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Okay, yes, I'm still posting about our Christmas . . . can you believe it? If you know me, well, you're not surprised. I move slow. But, hey, January is kicking my butt at work, so, you know, a girl just does what she can. Any hay . . . I got an e-mail from a fan (whaz up, Melissa) asking about how to save projects from Stampin' up!'s My Digital Studio (MDS) into .jpg files, so here goes.

After you finish designing your gorgeous project, you go up to the top tool bar and select "Share Project."

That will get you a drop-down menu. From the drop down menu, select "Export to JPEG."

MDS will pop up a screen that will walk you through the rest . . . It's pretty straight forward after that.

Here's the final product. This is one of the pages I did for Erika Martin's on-line Journaling 101 Scrapbooking class. The journaling text (yes, I actually journaled) says

A McClain Family Christmas
    A snowman ornament for Ben and a Santa ornament for Caitlin
    Christmas Dinner
    Grandma’s Santa collection
    The Pickle Gift
    24 Hours of The Christmas Story
    A book for Grandpa
    Christmas Cookies
    The Christmas Star

And, just for giggles and grins . . . here's just a quickie slide show of our quirky Christmas 2009. As you can tell from my scrapbook page and maybe even a little from the slide show, our Christmas celebrations are all about our traditions – we have quite a few we honor each year. It's not built for variety, but it soothes our sentimental souls.  

Thanks for letting me recap my Christmas 2009, it was definitely a fun one. Now, onward and forward to 2010 . . .

We interrupt this blog for a couple of friendly reminders . . .

Erika Martin's fabulous, on-line Journaling 101 Scrapbooking Class starts Tomorrow! I've really enjoyed her sneak peaks – hope you get to join us. If you do, be sure to tell Erika that Linda sent you. I look forward to playing with all of you.

I've been updating my little "Rolodex" of scrapbooking/stamping/blogging resources. It's a list I started years ago and it just keeps growing. I just added a list of blogs that offer challenges and a list of wonderfully talented Texas scrapbooking entrepreneurs. You can always access my Rolodex by clicking on the button above, "Good Stuff." And, if you see something that needs to be added, just leave me a comment.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled program . . .

Oh my achy breaky bones . . . three days of chills, aches, cough . . . well, you get the picture. The couch and I have become such close buds, people are starting to talk. But, I think I’m on the mend today, and, honestly, it hasn’t been as bad as a flu I had years ago. Which is kind of an insult. Well, follow me for a minute. I was talking to the medical director of a nursing home last week who said older people aren’t getting the swine flu as badly as the young whippersnappers. Seems once you get it there’s permanent immunity, and there was a bad case of swine flu in the 60’s. So, since I’m a non-whippersnapper I get spared. Hmrgh, insulting, isn’t it.

Anyway . . . Erika Martin gave me the best possible medicine – beats even Tamaflu. She put me in the spotlight for her Journaling 101 course. Feels kind of weird to be all over the page of someone else’s blog, but, I’m so thrilled to be part of Erika’ project, I’m happy to promote it anyway I can. Oooo, and I’ve taken the first three classes in the series, and I can already tell you they’ve impacted my scrapbooking in tremendous ways. So, be sure to fly over to Erika’s to see yours truly off the couch and in the spotlight – just don’t run into any swines during your flight over there: Stampin’ Mama, Journaling 101 Design Team.