Wish

At Bird is the Word we have a new challenge word to introduce today.....our new word to use on a layout or other project is WISH.  You will have one month to complete this project.  When the time is up for the challenge our design team will vote for a first place winner and four featured winners.

The first place winner will receive a blog badge and a kit from Tidbitz In Time.  All featured winners will receive a special badge for her blog.

I will begin by taking you through my train of thought on this page. It's ok, it won't be too scary...lol.
I created this flowery thingy which represented the dandelion that DD is blowing:

 And the flowers from my masking is the pieces of the dandelion blowing away.....

So putting it all together,

And I made up my own little quote too.  It seemed to fit perfectly with this pic.

Now I have been a bit lazy with my photo a day for this month but on Saturday I went to a Photography Workshop held by the talented Celeste Vermeend.  She takes amazing photos so I jumped at the opportunity to meet her and learn how it is all done.  Well a start anyway.  I am an Auto girl when it comes to using my camera so to learn about light and what my camera can actually do was just fabulous.

So now I am inspired again and Celeste has actually set us a challenge to take 10 pics (from the 30 day Photography Challenge I did in Sept) in the next month. She also gave us a frame as a gift so we could frame our favourite photo.


And yesterday we went to a National Park with the kiddies so it was a perfect opportunity to put my new found knowledge to the test.

There is such a huge difference playing with the lighting and when I looked back at my Auto photos, wow, they just don't compare.

Here is a sample of some pics from our day..

DS and DD.  Don't you just love her chocolatey mouth....

DD and a girlfriend's daughter, gazing into the river.

And my big boy.

And this last one comes with a little story.  The kids were playing in the water, yep, shoes and all.  You are only young once hey so what do wet shoes and shorts matter?
Well DS7 decided to take a break on a rock to get the pebbles out of his shoe when that shoe decided to go for a swim.....downstream.  He was devastated and somehow thought hubby or I could go for a swim to look for it.....ummmm, not quite.
So he returned home with only one shoe.  Luckily they were a very oooooold pair of shoes and it didn't matter.  So this pic is of him sitting on the rock in tears over his lost shoe.

Thanks for sitting through this terribly long post.  I hope you have a fab day.

Take care.

Jasx