UseIt! Challenge - Thanksgiving

Vicki has done it again! I wish she would visit Hummie's World more often and she is such a great person to have around for inspiration!

Come to the forum for a new UseIt! Challenge for Thanksgiving. She has three word arts available to download for free! The challenge is simple. Just use any of the word art in your layout and share it in the thread! Be inspired by this great stuff! See what others do with it. Join in the community! Comment on each other's layouts!

You can use any kits, so there is no excuse in not joining us!






Everyone who participates will receive this awesome kit! Wow!

Gallery Spotlight on Helen!

Wow! I'm so excited to see a photo of Helen! She's been SO active in the subscriber area for SO long that I've had one of those imaginary faces of who I thought she was in my head. Have you ever done that? Then when you see their real face, it is nothing like the imaginary one!

Come to the forum to meet Helen and visit her gallery. Leave her some warm fuzzies! Why not scraplift her?

Have I said enough how much I love this new gallery spotlight here at Hummie's World?

Inset Tutorial for Subscribers

Used Kit by Julie Bullock - It's a Girls World

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I SO want to share these adorable photos with you, but unfortunately, this is not my child! You wouldn't believe how cute her eyes are!

I made this layout for a new technique challenge for Subscribers only. The challenge is to create the inset (where you see the flower). It's not as easy as it looks!

I had fun "just scrapping" again!

Twitter supports Retweets

So, log into Twitter today (because I usually read from TwitterGadget) only to find new changes regarding retweets. How cool is this? It almost makes using other applications than the real thing senseless now.

By the way, if you haven't seen my first digital scrapbooking list on twitter, check it out and join it here: http://twitter.com/HummieIsMe/digitalscrapbooking

I was only allowed to add 500 to it! Therefore, I took a break and today I am going to be starting a second list. How long until it gets to 500? http://twitter.com/HummieIsMe/digitalscrapbooking2

Oh, and check out Heidi's cool tip of keeping up with these long lists by RSS! Isn't that awesome? Thanks for sharing Heidi!

Life Magazine on Google Books

I think this is such a cool advancement in the internet world!

Google announced that Google Books has published the entire collection of famous LIFE magazine issues–almost 1900 issues, spanning 1936 to 1972. This really cool part is a full-text search of the magazine’s entire history. It's a wonderful addiction to the history resources online! How cool is that?

The Berne Convention sets forth the duration of the copyright as the life of the artist plus a minimum of 50 years. Thereafter, each country sets forth further standards. In the United States, the length of a copyright is the life of the artist plus 70 years. Therefore, I am a bit confused as to how these Life books have become "public domain." Fifty years about is 1959 and 70 years ago is 1939.

Google Books recently settled a lawsuit regarding copyright and you can read more about it here.

If you have not investigated Google Books yet, you should! http://books.google.com/
Here is the home page for the Life Magazine.

You can also view the catalog of Life Magazine images here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
I was personally interested in the photos from Missouri.

Google is also partnering with On Demand Books so that you may purchase public domain books digitized by Google from any Espresso Book Machine at bookstores and libraries around the world. I have not seen one of these machines, but am certainly going to keep my eye out for one!