Kitty seems to have found a little drawer of thread. The thread box is resting on my sewing chair. 🐈🐱

A candy dish with assortment of candy, including Hershey kisses and M&M’s pastel candy. 💕🍬

Courduroy,

Fabric Texture,

Looking Close… on Friday,

Macro,

Table Top

#Lookingclose...onFriday! #wordsonglass

For the upcoming looking close on friday theme i selected this tiny small peace of glass. It is a 30 ml Eau de Toilette bottle.

The classically stylish wind fragrance is an ode to elegance in everyday life and to outstanding moments of happiness: as a multi-faceted fragrance composition, s.Oliver For Her captures glittering moments of carefree joie de vivre that remain radiant in our memory. For all style-conscious people who go through life light-footed and buoyant and appreciate the value of the special.

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It was recently my birthday, and a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She gave me these in three beautiful tins, including this octagonal tin covered in Edwardian beauties. The tine may be old and battered, but I think those imperfections add to the tin’s beauty. It tells a story of being well used and well loved.

How apt it is then that a few weeks after I was given this wonderful tin full of ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and fine notions, Maria announced the theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” for October 20th, as “old boxes”, which is derived from my suggestion of “old, antique or vintage”. This theme also includes old tins. I knew immediately which tin I wanted to photograph.

Thank you for making my suggestion into a wonderfully fun theme this week, Maria. I hope you all like my image for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.

The painted blown egg in front was a present given by my brother and sister-in-law. The egg on the left was blown and painted by my daughter many years ago.

For Looking Close...on Friday's theme "eggs in black and white"

Looking Close …. on Friday

Mushrooms

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'FadingBeautyInFlora'

“Bleistiftspitzer“

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Clothing Label for Looking close —-on Friday

In front of the window, that is why you see the little spots, it's not specks on my lens :)

Happy looking close....on Friday!

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Thema:“OWL“….Eule…

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Eine einzelne Blüte.

Auswahlfoto:

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Thema:“A single Flower“ (Eine einzelne Blume)

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The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 27th of May is “blue and green”. This was a wonderful challenge as there were so many possibilities. I contemplated pieces of blue and green porcelain, blue and green glass, blue and green fabric, but in the end I settled on blue and green guilloché enamel. I chose an English guilloché enamel and sterling silver button made in 1911 and a French guilloché enamel and pearl gold stick pin. Guilloché is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name, also called a rose engine lathe. This mechanical technique improved on more time-consuming designs achieved by hand and allowed for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of line, as well as greater speed. Translucent enamel was applied over guilloché metal by Peter Carl Fabergé on the Faberge eggs and other pieces from the 1880s. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.

This peacock blue guilloché enamel and sterling silver button was made in Birmingham by James Fenton and Company in 1911. It is one of six small buttons, two long hatpins and belt buckle, all made of silver with the same peacock blue guilloche enamel, presented in a blue leather presentation box with gilt tooling. James Fenton and Company, was a Birmingham silvermakers between 1854 and 1956. They were well known for their manufacture of silver and gold thimbles and later silver and enamel jewellery.

This French made Art Nouveau (circa 1905) lapel stick pin of flowers and leaves is made of 18 carat rose gold, and features seven seed pearls and six beautiful vibrant green guilloché enamel leaves on rose gold backings in a dainty filigree setting measuring just over a centimetre in diameter. With its curling foliage, it represents the delicate and elegant style of the Belle Epoque. The maker is unknown.

Such big blue eyes you have.

My partner saw this buzzard at the edge of a road in the depths of the night. The buzzard was limping and dragging a wing. My partner parked the car, crossed the road and picked the buzzard up. We phoned The Hawk Trust who advised us to keep it in a cardboard box in a quiet place overnight. The Hawk Trust arranged for us to take it to a veterinarian practice the following day. After a few days, the Trust took it to its own hospital. This is the only photograph I took, with the flash switched off, so as to cause no further distress. I hadn’t been so close to a bird of prey before and its beauty made a huge impression on me. I don’t think this story had a happy ending. The Trust told us that the bird had severe injuries.

My attempt at the "Looking Close… on Friday" theme "Spider and/or Spider Web"

SOOC

Shot with a Tomioka "Copal-E36C 55 mm F 4" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5

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Souvenir Coca Cola bottles…

Front row: 1996 Opening of Centennial Olympic Stadium, in 1997 it became Turner Field, home of the Braves, then later to be a Football Stadium for Georgia State University. 2021 Atlanta Braves World Series Championship bottle. 1995 Atlanta Braves World Series Championship bottle. Celebration bottle for 100th year of Modern Olympics Games.

Back row: Three Norman Rockwell Santa Christmas bottles. Super Bowl XXVIII bottle.

For the Looking-Close-on-Friday theme "Flora in backlight"

Candy shows off her Only Heart Club shoes. ❤️ My hand shows perspective as to how tiny the shoes are! 💖

For over 70 years, Moonbeam alarm clocks have gently roused sleepers, offering a unique blend of nostalgia and innovation. First introduced by Westclox in the 1950s, these beloved clocks have transcended their original purpose, becoming cherished conversation pieces and even honorary family members.

Known as "The Considerate Alarm," the Moonbeam clock wakes users with a softly flashing light that gradually brightens. After four minutes, a bell alarm sounds to ensure even the deepest sleepers are awakened. The continuously lit backlight on the dial provides a comforting glow, doubling as a nightlight.

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Clock Face,

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Tabletop

A rose in my garden for the group ‘Looking Close…On Friday. I’m hoping it’s close enough, green enough and not too early to be submitted.

“After the ball is over,

After the break of morn,

After the dancers' leaving

After the stars are gone;

Many a heart is aching

If you could read them all

Many the hopes that have vanished

After the ball.”

Lyrics from “After the Ball is Over”, a popular 1891 song written by Charles K. Harris.

The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 4th of June is “one single petal”. The day that I saw the theme for this week, it was a bright, sunny autumnal day with big blue skies and glorious warm sunshine. I have a large camellia sasanqua hedge in the rear of my garden consisting of six different varieties which is a mass of blooms at present. I went hunting beneath the hedge for fallen petals and came across this Pink Plantation petal, which sitting in the shade, still had dew drops upon it from the crisp morning, sparkling like diamonds. Glistening in the sunlight like it was, the petal put me in mind of Hans Christian Andersen’s faerie tale of “Little Ida’s Flowers” where Ida’s flowers attend a ball every night, thus explaining why every day they grow more and more drooping and bedraggled. I hope you like my choice of one single petal.

Vigorous and fast growing, Camellia Sasanqua “Plantation Pink” is an upright evergreen shrub with masses of large sweetly scented single to semi-double, soft pink flowers and a wonderful centre of golden yellow stamens. The blooms occur over quite a long period between March and June in the Southern Hemisphere which makes them very popular. They are often used for hedges or to cover walls.

I usually dry rose buds in the summer, which I store in a glass jar and open every now and then during the winter to smell the scent of summer.

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Jag brukar torka rosenknoppar på sommaren som jag förvarar i en glasburk och som jag öppnar då och då under vintern för att känna doften av sommar.

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All the bookmarks that I use are these cards given out by shops, organisations or tradespeople. I have collected these from my most recent reads.

For the Looking-Close-on-Friday theme 'Hearts on black backgrounds'

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This magenta Christmas bauble decorated with white flowers with rainbow pink centres was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.

Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the flowers, the larger of the petals which are 10mm and their centres which are 4mm. The flower centres are raised cups and are imported from France. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.

The theme for “Looking Close… on Friday!” is “reflection on black”.

I thought that this bauble with its colourful magenta colour might look nice against a black background and reflected in a mirror.

These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.

It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.

Looking close... on Friday! theme : Dots and Stripes

For this photoshoot, I decided to use the pegs standing up instead of on a line so that the little hearts are in the correct orientation. Since Autumn is my favorite season, the maple leaves here were a natural complement for this picture.

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When I was twelve, I entered a drawing competition, and I won my first set of Derwent pencils: a tin case of 36. As a designer and illustrator as well as a photographer, over the years I have acquired several different sets of Derwents for different purposes, including my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set of 72 which I use predominantly these days for designing clothes.

The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 9th of April is “pencil points”. What better way to meet the theme (although now I look at them, some are pointier than others) than with my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set? Colours in this photo from bottom left to top right are: Number 25 Dark Violet, Number 33 Light Blue, Number 45 Mineral Green, Number 48 May Green, Number Zink Yellow, Number 11 Spectrum Orange, Number 15 Geranium Lake, Number 22 Magenta, Number 17 Pink Madder Lake, Number 19 Madder Carmine, Number 23 Imperial Purple, Number 29 Ultramarine and Number 32 Spectrum Blue. The pencil point printed ribbon was a Christmas gift from a friend who gave me a whole box of ribbons to be creative with.

Derwent, or the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company, is a manufacturer of pencils and other stationery. The business began in 1832 in Cumberland under the name of Banks, Son & Co. The company was bought by Acco UK and became a brand of their product range.

Flashlight and a heart

Color Wheel,

Looking Close… on Friday,

Miniature Spools,

Needle,

Spools of Thread,

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For the Looking-Close-on-Friday theme "Multicoloured necklace"