One of the homes in my development hand HUGE shiny metallic balls (like huge christmas ornaments) inside every window of the home. They each have a huge ribbon tied to each huge ball. There is also a kid’s turtle pool placed in a precise area on the front lawn. She has no children that use this turtle pool. She uses it as a lawn decoration/ ornament. I heard the lady lost it since her husband died, but I’ve never talked to her myself. She’s always smiling though…so Hey! Whatever makes you happy! LOL!

My next door neighbor has nothing but junk in her yard and in her house. What a mess! We sometimes go places and she will have her door open and we can see in her home and it is a mess. Lots of junk sitting everywhere. My husband and I wish many times that she would just leave here and move somewhere else. Maybe we should be the ones to move out of this neighborhood.

My neighbors moved out all of the sudden and left a ugly broken down car in the driveway,so nasty.

My neighbors are the weird decorations.

not sure about the radeon,…….. but there’s not enough meat on your ram and processor.

I’ve painted many backdrops. And you can get a plain white painter’s drop clothe and “tie die” it. That’s kind of cool. If you have room and the inclination you can build sets. Find some scrap lumber and build an old country store, just the front entrance, or it could be a saloon with swinging doors. If you’re willing to paint and do some carpentry work you can do a lot of backgrounds for nothing more than your labor.

It sounds a lot like the program that is playing the music is having problems keeping the flow of music due to not getting the info from your HD or where ever fast enough.

This can be due to something as simple as your HD being really badly fragged which can be easily fixed by defragging it (should do that anyway once you have done a reinstall of o/s)

IF it isn’t that it could be due to older drivers, running out of RAM (do you have anything else running when trying to play the music?).

I think it is probably something to do with the fragmentation of the HDD or the memory though and would suggest starting with those. Might also be worth loking at a better program to play the music as that can help… (Update all your drivers also as the ones windows install with installation are all out of date)

I would throw in a lot more RAM and go into the BIOS and make sure the video aperature is set to use all of the video RAM built into the card. Otherwise, you are not utilizing the full capability of the video card. That should dramatically speed up the system.

Kick it!

I have done this myself. I have used the splatter effect with bright primaries for children’s backgrounds. I have used a sponge with pastels to make more sophisticated looking backgrounds also. You can create very professional looking backgrounds on a budget and also get kudos when people realize you have done all this yourself. I no longer do photography(too much time spent on the road) but in many instances it generated business for me because it was ‘proof’ of my creativity. You can also create drapes and covers using big cotton sheets that match your backgrounds and help with larger posed shots of families, etc. One of my most popular, even with adults, was a paint splatter effect like the childrens background, but done on a large, thick, black sheet. It had a lot of contrast and was, generally, just a fun background for informal group shots.