Foto Story Friday—-#205

Oh this weeks theme:   “New Beginnings” and we want you to think spring, really gave me heartburn!  I’ve been fretting all week about what to shoot.  I knew I didn’t want to take the typical spring photo of flowers.  I wanted it to be unique.

Here we have my mother-in-law’s just emerging peonies.  A new beginning for sure since they cut it way back this past fall.  It’s just too typical of a spring type photo.

I did want to figure out how to work Prom into the challenge…. after all Prom does happen in spring

Sitting around trying to be inspired by this new beginnings, I thought of the cute little guy I provide day care for and his new beginning is using the potty!

Driving over to get my vehicle from my husband’s work, I was struck by another new beginning.  Our little town has been feeling the oil boom and we are seeing some new construction and thus new beginnings for all the future employees of this motel.

This is a new beginning of my latest crochet project.  So which one do I choose?  I went with the prom photo.

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Foto Story Friday # 204– On a shelf

From the Lens Pro To Go Blog:  ”This week’s theme is “On A Shelf“, think of the opportunities! I’m sure if you look around your studio, home or office you can find something really interesting to photograph. Maybe put something on a shelf that doesn’t really belong? Create a shelf out of something unexpected? Get creative with this!”

I knew right away what the subject of this week’s challenge would be, my bottles…. well a few of them.  The trick was the shelf part!

I settled on this one.

These bottles were my Grampa Sam’s. Growing up we had bottles lining our windows that he’d given to my parents. Grampa collected bottles at ghost towns (before it was illegal), dumps, abandoned buildings and fields. He would research each one and if he learned something mark the bottle as you can see two in the photo are written on. When Grampa came to our house he would inspect the bottles, checking to see which ones had colored more in the time between his visits. Old glass colors in the sunlight. Grampa could tell you where he found each bottle. Every window in his home was lined usually three shelves high with his bottles. Grampa passed away when I was 16 and Gramma started urging us grandkids to come pick our favorites. To have the bottles as a physical reminder of my Grampa is amazing. I could feel him helping me pick the right bottles for the project.

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Foto Story Friday #203- My Lucky something

This week’s theme is: “My Lucky Something” in honor of the upcoming St. Patricks Day. Your image doesn’t have to be holiday-related, do you have an object that you always keep with you because it means a lot, something you are superstitious about?

After a lot of thought, I decided on these items: The pearl earrings Troy gave to me the day before we got married, nearly 19 years ago. The claddagh earrings, my sisters got for me on their trip to Ireland. The claddagh necklace my parents got for me on their trip to Ireland (to replace the one my sister got for me.) The emerald pendant I got this past Christmas from Troy, I wear it on the same chain as the claddagh daily.

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hair-tastic

I’ve done a few more cool hair looks on my girls and thought I would share.

This is Savanna sporting the waterfall french braid.  it wasn’t as hard as it first looked.  I found several videos on you tube. I pinned on here.

Lots of little braids all pinned up into pig tails.  I think I made 10 braids in total and then just divided them.

Both sides finished.

Savanna found this cool bow and a how to here.

A view from the top. We watched another video by the same gal. We just just ratted the divided pony tail and fold it under for the bow (instead of curling first). It was pretty easy.

the bow from the side.

Shantel found this really elegant hairstyle and we gave it a go.

From the side.  You can see that it is 2 french braids, the trick is that you only add hair to the outside sections.

Next you join the 2 braids with a big pony tail that you don’t pull all the way through, then you tuck it into the middle of the braids.

add a flower to complete the look or

a bow.  You can go here for complete directions.

Just played with Em’s hair and came up with this. looks pretty cute.

persistence

I keep hoping that if I enter enough contests, I might be that lucky random winner! So here goes again.

Epiphanie bags  and  CanvasPop!
The theme for our first Picture It photo contest is: GREEN. With St. Patty’s Day this month, we couldn’t resist! So grab your cameras and get ready to shoot because this could be your lucky month!

Prizes are:

an in-stock Epiphanie bag of your choice AND a 16×20 photo canvas….. how awesome would that be?!

I entered the Epiphanie Camera Bags Picture It photo contest. http://bit.ly/xN3Pqc

Here’s my “green” submission.  Took my kids to the library and they had the window all decked out for St. Patrick’s day, I figured, I could find more green anywhere!

Keeping my fingers crossed

Foto Story Friday— #202 looking up

This week’s theme was Looking Up. From the LensProToGo blog :  ”Everywhere you go, when looking up it is always different. Or, is someone/something looking up at you?”

When I first saw the theme, I thought of a photo I took several years ago of a horse.

And I was reminded of these shots I took as well.

I really did want to take a new photo for the challenge, so I went outside and gave it a go with my newest “baby”…. Lensbaby, that is.

I went with this one. It is not as stunning as the older shots, but I like his expression.

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