Runaway October

So, my pho­tographs are typ­i­cally pretty… blah. I took pho­tog­ra­phy in High School, but for some rea­son my brain is just not trans­fer­ring those skills to digital.

One of my goals this year is too get bet­ter with my cam­era and coin­ci­den­tally The MCP Project 52 signups hap­pened to cross my path.

Here’s the gist:

MCP Project 52 – It’s a way to encour­age cre­ativ­ity, make pho­tog­ra­phy fun, and pro­vide a chal­lenge with­out actual pres­sure. Par­tic­i­pants will [sic] shar­ing their art work and images weekly while inspir­ing each other.

The theme of the first week, which I am slightly behind on, was “Around The House” so here’s my go.

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I fixed some of the overblown and added a vin­tage photo fil­ter to it.

I hop­ing that if I keep fid­dling with my cam­era every week that I’ll get bet­ter. Hope­fully.

If you’d like to join–and we’d love to have you–the infor­ma­tion is here. And be sure to stop by the Flickr pool of all the par­tic­i­pat­ing pho­tos here. There are some out­stand­ing pho­tos in there!

Yeah, I seem to be in a blog­ging slump lately. It seems like every­thing I see that’s cool is not new or has been blogged a bazil­lion times before. Not much is going on in our lives, not much craft­ing because I’m too lazy to clean the kitchen table off, same ol’ same ol’, ya know?

I orig­i­nally started this blog with intents to post things that I had sewn or cooked, but I don’t do nearly enough of it to post often enough. I want to warn my read­ers that my Grandma yells at me if I don’t post enough. (Love you grandma! ) Now I’m think­ing that maybe I’ll just post the stuff that I think is cool?

What do you guys think? Should I stick with crafts and kids, or expand to include extra stuff?

And here’s a lit­tle eye candy for those of us who can’t go out­side with­out fac­ing 3^rd degree burns.

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Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that for the longest time I detested thrift stores. Just think­ing of them brought the mothball/sanitizer/old lady smell to my nose and images of peg boards filled with head­less Bar­bies danced in my mind. I hated some of the ugly (to me) clothes that my mom picked out and forced me to wear and there was never any of the cool stuff that all the other kids had.

I’ve decided recently though that I like thirft stores now that I’m in charge of what I buy. Did you know that Good­will car­ries Fab­ric, notions and other crafty bits? Totally! That’s how Mom got me in there in the first place.

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These were pan­els that I also found. Declan loves the lit­tle map blankie I made him.

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Other nifty stuff:

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