Texture Tuesday & Shutter Sisters ~ The Look Down Edition

Texture Tuesday ~ Autumnal "Do"

Joining in today with Kim's Texture Tuesday ~ her theme this week was 'DO'.

There wasn't much this poor butterfly could DO, but hang on tight whilst the wind blew VERY hard against our trampoline net ~ it was there quite some time, going nowhere in a hurry, just trying to survive!

(Mouse over to see all the 'before' images)

These Lillies were my 2nd gift from Paul ~ in celebration of our 16 years of "I Do!"

All edited with Kim's 'Autumn Burst' texture.


Link op over HERE.

Texture Tuesday

Joining in with Kim's little Linky Do, using her 'golden' texture (amongst others!)


mouse over to see the 'before'

Zoom & Bloom ~ Texture Tuesday

(click to see the 'before')

My shots from yesterday with a little 'Warm-Sun' applied (and a little magic!)

Have fun with a little texture and join in with Kim over at 'The Cafe' :D

Communal Global ~ "Around the World"

Today COMMUNAL GLOBAL is CELEBRATING it's very 

1st BIRTHDAY!!

I made a Birthday card to show my LOVE from everyone and everything over there;

Aside from birthday's, my TODAY(s) has been a pretty ordinary family & schooly sorts of days...

There's been a fair bit of this;

And some MORE of this;

(leading to both boys going up a school year on EducationCity :D)

There's been a huge amount of this..,

A significant amount of...

But thankfully a reasonable amount of ...

There's also been some;

And a whole lot of big-boy playing with...

and these little guys;

What shape have your TODAY's taken this week? ~ link up and show us all ~ over at

COMMUNAL GLOBAL 

See You There!!

I ♥ Faces - Week 4 - “Texture” Photo Challenge!

I'm seriously thinking these wonderful ladies at iheartfaces are trying to ruin me!! I have spent HOURS deliberating over a photo to use. I have done three or four edits. I eventually chose this one and I'm still not sure it's the right choice! But in the end I figured Christmas is not so far since, that we have forgotten it yet :D

This is my beautiful nephew. This little man is my s-i-l's longed for child, and WOW - was he seriously worth waiting for! He is so adorable, so cuddly, so funny, so loving. He is the child of any mother's dreams :D

The texture I have used came from Pareeerica Textures on Flickr - she has some great Christmas ones :D. Then I used a whole mish-mash of actions & tweaks on actions! I know some were Coffee-shop and some were from Nelly Nero's PSE actions set. The predominant one of hers in the end was called 'think vintage'.

I must confess, I've found this really tough (did you get that!). I'm not sure my photography suits textures all that well - especially not on people. I can make it work with flowers & nature shots, but somehow it just doesn't seem to fit people all that well. I have a beautiful photograph I took of a friend's daughter. I was going to use it, but in the end I simply preferred it without the textures and the tweaking (I'll enter it when the time is right). Maybe it will come with practice, but I just had a real job finding a picture that would work well with a texture.

In the end I AM pleased with this, but boy ~ it was hard work!!

To see everyone else's beautiful creations this week check on over at I ♥ Faces.