Photo Recap Week 2

You may recall that I have decided to follow along with the prompts suggested by FatMomSlim to take one inspired photo each day. Below are the results from my second week's efforts, including the start of the March prompts.

Sunday, February 26 -Night

Bedtime knitting

Monday, February 27 - Something You Ate

My Cupcakery cupcake matched my pin cushion!

Tuesday, February 28 - Money

All that was left in my wallet on Monday. 

Wednesday, February 29 - Something You're Listening To

Asa on the iPod

Thursday, March 1 - Up

Friday, March 2 - Fruit

Saturday, March 3 - Your Neighbourhood

I may have got a bit behind this week and did not post the pictures on instagram on time. But I managed them in the end. I am also using a new app called TtV Photo Studio that I would highly recommend if you love the vintage look to photos.

msi.

Weekly Photography Recap

Hello blogosphere friends,

This Monday I wanted to share with you a new project I am embarking on. Since I want to start getting back into photography, plus I am loving all these fun photo apps for the itouch I have decided to take part in a photo365 challenge. I will be following along with the prompts suggested by FatMomSlim to take one inspired photo each day. Below are the results from my first week's efforts. Enjoy! 

Sunday, February 19 - Something I Hate To Do

Lola got into something, and really needed a bath. This was only her second bath ever and she did not enjoy the experience.



Monday, February 20 - Handwriting

For Family Day, the guy and I went for a nice walk along Queen W. I snapped this shot of graffiti in one of the alleyways.



Tuesday February 21 - A Favourite Photo of Myself

This photo is from Chicago, but I edited it with ColourSplash.


Wednesday, February 22 - Where I Work

My MacBook.



Thursday, February 23 - My Shoes

My shoes and showing off my brand new February Socks, just off the needles!



Friday, February 24 - Inside my Bathroom Cabinet

My sparkly jewelry boxes collected from one of my favourite stores that used to be on Front St. Sadly, now closed.



Saturday, February 25 - Green

Beads from our Queen W. trip waiting to be turned into something for spring.

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The Long and Winding Road

We are finally home from Maine. I say finally because the trip today involved 11 hours in the car as we drove through Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Quebec and Ontario on our journey home. We woke up this morning to a Maine Winter Wonderland and drove through snow, rain and sleet, but we made it. I even managed to finish Kevin's Christmas socks and start a baby hat. Glad to be sleeping in our own bed tonight and excited for the Christmas festivities to start tomorrow.


With 11 hours in the car I tried to make a few excuses to stop for photo-ops hence the following black and white series: the long and winding road.

The view from the house in the morning snow: a true winter wonderland. 

Ski slopes covered in the good stuff.

White Mountains National Park

Now these are some icicles 

A waterfall. not completely frozen. Did you know a waterfall could also be called a flume? I learned something new today. 

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An Afternoon in Portland

On our last day in Maine we explored downtown Portland and the surrounding coast. 

Matt wanted authentic New England Clam Chowder so we went to Gilbert's in downtown Portland for lunch.

In the restaurant Matt and Dad looked at an old navigational map of the Maine coast. 

Matt and his clam chowder, brimming over in a bread bowl. 

After lunch we headed to Portland Head Lighthouse at low tide. 

Under the lighthouse.

Old wood at the Lighthouse.

We left Portland Head and went to Twin Lights where we explored a bit of the park and coast line. These burrs were similar to the ones that were stuck in the alpaca fur from a few days ago. 

Lichen growing on the rocks.

Dad and Matt in the waning light.

Rocky shore line. 

Dad explores tide pools at sunset. 

Driftwood

Matt and Dad searched for sea glass.

Matt gets ready to dip his finger into the Atlantic...

Brrrrrr!

The sun sets on another wonderful day. 

I even managed to fit some yarn shopping in, at a great local shop called KnitWit. I will share my yarn haul from another local company, Quince and Co. in a later post.


Long drive home tomorrow.


msi. 

New Technology, Vintage Look

The guy and I both got new ipod touches for Christmas, and we got to unwrap them early so we can have them during the upcoming Christmas travel and festivities. I had an older generation itouch that I bought used a while back and I loved it. The most exciting thing about the new one is the built in camera. I have already downloaded instagram, vintage cam and hipstomatic. I love that these programs allow you to make photos that look and feel vintage. You can follow me on instagram (nervousknitter) but here are a few of the pictures I took of this lazy Sunday.

Tiny and Large - my two most recent finished knits, A bulky cowl out of Malabrigo Rasta and a delicate fingerless mitten out of Tanis Fiber Arts merino cashmere fingering weight.

Yesterday during my last shopping attempt I bought this ball at Romni Wool. The staff made over 50 balls from the new book 50 Christmas Balls to Knit and sold them for charity. All of the proceeds from these balls go to POGO (Paediatric Oncology Group Ontario). I though the squirrel motif went perfectly with our woodland themed tree. 

Our beautiful handmade ornament laden tree.

Gorgeous flowers, a holiday gift from my dear friend Lindsay

Taken on my Nikon, I couldn't resist showing a close up on the lusciousness that is the Malabrigo cowl. 

Lola just had to get in on the photo shoot action. 

'til next time,


msi.