It's All About The Journey

Wall paper, Homework and So Much More

It seems like a very long time since I last posted any thing on my blog. I do not have a card to share with you tonight but I do have some pictures to show you. They are from my photo assignment for this week. I thought I would also share one of the many pictures of Wayne taking the wall paper down from our room. It took him 3 days to do it. Tonight as I write this he is beginning to paint the room. Yay! So maybe by Friday we will be able to sleep in our room again.

Here is a picture of Wayne that I took last night. I used my little point and shoot to take it. He was more then 3/4 away from removing the  wall paper.  I did what I could to help him but he kept telling me to stop and to leave the room. He was very good about watching how often I would try to help him. I know he appreciated it. So off I would go and make him his lunch or dinner. My work is always the easy part. :)

On Memorial Day Wayne and I went to the Conservation Center in Concord, NH. I used to go there when  I lived in Concord and I wanted to take a walk where I could hear only the birds and see other people walking the trails. It is a beautiful place to go and just take long walks. There is a sandy beach at a section of the Merrimack river that runs through some of the Conservation Center and people go swimming there. Not a lot of people but enough to make you feel like your not completely alone there.  Any way Wayne and I went there so that I could take a few pictures for my class tomorrow night.

Here is one of the landscapes that I took of it. It was a beautiful afternoon. I do believe that it was 80 degrees that day. We saw some teenagers swimming and having fun.

Here is a picture of trees that are all lined up in a row. It is amazing to see them up close and personal.

We came across a  man who was walking his dog. He stopped Wayne and I to tell us that the trees remind him of the Black Forest in Germany. He had a German accent! He went on to tell us that many of his friends who came to visit him would see these trees and also agreed with him about this looking very much like the Black Forest. How cool is that? I have never been to Germany and will not be going there but I thought it was cool that I got to see something that resembles the Black Forest.

After I took lots of pictures at the conservation I asked Wayne to take me to the Capitol State House which is located in downtown Concord.

There is a beautiful gold dome at the very top with an eagle. I could not get it in this shot because I was doing a landscape and in order to get the whole building in I would have had to be at a different angle. I wanted to take my pictures straight on.

Here is a picture of the dome. Yup, I need more photo classes. :) The dome is so much prettier in person.

Here is a picture of the downtown area right across from the State House. Another landscape picture.

I love that clock! So of course I took a picture of that too. :)

Oh my goodness by now your probably sick of seeing my landscapes. Just one more because this one is called a Fun scape. :)

I *love* the way that all of these boxes look together. The idea is fun and so are the colors.

I also took a more serious photo  and it is one of my favorites. It is just a part of the Memorial wall in downtown Concord.

I sure hope that I did not bore any of you with my latest pictures. Aside from being very busy with Wayne being home since last Friday evening, I have been busy taking photo's, uploading them to my computer so that I can size them to 4x6 then when I get all of them sized I have to download them back onto my memory card and then go to Ritz Camera and have them all developed. I had about 30 of them  made into prints today. Now I have to go back into my computer and find each picture and write on each one what the F-stop  is, the shutter speed and the ISO # is. It takes me awhile to do all of this because I think my way of doing all of this is probably the long way. That is just the way I am. If there is a short cut to any thing then I need to be shown it because I will not figure it out on my own.  Ha-ha. I am not able to design cards right now. Having Wayne home and having my house completely a mess is very distratcting to me.Not to mention all of this mess is keeping me very busy. When he goes back to work on Monday I am sure that I will be able to focus more on making some cards. :) Can any of you relate to that?

I will be back when I have something stamp related to share with you. Oh and I will be having a blog give-a way very soon.

I hope that all of you are having a good week so far, Hard to believe that another weekend is just around the corner. Smile. :)

Tyson The Turtle

Although Tyson is a boy turtle I decided to make him into a girl turtle because I wanted to make a card for my daughter. I could have used another stamp and made Jen's card very feminine or elegant but I chose this adorable little turtle to make a light hearted fun card for her. She has been very busy and I know that she could use a "pick me up" card about now. I think this will bring a smile to her face.

  Stamps:

Tyson the Turtle and the sentiment (Kim Hughes collection) are both from  Cornish Heritage Farms. Polka Dots Backgrounder also from CHF.

Card-Stock:

Whisper White from SU. Herbal Garden Medium from Prism Papers. Designer Papers from Daisy Buckets.

Inks:

VersaMagic, Versafine Onyx Black and Copic Markers.

Accessories:

Ribbon purchased fromStamping Memories and Orchid Dew Drops. Larger glass drops are from Michaels.

Tools:

 Marvy Uchida Mega and Giga circle punches also purchased at Stamping Memories.

As you can see it is a very easy card to make. I had lots of fun making this card. Working with this little turtle put a smile on my face and  and made me happy. I love feeling that way when I stamp.

Not a lot happening my way. Wayne will be taking down wall paper and then painting our bedroom this week. I still have not picked out the paint color yet. Yikes! I had better get on that fast. :) I only have 3 more weeks left to my photography class. This week our assignment is to take landscape pictures and then photograph just parts of the landscapes that we take.  I may go out tomorrow and take some pictures because it is suppose to be a lovely day. With the exception of one day this week I have walked every single day.  I have had to really push myself out the door a few days due to being tired or the weather being a bit chilly, windy or raining. That's New England for you. :)  

I hope that all of you are having some fun this Memorial Day weekend. Try to kick back, relax and Smile. :)  

A Shady Daisy Hello

 

Today I made a quick and simple card. One of my new goals is to use most if not all of my stamps that I purchased within the last 9 months. The stamp that I used to make this card was purchased about 6 weeks ago. I loved this stamp the moment I saw it and knew that I had to have it. The possibilities are endless with this backgrounder. It would be a wonderful image to use on an altered journal, in a scrapbook, making designer papers or home decoration projects. I, however used the simple way of way of using it today. :) I made a card.

Stamps:

Shady Daisy Backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms. The sentiment is from Silhouette Blooms (Kim Hughes Collection)  also from Cornish Heritage Farms.

Ink:

Brilliance Coffee Bean from Tsukneo.

Card-Stock:

Natural White from Ellen Huttson  and Desert Coral Dark from Prism Papers and purchased from CHF.

Accessories:

White pearls from K&Company.

Tools:

Small Marvy Uchida scallop oval punch and a stipple brush.

Techniques:

DP and stippling.

I did not have off white pearls to use so I put some of the Coffee Bean ink all over them. Not too much color in this card.  :)

Those of you who have Typepad are you happy with the new editor that we have to use? I'm not. I can not make my smiley faces red or any other color with out making the entire sentence red. Also I no longer have the wide range of colors to use like I did. Yuck! this is just a temporary thing.

We have been having showers each day this week. It is a little colder then I would like it to be but we are suppose to have warmer days coming this weekend. Do you have plans for Memorial day? Wayne will be taking the wall paper down in our bedroom and when he is finished he will be painting it. I will make sure that I get lots of food for BBQ's because he is taking the week off from work next week. Hard to believe that the grilling season is here but I'm grateful for it. I do not eat meat but roasted Veggies and fruits are good on the grill. If any of you have a good recipe for the grill to share I would love to see it.

Tomorrow is my photography class. I did not do my assignment this week in part because of the weather. I'm looking forward to going though because we will be learning about metering. Sounds good to me. :)  I hope that all of you have been enjoying your week so far. Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my card.  Smile. :)