The Journey

I was not going to link up today over at the Mortal Muses, today was my youngest son's second birthday party! However, I peeked at the prompt in a quick moment I had, I came up with a few ideas of what I wanted to do, somehow portraying all our personal travels during the holidays and the amount of time we spend on the road, but the journey of the three wise men just kept coming back to me. Luckily my mother-in-law has a beautiful nativity set that worked quite well. Plus, it's nice to be reminded why our family celebrates Christmas, it can get lost sometimes amongst all the glitz and glitter of the holidays.

 This is my entry today for the prompt, JOURNEY, over at the Mortal Muses. Head on over to link up or check out the other entries! Have a great weekend everybody!

Oh the Bokeh!

Today I wanted to start my post with a little bit of sparkle! A little bit of holiday bokeh to be exact! Did you know that there is a Holiday Bokeh Party going on over at Life with my 3 Boybarians?? I'm sharing my holiday bokeh over at the party and you should too! Or you can just head on over and look at all the gorgeous sparkle!

I actually took this first one before I heard about the bokeh party because I couldn't resist getting a little bit of Christmas tree bokeh this Christmas!

This second one I took before dinner! I just love this Christmas bell and thought it would be a good subject! Hope you enjoy!

Peace....

Today I decided to participate in 'Twas the write before Christmas' over at Bigger Picture Blogs. Today is day three of a week of holiday prompts. You can choose to interpret it however you please, writing, crafting or in my case photography. I missed the first two days, but it is set up to join in at anytime!

Today's prompt was a song by Casting Crowns-"I heard the bells on Christmas". It is a beautiful song and you all should go over and take a listen!

So, while I was listening to the song I decided to stop all my chores to really focus on the song. While I could interpret this song in sooo many beautiful ways, the word peace, angelically sung by a choir, kept making it's way to my thoughts. There are so many positive things about the holiday season and for me these make my Christmas enjoyable and peaceful! Its easy to get got up in all the stress, but when you chose to focus on the positive and soak up the joy and remember the reason for season, we can all have a little peace, if not on earth, in our hearts!

The word peace makes me think of silver, light and airy, calm...This is what I came up with...

While I was shooting this series of pictures I decided I liked the top photo in the collage as an interpretation of the prompt over at The Sunday Creative, you can see it again below...The word this week is Frozen, while I would like to get some pictures of snow or ice, here in the Southern end of Central North America we have yet to see anything that resembles snow, just wind! I could have went deeper and got some beautiful set up shot with a model...but, I like this picture for the prompt for lots of reasons. First of all it is part of a small decorative tree I have that is suppose to look like an iced over tree, so it looks like ice. Plus the prompt frozen again makes me think silver, light, clear, all which I think you get from this picture. But, most of all I like the memories flood back every time I unpack it from the Christmas box...I got this tree right after I found out I was pregnant with my first child...a lot was going on then, transitioning from college student and wife to just wife then wife and mother. You could see the transitions in all aspects of my life including my decor, from dorm worthy decor to more sophisticated pieces...This piece was one of my first "grown-up" looking Christmas pieces. Four years later, I still bring it out every Christmas, a little reminder of moments passed!

Well, I hope you all enjoyed my interpretations of the prompts and I hope you all head on over and join in!

     

Diptych fun!

It's been way to long since I've participated in all the wonderful creative groups out here! I saw that the mortal muses' were having some fun with diptych and triptych and couldn't help but join in the fun! I made a several, but these were my favorite three! That's all for today, but now that I got the itch to join in on the photo challenges again, I might be back soon!

I love butterflies! I think I have like a zillion photos of them, well maybe not a zillion,but definately a lot! These shots are some of my fav, this particular day the butterfly let me get super close!

I love, love lemons! Don't they make you miss summer? That why I thought I'd use this one for Simplicity's photo challenge, Dreaming of Summer

I love the fair! For me it's the kick start of fall, my favorite season! 

Go join the fun over at mortal muses

and the challenges at Simplicity