Enjoying a sense of peace one stitch at a time
This week’s theme is “Shadows“, and here I’ve taken a photo of one of my wrought iron candlestick holders … I was struggling to find something on hand when Mum looked up and saw the shadows on the lounge room wall from the sun pouring in from inbetween the clouds … I just managed to capture the shot in time before the sun disappeared from view again.
This week’s theme is “Fake” – and my choice is a photo of my Fake sunflowers sitting in their beautiful blue vase … they’re looking a bit worse for wear after being packed and unpacked a few times now – perhaps by the time I move to another permanent home they’ll need to finally be replaced. Their lovely bright faces always put a smile on my own face when I see them, though – I adore the blue and yellow together! 😀
This week’s theme is “Sweet” – this forced me to wander down to the Acland Street bakeries with camera in hand … a good reason to be leaving Elwood, is to be outside walking distance of these delicacies – I was amazed to get a decent shot of the window displays, as there are always loads of people in the street drooling over the contents (and yes, I’m usually one of them! – although it’s pretty rare for me to actually buy any) 😉
This week’s theme is “Shiny” … I couldn’t come up with much this week, so I’m using a photo I used for the theme of Silver – here are spools of shiny Kreinik metallic threads.
Then I thought I’d share a piccie of my heap of cr*p car that I detest with a passion – here it’s looking very shiny, as the photo was taken before I moved to Elwood, and before it was parked beneath a tree housing a nocturnal poo-ing possum … I’ll be sharing a photo in September of what it normally looks like after a few weeks of being ‘possumed’ …
This one was even tougher than last week’s theme – “Shoes” just don’t ‘do it’ for me, as I have difficulty finding shoes that fit my broad feet … I have a heap of ideas in my head for taking new shots, but this shot is just going to have to do … this is the main shopping haul from our trip to Hong Kong last year – I was stunned to find shoes that actually fit me feet, so I went a bit crazy!! 🙂
I struggled with this week’s theme of “Art” – I just don’t have time to go out and take anything new, so here’s a photo of “art” on the banks of the Yarra here in Melbourne that I took last year.
I also pushed the envelope a bit by tweaking a photo of the Sydney Opera House using my Photoshop Elements software … it makes it look more like a piece of “art” by turning it into a watercolour/line drawing.
This week’s theme is “Colourful” – I’ve taken a photo of my wooden tulips in a bright turquoise vase. I fell in love with the bright colours of these tulips on a visit to Brisbane years ago, and now they’re residing back in their mother country here in Melbourne. One of my absolute favourite colour combinations is bright red and yellow roses in a vase together – just stunning! I was originally going to use this shot for the upcoming theme of “fake”, but I thought it was very appropriate for the theme of “colourful” as it’s so vibrant and bursting with colour! If you check out the bigger piccie, just ignore the film of dust sitting on the tulips – they’re been sitting on top of my bookcase, and I always forget to dust them! 😀
This week’s theme is “Cooked/Cooking” … after I went through two months of not being able to buy fresh veges before Christmas last year, this was my first meal where I had the money to go shopping, and I overloaded on veges … I was so thrilled I took a photo of it! This was Malaysian-style stir-fry … yummo!!
I’ve missed the last few weeks, so it’s catch-up time. I created this post yesterday, and I’m also loading up the next month’s worth in one hit and forward dating the posts so I don’t miss the next few … just one more thing ticked off my ‘non-essential’ to-do list and creating space in my head …
First, from 28 April the theme was “Rare” – I have two choices for this theme … firstly the rare sight of the Queen Elizabeth II berthed in Auckland Harbour three years ago, and secondly the rare sight of camels roaming the local marketplace here in Melbourne (at least I think it’s pretty rare to have camels roaming in a major city marketplace).
Next, from 5 May the theme was “Childhood” – I’ve chosen a shot of friends in Fiji (Grandma and her two grandkids). I had a few other choices, but I can’t be bothered scanning them right now.
Lastly, this week’s theme is “Five” – this was from a Rocky Horror Show night out in my youth with four friends, making it a great party of Five … I was driving (and very sober, as opposed to some – we’d had a cocktail party beforehand), and had to get out at a petrol pump to pump gas in that get-up, as well as chatting to a traffic cop on the way home at a motorway breathaliser checkpoint … I have some fun memories from that night. You can see how old the photo is … those are LP’s on the floor … remember those?
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