Well, my camera is broken more than I thought. We went to play group and that’s when I figured it out, my focus doesn’t work and my flash is gone also.  I can kind of take photos but not the best. Now I’m in the market for a new camera.

Hubby was sweet he offered to buy me a DSLR but then when he found out the price he said I could have a DSLR or we could get the new mattress we have been needing forever. I chose the mattress.

This weeks theme was hidden, I had a few shots to take from this theme, but nothing great due to the no focus issue. But the one that I ended up liking the best was this one which is more of a twist, it’s more of hiding in the shadows.

Join Project 52: Self Portraits

Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are putting up a new linky every Monday and inviting you to participate in this project with us. I hope you will join us!

Each week has a new theme (though this is just a suggestion not a requirement). This was the schedule for March:

• 2/28:  Raw (or unedited)
• 3/7: Hidden
• 3/14: Being Green
• 3/21: Past & Present

You have a full week to link up with us. There are only two rules:

1. You should share a recently taken self-portrait
2. The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage. Links to Flickr pages are fine!

If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.

Want to try this yourself? Then check out the word list and questions…

Words to Pronounce: Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Oregon

Questions to Answer:

What is it called when you throw toilet paper at a house?

What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?

What is the bubbly, carbonated drink called?

What do you call gym shoes?

What do you say to address a group of people?

What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

What do you call your grandparents?

What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?

What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?

What is the thing you change the TV channels with?

If I thought last weeks challenge was hard this one was even harder. I am very anxious about putting an unedited photo of me up. My skin isn’t perfect and I’m not the best photographer or subject. I started taking photos and realized they looked just like the rest of the photos in this series I needed to mix it up!

I decided to change up the angle and use my tripod (that I only use once in a while with  my video camera). I got some good shots, but I either was showing too much cleavage, you saw the legs of the tripod or my zit, lol. This is the best of the batch, raw (unedited):

Join Project 52: Self Portraits

Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are putting up a new linky every Monday and inviting you to participate in this project with us. This week the linky is up at Lynda’s blog. I hope you will join us!

Each week has a new theme (though this is just a suggestion not a requirement). This was the schedule for March:

• 2/28:  Raw (or unedited)
• 3/7: Hidden
• 3/14: Being Green
• 3/21: Past & Present

You have a full week to link up with us. There are only two rules:

1. You should share a recently taken self-portrait
2. The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage. Links to Flickr pages are fine!

If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.

Good to Wow Challenge

This week I’m going to try out a new challenge with my photos. I’m not a great photographer but I would love to learn more and it looks like Jill and Ashley have a great challenge and this week is self portraits!

I was a little stressed this week over the theme favorite feature – what is my favorite feature. I was actually surprised how hard it was to decide on a feature that I liked. I thought about my toes because I have cute short toes, but then I would need a pedicure to get a picture that I super liked. LOL

Then this morning it came to me my nose! I actually really like my nose. It’s small but not too small and I even have the a perfect little ridge for my nose ring to sit. Okay now I’m done talking about myself here is the picture:

Join Project 52: Self Portraits

Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are putting up a new linky every Monday and inviting you to participate in this project with us. This week the linky will be up a little late as we are looking for a good linkup tool.

Each week has a new theme (though this is just a suggestion not a requirement). This was the schedule for February:

• 1/31: Silly Faces
• 2/7: Reflections
• 2/14: Love
• 2/21: Favorite Feature (this week)

The themes for March will be:

• 2/28:  Raw (or unedited)
• 3/7: Hidden
• 3/14: Being Green
• 3/21: Past & Present

You have a full week to link up with us. There are only two rules:

1. You should share a recently taken self-portrait
2. The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage. Links to Flickr pages are fine!

If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.

The plan for this weeks P52 Self Portrait didn’t go as I hoped. The plan was to take a picture of me and my hubby because I have a photo frame that I want to put a photo of us in (It says love) but I realized we have no photos of us.

We were going to take the photo on Valentine’s Day when we left for our date night, but my MIL was over 40 minutes late so all the light was gone by the time I got to take the photo. I finally got one that didn’t look silly as far as the pose goes and wasn’t horribly blurry from the lack of light. But the photo was way to “warm”, I should have used my white balance like Lynda had just written about. But I was in a hurry and the boys were running circles around us.

I tried editing it and I thought I got it, but when I got it uploaded on flickr I realized it’s a little “cold” now. But I give up! This is this weeks photo, Love …

I know it’s okay, but not very spectacular. Maybe next week I will do better!

Join Project 52: Self Portraits

Lynda (from Daily Window) and I are putting up a new linky every Monday and inviting you to participate in this project with us. This week you will find the linky at Daily Window (and her photo turned out much nicer than mine this week!). Each week has a new theme (though this is just a suggestion not a requirement). This is the schedule for February:

• 1/31: Silly Faces
• 2/7: Reflections
• 2/14: Love (this week)
• 2/21: Favorite Feature

You have a full week to link up with us. There are only two rules:

1. You should share a recently taken self-portrait
2. The link should be the absolute URL of your photo or entry, not a link to your homepage. Links to Flickr pages are fine!

If you want to use the Project 52 badge feel free and grab it and use it on your post. You don’t have to do every week with us you can post just once even and you don’t have to follow the weekly theme either. We just hope that you will join us for some fun.

I found this at Jenn.nu and had to try it out.
Pictures courtesy of Flickr (click the picture for the credits).

If I were a color, I would be Fuschia.

If I were a dessert, I would be strawberry shortcake.

If I were a season, I would be spring.

If I were a time of day, I would be dusk.

If I were a direction, I’d be northwest.

If I were a tree, I’d be a cherry blossom.

If I were a flower, I’d be a hydrangea.

If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be mary janes.

If I were a city, I’d be Camelot.

If I were a fruit, I’d be a pomegranate.

If I were an animal, I’d be a bunny.

If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a guitar.

If I were a food, I’d be popcorn.

If I were a song, I’d be Sanctus Real – “Lead Me”.

If I were a place, I’d be a dream.

If I were a flavor, I’d be caramel apple.

If I were a sound, I’d be giggles.

If I were an emotion, I’d be compassion.

This summer I’m participating in a great project over at Mommy’s Piggy Tales. It is all about recording your youth in 15 posts or like me 15 vlogs!

I’m also linking up this post to Get your vlog on:

Teaser Tuesdays is a book themed meme. It’s easy to play along visit Should Be Reading. You choose a book you are reading open it at random and pick 2 sentences to share. Today I’m sharing from a book that I am reading to Zane. I have to say I love this book it is written so beautifully.

You see, no matter what, in spite of everything, God would love his children — with a Never Stopping, Never Giving Up, Unbreaking, Always and Forever Love.

And though they would forget him, and run from him, deep in their hearts, God’s children would miss him always, and long for him — lost children yearning for their home.

~ Page 36 of The Jesus Storybook Bible by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Illustrated by Jago

Yay a Monday Mingle that isn’t late, my first one. Now if only I could get past the technical issues. If you are new to Monday Mingle, it’s a fun little meme from EightyMPHMom.com. You get to answer three questions submited by other vloggers. This weeks questions were submitted by Jendi from Simple Vlogging Tips.