Author: Clare at CatsEatDogs

Through The Lens Thursday #14. Box.

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Boxes, boxes, boxes, so many box options! I settled on a jewelry box which is super old and from my Grandma. I love it, the shabby picture on the top and the slot in the side to use as a money box and the bottom which is made from paper (maybe for lost key emergencies!). The book it is sitting on is a copy of National Heritage which I picked up today, it is from 1949 and chock full of paintings and information. Fantastic stuff! Next week’s prompt is ‘Baked’, so I had better get baking – oh, what a shame…! More information on Through the Lens Thursday including a list of prompts can be found here.

Ideas for The 100 Day Project

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  Have you heard about The 100 Day Project?  It is a fab thing that The Great Discontent magazine and Elle Luna are hosting and it starts on April 6th.  You just have to make or do something every day for 100 days and record it with a hashtag of your choice on Instagram.  Sounds fun I think. I just need to decide what to do/draw/make/photo for 100 days which takes us right into July – phew!  That is a lot of doing the same thing every day, well not exactly the same thing but the same project over 100 days. I know I am not going to be doing something like dancing (although that would be worth it for the laughs), yoga poses (there will be no photos of me doing yoga anywhere, let alone every day on Instagram for over 3 months), there will be no food involved (I eat everyday and may not be inventing anything new or interesting in that department) and I won’t be recording my reading, knitting, crocheting or …

Weekly Photos 13/52. One + Four = Life.

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1. Sketching in Spring Break.  Drawing Cityscapes and getting inspired by the book 365 Things to Draw and Paint. 2. Daffodils and my first ever crochet project (I have since started again as I was losing so many stitches!) 3. Veggie soup for dinner. 4. Line tickets for a local Estate Sale.  I scored some vintage magazines a book all about character from the twenties! For my weekly photos this week (and maybe for ever and ever) I am joining in with Pip at Meet me at Mikes, taking and posting four photos from my week. I hope you had a good week and the sun is shining where you are.

Taking Stock. March 2015.

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It is time to take stock and answer a few fun one word questions as posed by Pip at Meet me at Mikes. Making : A crochet blanket, my first foray into crochet after my lesson with my friend’s Mum! Cooking : Blueberry muffins for breakfast. Drinking : Coffee with frothy milk. Reading: The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion Wanting: A thunderstorm – I like storms! Looking: Outside to see if the sun is coming out today (before the possible storm!). Playing: With letters and lettering. Deciding: What to do today in the middle of Spring Break. Wishing: There were a couple more hours in today. Enjoying: My new crochet skills and hoping they get better. Waiting: For my camera bag to arrive, so I can walk and snap. Liking: The new scents I am using to make solid perfume, all beachy and summer. Wondering: If anyone else will like the perfumes. Loving: Having the kids at home this week and the lovely late mornings. Pondering: What to have for dinner? Considering: A trip to …

Girl Fifteen Letters

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Here we are at the letter X in our month of hand lettering practice, March has got it’s running shoes laced up and is zooming by. I decided at the end of February that I wanted to do some hand lettering and didn’t really know where to start, so I thought I would write and draw a letter every day in March. So, I did, and some fab folks have joined me and we are having quite the lettering party at #GirlFifteenLetters over on Instagram! Many many wonderful ideas are pouring forth, and I have learnt so much and been so inspired by just spending a few minutes a day drawing letters and checking out everyone else’s lettering too. I am also participating in Made Vibrant‘s ‘Meet Yourself March’ challenge and lettering all kinds of words and phrases for that. To think that I have a sketchbook full of words, letters and ideas is a great thing and I love to look through what I have accomplished and look forward to doing more through to …

Weekly Photos 12/52. 2015

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1. It’s daffodil time!  We always grab a few bunches when we go shopping through Spring. 2. Bright walls and furniture at Yo My Goodness frozen yoghurt. 3. One of my daily lettering challenge pieces, I quite like this one.  Hopefully I am getting better! 4. The first tree on our street to start to bud and flower. 5. – 7. Yesterday we decided to line all of the cars up on the drive.  And a car loving dinosaur! I hope you had a good week and have a lovely week lined up.  We are on Spring Break for a week and it is supposed to be a week of sun, clouds, rain and thunder.  So we have some outdoor plans and some DVDs to watch including ‘Big Hero Six’ and ‘Night at the Museum-Secret of the Tomb’.  Best get some popcorn!  

‘I Like’ Fridays

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Today brings Spring to the Western hemisphere along with a solar eclipse and a Supermoon tonight.  Phew, quite the celestial action! I hope I captured the atmosphere in my coffee and doughnut photo – Supermoon coffee and eclipse doughnut! So what are we liking this week? I got a couple of new t shirts and a dress from Uniqlo which I love.  The ones I got are here, here and here. This new US magazine, Womankind, looks like a good read.  I have a copy which I have yet to open!  As with most of my favourite mags, this one originated in Australia. Converse shoes are a current favourite in our house, I just got a pair of red lowtops and my youngest got a pair of black hightops and they are the same size!  Yay that means I can borrow my son’s shoes.  There is something I never thought I would say! My Wild Unknown tarot cards might make an appearance today as we are under such an amazing trifecta of natural occurrences. They …