AN EXCITING DAY

Hi Everyone

I will warn you before I start that there is going to be a lot of rambling tonight along with a very rubbish photograph .. .. but I am mega excited about my achievements for the day.

As some of you will know I have a stand at the two day Melbourne Festival this weekend. Normally I take just cards with me .. .. but now I am into weddings as well I decided it would be good if I could show a few samples of my work off in this area too.

I won't have them on show as I don't have enough space to do a full blown wedding display .. .. .. .. so I decided the next best thing would be to take photographs and display them on a digital photo frame (I will have the samples in a box if anyone is interested). Worth a try.

So today was the day for doing this!!

First problem being, I don't have a digital photo frame. So I go on line to find that Jessops are selling a Sony 7" frame - should be £49 but reduced to £20. So I reserve it on line .. .. get to the part where I am agreeing to pay the £20 when it asks me if I have a voucher code to enter. .. .. .. .. .. mmm .. .. .. no voucher code but perhaps I could search for one ... ...yeah .. .. 10% off voucher code available. Great.

I enter this in my order box and now my digital frame has been reduced still further to £18.00 !!! Bargain or what.

So now to filling it with photographs.

I started by raiding the local florist to get just "odd" flowers in the shades I wanted so I could do some little displays.

No cream roses, and no cream anything available .. .. .. but she did have some special roses which had come in for a wedding order.

From out the back of the shop she produced the most gorgeous rose - a very "dirty brown/pink" colour .. .. which sounds disgusting but was really beautiful.

Guess how much for one rose .. .. .. £3.25!! I told her I would leave that but thank you for trying .. .. .. I dread to think how much the bride will be paying for a bouquet and buttonholes full of those roses!!

So a lovely little mixture of flowers and off I go home. Anyone seeing me leaving the shop would think I was colour blind judging by the strange array of colours I had purchased.

Now to set up my displays. Not easy - especially as today has been very dull. So I practically wrecked the dining room in an attempt to get some decent light in. All the curtains came down - chairs on the table for me to drape a backdrop over and props everywhere.

So a day of photograph taking - not brilliantly as I don't have the best equipment in the world - but I had great fun and was pleased with the results and even managed to get them onto my frame ready for the weekend. Yay!!

So no makes today .. .. .. except a huge mess in the dining room. But here is the awful photograph of my bargain frame with one of my photographs. It was pot luck which one you got to see!!

Sorry the picture is so rubbish.

Right, off to tidy up now then!! LOL!! Hubby couldn't believe his eyes when he came home!!!

Have a lovely evening everyone.

Love Jules xx