February photo a day 26-29

Well February may be over, but I've still got a few of my final challenge pictures to share! I am quite pleased with my decision to skip out on the daily instagram-ing this month and I should be refreshed and anxious to start up again in April! Woo! Let's go:


Day 26 - "night" - After my lovely Kamloops pals left on Sunday I was pooped! I guess all that socializing got to me and I was ready to have an extra chill evening. No better way to round up the week like some Elvis movies! I always love checking out the sweet outfits on all the extras (and Ann Margaret):


Day 27 - "something you ate" - Since Fraser has successfully cut out refined sugar I have been trying to support his diet decision and make him a pot of earl grey tea each morning as a perk for getting up! Monday morning I decided I would "test" a cup for him with my breaky! Yum avocado, grapes, clemintines, and tea! Nummers!


Day 28 - "money" - After searching my wallet for some cash to photograph I found a whole bunch of loonies and quarters. I figured since we donate those coins to our owl accountant at the front entrance it would be fun to take a picture of him! Throw in an old ikea light for subtle hall lighting and our little orange squirrel note keeper and we've got ourselves one friendly crew to greet you when you get home! Yay!


Day 29 - "something you're listening to" - Nothing perks up the day quite like some Peggy Lee! How can you not have a good day when you're listening to her?


So long February Challenge! Bring on a restful March! What do you think? Anyone doing some March Instagraming?

February photo a day 19-25

Woo woo! The instagram photo challenge continues! Let's check out another week of pictures:

Day 19 - "something you hate to do" - It took me a while to decide on something I could photograph that I don't like...but as soon as the T4s started showing up it was easy. Boo to tax season (and unpacking):


Day 20 - "handwriting" - I contemplated writing something out that was nice for this one, but then went for my natural not so neat printing instead. Yay five year one sentence journal to the rescue:


Day 21 - "a fave photo of you" - This one was taken by Jim when we went to Nelson for my birthday many moons ago. I like it even more with Instagram filters!


Day 22 - "where you work" - So I attempted to put some impact into this one. I work at starbucks, but I also work from home...so here is the sbux siren mug in my living room (actually from my spot on the couch where I spend the majority of my time crafting!):


Day 23 - "your shoes" - The ladies came on the 23rd so I pre took this one during the week while I was spending some time jumping in the rain puddles in my rain boots.
Day 24 - "inside your bathroom cabinet" - My bathroom cabinet is really more of a drawer...


Day 25 - "green" - I really love this one. We went to fisherman's wharf to get fish and chips and do a little stand by sealing. There was an old VW bus with a mossy bra on the front of it and I thought it was super artsy and neat! Hooray! Moss!


Woo! So I've decided I'm going to skip out on the March challenge so I will be extra excited about doing it again in April (and don't risk getting sick and tired of it). Good idea yes? One more week to go! Which is your favourite?

February photo a day 12-18

The instagram February photo a day challenge continues and here's round three of my pictures!

Day 12 - "inside your closet" - behold my amazing stash of jersey cotton dresses, hoodies, skirts, and cardigans! I use the fabric totes on the shelves to organize my tights, belts, hats, and purses (which, I think works like a hot damn!):


Day 13 - "blue" - I decided to go in a non-colour direction with this day and took a picture of my sad (blue) bunny pillow:


Day 14 - "heart" - here's a shot of me sporting my crochet heart pin! I love how it looks on my lapel and even though this image doesn't show you the whole thing, it looks stunning with my jersey and lace circle scarf Cindy made me when I moved:



Day 15 - "phone" - Since Fraser and I don't have a home phone, we use our cell phones as our only way to make calls. I wasn't totally sure what I wanted to take a picture of for the "phone" challenge so I took a snapshot of my homescreen wallpaper! I have been enjoying Wild Olive's desktop calendar images for years now and am loving her iPhone option! This also shows you a typical weekday morning for me - getting up super early to go to work!



Day 16 - "something new" - I already blogged about these guys earlier in the week, but I am still swimming with joy over my newly sprouted herbs! Grow parsley grow!


Day 17 - "time" - You know one thing about getting up at 3:30am every day? You go to bed super early. Some days I am beat enough to slip into bed by 6, but generally I aim for a 7 pm bed time:


Day 18 - "drink" - No better way to warm up than with a blueberry tea! Wendy introduced these to me many moon ago and I have been in love with them every winter since. Recipe: equal parts Amaretto and Crown Royal, a few cinnamon sticks, some orange slices, and black tea. Nummers!


Only a few more weeks to go before the month is up and the challenge is complete! I am thrilled to wake up each day and try to figure out what I will take a picture of and am excited to be keeping up with the challenge! I am also realizing that I really like the Amaro filter on Instagram (I used it for every picture this week!)! Oh my! What do you think of this week's pics?

February photo a day 5-11

Looks like we made it to the end of the week, and with another week gone, we've got a whole week of Instagram challenge photos to share! Hooray! Not sure what I'm talking about? Check out the first week here (link), otherwise let's go:

Day 5 - "10am" - I woke up early last Sunday to get some squares finished for a project I was working on. I have since finished the craft and just need to take some pictures to share it with you! Loving the colour combinations!


Day 6 - "dinner" - Fraser made us a super yummy meal Monday! Gluten free pasta with pesto, roasted pine nuts, zucchini, and broccoli:


Day 7 - "button" - There were a lot of directions you could go with this one, but since I am a huge fan of pinback buttons (and make hundreds of them) I thought I'd share one of my favourites! I really need to get my new designs in my shop soon!


Day 8 - "sun" - Instagram confession: I actually took this on the weekend when the sun was out. Winter in Victoria means loads of rain so I thought I better snap an image of the sunrise while I could! Good thing too - the 8th was super rainy! I do really enjoy the view from the patio and love the shape the sun peeping over the mountain too!


Day 9 - "front door" - Thank goodness for Instagram filters to make the terrible hall lighting at 5am tolerable! I never really noticed all the molding around our door before...


Day 10 - "self portrait" - Here I am after a long day of work! My hair is at a stage where instead of a pony tail kink from being tied up all day it gets this super out flip at the bottom. My hair dresser in Kamloops says the subtle out flip is sure to make a hot comeback but I'm not sold on that yet...


Day 11 - "makes you happy" - Saturday was a solid happy day for me! Got a little bit of a sleep in, followed by a yummy breakfast, cute outfit, and trip to an awesome craft show! All the rad Victoria artisans I love were there and even though I didn't end up buying anything this time, it was certainly a great start to the day! (Plus the foxes on the poster are cute):


Whew! What a round up! I guess it is only to be expected that 7 days take longer the ramble on about than 4. Haha. I'm looking forward to the rest of the month too! Hooray for successful challenges! What do you think? What's your favourite picture from week two?

Instagram Photo A Day Challenge!

As I continue to explore new apps on my iPhone, I decided to jump on the Instagram bandwagon. If you aren't sure what Intragram is, not to worry, until a few weeks ago I had no clue either. It is yet another social networking program that allows you to share pictures you take on your iPhone (and then link them onto twitter and facebook)! Sounds easy enough right? Well once installing the app I've been loving checking out my fellow bloggers and crafters (and real life friends') snapshots of their daily activities and commenting on what everyone is up to!

I am also quite excited to be able to take part in some of the blogging world's intagram challenges and figured since February is such a short month it would be the perfect opportunity to try it out! Plus I do love taking pictures and the ease and simplicity of my camera phone makes the challenge all that much more appealing! Check out the list of challenge images Fat Mum Slim set up for everyone for the month:


Doesn't it look like fun? I've been sharing my photos on twitter and thought I'd do a weekly recap here on the blog too! Let's take a peek back at my first four days of the February photo a day challenge.

Day 1 - "your view today" = Fraser cooking us up a delicious meal! Yum!


Day 2 - "Words" = The silly slogan that was written in our neighbourhood watch flyer. Watch out for spam!


Day 3 - "Hands" = the ceramic jewelry stand hand on my dresser. I thought about taking a picture of my own hands but they were pretty beat up and sharpied from a week of work so I figured I'd do for an alternative approach (plus the morning sun shining in is always lovely!)


Day 4 - "Stranger" = A little old man sitting in the sun outside the laundromat. Since Fraser and I live in pretty much a retirement condo old people are at a premium! When I went for a walk Saturday morning I figured I'd be sure to run into someone worth photographing and this guy seemed extra charming. When I showed Fras the pic, he said he is pretty sure he lives in our building too...


Mmm sunshine! I'll have to save today's photo for next week's recap since it is only 7am and I have to wait for 10am to take one! Anyone else taking part in the challenge? What do you think of it?