I randomly shot off a few clicks to test a setting on my camera and got these.
Pretty odd pictures of my foyer, but I really like them.

Years ago there was an annual craft fair near my home.
I’ve enjoyed going out to the old fair grounds and taking pictures.

I realized right before bed on Wednesday that I hadn’t taken a picture for Project 365.
I saw a stack of multi-colored tissue paper on my counter and thought,
“Well, it won’t be great…but at least I’ll have a picture.”
But I actually really like it a lot.

This is what was going on when the bird flew into the house.
Luckily Asa continued to play with bubbles for hours while I tried to get that stupid bird out!

Strawberries!

The disco-less Disco with Dad (and Mom and brothers and sister) Dance

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Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet,
all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us,
and here we are to comfort you.

~Edward Payson Rod

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment.
I want to give that world to someone else.
Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower.
I want them to see it whether they want to or not.”

–  Georgia O’Keeffe

A few days ago, Casey posted this picture and when I asked how she’d done it,
So within maybe 10 minutes, she wrote back that it was really super easy to do…if you have the Bokeh Masters Kit.

But I was so anxious to find out how to do it, that I didn’t even give her a chance to respond before I googled it
And found this DIY tutorial on how to make your own shaped bokeh filter.

Let me say this:  It was really easy to make.
I already had black paper and a few scrapbook punches that I used to cut out my shapes.

But then I wanted a tree shape and a snowflake shape.
I didn’t have punches for those(and I’m not going to buy a punch just for that)…

So I drew out a tree and a snowflake and I cut them out by hand-
Which was kind of time consuming and I really didn’t like the way my snowflake ended up looking.

Also the one that I made is made of paper.
It’s not going to last very long at all.
So I’m probably going to end up buying the $15 Demo Kit
And making a few of my own discs to see if they’ll fit in there.

I can’t wait to try this out as a backdrop for pictures!
(Although with such a wide open app, I probably shouldn’t count on my children to be still enough for that!)