FMTSO: Machinery

Hello Friday Group! 

I'm a bit late posting and I'm digging into my archives once again but I did not want to miss this theme.

 

 

This is an oscillograph at the Clark County Museum.

 

 

An Intertype.

 

 

 

A book binding press.

 

I thought these were interesting machines, especially the intertype.

 

For those of you not familiar with the Friday My Town Shoot Out, I urge you to visit the home page by clicking here, which is also where you will find the links to view other participants take on this theme.

 

Have a great weekend.

FMTSO: Sweets

Sweets!

That is the theme for the Friday My Town Shoot Out.

I have been eating a lot of sweets lately.

I should have been photographing them instead of eating them.

I did manage to photograph some cookies that I bought at the store yesterday.

 

 

These are the most delicious sugar cookies I've ever tasted.

They are so lemony good.

 

Here's one from the archives.

This is when I first bought my SLR camera, before I even joined my camera club.

I think I've posted it before but since it's really sweet, I thought it deserved another post.

 

 

 

Well I could have really taken advantage of this week's theme as many sweets as I eat.

 

I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend.

I'm off to the post office.

 

Click here to see more mouth watering sweets from other participants.

 

FMTSO on Sunday.

Well, by the time anyone reads this post it will be Monday all ready.

I'm linking up with the Friday My Town Shoot Out, a couple of days late but I still wanted to participate.

 It was a busy week-end for me so I only have two shots for this week's theme which is the letter your town begins with and in my case it would be the letter L for Las Vegas.

Yesterday, I was out and about at a huge craft festival and that's where I photographed two items that begin with the letter L.

 

 

Both photos were taken with my phone.

 

 

These are luggage tags.

They look large in the photo, however, they are the average luggage tag size.

 

That's it for show, but I really had a great time at the craft fair.

I also got a psychic reading while there and it was fun.

 

FMTSO: Through Glass

Friday My Town Shoot Out: Today's theme is Through Glass.

A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to try a lensbaby lens while at a workshop.

Here is a shot through a glass window that also shows a reflection.

Here are some photos from my archive.

Rain splatter on the window of a boat.

Ah, the rain stopped. Looking through the window of a boat.

Road to Tombstone, AZ.

Me in the mirror.

Through The Glass

Click the above link to see some awesome photos taken through glass.

FMTSO: White on White

Happy Friday!

It's raining here in Las Vegas today and I am actually enjoying it.

Today's theme for the Friday My Town Shoot Out is White on White.

Here is my take on the theme. I hope you like it.

This is a photo of some sushi sitting on a white plexi-glass being used as the table and background.

I took this photo at one of my meet-up photography workshops last year when we were learning about food photography.

An egg sitting in a white bowl that's sitting on a white plate sitting on another white plate.

It looks like snow but it is actually sand.

I took this photo last September in White Sands, New Mexico.

The sign up ahead says sunset stroll starts here.

Looking back and leaving the sands behind.

Please check out the rest of the participants in the Friday Town Shoot Out Group.

It's candy to your eyes.

Thanks for stopping by.

Midweek Mail Check

I guess I got a little distracted last week and forgot to publish my post on Friday until earlier today.

:)

I've been getting a lot of postcards from postcrossing and swap-bot but I haven't received any letters

from any of the persons I wrote to for LetterMo except the ones I've already showed you, which really was about a 15th of what I sent out.

 Do I sound ungrateful for saying I'm a bit disappointed? I hope not. I'm just mentioning it because I'm wondering if you all had the same experience or did all or most of your letters get reciprocated? I'm just curious.

 I enjoyed writing the letters nonetheless and it was a fun challenge.

 

 

Original artwork and poem by me! (2009)

 

 

Now on to the mail!

 

Here's what has been delivered to me the past few days including today.

 

A Postcard from Bulgaria.

This is for a swap I joined awhile back called I Love Postcards #3.

 



A Postcrossing from good ol' US of A.

This is personally one of my favorites that I've received so far.

The sender writes:

Here is a vintage funny postcard for you that I found @ the local Raleigh, NC farigrounds/flea market.

:)

Crystal.

 

 

This is from a Group  Swap on Swap-Bot, Quick Notecard Swap #3

The cards are really cute in person.

I do like them a lot.

 

This amazing mini journal for another swap, One Sentence A Day February.

I was blown away by the creativity of the person who made this.

I have to share some of the inside with you as well.

 

 

This precedes the actual journal writing.

So cute, don't you think?

 

 

At the end of the journaling, this little surprise was sewn into the pages.

Lift it up............

 

 

To reveal a secret compartment with a treasure hidden inside.

 

 

A very nice bottle and key pendant and I love it.

The creativity of the maker of this journal has me in awe and I am so appreciative of this gift, not just the pendant tucked inside, but the love that went into making this journal.

So nice.

 

 

I love postcards with images of dogs.

This one is so sweet.

This is a postcrossing from the Netherlands.

The sender writes:

Hi JarieLyn,

Do you have examples of your mail art and snail mail.

I don't know what it means.

I try to do some scrapbooking besides being wife and mother of 2 sons.

My sons are 5 and 3 years old.

It's busy but fun most of the time.

Wish you the best.

Regards,

Grietje

 

Another Postcrossing from USA

(it is a resend because his first one never arrived)

The sender writes:

Hi JarieLyn,

I scanned the card begore I sent it to you so I printed it and hope yo liike it.

Best wishes from your Postcrossing friend-David.

(Lost Card)

 

I love the stamps too.

Notice that the postoffice didn't cancel the stamps.

Oh no, they had to put their little cancellation mark on the front of the card.

Ugh!

 

 

These lovely postcards came from another swap, Postcard Scavenger Hunt.

My favorite one is the black and white gallows and the other sepia toned one.

 

 

A PC A Day Swap.

My husband and I actually went here two years ago while on vacation so I was glad to receive this postcard because I don't have any from that vacation.

 

 

I received one of Julie's (La Papiere) postcards from a swapper for PC A Day Swap.

It's pretty cool because I ordered some envelopes from La Papier not too long ago and this was the sstyle that I ordered.

 

I have several more postcards, at least five but I'm not going to photograph them because you might get impatient scrolling through my blog post.

 

But I will post my outgoing now:

 

 

I finallly joined a Round Robin on the Postcrossing forum.

This is a march postcard pals.

I send one pc to 3 different people once a week in March.

I thought it would be easier to send them all the same card.

These are headed to Russia, The Netherlands, and Estonia.

 

 

These are for the Quick Note Card Swap, two partners.

 

 

I believe this is for the 3 card swap USA.

 I forgot to take a photo of the cards inside.

 

 

The mini journal swap.

Again, I forgot to photograph my handy artwork.

But compared to the one I received mine pales in comparison.

 

 

A Postcrossing on its way to Russia.

 

 

A Postcrossing on its way to New Jersey.

 

 

A Postcrossing on its way to Germany.

 

 

 A Postcrossing on its way to South Africa.

 

 

Fast & Easy Notecard Swap.

Also the front of the envelope of my original artwork and poem.

 

 

A Postcrossing card on its way to Turkey.

 

One of my pen pals had a birthday recently, (I guess it's been a month already)  so I will be wrapping up a small gift and writing a long letter to her tonight.

 

And tomorrow............

 

more pen pal letters to write.

 

Oh, happy days are here again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FMTSO: 4th Anniversary

In this week's post share something about FMTSO.

Tell us when you started linking up with us, share memories, repost your favorite theme from one of our topics, or talk about the friends you have made. If you have a chance, invite one of our former participants to come back and link up this week or just to stop by and say hi. You can find them in the older posts linkys, comments or the side bar listing which has not been updated in a while. You don't need to know them to invite them. Just introduce yourself and extend the invitation.

Let's make this a special week!

 

 

This is the very first photo I ever posted in FMTSO.
It was July 17, 2009 and the theme was Yard Objects.
I have posted a lot of photos of my beloved Sasha in the Friday My Town Shoot-Out.
I remember I was very nervous to post anything at all because I wasn't real familiar with the blogging community and I was afraid that my pictures would be seen as boring and amateurish.
(they were very amateurish)
It's amazing to me when I look back on all my posts for the FMTSO, how much my photography has evolved since then.
Honestly, If it weren't for the FMTSO gang I probably would not have had the desire to join the Nevada Camera Club which I solely did for the purpose of getting better for the FMTSO themes.

Just as Ginger mentioned the passing of Barry, it also is very significant for me as well.
I gained so much inspiration and compassion by reading every single word that Barry wrote.
He was such a talented writer and so brave and positive.
I felt such genuine love for this man that I never met before and I was heartbroken when he left this earth. I remember we did a special post about Barry and this is what I posted.

Barry's death really impacted me a lot harder than I anticipated and my reaction took me by surprise. Here is my tribute to Barry. These are just a few of the things that Barry has inspired me to think about or rather when I think about Barry these are the words that come to my mind.

 

Also, when I think of Barry I can't help but think about my sister and what she's going through.

Today, Feb. 28, 2013 I went back and read the last few posts on Barry's blog and I cried.
See my photo above with all the words about Barry-well, I just erased that board about two weeks ago. That's how long I kept the tribute to Barry hanging on my wall.
I'm not sure why I felt such a connection to him, but I did and I admired him in many ways.
RIP Barry!

I also really appreciate two comments that Pauline and Rebecca made on this post.

Also, at one point Ginger and I decided to collaborate a writing project on another blog.
It was off to a good start but vacations, first her then I, and the death of her husband and my health issues stalled that project but I am very proud of what little we accomplished and I got to know Ginger on a more intimate level. It was challenging and fun. You can read our stuff here. 

I feel connections with several people in the FMTSO.
I'm not sure they feel the same about me but there are a few that I think I would get along well with in person and would love to meet someday.
With that being said, I did get the opportunity to meet a blogger from the FMTSO gang back in 2011.
Doreen came to Las Vegas and I played tour guide.
I for one, had a great time while she was here and it was awesome to meet someone from the blogging community.
I have pictures and a whole post about the visit which you can read here.

I'm not really sure I have a favorite post but I can say this:
All the people in this group are so talented, nice, inspiring, creative and real.
I am so happy that I found all of you because during the times I am feeling low, it is you who always motivates me to a higher elevation.

Thank you, FMTSO gang!
I love you all very much and I thank you for still being here.

If you'd like to participate or just read other entries click here for the list.