Why - no.2?

Why, why? What did the poor pizza ever do to deserve this? I have no idea, but it must just have been the wrong pizza, in the wrong kitchen at the wrong time.

Why - no.1?





Why did I lend him the camera and show him sports mode? 175 photos in an afternoon!!!! He sat in the back of the car and documented our trip to Dundee and back home. The joys of digital. And you know, I think the boy has an eye for reportage photographs.

Recent journal pages

While man goes sailing.........
a sensible woman enjoys home baking in the clubhouse and wanders about with her camera in one hand and a coffee mug in the other, looking for a few interesting things to snap. What a great tree.



It's slippery on the rocks, glad I didn't fall in!




Poor wee abandoned boat......and look, I made the grass purple! Why? Because I could........

I'm window shopping for a new camera. That's almost as much fun as actually buying it.

Oh the possbilities

GPP Crusade - I finally completed one after long gap!!


I seem to have unintetnionally taken a bit of a blog break. Work was just too demanding on my poor little brain cells, and on the fading strength of my right arm. Both needed resting, so I had to cut back on the surfing and the arting. Plus, I'm still looking for the ejector seat button for the teenage girl on the big pc, which houses all my images.

I enjoyed the april GPP challenge, which was to add text, and I was trying to make it an integral part of the piece. In the first one I was inspired by an add which had a model's face as the canvas for graffitti.

This second journal page was inspired by a Suzi Blu video in which she was painting something inspired in turn by a book, which I think was In the Night Garden and had to do with a person who had an entire book written under their eyes. This technique allows you to write over lines of text and make shapes, thus obliterating the distinct text from being read. Pretty sure I didn't write anything profund or revelatory under my eyes!

I love car boot sales!

May marks the start of the car boot sale season in my area. I love them to bits. Yes, I'm a thrifty blogger - there should be a button for that! Last year, I hardly got to go to any, so I was raring to go. The first one was fun and yielded lots of things off my list. Yes, I make a boot sale list. I find it helps to focus me, and stops me buying too much of stuff that I really don't have use for. The best bit, apart from the Yu-gi-oh cards for D S which kept him happy and quiet, was the big brown Victorian charger. It was the last purchase of the day, found while idly glancing at a stall while the others chose home baking. It had a ton of stuff on top of it, but there it was in perfect condition. Now it it one of my fruit dishes on the dresser, and looking good with the oranges. I always prefer to use stuff like this rather than put it in the cupboard. The blue plates are going to be my pudding dishes. Can you imagine eating apple crumble and custard from these on a cold winter night? I can! These came from the most amazing place a couple of miles away. It started as a sideline to the farm and has taken over. There is a huge barn piled high with furniture, and not for the faint hearted. The words health and safety have never been heard in this establishment. Tons of stuff lie on the ground, in old shopping trollies etc in the open air, getting wet and green with mould. These beautiful blue and white plates were lurking in shopping basket on the ground, an interesting shade of green. I pretty much fell in love with them at first sight. The guy said he bought them at a big country house sale, once the home of a famous Victorian prime minister. Perhaps Gladstone ate his pudding off them? Or maybe it was just a story. But they were made in Kirkcaldy and are early Victorian, so I'm happy with them. The colour makes me smile.

And so does this colour................................