Fiskars Craft

I nearly forgot

To take my first Photo for my Photo a Day Mini Album today....seeing it's December 1st..and here it is

                           (click on the image for an enlarged view)

I not only put our Christmas Tree up today but I also rounded up my family of Reindeer......I now have 4 Altered Reindeer that I have made over the past 6 years.......and I wanted to makeover our Heater using some wading and material............to give our Christmas a little bit of WINTER magic...with some snow effects.........after visiting Europe this year I have been inspired to get out some more of our Northern Hemisphere Decorations this year.

Now all I need to do is print this off and add it into my Mini Album.

    So how was your first day of December....

                                    ..............did you do anything Christmas related?

 

xoxo

Lyn Dwyer

PHOTO A DAY - DECEMBER

Hi everyone,

I have had fun crafting up a storm the past week....I had set myself a few projects that I wanted to work on whilst in PAYNESVILLE.....one of which was a PHOTO A DAY Mini Album.

I'm going to be sharing the STEP BY STEP for this project on here each WEDNESDAY in NOVEMBER.

I'm going to be doing a PHOTO A DAY during the month of DECEMBER for myself.......so thought if others wanted to join in that's great.......but even if you want to make the MINI ALBUM and do your PHOTO A DAY for another month down the track.....you shall at least have your Album ready to go...and then you can add your own pics when you decide to do it.......anyone interested?

So I'll be back next Wednesday Nov. 14th with your Supply List...and then you can start gathering things.

xoxo

Lyn Dwyer

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