June Hipstamatic fun starts today! Great for iPhone photo addicts like me. Instant gratification from your phone and a funky photo app! Get the theme, take a photo, play with lots of lenses and films and mix them up!
Make Beautiful in June
Make beautiful….Cilantro and boys in a pot! June 1st
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But does he come in peace?
One of my favourite things in the whole wide world- vintage buttons. I always have to keep them where I can gaze at them for a while before I use them in a piece of jewelry.
I went on a field trip last week with some friends to visit some of the St Louis Art Museums. I love museums and art, but if I am not into it, I won’t hang around and read every last word of information. Off I will go until I find a piece I want to gaze at and even read about.
The Saint Louis University Museum of Art has the ‘Warhol’s Polaroids’ exhibition and it fits all of my needs. It is small (literally, they are polaroids!), the information is interesting and the pictures are fascinating. Well worth a look.
Of course I snapped a few pics with Hipstamatic on the phone while we were downtown..
Park
Lovely curtains in ‘Plush’
Painted wallpaper in ‘Plush’
I love treasure hunting, in thrift stores, yard sales, jumble sales or estate sales and antique shops. Yesterday on the way to the bank with the boys we spotted an estate sale and, because they are as bad as me, we had to check it out! The ensuing treasure hunting make me late for pretty much everything I had to do through the whole day, but I got some rewards.
Bargains were, a pretty little white bowl which I will use for mixing beads – 50c, some assorted wooden beads (which will most likely always stay in the vintage jar I have stored them in, but I love the colour and shapes of them) – 25c and a little cartoony doll head – 25c. There were an alarming amount of doll parts for sale, all separate and without bodys. The owner of the estate had either been a doll maker extraordinaire with some spare plastic heads to spare, or she had big plans to begin crafting dolls and alarmingly creepy clowns!
I did purchase a few doll parts for the fabulous ladies at ‘Screaming Mimi’ to work their magic with. Undoubtably the best part was walking home with a tray of random plastic body parts like it was an everyday purchase!
Clowns without bodies
These look like naughty babies
Lots of heads waiting for a squishy body
These could come in handy
Photo of the day….
For Mother’s Day USA style (UK Mother’s Day was in March and yes, my Mum gets both!), my boys got to do the choosing.
They had free run of my beads and chose a lovely, colorful pile.
My part was to make a double wrap bracelet out of the selection. The result was a daughter grandson collaboration!
Mother’s Day bracelet
I got dragged down to the woods this morning by Bodhi to go on an adventure. Wellies on and we were on a mission to find the ‘cabin’ otherwise known as the ‘creepy cabin’ at the side of the creek.
We paddled a short way down the rather stinky creek and there it was….the creepy cabin, complete with a brown and crispy Christmas wreath.
The Cabin in the woods
The Creeeeepy Cabin in the woods
Boots are way too big, but waterproof!
‘Chicken Mushroom’ – edible, but not eaten, well not by us anyway
Blueberry Scones
But, before all of the adventuring, I made some scones!
Blueberry Scones
3/4 cup heavy cream 1 egg 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose/plain flour 1/4 cup sugar 2 teaspoons baking powder 6 tablespoons butter (cold and in small pieces) 1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen – don’t defrost frozen)
Preheat oven to 400F. Whisk together cream, egg and vanilla. In a large bowl mix flour, baking powder and sugar. ‘Rub in’ the butter to the dry ingredients. Add the blueberries.
With a fork, mix the cream mixture into the dry until just combined – be careful not to squish the blueberries.
Knead the dough together and make a 6 inch circle. Cut into 6 wedges and transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet.
Brush the tops with cream and sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for 16-18 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway through cooking.
Cool and eat, if you can wait, otherwise cool a little bit, then eat!
Taken from a Martha Stewart recipe.
Sometimes getting children to school is what I would think herding cats is like. They know where they are going, but one will run off ahead just as I turn to check behind me. The other is engrossed in a squashed something, or gathering a very interesting stick downed by the last storm to lighten the trees en route. It wouldn’t surprise me to find one ‘cat’ up a tree while the other is chasing a ball of string. They do invariably get to school and I assume into the correct classroom. Which must make me a very successful cat herder.
Once I had delivered the cats to school I hopped off to the gym, then up to the library to collect Wallace and Gromit (World of Invention – can’t wait to watch it!) and to return Lana (Del Ray) and Madonna.
Back to Brentwood on the Metrolink where I took my Hipstamatic Daily photo under the title ‘Inspiration’
We
Me
Whee (!)
Once I found ‘We’ I just couldn’t stop myself! Inspiration in the signs, the deconstructing of the signs or just the Metrolink? I don’t know, but I had a good time even though I looked like a total nutter!
Back in Brentwood I had to go and see the thistles I have been admiring and snapping all Spring. They didn’t disappoint, all purple and blooming and spikey and fabulous!
Thistles I, II and III
Another boiler in the weather department yesterday. Water balloons were all been filled and thrown, the boys were soaking wet all day and the washing line was full of rotating wet swim shorts and t shirts.
In the afternoon we went to the ‘Antiques Mall’ which is always an adventure. I learnt that old Mason jars are expensive, and I am glad I pick mine up from yard sales!
Bodhi got a bag full of little cars (not sure of their antique-ness) and I took some photos of treasures I could only admire from afar.
China Doll’s heads
China tea set fit for a Teddy Bear’s Party
Little bit creepy…china heads in a jar
Lovely pattern on an old baking pan
Pattern on a giant tin
Lovely big jar of marbles
Clare Davis Etheridge 