Yeah, we're gonna be best friends...

Punk has started to watch movies. Nemo has become the best baby sitter...EVER. In T minus two hours Hunk and I leaving to go on a mini-vacae for his birthday. Nothing to exciting...really, not joking. Hunk wanted to go ice fishing, I wanted to do the palm tree thing. I lost. So we are venturing not north or south, but east. Have you ever been to eastern Montana? No. Well, if you haven't been there well there is a lot of nothing. Truly. Lots of manly nothing. It's Hunk dream vacation.

So while I am so excited to get away for a few days I am even more excited about a sweet lil envelope I got in the mail yesterday. I was beside myself with excitement...I was like an excited little yappy dog.

 The Pioneer Woman is coming to Montana...and I got VIP tickets to see her! gasp, cry, pee a little...I may have done all of them. TMI? sorry.

 I know when we meet our eyes will meet Ree and I will instantly become best friends. Yeah, I am pretty certain that is how it will go down....or not....

 So I also get a new hat. Remember Jane Henry? Celia made this lovely for me...it also has a detachable crocheted flower that goes with it.

And because I have to sit in the cold for two days ice fishing I treated myself to a new pair of boots. Houndstooth Sorels...yeah...you gotta be stylish when on the ice, it's the only way to remain sain in the -10 degree weather.

Peaceloveskisses.

{Tutorial Tuesday} Make a Banner/Header/Title

Okeey-dokee friends! I finally got my thoughts together and decided to give you the 4-1-1 on how I designed my header. This is goood stuff, really good stuff. It is a bunch of ramblins from a crazy chick who doesn't know a lot about Photoshop but then decided to write a tutorial on it....kinda.

So I hope we're still friends after you read this...

How to make a blog header in Photoshop

Open Photoshop (I use CS4)
1. File>New (You will now have a nice pretty white box on your page)
2. Image>Image Size
3. I put my width at 1000 (this may be different for you depending on what your blog width may be...)
4. Press the letter "T" so that you can now play around with the text. Then choose your text and begin writing in the white box. (The text is located at the top left of the page)

5. Ckick anywhere in the white box and start typing, if you can't see the word, well, the font is probably in white so go to the right side of the page and change the color.

6. After I typed "Spunky" I then wanted to write "junky" but I wanted to place it at a different level on the page. So I pressed Ctrl J. This created a duplicate layer. It basically, made "Spunky" and "Junky" two seperate pieces--so I couls adjust them seperately (different font, different size, different color, etc).

7. I then wanted a different color. To adjust the color I played around with the swatches on the right side of the page. Here are my colors...
Turquoise Color
R-0
G-178
B-188
Green Color 
R-138
G-182
B-63

8. I then made one more layer (Ctrl J) and this time I typed out my saying, "Giving everyday junk a little spunk." I also changed the font, lettering, size, and color.
Gray Color
R-99
G-99
B-99

9. Finally, I opened up my Pioneer Woman Actions and I flattened the image.

10. When I finished I save my lil image to my desktop as a .jpeg.

11. Then I logged into blogger and replaced my header with the image above...easy peasy folk, easy peasy!

And as an extra bonus for my favorite readers here are the fonts that I used on Spunky Junky. Yep, I am sharin' my deepest, darkest secrets with ya.

Linkin' up too...

{My House Monday} I Kinda Like Green Doors....

So yeah, our house is full of a lot of green doors. Every door to be exact. Wait--minus our front door, it's not green , it is wood and brown, and Hunk said, "NO, we will not have a green front door!"...boooorrriiinng.

Our builder, who is a fantastically (is that a word) awesome guy asked us if we would be interested in painting ALL our doors. He thought we would be a fun experiment. haha. So we I said, "YEAH!" And ya'll know how much I love green so I figured I would go with a more subdued color.

Hunk 'bout had the heart attack when he saw my beauties for the first time. really. a. heart. attack. I mean who wouldn't want a couple green doors in their house?

I think they are kinda spunky....

Want to give your hubs a heart attack? Well, go pick up a can of Sherwin Williams Semi-Gloss Ryegrass.

That will do the trick.

Spunky Junky Feature Friday Faves!

I. Am. Loathing. My. Computer. Today. 'nuf said.

Okay, so ya'll got some talent. Thank you so much for your wonderful link ups! It was so hard to pick my favorites. Really. It's the same sort of dilemma I face when I am in the ice cream aisle. Yeah, it was a hard decision.

Living Grace has the most beautiful nursery. If only I had a lil girl....

Bugaboo, Mini, Mr. and Me made the most amazing Cafe Rio knockoff. The words Cafe Rio sold me. HA!

Chic on a Shoestring Decorating turns a simple picture into an awesome wrapped canvas. genius!

Peace, Love, And 2 Sisters made the most amazing burlap wreath. I mean who doesn't love a good wreath?

Drumroll. bthththththtththththtththththththth. My favorite project of the week is....

a faux granite countertop made by Rachel at the Wild Whitney's. So awesome! And, this chick deserves a huge round of applause because this was her very first blog post! You rock chicka, keep up the good work!

Email my address so I can send your prize in the good ole' snail mail!

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Spunky Junky Feature Friday Party

Here is the skinny for the Spunky Junky Feature Friday Party:

*Link to a specific post, not your blog or a giveaway,
*Post something that you have done recently (last month or so)
*Check out the other lovelies and give them some sugar! Everyone loves comments and compliments.
*Grab my button and put it somewhere on yur blog!
*Come back on Saturday AND Sunday to see if your project was featured on Spunky Junky.



....Oh, and did I forget to mention that because this is my first Feature Friday Party my favorite idea will get a sweet and beautiful surprise from the Spunky Junky Etsy shop...I am thinking I might get Hunk to help me choose....hahaha!