Shabby Chic

Not a lot of shabby chic in my household (lots of shabby, not much chic!) but it is a style I love in my scrapbooking. Here's one of my favourite older pages in the style...

Travel

Travel: To go, to move, or journey from one place to another, by foot or private or public transport.

A slightly unusual interpretation today. On Sunday we woke up to snow. Beautiful, fluffy flakes floating to the ground, coating everything in a blanket of white. A beautiful Christmas snow.

Too bad it's March.

Knowing from experience that it would all be blown off the trees by afternoon, I took pictures from the passenger seat as we travelled in to church. This is what our Sunday travel looked like (and hopefully won't too many more times this season).

 

Sasha

Just a little proof of life...

Consume

Introducing...

...my three kidlets!

When I started this blog, I just jumped right in playing along with HSMSHS and discussing my photography highs and lows. I didn't really introduce myself or my family. But the kidlets are my main source of inspiration and often my main subjects, so I thought I'd throw out some brief introductions.

(If you read my family blog you not only already know us, you saw these photos as soon as I took them this week, so feel free to click one of the links in my sidebar if you get bored.)

Oldest daughter is 7 and is known as our Princess. She IS a Princess, preferring all things girly. She would rather wear a dress every day than anything else, she loves flowers and pink and dolls and, well, princesses. She's tiny, freckle-faced and delicate, with a streak of independance wider than she is.

Next we have Sweetpea. She's 5 (almost 6) and loves life. She's always moving, unless she's stopping for a quick cuddle, and does everything whole-heartedly. She's tall, athletic and even-tempered, with an infectious giggle and a clever sense of humour. She likes to run up to complete strangers to give them a hug or climb in their lap and ask them about themselves.

Finally we have my Boy. He's my 4 year old sidekick, my mini-man and chatterbox. He came out of the womb jabbering, had a vocabulary that included "crocodile" at 9 months, and rarely stops for air. He's fun and funny, and HIS sidekick is Blue Teddy--who started talking around the same time he did but uses his very own distinct speaking voice. I have a feeling that I'll never adjust to the silence when he starts school in the fall.

So now you know us! There's also a cat, Sasha, who tends to wander off as soon as she spots the camera, and Hubby who will do anything to avoid having his photo taken.

Oh, and me of course. But I'm growing my hair out from super-duper short to a bob and it's at that terrible in-between stage, so I'm not doing self-portraits for a while.

Have a happy weekend!

Downtrodden might be more accurate

We took the day yesterday, stepped away from the computers, dragged the semi-sick kids out of the house and went for some fun. We went to the sportplex in the city and bought wristbands for the big play area and tokens for the arcade games. Two of my three have been sick this week, but they're definitely on the mend. They just have a lingering cough and they're bored and tired of being cooped up (us too) so it seemed the perfect solution.

Well, my girls had fun, but maybe the Boy isn't on the mend as much as we thought. He whined most of the day. Everything was "too hard". The climbing appartus was too tall (not really, he's played on it just fine before). There were too many kids. The games were too hard. He was just having a bad day. I remembered that the HSMSHS prompt was beaten, so I took this photo of him by one of the games, feeling as beaten as a 4 year old gets.



The good news is that I took him in the car with me for a drive and let him have a big nap. When he woke up, he was sunny and happy again. Phew! At least little boys don't stay beaten for long!

Today's prompt is "silhouette", so it's into the archives I dive or I'll be posting this late again.



And a bonus, because silhouettes are fun!

Contemplate

Been finding it tricky to come up with photos to match the HSMSHS prompts this week. So today when the prompt was "contemplate" I threw my hands up in the air and gave a cry of frustration. My mojo has left the building.

Thankfully, my Princess heard me and asked what was wrong. I told her I needed "a picture of someone thinking about something" and she immediately went, "Oh, like this!"

Yes, sweet girl, EXACTLY like that! I'm so glad she's home on break to get me thinking again!