Still Beautiful

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Thursday is ‘bin day’ in our house, It’s my morning greeting every Thursday.
“Have you nothing else pressing today?” They laugh.
“We know it’s bin day, every week if it’s Thursday then it must be bin day”.
But they never remember. Ever!

Just for once I would like all the bins to be collected, sorted and put out before 11pm at night when I am tired.
Well today they did remember, in part!

The recycling bins were at the front of the house well before it was dark but the inside bins were all still sitting quietly, patiently waiting to be emptied at 11pm this evening!
I do hope you weren’t passing my house a little before midnight to see me tripping the light fantastic across the front lawn in my slippers clutching the inside bins.

I managed to capture these before they went into the green bag though…still beautiful

I am linking my tulip to Lisa Gordon’s Creative Exchange this week…

Butterflies

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PaperTurtle

Some butterflies for Deb at Paper Turtle.
This post really caught my imagination, I have three here and seven more on their way to me.
I was so touched by this one, it is from my son, no it’s not made but he saw it and thought of me and this project that he knows I am doing.


My friend gave me a pad of pretty paper, some with butterflies on (yes to go towards the project), I stitched the beads on while watching a programme on the iPlayer over the weekend.


And this started life as an experiment in iris folding from a colouring pattern I got from Google images for butterflies. Instead of colouring in the blocks on the picture, I folded papers, I was so pleased with how it was shaping up that I continued folding and stitching ’til it looked like this.

Deb said, Remember: It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just needs to be there.

Twelve on the Twelfth on the Fourteenth

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….and a Collage of some January skies

I wanted to post 12 pictures on the 12th of February and as luck would have it I was away from home and took 12 to put into a collage. Had I been at home I am sure I wouldn’t have twelve pictures to put together!
I also wanted to make a collage of some pictures for January to link over here but my collage maker has been playing up for a number of days, in fact it is still not letting me put a colour on the background of the collage this evening, but hey, I like grey, grey is nice.

This is my 12 for the 12th

We stayed at an arts & crafts centre on the Isle of Wight called Seahorses and they were represented in so many art forms all over the house and grounds.
Huge fossil on the Craft Barn
Beautiful Mask in the grounds
Fort Redoubt was open today. This was the view from the bridge across to the fort
I placed a mosaic piece on the wonderful mosaic that has been commissioned to raise funds for the Lifeboats
Lunch in the Buddle
Mosaics at Freshwater Bay
Goodbye family, ’til next time
Boats from the boat
We didn’t see any Otters even though we drove very slowly
Just snow on the hills in Wiltshire
Easy tea when we got home, my favourite, Stroganoff.

Just a lovely weekend.

and here are my January Skies

I am linking this to Rebecca at simple as that for her Month in Photo’s challenge

Wishing you all Happy Valentines Day if you celebrate and Happy Tuesday if you don’t. xx

Ten on the Tenth

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Shimelle hosts this challenge on her blog on the 10th of every month. It is very simple to play:
Make a list of ten things
Any ten things
Really, any things
Must be ten of them.
There will be some great 10 on the 10th lists here this month.

Mine is inspired by Cathy Zeilske’s class: Ten Tips for better Type

A page in a foodie mag inspired the layout, the background paper is from Fie-fie’s stuff and the postmark date is one of Katie Pertiet’s at Designer Digitals.

Ten Tips for better Type

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I was inspired by Cathy Zielske’s new class, Ten Tips for better Type this week and put some of her tips into practice on this layout of my story from Sunday.
The hardest thing for me was to look again at the classical fonts, I just love handwriting fonts! but I had a play and have made a list of the classical fonts that I (now) like. This is one of them.
It is called Optima, I am going to use it for a while to see how it sits with me

This is the Layout using a couple of Cathy’s tips.

I used a classical font for the text/journalling
I used the same font throughout but in two different sizes
I used just a little of a second font Zapfino in the title
I adjusted the leading (the space between the lines of text)
Oh and I finally made a text box with no trouble at all!
Text boxes have been a mystery to me for ever!

My latest photography mag helped out with the layout.