2 Photographers 1 Inspiration : Blur

This weeks Photo Prompt over at A Life Through The lens is the word BLUR ....

Ideas, Ideas.... far to many of them, until we had a ice storm and I went outside in the middle of it (crazy I know) with my camera (wrapped in a plastic bag) and snapped away .......

It was freezing out there but the results I think were worth being extremely cold

 

There is something really beautiful about ice on trees.

Hop over to see Kristi and Melissa's work and their take on the work Blur.

♥ Rachel

Color Palette Blog Walk

First of all let me say .... I have had way to much fun doing this .... This much fun should not be allowed.

I signed up to take part in the color palette blog walk a few weeks ago... as a way to learn something new... I have never done a color palette before.. I have seen them done and always admired others work when doing them.
Brandi over at Brandi Girl A Life Inspired by Color has hosted a color pallete blog walk before... so this is the second one and Brandi I really hope you do another soon.

I have enjoyed looking at other peoples work... I know I don't say much... but honestly their work has been amazing.

I picked out two of my favorite photographs that I had taken recently .... I then took a new photography.
So here are my three color palettes....

 

I love this little guy....

My favorite print in my shop at the moment

 The new photography I took a few days ago

Makes me feel like there is hope for Spring coming soon

I am really happy with the results... and I feel like I could do this at lest once a week

A big thank you to Brandi for not only hosting this blog walk... but for suppling the palette already made up...


Here is a list of others taking part... you really should go look...


Full Schedule

Monday, Feb. 28th
Brandi at Brandi Girl Blog
Erin at Treasures Found
Jen at Jen Judd Rocks
Shari at Exploring the Wonders of Life


Tuesday, March 1st
Karen at Creative Thoughts and Inspirations
Julia at UlvDesign
Jessa at The ReArtingDotNet Blog
Lyn at Lyn Foley Jewelry Blog


Wednesday, March 2nd
Jescalyn at Peach Honey Love
Paige at Paige Maxim Designs
Katrina at Ma Joie Press
Jenni at Jenni's Beads


Thursday, March 3rd
Christie at Displaced Urbanite
Rachel at TatterBeans
Brittany at The Home Ground
Cindy at Sweet Bead Studio


Friday, March 4th
Rachel at Balanced Crafts
Wren at Each Day
Kelly at Mackin Art
Kristy at Simply Shiny Blog

♥ Rachel

Inspired Blue and White

 Its funny how you can look at something for so long that it almost becomes part of you

Now for sometime we have been looking at snow.. maybe for a bit to long ... it started to melt a few days ago and can you believe it looks really strange to see it going...
I mentioned the temperature had rose to 40-50..well when I looked outside the other morning the snow almost looks blue ...and for a moment I did wonder why..then It dawned on me it was because the sky so so blue...

So this week I'm inspired by Blue and White... and I picked a few items out of my Fresh Treasury.
The three items I picked where the main inspiration for the treasury .....

1:Wire Wrapped Blue, White and Crystal Round Glass Pendant by ModAccents

2: Pure Heart decorative pillow by SaharasHeart

3:1940's Vintage Fashion Calavera --Limited Edition Watercolor by LaSantaMuerte

 All Three items belong to team mates.... and I can say I'm really proud to be in the same team as such talented people.

Are you inspired this week... and if so what is it that's inspiring you ?


♥ Rachel

*just a little side note..if I didn't get round to reading your Grateful post please forgive me... we lost power a few times last night and most of today... I will try to read them this week

I Love to Pounce.

Plum and Bear

Tuesdays have turned into a totally crazy day for me.... I was invited to join a Treasury Team at the weekend.... and their blitz day is Tuesday ...and as you all know I love to Pounce is on a Tuesday .... so I guess I need to get a bit more organized from now on....

So without further a do...here is my Pounce for the week.... if your here and wondering what I love to Pounce is here are the rules

Plum and Bear .... so totally adorable...

I feel in love .... with bear  ... well have you seen him ..how can you not fall in love with him...

But what really truly won my heart about this shop is... One the owner is British ... ye I know bias ..but also when I read her profile...what she wrote was what I want to read from an artist

Welcome and thank you for stopping by my shop. I am a mixed media artist from the UK. I am inspired in my art and designs by the imagination of my two wonderful children and also by my own childhood. You could call me a bit of a dreamer. I like to get lost in the world of my characters. 

Go so show some love to Plum and Bear...  Im sure bear will be thrilled ....
So did you pounce today and if so what did you find.... we all would love to see...
leave us a link below... and we will be over to visit

So I am going to leave you now with my favorite drawing from Plum and Bear 

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Tea For One

Have a wonderful day ...

♥ Rachel

Love is The New Black ... Treasury Challenge

Wednesday is Treasury Challenge for The Undiscovered Arts of Etsy ... anyone can join in... all are welcome... just follow this link  
The Theme this week is Anti Valentines ....






Go Visit my Treasury please and show it some love

Have a blessed day

♥ Rachel

I Love to Pounce.

Tulle Pom Party Picks - Red

My faviorite day of the week is tueday ...

Mainly because I get to pounce...why do I like pounce so much

Well its a way finding new shops and discovering new things ...and boy do I have  something diffrent for you today ...

When you go to a party and you look at cocktail sticks/party picks what do you think?

Well I think..hmmm they look pretty boring .. well not any more if you shop with

ShortCake

Pom Pom Party Picks - Red

 They make boring party picks into eye catching candy that will make any party food look totally appealing ...
Its totally ingenious what they have done with Party Picks....


Newly opened this month and from Nashua New Hampshire... we are from the same neighborhoods by the way I must live about 10 miles away....

I love something that is so different its eye catching, but yet such a simple idea.

 Go pay them a visit and discover some of their totally awesome party picks 

So did you pounce today and if so who did you find....

You can link up here and show the world your pounce.....

I also link up with The Undiscovered Artist of Etsy and as a team we pounce you can visit there pounces here



♥ Rachel

2 Photographers 1 Inspiration

For along time now I have wanted to join in with Kristi and Melissa and their photo prompt  ... I use to do to join this prompt sometime ago before I opened my own Etsy shop...

Kristi is one of the reasons I started my shop.. she has for sometime been a source of inspiration to me ... and a great encouragement.

Her work is featured in my daughters room, and that room was decorated around the prints I picked out from her shop .. Lifethroughthelens

So this weeks prompt was your favorite imagine from 2010

This was hard there was so many

In the end I went with a favorite of some of my team mates on Etsy and a favorite of mine... both involving water a favorite activity of both my children

 

Both my children are awesome models and will send hours letting me take their photos as long as its something they enjoy doing... 

Do you have a faviorite Imagine of 2010

if so go join in with Kristi and Melissa

they would love to meet you

♥ Rachel

Getting Motivated.

weheartit

As with all new ideas they take some setting up and you really need motivation to get you going....

I set Tatter Beans up about a month ago and Ive worked my little but of ever since and believe it or not its been fun.... but what really got me moving was signing up for a E-Course.

I can sometimes lack motivation not cause I'm lazy but because I find it hard to believe my ideas are good ones... I think we can all suffer with that syndrome some of the time.... but enough of my lack of self believe more about the E-Course....

Tara Gentile is editor of Scoutie Girl,a full-time blogger & big thinker. She is also fulling involved in the handcrafting world and considers that her home along with Scoutie Girl.

She offers a free e-course and it is truly butt kicking cause its all about thinking outside the box... and at the time I really needed that. Its worked and I'm still receiving emails daily from the course.
I highly recommend this course along with the site she runs ...loads of useful information, inspiring posts and her Ebook which I'm saving up to get.

This woman has kicked my butt and Ive never meet her and she did it for free.

Go sign up and get inspired.

♥ Rachel