5 really good things on a wednesday...

a new hair cut for me...

please excuse the mess...
and the pasty white skin...
i have been sick.
{who am i kidding..i am always this color}

mail for me of the happiest kind...swap mail!!!
my first cd to come in the top ten cd swap
by 62 cherry...
this one is from justine herself!
i can't wait to pop it in the car stereo on my way to work tomorrow!



and this video in which we try to surprise the kids
with rock band by telling them we have doughnuts
for them in the kitchen but 12 won't believe her
dad the trickster and thinks he just wants to steal
her spot on the couch...

watching this movie which just rocked my socks and
blew my mind and made me giggle like a schoolgirl...

being sweetly surprised by s. cleaning the snow off
my car this morning before he left for work...

now go see liz...she is waiting for your five...

creative check in {tally-up-week-one}

last saturday, i made a commitment to myself
to come to the plate every saturday
and do a little creative check up on myself...
just to see where my time had been going,
just to see where my focus was...

i thought i would start with ideas borrowed from
here and here
so, to start me off
here is my list of
37 things i accomplished in 2007:
  1. renovated my kitchen to pretty green and brown.
  2. added another year of successful happy marriage.
  3. got my driver's license!
  4. changed my job...twice...
  5. became the mother of kid in junior high
  6. got my new camera
  7. survived caring for the brood of children that was nearly my downfall
  8. tried asparagus
  9. revived friendship with best friend M, much beyond emails
  10. made gravy successfully
  11. got a laptop
  12. volunteered for fund raising committee for band parent group.
  13. blogged for another full year.
  14. changed template on blog myself.
  15. learned how to burn my own music cds
  16. put gas in a car
  17. put air in a tire
  18. took kids to the drive in by myself, even with misadventures along the way
  19. attempted skydiving, was not my choice that we couldn't jump (too windy)
  20. planted a garden
  21. read 6 books {only six??? this astounded me}
  22. did the artist's way book
  23. did the simple abundance book
  24. started my photograph a graveyard manifesto
  25. bought cute shoes
  26. learned how to do the basics in simply accounting
  27. planned out text for a website
  28. applied for new jobs
  29. passed 2 tests that i wrote
  30. backed into a ditch and got back out again...BY MYSELF...
  31. knit a pair of socks (pink and white)
  32. made a sock monkey
  33. made my own christmas cards
  34. made plans to open a bed and breakfast {still on backburner}
  35. fell in love with victoria-by-the-sea
  36. took a crochet class
  37. joined the self portrait challenge, after 3 years of blogging...
i have been doodling a lot this past week, right up until i got sick
{which is why this is being posted tuesday and not saturday...}




5 really good things on a wednesday...


found hearts


the gradual disappearance of the killer headache
i woke up with this morning
(and even worse, i dreamed i had a headache all night)


the creativity and imagination of kids


blue sky...finally...blue sky


rock band...
my kids loved it...
and twelve rocks at paranoid by garbage...
{in her mom's opinion anyhow}

now...go see the inspiration for 5 really good things
she's a really good thing all on her own.

straight into the sun...

there was recently a post
and a superhero challenge on
shutter sisters
by andrea of superhero designs
{creator of necklaces i totally covet,
but that is beside the point}

the challenge is to shoot your pictures
into the sun, rather than the usual way...
i believe that the challenge was aimed more
at having people in the photo
and also to actually try for flare
rather than to try to avoid.

i was obsessed with this,
but not with people...
{unfortunately, it is much too cold here
to subject anyone, namely my kids, to an
outdoor photo shoot}
but liked the photos that i got...
i liked them alot.
i love shutter sisters,
i love the encouragement to try something new.
it is interesting to see what kinds of interpretations
come from challenges and suggestions...