Tuesday 24th April 2012 – 'Garden Craft' (115/366)

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I took The Boy to see a new playgroup (nursery really) today. He only goes one day a week at the moment and only then since January. When we signed up to the one he uses, it was the middle of Winter and I didn't think about the fact that it hasn't got any outdoor space. Now the Summer is (apparently) on its way, I want him to be able to play outside and enjoy himself. Furthermore, I've just discovered him singing "Jesus' love is very wonderful" and as he's not Christened for a reason, I can only assume he's learnt it in one place.

While I was having a look around, he made this with one of the nursery nurses. He starts there next week!

366 #16

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Here we are, well into the fourth month of project 366, sixteen weeks have flown by. Most of us have probably found our stride by now, and hopefully taking photographs that document our lives (and loves) is becoming part of our daily routine.

I'm going for a theme with my photography for my forthcoming week. We've just invested in an iPad3, and I want to explore its 5MP camera and the editing capabilities.

The Project 366 Facebook group is a fabulous community who offer support to those taking part in this photography project, and give much blog love. We've made it a closed group so that not every Tom, Dick or Harry can see the content but if you'd like to join just click the 'ask to join group' button in the top right hand corner of the page.

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How To Use Camera+: Photo Editing App

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One of my Photography Resolutions this year was to learn how to use apps on mobile devices, i.e. my phone and the iPod Touch. I found out about Instagram and pretty much fell in love with it pretty quickly. But the one thing I don't love about Instagram is the limited filters and editing options.

One of the fabulous bloggers taking part in #Project366 is HPMcQ and she does some pretty fabulous things with her photos. I especially love this photo of hers, and she was kind enough to share her favourite photo editing app with me. It's called Camera+ and I love it.

I thought I'd share with you one way I've used it recently:

I ended up tranforming a below-average photo into something a lot more attractive with a few easy steps.

Still hate the camera on the iPod Touch though, which is why I take photos on my camera, e-mail them across and then edit them that way.

I bought this app and therefore I wasn't asked to blog about it, I wanted to show you how cool it is. Oh and if you fancy voting for me in the BritMums Snap Award, press the button below. Thanks!

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366 #15

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Congratulations for today is Day 106 of Project 366!

Well done to everyone who has broken the 100 day boundary, it's pretty amazing that we've all got this far and the habit is probably firmly ensconced now. Furthermore, with the improvement in the weather (apparently Summer's on its way?) there is a heck of a lot more material to photograph now.

The Project 366 Facebook group is a fabulous community who offer support to those taking part in this photography project, and give much blog love. We've made it a closed group so that not every Tom, Dick or Harry can see the content but if you'd like to join just click the 'ask to join group' button in the top right hand corner of the page.

To celebrate Day 100, I've got another cracking competition for you all. As you've probably seen, the very generous Snapfish are offering a prize this week of £35 credit to one lucky participant in the linky. I've reviewed Snapfish in the past and was amazed at the range of products available, with a brilliant quality finish on the items. In order to enter the competition, you'll need to add your favourite photo as normal, 'like' the Snapfish Facebook page and fill in the Rafflecopter form to say you've done this.

Time to link up:

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on just a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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366 Competition: Snapfish

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A few months ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing some products for snapfish, the online digital photo shop. When I was browsing the range of products to choose from, I was astounded at the variety: in addition to the the usual cards, canvasses and photobooks, there were calendars, mugs, coasters, Christmas ornaments, notebooks, magents, personalised toddler storybooks and a range of Disney gifts. It made it incredibly difficult to narrow my choice down, but I managed it and chose a placemat, a jigsaw and a photo panel. I was really impressed with the range of products available and the quality of the finished products were excellent.

In order to celebrate day 100 of the 366 project, the very generous Snapfish have offered a prize for the 366/52 bloggers who take part in tomorrow's weekly linky (Facebook 'like' will be required). They are offering £35 worth of credit so that the winner chosen from tomorrow's linky will be as bamboozled for choice as I was!

When you are selecting one photo to link up tonight or tomorrow, make sure you choose a good one with lots of appeal, hopefully you'll be the winner.

The Gallery: Easter

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It's been a few weeks since I've entered Tara's Gallery, unintentional but life has a habit of passing you by sometimes, to use the wise words of Mr. Bueller. However, when I saw that this week's theme was Easter, I couldn't very well ignore it much longer.

We went away for the weekend and so I needed to make sure that we had everything ready so that the Easter Bunny could find us and leave the necessary confectionary for The Boy. After a fraught Friday morning packing up various bits and pieces, we popped down to our local country park for my toddler group's Easter Egg hunt. The weather was perfect for wandering through the woodlands, finding shiny red eggs and avoiding bunny poop, and it refreshed us wonderfully for the drive down to west Wales.

The weekend saw us searching for numbers, as well as Easter chicks on a treasure hunt through the woodland. We went swimming in one of the best waterparks I've seen in a while, even if The Boy was 10cm too short for the waterslides. The Easter Bunny managed to find us, and then have a cuddle with Oliver Monkey in The Boy's bed. We discovered that The Boy had a penchant for vintage motorcars, saw pigs and newborn lambs, dug for buried treasure and ate more chocolate. And then we thanked the Lord for Charley Bear and Jaffa cakes when we got stuck in traffic in the pouring rain on the M4.

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All in all, a fairly decent Easter weekend.

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