Pastel Photography Challenge
Ahhhh... With Easter just around the corner Two Peas Photography board has announced their new color challenge for this month: Pastels !!

I haven't taken any photo's yet for the challenge, but here are some of my previous shots that might fit this pastel challenge. You'll notice that most of the photos are of Madison my granddaughter, it's just so hard to get boy's to wear pink nowdays!

Madison in her Easter bunny mask. I loved her blue dress, and pretty blue eye's peeking out from behind it. This photo was taken when she was in Kindergarten.

 Geneva my wonderful great niece when she was about two months old.  I love how happy, and clean little babies are at this age. However it doesn't take them long to figure out how to get dirty in 0-60 seconds flat~

Matthew with his favorite "blankie". This must have been a terrible day, because you'll notice that it's a "two" sippie cup night! I hate to think what must have happened, but he was prepared for it by bedtime!

Daffodils beautiful, and thankfully they come back every year without any help! Yes! My kind of flower! Just so you know if you spend tons of money, and time on your knee's planting tulips in your flower beds, AND you have squirrels.....You have just supplied them with their winter food storage...just sayin....

I captured these little holographic fish decals at the Aquarium wall.  This photo really doesn't do them justice, they are SO much better looking in person, and this wall is HUGE~

 Madison again, with her big blue eyes, and pretty blonde hair! Perfect! She is SO easy to get a great shot of, Matthew on the other hand, whew, now that's a challenge!

 Madison clutching her Easter basket from the school Easter egg hunt. She filled up the basket so much that egg's were falling out as she ran to collect more, it was hysterical, and it didn't slow her down one bit!~

Just a shot of the eggs themselves! One year we put chocolate in the eggs, BAD mistake, by the time the kids finished their hunting, the chocolate was melting everywhere, and every kid was coated in a chocolate mess! Lesson learned it was jelly beans after that!  You're Welcome~

 I love this photo, it shows how much they love each other! Madison had just fallen, and Matthew was helping to comfort her. Not two minutes later they were fighting over the same egg!

Now if you looked at these sweet adorable faces you'd never guess that in two seconds flat they could super hero change into the kid's below! 

 I love it when I trying to get a great shot, and this is the way they act! LOL It's funny when I finally get to look at the photos, but when I'm out there taking the pictures in the blazing sun it drives me crazy! Short drive I know but still..... Matthew gives me 3 chances to get a good shot, after that it's the cross eye'd pose for me~

 Madison in the Butterfly garden at the aquarium.  She must be a "butterfly whisper'er" because she could walk up to them, and they'd crawl right up onto her finger! I chased them all day, nothing.....

Climbing "Peace" rose bush right outside my kitchen window.  This poor bush get's little, or no special treatment, but every year it's a show stopper! Love that!

 Madison standing outside her mom's house in front of the blooming cherry tree! This girl would pose ALL DAY LONG! If she wasn't so short, I could see "Project Runway" in her future!

 Madison as the Disney Aristocat "Marie" for Halloween one year. She was SO cute in this costume, but is was SO dirty when she got back home!  Chocolate + White, not a good idea...just so you know....

 Close up of that "Peace" climbing rose bush, the blooms are enormous, and smell SO good! This has got to be one of my favorite flowers in my garden.

 One of my all time favorite Easter photo's.  Madison was about 2 years old, and while her Mother was in the other room, she decided to drink the blue Easter egg dye! Of course at the age of two she was used to drinking out of sippy cups not cups with large openings, therefore resulting in this priceless photo! She was doing her best to look all innocent, however we didn't have to call someone from CSI to figure out who spilled the egg dye. Her mother just called me to come quick, and bring the camera! The rest is history~

 Don't tell me this girl doesn't like how she looks, this was her favorite pastime for quite sometime! Just spending time looking at herself in the mirror!

 My mom, and Madison during Madison's Pre-Kindergarten graduation! She was all decked out, and doing her best to show off, twirling that dress like there was no tomorrow. All the boy's gave her a second look in that beautiful dress!

 Madison with her first dyed Easter egg, she was in awe of it, and how they changed colors, she could have dyed eggs all night~

 What a difference a new hat, and glasses can do for a boy's mood! Of course these were Madison's accessories,  but Matthew was not above trying it on! I wish I would have gotten a sharper photo, but I had to take these quick before he took them off!

 I loved this photo not just because is shows all the pastel colors, but because it shows what "real" eggs look like, after you've let little kid's dye them.  I'd say over half of them were cracked beyond repair! I know we are supposed to believe that those perfectly dyed eggs in most photo's were done by children, these however show what they really look like along with all of their battle scars! All causalities were promptly eaten~

Madison doing her best to look like an angel, but you'll just have to trust me here, she has her day's! I hope I've not bored you to death with all these photo's, and my mindless chatter, but instead given you some great ideas for this new pastel challenge~ Love Penny Happy Scrappin

Spring Green Photo Challenge Part 2

Well since I decided to do the photo challenges over at the Two peas board, I figured I might as well do all of them for this month. This one was for "Spring Green" , so I browsed through my old photo's, and here are a few I thought would fit this challenge.

Some of these are the usual subjects like the flowers, and grass, other's are a little more unusual, and make for a little more amusement.  Have fun looking through them, and if you can't get enough on this post, scroll down, and look at part one of this photo challenge.

So as promised here are more green photo's:

Matthew 1st year playing outfield, shockingly he is actually standing up with his glove on.  During most games he sat in the dirt, and played with his cars, despite his coaches protests!

The hydrangea bush at my grandmother's old home. I should have cropped this photo a little better, but at least it's green!

 Coleus beautiful greens, and purples, one of my favorite annual flowers! Annual meaning in my zone I have to plant it every year, sad but true!

 Madison playing Tinker Bell hide, and seek.  We had so much fun with this Halloween costume, but next time I think I'll make her a Witch, I think it will be just as much fun as these were.

 The lonely not found on Easter, Easter egg! I found this poor soul about 4 day's after Easter, but luckily the candy inside was still good, don't ask me how I know!

 I'm not sure what kind of bush/tree this is but I can tell you that it has been in my Grandmother's yard since I was a child.  We used to beg my Grandfather not to cut the lower branches so we could use them to make a fort.

 Ahhh...Perennial Candytuft, my all time favorite garden flower. It stays evergreen, and had masses of white tiny blooms in the springtime. I love it...and did I mention it come's back every year?? Yeah, I love that part too!

Part of my Hosta collection/obsession.  I probably have 15 or more varieties of this plant in my shade garden. This one is Green and White, along with a long technical name, that I can neither spell nor pronounce properly..

Japanese ferns...they are SO slow growing but they are BEAUTIFUL, and well worth the wait!

Who doesn't love wet grass, and bare feet?  I know the kid's had a ball outside playing that day, and nearly stopped up the tub drain with all the grass clippings.

 Now these are my style of croc's! I LOVE these shoes, and if I could find them in my size they would be on my feet right now, and I would proudly wear them EVERYWHERE, despite my families protests.

I captured this little girl Grinch during the local Christmas parade.  I don't know who she is, but her outfit is FABULOUS!

Matthew climbing the school's version of a rock wall.  I thought it was great how his face ended up in the holes, not like I planned it that way or anything, or made him hold that pose till I could get the photo! :)

While this photo is a little blurry I thought it was great that the turtle had all that moss camouflage on it.  I almost didn't find it in the tank, it was that good.

 Calla lilies, great flowers, I can't wait for them to bloom every year. I just wished the bloomed a little longer, but the foliage is great anyway.

 Matthew in his green check St. Patrick's Day shirt.  I call it that because that was the only day we could get him to wear it!

 More Hosta love, this variety is more Yellow and Green, and the snails love them almost as much as I do!  I have read recently however that if you put out a dish of beer the snail will drink it, (I have friend's that would do that too, so I'm not sure if it's safe to put out a dish of it or not, my friend's might trample my flowers trying to get at the beer!) and you can keep them out of your garden that way.

 This is one of my favorite Hosta's I love the mint green color, mixed with the wrinkled look of the leaves. Maybe I should fertilize it with Oil of Olay!

 My daughter actually took this photo on a recent camping trip, the waterfall is beautiful, and steep.

Here is another set of photo's that I used an editing program on.  They were taken inside of a covered water park which gave every photo a green cast. The top photo has not been edited.

While not exactly the same photo it was taken at the same water park, and after the editing I really liked the fact that her face color was drastically improved, and her bathing suit had a much pinker color. To change this photo I brighten it then used the warming edit, which brought out the flesh tones much better than on the original photo.

Matthew doing his best to look like an English Lord watering his garden.  He probably could have pulled it off a lot better if he would have took off those "Cars" crocs, but he still reigns Lord and Master around here anyway.

Ah yes, football push ups! They were so much easier to watch, than they were to do, according to Matthew.  I'll just have to take his word for it, I haven't be able to do a push up in years!

Well I hope these photo's inspire you to go out and take your own "green" photos!
Happy Scrapping
Now for the Funny Quote for the Day:

Nine Patch Girl's Quilt

When I am not scrapbooking, or taking photo's, I like to try my hand at sewing a little bit. This is a quilt top I made for my soon-to-be granddaughter Olivia.  It's a rainbow nine patch.  It has rows of Yellow, Orange, Red, Pink, Purple, Green, and Blue.

This photo shows the yellow and orange rows. The quilt is 5 block's wide and 7 blocks long. Each of the small squares started out as a 5 inch square.  The white sash was cut at 2 inch strips. It has 35 blocks all together.

 These photo's show the blue and green rows.  These photo's were taken at the local Wal-Mart because the department manager knew I had used mainly their "fat quarters" to make the top, and she wanted to see it.  Some of the character material was purchased at JoAnne's, like the "Scooby" and a few other's.

Since Olivia is soon to be 10, I went ahead and made this top to fit her double size bed.

I wish I would have gotten a better shot of the red, pink and purple rows, but you can get the general idea from these photos. Hope you like it, and make one for yourself, or your own loved one.
Now on to the Quote of the Day: