Handbag . . .

I know I'm late and Someone did exactly what I asked in an earlier blogpost. A gentle kick was all it took. A big THANK YOU to that special SOMEONE who quickly put me on track to make each day count.

Handbags . . . Our partner missing in action chose this theme. Lets hope we did it justice.

Handbags generally belong to women. We learn from a really young age that we need to carry our ladies things in there. Before she turned one Mia was already dragging her Mom's bag around. She has her own bag with her things in.

Sometimes it can become a private refuge. Mine at one stage was the only place in my life that was mine. Not that it held secrets. It was just mine and I disliked it of anyone entered my space.

Both Mariette and Pam took details of the bags. Lovely shots. Can't wait for the stories.

In my series in Sky we had her holding her or should I say our bag! A Kathy designer bag. It just looked so odd. Maybe because it was a bag I bought for me. Then Megs went to SA and borrowed it so it was No longer mine. The. Sky used it for sleepovers. You guessed it its a big bag!

Then she flopped on the couch and I saw her reflection in the metal designer tag. That was my shot even though the light was so bad. It's intriguing.

On our way to Matlock. We are in England! To see my favourite Uncle and Aunt.

Have a good weekend all.



Me
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and now the Drops!

Loved playing with milk and red wine with a similar TUM theme but had to think out the box with Skyla's portrait. So a drop of foundation it was.

Love Mariettes drop and can't wait to see the rest. Sounds like she's having fun.


I also want to get back to having fun with my photography so apart from a few more portrait shoots this week I am out in nature doing texture shots for my scrapbook kit designs and paper for Clara's Keepsakes - can't wait to launch. So much preparation. So many designs. So many little faces and such a BIG idea! Lists of names and a BOOK!

Pam's image takes it this week. Such intrigue. But most of all I read her blog last night. Such an inspiration. Really need to get my act together.

Love to all xx

TUM Catch up - Clocks and Drops

Hello everyone

I am going to really make time count! And if I go off the wagon yet again I am asking that SOMEONE give me a polite kick up the backside! Today I walked into my office and my calendar was on 20th January. That means from then until now I have not consciously seen in each day and made it count! I turn my dates on my scrapbook annual calendar each day and each month features someone on the cover. To that end could I please have my TUM Partners birthdays as I know two of you aren't in there!!!!! From today I'm back on track. I even sat down now to plan my week and to list the major 'rocks' that need to be crammed in!

Now on to TUM! Despite a bad snow storm Pam features with her clock. Very interesting take.

Mariettes does it for me this week. I love her off the wall broken clock face. It fills me with intrigue! Who owned it, what times in their life did it record. . .

My take - bearing in mind I am recording Skyla's year through TUM - is Skyla with my favourite clock that has featured on TUM before. I loved it in the shop and bought it for myself as a leaving SA gift! She is looking through it so you see more of her face. I promise it is a clock.

Pity I can't insert images in the right place on my phone so they are all below.

TUM Catch up for last week - LOVE

A sneaky catch up as I had a dead PC for over a week and then Lance's died too. May 2013 be the year to convert to MAC! I joined Adobe Creative Cloud on the weekend so have no excuses for uni work anymore and am TOTALLY LEGAL! So Dreamweaver it is for this website project! Converting Lance to the Adobe suite as well. We will start out Indesign class in a book this week I think!

I am blogging on my phone to sneak it in at work so can't load images in order. Please bear with that!

I love Mariettes take such a serene and provocative image. Beautiful.

Mine is capturing Sky's love for Jess!

Lovely to add Pam's take. So lovely to have you back Pam after your lovely visit from family. I'm sure that was love filled too.

TUM - Edge

Today we have a post theme for edge.
And it's come from me who is slightly on the edge!

I absolutely LOVE Mariettes take. This year I too gave up on an orchid. I kill them every year! And was tidying up over Christmas in the laundry and was about to throw it away and low and behold I saw a long new shoot. One that my dear green fingered friend Gerry tells me about. I was beside myself so am now nurturing it and will celebrate when the buds flower. A huge lesson here - we must never give up on anyone or anything! Sometimes they just need to be left alone to regroup until they need you again to nurture them. So TUM buddies. Are you ready for some nurture?

My take was of Sky this morning with her tickets for tonight. Not sure if the nails put me more on the edge. The take was for her on the edge of her excitement. This year TUM will be full of Sky!

Linda's take is of Brad standing on the edge of a step showing the definition of his calf muscles. True boy. Nice to have you back Linda.

Also have a full house for EDGE with Pam's take. Very intriguing image. Well done.

I still have a catch up for LOVE and will get to that today as well.

Love to all my TUM's.

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