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OK, so I’m just a few days late on my Macro Monday, again. As I mentioned in a previous post, there’s been a lot on my mind. Plus I’ve been busy doing some design work for a fellow photographer, and another for a fellow blogger. I can definitely say I’m busy, and within a matter of days I feel like I’ve started to slip behind on everything - oops. I’ll get caught up.. I will, I promise. I just have to.

I have made a little time here and there to concentrate on some painting, which inspired my shot for this week. At this point, I could use a really good vacation. Know of any vacation deals?

These are a few examples of the fabrics I’d like to use for my handbags. What do you think?

I’m really fond of the first two, but I’m a little unsure about the third one. I love the pattern and colors, but it’s Spring and Summer will be here soon. I think the third one would be better in the fall, don’t you think? I’m also thinking about combining the floral prints with either solids or stripes. Gingham would probably work for some of them too, but only in moderation so that they don’t wind up too “country” or anything. The second patten would probably look nice with black and white gingham, then again it would probably look nice with solid pink, green or aqua. If I could just get it narrowed down already!

I’m going to be starting something new soon, a weekly photo meme. I’ve been thinking about this for about a week or so and it just seems fitting, especially after hearing “Manic Monday” while thinking about it. It just all came together.

You know how much I enjoy photography, like many of you. And you know how much I love, love, love macro photography (or as I like to call it, macrotography). I shall call it “Macro Monday” - it’s just another macro Monday. I’ll start it this coming Monday, March 31st and I really hope you’ll all participate. There will be no subject requirements, only the macro requirement. It sounds pretty fun to me. I don’t know how you feel about it, but I hope it’s sort of the same.

If you think you’ll be interested in participating, just check back here early on Monday, March 31st. Maybe I’ll be able to stick with it for a full year, though I failed miserably at other “like” projects.

Also, need I remind you about my contest? Hey, look! I just did.

The things I do for a picture. I guess I spent too much time on that cliff near the shipwreck yesterday. Too much wind and misty conditions have done a number on my health. I woke up this morning with a bit of stuffiness in my nose and a few snifflies. Now I’m into that whole hacking, coughing, sneezing, just-not-feeling-good-at-all mode. I guess that’s the price we pay though, I definitely wouldn’t change it because I love the way the shots turned out and can’t wait to print some and send to my family back in Georgia.

Speaking of the pictures though, I took a few other miscellaneous shots while we were out and about yesterday. This little red shed (hey, that rhymed) stuck out against the dreary day.

Now if you’ll excuse me. I have some art to create and a delicious French Vanilla Smoothie to drink, courtesy of my new best friend, Tim Horton. Ha, ha. I sure hope it makes me throat feel better!

Introducing the new PHOTOGRAPHYGIRLS.COM.

I figured since it’s a new year, I should try something new. I had neglected the group blog thing for a few months, after things got really hectic. After a couple of months, I started brainstorming ideas about what I should do with place and knowing I didn’t want to abandon it all together. I thought turning it into a forum would be the best thing.

There isn’t much there right now because I’ve just put the finishing touches to the forum itself but I have big plans and hope to do a bit more with it later on down the road.

To anyone who was a member to the previous group blog, I encourage you to join - just remember it’s for females only, in case the name didn’t give that away. I look forward to seeing everyone!

I’m really loving this digital scrapbooking thing. I mean, I enjoy paper scrapbooking too which is something that Stacey and I did together before she went back to North Carolina. This, however, allows me to be a little more creative at times. The other day I did a digital scrapbook page for my mother in law and mentioned that I was going to start working on one for my sister in law, Colleen. Well, I finished it up last night and here’s the result. By the way, I recommend clicking the photo and viewing the larger version.

I think I’ll work on one with some of the photos taken from around here. Actually, I think I may do that trip to Twillingate one day this week or maybe some of the shipwrecks and do a scrapbook page of those.

It’s been awhile since I’ve done any crafting and I figured with the holidays coming up, it’s the perfect time to pick it back up. I’ve been doing a few digital scrapbooking pages, which really lead to my desire to do other crafts. In the near future, you can expect some of those to be available for purchase. I also decided I would buy a new domain and just consider this a whole new project. I’m nowhere near ready to announce the website because I only purchased it about an hour ago and prefer to have actual content before promoting it. I’m hoping to work on it over the next couple of days and with any luck, make it public before the end of the weekend.

I think I’ll start working on setting up the blog and working on a simple, yet crafty design for it.

As if I don’t have enough blogs to maintain - enter Eyetakepictures.com. This came about a couple of days ago, while trying to figure out a couple of domain names (for future projects). I honestly didn’t think the domain name would be available but thankfully, it was. This will be my daily photoblog. And yes, I mean DAILY. I am going to push myself to take and post one picture everyday for the next year.

Keep in mind that I’m only just beginning so there isn’t that much there, but in time, there will be loads more to see.

I have been working on illustrations for that greeting card project I mentioned I’d be launching. I have been working on them for a few months now but I’m still not ready to release all of them just yet. I hope to release the blog in the next week or two and then release the collection for purchasing sometime in late October. I’m just trying to make sure I have a large collection, so that people have many designs to choose from.

They range from birthday cards, Christmas cards, thank you notes, name cards and other holiday or everyday greetings. I think I will share a couple of these with you all. Tell me what you think.

Ps; I had to resize them for this entry. Just FYI, since downsizing distorted some of the lines (which are smooth in the originals). (3 more behind the cut)

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Rather silly, I suppose but I’ve created a little blog for myself - Life In Newfoundland over at blogspot. I can’t push the idea of living in Newfoundland out of my mind - maybe it’s just that I don’t want to as well. I figured I’d start this little side project, to keep my “hope” about it alive.

Speaking of which…

Still no budging with Jo. He just seems so set against it and it is really upsetting. We got into over this the other day. He just doesn’t understand how depressed/upset or whatever, I am about being here in Calgary. I do not like it here and as I’ve said before, I cannot picture myself making a life here permanently. The traffic drives me nuts. The fast pace of everything drives me nuts. My anxiety just goes through the roof when I’m having to face those things. I’m surprised I don’t have blisters on the palms of my hands from how tight I clutch the steering wheel when I’m driving.

He also doesn’t understand my point about holidays. As it is now, if we were to stay in Calgary, holidays would be a mess. We’d either have to spend it with his family or my own, us in Newfoundland and flying out my family, us in Georgia and flying out his (minus the grandparents because they’re getting too old for traveling and his grandmother is still sick). It’s like I tried explaining to him - it’d be much easier if we were in Newfoundland (neither of us think we want to live in the states again). We could have my family flown up for the holidays, which would allow both of our families to celebrate together every year. Christmas is my mom’s favorite holiday. It’s “her” time, you know? I don’t want to spend my holidays split between families. This past Christmas was so hard because my family wasn’t there and while I truly loved being with his family and celebrating with them, I still would’ve liked my family being there.

Is it selfish of me to want this? I just don’t think it is, honestly. I know we’d be happy there. We both were this past winter. We’d both be working and since there are no photography studio’s there, I could gradually build myself up to owning one.

You just have no idea how happy I was there. How content I was and the peace I felt. It was the most wonderful time of my life and I want it back, forever. I don’t think that’s selfish.

Well, now that I’m off the original topic…

Feel free to check up on the new blog along and along. You can link to it if you want too, that’s up to you.

Life In Newfoundland