It's Coming

The Winter 2009 issue of Canadian Scrapbooker will be in stores December 1st!

Here is a sneak peek of the cover:


I was thrilled when my copies arrived in the mail yesterday. (I'll bet that was not what my mail man was thinking though!) Don't you just love getting a magazine before it hits the newstands or is on store shelves. I know I do.

Miss E was so cute, she took out her polishing cloth and gave the cover a little shine. Then she asked me how many people would see the magazine. I told I was not sure of the exact numbers, but I know it is a lot of people all across Canada. Her eyes lit up at the thought of being famous!!!

Thanks Jackie and the fabulous people at Canadian Scrapbooker for the opportunity to work with you again.

Stay tuned for a special promotion I will be running in conjunction with the release of this Winter issue on December 1st.

Gone Batty

I am not sure I have any other way to describe these pictures than that..."Gone Batty"! Yep, I think she was done, she had just plain had enough, and the pictures show it.

Yes, Grandma, I know you are looking and thinking, but that is not what she wore for Halloween. No, it was not her Halloween costume this year, but it was last year. I know, I know, why am I taking pictures of last year's costume??? Well, you see, because last year, E wanted pictures in her Halloween costume on the beach in Florida(we left for Florida after trick or treating last Halloween), but of course in the last minute rush, I forgot to pack the costume. Then by the time we got home, it was too cold and snowy, then next thing you knew it was summer, and way to hot to put on a heavy costume like this. So here we are, one year later, just getting pictures of her Halloween costume.



Attack mode


See, she is done, just plain done.



A close up of that expression. Seriously, how does she point her eyebrows like that?


Now to try and get some of this years costume before it snows.

Colour Challenge

I chose the colour purple for Inspiration Challenge #1 - Colour over at Two Photogs. Basically all you need to do to participate is pick a colour and shoot it. You then use the handy template they provide to put the pictures into a neat little collage, post it on you blog and then comment and leave a link to your blog on their blog. Easy peasy right! Well, I guess that depends on what colour you choose. I chose Purple because it was my daughters favorite colour. Who knew I would be able to find so much purple around, or that purple came in so many different shades and hues.

Somewhere over the rainbow....

I think I have had that song in my head since seeing an amazing rainbow the other morning. When I first looked outside early in the morning, the sky was a orangish/gray colour off into the west while the sun was just rising in the east. I also noticed a red beam of light off to the north. I went out for a better look and noticed that is was actually part of a rainbow.




Just after taking a couple of pictures of the rainbow, it started to rain ( I thought the rainbow came after the rain, not before), and the rainbow became more vibrant.

Here it is over our house. I changed the white balance on this one to get the nice blue sky, it was actually the sort of eerie gray in the second picture. Fun to see how colour temperature can change the look of a picture.




It was just so amazing to see, the colours were so vibrant, I could see the colours in front of the dull gray bare trees in the forest.