seeing stars

a brief stop to see another project I am working on:

Meet some of my stars.  Are you here??? well it doesn't take much to get on my star page.  all you have to do is make a donation on my leukemia fundraising page found here:

http://pages.teamintraining.org/wa/nikesf11/llokx7

As many of you have seen my sidebar ------------>

I am taking on a couple new challenges.  Participating in my first marathon and raising funds for leukemia. 

Did you know?::

An estimated 957,902 people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from, leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma. Every four minutes, someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every 10 minutes, someone dies.

Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children under the age of 20. Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers and incidence increases with age. The survival rate for myeloma is only 38.5 percent. Incidence is nearly twice as high among African Americans as for all other races

p.s. I created this in photoshop elements using the shape tool boy was that a challenge really had no clue what I was doing.  I added a shadowhouse bokeh to it using the screen mode and really liked how that turned out. 

ok now back to my regular blog post.  thanks for taking the time to let me show you another side of me.

do you know the words?

Today's challenge was a song I know all the words to. hahaha.  I can't carry a tone let alone remember all the words to a song with the exception of one song


I can sing this song.

how doesn't know this song?

we only hear it every year.

we have heard it since age one right


Happy Birthday not the national anthem but then again you really don't want to hear me attempt that.

this really doesn't have the song happy birthday but it cracks me up all the same so putting it on here.

sad

today's song challenge is a song that makes you sad.   This was a hard one to think of but then I heard this play on the radio and knew i had to do it for my song.  I know this is going to be an easy guess for most of you.



pretty ovious don't you think? 

hearts

a jar

Christina Perri??

Got it now???

Jar of Hearts

what is a song that makes you sad??


Hope you are enjoying the blog hop of songs still time to join in if you like.  Just let me know and we will add you to the list.  Please visit the list to the right for more songs.

santa treats please????

another one of the dogs we visited while vacationing at the inlaws.  plus it gave me a chance to practice some bokeh too.

candle bokeh

tried a little bokeh while at my sister's annual christmas tea.

361/365 more bokeh

I think I have played with this star before but oh well. it made a good subject. the house is still full of sick people and a sick dog. so no visiting the eagles today more play time. I actually took these last last night but playing with them today on the computer. I think I like the above better then the below version. what about you?

below are my failed attempts to do the fake bokeh with a star cut out of black paper and put on the front of the camera. I just am not getting it to work though and not sure why. maybe my lens aperture doesn't go down low enough.

360-365 bokeh

well the day after Christmas we were going to drive over to Idaho to see the annual flocking of eagles that come to eat but the house is sick. well 2 of us only have stiffly sinus crude but hubby was up all night with a horrible stomach flu. he has yet to return to the living so I decided to try out the pioneer woman's photo challenge . BOKEH in her words: According to Wikipedia (I was curious over my coffee this morning), bokeh is “the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image.”

yes I am obsessed with her blog and website.

so as I was saying all are sick and the dog was not cooperating so I resorted to ornaments.


the bird above was my final pick and my photo of the day.


EDITED TO ADD: it took me a while to figure this out. DUH laura take the autofocus off the lens as well as the camera.

Some other not good enough for me photos. This was my very first attempt at my mom's house on Christmas eve. I think I need to get some colored lights for my tree I like them better in this effect than the white ones.



and the non qualify Duncan picture. just not sharp enough for me