Sunday

Rutland Water

A different edit

Now I'm using an iphone much more, and posting on instagram, flickr and (occasionally) here, it's interesting to see how the the same event looks from different angles, different filters and different cameras.  They're all so, well, different. When I look through camera rolls I'm beginning to think of photos as bloggy, flickry or instagrammy.  I haven't worked out why yet (I have my dubious theories), but it's definitely making me look at my photography more closely, not just the technical side, but the content and audience side of it too.

Anyway, here's the latest version of our time campervanning in Scotland (mainly Mull, but also Rob Roy's Bath tub at the north end of Loch Lomond, and Eskdale, on our way home, where the campsite was visited by an ice-cream van, (his cup surely runneth over that day). Minus the sun. Which, if I'm remembering correctly, was out for most of our holiday.  Darn you, supposed 'ideal photographic conditions'.

Happy snapping! :)

Lately...

• Jessie (my niece) and Nathaniel making pom-poms and watching dinosaurs on you-tube
• Forsythia season
• Looking after Meg (my mum and dad's dog)
• These drawings were in old notebooks that we kept them busy with on long journeys. Top - Isaac/Bottom - Joe. Says it all really :)

Made to Play!

 

I discovered Made by Joel a while ago and loved his approach to playthings - simple, inexpensive, and half the fun was in the making.  I finally ordered his book, and today we made the paper finger puppets. As I was making them I was thinking 'do I really need instructions for this?' but then at the same time, 'have I ever made these before in the many, many years of doing crafty things with kids?' And that's the genius of this book, everything looks do-able, so you sit down and do it.  There are plenty more advanced projects throughout the course of the book but they all have that fresh, inspiring vibe that really makes you want to whip out the scissors and get going.


 

There's a whole lot of green going on

Bottom picture is a cushion pattern from a book by Erika Knight called 'Simple Knitting' that I borrowed on an eye-opening trip to the library (tons and tons of knitting books).  Living the life eh !?

 I also got out 'Men's Knits a new direction' by the same author.  It's got some really well designed, simple pieces that might actually persuade me to take on something big - I'm eyeing up the tank top at present.

Why do I always get into my knitting groove with just a few days of winter left? 

Slowly but surely, magnolia turns white and biege turns black.  I was holding out some hope for an amazing tiled floor under the biege carpet, but twas not to be.

Given that both me and Jon have done enough sanding of floorboards to last a lifetime, paint was the only way to go.  We just had to decide which colour would hide the most dirt - dog colour won out :)  

There's nothing like a very gloomy day to force you to set your camera to manual and pretend it's brighter than it is.  It's actually much more interesting too - though it's no accident that N is at Grandma's.  Maybe 2013 is the year for really learning this photography stuff!  In the meantime, I love a bit of iphonography - my instagram.

• the view from my bedroom window
• a finished bit
• bedtime reading material
• a few treasures
• a very severe passport photo of Jon that was crying out to be defaced
• bedside lamp 
• David Hockney - My Parents 1977 and Wassily Kandinsky - Swinging 1925