August Break 2013

It's time for Susannah's August Break again! Can you believe it? I kind of can and I kind of can't. In many ways, last year feels likes it was decades ago, whilst in some it feels like it was just yesterday.  

I've been taking part in Susannah Conway's August Break for the past 3 years and I've always enjoyed it but I'm especially excited this year as its a little bit different - there are prompts! So this year, as well as scheduling posts here  (it is a break after all) with some forgotten photos from Flickr in line with the prompts, I will also be taking a photo on the day and sharing that on Instagram. I'm pretty excited about shaking the August Break up a little bit, but also glad to be having the break too. Perhaps after a little rest from here, I'll get my blogging mojo back.

Will you be taking part? If you want more information on the August Break, you can read about it on Susannah's blog here :) 

365/2013 168-185

168 - Pretty yellow
169 - the flowers in our back garden
170 - I developed our holiday snaps, this is a favourite
171 - Yummy dinner
172 - Drying out poppy and peony pods for me and my Mum to plant
173 - Another yummy dinner (when in doubt, take photos of food)
174 - Lamp Chop @ The Brudenell
175 - An abandoned TV in Leeds
176 - Ombre Peony
177 - I found a heart stone for Thomas
178 - Blue
179 - Pink
180 - I attempted to curl my hair
181 - Lovely light
182 - Chicken nachos, yummy.
183 - Another heart find
184 - More yellow
185 - I got off the bus a couple of stops early for a ice cream treat :)

We've been drawn...

Not me and Thomas, but me and my Dad (surprise Dad haha) . My long time blog friend Megan from Studio MME (who has been featured here numerous times, yeay)  has been doing a 365 project drawing portraits. A few weeks ago, she asked for more photo submissions and on a whim I sent her not only a picture of myself but also a photo of my Dad, Adrian, on Hadrian's Wall (its His wall you see...) and here are the results.

Don't we look smiley? I love that we have matching smiles in these :) 
 and even if I don't look as cute as Megan has portrayed me in that top photo, I love the idea of her seeing me like that, thanks Megan!

If you're interested in having your portrait drawn by Megan as well, you can find more information to contact her here.  She also has more portraits on her Facebook page too (which someone should like, as its on 999 and I'm pretty sure she'd love to hit 1000 likes on there :D )

365/2013 149-167

Oops, I've been completely forgetting to upload these 365 photos here again, but don't worry, I'm still on with it. In fact I've probably been using my phone more than anything for photos lately and I've been really enjoying it now that I have a phone with a good camera. 

This set of photos include the photos a day from our holiday too, so those are making me feel much happier.

149 - Waiting for the peonies to open
150 - My walk to work was extra green
151 - Watching the birds on our bird feeder
152 - Messing around the settings on Thomas's phone
153 - MY first roll of film since April, hurray!
154 - Marnie Stern at the Brudenell
156 - We finally watched Yellow Submarine, I liked it.
157 - The peonies in bloom!
158 - Harry!!
159 - Our view in Berwick
160 - Along the Berwick walls
161 - My Dad at St Abbs :)
162 - Bamburgh Castle
163 - Across Edinburgh from the top of the Scott Monument
164 - Beautiful Berwick
165 - Lindisfarne Castle
166 - :(
167 - The roller derby in Leeds! 

 (I appear to be missing a number though - bother!)