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this week the theme is mornings…i really love mornings. I am a morning person. I am also a late night person..which sometimes results in a bit of a ‘lack of sleep’ thing going on.

anyways..my mornings..5 days a week, main focus is the school run. OH leaves early for his own school and then im left to get 5 kids (and now a dog) ready for the 15 minute walk to school…..

and there are some days when i am so so grateful for my oldest daughter and her incredibly helpful attitude. Sometimes i dont even ask this kid to help. she just. does. it.

Every day i ask the older ones to help get the little ones shoes on…..which sometimes is a bit of a harder job especially when small sibling is being a bit of a monkey and won’t actually let them put their shoes on.

When that happens, things tend to go south fairly quick…….

but this is an everyday happening in our house. Every morning.

 

 

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#thealphabetproject

so this is the first of my photography challenges. This is my personal project but anyone else is welcome to join in. I was inspired by seeing an american portrait photographer do this. The idea is to take pictures of each of the letters of the alphabet. Easy you say? a quick walk down a high street and you have them all. Mais, non.

This has to be things that are not letters. You have to try and find the letters in shapes, figures, shadows…whatever. Im trying to not do the ‘get a person to hold two sticks and you have a k’ thing too. But hey…im not big on rules so if you want to go with it, get on board.

Im going to do this with my iphone and through instagram. Im @apartyofseven on instgram. Come follow me and join in if you like. It will be with the hashtage #alphabetproject. Im going to post them as i find them but then stick them in a mosiac all together. I will use a photoshop template for this which you can have if you would like to do the same. Just leave me a comment. Of course you don’t have to use an iphone or instagram but if you are joining in please do let me know….somehow.  I think ill probably do an alphabet review post once a week…have no idea really how long it will take.

So..thats my project. If you want to join in. cool. if not. cool.

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So here is my first….the letter ‘e’

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Inspired…..

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When you spend time following pro photographers and checking out their stuff, like me, you would think I would get inspired right? Well not all the time, sometimes..but a LOT of the time i get totally intimidated by their knowledge, equipment and general ‘out of reachedness’ feeling that it leaves me with. These guys have spent years and years and years learning their craft and its right in a way that their stuff should be WAY out there.

But this past weekend i watched a series of seminars that really did leave me inspired. Inspired to do something for me. (and eventually others but thats a bit more in the planning stages)

But back to me.  Just me. I have taken part in loads of photography meme’s and i really do love them and have no plan to stop taking part but when i had this idea i thought…’ooh i could do a meme’ and then immediately i thought…’ah but who would join in?, would anyone join in? would i be the billy no mates of the meme world?’

and then this amazing, clear, incredibly simple idea came to me.

“who cares?”

and I realised that what i want to get out of doing this project is something for me..actually,  not to get more readers, more followers or better stats. So that is what i am going to and i will share it here, or on my soon to be new blog once i can stop banging wordpress on the wall *itwillworkitwillwork!*

I am NOT knocking the photography link ups AT ALL. Since i have done them, I have come across some blogs that i just love and im proud to call some new folks my online friends. Which is why i will continue with it. But it can draw you away from why you actually write what you do…..*must join in, more readers, more followers, better stats*…etc…

So im exicted. This is my ‘project’ and anyone who wants to copy the idea and do it to..thats cool. Jump on this ‘ole bandwagon. There is no pressure (for me or you) and there just maybe a cold beer and some cheese and onion crisps.

and in a ‘West Wing’ stylie:

to be continued…………

 

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#silentsunday 13/05

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its that time of the week. Saturday Caption..

hough it might be a bit tumbleweed round here tomorrow as there are truck loads of bloggers at Cybher 2012. Lucky them 🙂

here is mine for this week: you know what to do:)

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