January 13, a tree and a blue sky!

For some reason, I love seeing trees against a blue sky. Don't really know why, just like it :-)

So that's todays picture, the tree was too big to actually fit in the photo, but let's say I'm trying things! Thanks for looking!

January 12 - a walk with my son

The weather was nice this weekend, a little cold but sunny with beautiful blue skies. I went for a walk in our little village with my son. I, of course, took my camera and my four year old told me that I was reaaallly annoying him with my photos! A little later, at home, he told me he wanted to go outside and that I could take as much photos as I wanted, which was bribery to just get me outside so that he could ride his bike! No way, the sun had gone and it was freezing cold.

Just one simple picture of my sun during our walk, to show you my environment in wintertime!

January 11, my scrapcorner!

We moved to a new house almost 3 months ago (that long!?) and I finally took some time to photograph my new scrapcorner, an important part of my home, for me anyway. We share a study, I took over one corner and put all my *stuff* in its place, quite efficiently, in my opinion. For the Ikea fans, they will recognize quite some items in here, I love Ikea! First a view of my deskspace. I have a transparent worktable and on the wall infront of me I put Ikea kitchen accessories to avoid having too much on the table. Then there is the wall that is just right to me when I sit at the table. It holds my favorite cabinet (not Ikea!), my little embellishment drawers (the black ones, Ikea), my albums and on top my magazines. The big white cover is actually covering my sewing machine, not very goodlooking in pictures with the cover on! Right next to it is the door.
Next picture is an overview of the first two, so that it makes sense where everything is with regards to my chair (love my pink *ikea* chair!)
Then a little peek into my drawers, or some of them anyway. I have a drawer for alphabets, one for stamps, one for Cuttlebug, one for the Bind it All etc etc. The smaller drawers are being used to, for some more stamps, my ATC Holder cards and accessories, my flowers...

And last but certainly not least, my paper. This is all I have :-), It is not much in compairison to what we sometimes see on the net but it is enough to last me quite a while!! And yes, there is an unemptied moving box behind it :-) The last one I believe!

Well, this was my contribution for January 11th. Maybe not very interesting for those who don't scrap :-) but it's a part of my life that I really like so it should be on my POTD! Thanks for looking!

January 10, a nice present!

Yesterday I picked up my son from school, and he was all excited because he had a present for mom in his bag. Well, he was actually all excited because he thought the present was for him but when we opened the package he soon realised it was for me and that was OK too! I just love the little present he made for me, a 2009 calendar with his picture, a photo that happens to be too cute! I just love kindergarden teachers that have great ideas!!! the picture of the present is not the best, but will do :-)I am also quite happy with the fact that my kids are FINALLY starting to like apples! And it is so cute to see them eat them:

And finally, what I really like about photography is that while trying to take *the perfect picture* or while just documenting life, you sometimes just catch expressions that are cute, silly, typical or priceless. This one would be labeled "silly". But cute too! ;-)

The good news is that it is Saturday!! After a week at work, I'll finally be able to go out and take picture during daylight hours again! Yep, I'm hooked ;-) Thanks for looking and I loooove comments!!

POTD January 9

This is our game-cabinet, full of things we can do on cold Wednesdays or weekends! And still, I do hear them say "I'm bored, I've got nothing to do". Well, they are children! :-) As far as photography is concerned, I gave "nature" a try. It's a ridiculous picture, but for some reason, I quite like it anyway! As you can see, I am still trying the BOKEH :-)
Thanks for looking!

January 8, Beauty and the Cat

Hello all,

I'm in a hurry this morning, so not much text! Just a couple of pictures of my girl and the cat! Taken with the 70-200 lens, priority aperture.

And no, the cat is not necessarily comfortable in the pictures, except for in the last one ;)

Thanks for looking!

POTD January 7 - Portraits!

Oooooh, I missed a day, and am late posting on this day :-O It's really hard to keep up with POTD every day now that I'm back at work, I don't have any daylight to take picture in because I leave home before sunrise and come back home when night already starts, like most people :) So for today, some more portraits taken in the house in the evening. Pictures taken with my 70-200mm lens, aperture around 5 to get the bokeh.

Alban playing with his new Lego, he loves it! He's making an airplane here, which is finished in the next photo:
His mouth is not dirty, it's actually irritated :-(
And finally a picture of Naomi, who is seriously tired after a day at school, and to be honest, maybe a little fed up with pictures :-O But she's still my beautiful little girl!

I don't work on Wednesdays, so that I can stay with the children who don't have school on Wednesdays, Yay! This means that some serious playing will be done today, as some "serious" photography of course! Thanks for stopping by at my blog!