Some amazing projects and links!

Thomas has dubbed today as Thursday/Friday... you have to say it really fast.
It really makes me laugh when he says it.
Anyway, we are going away to Berwick-Upon-Tweed* tomorrow, just the two of us (finally!) so today is indeed Thursday/Friday. I can't wait. I have cameras at the ready!

As I have a couple of guest posts lined up by one of my besties GeeGee (who you may have seen around leaving comments or taking part in the photoswap) I wanted to share some amazing things I've seen in the blog world lately today as I won't be here tomorrow.

Here's the idea in Lindsay's words: for each installation of the project, I'll give the contributors a single word or phrase. Each contributor will submit a single picture that best represents that word or phrase for them, and then we'll see what we come up with. My idea is just to see how differently different people see and interpret the same thing. I think that this will be a really fun project, and I hope that it will grow and evolve with time. I'm thinking of one per month for starters, just to see how it goes.

How exciting does this sound and apparently it was inspired in part by me and the photo swap, how cool is that? If you love my photo swap then you will love this, I do!

Next up is the Alphabet Walk Blog Hop, from Piper at One Sydney Road.

I saw this on Katrina's blog as she also has the bunting clip art featured on the image above available on Piper's blog - I am all over that one!

What the Alphabet Walk Blog Hop is in Piper's words: you’ll choose a letter of the alphabet, grab your walking shoes and camera, and find a spot where you want to take pictures of things that represent the letter you chose. (ex: “a” could be an apple or abstract or even the letter “a”).
then on your designated day, you’ll post the picture (or pictures if you want!) of your letter on your blog. then we’ll spend the week “hopping” around to see everyone’s interpretation of the alphabet! (click here to see what i did on my walk)

Another fun idea, I love it!

And here are some amazing links for this week:
  1. Totoro cupcakes - I want one, I love Totoro.
  2. Eadaoin's gorgeous wedding on Dandelion and Grey, hurray!
  4. A lego camera and amazing polaroids from Diana
    (or just check out her whole blog :D)

Look out for GeeGee's posts tomorrow and Monday and I will be back on Tuesday hopefully with more photos to share!

p.s. don't forget about Megan's amazing giveaway, I just realised I won't be here Monday (duh Rhianne) so the closing date is extended until Tuesday!

Oh my...

I'm beginning to think that Cassia is a lady after my heart...

Not only does she take the most amazing photos (a number of which I have framed in my house), but she has been incredibly supportive of my blog and now she has opened a new shop, Violet May
featuring the most amazing collages.

I feel a little silly as I didn't realise at first that it was her shop - I just stared at the amazing colours, the delightful poses and wonderful simplicity of her work.
I am totally smitten.

{all images by Cassia can be found in her amazing shop!}

Luckily for us, Cassia is having a giveaway of one of her prints on her blog at the moment, as well as a photography giveaway! It's all far too exciting!

It's a Photo Swap 2010! Entry now closed!

I'm delighted to say that I think the photo swap in 2009 was a success and even though its been a long time coming, I am just crazy enough to host another one!

It all started when the lovely Susannah posted a link on her Twitter about disposable cameras way back in 2009 and I started to think how wonderful it would be to take photos to then
send to someone else to develop!

I love photos - I especially love photos taken by film cameras and I love the anticipation of waiting for my own photos but waiting for someone elses with no clue about the photos would be beyond exciting!!

Each photoswapper either takes a roll of film

or buys a disposable camera

it has to be something that you develop
and they take photos just for their swap partner,
then send the cameras/films to each other
and develop the other persons photos.
(and posts them on their blogs for everyone to see of course)

Diana Melissa
Wendy Marisa
Carly Megan
Rhianne Photoswap Blog

{click on the photos for each persons blog}

Entry for this swap is now closed!

If you want to put the banner like the one at the top of this post on your blog then here is the HTML code to do so:


If however you fancy a smaller button for your sidebar like this then use this HTML coding:

Also if you wish to twitter about the photo swap then please use the hashtag #photoswap2010
I have also created a shorter link that can also be used to link to this page
http://bit.ly/dAgfIJ

I hope that you are all as excited about this as I am - the results from the last photo swap were so amazing that I can't wait to see what we get this year!
If you think I have missed anything or just want to ask me a question then please email me on rhiannelouise@gmail.com

p.s. Thank you to everyone who have volunteered so far, Cassandra who helped me with making HTML coding visible on posts and in the sidebar and also Katrina for her wonderful tape which I've used everywhere!

Oh my...

Right now my blogging issues seems to resolve around balance - what to put on here, what to put on Tumblr, whether or not to just use my images or use someone elses, is more than one post a day too many..?

Anyway, I realised as I was looking through my blog that I missed my 'Oh my...' feature - where I just had to share something that really made me think 'oh my...' and I realised that as long as I was happy with my referencing and I gave as much credit to the creator as possible then I should really share the things that I love on here as well - some things are just that amazing!

And these are some of them....

Beautiful camera illustrations by Liyen from The Designer in Pyjamas
(Original blog post here... Click on each image for their flickr pages)

I mentioned about my Yashica Autofocus yesterday...
I adore this camera and it looks so amazing here.

There are more cameras and photos on Liyen's blog and Flickr page - yeay.

I'm in camera inspiration heaven... and if I hadn't already really wanted to draw in a moleskine before, I really do now. I think I may have to go shopping this weekend...