Author Archives: Miriam Rogers

About Miriam Rogers

Hi, I have been married to Paul for what seems like forever & that's the way I want it to stay. We have a son, now 21 and a Greyhound who is bonkers. I play with paper and glue, I love flowers! and anything that I can hang from anywhere with ribbon. If you need me I can be found in the garden with my camera or in my craft room, come in through the gate, I'll make you a coffee or if it's after 6 you can join me in a glass or wine, or e-mail me. Housework is low on my 'to do' list.

Snap!

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My first submission for Helena’s brilliant new meme: Snap!

I am getting on well with the lovely Winter Scavenger Hunt set by Joy and Eileen and was wondering about the Robin for Item 1. I am sure it is a robin of the real, with feathers, sitting in the garden kind but I’ve been unlucky catching him so far. Then I saw a post on Helena’s blog and immediately thought Oh! Snap! completely forgetting about a robin for myself!

My set for week one is Christmas cards

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but you have to make a visit here to see the other part of the set! I’m sure its not in the rules, but hey, when did I ever follow ‘the rules’ 😉

I was wondering if anyone else has one of these cards? We could make a big set?

I can’t wait to see what other Snaps! people have found and linked here at Helena’s

Me in January

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Hello January! I’m so pleased to see you at last. Although I had a wonderful Christmas and New Year I’ve been wanting the feeling of a new start, fresh beginning, starting over.

Japanese people run around a lot to welcome a new year with a clean state of mind. Therefore, osoji (big cleaning) is to be done and finished by December 31st (omisoka) to remove clutter and dirt from the old year and to purify the home for the coming year. Behind this is that years are considered completely separate with each new year providing a fresh start. I rather like that idea, (well apart from the running as I’ve hurt my knee) particularly after some of the events of 2015.

I feel well and happy and ready to start over.
It would be nice if the rain stopped for a day or two, please? by way of a fresh start?

January can be a gloomy month but we had some lovely news over the Christmas holiday which will carry me happily through. I even made a Pinterest board with some ideas for gifts. Oh! did I forget to say?
My son Ben proposed to Lotta his girlfriend of 6 years, on Christmas day by a lake in Levi Lapland!

How do you think we felt when the text came through?
She said yes! it read.
Both families are thrilled, what a lovely start to 2016

I have a few creative things on the go for January. A couple of photography memes on the blog and on Instagram. A blog plan, not too adventurous at the moment. I had a gorgeous gift of a Painting Class with Alisa Burke and Paul gave me The Painting Workbook by Alena Hennessy. Apparently I was heard to whine that I hadn’t seen my paints for ages!
Ben gave me a longed for olloclip for my phone. It has four lenses, wide angle, fisheye and 2 macro lenses and it just clips onto the top of the phone. Its fabulous, I’m sure to have some fun with it.

Fish eye of my pepper pig
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Pepper in the pig 15x macro

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Salt crystals in the salt pig 15x macro
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I’m waving to you all this first Monday in January which is of course Sians lovely idea.

I started this yesterday while the rain hammered on my window. This morning it is NOT raining!!! Hooray and Thank You

Happy New Year

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I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you A Very Happy New Year!
My Intention for 2016 is to blog more!

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Thank you for the beautiful, thoughtful and creative Christmas cards that came fluttering through my letter box. I was so touched that you posted some love to me. x

Last Pair in 2015

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I saw this pair in Greenwich a few weeks ago. I wanted to save it for the last week as a measure of how well we have all done over the last 12 months of Helenas wonderful meme Pairs.

Measure and Measure

Measuring Time

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Measuring Distance

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Thank you so much for hosting Pairs during 2015 Helena

Pairs Week 51

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We had a really great weekend based in Greenwich Village in London last weekend, resulting in, (among lots of pictures for various memes) 3 sets of Pairs to finish up the year.

Infront of me

The glass dome of the entrance to the foot tunnel under the river

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The dome reflected in the wet pavement

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Yes, it rained or was windy or drizzly the whole weekend but it made for some great weather induced abstracts.

Thank you Helena