Photo Assignment: Final Layout

I am getting this done in the nick of time.  Lori tricked me with one last photo.  I didn't have time to do my journaling, but here is the layout.  The rest of the title is: "& 1 not".  Because my pile of things to file is not a favorite!


Here is the layout!

Photo Assignment #5

Eeek!  I didn't know about this photo assignment until about one hour ago!  I even have my layout almost done.  But, of course after all of the "favorite" photos Lori at the Apron Strings Designs Blog wants me to take a picture of the area of my home that I want to keep secret from the world.

Am I that brave?

Okay, here it is.  The pile of bills to be files and receipts to be organized.  SCARY.

Photo Assignment #4

For this assignment, Apron Strings Blog challenged me to look for things around my house that make me happy.  Little touches here and there.  I spent a few days on this, thinking and shooting and then editing.  My husband kept asking, "What are you doing?"  I guess he thought it was weird that I was taking a photo of the light fixture.

In the end, I realized that I had a theme!  Three light fixtures and four photos of little display areas.  My husband usually does the display type decorating, and he has a great eye.  I love the little art pieces and touches that we have picked up over the years.

Photo Assignment #3

Okay, this one really got me excited.  I knew right away what I wanted to photograph.

I don't really like to collect things.  It kind of makes me feel stressed out to have that much stuff.  But, I do have one collection that is kind of fun.  You will have to figure it out from the photo.  What I will tell you is that recently, when a friend stayed at our house while we were on vacation, she left behind some of these for me to find.  That is the fun part of having a collection.

Photo Assignment #2

This assignment was to take a photo of our gathering space.  As soon as I read this assignment I thought of our living room.  In the past, I don't think that I would have chosen our living room...no one was ever there!  BUT, we have been working on decorating it and making it a warm and welcoming space.

Earlier this summer we have a number of people over for a few different events.  Every time the living room was full of people.  In particular, it was full of kids, who used the coffee table as their dining room table!  Then, the adults sat around them.  It was lovely.  It was inspiring to have guests and to see our space loved by so many others.  I hope that we have more opportunities to gather soon.

Photo Assignment #1

I love photo assignments!  I am a very literal scrapbooker, and sometimes these photo assignments get me outside of my normal box.  I like where this one is headed.

The first assignment was to take a picture of my favorite room in our house.  Humm...I didn't know which room to take a photo of for this assignment.  I like a lot of the rooms for different reasons.  Why is it my favorite?  After a lot of thought I took  a couple photos of my bedroom.  I picked this because I like the feeling in this room.  It is warm and cozy and a place that is good to sleep and read.  I also really love the built in closets and dresser.  Here is a special thing about the dresser...the drawers are extra long because they go all of the way into the eaves of the house!

Our cozy bed

The built ins

My Croppy Summer #24

The Apron Strings Blog is keeping me inspired these days.  I NEVER would have gone for these colors (as a matter of fact many of them have been in my stash for a while!) without this challenge.  However, it ended up working beautifully.

The challenge was to create a layout incorporating sky-blue, white (if you've got some of that fun paper with clouds on it, that'd work too) and spring green.  This is about as sky-blue as it gets--it's the sky! 

This layout is from our cruise in February, and was our favorite excursion...a day of sailing in the Virgin Islands.  What, really, could be better?

Still figuring out how to stitch with my scanner...