Pretty Summer Flowers

I came across these pretty summer flowers on my walk the other day and thought I would share:

I'm about to receive an email money transfer in the near future, have you ever tried it? It's been around for years, but a friend decided it's the easiest way to re-imburse me for something as opposed to a plain cheque.

Now I'm starting to wish I owned an Ipad. They are starting these exclusive online magazine launches. I subscribe to Loulou magazine, and they are one of the magazines being launched online in this manner.  The first issue will be free to existing subscribers. It seems it will be a lot less expensive to subscribe online or to even purchase an online copy. The Huffington Post is doing something similar, but I don't read them.

Simply Cute

The theme for Creative Tuesdays is 'Simply Cute' which is the title of this piece.  It's a little duckling, isn't he sweet?

 I'm also linking to Paint Party Friday! This piece is done in acrylic on cardstock (6.5" x 4.5")

Please visit the other participants in these fun art co-ops!

Some interesting articles

This is a photo of a tree that was split in last week's thunderstorm.  We are having a marvelous summer so far, my son K is officially on summer holidays starting today and has found a job starting on Monday after our  long Canada Day weekend!  How neat is that!  I hope it goes well for him, it will be his first paid job.

I read a couple of interesting articles in the newspaper recently. The news has been so depressing lately, this one story is actually about a recent shooting in the city, but one of the survivors, a 13 year old boy and his family have surprisingly positive things to say about the whole incident. Have a read here and see if you agree with me that it's a wonderful story.

The other story is about Mabel's Labels at Walmart Canada. These mompreneurs have a successful product through a lot of hard work. It's a textbook marketing strategy.

Social media is taking over

M and I saw 'Snow White and the Huntsman' on the weekend.  I had seen it being promoted on a talk show and heard it was a different take on the Fairy Tale with Snow White having fight scenes and taking a more active role.  It turned out to be more of M's kind of action movie and I left the theatre feeling a bit tense.  I thought Charlize Theron did a great acting job, however.

What was new for me was a new interactive app game you can play on your smart phone before the start of the feature film.  If you answer the questions correctly you earn scene points which can be used toward movie rewards.  At the end of the game it displays the scores/results of all the players. Social media and its marketing is taking over!  We've also been told we can load our scene points card onto our smart phone and you never have to worry about carrying the card again!  Everything is changing so fast.  You can even purchase your movie ticket online and  load it onto your smart phone and have it scanned from there.  I have an older Blackberry with just one app loaded onto it.  There is a lot to learn when I eventually upgrade to perhaps an Iphone.  I already feel left behind!

Creative Tuesdays - Grab My Button

Welcome to Creative Tuesdays! MMm asked us to create our own blog icon button as this week's theme. I might never have done this if he had never asked us and I have to say I'm happy I did!  It's always fun to learn something new, after the fact anyway! 

I had done this acrylic painting on a (3" x 3") post-it note for a PPF and Summer of Color entry recently and thought it would be perfect for my blog icon.  So now if you click on it, it will take you to my blog.  You can 'grab' the html code from my sidebar on the right, to include my icon link in your own blog.  Not that I'm planning to run any link parties or anything!

Wild Black Raspberries

My friend S and I went for an early morning walk on the weekend and we happened upon some wild raspberries growing at the side of a main road. We plucked a few of the berries and the darker purple ones were fully ripened and so sweet! They don't use pesticides to spray the grass anymore, so I felt it would be ok to taste!  Ironically, these are black raspberries just like our current summer of colour theme!





We also decided to stop into a contents sale in the neighbourhood. It was being run by Sell My Stuff Canada. It was such a beautiful morning and we really just enjoyed the house tour and checking out the stuff for sale.

Sunday Sketches and Summer of Color

For Alexandra's Sunday Sketches and Kristin's Summer of Color this piece is done in acrylic on cardstock (4.5 x 6.5").  The Summer of Color theme is Baseball Nut ice cream which is a black raspberry and vanilla colour scheme.  I'm depicting fresh cut rosebuds in a simple vase.  Let's imagine they come in 'black raspberry'.  Please visit the talented participants at Sunday Sketches and Summer of Color!