Melissa's Idea Garden

I got this from my mom in my email today and I loved it so much that I wanted to share it with you! Hope you enjoy!

How God created VIRGINIA -

God was missing for six days. On the seventh day, Michael, the archangel, found him - resting. He inquired, "Where have you been?" God smiled deeply and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds. "Look, Michael.. Look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled, and said, "What is it?" "It's a planet" replied God, and I've put life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a place to test Balance." "Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm confused." God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth. "For example, he said, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things."

God continued pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel , impressed by God's work, then pointed to a land area and asked, "What's that one?" "That's VIRGINIA , the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful mountains, ocean, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills, and plains. The people from VIRGINIA are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hardworking, high achieving, carriers of peace, and producers of good things."

Michael gasped in wonder and admiration, but then asked, "But what about balance, God?

You said there would be balance...."

God smiled, "Right next to VIRGINIA is Washington , DC . Wait till you see the idiots I put there."

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DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows for everyone.

REPUBLICAN

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?

SOCIALIST

You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.

COMMUNIST

You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.

CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.

BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows.
Under the new farm program the government
pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pour the milk down
the drain.

AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows.
You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the analysts
stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.

FRENCH CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.

JAPANESE CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the
size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.

GERMAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond,
drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.

ITALIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows but you don't know where they are.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.

RUSSIAN CORPORATION

You have two cows.
You drink some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You drink some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Russian Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.

TALIBAN CORPORATION

You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don't milk them because you cannot touch
any creature's private parts.
You get a $40 million grant from the US
government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money
to buy weapons.

IRAQI CORPORATION

You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.

POLISH CORPORATION

You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed tempting to milk them.

BELGIAN CORPORATION

You have one cow.
The cow has Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD).
Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish.
The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow.
The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk..
The cow asks permission to be cut in half.
The cow dies happy..

FLORIDA CORPORATION

You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can't figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state
tell you which one you think is the best looking cow.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATION

You have millions of cows.
They make real California cheese.
Only five speak English.
Most are illegal.
Arnold likes the ones with the big udders.

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Because I have been reading Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue," I have been thinking and talking about politics. Btw, I finished the book today and I recommend it. Sarah is definitely one of the 'common' people and her story is an interesting. Even more interesting to me was the way the Republican campaign was run.

Now back to Dave Barry. Here is a quote I ran across and thought I would share it for a chuckle!

"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to trust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy.

The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club."

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No lazy summer days here...though we are fitting in tons of summer fun:) Since coming back from the beach, we have been doing school work (trying to get ahead to make up for when we go to Australia in the fall).

Jack spent five days at Go Tell Camp with other youth from church. He came back happy, tired, and full of stories about the inspirational messages he heard while he was there.

While Jack was at camp, Katrina's friend, Kaley, spent most of that time with us (and many days thereafter). The girls have been taking full advantage of summer and enjoying being able to visit and play as much as they want to. One day while Jack was at camp, we met some 4-H friends and went swimming at Miller Park Pool.

For the 4th of July, we planned to go on a cool hike that is held every year here in Bedford County. It is a sunset hike up to the top of Sharp Top Mountain. . Normally there are two ways to get to the top of Sharp Top. Ride a bus that lets you off near the top or hike up from the bottom. I have never ridden the bus, we have always hiked. On the 4th of July, they let people walk up the road to the top. Once at the top, you can see fireworks displays from a multitude of surrounding communities. However, the weather deterioriated and we weren't looking forward to driving an hour only to be told the hike was cancelled or worse, get on the top of the mountain in a Thunderstorm...so we stayed home and lit up our own fireworks. We did fireworks for an hour and had a blast. One of the benefits of living on a country road!

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Check out this 16 foot tall Pharoah made with over 200,000 Legos! Amazing!

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Justice Game by Randy Singer will be published in July of this year. He is doing something unusual. He is letting his readers take a vote and decide on which way a verdict should go regarding a case in his book. Take a few minutes, watch the video and cast your own vote! Then, be sure to get his book in July and see whether or not you were in the majority and how it affects the outcome of this book!

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We don't have this game yet, but it is on our list of games to get! Who thought Physics could be so much fun???? Check it out!

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Daniel sent me this link yesterday and I had to share it. These look like some fun and very interesting experiments to try!

It's amazing how we can trick our brains!

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I saw this fun quiz over at Lessons Learned onthe Farm. Why don't you give it a try and figure out what character you are!

Which Christmas Character Are You?

My Results:

Mrs. Claus

That's right — your unwavering support, hospitality, and comforting touch have landed you the important role of Mrs. Claus. You know how to take good cheer and deliver it wherever you go, spreading warmth even on the coldest winter days.

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Well, another busy week has come and gone. The fence work has been going along (slower than I thought it would be, they have completed one of the four sides). Two of the sides are going to be chain link and they say those will go up in about a day. But the vinyl part of the fence is very complex. They spent all week this week working on it and setting up the posts for the chain link fence. I am ready for the puppies to go outside. Our house just isn't big enough for the two of them and I am very tired of cleaning up puppy messes.

But we have had a little fun this week. Yesterday, I took the kids to FunQuest for a homeschool skate. I really appreciated the fact that they are reaching out to homeschoolers and are trying to set up a reasonably priced fun time for the children. Jack and Katrina had fun skating, playing laser tag, and Katrina spent some time in the big playplace.

Continue reading "Skating, Sweet Puppy Moment, Locks of Love" »

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Before we went trick or treating on Friday, we had a photo session Friday morning. A gentleman in our church has a photography business and I thought it would be fun for the kids to have their pictures taken in a photo shoot:) We had tried to get together before the leaves had all fallen from the trees, but between inclement weather and busy schedules, we missed some of the prettier days. But in the end, we got some great shots. You can check them out at my flickr account

Friday night, we got home about 9 from trick or treating and went to bed around 10:30. We were up at 7:30 to head to my mom's church for the Holiday Bazaar. It was amazing!

Continue reading "Holiday Bazaar, Photo Session, and Goblins and Goodies" »

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One of the things I love most about the church we attend is that the members there really have a heart for children and family. We are a small church, but we have Awanas and during the year do a lot of things with our youngsters in mind. Our Pastor started a father/son campout and the boys and dads love it. They go camp near a creek in tents and fish and swim and spend time together.

Well, of course us moms and daughters didn't want to be left out, so we started the Mother/Daughter sleepover. We didn't want to go camping, so we spent the night at the church. We had so much fun.

We ate pizza for dinner.

In the morning we woke up and had coffee, milk, and cinnamon rolls before packing up, cleaning up and heading home about 9 a.m. It was a wonderful time!

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I got Mario Party for the DS. I have always enjoyed playing the Mario Party games for the Nintendo 64, Game Cube and Wii. And this version of Mario Party is no different. But I want to tell you something I discovered the hard way. After you win the story version, you have to sit and wait for all of the credits...every last name must scroll through, then you will have some more buttons to click in order to actually getting credit for winning the story mode. I beat the story mode 3 times with Daisy, but then realized, that when I went and looked at my awards and badges, it was as if I hadn't done it, plus Triangle Twisters was no where to be found. Well, life is good now and maybe there was something in the book that would have cued me in if I had read it...but since I didn't, I figure maybe some others didn't and I thought I would share what I learned.

Party on!

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A couple of days ago, Jack found the Lego website. He has actually been there before and ever since we bought our first Legos about 11 years ago, he has been getting Lego magazine in the mail. But for whatever reason, he got to really exploring the website this week.

And there is a lot to explore. There are games. There are movies. You can sign up for the newsletter. There is a gallery where you can see other fantastic creations and submit your own for others to see.

The thing that I think is the coolest is the Lego Factory. Go to main page, click on 'play' button, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on 'factory' button. In the Lego Factory, you can download a program onto your computer. Then you can go in and make your own Lego creations on the screen. And you can save them. And the really, really cool part is after your child designs something, it is possible to buy the Lego bricks to make their creation at home. I just think that is sooooo cool.

And being able to make creations on the computer has other added advantages. No more trying to pull the bricks apart with your teeth (not advised if you wear braces). No more stepping on stray legos on the floor. And if you are in the middle of a project, no more having your mom tell you that it has to be put away because there is simply no room for it in the house!

I just went and played one of the games...let me tell you, it was fun! So if you and your children haven't been there to check out the website, I suggest you go check it out. I think you will have fun (you might want to check it out first and you know....test it some...before telling the kids about it... after all you want to make sure that it's a good site for them, you shouldn't just take my word for it!) Happy Legoing!

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Momanna98 at Homeschooling in Illinois sent me an email with this song in it today. I love it! And think you will get a kick out of it two...whether you homeschool or not.

Sing to the tune of “I Will Survive-Made famous by Gloria Gaynor

First I was afraid
I was petrified.
Kept thinking I could never teach
´Cause I´m not certified.
But we spent so many nights
Reteaching homework that was wrong.
I grew strong,
so now I teach my kids at home!
We study math
and outer space.
I just kept on despite the fear
with a big smile across my face.
I bought a set of Base Ten blocks.
I bought books with answer keys.
My parents think we´re nuts,
but they don´t even bother me

Come on, let´s go walk out the door.
We´re on the road now,
'cause we´re not home much anymore
My friends would laugh and say we´d be unsocialized.
I heard one mumble
that I´d give up by July.
Oh no, not I!
I will survive!
As long as I know how to read
I know we´ll be alright.
I've got all my life to learn.
I've got energy to burn.
and I'll survive.
I will survive.

It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart.
Decided to attend
a play date at the local park,
and I met oh so many moms
who offered eagerly to help.
They used to cry.
Now they hold their heads up high,
and so do we!
My kids are cool!
They´re not those chained up little people
stuck inside at school.
So if you feel like dropping by
and just expect us to be free
you´d better call ahead first
´cause we´re probably busy!

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I was visiting my buddy, Nikowa, at Knowledge House Academy and saw an amazing post she had titled God's Pharmacy. If you needed another reason to add more fruits and veggies to your diet, go check it out. It's a great post!

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Yep, folks, you heard it here first! NASA has announced the next astronauts that will be heading to the moon. You can see their picture here. NASA has decided that a family would be a great choice for the next mission and I am sure you will agree. Of course, the fact that the family had all recently gone on a shopping spree at the House of Blues was what clinched NASA's decision.

"This family is on a mission from God," one NASA spokesman reported.

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I received this photo in an email. It was so good, I had to pass it on:)

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I love Star Trek. So I enjoyed taking this quiz. Thought you might like to as well. I got a a 39 out of 50. Some of those questions are tough. Daniel got a 41.

Let me know how you do! I took the HP test too, but be warned, it doesn't keep your score, so you need to do it for yourself. The Star Trek test keeps the score.

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Have you ever heard someone say Guiness tastes like a chocolate shake? Or how about tabasco that tastes like donut glaze? Vinegar that resembles apple juice?

What, have I gone mad? Nope, but I have been reading about something called a Miracle Fruit that was discovered almost 300 years ago in Africa, but isn't very well known. This fruit has the ability to make sour things sweet (and to make sweet things almost unbearable to eat).

I am thinking this could be the diet secret of the century! I mean...eat lemons and have them taste sweet...don't you see? We could eat the berry, then eat a low calorie meal (like a salad) which would suddenly take on a new taste sensation. The berries tricks last for about up to an hour and each berry sells for about $2.00. I think it would be fun just to try out! Perhaps I will get to experience a Flavor tripping party, or maybe I will just order a couple of berries to see!

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A couple of nights ago, I had an insight. I was lying awake, listening to the new sounds of apartment living and thinking about the things Daniel bought for his apartment here that we don't have at home. For instance, he purchased an electric toothbrush and Act and mouthwash. He purchased these Wick air fresheners that periodically spray out fresh scent.

We have air freshners in our bathrooms at home, you know the kind that you spray when you are trying to cover up what you have been doing... We actually have a funny story about air freshners. Several years ago, we had our pastor and his wife over for dinner. My oldest, Bruce, had gone to the restroom and liberally sprayed the citrus scented spray (after all the Pastor was there).

As the smell circulated through the house, Pastor Randy sniffed appreciatively and said...hmmm, are those cookies I smell? We laughed until we cried...fortunately Pastor Randy and Chrissy did too!

So back to my original thought. I was pondering how we feel the need to 'cover up our scent' with everything from air fresheners to frequent bathing and shampooing and lotions. And how that it is much like our kitty cats...after all, when they go to the bathroom, they sniff and if they smell it, they cover it up.

Okay....I didn't say it was profound or anything...it just struck me as funny!

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My friend over at My Little Drummer Boys just made me aware of a cool Wikipedia experiment. They report that there are some 70,000,000 million blogs in the world and they want to see how long it will take 1,000,000 blogs to sign up on Wikipedia. They started this experiment on April 10th, and apparently word of mouth is a tad slow. They are only up to number 1448! So go take advantage of this cool experiment. Get another link, perhaps more traffic and help Wikipedia answer the question they are dying to know....just how long will it take for a million blogs to sign up!???

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Last week I had some fun money to spend. You know...the bills are paid and you have some money available to buy something fun. Well I spread my fun money around. I purchased Harry Potter 6 on Audio Book for the kids and I to listen to on our way to Illinois in a couple of weeks. Jack and I have read it, but I didn't read that one to Katrina, and with the movie coming out in November, I thought this would be a great way to catch her up and to fill our 12 hour drive. I bought some clothes (our local DAV was having a 1.00 sale on all clothing) Now I have a whole new wardrobe for this spring and summer and I packed up a bunch of clothes for a friend that I no longer wish to have around. And I bought myself two games for the Nintendo DS.

I got Snood, which I played once the night I got it, but once I put Word Jong into my DS, I haven't removed it since...that poor little Brain Age chap is sure to feel deserted by me!

Anyway...I love Mahjong and I love Scrabble and Word Jong puts the two of these great games into one! I have played and played and played! I already have a ranking of Silver Ox (having passed through all the bronze levels and half of the silver ones). I have beat all of the Word Jong masters except for Qu Xan...I have come sooooo close to beating him. And I have done all the daily puzzles for this month so far. I have earned around 6 awards. I tried connecting to another player using WiFi...but there probably aren't a lot of people out there playing this game and finding them when I am looking for them hasn't worked out yet.

Sooooo....if you have this game or it sounds like something you would like to have, check it out. And if you can play via WiFi with me, drop me a comment and we'll plan a battle time!

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Ever had one of those days? You know the kind...things just keep going wrong and it gets to the point where all you can do is laugh...

Well, let me fill you in on my last 24 hours...

It all started Thursday evening. My free anti-virus subscription on my new laptop had expired. So Thursday, I purchased a copy of Norton 360 which would cover my computer and Jack's and one other if we needed it. I came home, and went to install it. Well, first it said I needed to do a live update for the latest info. We have Satellite at our house and satellite across the street at our business. The business satellite is designed for business use, we can do things faster there and we can have more data flowing through. I was here at home and on a whim I clicked on the update, a window popped up that basically informed me that it would be something like 49,000,000,000 minutes before the update was complete! We tried calculating how many hours, days and years that would be...let's just say WAY TOO MANY! So I cancelled the update for the moment. Then I went on with the install.

Well, silly me, you have to delete McAfee (the free trial I had) before you install Norton...you could practically see the smoke steaming because I had another antivirus protection program on my computer! I did that, then returned to the install.

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Katrina is starting to have some interest in the cmputer. We have set her up with an email account and today she was typing an email. She knew that if there was a red line under a word then that word was mispelled, but she had forgotten how to fix it. So I told her to right click and a list would pop up so she could choose the right spelling.

She typed for a moment, then said 'Nothing's happening!' I turned the computer toward me and noticed she had typed 'click'. I went to the word, showing her what to do and correcting her word (wondering why she had typed the word 'click.') which I told her to erase.

A few moments later, she had another misspelling. I reminded her that all she had to do was right click and the list would pop up. She said 'Mommy, I wrote click the last time and it didn't work!' I about died laughing!!!!

I was chuckling and she was looking at me wondering why I was laughing at her. I reached toward the mouse pad and I said 'left click, right click'. Then we both had a good belly laugh!

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My daughter has been asking a lot the last couple of days what the date is. Now this could be related to her birthday coming up on the 8th....or it could be related to her love of April 1st and the opportunity to play pranks on people...and get away with them!

I was curious as to how April Fool's Day started so I went out looking around.

National Geographic has the following article: April Fools' Day Facts: Behind the Laughs

Like National Geographic, Wikipedia says that the origin of the day is shrouded in mystery and time, but there are some great past pranks that have been pulled and some of them are listed at Wikipedia.

No matter how the day started, it is fun to 'get' friends and family and fun to 'be gotten' as well. If you want to do something different that your children will love, check out the Family Fun website for ideas of pranks you can pull (especially the meals you can make)!

Have fun!

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Jen at My Three Boys and I is playing a fun Pay It Forward Game. Since I joined in the fun at her blog, I am spreading the joy here on mine.

Here's how it works:

• Anyone with a blog can join
• The first three people to leave a comment on this post will receive a gift from me. I haven't decided yet what the gift will be. I will be looking for neat items though.
• I will send the gift in the next 365 days
• In return you have to pay it forward by making the same promise on your blog
• See how easy that is?

In honor of the Pay It Forward ideal, I’m quite happy to send overseas, so don’t let that stop you!

That’s it!! Let the comments roll!!

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May I have a drum roll please.....

So now that we know how much my blog is worth, who wants to loan me some money? I'll put my blog up as collateral!

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I have been tying my shoes backwards for my whole life. Why? Because my father taught me. I think he taught me while he was facing me, but I am not positive. At any rate, I can tie my shoes quickly and move on about my business. When I taught my children, I made the effort to learn how to tie like most people do, so I could teach them to tie 'right'. Why I am not sure, after all, it is fun to be different.

Anyway, today my hubby sent me a link to Ian's knot. This is a super quick way to tie your shoe! Once you get the hang of it, you will be tying your shoes faster than ever before! Have fun!

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I received this in my email box today and it was so funny, I just had to share! Enjoy!

Ponderisms

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A friend of mine sent this to me in my email today and it gave me a chuckle. Hopefully it will give you a chuckle too!

On the first day, God created the dog and said:

And God agreed.

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I have a dear friend that has taught me a great deal. We share some common interests: Ebaying, yard saling, auctions, homeschooling, animals, good books. But on political issues we are about as far apart as we can get. We rarely talk politics but lately with all of the excitement of having so many viable candidates, we have talked some. Today she sent me a fun link that enabled me to answer about 20 questions and then I was matched with the proper candidate. And sure enough, we are both at least interested in people from our respective parties, even though we lined up with different people than she and I both are pulling for.

Interestingly, the guy that I matched up with is not the guy I am pulling for for President. But if the test is accurate and my beliefs link me up with him, I should look again. After all, there are so many positions out there, if a test can help me narrow down my options to the one who thinks the most like me, isn't that who I should choose? The sad thing is it is only a 73% match. Why don't you go see who you line up with out of the many that are running. It is fun:) And the bobbleheads you get are cute for placing on your blog!

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I enjoy playing around with online games and with photos, so I thought I would have fun when I found out about the website that offers The Bubblenator. With The Bubblenator, you choose one of your photos, then The Bubblenator will allow you to insert 'bubbles' with text. You can place up to three bubbles on your image, you can choose your text and you can change sizes. You can pick from spoken or thought bubbles.

When you have finished, the Bubblenator will provide you with HTML code that you can use to put your captioned image on your web site, blog, Myspace page or just about anywhere else you would normally add an image. Just copy and paste a few lines and you're done!

I often think in bubbles or speak in bubbles for my kids and my animals. This would be fun to use to create images for our Christmas newsletter. I think this is a fun widget builder. But, I was unable to make it work. The only urls I know for my photos are those that are on Flickr and it couldn't read those for some reason. If you get one to work, let me know and I'll come take a peek!

Have fun!

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