This weeks Shades of Autumn over at Project Alicia is Red.
Here is my collage using my new favourite template from Alexa
It is such a beautiful day here today, blue skies, white clouds, sun shining, birds singing and it’s November! Apparently our night time temperatures are warmer than our day time temperatures should be at this time of year.
I have winter jasmine, pink cherry blossom, and forsythia out in the garden. Our world is changing.
Hope you are having a good day wherever you are.
Big Picture Class ran their Big Idea Festival, Words to Live By for twelve days during August. Every day there was a word, and a challenge to make a project page or LO about.
I have day Seven and Eight to share with you.
Day Seven was Cherish
This is my family Oh so long ago. The photo was taken in Southern Ireland on one of our many visits there as children. The little girl is me of course with my mother and her mother, and four of ‘the boys’.
Day Eight was Live
This is my photo of Sand bay with Kim Klassen’s textures on.
I put this post together in September and scheduled it for today, 28th October. I have just realised it would have been my mothers birthday today, how spooky is that.
As each year goes by and my life changes this way and that I miss my mother more and more. The pain is less of course, it has been seven years since she passed away but the missing is more.
From our day in the city of Dublin, Molly Malone, aka the Tart with the Cart. Back home, I have been trying to take a few pictures around where I live. My local Sainsbury’s petrol station, the new re-cycling bin at the pub! and some artwork by the bus station for this week. Some fabulous black cherries which I can’t seem to stop eating. A beehive for Rinda’s project Summer Scavenger Hunt and the sky over Weston on 1st August.
I’ve been playing, want to see?
The top picture is a photo of a bowl of brussell sprouts. The middle picture is a photo of snow covered branches and the bottom one is a photo of a red decoration on a Christmas tree. I took them into photoshop, duplicated the layer and ran an abstract twirl action on them and then fiddled about with the settings until I lost another hour or two! Oh my goodness me, I see Christmas cards!
Lime is a picture of a tierd basket of lemons, oranges and limes. Carnival is a night picture from the Bridgewater Carnival. And Chrys is a bowl of red and yellow Chrysanths. Take them into photoshop, duplicate the layer, go to filter, choose distort, choose wave and fiddle about with the settings until your heart is content, or you have lost another hour or two!
I had such fun, I love the results. I used some less than perfect pictures to start with, you know, the ones you never get around to deleting? And then I realised that actually the better the pictures the better the results of playing. Be warned, twirling and whirling is addictive! I have so many lovely colours and patterns I might just have to put them into collage on another post…
What is your current obsession, in the crafting world of course!
Inspired by Amy Scrapping the Every Day
Journalling reads
From 1 to 21 in the blink of an eye
Where has the time gone?
It seems like only yesterday you helped your daddy put the swing together.
It was the evening before your birthday. We had hoped to get the swing up ready for the following morning but you saw the box and that was the end of a quiet evening before the big day. You helped to open the box, unpack the bits hold the tools tighten a few screws and before I knew it you were high in the sky, I was terrified you would fall but you just laughed, more daddy! more daddy!
Now look at you, in your leathers, you have wanted a motorbike for as long as we can remember. You put yourself through the test and saved your wages to buy your blue Suzuki.
I am still terrified you will fall but it is your dream fulfilled and I am happy for you.