Every Day's an Adventure

so looking forward to it!  Haven't been to Nova Scotia since I drove across Canada almost thirty years ago.  Now I am going with some wonderful friends and will be looking at things with a photographer's eye.  I found it certainly makes a difference on how I see things.

One of the colours featured in Canadian Scrapbooker in the summer was turquoise.  It's a fabulous colour and always makes me think of swimming pools and shallow tropical waters.  But it also works well for ice and glaciers!

I have always loved the look of mosaics.  My neighbor Kim does amazing mosaic art with bits of broken tile, and there is just something so neat about using little bits of something to make a picture.  All of us scrapbookers have plenty of bits of paper, so with a little patience (and a sheet of two-sided adhesive), paper mosaics can be a perfect solution to using up scraps and having a little artistic fun.  If you haven't, be sure to check out the Mosaics article in the fall edition of the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine.  Here's a couple of my layouts from that article:

well, apparently not just a bad tomato year for me.  Now I know what the problem is with my tomato plants!  I had noticed some very unusual disease symptoms but thought this was caused in part by the constant wetness and low temperatures.  That certainly helped, but turns out that an unusual tomato blight is wiping out tomatoes across Alberta.  The whole story is here in today's Edmonton Journal.  Very disappointing for many people who look forward to that amazing homegrown tomato harvest. :-(

so, with the temperatures being definitely 'coolish', a lot of winged things are not moving as quickly as they used to (or at all).  I came across this moth (at least I think it's a moth) sitting right in the middle of the sidewalk the other day basking in the sun and trying to warm up.  An hour later, he was still there, so I grabbed the camera and tried to sink down to his level.  He was very cooperative, not moving a millimeter while I was trying to focus.  As many of you know, getting a good close up macro photograph is a bit tricky.   I'm not sure what happened to him, the next time I checked he was gone.

I've covered my tomato plants two nights in a row, and the weather forecast is horrible, so I guess I finally have to give up and call it a season.  It was an abysmal year for many things in the garden, especially my treasured tomatoes, because of consistent cool wet conditions.  Poor things just never got a chance to bask in the sun and so I hardly have enough ripe tomatoes to make a single bowl of fresh salsa.  :-(

Oh well, time to move on.  The boys have been back at school since the end of August, the leaves are starting to turn and the days are noticeably shorter.  Guess that means I will have more time to blog! 

Here's a fall layout that I did a while back with Jillibean Soup product, and MyStampBox little alphabet stamps.  I love the quote, so appropriate for this neck of the woods.

Thanks for playing along!  Hope you had fun.  I loved reading all of your comments.  I just wish summer was longer.  :-(

Winners of the prizes for the first ever Canadian Scrapbooker blog hop are posted here.  Congratulations everybody!!!!!!!!!!  Tthere are some lovely prizes from a variety of manufacturers.

Now, be sure to check out the Blogiversary contest just posted on the Hands on Photography website.  One lucky winner will win a WeR Memory Keeper Cinch and be published in the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine.  And even if you don't win the contest you will take some great photos and get some scrapbooking done!  :-)

Welcome to my blog and thanks for participating in our Hands On! photography blog hop!!!!!!!!



You should have arrived here from Jackie Ludlage’s blog.   If you didn’t, please visit the Hands On! Photography blog HERE  to start at the beginning and visit each person’s blog in order, so that you don’t miss out on your chance to win any of the prizes!

We are celebrating the one year anniversary of the Canadian Scrapbooker Hands On! Photography blog, also referred to as the HOP blog. Last September, we launched the HOP blog as an added feature to the Hands On! Photography article in each issue, to offer more in-depth tutorials for the topics that Sue discussed in her articles.

Each month, Sue posts a new tutorial on the HOP blog, with photo examples and helpful links. Our magazine and blog readers are encouraged to submit their photos, which are then shared on the HOP blog and entitle them to a chance to win a randomly drawn prize each month!

I'm excited to announce that the blog hop prize I have to give away to one lucky commenter is this prize pack from Cosmo Cricket:


Want a chance to win this prize? In celebrating our one-year anniversary, we'd like to invite you to review one of our past tutorials. My choice is the December 2009 tutorial on Bokeh. To win, just visit this tutorial and leave a comment there, and then come back and leave me a comment with your favourite summer pasttime! It's as easy as that!

Thanks for participating in our blog hop!! Now, onto the next blog... You'll be visiting the talented Heather Starosielski!