Adornment!

Let's think about adornment.............Adornment is the only magazine published in the United States dedicated to the discussion of ancient, antique, and period jewelry, costume jewelry and contemporary studio jewelry. It also reports on objects of precious materials and historic costume--oh, how I LOVE browsing through this magazine.  The photos are colorful and the ideas bountiful! 

How do you Adorn yourself?

 

Let's pick out a color palette and go from there................ 

The stores carry quite a collection of ways to "adorn" yourself but I'm partial to being just

looking at the way the world adorns itself!

Shadow!

 

This morning I took a walk.....................................

with my shadow!

Just me, myself and my shadow.................................took a walk!

Treasures!

There are treasures of many kinds--

 

 

National Historic Treasure--places that have been renovated to their former glory

Treasures that can not really be replaced

Treasures such as the freedom of our country

There are fragile treasures

and there are treasures of time spent with friends and family on an evening of delight.

where do your treasures lay? 

Peaceful--August Break #20

Nothing as Peaceful as early morning walk through an open space.  The birds are taking wing, the prairie dogs are 'barking' to remind you to stay away from their mounded homes-- 

You pause to admire the wildflowers as bees buzz around

The sun is up just enough for the sunflowers to raise their petals to the warmth

Yes, nothing as peaceful as a day beginning as this!

Black & White--Quilt Blocks--August Break #19

We see in color because all our cameras photograph in color now.  But, I remember those days when it was only Black & White!  I have one photo of me as little girl, taken in Black & White, but the photographer colored in the picture!  I look so unnatural! 

 

Recently, one of my expatchers friends was doing a Block of the Month quilt and it featured only black and white fabrics--how cool is that?!  Below are her blocks.  I haven't seen the completed quilt yet, but I can only imagine it is smashing!

 

Well, I thought I'd better throw in some knitting here too--my handspun knit scarf--still working on it!

                                                                               Thanks for taking this walk on the Black & White side!

JUMP! August Break #18

When I decided to go on this journey, there was no hesitation about writing each and every August day.  There have been some topics that boggled my thought process.  These writing opportunities gave my creative juices a chance to flow--not always does a light bulb go off--but, that's good--I must dig deep into the recesses of my brain to pull out a fluid notion.

  So now I can JUMP for JOY!  For when I begin to think about the word jump--the radio burst forth with the song "Jump"!  And then we were off--there is 21 & 22 Jump Street the movies; we are playing with our jump rope (did you ever do the double Dutch?  Not me!)

  The very next hour, I saw a photo of a friend on her jumping horse--how odd, this popped up at this time! 

  And in the playground near our house, the boys were jumping for the football during practice. 
If only I could get a good photo of Jumping! 
There is a fun zone just for jumping!  There is a JUMP Dance Competition!  There is even a mobile service that is entitled JUMP (Just Upgrade My Phone)!

If only the body wasn't so aging, I would be doing some jumping jacks!  Let's all think of jumping!  and maybe, it will burn off some calories.............................

Bookshelf--August Break #17

Bookshelves! What would we do without bookshelves?? I love my bookshelves...............why?

Mainly, because, I love books--all sorts of books!  all sizes, all shapes--adventure, romance, action, history, fiction, comedies.  And I love series of books--give me a good author who has written 10-20 books and I'm there!

Our bookshelves hold all manners of objects besides books...

There is a shelf just for cookbooks--doesn't matter if we refer to them often, there are recipes hiding between the pages just waiting to be used

And our bookshelves hold valuable items from family members long gone but not forgotten, especially when we hold these special memories in our hands.

and there are those collections--whimsical and endearing!

Every once in awhile we clear out some books from the shelves but we always hold a place for our delightful angels.