SOS

SOS or Show off Sunday is here again.. yippppeeee!!!

This week I treated myself to some close up lenses for my camera so yesterday I was in the garden having a wee play around at snapping almost anything and everything. I still have a awful lot to learn about photography, but I was quite pleased with some of the shots that I had taken.

I have a deep fear of spiders, but could not resist taking a few shots of a spider that has been making its web in my front garden everyday for a few weeks now. But my neighbour, Paul, who knows of my fear thought it would be funny to break the web and freak me out. Shaking with fear I really don't know how I managed to steady the camera to get my shot!!! The poor spider is holding on by a thread and clinging desperatley to its dinner which it had just wrapped up :)

My children and their friends have always called this type of spider a Sugar Puff Spider because of its fat body.

So here is the Sugar Puff Spider that lives in my garden

****WARNING*** if you suffer from aracnophobia go no furthur :)

SPS

Self Portrait Saturday is here again!!!!!!! it comes around so quick. I shouldn't complain, because I have been a bad blogger again and it has been 20 days since my last post and I managed to miss 2 SPS and have really fell behind with all my HS:MS photos.

So heres my offering for this weeks SPS, you've seen ma fizzog a couple of times now so here's a different piece of me :) and in colour too!!

SOS, SPS and big catch up!!!!

Oh!!! I'm such a bad blogger, I'm just a once a week blogger. Every week I start off with the best intentions of updating my blog daily, but I just never get round to it. I take my HS:MS photos daily (I'm so addicted to this and still so much to learn about photography) and most of the time these are put onto my computer daily, but I just never seem to get time to add them to my blog. I know it wouldn't take much time but there is always something else that needs done.......I really must try and get more organised. So here is a full week of HS:MS photos.

S.O.SShow it off Sunday....Let's see!!!!!
Couldn't think what to put here this week so had a good look through some old photos, there were a few contenders, but I decided on this one, just because of the memories which it brought back...aaahhh the memories
This photo was taken a few years ago, when I got my first digital camera. It was a beautiful sunny day when my husband, my 2 sons, my 2 dogs and I walked the coastal path at Crail, this is Buzz and Zak


Self Portrait SaturdayTake the opportunity once a week to practise your portrait skills and make a record of your changing self........

It's that dreaded day again!!! it has come round so quickly. I awoke on Saturday with an upset stomach, feeling sick and spent most of my time on the toilet....maybe a bit too much information for some folk :-) Anyway as I was feeling so rough I thought this was the ideal opportunity for everyone to see me at my worst, so hopefully any SPS from now on can only get better......So here I am just out of the shower and no make up

ChewTo bite and grind with the teeth. Find 'chew' in your space today.......

Dish
A shallow bowl or radio antenna. Find 'dish' in your space......

This blue dish used to be my grans and I love the way the sun shines through it so it sits on my kitchen window sill with some glass pebbles in it.

CloudA mass of water vapour. Show us 'cloud' in your space today........

This was Wednesdays prompt and it was so grey and overcast I thought I would never get a photo of a cloud. Then late afternoon part of the sky brightened up a bit, just enough to make the clouds visible. Not great clouds but this all I could get on this day!!!!

AppleA red or green fruit from a tree. Show us 'apple' in your space today.........

So what did I do with my peeled apples? I made apple and sultana crumble, which we had hot with ice-cream.....yum yumm!!!!

Sun
An object that gives light and warmth. Find 'sun' in your space today..........

This was the only sun in my space today!!!!

This months ATC calendar swap for Willow Designs was Back To School and for a change I was really organised. I made these ATC's a couple of months ago.....

Well being orgainsed didn't last long as I was rushing at the last minute to get my Space ATC's done in time, and I even had a few extra days as the Swap Host was on holiday. Now I like Star Trek, but I'm not a fully fledged Trekkie, so it was Star Trek Space ships that feature on my ATC's. I made the space background by flicking white acrylic paint and irridesant blue and red H2O's onto black card. The text has also been painted over in the irridesant blue and red so that it shimmers. The space ship images are from the internet and resized to fit and stuck on with foam pads so they are slightly raised. Then a silver star was also added to each one just to finish them off.
I'm now waiting patiently for the posty to pop my swaps through the letter box to add to my growing collection. I had to miss out on the SSUP swap this month, I just didn't have the time, but I've already started to think about what I am going to do for this months ATC's.

The pups are al l doing well, they were 5 weeks old this week. I advertised the pups this week and so far one of the bitches has been sold. Just got to find homes for the other 5 now....I will have to update the dogs website today with some more photos and videos.