2 Photographers 1 Inspiration : White

Each week I join in with Kristi over at A Life Through The Lens and the photo prompt she does with another photographer called Mellisa.

This weeks prompt was the color white .....  

Kristi added this to the prompt

White (adj)

A: Free from color

B: The color of snow or milk

C: Free from spot or blemish

I am in love with the images that Kristi and Melissa have taken and posted this week. You really should go over and have a look... both photos have a dreamy feel to them.

For me the color white screams snow... but as Im a little bit sick of snow right now the thought of posting a photo of it is unthinkable.

One of my big loves is Pearls and the other week when sorting out a craft box I found a string of them, why they where in a craft box I have no idea but never the less I found them. 

You all know my other love is Teacups .. so the two together go very nice.... 

When I look at pearls I do think pure, white also says pure to me to ... so here is my photo prompt for this week 

 If you fancy join in with the photo prompt then make sure you follow Kristi on her blog and look out for the prompt each week...

♥ 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.

The Paper Moon Studio

Pounce day.... Discover something new day ... whatever you call it .....

I love to pounce is all about finding new shops on Etsy via the Pounce button the Etsy use on their buy page.

So if your not looking for something specif then the pounce feature is the way to go.

Each week I link up with my team, The Undiscovered Artist of Etsy and I also add a link to my page for those of you who are not in the team but wish to join in. (both links are the same)

So today's pounce is The Paper Moon Studio

Found them in less than three pounces and it was an instance attraction.....

Paper it always gets me everytime... they have some wonderful prints in their shop all of which would look wonderful in any home...

The owner of Paper Moon is also a fine arts artist and does have another shop which still comes under the category

Go visit them they have some wonderful prints .... and you know this one here would be fitting in most of our homes
So who did you pounce today .... join up with me

♥ Rachel

Much ♥ Monday: Gift Tags

 Im a big love of paper, we have tons of it in the house .....
My new love for this week is gift tags... I adore anything that is small and made of paper...

Im loving this one cause its hand painted 

by Oddball Arts

And this is to cute for words....
by happypapers

There was so many more I could of listed but it would take all day .....

So what are you loving this week?

Come sign up with Anna at Much Love

♥ Rachel

Pay It Forward... You know you want to

As many of you know I have a personal blog ...Select All + Delete .....and I just have to say the people I have followed and join up with are some of the most wonderful people any girl could wish to meet.

I strolled on over to one of my favorites the other day and her post was about paying it forward...

One of my favorite topics ...

I have recently posted on my facebook personal page a pay it forward ...and I am swapping with  a few of my English friends ...

I signed up to pay it foward with MultipleMum and Im in ... yes Im excited

So now its my turn .... And this much I will promise .. You will receive one of my prints with a little something to go with it

I promise something handmade to the FIRST 5 people who leave a comment here. However, to be eligible, you must re-post this message, offering something handmade to 5 other people. The rules are that it must be handmade by you, and it must be sent to your 5 giftees sometime in 2011.

Ready, set, GO!

 

I said GO .... Go sign up 

♥ Rachel

 

P.S When you sign up you also need to email your address ... tatterbeans@gmail.com

2 Photographers 1 Inspiration : Texture

Every Wednesday to of my favorite Photographers do a photography prompt .....

I recently joined back up with them to take part....

This week the prompt was Texture......

How excited have I been all week..textures are what I love about what I do ... I don't think I have anything in my shop that isn't textured in one way or another ...

I'm crazy for textures...and have recently started working on making and taking my own to use as over layers....... not has hard as you may think... anything can be used..its just what you do with it to make it work I guess...

So as we had a huge snow storm today this throw me slightly... I normal take the photo of what I want to enter the day I'm going to do the prompt... yes I am  totally organized.

Well that didn't quiet happen today two children at home and between shoveling and everything else you do with two kids home..when your not use to having them home ..it well went a miss...

But not a complete wash out ... I have a file of photos that are all textured so I went and had a look .... and this has to be one of my favorite...

I took this sitting at my work desk at home... The thing I love about it is the tree ....... this is the view I have and its even better in summer... and that tree has been featured in so much of my blog posts its untrue....

I am a tree lover also 

 It is a texture I do plan on using at some point....

 Now hop on over to Life Through The Lens and see what Kristi and Mellisa came up with 





♥ 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