Author: Clare at CatsEatDogs

Through The Lens Thursday 19. Dream.

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Dream.  A photograph of a dream?  Following a dream?  Dreaming?  What to take? Then, on the walk back from school, I spotted a circle of mushrooms on the path through the woods. Don’t we all dream there will be a crowd of fairies in every ring of mushrooms or toadstools we see?  I do! Alas, if there were any fairies present here, I missed them.  I had to clear away a few leaves and get down almost on the ground to get this shot, so I feel certain I would have spotted any. I know, I know, I was in the middle of the woods crouched on the ground photographing mushrooms!  All the time hoping that no-one would walk by!! Do you take photos all over the place? Are you bothered if anyone thinks you are a nut? I am pretty self conscious to be honest and looking a fool is not my top priority. Having said that, if I want the picture, I can usually summon up some courage from somewhere.  So there I …

CatsEatDogs New Wrap Bracelet

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I love to make jewelry and I love to wear it, so that works out!  This bracelet is for my Etsy shop, so I haven’t worn it, but I might well make another for me. This little number can be wrapped around your wrist or your ankle and even worn as a necklace. Yay, what choice! I used lots of wooden beads as they are my latest love. Among them, I added shell heishi and trade beads in pink and aqua. I piled all of my current bracelets onto a painted branch and I think they look super cool!  I enjoy colour and mixing colours and then making jewelry with the ensuing mix.  Here they are sitting in my mint patch, so maybe they smell nice now too!

Weekly photos 18/52

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Last week saw the arrival of May which is one of my favourite months of the year, the weather is usually lovely,  gracefully welcoming summer and by the end of the month school is out. For the photo selection this week we have: Storm clouds and treetops.  Impending storms always seem to make the light glow and these trees look so bright.  As soon as I snapped this, I got rather wet as I had forgotten an umberella! A pretty two tone seed. Someone had left a spade in the volleyball court. Massive sheet of safety glass and me. The cloud factory. School field day. The sunflowers are 5cm tall. I hope this week has started well for you, let’s see what it brings.  Happy Monday!

Six Word Saturday

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I have not had Dandelion and Burdock for years and years! Can’t wait to drink one of these. Do you have a favourite childhood drink? I used to like Tizer and Iron Bru too. Got a Six Word Saturday? Link in the comments, write it in the comments or post on Instagram with #sixwordsaturday.

April photo a day 2014

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April was a month of planting and digging and mowing it seems.  I started to read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt which I am enjoying and will most likely finish sometime in June! We started to re-do the bathroom and found some cool old wallpaper and the original floor tiles.  Easter hopped by and welcomed Spring and all things new and growing.  I made hot cross buns and Simnel cake which is all long gone. Sunflowers seeds were planted on Earth Day and we are watching them peek through the soil and grow at breakneck speed. I started to run again after about a year of not really running, I am looking at a half marathon in October, so there is some incentive to keep pounding the pavement. April was also another month of Fat Mum Slim’s Photo a Day, so here are mine. 1. Something purple. 2. In my hand.  I made a little clutch bag in linen fabric with some machine embroidery on the front. 3. Shapes.  In the new rain barrel. 4. …

Through The Lens Thursday 18. 3 Things

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  This year I am participating in Through The Lens Thursday which is a project thought up by Alison of Writing Wishing and Greta of GFunkified.  Every week we take a photo using the camera on manual setting, so that we learn lots of new camera and photo taking things through the year of weekly prompts. This week’s prompt is ‘3 Things’.  I found the abandoned, hatched egg this morning and the sycamore seeds, and I added the dandelion clock once I had put the ‘things’ together.  I was happy that the dandelion didn’t shed all of it’s seeds immediately and let me get a photo. A little nature collection. Do you pick up stuff as you walk?  I usually just photo interesting things as I see them and leave them, but today I needed my 3 things,  so I did some gathering!    

5 reasons to let my hair go grey and 5 reasons maybe not to!

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I am seriously thinking of letting my hair go to it’s natural colour which I think will be an alarming grey/white/brown mix.  Do you dye your hair?  Ever thought of going natural or do you get just enough grey peeking through to make you rush to the salon or to buy a box of dye? One of my blogger pals over in sunny Australia got me thinking about all of this, check out her blog at That Summer Feeling, she is def going to let her hair go to it’s natural colour and I am going to join her.  There, I said it, Michelle I am in! Reasons to go au naturel in the hair department, embrace the grey and, let’s face it, the white. 1.  I am fascinated to see what is under the Feria Power Red, I  haven’t seen my natural colour in about twenty years when it was brown.  All over brown.  Brown all over.  No grey.  Definitely no white. 2.  If I have some good white lengths, I can put colour …

Weekly photos 17/52

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  It has been a week of sunshine, a school concert, seed planting and a new shower!  We can’t use it yet because it would be a wet disaster, but when the bathroom is tiled, it will be the best! There are flowers everywhere I look, from dandelions to flocks of daffodils, all so pretty! We dragged out the Swingball which is in desperate need of a new ball at the end of it’s string!  The dog has nearly bitten our’s in half.  We can still whack it, but I am afraid it will fly into two pieces very soon. I caught these reflections on a local bridge when I was getting some photos for Through the Lens Thursday this week. To the Middle School band concert we go.  I am wearing my lovely new Bohemian Trader‘s scarf which I love so much! A tree on a hill to finish this week’s collection. Do you have exciting plans this week?  I have a card to make for a card exchange (post coming, got to make …

Through The Lens Thursday 17. Water

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  It is Through the Lens Thursday today and the prompt is ‘Water’.  It is supposed to rain later today which I was going to wait for, but in the meantime I popped down to the creek to see what I could see. I wandered around for a few minutes checking out the rather low flowing water.  I  snapped some reflections and tried to work out how to get the water in focus as it danced about infront of me (one of the reasons I love this challenge, having to figure out new settings and understand my camera better). As I turned to walk back along the edge of the water, a flower seedhead floated down towards me and it was the prettiest thing gently gliding along in the water. It soon came to rest next to a rock letting me get a photo before it moved on down the creek. The sun was bobbing about in the water under the bridge (last photo), so I took his picture. I am sure I will still …