Update Fail...

The golden rule of blogging is to never apologise for a blogging break! It just draws attention to the fact that your posting has been lax of late.. but as I never take my own good advice, I humbly apologise!

I'm been on a week's holiday from work and I do have a couple of pages to share once I pull my finger out and get them scanned but in the meantime here's my page from the new challenge at A True Friend!

This time round I wangled sponsorship of the challenge from Papermania along with kits as prizes for two lucky participants! Do pop on over and join in for a chance to win! The challenge is about using a quote on your page... I'm afraid mine isn't terribly high-brow... it's a line from Monty Python - The Life of Brian!

A few photos to share also today from my week lounging (yeah right!) in the sun inlcuding a lovely lunch at a Forest pub!

A bit of sun also allowed some pics of the local flora and fauna... including some deadly nightshade!

a foxglove...

some new arrivals of the equine kind...

plus Mrs Mandarin...

And of course the girls... although I only seem to have Martha pics to share today! I promise Lola is fine too!

My veg is also going from strength to strength with Mange Tout and Strawberries being the stars of the moment!

I'll try my hardest to be back soon with some crafty offerings!!

Comic Book Hero

The new challenge at A True Friend is a fabulous one! It's all about getting arty with your pet photos and using a photo manuipulation package to alter them. Of course you could alter them 'old school' with paints and inks... the choice is up to you!

My page was inspired by this fun comic book photoshop action from Deviant Art. It's totally free so even better! I've gone with comic-book shapes and colours to complement it. This clever action turned this....

into this with just a couple of clicks!

Do pop along and take a peek - the girls pages are fantastic!!

A few pics from the weekend also - I managed to avoid the rain, dashing out between the showers to let the girls have a dip.

 

  

  

 

And I took advantage of a bit of good light between the clouds to grab some pics of some Forest residents...

 

  

  

  

  

 

Photo extravaganza!

Well better late than never I'm back with a few pics, some are last weekend and some are the one just gone... it was a total scorcher yesterday, so much so that we just hung out in the garden and the girls played in their paddling pool to cool down. (the water started out sparkly and clean but turned 'Martha' brown in about a millisecond!)

On Saturday after a quick dip a recce of the Forest was in order - I jumped out the car to grab a few pics of a donkey family and of course they rushed straight over with the consolation that I could grab this cute pic of Martha meeting one of the donkeys!

And to finish a few randon shots from lst weekend... Paddling...

Beautiful locations...

More padlding... (yes I was knee deep in water to take this one!)

Chilling in the evening sunshine...

Grey Squidger...

Coot baby... (who have THE BIGGEST feet in the world!)

Gorgeous Lola...

Young...

And old...

And to top it all off... a gorgeous blue sky!

Not what you'd call subtle...

The new BG LIme Rickey isn't what you'd call subtle, but I still love it! The cute birds are a bonus of course! I grabbed some yummy green Prima alphas in felt that I had sitting around and created this page featuring Martha and one of her favourite toys. Maybe this page says more about my throwing skills though... her doys do end up in the pond quite often!

I dashed out between the showers over the weekend to walk the doglets and do a quick recee of the forest for any likely subjects - Martha is an obvious choice...

 

But even better was my first Donkey Foal of the year! This little girl was less than a day old, as her mum was pretty darn pregnant the day before!

 

Amongst all the rain a couple of bright periods snuck up on me - just in time to get out and about in the garden (latest additions are Aspargus Peas, Kohl Rabi and the planting out of all my beans) and to grab a few pictures of the girls in soem early evening sunshine.

 

And when the rain did come down I wasn't even that sad as I had a lovely new Studio Calico kit to play with including this lovely addition! (Pages to share soon!)