Sunday Scavenger Hunt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

font is Boring Shower and the frames are by One Little Bird from the Hands Across the Gulf kit.

See what others have found and find the list for next week at Scavenger Hunt Sunday

March crafting projects

 

I decided to focus on my crafting projects for my details collection page in The Monthly for March.

From top left, clockwise

Knitting jumpers for a charity helping AIDS orphans in S Africa, thanks to Sian for the link to this charity.

My beading stash was one of the things I took out of storage in February, having packed it away in May 2009.  I was glad to find that I remembered all the techniques when I started using the stuff again.  Top creating a tassel on a large bead for Mother’s Day.  below making necklace and earrings for my sister after we saw one in the shop.

Applying texture to photos in PSE

The flowers are from a digi scrap page that I was playing with

The bunting I made for my Mum’s birthday – 10 meters of blue bunting for the garden.  My sewing machine is another thing that came out of the storage.

I really enjoyed doing a range of crafts in March, especially those that I haven’t done since I packed up all my stuff in 2009.

 

 

The paper, tag and the flowers in the digi page are all from the Brighter Days Ahead kit.

seasonal eating

I was talking to a friend from New Zealand last week and he asked about my Fejoa chutney recipe.  I was transported back to the taste of fejoas which are abundant for about a month each year.  They have a wonderful fragrant but sharp taste and make good jam and chutney.  The fejoa bruises easily so the fruit is not exported or stored.  I looked back at my 2009 April photos, when I was living in New Zealand and sure enough I had a photo of fejoa and apples in my fruit bowl.

Looking at that fruitbowl I know that it is from April because those red apples and fejoa are only available in the southern hemisphere autumn.
By contrast my fruit bowl now could have been taken at any time during the northern hemisphere winter and spring – satsuma and pears and pretty constant for months and don’t shout spring at me.  In fact one of my photo a day photos from April last year, when I was in Australia shows oranges and pears in the supermarket

I like the seasonality of fruit and vegetables. I like to mark the seasons through all of my senses, including taste. I don’t buy out of season fruit even though there are lots of strawberries in the supermarket at the moment.

playing with blending modes

visiting my parents in the country at the weekend I (of course) snapped a fair number of shots.  Back at my computer I decided to play with adding texture and the different effects of the same texture when applying different blend modes in PSE.  I used the warm sun texture from Kim Klassen.  If you want to see lots of other uses of this texture then visit her new texture Tuesday link up. 

colour burn blending mode





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multiply then linear blending mode and then erased linear from the green leaves in focus



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linear burn blending mode





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colour burn blending mode twice then soft light blending mode



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Do you have a favourite?