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A quick "hello" to all my Flickr friends... very busy presently with volunteering, crafting, baking, inviting friends... but no time for photography!
Hoping each of you is doing fine and preparing Christmas with a cheerful spirit...
My most used hoop again with all the other purple things I forgot to put in the first one. I didn't realise I had so much purple!
This hoop flatlay series started with a challenge from Deanne Love on Instagram:
'Grab your fav hoop, put on some cool tunes, then GO! Collect as many things in your house that match your hoop 😊 Make some circle art, take a flatlay pic and share it
It has really taken off on Instagram myfavhoop with many people (including me) doing it with more than one hoop. There are now more than 500 photos created for Deanne's challenge.
A little bit of fun during lockdown.
My word for 2025 was "create". So far I've been continuing my adventures with watercolor as well as learning to do "doodle art" and lately I've been trying my hand at "hand lettering". They are all works in progress and each one has a different feel, but I've really enjoyed trying new things and creating art! This flat lay has samples of each style as well as the tools I use to create them.
Personal Challenge: Photography + Watercolor
296/365
23/31: Having done grey and pink, I thought I'd continue with the 'shades of series'. The magazine is called Picture Show and is dated 9th November 1929. I bought it ages ago with a view to frame it but never got round to it. It could well appear again...some of the inside pages maybe.
“I wanted freedom, open air, and adventure. I found it on the sea.” -Alain Gerbault
This Blythe doll is Simply Guava, wearing Country Summer’s stock dress. The mermaid is a Lalaloopsy doll. For the “Travel” Blythe a Day group on Flickr.
I bought a poinsettia just before Christmas and it's been shedding its leaves since I got it. Can't waste them so they had to appear in a photo. Now, I know it's not the third today but I'd added the printers block as there were three leaves and three hearts...and I just wanted to use it.
Lensbaby Velvet 56
Tulips - not from my garden
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My contribution to Photo Sunday (Fotosöndag) on the theme photo.
It’s also my contribution to Official Dogwood on the theme selective color.
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
—Christopher Marlowe
This Blythe doll is Sea Sailor See. It took some doing to come up with a picture for the theme “Mork and Mindy”, but I finally chose a doll with similar hair (short, brown) to Mork’s and dressed her in a vague approximation of the spacesuit he sometimes wore. The background is a poster.
Odette shared her binoculars with Gidget on the rooftop patio where they were both admiring the view. They have been best friends ever since.
These Blythe dolls are Odette Lake of Tears (left) and Cherry Beach Sunset (right). They are my lightest and darkest skinned Blythes. This picture is for “Juxtaposition” (two things being placed close together with contrasting effect) in Blythe a Day on Flickr. The background is a jigsaw puzzle.
Composite of two flatlay still lifes of different parts of old watches - with textures photographed around Bristol and part of an 18th century letter shot at a historic house in Wales.
My contribution to Photo Sundays theme "Flat Lay" I just love to relax with needlework after a days work.
It's been a while since I shot my gear, so here you go.
Shot with Minolta Rokkor-QF MC 50mm f/3.5 Macro
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” —Diane Von Furstenberg
These Blythe dolls are my Candy Carnival twins, wearing their stock dresses. As you can see, one came out of the box with shorter bangs than the other one did. The background is a jigsaw puzzle. It was rather difficult, but I’m glad I stuck with it and finished it, because it looks great!
123 in 2023
#104 - Topaz
Thank you in advance for your views, comments, and faves. They are much appreciated!
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” —A.A. Milne
This Blythe doll is Lovely Katherine’s Corner, posing with a lovely bouquet from our yard for the theme “Weeds” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr.
"If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment."
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
This lovely flower—I mean Blythe doll—is Juno Estella, posing for the theme “Flower” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr.
Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar
September 29th - Coffee Day
Collective 52 Photo Project "2017"
Week 39 - Shapes or Patterns
Coffee ...
and new from our local bakery
mini Berliner doughnuts with cream pudding,
sweet and delicious ...
and they make a pretty presentation ... :-)
Greet each new day with a smile!
This Blythe doll is Sea Sailor See, posing for the theme “Sheep” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr.
10/30: April 2018 - A month in 30 pictures
I bought these tulips yesterday so they could well be featuring again in the next few days!
I finally managed to take a separate photo for the April challenge, it may not happen too often!
Tulip album: www.flickr.com/photos/28992287@N03/albums/72157665899084647/
More fun and games with paper on the light pad - this time with blue crepe paper, a glass Christmas decoration and the stopper from a fancy glass bottle!
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November 10 is National Vanilla Cupcake Day! So get out and buy some or bake some to celebrate!
More info from nationaldaycalendar.com:
NATIONAL VANILLA CUPCAKE DAY
National Vanilla Cupcake Day is observed annually on November 10. This is a day for dessert lovers across the country to celebrate and indulge.
Cupcakes have also been known to be called:
•Fairy Cakes
•Patty Cakes
•Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes (one-word)
Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when a recipe notation for a cake to be baked in small cups was written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons). The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.
Cupcakes were originally baked in heavy pottery cups. Today, some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, larger teacups, or other small ovenproof pottery-type dishes for baking their cupcakes.
HOW TO OBSERVE
To celebrate National Vanilla Cupcake Day, share some cupcakes with your friends and family and watch an episode of the Food Network reality-based competition show, Cupcake Wars. Enjoy one of the following vanilla cupcake recipes.
Classic Vanilla Cupcakes
Raspberry Filled Vanilla Cupcakes
Sour Cream Cupcakes
Use #VanillaCupcakeDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
Our research was unable to find the creator of National Cupcake Day.
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©Christine A. Evans 11.8.17
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Flat Lay / Knolling by the Calendar
March 12th - Plant a Flower Day
I found these pretty pansies
I had last year growing in the lavender border ...
Here’s my comparison picture of Zoe and Her Pet Fish (left) with Mrs. Retro Mama (right). This is also for the theme “Twenty-five” in the Blythe a Day group on Flickr. Their dresses and shoes are included in the count of “things that are yellow” but their hair is not! I made Zoe’s dress; Mama’s dress is vintage Skipper.