Adrienne’s word for this week is Twist
Six Word Fridays
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Creative Photography Lab 7
Marsha at Cool Quilting has joined Prairie Jill and I working our way through this book each week through the year.
This weeks assignment: 100 Shots. The trick is to learn the habit of shooting a lot and to overcome the inhibition of wasting shots.
I don’t have any problems with this!
I took these last week with the assignment for Lab 6. I made the most of a beautiful dry day, never knowing when we might get another one! I took more than the required 100 and put 50 in a collage for you.
On Tuesday this week we had another beautiful day! My friend & I went for a walk to see the snowdrops. It was a spontaneous outing, the field was ankle deep in muddy puddles and in unsuitable footwear we picked our way around the trees. I did manage a few pictures, though not a hundred.
I am looking forward to see how Jill & Marsha got on.
Next week: In a spin Hmmmmm…..
Zizo Eight
Week Eight
Linking with Helena for Zoom In Zoom Out
Zooming in and out at the farm shop again.
Thank you Helena
Simply A Moment
Simply A Moment. February 2014
It is the 17th February at 17:23
It is my birthday. Unfortunately I am no longer 17 or even 23 but Hey Ho.
I am taking a moment, thanks to Alexa at Trimming the Sails who gives us a platform to record a moment in time that might otherwise go un noticed.
I have not long returned from having lunch with my friend Mary.
We went to a beautiful restaurant about 15 minutes from home.
I have lived here 14 years and have not been there before. Actually I didn’t know it was there. I love that, you know, when you discover something new, something lovely and right along the road.
Mary had asked me to bring something of my art work, something I have made or some of my photographs so that she could see what it is I do. I brought along some of the post cards that I have painted and some that I have had printed from my photographs.
We had a lovely time looking through the photographs, she was impressed that I knew where I had taken them all and she liked the textures I use and the ones where I have blended two pictures together. She saw images in my abstract painted cards and gave them all names! She held some of them up against the dark wall and said how beautiful they would look, larger, on a wall. Oh! I love this woman! Mary is great company, we laugh a lot, we love good food, love going out to lunch and now she knows something of ‘what I do’, that feels so good.
I have had birthday cards from lots of friends and family but to get cards from 3 brothers, an e-mail from one and a text from the other…and all on the right day…I am overjoyed, someone is looking down on me today.
A smile crosses my lips as I remember a lovely Valentines and birthday weekend, organised by Paul. A real treat for me as it is usually up to me to organise anything and everything in this house! I feel so blessed but a little bit sad that he is away now until Friday.
Ben is in from work tonight, not too late I hope, we will have dinner together. I have a beautiful beef in red wine with porcini mushroom casserole slowly cooking in the oven for us, the aroma is wafting up the stairs as I type.
We might even have a glass of wine.
Cheers!
Thank you to my blog friend Alexa for Simply a Moment
And Thank you Mary for lunch and being my friend x
Birthday Give Away
Continuing with my Less is More thinking this year, I cleared out (well partially) my PHD box and came across a little pile of Projects Not Even Started!
I wondered if anyone would like any of these kits? I have no idea where the cross stitch packets came from. The rest came from the Mollie Makes Magazines. I believe all the instructions are on the MM website. All are still sealed EXCEPT the little coin purse. It does contain the items listed on the packet.
Help me celebrate my birthday today by taking these off my hands?
Leave me a comment saying which one you would like. E-mail me your address & I’ll send it out to you. I don’t mind posting overseas.
