Shall I spare you the “oh, I have been sooooo busy” and “sorry I haven’t been around more lately” speeches, and just show you what I’ve been doing in Tracey Clark’s most recent class, Picture Color*? Yes? Ok then 🙂 Day 1 – Blissed out on color – a few of my favorite hues Day […]
Read More: Picture Color, week oneCategory: photography
Fun with flowers and weeds
Last week, one of the Picture Spring prompts required us to find a dandelion that had gone to seed. None of mine had at that time, but they did a few days later, and I thought it would be fun to see what kind of images I could get, even though Picture Spring is over. […]
Read More: Fun with flowers and weedsPicture Spring, week four
We lost my grandmother yesterday. The kids stayed home from school today and this morning we were talking about Granny, what funerals are like, heaven, how Grandma (her daughter, my mother) must be feeling, how we are feeling… and we also spent some time sitting quietly together on my bed, propped up on pillows, reading […]
Read More: Picture Spring, week fourPicture Spring, week three
Spring is coming along, ever so slowly. My yard is starting to bloom, but mostly in shades of yellow, with a little bit of purple here and there. Even though it’s like this every year, I still don’t get “Spring” from yellow. Yellow feels like “Fall” to me. We seriously need some pink in this […]
Read More: Picture Spring, week threePicture Spring, week two
I like to do these photo-centric things on Friday. Looks like I missed the boat. Let’s just pretend I posted this on Friday, and I won’t include my images from today or yesterday, just to make it more believable. (Don’t you just love it when we can all take a group trip into Fantasy Land […]
Read More: Picture Spring, week twoPicture Spring, anyone?
I missed the original run of Picture Spring last year, so this year I am doing it as a self-paced class. What this means, is that you can sign up at any time, and the email prompts start arriving in your inbox the day after you sign up. It’s a slightly different experience doing it […]
Read More: Picture Spring, anyone?Birthday decor
We celebrated a certain someone’s 11th Birthday yesterday, and I thought I’d share with you a few of the simple things we did to decorate for his family party. First, there were the invitations, which I made using a silly photo we took earlier this year: I had a handful of 4×6 photo prints made, […]
Read More: Birthday decorTouch-up Tuesday-ish
I know it’s Wednesday, but I was up to my eyeballs in these yesterday, and I’m still not done. I got 3/4 of them off to the post office first thing this morning, and the rest are tricky little suckers that I will deal with after I hang out here a bit. Ok, so for […]
Read More: Touch-up Tuesday-ishTouch-up Tuesday: Fun with faux Polaroids
I just got these really fun magnetic picture frames from Photojojo last week. They are shaped like Polaroid pictures and feature a write-on/wipe-off surface – dry erase marker also included. Fun, right? My family loves scribbling their two-cents onto anything that will sit still long enough, so I knew they’d like these. I found a […]
Read More: Touch-up Tuesday: Fun with faux PolaroidsTexture layers in Paint Shop Pro
As I mentioned yesterday, we’re in the middle of an ice storm here. Schools are closed, and there’s a layer of the slippery stuff over everything in sight. We’ve had so many snow days in just a single month, that the kids will be in school until July at this rate. So, winter is not […]
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