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Project 64

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This week Project 64is looking for red violet. This was the most difficult one for me so far. I just couldn’t seem to find anything that wasn’t just exactly right for magenta which we had a couple of weeks ago.
I went to a lovely town near to us with my friend today. I was clutching my little piece of card on which I had scribbled with the red violet crayon, the colour is so different on paper to the crayon. We had lots of fun looking for red violet in all the charity shops and the pretty little shops that sell all the things you never knew you needed and there they were calling to you! By the end of our afternoon we left a few bemused shop owners wondering what on earth a photography challenge about a colour could possibly be about! No I didn’t buy anything red violet in colour although I did buy something purple!

Project 365

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Week 16

At work there is the most wonderful clematis growing over a pretty arbor, the flowers are just beginning to bloom this week.
I love the Bohm necklace that Paul bought me, and it has such pretty earrings to go with it!
I was looking for something to photograph for part of Scavenger Hunt and saw this snail asleep on my bin, It was perfect for ‘what’s in side?’ I thought. I had lots of fun trying to capture the shot I wanted!
The weather has been glorious again this week. It has been warm enough to sit out later into the evening. We also had our first BBQ one night. Is this our summer?
I saw these lovely magenta Dicentra or Bleeding Hearts on my travels and linked them to Project 64 with so many Magenta finds this week. The roses were part of a fabulous Easter Bouquet from my boys.

My layout is based on a template from Maria and week 15 is the same but reversed.

Texture Tuesday

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I am linking to Kim Klassen’s Textures Tuesday again this week. Kim challenged us to add texture to a cup or mug. I had fun playing tea parties with some pretty little cups I have. Do you remember having tea parties with your dolls? or bears? or brothers if you could get them to sit long enough?
Shall I be mother?

This has one layer of Golden and two layers of Robins egg textures all set at Soft Light blending mode and brushed lightly with a soft round brush to reveal the teapot & cups.

This has it’s base layer set to screen. Three layers of Plaster 2 are set to 50% opacity and all three layers are brushed with a soft round brush to reveal the cup and flower.

This has its base layer set at screen blending mode and two layers of Plaster 2 set at soft light blending mode and brushed lightly with a a soft round brush.

This has it’s base layer set to Screen blending mode. Layer one is Sweat Treat set to normal blending mode and the opacity set to 50%. Layer two and three are Golden set to soft light blending mode. All three layers are lightly brushed with a soft round brush to reveal the cup and flower.

This has its base layer set at soft light blend mode. Layer one is Sugar cookie and brushed lightly with a soft round brush. Layer two is Grey day at soft light blending mode and brushed lightly with a soft round brush.

This has it’s base layer set at soft light blending mode. Layer one is Dusty rose at soft light blending mode. Layer two is Dusty rose set at blending mode multiply and the opacity is at 41%. I used a soft round brush to reveal the cup and flower on the second layer.

This has its base layer at soft light blending mode. Three layers of Lifesgood all brushed quite heavily with a soft round brush to reveal the cup and flower.


This has it’s base layer at soft light, layer one is Robin’s egg at soft light, layer two is Robins egg at normal blending mode with the opacity at 51%. Layer three is Robins egg at soft light, layer four is Sweat treat at soft light and layer five is sweat treat at blending mode multiply. I lightly brushed all layers except the last which is quite heavily brushed to reveal the original pattern on the cup.

All my textures are by the wonderful Kim Klassen. There will be many more beautiful cups of texture over at her cafe…

There is a little story attached to the last cup and saucer, but I’ll hang on to it for a few days.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

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I am linking up with Scavenger Hunt Sunday again. It is such a fun challenge, but this week seemed a little more difficult for me. I had to go to my library for one of the pictures. All my pictures are SOOC, the most I have done is a little cropping.

1. Architecture
2. Rimmed with Light
3. Toes or Feet
4. This is My Favorite
5. Shade (s)

Architecture

This is my library picture.
Hampton Court Palace is truly beautiful. As you look up and up you see so many of these beautiful chimneys. The Tudor’s built chimneys because coal rather than wood, was being used as fuel so you needed a chimney to take the smoke away from the rooms. The chimney stacks were often clustered in groups, and the individual chimney columns were curved or twisted, and decorated with patterns of different-coloured bricks. Why build boring straight stacks, brick was so expensive, lets show our wealth and build splendid chimney stacks!

Rimmed with light.

I have had difficulty with this part of the challenge this week, but at the farm today I saw this.

Toes or Feet

These ‘feet’ belongs to Daisy, a four year old Saddleback pig who lives at a very lovely working farm in Somerset. I think she looks as though she is wearing heels, what do you think?

This is my favourite…Gin

Bombay Blue, perfect with tonic, ice and a slice.

Shade(s)

I love how Triggers eyelashes are shading his eye from me.

This was a great challenge for me. Today we went to a working farm especially to help me complete it. We had a wonderful afternoon in the sun. I think we saw one gate with a no entry sign, the rest of the place was there for you to wander around. The animals were all friendly, well, except for one grumpy horse and there were plenty of places to wash your hands after touching them. I have some fabulous photos to share another day.