Currents

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17th March 2011 Currents

I want to start my Currents list again which I found here
I am going to make a book, a mini book. I have gathered together my birthday cards from last month. This time I am going to keep the whole card. On one side I will write my ‘Currents’ and on the other side something about the person that sent me the card and anything else I can think of to say.
I will bind them together with my Bind it all, or on large rings, whatever I can find. There will be ribbon and brads, papers and flowers, completely embellished as all good mini books should be!
So, a kind of a diary then?
Well yes I suppose it is!
With lists in?
Yes
So a book of lists!
Well yes. I can’t help it! (my name is Miriam and I make lists).
The thing is I had such lovely birthday cards, I just can’t throw them away and I have withdrawal symptoms from paper and glue and someone just gave me a bunch of ribbons!
No, not blue!

listening: to the blackbird in my garden, it is 6.50pm, dark and he is still calling.

eating: Nothing, waiting for dinner. Beef and roasted red pepper stir fry tonight.

drinking: a lovely chilled glass of Pinot Grigio…my favourite

wearing: black skirt white top, black short sleeved loose knit wrap, Huge, brightly coloured beads. Work stuff!

feeling: up beat, I have had a good working day and got loads done.

weather: This week: We have had some beautiful spring sunshine, a very welcome change from cold and rain!

wanting: dinner, now that I have thought about it!

thinking: how good it feels to be posting again

enjoying: starting this again,

wondering: What tomorrow will bring? Family time will be good, but a family funeral, not so good.

I want to extend this for my new book.
so,
the month so far, what do we think?

at home: It’s been a tough month so far and still two weeks to
go; too many things to upset and worry me this month.

at work: Just snowed under with it! I had a nice day out on Tuesday with a colleague though. We went to Taunton in the sunshine and met some lovely people. It was kind of uplifting.

been anywhere nice this month? We went to Westonbirt Arboretum last weekend, had a great day: I can’t wait to return in May to see the bluebells and the Acers, which will be in leaf.
I drove back from my work a different way on Thursday and saw swans being fed by Sue, (a new friend). The pair of swans have been calling here for the last 20 years. Every year they bring their babies to visit. I missed them of course but Sue will let me know when they visit next year.

Plans? Just to get to the end of this month.

favourite photo:

The Swan

And this to show you why they keep returning.

Does anyone know the song by Christy Moore, Two Island Swans? I have been singing it all afternoon!
Do you know that when this happens to you it is called ‘an earworm’
lol

Around the world in 60 minutes

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I saw this on the i player last night. It was fabulous.
‘David Morrissey narrates a unique journey around the weird and wonderful planet that we call home. What would you see during just one orbit of the Earth?’
It was a look at how our planet benefits from space travel.
The interview with Piers Sellars Mission Specialist was so interesting, his excitement at travelling in the shuttle was infectious, he gave little bits of info you never hear in other space programmes.
The pictures of our world from the space station, just wonderful.
The work the men & women on the space station and the fun they have.
The programme took us around the world stopping at various locations and telling us how the satellites in space have informed us about what is happening to our world, and with the knowledge gained how we can work towards saving our planet. The deforrestation of the rain forrest, beautiful Hawaii acting as a catch all for our abandoned plastics, the shrinking of Iceland, the northern and southern lights from space. the erosion lakes, the sky over China,

…to be able to look down and understand how things are interconnected
we’re starting to understand how we can influence the natural world and each other…

Cloudy moon taken October 2010

oooh, Im off to watch it all over again. Want to join me?

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

Project 365

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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!