The Inspiration Room
It has been very cold in NY. We don’t have much snow, just single digit or below readings on the thermometer. So truly, it really isn’t even pretty out. I’m feeling the need for a reminder that Spring will come again. With that in mind I decided to search the archives of my photos and put together a colorful post. Here are the results of my search….
Well that made me feel better. How about you? Time to start ordering from those seed catalogs that have been arriving daily.
Think Spring!
One of my Christmas gifts from my hubby was a new lens for my Nikon. He bought me a macro lens, AF-S DX Micro Nikkor Lens
Truly, I don’t know what I am doing with this lens yet, but it is very cool. Time to play and learn! Gotta love the “keeper of the bees”! He seems to find gifts that challenge me to keep learning. So if you do know anything about this lens or macro photography I would love to here from you.
Creating Every Day….
I’ve been working in the journal that I made from the old children’s book, I talked about it here.
I added watercolor paper mainly in this journal. So it’s ready for whatever type of mixed media techniques I want to play around with. I do love watercolor paper! I have journals with other types of paper and I like the feel or look of it, but the bleed through that results sometimes I find very frustrating. I have just been adding whatever strikes me at the moment in this journal (as you can tell), no rhyme or reason. The previous owner of the children’s book had glued comic strip pages inside. I left them for character marks. You can see them in the background in the first picture.
I made a spot in the living room for my “auction find” paint table. I love my Inspiration Room in the back of the garage, but I really enjoy being a little closer to the wood fire in the winter. Although my stash is getting bigger and bigger inside. I keep going out and bringing more in. Using two spaces can get tricky. Our living room is pretty cozy this time of year though and January is my hunker down month…ahh enjoying!
It seems I took an unplanned break from blogging. It’s really been on my mind and I’ve been taking pictures. I guess the holiday busyness just got in the way. But I’m back and ready to share a little of what happened over the last month. So here we go…
Not too many inside pictures I realized after, the lighting in our house is a challenge. We live in what was my grandparents 1930ish Sears, Craftsman style house (with an addition to fit a family with 5 kids), which I love, but it is a little on the dark side for picture taking. We still have all the original unpainted woodwork, which I also love, but it is dark. Here, by the way is a link to a book I found on Sears houses, in case anyone is interested. Houses by Mail: A Guide to Houses from Sears, Roebuck and Company
So we’ve had a lot of cold weather. It snows, then turns a little warmer and rains… melts the snow…turns cold again and leaves us with ice! Life in the great northeast!
We went to a couple of Christmas parties. One hosted by my very talented sister and niece. Above is just a sampling of the deliciousness that was there to tempt us.
We also attended a Christmas wedding for the son of some very dear friends, a beautiful evening.
A couple of Christmas pages from my journal. The Beekeeper wrapped all my gifts in coordinating paper, so I glued a piece of each in my journal with a note of what gift was wrapped in each kind. Kinda goofy looking, but a good memory! He is a good gift giver.
These are the Christmas pictures of my grandbabies. Love my three sweeties!
Here are a couple of cookies recipes that I made this year. The raspberry almond shortbreads were a big hit with the Beekeeper. The red velvet crinkle cookies are super easy and just looked Christmasy.
So now that I’ve said all that…let’s move into 2014!
