Help With My Mac

Okay, people. I need a little help. Does anyone out there know how to change the rulers in a Mac Word document to standard measure instead of metric? I am trying to journal the last few pages of my Ice Magic album. Last January, my family and I went to the ice carving competition at Lake Louise and it was AMAZING!!!!!!! I have completed an entire album this week, with all of the incredible photos that I took during the competition.

It was not my usual style of album - this time I decided to give one of Creative Memories' premade pages albums a try. The premade pages were designed in all shades of blue, taupe and red, just perfect for the colors of my photos, as most of the photos were of the ice carvings themselves, and luckily for me, all of my party wore winter clothes that had some red in them. Talk about a perfect combination! All I had to do was pop the photos into the appropriate spots and add some snowflake embellishments. Again, luckily for me, I happen to have a whole snap case full of winter embellishments, most of them being snowflakes! An album with hardly any work, but a very beautiful flow and feel.

This morning, I started out to do all of the journaling on the pages. Another thing that I never do - complete pages and not complete the journaling at the same time. I thought it would be more efficient if I did it all at once. This is when I ran into the problem! My new laptop is set for metric measure and I just can't figure out how to change it over. HELP!!!!

If anyone out there knows how to make this little tweak, I would really appreciate it. Then I can post some of the layouts that I have completed, using this EXTREMELY EASY format. Well worth the cost, when you consider that you can complete a whole travel album in just a couple of nights.

Help!!!!!

High Speed At Last!

As of today, I have entered the ranks of the privileged high speed Internet users. Okay, I admit that I am about 10 years behind everyone else in Alberta, but I have to be drug, kicking and screaming into everything that remotely resembles technology! I don't live in Timbuktu, but I do live where the mountains surround my house and I can not get a signal from any high speed tower around. My liberation and access to the world wide web has come in the form of a Telus mobile Internet stick!

I can not for the life of me figure out how to access my emails - there are way too many questions that I do not have the answer to. It has taken me all night to figure out how to post photos to my blog, as I am now using a Mac instead of my PC at work. Everything is different. Named something else, put somewhere else - nothing is making sense.

I did manage to download three of my photos from Vegas - Christmas decor at the Bellagio. Talk about impressive! The white polar bear is a mama bear, made out of 30,000 white carnations. The truly impressive thing was that there was a papa bear (50,000 flowers) and a baby bear, as well. They were incredible. The retired florist in me wanted to crawl into the display and have a good look at how they were put together, but I am sure that I would have been arrested and taken to jail! While I was looking at them, all of a sudden they started to "sweat" and water was oozing out of all of the cracks between the carnations. They must have had a watering system internally installed to keep the carnations from wilting. What a beautiful display - and the smell!!! It took me right back to Christmas in my flower shop - the intoxicating aroma of Christmas greens and spicy carnations. It was breathtaking!

Next week (while Megan and Murray are suntanning in Mexico) we have to babysit Peyton. I have booked several days off of work and my plan is to start scrap booking my last three vacations. Funny, most people that I know focus on their trips when they are going scrap booking for a weekend. I have always thought that vacation albums were a popular choice because they start on a finite day and they have a finite ending. It is easy to wrap your head around. Much easier that committing to catching up on your day to day photos. That, for most people is incredibly overwhelming. Well, I am the opposite!

I always focus on the day to day and set the trip photos aside for sometime in the future, when I feel that I am caught up enough to indulge myself in scrap booking a vacation. Therefore, I have San Fransisco, Hawaii and Arizona next to scrapbook. Wish me luck - that Peyton sleeps during the day and I make some stacks of vacation photos disappear into albums. My goal is to get all three completed in the next month and a half. The countdown has started!