day 15...

i know, i'm a week late (due to the snowstorm last wednesday), and by the time i remembered i had my camera in my purse, carine had already left to go back to work, but we finally got together to celebrate ruth's birthday today. so here are ruth and julie after lunch for my photo today! :)

day 14...

i see that ruth and i were on the same wavelength again today! i took this shot practically as soon as i got up and at 'em this morning, because the backyard looked so pretty with that fresh coat of snow.

day 12 and 13...

busy, busy weekend so i didn't even have time to post my photos!

nathalie had sunday's challenge and it was for a 'lot of something the same' and that worked very well for me since we had our annual cookie bake yesterday and made oodles of yummy cookies.



i had the first challenge on saturday and i figured that since we are always behind the camera, it would be fun to see us for a change and warned ruth that a camera could not be in front of her face for this shot, ;)! elki wanted very much to pose with me, could anyone refuse her!!! ;)



take a look at nathalie's photos here and ruth's here!

day 11...

friday, the last day of the this week and tomorrow and sunday we have challenges! i needed some green and red in my collection, since i have a lot of creams, so this is my newest painting that is one of elki's christmas presents btw, so shhhhhhhhhh!



i had trouble finding just the right stuff to use for tinkerbell's gossimer wings and thought of using some glitter dust which i used on my xmas cards, but it was messy and just kept coming off so i ended up using stickles which i think turned out fine.

day 10...

since i was up at 6 a.m. this morning because reg was hacking away, he has a doozie of a cold, and i was just hot and wide awake, i got up and figured since it was still dark, i would try and take my photo of the day. i saw this on 'write, click, scrapbook' and thought i would try it. it's not perfect, but since i am a completely automatic kinda photo taker, this was a challenge and it kinda worked!

day 9...

what a miserable day, a doozie first of the season snowstorm, freezing cold, mammogram (not cancelled), luncheon date cancelled, grrrr... and babysitting the girls cancelled as well! i snapped these birds having a feast in the storm and figured it would be a good shot to show how miserable it is out there!

day 8...

unlike ruth's snatch a nut and fly away bird, mine decided to take the sun this afternoon on the gallery under the bird feeder where he had just gobbled up all the seeds that the other birds had pushed out.

day 7...

since i did not venture out of the house today, i took a shot of my little oriental tea pot collection that i have. lisa gave me the little blue one one mother's day and the brown one comes from my sister who bought it in hong kong. the flowered one in the back i bought a few weeks ago at a church bazaar just because i loved it and it has two cups to match, tea for two! :) it looked much better on sunday, when the sun was shining in on it, but this is the best i could do on this dull day!

day 6...

tarts, tarts, and more tarts! i baked 4 dozen tarts today, half lemon (my mother's recipe) and half sugar pie (a friend's delicious recipe) filling, yum! they are now in the freezer, ready for whenever, plus there was enough sugar pie filling for a pie for tonight's dessert, yum!

day 5...

i made a batch of cheese straws today, but they will not last very long, because it is mrs. fortin's recipe and reg gobbles them up, you would think they were chips or something!!! ;) we will have to make several batches next sunday which is our cookie bake to keep everyone satisfied!



if you look carefully you will see that there is a piece missing on one of them and that's reg steeling bits while they were cooling.

day 4...

i put the christmas tree up the other day, but just got the lights on it since that takes me a whole hour. today i trimmed the tree and here is one of my boxes of cloisonée ornaments that i have collected over the years with the sun shining in the basement window onto them.

day 3...

what a crappy rainy day, even though it's quite mild out there! i love to see the reflection of the apple tree in the pool that i see outside my kitchen window, so today that is what i decided to take for my photo-a-day, since for my dec. album, i took my christmas cards assembly line and i'd rather noone see them til they received them! kwim! ;) if you click it bigger (ruth helped me with my problem with that, thanks ruth) you can see that it had started raining when i snapped the shot so it's a bit fuzzy, but that's life right, it's not always perfect)

day 2...

i realized this morning when i was taking my first shot for my album that i had already taken a shot of my front door wreath for last year's photo-a-day and there would be a few others that would be duplicates along the way. so some of my photos will be for the photo-a-day and others will be for both the photo-a-day and the album.

the birds were flitting around this morning while i was eating breakfast and i have moved my feeder up onto the gallery so that i can watch them up close and personal, so i got this shot of these 2 little chickadees feeding and i didn't even crop it.

day 1...december!

if you read ruth's blog you already know that we are doing another photo-a-day for the christmasy month of december and nathalie is joining us, yeah! :)

i am doing an album for december and it will be a 'countdown to christmas'! i thought of it when i was getting the grandkids advent boxes that i made at the end of last year filled for them the other day. the photos i take for this month will actually be going into this album and will be filled with all the fixings for a festive and happy holiday!

now i did not intend to continue the october close-ups, but when i uploaded my shots that i took this morning of the lights that i had just put up, it had started snowing and there was this beautiful snowflake on the light that disappeared in the matter of seconds and hopefully my photo enlarges so you can really see the delicateness of it! (note to oneself: next time, focus in on it and not just the light!)

and the last one!~

here is a super simple layout using my latest a.c. products!

supplies:
cardstock: american crafts
pattern paper, thickers, rub-ons and button: american crafts
pen: sharpie

tfl!

a.c. blog challenge two!

i didn't set out to get 3 layouts done for the a.c. blog challenge this week, but it turned out that way. here is my second unfall like colors but it is a autumn layout just the same.

supplies:

cardstock: bazzill
pattern paper, thickers, rub-on, chipboard and brad: american crafts
bling: dollarama
pen: signo uniball

tfl!

another week, another a.c. blog challenge lo!

this week the a.c. blog challenge is to do a fall layout and i decided to get my photo-a-day for october layout done for it. the title of my layout is 'color challenge' since ruth and i had to take photos the whole month with only the colors yellow, orange, red and green. i would have totally scraplifted mel's tree that she made for that beautiful fall card on the blog, since i bought the stamp set on sunday, but i did not have the different colored embossing powders, so i stamped the tree and used my stickles which i have lots of and pop-dotted it to make the 'l' in color.

supplies:
cardstock: bazzill
pattern paper, thickers, rub-ons, brads and stamp: all american crafts
brads: heidi swapp
stickers: srm
flowers: prima
ink: stampin'up
stickles: ranger
pen: staedtler fineliner

tfl!

not a photo-a-day photo, but...

i took so many photos last month for our photo-a-day color challenge and some days i had a really hard choice to make because i liked so many of them. here is one that i loved, but it just did not fit the color scheme of yellow, orange, red or green!

i took a walk today outside today...

i usually do my walk on the treadmill, but since it was such a gorgous day i decided to go outside and walk and grabbed my camera at the last minute! it's amazing what you see with a camera with you that you might not notice if you were just walking. here are a few of the things i saw along the way. if i did not have my 200 lens on i could have gotten rid of that fence in this first shot, but since i had to back up to focus in on the seeds it's there, but i love the shot anyways!

then there were these berries, red and blue and i saw black ones too, but they were kinda dead and shrivelled up.

and this little baby cone that will grow big and fall off the tree next year.


and then i stopped to take this shot of the reflection of this cement block wall in the creek and look what was sitting there all by himself! i was so excited i told a man who was walking by with his dog and he came over and threw a rock into the creek so that it would fly for me.

i would have kicked myself if i had of gone on this walk without my camera, lesson to me, walk softly with a big camera!!!

october photo-a-day mosaic...

i am missing the last photo just because the mosaic looks better with an even amount of photos!