6 posts tagged “layers”
So, where to start.
It's only 10:00 a.m. and I have...
half of my laundry done already
vacuuming done
dishes done
living room done
beds stripped
Still need to do...
yard work (that will have to wait now.. too hot!)
counters wiped down
floors mopped
bathrooms cleaned
So basically I am half done with chores yay!
The best and worst of the deal... I now have an extra room of my own to do with as I please. The daughter moved back to Illinois, Arizona was too hard on her. 18, out of school, no friends... She moved back to her hometown. I can't blame her, it's hard to start all over in a new place when you know no one. At her age you need friends, it takes years to learn that you can amuse yourself right? Ok.. we always need friends who am I kidding!
So at first, I thought hey, I can get some stuff out of storage and go through it in there.. then I got it cleaned up and saw this little sign I had made for my last work out room and decided hell with storage space, I need my work out room back! So that will be my last chore of the day. Moving all my work out gear in there! One thing that is totally cool out here in AZ is that the weight bench can be left outside! Glad I don't have to bring that in. The nights and dawn are perfect for working out too, nice and cool.
Fall is almost here, I am looking forward to a nice warm (not hot) season. I have intermittent bouts of missing New England, but we have plans to drive up to the Flagstaff/Sedona area soon. That should be enough to remind me of how green the world is :)
I am also slowly getting back into editing mode. I have been scrounging around in my older albums and looking at alot of photos in a whole new light! It is such a good idea to never delete old photos, beauty that may not be here today, might show up tomorrow!
Hope everyones summer was great and not too wet!
So yeah, I am bouncing from feeling on top of the world, to being totally pissed off. I hate going to bed pissed off, it ruins the whole next day doesn't it? It doesn't help any that I have also done nothing to end the argument that started yesterday. I have this issue with being the one to give in. I am a bit of a control freak.
So enough about what is going on in my head today. All in all health wise I am still feeling awesome, the toes amazingly are not hurting like I expected! SO yay beauty won out ;)
I also created a flickr group if anyone is interested in joining. I mailed out a few friend invites but if your interested the link is Humpday Photography
So to break in the new group I had to edit some pics I took today, yeah, I have gotten almost no work done around the house today, first I talked with Raymond for quite awhile on my yahoo pingbox then I just didn't feel like doing anything. I needed a day off, every one does now and then, especially when they are in such a pissy mood right? ;) So thank you Raymond for giving me a reason to slow down and chill out. I feel better for it!
So, I had some fun this morning... can you guess what this is btw?
I layered these with some textures to give them a vintage feel. I really like how they turned out :)
And last but not least is a pic I edited from our day at Cape Cod. I just have not had time to edit all the pics I took that day yet!
The Lies of the Mother
Becoming what we wanted to be
Only to become what we never wanted
Lies covered in sugar
Protecting their young
Beautiful wings of a graceful bird
Becoming the dark encompassing wings of a raven
Changing light to shadow
Putting fear into the hearts of loved ones
Having the power to change
But taking that choice away
The lies a Mother preaches
Haunting us through the ages.
Ok, so now it really does feel like spring. We had one heck of a doozy storm come through last night. I was in the other part of the house when I heard what I thought was an explosion. I had bleach on my head which meant I had to stay in that part of the house or have everyone bitch about the odor, so I sent a text to the hubby "Did you hear that explosion?" His reply.. yes I dont know what that was. No sooner had he replied then the heavens opened up and thunder and lightning just started all sorts of cracking. The rain came down so hard that we had a flood watch and then within moments it had turned to hail. And of course no warning of the hail so my car was not in the garage ugh. Thankfully no damage though!
So while it is raining and I turn into a slug during those times I decided to try to brighten up my day by doing some editing and came up with the following..
The first is from my visit last year to Berkshire Botanical Gardens <3. I am still editing those pics, I absolutely love that place!
The second image is in my studio/craftroom, I needed some color the other day and picked up some flowers to photograph.
Enjoy, I am off to try to get motivated more!
For the past few months I just have really not had a whole lot of interest in photographing anything around here. Odd as that sounds. I really REALLY hope that this move re-awakens my love of photography. I really can't wait to begin photographing the Arizona sunsets that I have gazed at in awe on WPG s blog.
One thing I have been messing around with those is photo manipulation and lots of photoshopping. I decided to give in to the urge that I have had lately to do something fantasy and came up with this...
Did you find the fairy that I hid in this image? :D
I am thinking that once I am done with these photography courses I am going to sign up for some photoshop courses. I have learned so very very much on my own. But for every little bit I have learned. there are probably tons of things that I have no inkling on how to do! As well as ways to do what I do with less actions.
*psss the fairy is hiding along the upper waters edge on the right hand side.*
I felt like editing an older pic after browsing on flickr and finding the most amazing picture, it seriously just took my breath away with how beautiful it is. It became my inspiration tonight and I ended up with this.
The original inspiration came from Skeletal Mess
Thankfully I have finally left the worst of this flu behind. I got around to editing some pics tonight, I had some fun with these ones. Had alot of input from the son on what he wanted for the pics as well. These are for his myspace and facebook accounts, he wanted to make sure that they were not something his friends could poke fun at... I hope they are impressed ;)... I could use more models!!
