Author: Clare at CatsEatDogs

Through The Lens Thursday #12. Frown.

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  I did wonder what on earth I was going to use for ‘Frown’, then I looked at the super hero and action figures around the house and they are all frowning!  I picked Superman for his very impressive frown though. I have a new camera which is very exciting so these photos are now taken using a Canon 6D and a fixed 50mm lens.  I am really loving the depth of field I can now capture, yay! Here’s hoping Superman is going to cheer up…. For more information about Through The Lens Thursday, go here.  Next week’s prompt is ‘In my Cup’.

Let the Sparkle out – Grey hair update

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  I have done it, after a year of two, three and more tone hair, I have settled on a natural brown with some sparkly chunks. To be honest I didn’t see the very solid grey streak coming at all, even though the grey has always been more prominent at the front, usually from before a week after dyeing it, the glow would begin shining through.  I saw this as a bad thing and ended up dyeing my hair almost monthly,  sorry hair. I think the year it has taken has been a good thing in hindsight, getting used to the colour coming (or lack of it), then being more and more keen to see the natural end result.  If the decision was taken to stop dyeing and within a week or a month, everything was in it’s grey glory, I think the shock of the intense colour change might not be for the faint-hearted.  Even the peek within a couple of months can be quite alarming, but I think that is mainly because of …

Weekly Photos 11/52 2015

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1. The first flowers of Spring, I love the dew captured on the crocus petals. 2. Easter cards I made for family. 3. Cool lights at Crushed Red in Clayton, MO.  We went for a late lunch on Sunday to celebrate Mothering Sunday, lucky me! 4. Me, sitting on my ‘mental age’ bench at Powder Valley, MO in the sunshine! Ha! 5. I found a rock with a funny face. 6. Taking the direct route. 7. Powder Valley frog.  Very friendly and very large! It looks like Spring has sprung here in Missouri, the trees are budding and the bulbs are starting to flower.  Time to pull out the t shirts and put away the gloves and woolly scarves. Have a fab week!  

‘I like’ Fridays

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Here are some things I have been reading on the interweb this week, I hope you like them. There is a great post here at She Who Rambles  about faraway family which I could relate to as all of my wonderful family are in the UK.  We need a portal to whizz us all around the world for a cup of tea and a biscuit whenever we need!  If you are working on such a device, please let me have a go first. Got boys in your house?  Or do you just fancy making some cool crafty things?  All your needs are catered in this piece by Tiny Rotten Peanuts.  I want to make the vellum igloo, the Fart Noise Maker and a handful of dollar jet fighters if you want to help me. That Summer Feeling carries on the adventures of Quinoa and her ‘life journey’, I don’t miss a week and nor should you. I found Humblebee and Me which is full of DIY beauty ideas and she is so generous with her …

DIY Lavender and Clary Sage Face/Body Balm

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I love balms and perfumes.  This is a recent revelation in my world, I have always been sadly addicted to lip balms and the prettier the packaging and more exotic the flavour, the better, but I have never been quite this into them.  What happened?  I started to make them. This year I have let myself try new makes and DIY’s and among them came lip balm.  My good friend has lots of the base oils which I didn’t have and we decided to have a go one day.  Well, now I can’t stop…… I have been making lip balms, body and hand balms and now I have entered the heady and wonderful world of solid perfumes.  I love that we can make this stuff ourselves and we know what is in there, especially when it comes to slapping balm on lips and face, it is good to know what is soaking into our skin. This week I ran out of face moisturiser and was reluctant to pay another $20 or more for a teeny …

Weekly Photos 10/52 2015

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            1. A tree bud in the new snow. 2. My shadow in the snow mixed with a photo of trees using the Diana app. 3. ‘The Slot’ at Pickle Springs Natural Area, Missouri – a walk between rocks and in a temporary stream! 4. Cave detail with ice at Pickle Springs. 5. Hearts on a tree. 6. ‘The Double Arch’ rock formations at Pickle Springs. 7. This was my favourite rock formation of the day, he looks so serene, a sleepy rock. This weekend we went to explore a new hiking area called Pickle Springs and it has some great caves and rock formations.  It was pretty wet and sludgy, but that didn’t deter us! The snow has now melted here, and the temperatures are Springlike!  Hurrah!  I even spotted the crocuses popping out of the grass this afternoon. I hope you have a lovely week!

‘I like’ Fridays.

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This week there are lots of things to like, especially that the sun is out and the snow is melting, we are looking at Springlike temperatures over the weekend and into next week!  Here are some of the things I have been liking  – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins.  This is a book I want to keep picking up even just to snatch a page here and there.  A page turner for sure! Watercolour painting.  I haven’t painted in years, so I treated myself to some brushes and paints and I am about to embark on the watercolour class over at Creative Bug.  I have lots of ideas, now I just need to get the brush on the paper!  I think watercolour painting is so pretty, colours all seem to look beautiful, I can’t wait to get started. Lettering.  My ongoing love for hand lettering seems to get more fired up every day.  The March ‘Girl Fifteen Letters‘ challenge is going well, we are up to the letter F already.  Lots of …

Hand Lettering in the Month of March

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Have you started to practise anything new this year or recently?  I have always had a little desire lurking about in my mind that I want to draw and illustrate and hand letter.  For literally months and maybe years, this voice has had an adversary who kept assuring us that this would not be possible because of all the ‘can’t’s which were in the same evil gang. Well, I decided to ignore the evil ‘can’t’ gang this year and I decided to set myself a challenge for the month of March and draw/write a letter for each day followed by some quotes and phrases.  At the same time I signed up for the lettering class at Made Vibrant and discovered that Caroline finishes her class with a monthly challenge to letter a phrase a day through March.  How perfectly did that work out!? So I am up to the letter D today which I am looking forward to playing with in my sketchbook. I had never lettered anything in my whole life until March 1st …