My first stop was a tree farm in the area. It had rained in the morning but it had stopped by the time I arrived -- perfect picture-taking conditions -- so I slogged around the mud, taking pictures of the newly-blooming fruit trees and other things that caught my eye.
From there, I headed to a shopping center that's great for roaming purposes. I wandered around Marshalls (found 2 different black toile plates -- I have a small collection of them, each one different, that I love using...)
I can wander for hours at Target. My big find there was some pretty turquoise stoneware bowls to go with the new spatterware plates we have...
After lunch (the honey mustard chicken salad from Quizno's -- yum) I headed to Border's bookstore, in search of this magazine:
And there it was -- I got the last one on the stand. I'm loving these specialty magazines that Somerset Publications is putting out. They're pricey but I generally find a lot of inspiration there.
And I stumbled onto this, which I couldn't resist...
Have you seen this magazine? It amuses me that there are magazines and books about blogging ... but this is well worth a look if you've not seen it, especially for us visual types. It's lovely to look at, it'll show you more blogs (like we all need more blogs to read, right?) and it provides good food for thought about where you want your own blog to go. Since I've been in a sort of slump blogging-wise, this is just what I needed. (Oh! Guess who's blogging now? Jane Fonda! You can check out her blog here...
Then, because I had an hour to kill before I picked up Miss C from school, I treated myself to a caramel latte at the Seattle's Best Coffee, right there in Border's, and I sat and looked at Photoshop books. (There's just SO much to learn about Photoshop...)
By the time I got home, to the smell of stew simmering away in the slow cooker, I was rested and happy and recharged.
Boy, I needed that.
Sounds like a fabulous morning.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about you today. I am so happy that you had a pleasing art date.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had such a wonderful day--you deserve more of those.
ReplyDeletePhotoShop is the greatest--I'm using Elements 5.0 and loving it. There's a user's forum that I've found very handy here:
http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/usercp.php
I will look up that blogging mag--I need inspiration.
It sounds like a perfect day to me. I have seen the Artful Blogging magazine but it seemed to silly to buy a magazine about blogging? However, upon your recommendation I will take another look!
ReplyDeleteI've seen those mags advertised but we can't get them here without paying well over the already high cost of the magazine in postage. Amy chance these copies might be by my bed for me to peruse when I come to stay ? :
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