Silent Sunday

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Silent Sunday

Silent Sunday: 2 Dec 2012

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Photo Friday: My first home improvement project

This is my second week to join Photo Friday, hosted by DeliciousBaby.com. This is also the week that I’ve had my first big home improvement project, commissioned and overseen entirely by me. I used to think Americans loved home improvement. Then I moved here. In the UK, doing up one’s house is a second job for most of the women I know. One friend had bought, fixed up, and sold several houses while still...

How to make and print your own advent calendar

Instead of the usual store-bought advent calendar with chocolate in it, I decided to make a personalised one this year featuring pictures of the family and past Christmases. I did this for the Kodak #printerprojects Christmas challenge – post a picture for the Linky challenge and you could win a camera or a printer package. There’s still time to take part if you enter today! This video describes how I...

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How to display travel pictures: the Big App

There’s nothing quite like travelling to a new and exotic place, capturing it on film or in bytes, adding it to the 1,768 pictures on your computer and never seeing it again. Or you finally get around to putting it up, then reconsider. Witness: When I first took this picture of a vintage petrol pump in Hico, Texas, I really liked it. I had it printed poster size and framed it. Now, several years later, I kinda...

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The Gallery: My Converse

I’ve been wanting to join in with the Sticky Fingers Gallery for ages but have only now gotten my act together. This week’s theme is Shoes. Tara writes: Your favourite shoes, your everyday shoes, your first shoes, the family’s shoes. And you’d be surprised just how evocative and emotional shoes can be. Such a rich vein – like many other women, I could spend a year and do a photographic...

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