30 Days of Photo's Link up party.....

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Hello all! Today I am linking up with Ten June for the 30 day photo challenge! Please stop by her site up above and check out what the pictures are for each day.

Day 1

Self Portrait:

Day 2
What I wore: 

This is what I wore on vacation, the day I had my moped accident.  Yes, in Bermuda the 2nd day!  A story for another day.

Day 3

Clouds:

Beautiful sunset.

Day 4

Something green:

Green plant.  Many people took a picture of grass.  It was raining the day I was taking pictures, so this is my green.  No flash

Day 5

From a low angle:

I should have not used a flash for this picture.

Day 6

From a high angle:

At the foot of our fireplace.

Day 7

Fruit:

A nice juicy red apple!

Well there ya go, 7 days of photo's.  Now go over to "Ten June" and check who else linked up.  Many of the ladies just bought new camera's so this a a practice session.  I am still saving for my camera.  These pictures were taken with a Cannon power shot, point and shoot.

Have a great day!

Susan

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Decorating question.

I know this is a terrible picture, I think something must be wrong with my camera.  We just painted our bedroom and I am trying to finish it up.  I am just having a hard time trying to deciding what to do with our window.  I have a valance that matches our quilt.  I take the quilt off in the Summer to lighten the room a little.  I moved the curtains from my office to try and decide if I should put long curtains at this window or put short ones.  Should I treat each window separately, or as one?  I originally had a valance and curtains to the sill.  The room is a steel blue/gray.  I have a white matelasse spread with a blue paisley summer quilt on the bottom of the bed.  I would appreciate any advice or ideas.

Remember the question I asked a while ago about the placement of the buffet in the dining room.  Well I moved the tea cart and buffet around and decided the buffet looked best on the wall when you can see it when you walk in.  Here it is all finished up.

                  I think it looks pretty good there.  The Tea cart was too small for this space I think.

Thanks so much for all your advice!

Susan

Clowning around.....

I have a story and it goes like this.  A long time ago, there was this young married woman who was helping out at church one day with some other women.  They were commenting on the new Christian Clowning that was going on in some churches.  They talked about it for a while and decided to take the course.  Gwynedd Mercy College was offering it at the time.  It was such an interesting course.  Did you know that once a Clown applies their make up they can't speak.  Everything must be done in mime.  The ladies learned all they could.  When they were done the class they spoke to their Pastor and asked if they could preform next Sunday's sermon in mime.  The Pastor was all for it, so they got down to the business of addressing how they would act out the sermon that the Pastor was going to present.  The Pastor decided to participate with them as well, since his wife was one of the women who took the course.  She explained  everything he had to know.  They all made their outfits, and they to had to have some kind of meaning for everything they added to their outfit. When Sunday came they were all a little nervous, but it went off without a hitch and it was very well accepted.  Everyone loved it and thought it was quite meaningful due to the fact that it was done in mime and the quietness of the church.  Here are some of the pictures.

It was amazing, that's all I can say.  Everyone left church with a full heart that day and will never forget that sermon. It was very spiritual.

Now it was around Halloween and the one young lady asked her family if they would be up for putting a skit together and perform it for a few family members where they were going to visit.  They were all up for it.  So the young lady made her husband and three children all Clown outfits.  The young husband had a beard at the time and the young woman wasn't sure if he would let her put his white face on top of the beard.  But the young man who loves his wife dearly said it was OK.  When they were all dressed and ready to go they practiced their skit in mime.  It was about how much God loves us.  The kids were awesome!

As they were performing their act, it brought tears to the young lady's eyes to think how lucky she was to have a family who trusted her with the help of God to make this happen.  The young family that I am talking about is our family.  I have one picture from this event, and it is one of my most prized possessions.  The glass was broken in our move and when I finally got around to fix it, the picture was stuck to the glass.  I took it to a camera shop to see if they could do anything about it.  They explained it would be very expensive, so I just had them scan the picture for me.

My Clown name is Susabelle, which was very meaningful to me.  My Aunt use to call me by that name. The Christian Clowning course was awesome!  We never wanted it to end.

Whishing you all a wonderful Sunday!

Susan

Christmas decorating!

I think we are done decorating for the Holidays. My husband has been so patient with me, (since I have a broken ankle, therefore I can't move around too much). He has done such a good job decorating and listening to me give direction. I wish he didn't have to help me so much. I do appreciate it and I thank him from the bottom of my heart.
I have been practicing with my camera and different settings. There is so much to learn about taking pictures. I would love to take a class. I especially like to take pictures of our grand children, which you have probably guessed by now. One thing on my bucket list when I retire is photography lessons, but that is a little way down the road. Oh well, here are some pic's of my favorite decorations.

Thank you so much for visiting!   Tote

Trimming the Tree!

Well, it is that time of year, the time when we all get together and trim the tree.  Now you see since we are empty Nester's we have our grand kids come over and help us.  They get so excited to help, and when they are done it seems like all the ornaments are at one level and below.  This year we got the ladder out for them.  They loved that!  I took the pictures since I am chair bound due to my broken ankle.  They are so much fun to watch.  Megan who is 6 loves being the boss of Connor who is 4.  "Connor, you line them up and I will hang them."  "No, I want to hang them too!"  "My turn on the ladder!"  You get the point.

The tree turned out beautiful and they were so proud of the job they did.  (We did move a few ornament's around.)  Here are a few more pictures of them decorating, and a few of our ornament's that I love.  Some of the handmade ornament's I made for our children were given to them for their trees after they were married.

I really want to take a picture of our Byers Choice Carolers, but that will be for another time.
Hope you all have fun decorating for this Holiday season, and remember why we have this Holiday season!  It's someones birthday!

A Birthday 'thank you".

Well, it was a lovely birthday party.  It's so much fun when we get together.  I will try and post pictures later.  My birthday gift was a Laptop!  I was so excited.  I think they felt sorry for me trying to go upstairs to our office on my butt!  You see our computers are upstairs in our loft, and with a broken ankle it is a little hard getting up there.  My laptop is loaded up with everything.  I am so lucky that my son has an IT business!  He is coming over tomorrow to transfer everything from my desktop to my laptop.  I am so excited!  I can't thank everyone enough.  It is a wonderful gift!  So now between the cooking shows, the HGTV channel and the Hallmark Christmas movie channel and this new laptop, I am set!
We get another day with the family this week~Thanksgiving!  Really looking forward it!  What a great week!!  If I don't blog tomorrow, I just want to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I hope you are all spending the day with the people you love.

Is spring just around the corner?

Well, Jim bought me a new camera for Christmas, and I love the fact that you can zoom in to capture a picture! As I was looking at the snow out side I saw this Cardinal perched on the tree. Time to see if I can take a close up from inside. I was so excited it worked! This bird is beautiful and so is my dog Jake.