Turning Photos into Outlines

I've been experimenting lately with Photoshop and seeing what I can do with my photos. As it's coming up to Mothers' Day I thought I'd have a go at some simple flower outlines. Here's one of them:




I've put four different flower images on one sheet, which look good. I'll list them on Folksy shortly. Probably a little too late for Mothers' Day, but never mind!

Also just tried outlining some animals.

I thought about turning these into colouring pages for children, but I don't think they're simple enough. I might have a go with my glass painted photos and see what they turn out like.

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Valentine's Heart Swap

I recently took part in another Folksy swap, organised by Lisa of NoodleBubble. This time we were swapping hearts! I made this for Jacky of Jacksknits:

It's made from Fimo - pink underneath with slices of a white and translucent cane on top. And received this from Amy Macpherson of Macpherson's Miscellany:

How lucky to receive three gorgeous items - a brooch, a card and a bracelet! Thanks Amy! And thanks Lisa for organising another great swap.

Sunshine Award!

I was delighted to receive the Sunshine Award from Zoe of JewelBox. Thanks Zoe!



The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blog world. The rules for accepting the Sunshine Award:



Put the logo on your blog or within your post.

Pass the award on to 12 bloggers.

Link the nominees within your post.



So here are my nominees:

http://maddimakes.blogspot.com/
http://kerliandanimals.blogspot.com/
http://theothermousie.blogspot.com/

More soon. Gosh, I don't even have time to send the award to 12 fellow bloggers!!! This isn't good.

Christals Creations

Way back in June I received a blog award from Fiona at Christals Creations. I never got around to sending the award on, but have been meaning to feature Fiona's Folksy shop for ages as a thank you, so here we are!

Fiona makes and sells gorgeous jewellery and tiaras. She's experimented with silver, beads and crystals and many beautiful pieces can be bought on Folksy.

Here are a few of my favourites...

First is this lovely butterfly bracelet. I love yellow and butterflies!




These earrings are made from swarovski crystals. I love the shape of them as well as the name - 'Pink Passion'!

And lastly are these copper and green earrings, made from twisted wire and seed beads. I love the colours and the twisty bit!

Make sure you go and have a look at Fiona's shop at the rest of her creations!

To Do Lists

I love making to do lists and I love notebooks, so I thought I'd write my latest list in one of my newest notebooks. I made these recently, which feature three of my lakes photos:


I was really pleased they sold quite quickly. I've made myself a set and thought I'd use this one for my things to do. This book has a photo of Lake Patricia in Canada, one of my favourite places.

And here's my little list...

On the first page are things to list on Folksy and on my website, then the other pages are for all sorts of things from marketing, blog posts, admin stuff and then general life things.

Now I've just got to find time to do everything! I do find that I'm one who thinks about doing things and writes it all down, but has trouble getting round to doing anything. Which is silly really as it's very satisfying to cross something off your to do list!

My children's notebooks are one thing I want to get made. Here's the materials:

I really should go and put it all together now...

Socks

OK, not necessarily the most interesting of posts, but I need your help! Mr W and I both have a lot of socks. Here are some of them...

Generally, we're pretty boring when it comes to sock colour and we just wear black with the odd grey thrown in, although I now have some patterned ones. However, with Mr W's, we just can't seem to find matching pairs once they've been washed. You'd think all black socks would match with other black socks, but no, they don't.

If anyone has a solution, please share it! All I can think of is to buy Mr W patterned socks too.

Baby Blanket Giveaway on Sew Scrumptious' Blog

I've entered a wonderful giveaway on Sew Scrumptious' blog. She's giving away a lovely snug fleece baby blanket to the first name pulled out of the hat...

http://sewscrumptious.blogspot.com/2010/01/feeling-lucky.html

Would be perfect for Baby White II, or even Baby White I in this cold weather.

Which reminds me of an e-mail I received yesterday with some rather chilly snow pics. I''m not sure how to upload them here, but if you'd like to see some proper snow, then just drop me an e-mail. These pics are pretty amazing!