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And this room is dedicated to Savannah Skye, the darling little Yorkie belonging to my friend Jan. Skye has just gone to Rainbow Bridge at the age of only four. She was one of the most loveable little furry children in the world and will be sadly missed by her family and me. She was the twin sister to my darling little Libby. My heartfelt sympathy goes to Jan as she struggles through the days ahead without her.

This is the first room I ever put together. At the time, I was quite pleased with myself for doing it, but now, I see a few errors. If you are learning to do interiors, don't give up. Just keep going and every room you do will be an education in PSP in itself. Don't remember from where these tubes came. It's been a long time ago.

 This is not the next room I did, but after the first, it's hard to recall the order in which they came. These tubes were all made by me except perhaps the lamps.  I like to use my own tubes in most cases now, but in the beginning I used just what I could find, very generously offered by other tubers from their own websites. Occasionally, I will now use tubes made by friends of mine, such as Shae-Lynn from the following link at Colored-Eye Graphics. Her site is awesome.

Here is Petey Howard, the furry child belonging to good friends, Debbie and Steve Young. Petey is relaxing on the same sofa as I used in my first room. The flowers outside, through the French doors, were from photos of flowers my sister grew in her back yard that summer.

These drapes were not the first I had made, but I had wanted to find a technique of making draperies for some time, and one day I was experienting with filters and happened to stumble across Pool Shadows which makes great curtains. Since I first made these, I have learned not to bunch up the folds as much as I did on the right side here.

This room was one of the first ones made. I called it Corner Reading. I think I made it during the days of winter when it seemed inviting to have a nice, cozy corner in which to snuggle into a nice comfortable old chair by the fire with a good book. The photograph behind the chair is the Navy photo of the father of Steve Young.

Now these draperiess WERE the first I had made. They were too fixed, too perfect, too PVC-pipe in appearance. I wanted to make more realistic draperies, but didn't know how at this point. I do recall being especially happy about being able to make the glass-top table appear to be see-through.

This is the very same room as the one above it. The upholstery colors  and furnishings have been switched about just a bit. I call this one Syn's Rug because the rug was made from a tutorial by Syn at Digital Desyns.

This one was a lot of fun to make. Somehow cats just add a nice touch to a room . I didn't have my angles absolutely perfect here. If you prod and poke the graphics too much, they become blurry beyond recovery by sharpening. This is a good lesson to show that as you make your rooms, you should try to match the angle of your furniture as best as possible in the beginning to the angles of your room structure.

I called this room Stripes. Take a close look and see how many different stripes I used here!

This one I named One Tired Cat. The rug is rumpled, the puzzle on the coffee table is scattered, the flower vase is tipped over on the floor. This cat had been busy before taking his nap atop the table. I made this one long before my collection of tubes was very extensive. I had taken the table from an advertisement for magazines and the top of it was originally full of fanned-out magazines.  You can adapt almost anything to work for you by using the clone brush in PSP and a lot of patience.

I try to give each room a little character to make it interesting. In this one, an unseen Little League fellow has come home from a big game with his award plaque, tossed it all on the living room sofa, shucked his shoes and was off to the kitchen for lemonade. I like the structure I achieved in this room. I made the steps by following a tutorial by Sherry.

Looks like the cat just ran out the door and someone left their reading to take off after it. Shouldn't have been inside on such a beautiful spring day anyhow.