Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Texture Tuesday - Love
The prompt for this weeks Texture Tuesday was Love.... no worries this shot sprang immediately to mind. My daughter Alicia with her very new baby girl Elle. Is there anything stronger, anything more pure, anything more lasting and true than the love of a mother for her baby. I don't think so. I remember this day, Alicia tired and a little nervous I think about being a new mum again. This time it was different though, this time her beautiful baby came home, this time she got to hold her in her arms and snuggle her soft sweet neck. She got to smell her delicious baby scent. This time she said she really knew she was a mumma. I could tell she was in love, I could feel that love pouring from her to Elle as she held her. Oh there is nothing like a mother's love.
Recipe for this layering and texturing is:
Duplicate the pic convert to black and white at about 60% opacity
Layer with Kim's subtly yours texture on multiply at 77%
Layer with Kim's if only texture on softlight at 100%
Add two colour fill layers in a pink and a soft mauve
Add the frame layer and voila you have it.
I am taking a Finding Your Eye course with Kat at the moment too and so far enjoying it immensely. You can find my efforts on flickr or drop by Kat's and see what she has to offer.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
He Really Knows Me
My husband knows me! Inside out and upside down he knows me. I think it's funny that people, friends say things like "oh you're so extrovert, so confident, so out there" while Adrian sits and knows that that, is the face I want them to see. He knows how nervous and insecure I get. He knows the movies I like, and the ones I just wouldn't watch. He knows which jokes I will laugh at and which ones I will hate. He knows I cannot stand intolerence of anyone, any race, he just knows. He knows what I drink first thing in the morning and last thing at night. He knows I love gorgonzola cheese and that I know he hates it. He knows what will make me cry and what will make me laugh. He knows when I am sad, lonely, happy. He knows me. He knows that at Christmas I just have to see my children, that going to the cemetary makes me cry, that Baskin and Robbins is my favourite icecream and that love potion 31 is my favourite flavour. He knows I love raspberries and chocolate together. He knows I love chocolate peanut butter icecream. I am so glad he knows me and that even after knowing me so well he still loves me.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
All the colours of the world
I have just completed an interview for Se'Lah and it got me thinking about all of us here. All of us, different colours, different beliefs, different countries, languages, cultures, diets, school systems, family situations, economic situations, all so different and yet here we are. We are women and men loving each other, sharing with each other, supporting and caring. How much do you love these people, some you'll never meet in person, but who you grieve with, laugh with and love. It is amazing isn't it just amazing.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
February 14th Happy Valentine's Day
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine
A quote from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin
I also think love is a choice, we feel like we fall in love, but for love to last, the ups and downs, the highs and lows, the bitter and the sweet, we have to choose to stay in love. On those days when we don't feel in love anymore, we hold on tight and we close our eyes and we choose, to stay, to persevere, to forgive, to forget, to carry on. Until our roots grow together and entwine and we are one, no longer two.
Happy Valentines Day and one love to you all.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Love is...
I must apologise for being away for a few days, this week seems to have flown. I have spent many hours fiddling with Photoshop Elements 7 and have totally lost track of time. I have spent hours on the phone reconnecting to a friend whom I haven't spoken with in several months. I have spent many days calling another friend for her birthday and missing her everytime, still....
I have spent as little time as I can possibly get away with and still look like I am actually doing it, doing the ironing. Honestly the bane of my life I hate with a capital H ironing. And I have spent oodles of time scanning hotels in Cannes and booking them and booking our cooking class in Paris and just day dreaming about that incredibly exciting trip. Umm I believe it is 84 days till we depart, not that I'm counting or anything. No never, how childish would that be? I have slept and I have read and I have watched this week the entire 3rd season of CSI, my husband got hooked at Christmas time when our eldest daughter gave him season 2 on dvd and so now he is a Grissom fan. I have also spent lots of time thinking about houses. We are on the hunt, again. I say again becasue honestly I think I have some Gypsy blood mixed in with my good old English blue. We are never in one place very long it seems. We built the house we are in just over 4 years ago. So hey that's long enough I think. Actually we have two ideas simmering away and one is some space and a little bit of country. We have looked at 2 houses in the last week on acreage. One 2 and a half acres with its own rainforest how cool is that? And one on nearly 9 acres with 5 horse paddocks. No I do not ride or even really like horses that much. Not that I dislike them now, but they are mostly big and have really big teeth. . eeww. So we are going back to the horse paddock one tomorrow and taking Ashleigh and Danielle for a little look. It has a pool as well and isn't a bad house, but I don't love it. And usually when I find a house I want to buy I love it, really love it. I even bought one house twice. Uhhmm I sure did, crazy you say, well not really it worked out great for us, but I know it isn't the usual thing to do. At this point in time the other house is under a contract waiting for finance approval and I just had a feeling we would still be getting it, the house is nicer and the granny flat too, so who knows what will happen.
Anyway love is in the air with Valentine's Day only a week away and over at Lensustogether the post for this week is Love..... here is my contribution..Have a great weekend all.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Love as if.......
This morning we walked early and the air was fresh and clean and the sun shiny and bright. The birds made a rabble as we strolled along, a hare hopped away into the scrub all seemed well with the world. Then this afternoon we heard that a friend doesn't have long to live... this life we live is not so easy. The days roll on and we are reminded that we need to live every day as if it is our last as well it might be. We need to love each other and make sure they know we love them. We need to not miss the moment that needs to be shared. We need to smile and laugh and love and cry and sigh and share and hug and dance and sit a while. We need to live. A life well lived is all we really have to give. Family, friends and those for whom we can make a difference are the main things we should focus on. Dance as if no one is watching, Love as if you've never been hurt, Laugh until you cry, Live as if there is no tomorrow.
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