A Fanciful Life Blog Posts

• Keeping Up
  on May 10, 2013 in flowers
  Well, I'm trying to take photos of anything other than flowers, but it is spring which makes it hard to do. How about a photo of a photo of flowers? Ha! I've been posting lots of my flower photos on Instagram.  I love the immediacy of taking a p...
• Ranunculus!
  on Apr 23, 2013 in ranunculus pink flowers
  Just Beautiful My addiction to RadLab is in full swing. I took a photo of these beautiful ranunculus flowers and applied these different RadLab treatments. I could do this all day (sigh). I hope you are enjoying your Spring days!
• Pink Spring
  on Apr 14, 2013 in ranunculus pink flowers
  Think Pink! So loving all the spring flowers! Last week I bought a bunch of pink ranunculus and divided them into small vases. Let me just say it was pretty hard to decide which color bunch to buy as they were all so gorgeous. My farmer's marke...
• Cupcakes and Cats
  on Apr 2, 2013 in cat cupcake Gracie
  Cupcake photo processed with textures from Kim Klassen for Texture Tuesday Happy Birthday Nippy Today Nipper, our black and white tuxedo cat, is eight years old.  I'd love to show you a photo of her, but she sleeps all day and doe...
• Spring Thing
  on Mar 26, 2013 in ranunculus flowers
  All photos processed with textures by Kim Klassen for Texture Tuesday Oh, the ranunculus are back - happy Spring!  The flower vendor at the farmer's market now has one of my favorite flowers. Ahhh, Spring. Now that winter is over, it's a jo...
• Busy Times
  on Mar 18, 2013 in roses toile
  Photos processed using RadLab Busy, Busy, Busy Oh, what a busy time it has been.  Breathing a sigh of relief after doing an update on my Mac and seeing only bouncing icons afterwards. Looks like everything is ok - whew! Put new white beddi...
• Almost Spring
  on Mar 10, 2013 in daylight saving time roses spring pink
  Almost Spring in California Yay! It's Daylight Savings time today and that means it stays light longer. Love this time of year! I purchased these lovely roses recently. Yesterday it was ranunculus from the farmer's market. Since last Spring, I'...
• Gracie
  on Feb 25, 2013 in cat Gracie
  Gracie My sweet Gracie. Following me all through the house. Comes to greet me when she hears the garage door open. Talking all the time. Turning my bathrobe into her own little cat bed. Just the best. Love this cat.
• Dream Gerberas
  on Feb 17, 2013 in gerbera daisies pink
  Dream Gerberas Rather than making the usual morning trip to Trader Joe's for groceries and flowers, Gracie and I slept in. By the time I got there late in the afternoon, the best flowers were gone and they only had a few orange gerberas. While the...
• Seven Photoshop Effects on One Photo
  on Feb 10, 2013 in dried flowers RadLab roses Kim Klassen
  Bullet Tooth by RadLab I was playing around with the RadLab plug-in in Photoshop Elements the other day. It is so addicting! I took a photo of the dried flowers and applied several of the different variations. My favorite turned out to be the effect...
• A Dreamy Look
  on Feb 7, 2013 in daisy Kim Klassen textures pink
  Sweet Pinks So here I am, home sick from work still, not yet well but getting bored. Checking my inbox, I see that Kim Klassen has sent four fabulous new textures to her Texture Lovin' Listers. Ooooh, they were so pretty I had to try them out. The h...
• Roses
  on Feb 4, 2013 in roses flowers
  Oh my, still battling a nasty cold but did manage to take a few photos of flowers over the weekend. I could not resist these multi-colored roses - they look like Spring is approaching. Well, it's not too long until Spring. Yes, time to Think Spring!
• Welcome February
  on Feb 2, 2013 in flea market
  No Flea Market This Weekend :-( I'm missing the flea market this weekend so I am a bit disappointed. Yes, the virus that has been hitting everyone has found me. Ugh. I think my time spent at the preschool this past week is coming back to bite me!
• Just Chasing Kids With a Camera
  on Jan 31, 2013 in gerbera daisies
  Photo Challenges I've spent several hours at preschool this week taking photos for a brochure. Can I just say it's like herding kittens?! I have to hand it to both parents and teachers as it can be exhausting being with little people. They move so f...
• Gerbera Time
  on Jan 28, 2013 in gerbera daisies flowers
  Gerbera Daisy Love the multi colors in these flowers. Somehow I seem to gravitate towards these versus the solid color flowers. And yes, they came from Trader Joe's. It's the first thing I look for when I enter the store each week.  N...
• Happy Heart
  on Jan 25, 2013 in February hearts
  Heartful My sister reminded me tonight that it's almost February. I'm not sure heartful is a real word but it seems appropriate somehow. February is a special month for me with so many notable days. National Heart Month. Valentine's Day. Pre...
• Roses!
  on Jan 22, 2013 in Texture Tuesday roses pink
  Photo processed with Happy Heart, Sweet Treat and Charmed textures by Kim Klassen for Texture Tuesday. Roses = Happiness Yellow roses? White roses? Pink roses? So many choices at my local Trader Joe's this weekend. I finally chose these multi-color...
• Be Inspired (Plus, Bonus Project!)
  on Jan 20, 2013 in RadLab fabric frame frame project silk
  BE INSPIRED Joy - the feeling I get when I process my photos in Photoshop Elements or Lightroom. Love how there are so many enhancements that can be done and take a photo from fine to something more special. Loving RadLab plug-ins which make it so e...
• Long Weekends - A Time to Catch Up
  on Jan 18, 2013 in roses pink
  Yippee! A three day weekend is almost here. Oh, how I love long weekends.  I'm still in the new year mindset, so I'll be making progress on my latest de-cluttering project. I boxed up lots of things last weekend and it made a huge differen...
• Just Do It!
  on Jan 16, 2013 in chalkboard calligraphy flea market
  2013 Mantra I'm adopting this as my mantra this year. It's something I need to do. You see, I tend to live in my head a lot. When I'm interested in something, my natural inclination is to find out as much as I can. Sometimes this goes too far as I s...