Focus on Life: 'Tis the Season - Gathering

Focus on Life: The Final Episode

Two years ago, Sally Russick had an idea. She hosted a weekly photo event, and sent out prompts to inspire the participants to post better and more creative photos on their blogs. I really liked the idea, so I took my little relatively new camera and shot hundreds of pictures, Some good some pretty darned good, and some ...meh. 

Today, we were to represent "gathering." 

In an effort to be creative I went after a gathering of birds. Um. Easier said than done. 

I ended up with these guys. 

Santas in my neighbors' flower box. 

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to you all. See you around! I'm going to try to post at least a few random photo projects, let's see how that works in 2015!

Thanks, Sally, for a great two years. 

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Focus on Life: 'Tis the Season - Ornate/Ornament

Those Big Red Flowers!

This week's Focus on Life prompt is all about Ornaments, bright baubles and handcrafted works of art. 

Since I have been trying out my new leaf and petal polymer clay mold and came up with some poinsettia flowers the fit the season to a "T," I decided to share them here. 

Now, the only question is, do I hang them on the tree.... or wear them!

Let's see if anyone else came up with some favorite flower ornamentation!

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Focus on Life: 'Tis the Season - Lights

Oh, don't we love the light in winter!

Our Focus on Life Theme for January (oops! December!!) is 'Tis the Season. This week our prompt is "Lights!"

Hmmm. Christmas lights? 

 Reflected Light?

 Morning Light? 

 Muted Light? 

Or....

Simply, love light?

Love to see what others have found.

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Focus on Life: Chaos!!!!!!!!

And out of Chaos.........

I'm one of those jewelry artists: I seem to thrive on chaos. Or maybe not thrive, but I certainly do tolerate a certain amount to chaos. So when Sally Russick gave us our Focus on Life theme for the week.......I knew that one of my many work areas would be the illustration for Chaos. 

This is where I mess with polymer clay, and the floor storage area, too. 

Fortunately, this is the result: 

Let's see what other chaos has been discovered.

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Focus on Life: Blissful!

White fluffy stuff, but not what you might expect....

As we celebrated thanksgiving this week, I thought about our Focus on Life theme for the week, which was Bliss. Some people must have been blissful over seeing this for the first time this year: 

We had about four inches of snow...nearby places got even more.

Snow for Thanksgiving? No thanks, if you get my drift!

I prefer another blissful drift:

Home made pumpkin pie with a drift of whipped cream.

Bliss.

What did our friends find blissful this week? 

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Focus on Life: Hopeful

Tucking in for the winter

Our Focus on Life prompt for this week is the word Hopeful.

This always brings out the hidden farmer in me! 

My hope is that this lovely rosemary plant will survive the winter. I will be covering it with more leaves and pushing it farther into the corner. I have brought these plants into the house for the winter in other years, but they really dry up in the heated winter air. 

So for this little guy...I have hope! 

I wish I could have taken a better picture, but I snapped this with my phone this morning with not a lot of time, or light!

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Focus on Life: Faithful

Who is more faithful than my favorite walking companion?

This week's theme for Focus on Life is Faithful. My faithful companion every morning is Bebop, my Labrador-Chow mix. Winter, summer, rain or shine, and for part of the year, in the dark, we walk at least to the end of our long driveway, and usually farther. Bebop also has a special relationship with Pippin, one of our cats. 

What other examples of faithfulness have our friends uncovered?

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