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A lot of you guys have been impressed with my collage'ing talents.

And Thank you very much! :)

However... I'm not the talent behind the collages. I don't have enough time in the day to line up a photo to fit in an exact spot. Who does? Martha Stewart? Probably.

Anyway, I use the Picasa program that I downloaded for free from download.com. My husband trusts this site and so do I. If you want to go to the actual link for Picasa on their site click HERE. When you install this program, it will go through all the photos on your computer and arrange them in date order.SO COOL.

Then you can just scroll down through all your photos chronologically and find the one you're looking for without hunting through the billions of folders individually! It will let you manipulate photos too. Brighten, sharpen, crop, red eye reduction, etc.

The really neat function that you've been drooling over is this... Start by just clicking on any photo you want in a collage, then hold the control key and click on any others you want to add. You know how to do this! Then click on the collage button at the bottom of the screen! Voila! It's a collage! And then you can tell it what style of collage you want. Mosaic, thumbnail, scattered pictures, etc. And if you want a different color behind them. You can move the pictures around, turn them, enlarge them, whatever...

Anyway. That's my secret. SSH!! No wait. Go ahead and tell someone if you like it!

Fine print... I do not get paid for this, but I should huh?

My camera was found!!! And how to fix them....

Wouldn't you know it? It was in the basket of miscellaneous junk on our kitchen counter. Under a bunch of stuff. So Ryan took it with him that same day and it got dropped into a puddle of water...

It wouldn't start but gave a blurry screen and green light, so Robb had me do a Kim Komando trick. I took the sodden battery and SD card out of it, put the SD card on the counter to dry. Then put the entire camera with the battery door open and battery into a plastic baggy and dumped in enough rice to cover it all and zipped it up for a day or so. I didn't have any white rice, so I used instant brown rice. Did the trick too.

Then after a day or so, I dusted it all off and blew some compressed air into the battery pocket to clean out all the rice. Plugged the battery into it and it didn't turn on at all. Stuck it on the camera charger and the next day all is well with the world... I was able to download the existing photos off the SD card with it and take new pictures.

I LOVE Kim Komando now!! Apparently you can do this with cell phones too. Had I but known that when the kids dropped their phone into the dog water a few years back...