Here is my younger son, Nicky talking to Jason (my husband) on Skype. This makes it feel like he is not so far away even when he is halfway across the globe. We will then use Google Earth to show the kids how far away he really is. We can find his hotel in Google Earth and the younger kids always wave to him (and assume Dad can see)

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Day 365: Day 33 originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.

Shelly and I are doing the Amazing Digi Scrapping Race for the second time. Our second challenge was to work on a layout together. Since we are many many miles apart, that isn’t always an easy task. Last year when this type of challenge came up, it just happened to be the same weekend that I flew out to MO to visit Shelly in person. This year, we had to do this via video conferencing. Here is a picture of us using ooVoo (and it is my day 10 picture):

We first tried Skype, but Shelly had a lot of problems hearing me and it kept freezing. We wanted to be able to easily view each other’s desktop or send files back and forth. That didn’t seem to be working well in Skype so we switched to the ooVoo and that worked much better. After a few hours, we finally got down to work on our layout.

Here is the layout we did:

Journaling reads: Cabin Fever? What is that? It may be below zero outside and snowing endlessly for days, but that doesn’t mean we feel trapped in the house. We have found a cure for the cabin fever, we scrap! We find a page to scraplift and chat and scrap together. It isn’t quite the same as scrapping together in the same room, but a good alternative since we live so far apart. Having a good snowstorm is just a great excuse to stay in the house and scrap the day away. Check it out here to see the credit.

It was a lot of fun to see each other and so much easier to talk to each other and scrap then to stop and type. Of course then you have to be sure you look good too.

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Project 365: Day 10 originally posted at Scraps of My Geek Life.