Birds
Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of birds.
What will you share?
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Category Archives: craft
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Fences & Gates
Chicago
Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of fences or gates.
Pekanbaru
What will you share?
London
Sydney, Australia
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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
Knots
Each week Cee challenges bloggers to share black and white photos based on a theme. This week we’re challenged to share photos of knots.
What will you share?
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Junk Journals
While volunteering at the library I learned about junk journals. What?
A junk journal is book which is often made through found and recycled materials to be used as a way to collect and record memories, thoughts, ideas, and inspiration. So it’s a sort of scrapbook, which can contain letters, tickets, scraps of fabric, photos, dried flowers, keys, newspaper articles, photos, you name it.
It’s become a trend in some circles and they can take on any kind of style. They make nice gifts and if you don’t want to make one, you can buy one on etsy.com
This kind of craft beckons me.
Halloween is Coming
I’m amazed by her mastery.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sweet
Even when I’m fasting, like today, my eyes love to indulge.
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- Sweet (daily post)
- Sweet (from hiding to blogging)
- Sweet (mittened hands)
- Sweet (stenoodie)
- Sweet (misty roads)
- Sweet (jinan daily photo)
- Sweet (reconnected mind)
- Sweet (bildof)
- Sweet (genankenkruemel promocia)
- Sweet (here and abroad)
- Sweet (beijing daily photo)
- Sweet (a walk in the garden)
- Sweet (cee’s photography)
- Sweet (third eye world)
- Sweet (reluctant photographer)
- Sweet (let the images speak)
- Tour Guide (ohm sweet ohm)
- Tour Guide (jinan daily photo)
- Tour Guide (my own private idaho)
- Tour Guide (bedlam & daisies)
- Tour Guide (misty roads)\
- Tour Guide (yi-ching lin)
- Tour Guide (simply photos)
- Tour Guide (salle de shoot)
- Tour Guide (beijing daily photo 2)
- Tour Guide (mittened hands)
- Tour Guide (stenoodie)
- Tour Guide (eirik jested)
- Tour Guide (sunrise, sunset)
- Tour Guide (life after tree)
- Tour Guide (wells baum)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Tour Guide
Ceiling, Marshall Field’s
Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL
Chicago, my sweet home, offers loads of sights. Here’s just a few.
Cloud Gate, aka The Bean
Millenium Park, Chicago
Clark House, Chicago
Palmer House Hotel, Chicago
Holy Trinity Church, Chicago
Holy Trinity Church, Chicago
1. Each week, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Wednesday when the next photo theme will be announced.
2. To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “Weekly Photo Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
3. Follow The Daily Post so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements, and subscribe to our newsletter – we’ll highlight great posts. Add Media photos from each month’s most popular challenge.
Just a few wonderful posts:
- Tour Guide (daily post)
- Tour Guide (ohm sweet ohm)
- Tour Guide (jinan daily photo)
- Tour Guide (my own private idaho)
- Tour Guide (bedlam & daisies)
- Tour Guide (misty roads)\
- Tour Guide (yi-ching lin)
- Tour Guide (simply photos)
- Tour Guide (salle de shoot)
- Tour Guide (beijing daily photo 2)
- Tour Guide (mittened hands)
- Tour Guide (stenoodie)
- Tour Guide (eirik jested)
- Tour Guide (sunrise, sunset)
- Tour Guide (life after tree)
- Tour Guide (wells baum)
- Beloved (mittened hands)
- Beloved (words won’t do)
- Beloved (jinan daily photo)
- Beloved (stenoodie)
- Beloved (half a photograph)
- Beloved (snapshots: styles and smiles)
- Beloved (here and abroad)
- Beloved (strange wednesdays)
- Beloved (ohm sweet ohm)
- Beloved (no fixed plans)
- Beloved (narrow bamboo gate)
- Beloved (cambodian beginnings)
Travel Theme: Warm
Shanghai
Xi’an
Rivertown near Shanghai
In response to Ailsa’s prompt this week, I’m sharing photos with Warm. Can be warm things, warm colors.
What does Warm make you think of? If you fancy exploring the unfamiliar, exotic and unknown for this week’s travel theme (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel Theme: Warm
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Watch out for the next travel theme which will come out next weekend
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes.
- Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS.
❤ Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack?
Travel Theme: Fragile
Sydney, Australia
Flea Market, China
Shandong Provincial Museum
In response to Ailsa’s prompt this week, I’m sharing photos with Fragile. I’d delighted to share photos of one of my loves, pottery.
What does Fragile make you think of? If you fancy exploring the unfamiliar, exotic and unknown for this week’s travel theme (everyone’s welcome!) here’s what to do:
- Create your own post and title it Travel Theme: Fragile
- Include a link to this page in your post so others can find it too
- Watch out for the next travel theme which will come out next weekend
- Don’t forget to subscribe to keep up to date on the latest weekly travel themes.
- Sign up via the email subscription link in the sidebar or RSS.
❤ Ailsa of Where’s My Backpack?
Night of 1,000 Jack o’Lanterns
From Night of 1,000 Jack o’Lanterns
This weekend from Thursday through Sunday the Chicago Botanic Garden is holding the Night of 1,000 Jack o’Lanterns. I got tickets in advance which turned out to be essential since it’s sold out for all days.
The event is well planned. Our time to enter was 7:45 pm and though we arrived at the gardens on time the line to enter was long, so we should have come earlier. After parking, and we lucked out that they directed traffic so well that we must have hit the period when those who came at 5:30 had all left so we got to park in the lot nearest the visitors’ center. After entering we found long lines, but they moved swiftly.
Sea Monster
Once inside we were delighted by Halloween music and dozens of jack o’lanterns, large and small. Well, huge and mid-size is more accurate. The “small” jack o’lanterns were the size most families buy and the big ones were perhaps 3 feet high. The jumbo ones were carved by artists and were grouped by themes. Themes included musicians, Chicago sports, Flora of Illinois, Fairy Tales, and Classic Halloween.
After about an hour we reached a fork in the paths. One side led to the exit and the other to the model train exhibit. Though I’ve seen the model train exhibit, which consists of models of American sites like the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Hollywood sign or Wrigley’s Field, we decided to go again. I’m so glad we did. They’d decked out the buildings made of twigs and the trains with ghosts, goblins, witches, pumpkins and such.
Then after exiting the model train exhibit we got to see two more themes of jack o’lanterns: Fairy Tales and Classic Halloween.
Tickets are sold out. For members they were $12 and for non-members $14.
Parking for members is free and it costs $25 for non-members.
Ruined for Life: Phoenix Edition 