Joining in with the ever gorgeous Pip at Meet Me at Mikes for this week’s ‘One+Four=Life project – one week, four photos! 1. Pablo the French Bulldog came for a walk to school and found himself a tennis ball! 2. It was Field Day this week and a lovely day was had. 3. and 4. At the weekend we went to a sale at a local antiques mall and picked up a couple of bargains, left the cow there although she was pretty cool! Have a fab week! Happy Star Wars Day.
For this week’s Through The Lens Thursday, Pablo and I headed into the slightly snowy garden for a quick photo shoot. Standing still and striking a pose is not his strong point so I had to chase him around a bit. He is cute though! I hope you are having a lovely week.
This past week saw a couple of very nice sunny warm days which was a very nice peek at Spring. The garlic is growing healthy green shoots and the bulbs are starting to come through. The rest of the week was pretty chilly though. Here are last week’s photos, starting with a funny doggy face! He was barking to get me to throw his ball when I snapped this. I took a few photos for a post I wrote earlier last week, but here is a photo I didn’t use which shows the vintage tray off. It poured with rain one night and in the morning everything was damp, but not soaked. I spotted this solitary leaf with it’s load of raindrops so I got a picture. When I went back later in the afternoon, it was still there, with just a few less drops, so I got an update! I took this photo of the sun behind clouds behind the magnolia tree. Then I mixed it in with a photo I had taken of …
There goes February, a short month and a chilly one too, we had snow and ice and rain and sunshine. Hopefully March will bring Spring out from hiding behind Winter. Come on out Spring, we are all friendly and can’t wait to see you! Here are my daily photo offerings for February, I follow the prompts supplied by lovely Chantelle at Fat Mum Slim. 1. You. Circa 1984, in a homemade and dyed dress. 2. Favourite. Finding old beads and charms to make into something. 3. Something Orange 4. Childhood 5.Square 6. C is for ….meow 7. Utensil 8. Water 9. Details. 10. I am…. 11. Mistake. Walking on that ice would be. 12. Out + About. Detail of a local bridge. 13. Perfect. The perfect Valentine’s haul from school. 14. Heart 15. My drink of choice. Homemade frothy coffee. 16. Create 17. Vegetable. Pom pom carrot! 18. Magic. First flower on the Rosemary. 19. Feet 20. Peace 21. Funny. This guy. 22. An act of Kindness 23. This where I relax 24. Half 25. …
Purple was the colour of the week last week in the #colorcolour project thanks to the great minds of Hula Seventy and Xanthe Berkeley. It is amazing what you spot when you are looking out for a specific colour. I though I would find nothing at all purple, even though I walk past the purple wall at the YMCA nearly every day! Purple flowers were in my Valentine’s bunch and I love violet sweeties. I took the photos of Pablo with my Canon and I like the way they have captured him, especially when he kicks up the ground behind him like he is ready to race! I started a granny square using Pip’s beginner video (still not finished it, but I will and I will be sure to share my crochet triumph!) Mr Y and I went out with the metal detector into the deepest woods yesterday looking for treasure. We found some old rusty nails, a couple of bottle caps and some bugs hiding from the cold. Better luck next …
As part of Through the Lens Thursday hosted by Greta at GFunkified and Alison at Writing Wishing, here is this weeks offering. Today is cloudy and dry, so not many natural reflection opportunities. I have this lovely vintage mirror, so I thought the reflection of the tree in the mirror might be cool, then look who popped in to check himself out. Click, done! Thanks Pablo for being my doggie model!
I have decided to take all of the photos this month using the Hipstamatic Oggl app. I like that you can add Hipstamatic filters after the photo has been taken. I have limited lenses and films though as I haven’t handed any cash over to become a member. It was a warm Autumnal day yesterday, so I got lots of leaf shots! Pablo and I went for a little walk in the sunshine and we got some leafy photos and stopped at the water fountains for drinks. I made a birthday cake which sat in the cupboard hiding! I used Smitten Kitchen’s chocolate cake recipe which was excellent as are all of her recipes. In fact I also used a SK recipe for the apple muffins which are also in a photo here. I just added some caramel pieces to the recipe. I made some lovely chunky rings this week and photoed them with a golden cow! Another 10th passes by and we are almost half way through October. Halloween is nearly here. Do you …
Today’s Ten on the Tenth marks a year of me taking ten photos of the 10th of each month, starting in September 2012. The mushrooms are popping up in the woods which makes me hopeful for cooler days. Autumn is on the way. Cooler mornings and nights should be just around the corner. In today’s photos, we have mushrooms, fallen leaves, an abandoned pet toy, diggers, sewing kit, a mint, a nearly finished necklace, a sunflower in seed and Pablo our French Bulldog.
I found this cool post on one of most favourite blogs Meet Me At Mikes and I copied the list and filled it in. It was fun! Want a go? I will put the blank list at the end. Making : A pink necklace Cooking : Nachos Drinking : Coffee with frothy milk Reading: The Sisters Brothers Wanting: Rain and maybe some thunder Looking: At the cloudy sky Playing: Cluedo card game, Chomp, Game of Life Wasting: Paper when I try to sketch Sewing: Minions and scarves Wishing: I had a pile of fabric to sew Enjoying: Marmite and cheese sandwich Waiting: For school to start Liking: Salty crisps/chips Wondering: If I should colour my hair red? Loving: My new bead mix, all vintagey pinks Hoping: I get some jewelry ideas to make Marvelling: At all the flowers in my garden Needing: That coffee Smelling: Jo Malone Blueberry Wearing: Flip flops, cargos and t shirt Following: ‘Under the Dome’ Noticing: It is cool outside Knowing: I can make it when I think of …
Another month of daily photos complete! I must say, I do like to look back over the month and see what I took. Some of this month’s have been a struggle and resulted in a quick snap and done, like ‘fork’ and ‘where you ate your lunch’. On the other hand I am really happy with some of the photos like the ‘hope’ mittens and the last one ‘upside down’. Nothing like a mess about with a few apps to make a boring prompt a bit more interesting, which I suppose is the whole point of the challenge. If you fancy joining in, here are the March prompts – Fat Mum Slim photo a day. Day 1. Fork Fork in a cake at Handmade Happy Hour in Home Wine Kitchen which is a fabulous local restaurant and venue. Day 2. Pattern. Close up of the pattern in some vintage fabric I bought from Miss Ohio Vintage, I plan to make a summer infinity scarf with it. Day 3. Something beginning with e. A school …
Clare Davis Etheridge 