New day, New things

So many things are happening over here it feels like we're not touching ground! Today is my last day of work at the company I've been with for the last year and a half and I start a new job on Wednesday as a Social Worker for 3 children's home's. While I'm very sad to leave ,I'm also looking forward to a new chapter and challenge!

Also our house is on the market !!! (EEEEKKKK) we have someone coming to look at it today who seems very eager to hold thumbs and pray with us that everything works out! On a side note to that, we're taking a big leap by doing this as we still haven't received confirmation of our building plans , the date they gave the last time was August 6 so we're hoping it all happens then (especially if we sell our house!)

Thirdly (fourthly? ) Welcome to all my new readers and followers:) While there are only a few of you I am still VERY greatful you decided to follow along with our misadventures :)

Finally and along that line I'm linking up today with the 'under 300 followers' blog hop.

           

if you are like me and are new or still trying to establish yourself join in :) and if you're stopping in from over there hi! *waving*

DIY Design

You may recall my introduction to GIMP a while back. I started off trying my hand at some Party Printables and have been trying to expand my knowledge slowly but surely. One of the projects I thought I'd try was some of the cute baby stats subway art floating around .

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Some special friends of ours were recently blessed with a gorgeous little boy, so I had the perfect guinea pig to test out my (VERY BASIC) design skills on :)

I blurred out some of the information for privacy :)

I'm really happy how it came out. GIMP allows you to work in Layers just like Photoshop which means changing font sizes/colours on the different words is a piece of cake. 

Not bad for a half an hour and some free software ;)

                                                 

have you heard about wordle?

I recently discovered Wordles... I had seen them before but not known how to make them until recently. maybe I'm the last person around that hasn't heard about them but those those who ,like me, have been living in ignorance here is what they are:

you can take any piece of writing and turn it into a fun word "cloud ". here are a few of the ones I made:)

our wedding song

my Pinterest Challenge blog post 

Shakespeare :)

I think these would make really unique and personal gifts, and best of all creating them is free!

go and check out www.wordle.net and make your own

                                       

lets get social:)

the main point of today's post is to join in the Let's get social link party and share all the different ways you can hold of me but before we get into to that I want to say I hit 4000 page views today :) it took me 6 months to hit 1000 and in the last month (which isn't even over yet!) I've already had 928 ! which is pretty cool for this very small time blogger :) thanks to all who stopped by!

OK now back to our regularly scheduled programming :)

I have a number of ways for you to connect with me :)

the first (and most obvious seeing as you are reading this) is on the Blog. You can sign up to follow using Google friend connect, linky followers, by RSS feed, networked blogs or have the posts directly sent to your email . Thats a lot of ways to stay in touch !!

you can also Find me on Facebook. This is the easiest way to get a hold of me and if you 'like' the blog page you'll get notifications when a new post is up in your news feed :)

http://www.facebook.com/erandomramblings

Last but not least , fast becoming my newest obsession , Pinterest :)

you can follow my boards here

(or http://pinterest.com/emmarramblings/ if the link doesn't work )

looking forward to connecting with you :) I haven't yet given in to twitter or Google+ purely because I feel like there are more than enough ways to stay connected already and I have trouble keeping up with what I already have:) I'd love to hear what you think the best way to keep in touch is :)