Can you tell what it is yet?

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Husband has just had his regular Sunday call with his Mum. She was telling him all about the great thing that ‘Auntie Claire’ has got:

It’s flat
It’s about the size of a notepad
It doesn’t have any paper in it
It has glass on the front
It doesn’t have any buttons or switches
It doesn’t have any ink in it
You don’t have to put films in it
You can write on it with you finger (but no ink comes out)
It can show pictures
She doesn’t know where the pictures come from because there are no films in it, but she thinks they might be coming from Manchester!
(Why Manchester!!!???)

Can you tell what it is yet?

I wonder if it might be powered by pixies and magic dust?

…or those magicians at Apple?

Shades of Autumn

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Orange

Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge

I am linking my orange collage to Project Alicia for this weeks orange challenge. I love how orange is so warm at this time of year.

I also have a new recipe to try this weekend which looks kind of orange in the book!

Root vegetable boulangere. I love potatoes done this way so I imagine the winter vegetables with them will be gorgeous.

There are some stunning shades of orange over here this week

Project 365

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Week 31

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.

Learning Photoshop

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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!

Shades of Autumn

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Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge

I am joining in with Project Alicia, Shades of Autumn Photo Challenge. This weeks colour is Yellow. I might even get it linked to Alicia’s blog this week! Ooops, didn’t get that far last week…


I took these pictures this week, but I was looking through my October photo’s and there are so many autumn yellows around, I just couldn’t resist putting them together in another collage!

You will find beautiful Yellow Shades of Autumn over here this week