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Project 365

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Week 10

5th Oxford Helen & Douglas house
6th Lenten Rose in flower at the hospice
7th My favourite work day, singing about the weather this week. It was the most beautiful spring day today.
8th Eva
9th Felt necklace from Karen
10th This weeks colour is plum
11th A longed for day off

This was a very sad and difficult week for all of us.
On Saturday we went to visit Alec and the family at the hospice in Oxford, a wonderful but painful visit for everyone.
The little boy lost his battle with cancer on Tuesday morning, which was also the 7th anniversary of Mums passing. Ben went over to stay with his cousins; Paul went to work in the city, that left me & Pepsi, home alone.
Playing with textures in photoshop takes me away from everything. The picture for 8th was a tiny vase and flowers that sat on top of the cake I made for Mum’s 70th birthday in 1997. I put a lovely texture over it. My friend Karen gave me the felt necklace for my birthday. The new handbag is the colour of a plum! Friday we are all home together x

Thank you Alexa, I based the LO on one of your Dec Days templates which I can’t now find on your blog…sorry

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Week 9

The weekend on the island with the family resulted in lots of lovely photo’s for me to play with.
I am hoping to have taken some that will become textures. I signed up for another class with Kim Klassen, I love her texture projects.
We spent Saturday at Freshwater and along the coast watching the waves and looking for dinosaur casts and Sunday recovering from the great night out on Saturday evening. We drove home on Sunday in the worst weather we had ever driven in! It was hard to get up for work on Monday but my singing group called to me.
I have decided to follow along with Project 64; A weekly photographic prompt about colour; this week is White and Words to shoot by; a monthly prompt about words. This time the word is sweet.
I want to incorporate them into this project.
We had another viewing this week, which is always stressful but memories of a wonderful family weekend kept me going. Tulips are Paul’s favourite flower.

Thank you Alexa, the LO is based on one of your Dec Days templates. I can’t find the direct link to them on your blog sorry!

Dinosaur Casts

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Compton Bay is one of the best fossil beaches on the Isle of Wight

…Long ago…
Approximately 3000 miles south east of the island there was a drying river bed. Dinosaurs walked along the river bed leaving their foot prints.
Over time the huge footprints began to fill up with debris, which turns solid and is formed into stone.
Meanwhile, the whole area is gradually spiraling clockwise and northward. The area moves up and down as the earths crust is settling.
Over a period of approx 10 million years the river bed is now along the south of the Isle of Wight, completely covered with earth and clay.
As the cliffs along the Jurassic coastline erode, the solid Dinosaur casts are exposed.

I took these photos at Compton Bay over the weekend 24th February 2011.

Ooops, I forgot to illustrate the size of them! take my word for it they were huge!
The last one has lost his toe!
Thank you G&V for taking us there x

Learning Photoshop

And then I thought I would try a digital page Lo by Katie Pertiet.

My first attempt at one of these. I learnt loads!

Project 365

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I am feeling so much better this week and ready to play with Photoshop, my current obsession. Over the weekend I played with textures taking lessons from Kim Klassen, I really love the pink Gerbra with it’s texture and text. Back to work on Monday to rain, all day. Tuesday I got drenched again and yet again on Wednesday but I danced all afternoon at the Tea Dance which lifted my spirits. Thursday I worked from home in the dry and also had my nails done ready for the weekend. Friday Alan & I went to meet up with some of our family on the Isle of Wight; unfortunately my Paul was too poorly to come with us. Of course I missed him but the brothers, sisters-in-law and I had a wonderful weekend laughing, eating, laughing and drinking.
Did I mention laughing and drinking?
Thank you G&V

March 2011

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At last February is over. On the one hand I don’t like to wish the days away but I really struggle with the beginning of the year. March to me says spring, even though it is raining yet again. The crocus and the daffodils are brightening up the verges as I drive around the area for work. I have seen so many tiny blue Iris this year and this morning I saw a cherry in full blossom. I was in a traffic queue so couldn’t take a photo for you.
Bright yellow forsythia and emerging buds on my philadelphus are real harbingers of spring for me. I am noticing so many catkins on my journeys, are there more of them this year or am I more observant?
It won’t be many weeks until the clocks alter and then I feel as though I have “made it through the winter”

Learning Photoshop

I have been having some fun with textures thanks to a Kim Klassen class