Random Facts

1) We started planning this holiday in January.
2) I think the pink nail polish I am currently wearing is too girly girly for me.
3) I'm 30 in 3 months.
4) I hope the memory card space for 2,500  photographs is enough for our next holiday.
5) I ordered some stuff from where I work (first time in 3 years of being there) and it wasn't marked as a staff order, so was posted to us (should have arrived today) and it hasn't arrived yet.
6) Looking forward to some warm crafting on cold days.
7) I'm trying to contain my excitement about our holiday so that I can enjoy it fully.
8) My favorite color is pink.
9) I'm going to Disney World (for the fifth time - twice to paris, third to orlando)
10) I'm going to WALT DISNEY WORLD.

August In Review

 Punk duck in the garden.

 Mom getting ready for her tattoo.

 My tattoo.

 Love this boy.

Exploring and adventuring.

Playing Around

 I was playing around with a camera or two during the week.

 I blipped the non-edited (lightened and cropped) shot of this Trellis photograph.

Just a few minutes wondering around in the garden.

Lake District Layouts

 I've finished these layouts from the Lake District.  I still have a mini album to finish and I have some more layouts I want to create.

 The top photograph in "Waterfalls" is the current winner of the crocked  angle.  But I was planning on using this photograph like this - so it didn't matter to my scrapbooker mind.

 I seem to have grown an affection for sheep photographs. Thin washi tape as my journalling lines, some enamal dots and a light doodled border.

 I LOVE this paper! After climbing a 500 foot mountain, we had lunch and took some photographs and got lost coming back down... (Mom just said it was 550 metres...)

The last day and these two beautiful lake shots. Washi tape, awesome patterned paper and transparent letters.

I so love this creative work.  My favourite place is my craft room.

A Week At The Lake

I spent a week at the Lake District with LPH to learn how to take better photographs and to learn new techniques. I loved this week! Calming and relaxing but still creative and fun. We went out for all five days and had to pick 10 photographs to be looked at each night.  We mixed a family holiday (Mom and Step Dad) in with a creative holiday.

 Some times it seems like it would be difficult to pick just 10 photographs! but it was doable. For the last night we had to pick two of our favourites from these ten. I've picked one from each day to show you.

Monday. At Watendlath Lake (I believe). A low angle.  First time I've used my big DSLR camera since Christmas, so it took a while to get used to the settings again.

Tuesday. A 'free' day to go out by ourselves.  We walked around either Cadger How Wood or Brow's Wood - not really sure.  Spotted a field of sheep when we stopped for lunch.

Wednesday. I think this is at Buttermere.  I've always loved these slow shutter shots of moving water and this is the first time I've been able to get a good shot! (Ususally they are over/under-exposed- I never gave myself enough time to figure out how to do this). Thank you John.

Thursday. Another 'free' day.  We went to Whinlatter National Park and decided to hike up 500m for lunch (Seat How Summit Trail).  Took this photograph on the way down. (I did alter it in Photoshop but I think I need to play with PS more to learn how to do this).

Friday. Our last day to take photographs in the Lake District.  Magically this feather just stopped where it was needed so I could get a photograph of it! This was taken at Loughrigg Tarn.  I'm glad John has blipped some of these and that he knows where we went!

I've also started using BlipFoto. I signed up back in January but only started using it last week. Stop by and leave a comment.

new phone

Since May I haven't been able to use Instagram - not a really big problem but... and since I had to charge my phone every day and had to uninstall lots of annoying things that I couldn't stop being updated, so I decided to upgrade to a new phone.

I've switched from a Samsung X-Cover Rugged (which I do like since its' been dropped loads and has lots of dints in the case) to a Samsung Galaxy S4 (it seems like everyone has this phone!!!! lol)

 Pretty much the first thing I did was play around with the camera!

I think I'm going to like this phone. (Already have a 'camera' case).

Project Life - In Progress

 Mid way through the year, and my first Project Life post for 2014.  I've enjoyed playing around with some new supplies, and using up old supplies too.

For this week I printed out my photographs smaller than I wanted, so I cropped a couple of them smaller and created an arty card for them.  I've already dated all my "week #" cards so I had to go with a yellow theme. 

My pink bathmat matches with the pink patterned paper.  Loved playing with some new alphabet stamps, and adding some more decorations to the Simple Stories papers instead of just slotting them in.

I do my weeks from Monday to Sunday, but do this on the Saturday, so I just have to add some photographs from the Sunday and I can move onto the next week.

Snapshots of Me... in a way.

 It's starting to get HOT! I wore all these shoes this week at work. The newest Skechers Go Walk 2. My first pair of authentic black Converse. The mostly waterproof black/purple Merrells.  I was going to wear the red/grey Tevas but I kept thinking of what happened last time I wore them.

I planning on wearing these blue Skechers Go Walk next week. I took these on the Caribbean cruise last year and they were lovely and cool, so I am hoping I will be comfortable!

I am a little obsessed over shoes. I'm looking for the perfect pair that are 100% comfortable all the time... they have to exist somewhere!