I Am What I Read

Week 2 of my 52 of "Twenty Eleven Project". This week's theme is: This is me.

It is said that if you want to know what kind of person someone is, you have to take a look at their bookshelf.

Well: this is me :-)

Two of my bookshelves, there's at least one bookshelf in almost every room of the flat and piles and piles of books virtually everywhere. No matter how many bookshelves you have, it is never enough for all the books... I simply couldn't imagine a life without books.

{Day 14} ~ Beyond the Chill

Prompt for Day 14 for Picture Winter: "Beyond the Chill"

These bright pink blossoms are everywhere at the moment, bringing a splash of cheerful colour into the rather dull and snowless winter days at the moment.

Texture by Kim Klassen

{Day 13} ~ Controlled Chaos

Prompt for Day 13 for Picture Winter: "Controlled Chaos"

I wouldn't part with my beloved red and green wardrobe dating from 1737, even though it's rather impractical as it is really far too small. Inside it all's more or less under control. It's outside where the real chaos is, with all the piles of clothes, and other stuff you'd usually keep in a wardrobe, that don't fit in lying around.

But it is so beautiful and has so much history and character that a new, modern, big wardrobe simply isn't an option. Just the lock is a piece of art and craftsmanship in itself and I'm so happy that in all the time the wardrobe was in use, the original never got lost.

Another glimpse into my wardrobe. I do wear black and grey most of the time. But there's some colour as well :-)

This picture reminds me of a book I read the year before last. I decided to read a modern book for a change and to read one from the Booker Prize Shortlist. I picked The Clothes On Their Backs by Linda Grant, admittedly mostly because I liked the cover, but I really enjoyed it a lot.

Texture by Kim Klassen and borealnz

{Day 11} ~ Warm Your Heart / {Week 9} ~ Teacup Love

Prompt for Day 11 for Picture Winter: "Warm Your Heart

Also for The Shutter Divas, week 9. This week's assignment: "Teacup Love". Each week's assingment is posted on Christina's fabulous blog Divas and Dreams and the pictures you can find in The Shutter Diva's Flickr group. I've missed several weeks here but I hope that soon, once I've worked through all my photography and processing e-courses, I'll be able to follow regularly again :-).

Life is so much pleasanter if you love what you (have to) do, at least most of it - and with a nice cup of hot tea or coffee ;-)

The texture is by les brumes, the texture with the script is from a page from a 16th century book, hearts by melemel

{Day 10} ~ Balanced

Prompt for Day 10 for Picture Winter: "Seeking Balance"

I'm cheating a bit with this one, as I tooks this picture earlier this year, in summer. But it just seemed to fit today's prompt so well and I've always wanted to do something with it.
I did the processing today, so it's only half cheating ;-)

Textures by rubyblossom and Kim Klassen.

{Day 9} ~ Bundle Up

Today's prompt for Picture Winter: "Bundle Up"

In winter, you have to "bundle up to head out into the winter world". No problem for me, I love bundling up in warm woolly seaters, scarves, wristlets and layers and layers of warm clothes. Skimpy summer dresses really aren't for me. I'm a true winter girl :-).

The horrible dark circles under my eyes come from spending virtually the whole weekend at the computer working through the PSE lessons. I think I overdid it slightly...

One of the things I learnt today is how to do grungy frames - you can see my creations here. With the help of grungy brushes form Shadowhouse Creations and my favourite ornaments from MouritsaDA .

Soon I'll be making my own brushes and textures. Yay! :-)

Textures by rubyblossom and Kim Klassen.

{Day 8} ~ Texture Seekers

Prompt for Day 8 for Picture Winter: "Texture Seekers"

I spent the morning working through another lesson of the skinny PSE course by Kim Klassen learning how to create mosaics. When I saw todays assignment for Picture Winter, I thought it would just be perfect so nipped into the kitchen to take a few shots before working through the lesson. So this is it, my first ever mosaic. Yay!

The assingment was not just to look for textures today, but for textures in the kitchen. The light was just perfect this morning so I there's no processing at all, all three pictures are SOOC (yes, I can hold myself back :-) ). And yes, I admit. Sunlight can be good. Sometimes.

I'm useless at cooking but I just love those shiny kitchen utensils :-)