A couple of cuties

I've been getting a little bit of portrait practice in over the last few days.

My nephew is always a willing model, and his gorgeous brown eyes always make him a lovely subject.

A good friend of mine gave birth to her second daughter last Saturday, so when I went to visit her, I took the opportunity to get a sneaky shot in.  She is just perfect.

365 days project - week 19

Right, after a very busy and stressful week at work, I may just start to get my life back.  Which means that there should be fewer last minute, lazy photos in my 365 project, and I might get back into getting out and about and trying new things.  Especially as we're moving into summer and the sun is starting to shine a little more.

Day 133 - Tiny Flowers

Day 132

Such a long day today! I had an options evening and was in work until 9pm, so when I got in, all I could manage was this rather crappy shot of the first thing I saw lying about - my pencil case!

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Day 128

We're out celebrating my friend's birthday tonight! I picked up these massive helium balloons in town earlier, and had to carry them home, so I did look a bit of a plonker!

Day 127

365 days project - week 18

Yikes!  This project is getting hard!  It was Bank Holiday weekend, and I had a lot of fun, but found it hard to squeeze in my photos or do anything even vaguely creative.  I really need to get back on track!

Day 126 - Who will it be?

Election night tonight!

I've been to cast my vote and will be watching the results eagerly.

Day 125 - Pamper time

Another manic day at work, then running around most of the evening, so a bit of a rushed shot tonight. Anyway, my Bodyshop order arrived today, so I can't wait for some serious pampering!

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Day 123 - Cake, the answer to all life's problems

After a rather heavy weekend, the only solution on a Bank Holiday Monday is a big, fat carrot cake to get me back on my feet!

Day 122

Last night was a rather heavy one. I'm getting too old these days, and tend to suffer so much the next day. All I can manage to do is have an early night with my book and some music.

Day 121

I love the flower shops in the Covered Market. They've got all these pretty things for the garden hanging up outside, and it just looks so cute!

Day 120

Look who was lurking on my patio. I think he came to tell me it was going to be a wet Bank Holiday weekend :(

365 days project - week 17

I'm not too happy with how my 365 is going at the moment.  I have a lot on at work at the moment, with lots of late nights, and I'm so tired when I get in that I have no imagination for creative and interesting shots.  Hopefully when things ease off a bit, I'll be able to get back on track.


Day 119 - Woof!

Another late night, I'm afraid. Lots of work to do at the moment, and not much time for 365. As you may have noticed, my dog, Chester, is rather special. This is his rather smart dog tag.


Day 118 - Spritz

I went to a Body Shop party tonight. Didn't get my 365 shot done until I got in rather late! I won this body mist in the 'bitch raffle' (I don't think it's really called that, but it sounds about right). It smells gawjus!!


Day 117 - Hazy, summer days

I love that in the springtime my garden comes into its own! It looks so inviting in the evening sun. My beautiful cherry tree is blossoming, I've just had some lovely raised beds built for my vegetables, and there's nothing nicer than getting in from work, and taking a good book to lay back and relax in the swing seat!


Day 116 - Chives

Day 115 - Cherry Blossom

The cherry tree in my garden is in full bloom now! It's so lovely when it comes out and brings a bit of life back to the garden.


Day 114

I was just on my way out this evening, when I realised I hadn't done my 365 shot, so I did a quick, handheld SP.

My skin is horrible at the moment, so thank god for PS and skin smoothing!

Day 113

365 days project - week 16

Another week done!  Now spring has properly sprung, and lots of things are starting to grow in my garden, there may become rather a lot of tedious 'stuff in my garden' shots.  I'll have to try to be as creative as possible with them.

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Day 109

As I was watering the plants this evening, there was a beautiful, golden light coming from the last of the day's sun. I loved the way it was catching the red foliage of the rosebush, making everything glow.

Day 108 - Don't ask!

I have no idea what Chester was doing here! I came into the kitchen to find him like this, under his blanket, with just his paw sticking out.

He is nuts!

 
Day 107 - Chitting
 

It's been a gorgeous day today! I've been busy in the garden, getting things ready to grow so I have a lovely, bountiful crop come the summer.

I've always done quite well with potatoes over the last few years. I love digging up a fresh crop and taking them straight to the kitchen for a delicious dinner! This year I thought I'd go for some salad potatoes, so fingers crossed these are a success!
 
Day 106 - Volcanic sunset

Volcanic sunset

With all this Icelandic volcano business, we're meant to be getting some pretty stunning sunsets as a result of all the ash in the atmosphere, so I headed up the hill last night to see if I could catch some pretty sunset shots.


Unfortunately, it wasn't that impressive last night.  I've seen the sky much redder on ordinary evenings.  Still with a bit of a saturation boost, this doesn't look too bad, plus the windmill at Brill is one of my favourite silhouettes, whatever colour the sky is.

365 days project - week 15

Passed the 100 day milestone this week! Now the sun is shining, and things are getting going on my garden, I have become a bit more inspired with things to photograph (although I had a bit of a blip over the weekend when I wasn't quite feeling up to taking very inspired pictures!)


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Tonight's dinner - butternut squash! I'm going to have a go at growing these in my garden this year as I just lurve them! It may end up like last year's courgettes and I'll end up with so many of them that I end up sick of them, but we shall see!

Day 103 - Nosey

My mum has 2 Norfolk terriers, Molly and Mabel (I'm not entirely sure which one this is!) They're so little that whenever I go around there, the first thing I see is a tiny little nose poking through the little gap at the bottom of the garden gate!


Day 102

I've been sneaking around my neighbour's garden again, as I just love the deep pink of these flowers. Oh, I do love all the spring flowers at the moment!


Day 101

I've spent the morning in the garden today.  As well as the boring jobs like mowing the lawn and picking out weeds, I managed to pick out the first of this year's rhubarb!

This has now been turned into a delicious rhubarb and apple crumble, which was really good even if I do say so myself.

Day 100 - I heart tights

Still recovering from my weekend so I'm afraid it's a rather rubbish shot tonight.  I bought these tights the other day and I'm rather loving them at the moment, so they'll have to do as today's shot.

Day 99 - Oops!

I went to visit a friend this weekend. It was such lovely weather, and there were 2 for 1 Mojitos, and by the time I remembered I needed to take my 365 shot we'd had a bottle of wine with our dinner.


This was my attempt to grab a quick shot, but as you may notice it's totally out of focus as I didn't exactly have the steadiest hand!