Photo challenge word of the day

While I was babysitting my youngest granddaughter yesterday, she kept grabbing onto my hand and holding it.  It's that stage she's at and she loves to touch everything.  So I took this picture.  I love the contrast between her small little hand and my big hand.  Her's is soft and flawless and mine is aged and wrinkled.  I can still feel her little warm grip as she held on. 

I'm very happy with my word challenge HANDS.

Passion, the word of the day

Once again, I could not find a good picture for the word WORD.  I saw many great photo opportunities but the dang traffic was a problem again.  I think I'm going to go spray paint a word on the side of a building and take a picture.  Well, not really, but tempted.

As I thought about this dilemma, I looked up on the wall at a poster I made a few weeks ago, and thought, "Passion!", that's it!  If anyone knows me well they know I'm passionate about Northern Michigan, it's where I love to be and where I want to live.  I took all of those pictures last summer and just recently made this collage to get me through the winter.  I hung it right above my computer so I can gaze up at it and remember and day dream.  So I snapped a picture of my pictures and here it is.  My passion!  Or at least, one of my passions.  Enlarge this picture and let the day dreaming begin.

What can you do with the word Corner

Ok, so I said that I would work on the word, WORD today, but that didn't happen.  I spent several hours at school today and when I left the traffic was crazy.  I repeat, CRAZY.  Why is it when the sun shines people drive like maniacs?? 

Because I wanted to get off of the road and safely home, I took a short cut through an industrial park to avoid a traffic back up.  There I saw my opportunity to snap a picture of a corner.  Nothing impressive, nothing creative, but I got that word out of the way. 

I don't have a phone with a camera (can we say third world technology) so I have to take my camera with me.  I'm getting in a habit of doing that.  Tomorrow my plan to is take a drive down Hines Park and find something that glistens..At least that's the plan.

Polymer Clay Mosaic Covered Bird House

Here's  the beginning of a polymer clay bird house that I'm covering.  This is very time consuming.   I had to make all of these little tiles with clay and they are hard to line up perfectly but it's getting there.  I need to cover the front and the back and then grout it and shine it and then, if anyone is interested, I will do a tutorial.  So, leave a comment if you'd like to see a tutorial.  If no one comments,,then I know!

Today's photo challenge word is foundation

When I saw the word "foundation" I immediately thought of this hynm..

The church's one Foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is his new creation by water and the Word:
From heav'n he came and sought her to be his holy bride;
With his own blood he bought her, and for her life he died.

I like this church because it looks like it's been here for a long time, standing strong on it's physical foundation.

I love that word, foundation.  It's what faith is built on, a good marriage, good morals, and good education.  A foundation used to tuck a woman's stomach in and foundation on a woman's face can make her look younger.

Tomorrow I'm going to go out and look for the word, WORD.  That should be interesting.

Exciting News!

My newest book, "You're Naughty, Purple Monkey" is on Amazon.  Here's the link on Amazon...LINK

What's it about?  It's a story about friendship and how we treat our friends, all with the subtle use of YOUR and YOU'RE.  It also has all of the days of the week.  Repetition helps a child learn the difference between your and you're.  The illustrations are done in collage.  I made all of the papers and did the illustrations myself, along with writing the story.  Eric Carle is my inspiration.  As you can see, when I'm not doing clay, I'm busy with other creative outlets.  

Thanks for reading my blog and see you again tomorrow.

 

Photo Challenge day 7

I love taking pictures.  When I go on vacation, I can easily take 700 pictures.  Then months later I look at each picture and savor those memories, relive  the sunsets and sandy beaches and quiet woods.  The invention of digital cameras and the ability to save pictures on a flash drive came along at the best time of my life.  It would have been nicer if it was around when my kids were born cause buying film and getting it developed was usually not in the budget, so a lot of picture moments were lost.  

So I'm grateful that I can fill my flash drives up with thousands of pictures and capture as many memories as I can.

That's why I did this photo challenge.  Cause I love taking pictures.  So if you live in my neighborhood and saw a car driving around taking pictures of the snow and sky the other night, that was just me.  

The photo challenge word of the day is branches. 

I love the way the snowflakes look like planets in the sky.

This photo makes me want to make a cup of hot chocolate and sit by a winter campfire.

Thanks for stopping by!

Photo Challenge Day 6

 Yellow.  It's a primary color.  It evokes images of warmth, lemons and Doris Day!  Yellow was Vincent Van Gogh's favorite color and the name of a song by Coldplay.  I chose yellow today because I bought a bunch of silk flowers to use a props for my clay photographs and, although I would have liked to use real flowers, this was what I had.   I added a few filters and some sparkles for fun!


 

Here I've used them in as a prop.  You'll be seeing more of those in the future.

Hope my yellow picture makes you feel warm on this cold, wintery Sunday.

Last minute reflection

I just spent the last four hours at my daughter's house visiting with her and my three grand daughters and I took about 122 pictures.  I was inspired by the word YOUNG for the challenge today.  But once I got in the car I started thinking that I might not want to post a picture of my little granddaughters on this blog, so while I drove home, I pulled into Walgreen and took this shot.  My word of the day is now REFECTION.

 This was certainly last minute and not what I had in mind for reflection but it works.

Short and sweet tonight!  See you tomorrow. 

Day 4 is all about being SPOILED

This is Emma.  She is my son's dog and some nights she visits me in my room.  Now, I don't let her lie next to me, she has to sleep at the foot of the bed. But for this photo challenge I slipped a pillow under her head and snapped away.  She barely moved.  Spoiled dogs have handmade afghan blankets and a pillow while they sleep!

As for my clay, I'm trying some ideas out for my etsy store photos.  It's a beginning.  I need to work on lighting and sharpness.  But, not bad for a beginning.  What do you think?