Texture Tuesday - The May 8th Edition

When I titled this post, I stopped and thought is it already May 8th?...hard to believe we are in the second week of May.  My granddaughter is home from her first year of college, bringing up her grades nicely for her second semester.  She realized there was studying involved in college...ta da!!

Today is Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday which is always fun...she skipped last week, so I am sure many are biting at the bit waiting to display their pretties using 2 of Kim's textures this week.  That was the challenge, use two and use two I did.

I decided to post the original to show you what a little manipulation and Kim's lovely textures can do to your photos...

First the original.....pretty pink vase (IKEA) filled with a couple of branches from my Weigelia Bush sitting on a stool in my living room.

Same image but after lightening up, removing the blue tones, brushing out the background, adding my fav effect, Velvet Truffle, then adding Kim's Dusty Rose at soft light 61% and Let Go at linear burn, 42% here is the result....ahhh the beauty of Photoshop.

Since I began this post, I needed to carry out the garbage to the curb, today is garbage day and I had lots to get rid of due to my cleaning out.  As I was pulling out the large garbage bin, 2 hardwood boards decided it was time to fall and fall they did right on top of my foot.  YOUCH!!! Talk about hurt, and by the time I got out to the curb with the bin the top of my foot had swollen to the size of a baseball.  I managed to get back in the house with the help of my neighbor, plop myself down, elevated my foot, icing it with a plastic bag of ice and downing 3 Advils.  Now how stupid, this was definitely not in my plans for the week.  I was due to go to a fancy luncheon today, NOT.   It is feeling a bit better after icing and the swelling has subsided a little...we will see how the day goes.  Guess I will catch up on some of my reading.  Boy, life is always full of surprises.

Linking up with Kim at Texture Tuesday.... Stop on by to see all the lovelies.

"It may be little, it may be big, but surprises happen when you least expect it.  Take what life gives you....delight in it and enjoy it."  ~  Lucille Haake


Until next time.....

Monday Musings

Why do some of the little things in life become bothersome and when remedied you realize that little things do mean alot ?  I was so delighted when the clothing manufacturers decided to stop putting their itchy, scratchy annoying tags on the backs of clothing, especially t-shirts and knit tops.   And what took them so long to realize how much happier it makes the entire population of clothes wearers?  Oh and I forgot about bras...those tags, yuk and now they are gone, gone, gone....send up a mighty cheer.

I began to think about this tag situation this morning getting dressed.  I put on a favorite top, but being a favorite and old it still has the tag attached to the back neckline.  I know I could have cut that out a long time ago, but sometimes when cutting something that you have to be really careful not to cut....I do, ie: cutting tags off of scarves, oops ruined a few of those.  I empathize with those who are walking down the street thinking they are totally put together except that ##@!! tag is seen sticking straight up in the back.  Eventho I have never met this person in my life, I offer to stick it back in, telling her "only your best friends will tell you.." instantly becoming her BFF.  So my hats off, or I should say my tags off to you, Mr Clothes Manufacturer...thank you

Whew....got another job crossed off my to-do list.  I spent the morning in the soon to be pretty blue bedroom again, sorting through all of my Mother's papers....old medical bills, charge account bills, Medicare stuff, bank info, investment stuff.  I discovered more things about my Mom while doing this simple task...she loved to buy greeting cards, birthday, anniversary, get well, thank-you whatever the occasion she was prepared, prepared but never sent.  I now have boxes full of unsent greeting cards waiting to be sent to someone, somewhere.  Mom also had an affinity with eyebrow tweezers.  I must have found at least 10 different pairs.  Wow, it is times like these I wish she were here so I could ask, what's up with the tweezers??  I wonder what my children will find after I am gone that will surprise them?  It was difficult for me to start this project, everytime I began, tears would begin to roll and the thought of clearing out all of her stuff stopped me dead in my tracks.  But somewhere between the tears and the need to turn this room back into what it was meant to be, a bedroom, I gained the strength and courage to make it happen and had a few laughs along the way.

Here are a few snips of the pretty blue bedroom....and yes, it still has wallpaper, and no I am not removing it...!!

And to end this....a funny quote from Phyllis Diller...

"I'm eighteen years behind on my ironing.  There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know"  ~  Phyllis Diller

Until next time......

Scavenger Hunt Sunday ~ The May 5, 2012 Edition

Where oh where do the days go by, oh where oh where can they be??  I am stumped this week.  Starting this post, I have one of the prompts....I am gonna to have to do some quick thinking...

Since I am babysitting my grand-dog today, the romping, playing, running, jumping has barely stopped between Mac and Toby.  They are just beginning to tire (yeah!!!) but I did manage a shot or two before they collapsed....

These are the challenges for Ashley's Scavenger Hunt Sunday

• Smile
• Shadow
• Keys
• Fish
• SOOC

SMILE - OK, we are smiling, so take the damn shot already.  (I know that doesn't look like smiles, but they were really having fun, honest)

SHADOW - I am really stretching here....

KEYS - Really boring

FISH - I know you can't see a fish, but trust me this seagull dove into the water and came up with a fish...

SOOC - another shot of the kids playing, check the tongues

Not my finest work, but it was all I could come up with....
Hope your week is filled with all smiles....

Until next time......