The house is finished.

A while back, I posted about a fundraising project I was doing, called "Dóchas".

I made 60 jars of aromatherapy hand cream, called "Dóchas" which is Irish for hope, sold them for €10 each, with all proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity, to help build a house in Cape Town.

My brother has returned from building the house and I thought I would post a couple of pics of how it looks. They got the house finished in one week, and the family moved in, delighted.

In this photo, on the left, is the shack where they had been living

so I can imagine that it must be bliss to now have this:

Sorry about the funny faces- I don't have permission to post their faces, and this is my best photoshopping skills.

I am learning, however; the son came along as I was trying to manually smudge the faces, and he has shown me a poly something tool that does it much better and quicker, as in the top photo.

So my new motto is "Every day, my photoshop skills get better and better"!

Mellow Yellow Monday

Ok, so I've just had my first photoshop lesson, and it went really well. I learned how to crop photos.

Then, went to post for MYM, and what do you know, the pic. that I want to post doesn't need to be cropped, or at least I don't want to cut out any of it. I'd love to say that I made all these cupcakes, but the truth is that they were on display in a kitchenware shop in Dublin, and I couldn't resist sneaking a pic.

Which one is your favourite? Mine is the yellow with brown chocolate stars!

Drowsy Monkey hosts MYM, click on the link below for more photos.