7 Days

We did it! We managed seven days of self-portraits. Apart from the occasional total lack of inspiration, it was a lot of fun and, as head of the group, it was certainly exciting each time someone loaded a new portrait. I kept it as just a project for people I know in Real Life because [...]

May I offer you a cup of festive joy?

Today I’m starting a little experiment with a few “real-life” friends who are also on Flickr. Much too lazy to attempt the 365 days selfportrait challenge, we’re trying a 7 day version over the Christmas period. Now let’s wait and see if any of them remember … seeing as I was dreaming about it last [...]

Looking forward to Christmas …

… because then finally my advent calendar will be finished with and I won’t have to start each day by eating a piece of god-awful chocolate.

As promised

Our tree and decorations are now up and my office is once more filled with a variety of Santa figurines that I have collected over the years. While all the suitcases full of decorations were down from the loft, I took the opportunity to photograph my old advent calendar, as promised. This is the advent [...]

Picnic fun

Two Sundays ago it was my turn to play host to our indoor picnic. We used to be refined ladies who sat at tables, used cutlery and paid other people to cook our food and wait on us. Somehow we’ve become not-so-refined ladies who sit on rugs in living rooms, stuffing (often homemade) food into [...]

5 festive things

Photographic diva FuzzyPeach has tagged me and wants to know 5 things I’ve not told you before. As we’re just 23 days from Chrimble, I thought I’d make it 5 festive things.
Here goes…
1. I used to be afraid of Santa. The idea of a strange old man coming into my house in the middle of [...]