on my iPad.

I decided to cancel it once because I can be very frugal

that way but I had to re-up because I found 

nothing comparable and I missed it.

(This isn't a sponsored ad by the way. They don't

even know me.)

2025: Day 3....."Bathroom Plants"

 

I have 31 plants in my bathroom.

It has one great south facing window that 

floods the room with great lighting.

I follow many plant sites on Facebook,

Instagram and I love watching

You Tube videos because plants are 

like people....they each have their own

personalities and likes and dislikes and

I love the process of figuring them out.

My bathroom was designed as much for plants

as it was for me to move around in it.

The shower works beautifully to keep the water in

yet give the plants a misty tropical feel every time

I take a shower.

I feel like I'm showering naked in a forest 

and I like it that way.

I can look outside and see the garden too.

(Nope...no one can see me naked in shower...too

many plants camouflaging me.)

I feel blissful every time I go in there.

My towel rack is a man & women 

in wrought iron I purchased at the 

Milford Memories Art Show.

 

It's my happy place and the only

room in my house that is constantly neat

and orderly 98% of the time.

The rest of my house leans towards

comfortable chaos and things in progress. 

2025: Day 2....."Brother Scott"

My brother. Another Scott.

I love him bunches even though he always

describes me as "his MUCH OLDER sister".

I am older....darn it.

3 years.

This photo was taken recently at Christmas.

Brother Scott has lots of grandkids and one is a 'mini'. 

It's his grandson Sam.

Here's a picture of Scott as a boyscout in the late 50's or 60's sometime.

Next to it is his grandson Sam this Christmas.

Meeting Sam in person this Christmas brought out an 

unexpected muscle memory I can't explain that was tucked inside 

my brain of the days in the past with my little "much younger" brother.

Aren't they both so cute!

 

2025: Day 1....."Marlyss"

 This is me and Scott. 

He has no part in this blog but he has a big part in my life.

I'm going to make a 2025 New Years Goal. 

A picture a day.

Sometimes me.

Sometimes family.

Sometimes work related.

Sometimes fun things I like.

Whatever I want. One day at time.

I've heard this:

Will I do it or forgive myself for not doing it?