Fiskars Craft

Fiskarspotting...

I was just having my morning coffee and doing some blog hopping when I came across LOTS of examples of layouts and cards using Fiskars punches.  Pop on over to this gorgeous blog to see them and for some inspiration.

Kim xx

Day 27 - What is your indulgence?

I thought this prompt would be a bit of fun but judging by some of the comments I've had it seems that it wasn't so easy for some people!  I really wanted to see what it was in your life that gave you happiness, 'me time', a touch of luxury or put you in your 'happy place'.  So far I only have 3 photos to share but I'm hoping lots more will arrive in my inbox later today.

Janine's photo:

Indulgence … hmmm this prompt was a bit tricky for today. I worked today and there were very few indulgent orientated photos to be taken at work! After work I picked up Emma, zipped her home to get changed then zoomed her off to basketball – still no indulgent photo opportunities! I knew we were having left-overs for dinner … nothing indulgent there. So…… after basketball Emma & I went past our new house. All the formwork is up for the second storey of our house (wooo hooo) so against all the notifications on the scaffolding, I climbed up the scaffolding and stood where the second storey will be and took some photos!!! This will be the view from our upstairs balcony…aaaawwwww such a lovely serene view. The white roofed house (behind the pine tree to the right) is on the foreshore so that’s how close we are to the beach- yeeeeeeehaaaaa!!! So …. my very little, teeny tiny, miniature, minute, miniscule piece of indulgence today was checking this view!!!

Tracy's photo:

My indulgence is a long soak in a deep, aromatic hot bath while reading a good book.  It has been a few years since I have been able to indulge but I dream of the day when my joints are a bit more bendable and let me jump in our bath or even better, for when we win tattslotto and we get to install our very own spa bath...

and on the very same theme... my photo for the day!  To be honest I am really not a girly girl, the whole day spa thing doesn't appeal to me, I find going to the hairdresser a real chore and massages are not my thing either however I am so glad we put the spa in our ensuite when we built this house.  I never realised just how much I would love it but I try to find the time at least once a week (or two) to fill it up and sit back with lots of bubbles, candles and a good book... this time I even had the glass of wine... mmmm indulgence!  This is my idea of 'me time'...

Kim xx

Day 26... What do you wear?

For day 26 I asked you to have a look at the things that you wear.  I think we can learn quite a bit about ourselves by looking at our dressing style...

Tracy sent through this photo of her wardrobe:

"WOW - 26 days gone already - the month has flown by!  Here is a peek in part of my wardrobe.  I confess that I was surprised to see how much I have turned into my mother, with all the pink-purple tones...  Don’t worry, there are more colours hiding in there!!!"

Next is Janine's photo:

"Clothes… I ♥ clothes, I ♥ shopping for clothes, I ♥ shopping for clothes for my girls!!! I have two very distinct sets of clothes – work clothes and non-work clothes. I am a teacher and presently teach Pre-Primary and mainly wear black trousers, a ‘school’ top and comfortable flat shoes to work – all quite boring. My non-work clothes are the ones I love. Here is a snap of some of my favourite clothes… most of my clothes this winter are denim (I ♥ denim jeans), blacks, greys and whites with a touch of grey-blues, teal greens and reds. I love costume jewellery too. I think I could quite happily go clothes shopping everyday…if my bank balance allowed me too!!!"

Now I most definitely do not share Janine's passion for clothes... I really do not enjoy shopping for myself and it stresses me no end when I have to get ready to go anywhere.  I know when I lose the few extra kilos that are the story of my life my clothes will fit me more comfortably and shopping won't be such a chore as I can fit straight size 12s without being 'in between' sizes.  In the meantime my staple wardrobe item is definitely my jeans.  I wear jeans every day if I can and as you can see I have no shortage of them... in fact jeans and pyjamas would be all I would wear given a choice ☺

Stay tuned for our 'indulgence' photos!

Kim xx

More photos to share...

Hi everyone, I know I am a bit behind with uploading these photos but it seems that some people might be struggling with the busy-ness of their lives and the photos are slowing down... keep it up because we only have a couple more days to go now and there is still one more giveaway to be won!

For day 25 I asked you to show me 'faces':

Lee's photo:

"We have been lucky enough to visit Venice, Italy a few times...such a
magical place...we fell in love with this mask on our first visit....its a
traditional Venetian mask used during Carnivale..."

Janine's:

Faces….This is my beautiful 10 year old Emma all ready to dance for her school at the ‘Performing Arts Festival for Catholic Schools & College’. Not only does her make-up look fantastic, I love the look of sheer happiness and excitement on her face. ♥ After a mad-panic to get to The Convention Centre (I missed the train- aaaagghhhh) I was worried that I wouldn’t get any nice photos however I ended up with a heap of fabulous ones of Emma and her friends and also Sarah and her friends- I could have easily sent through a dozen photos for today’s prompt!!! ♥

Tracy's:

"Here are some of the faces hanging around our house :)"

... and once again my photo is very similar to Janine's ☺ but with my youngest daughter, Taylah.  They danced so well and looked so beautiful that we thought they were 'the best' on the night... even if we are a little biased.

If you still have photos of faces to send through please do... we'd love to see them all!

Kim xx

Photo a Day - Day 27

Your challenge for today involves a little bit of fun for you!  As it is Friday and the end of what (for me anyway) has been a very busy week, I want you take some time for you and while you are at it show us your idea of...

INDULGENCE!

I really want to see what it is that makes you feel special!

Have fun with this and I'll be waiting to see the photos you send through to me!

(if you can't manage to get this done today feel free to take the photo any time over the weekend and e-mail to me as soon as you can).

Day 24 Photos - Fiskars Tools ♥

On day 24 I asked you to share your favourite Fiskars tools with us and once again we got quite a variety of responses.

Lee loves her 12" trimmer and squeeze punches:

Favourite Fiskars Tool "Too many to choose from, but I always go back to these faves"

Tracy has lots of favourites too:

My favourite Fiskars tool.  That is a tough one!!!  I love my Fiskars squeeze punches and my Fiskars border punches but I cannot do any project without my wonderful Fiskars self healing craft mat.  Of course she wouldn’t let me take her photo all by herself, she had to have her best friends XL-circle, L-circle, M-circle and Threading Waters with her :)

Janine loves her Fiskateer scissors:

'My most used Fiskars tool would definitely be my Fiskateer scissors…they live in my second drawer and get used for anything and everything!!!'

Tamara's favourites:

These are my two favourite Fiskars tools, my Desktop Rotary Trimmer and my Microtip Scissors.  I use these every time I craft and they are never far from my fingertips.  This is the best trimmer I’ve come across, it is stable, allows me to cut accurately, can take little strips off cutting straight and the blades stay sharp for ages! I’ve had this one for a little while now and I can’t even begin to count the number of cuts it’s done.  I also have the more portable version of it, but I prefer the larger one.  The other tool that is never far away is my microtip scissors, I love them so much I have 2 pairs!  These scissors are so sharp and cut very cleanly.  I love the fact that they are spring loaded as it reduces the strain on my hands if I’m cutting our detailed designs or doing multiple cuts, I especially like using them on ribbon as they cut so cleanly.

And finally... I had trouble choosing just one tool to include in this photo but when it really came to the crunch I have to admit that I wouldn't ever complete a craft project without using my trusty old 12" trimmer.

I hope you all had fun with this prompt.  I'll be back soon with your photos of 'faces'.

Kim xx

More catching up...

Phew, it has been such a busy few days but finally I've got a chance to try to catch up here.

I have some of Lee's photos that I haven't shared with you yet:

Day 20 - Abstract close-up "Loved this challenge....used my macro setting to get 'up close and personal' to this wonderful lily flower"

Day 21 - What Makes me smile  "My new flower bed just at the front door, makes me realise spring is just
around the corner"

Day 22 - What bugs me  "I LOVE to recyle but the bin is always overflowing, I am sure I make daily
trips to the garbage bins....why are our lives filled with such unnecessary packaging?"

Now I believe I am caught up to the 24th so I will put those photos together in a separate post...

Kim xx

 

Photo a Day - Day 26

Sorry that I am late with this again, it has been a crazy busy few days in our house and I've had no time for anything much computer related... but hopefully I'll catch up today and be good for the rest of the month.

Today's photo theme is to be about

clothing

As always you can interpret this in any way you like so have some fun with this and don't forget to e-mail me the photos along with any that you haven't sent through yet from previous days.

I'll definitely be back to do some catching up later on today.

Kim xx

Day 23 Photos - Home Sweet Home

Monday's photo prompt was to show me something about your home.  It didn't matter what aspect of your home it was but it had to be the home where you currently live.  As always this was a lot of fun and gave us an insight into how these lovely ladies live...

Janine's photo:

'Home Sweet Home …. Adam & I built this house just before we were married, we brought our new born baby girls home to this house, we have hosted many fantastic kid’s birthday parties in the backyard, we have had plenty of family and friends stay and over the years have had many, many wonderful times here…..but we have well and truly outgrown this house so in 6 or so months we will be moving on to our new, much bigger, double story home and we are so looking forward to building many more wonderful memories in our new home but for now this is ~HOME SWEET HOME~ ♥ (hehehe, you can see Emma and her friend Niav jumping on the trampoline in the back yard…and please excuse my brother’s tank parked behind my bins- it is his ‘Perth car’ which sits very ungracefully in my driveway J)'

Maureen's photo:

HOME SWEET HOME - This is the front view of my house from the street. I LOVE where I live and I LOVE my neighbours. I also fell in love with this house when I first saw it and knew it would be my home for a long long time to come.

Tamara's home:

'Lookin’ at my front door!  Yep, that’s the bit of my home you get to see today, it may not be fancy, it may not be the cleanest door (oops, must remember to clean the screen door) but beyond this door lies a world of chaos and disarray…well….sort of,  I think every home has a bit of chaos and disarray at times and ours is no different!  I live in a unit so there’s not much to see of ‘home’, but you’ve seen little bits & pieces of it in the other prompts here.  One day I’ll live a place bigger than an oversized shoebox and I’ll have it decorated just how I see it in my mind, but for the moment, this is home.   My tip for today is to fiddle with your photo software, you don’t have to have Photoshop or anything fancy (most of my editing is still done in a program called Picasa a free program from Google), but figure out what it can do and how it can change your photos (or have a bit of fun!).  I will admit that I used Photoshop Elements to alter my photo today, but there are a lot of free programs or trial programs that you can have a play with to fix, enhance or play with your images (just always make sure you are working on a copy of the original!).'

Here is Kirsty's photo:

'Red Sofa Love - Day 23 of POTD and the theme of the day - Home Sweet Home. I was going to take a photo of the outside but it wasn't the sunniest day and my roses haven't bloomed yet so I thought I would take a photo of my new sofa. Oh how I love thee red sofa. The events that have changed my life over the last 18 months, have changed me in so many ways. I don't think even I could have predicted I would ever own a red sofa but the happiness it brings me when I walk into my lounge room is amazing and thats exactly what i need in my life right now, happiness ♥'

Here is Lee's photo for day 23:

'Home Sweet Home"I love these house numbers that we found just after we renovated, its HomeSweet Home'

Tracy's photo is next:

'This is our “Home Sweet Home” with the bins ready and waiting for the garbage & recycle trucks to come on early Tuesday morning.'

These photos are fantastic ladies!  To finish off for now I'll share with you the living area inside my house.  As we've only been here 7 weeks we still have a lot to do, especially outside so due to a total lack of garden you get to see the inside... I love this space!

I will be back later today to share yesterday's photos - your favourite Fiskars tools!

Kim xx

Photo A Day - Day 25

Wow 25 days down already... we are almost at the end of August and our photo a day challenge.  I hope some or all of you ladies that have been involved in this will keep up your daily photo taking...

For today's challenge your prompt is

FACES:

You can interpret this in any way you like so have fun and e-mail your photos through to me kgeling@iinet.net.au when you have taken them.

Kim xx

More catching up...

I still have a few photos from the Photo a Day challenge that I haven't posted here so I'm back to share what I have up to day 22.  Day 23 will be up later.

To start off I have Kirsty's day 19 photo:

'My Electronic baby - Day 19 of POTD. Todays theme- Your Computer. Now I tossed up whether to take a photo of the 'big' computer but thought well it just didnt seem to be fair to my lappy! You see wherever I am my lappy is not fair behind (if ever!) Its like an appendage of mine, goodness knows what I would ever do without it ♥'

Now on to day 20 and the prompt was to show us an abstract close up...

Kirsty's close up:

'Through the Keyhole - Day 20 POTD's theme- An Abstract Close Up. Hmmmm I thought long and hard over this one, I just wasnt sure what to take a photo of. Then I looked up and saw a plague I had made not long ago using a decorative keyhole I just fell in love with and what do you know POTD complete!'

Janine's photo:

'This is a close up of a gorgeous decorated egg I bought when I was in Singapore last year…I ♥ the colours and texture.'

Maureen got up close and personal with her garden:

'ABSTRACT CLOSE-UP - Well I didn't have any idea of what to do for this one. Every time I put my camera on close-up it refused to focus so this is what I ended up with. But I do love this grevillea flower up close.'

Day 21 was the day I asked you all 'what makes you smile?'

Here is Maureen's photo:

'WHAT MAKES ME SMILE - Well this one was easy - my beautiful boy has to be todays focus. Now yes in this picci he is being a goose and all hot and sweaty, but I just wouldn't have him any other way!!!'

Now I think I am up to date... well up to Monday anyway.  If you notice that I've missed a photo that you have sent through please feel free to let me know... I'd hate to miss anyone!  I'll be back with yesterday and today's photos either later tonight or early tomorrow.

In the meantime don't forget to photograph your favourite Fiskars tools and e-mail the photos through to me.  We are almost there!

Kim xx

Day 22 Photos - What really bugs you?

I thought we would have a bit of fun with our challenge for Sunday.  I asked our ladies what really bugs them!  I was not at all surprised to see the types of photos that arrived in my inbox as a result of this question.

This is what bugs Tracy:

'COBWEBS – I love seeing spiders in the garden but it really bugs me when they sneak inside in the middle of the night and make cobwebs around the ceiling.  I don’t know how or why they come in but it seems the cobwebs are always appearing out of nowhere.  I am happy to say that this photo prompted a mini spring-clean and the cobwebs are all gone now!!!'

I'm sorry Annette but I did have a bit of a LOL moment when I read the story behind your photo:

'Day 22 - something that really bugs me. Yes I know you can relate but what REALLY BUGGED ME was when my dear daughter informed me waaaayy after it happened, that the largest dog of the house had in fact cocked his leg on the side of my washing basket WITH the washing in it......YUK!!!  Normally I wouldn't leave the basket on the ground but I thought because it was so sunny and the washing was drying quickly I would take the next bundle off the line and add it to the first and bring it upstairs all at once. But because the wee had dried so quick and  I was none the wiser to what had happened, I had piled the rest of the dry washing off the line and on the top and got son #1 to carry it upstairs for me, ready to fold.  And you know what you can bet your bottom dollar if big dog did it then little dog would have followed suit!!!!  I cannot type here what I said but I am sure you can imagine!!  Needless to say I am washing it AGAIN!!'

I can relate to Tamara's photo... ironing bugs me too!

Ironing seriously bugs me!  I find it a boring, horrible chore, but unfortunately often necessary.  I do try and buy clothing that doesn’t require ironing, but when you work in an office, that is definitely not possible.  It’s something that I try and get over and done with as quickly as possible and I am most definitely not the type of person that irons my sheets or my underwear!

Kirsty's photo is up next and I can see how this would more than 'bug' me... poor baby girl!

'Day 22 Not Knowing... What really Bugs You? Now there are a lot of things that bug me, what can I say I can be quite intolerant but the one thing that really bugs me is McKenna's eczema! What bugs me about it is not knowing what causes it to flare up, not knowing how to stop it getting to this point, but most of all it's not knowing how to make it stop happening to her. It just breaks my heart to see her in so much pain and not being able to take it away. At least we have a routine going now to try to prevent it from getting too bad but what I wish for most in this world is that we find a way to make it stop altogether.'

Janine's photo is next...

What bugs me…. This photo has been taken through the front window of Kim’s car (hehehe we were driving home from the Mounts Bay yacht club J ) and the low, glaring sun was really bugging me …so I whipped out my camera!!! You can also see a red traffic light in this photo….they bug me too – I’m sure I get every red light only when I’m in a hurry- Bahahahaha!!!!

Ahh Janine, are you sure it isn't the dirt on my windscreen that was really bugging you?

Note to self **must clean inside windows of my car!**

I can relate to Maureen's photo of what bugs her too:

'DAY 22 : WHAT BUGS ME - What really bugs me is the pile of dishes that forms in the sink when my son wont empty the dishwasher. It seriously annoys the heck out of me!!!!'

Finally I have my photo.  What really bugs me?  Well to be honest lots of things bug me but the thing that happened to be there waiting for me to photograph on Sunday was this pile of clean, folded clothes that should have been put away... it really bugs me when my kids will not put away their clean clothes but instead rummage through the pile on the laundry bench to find what they are looking for.  It is my guess that Emily may have been looking for her favourite pyjamas and left the pile of clothes in this state!  Why not put them all away???

On that note I'll finish up this grumpy post as my sister is about to knock on my door to drag me to the gym... hmmm now that could be another photo for this topic ☺.

I'll be back later today with some more catching up of previous days and also with yesterday's photos.

Kim xx

Photo A Day - Day 24

Good Morning everyone!

Your photo challenge for today is to show me:

Your favourite Fiskars Tool!

A nice easy one so have fun ☺

Kim xx

Day 21 Photos... What makes you smile?

Saturday was day 21 of our photo a day challenge.  I have a few photos to share but I'm suspecting there are still more to come...

Tracy's photo is just beautiful...

'So many things make me smile, mostly the little things like getting a hug, hearing my husband’s voice, getting a phone call, letter or e-mail from my nieces & nephews, pretty flowers growing in the garden, a rainbow on a rainy day, the list could go on forever.  I especially love seeing my Mum & Dad holding hands but not quite as much as holding hands with my best friend, my husband. '

Annette's photo is up next...

 

'Day 21 is something that makes you happy. I always get a buzz when I see yummy stuff come out of our garden, so to walk into the kitchen and see these deposited on my sink direct from the dirt definately made me happy.'

Tamara's photo would make me smile too.... check this stash out!

'I love scented candles, they always make me smile.  My favourite ones at the moment come from Dusk and I have a range of different sizes & scents at my fingertips (this is only some of my collection!).  I love how they make my home smell and how the scent of them relaxes me.'

Kirsty's gorgeous photo is next...

You make my Heart Smile Everyday -  Day 21 of POTD. The theme of the day- What Makes You Smile? Well this one was easy! I think this is one of my all time favourite photos of my little princess, she just looks so natural, so happy, how could this not make me happy? However I will admit sometimes the subject does not always produce the same feeling lol I love you my little poppet always and forever you make my heart smile ♥  

Janine's photo came through a while ago and I had to laugh when I saw that she had chosen almost the same photo as me... as a result I've decided to upload a different photo of the same event.  Here is Janine's...

What makes me smile… FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!  ♥♥♥  Check us out- (L-R) Me, Leanne, Deb, Marlene & Kim…all dressed up for Deb’s 50’s party! What a blast…FRIENDS most definitely make me smile! ♥♥♥

I have decided to share with you the men's version of this photo...  On the left is Janine's husband and next to him is my husband, Tom.

So that brings us to the end of day 21's photos for now.  I'll be back later to post day 22  but for now I need to feed my kids and get them off to bed.

Kim xx 

 

Catching up...

Hi everyone, 

As promised I am back to catch up on all the photos from the last few days that I've been getting behind with and (hopefully) those that I was having trouble uploading for my last post...

I'll go back and start with Annette's photos...

From day 18:

'My Day 18 photo is our mode of transport, my trusty Tarago - great for big families and extras!'

Day 19:

'Day 19 photo, my computer, laptop for us.'

and day 20:

'Day 20 was an abstract closeup. Wasn't quite sure what to do for this one so i opted for our lovely fresh shallots straight out of the garden that I was cutting up, loved the textures, shape and the vibrant green, so hopefully that fits in to todays prompt.'   

I also had my photo from Friday to upload when the photos decided they would rather stay on my computer...

'This close up is a jar of perfumed/odour absorbing, jelly like balls that I got from Dusk to use as a room freshener in our guest bathroom. They smell good and I think they look pretty cool like this too!' 

Now, I think I'll post each of day 21 and 22 in separate posts to avoid having too many photos in one post again (in case that was the problem with uploading on Saturday morning).  I hope I haven't missed any of the photos that have come through to me so if you notice that I've not posted one (or more) of yours can you please let me know!

Oh but one more thing... I have a winner!

 ...You will be getting a belated birthday pressie from me so can you please e-mail me your details and I'll get it out to you in the next couple of days.

OK I have to run and do some Mum things but I'll be back in a while with the next lot of photos...

Kim xx

Photo A Day - Day 23

Hi everyone, I hope you've all had a fantastic weekend!  My weekend has been totally crazy with an 18th party Friday night, a day of kids' sports and housework Saturday, a 50th party Saturday night and the kids sailing all day today... it has been a big one and I'm totally exhausted!  I'll be back tomorrow morning to compile all the fabulous photos you have sent through over the weekend... and to announce that winner :)

In the meantime I'm here to tell you that your challenge for day 23 is a nice easy one.  I want you to share your...

Home Sweet Home!

You can, as always interpret this in any way you see fit and show me any aspect of your home that you would like to share, the only condition is that it must be the home that you currently live in :)  Have fun and don't forget to e-mail the photos through to me ready for uploading.

Kim xx

Photo a Day - Days 21 & 22

I'm so sorry I'm late with this prompt for today so in order to make it up to you (and to avoid having the same problem tonight when I have to go out again) I am going to give you the prompts for today and tomorrow...

For day 21 (Saturday) I want to see a photo of...

What makes you smile ☺

For day 22 (Sunday) I would like to see the opposite...

What really bugs you ☹

These two should be fairly self explanatory and not too hard for you to do.  Feel free to interpret in any way you like and don't forget to email them through to me kgeling@iinet.net.au by tomorrow night.  I will not get a chance to post these until tomorrow night as my weekend is looking pretty hectic but rest assured I've not forgotten about you.

Kim xx

Photo A Day - Day 20

Hi everyone and welcome to day 20... can you believe we've only got 11 more photos to go?

Your challenge for today is to have a little fun with your camera.  I want to see...

an abstract close up!

I really want to see the fine details in your close up, the textures, 'the little things'...  If you have a macro lens or option on your camera you may want to use these.  Have fun with this and I will be looking forward to seeing your photos.

Kim xx

Catching up...

I'm sorry that I've been a bit slow getting these photos uploaded for you ladies.  The photos have dwindled in number slightly over the past few days and they seem to be arriving later in the night, often after I've gone to bed.  I hope you are all still enthusiastic about finishing off the month with me... we're 2/3 way through August already!

I think I accidentally missed one of Annette's photos earlier in the week so I'll start off with Annette's housework from Day 16...

'Day 16 - Like everyone else i have my fair share of housework, but the one thing that I NEVER seem to have a neverending supply of is washing!! The positive side - it gets you into the great outdoors a LOT !!'

Next is Maureen's photo for Day 17 - her Pets...

'DAY 17 - ANIMAL : Well although I do still technically own a dog, even though he lives at someone elses house, the only other pets we have are Connors goldfish.So they are my feature for today. Love how I managed to get this one with his mouth wide open as if to say "why are you pointing that thing at me?" LOL!!!! The second photo is the piggie of the family - always first up to eat.'

Tamara's Day 17 photo is next up...

'Well I had visions of showing you all some of the wildlife that inhabits the area around where I work as we back onto bushland and there is a lot of wildlife that call it home.  Enter me, camera in hand walking around in my lunchbreak trying to find said wildlife, do you think I could find ANYTHING???  Nope…ok, I’ll try after work…I can hear birds, where are they???  Ok…next day I forget my camera, sure enough, I spot a couple of kookaburras and a bush turkey, so I brought my camera in again today and…..of course I can’t find anything to photograph!  The Kookaburras have made me a laughing stock, the bush turkey has headed for the hills, the wallabies have hopped out of sight, the snakes must be hiding under a rock somewhere and there’s no fish in the creek!  Ok, well I’ll try and get a photo of one of the dogs next door…umm…nope, neither of them wanted to come and say hello!  Next stop, the geckos at home (since we don’t have any pets), nope, evidence that they are around, but no sign of them!  So instead….….here’s a photo of a horse! This isn’t one that I’ve taken this week, but I did take it and I think he’s cute.  This is Patch, my sister in law’s miniature horse.  He wasn’t quite what I thought I’d be able to show you, but he is an animal (and a rather mischievous one at that!).'

Tracy's Day 18 photos...

'I have two modes of transport – going by Shanks' Pony or by being chauffeured by my husband in our trusty Holden... he would be horrified to see that I have taken a photo of the car when it is so dirty!'    

Janine's transport...

'I ♥ my zippy Mazda 6!!!' 

Maureen's transport photo...

'Well seen as I didn't go anywhere today I thought I would use my sons mode of transport for todays prompt. Connor regularly rides his bike to school and I love that he is getting a little bit of extra exercise every day.' 

Next up is my little car, my Subaru Impreza.  I spend a LOT of time taxiing children around in this. In fact this photo was snapped while waiting for my daughter to jump in for a ride to dancing late yesterday afternoon.

 

Kirsty chose to take an alternative photo for Day 18 and that is perfectly OK in this challenge too...

Happy Birthday to me!:  Day 18 of POTD and MY BIRTHDAY!!! Todays theme- Transport. Now I did make the people around me aware of todays theme in the hope that i would receive a big pressie with four wheels!! But alas it was an epic fail on the car front. So I decided to go against the theme today (oh what a rebel huh!) and take a shot of my huge haul! To say I have had it rough the last 18 months is a massive under statement, but I am so very lucky to have the wonderful family and friends around me that I do. People who make me feel so very special and to those people I say thank you from the bottom of my heart you make my heart happy again ♥ 

We all wish you a happy birthday for yesterday and hope you had a great day Kirsty.

Just as I'm typing up this post another transport photo has arrived in my inbox...  Thanks Tamara!

'This is a Sunbus (yes, even our public transport has a tropical name!).  I take a lot of buses around the city, so I can often be seen getting on & off a bright blue bus!  I like being able to sit back and ‘chill’ whilst going from point A to point B and I can get most places that I want to without much problem.  It’s nice to have someone else to worry about getting through the traffic and I just get off when I’m close to home, it’s often a good way to end the day.'

So that brings us to today's photos.  The prompt for day 19 was to show us your computer...

Tracy sent hers through...

'Ahhh the wonders of wireless technology - it allows our laptop to move from room to room, even spending some time with me in the recliner for a bit of blogging.  Today it came outside for a little photo shoot under the clothesline.  It wasn’t that long ago, but it is hard to remember what it was like when we had the desktop computer and the great big chunky monitor!!!' 

Janine's computer...

and finally for now... my trusty Mac laptop ♥ which is never far from my arm's reach...

Well this has turned into a huge post so well done if you've made it this far.  Don't forget to check back tomorrow (or later tonight) for your day 20 post...  Oh yes and I NEED to draw a winner for the next giveaway so stay tuned... I haven't forgotten :)

Kim xx

Photo A Day - Day 19

I can't believe how fast this month is flying by!  I am still having loads of fun with this photo challenge and I hope you are too.

Todays challenge is to take a photo of

Your Computer!

Now this may seem a little odd as a photographic subject but if you just cast your mind back even 5 short years ago I'm sure you would find that the computer you used back then is significantly different from the one you are using today... in five years time I'm certain it will be even more different!

Kim xx