366 Challenge 68: Perfume

Yesterday I was walking around the flat (stuck at home with sick children) trying to find something to photograph. I thought I would have a go at the perfume theme.

Here is it balancing on the towel rail (to get the light from the only working spot light in our bathroom). A black wrap dress, hung to dry behind it, gives a shadow to the text on the perfume bottle. (When I removed it the photo went very bland.)

After a completely crappy day, it feels good to post something like this instead of a rant... Hopefully tomorrow will be a good day, we have a viewing booked in the morning *fingers crossed* it will be good!

366 Challenge 162: Keyhole (also Ordlös Onsdag)

This is the keyhole to the chest I posted on Sunday. I was taking pictures of this keyhole for the 366 challenge, but then I only found the theme key in the list, so didn't use it. Today, when I thought: "Oh, it can be my Wordless Wednesday contribution then, I found the theme keyhole in the themelist, so now I am actually going to post it for both. But it's not as such a wordless contribution today *but I'll promise, not a word next week...*, I also realized that the chest has a little bit more story to go with this picture.

Part from being transported home from an auction by my father in law on a bicycle, my husband and his brother also managed to lock a baby sitter in the chest on one occasion! I hope my son doesn't inherit the adventurous side of my husband...

Normally Ordlos Onsdag contributions are viewed here, but today we have a stand in.

Mummy and Daddy

When C was born, we immediately saw that he had my colours and my hair, however he looks very much like his dad (when he is grown up), especially when he smiles.

J on the other hand has Os colours and hair and looks very much like her dad did when he was a baby. But every now and then a little glimps of me shines through.

Sifting through the pictures I've taken during January and February (hoping I might have one suitable for the 366 challenge *but no*), I found these two pictures. They are taken at the very same occasion, when having lunch a couple of weeks ago. One of the pictures (shown above) J looks just like her dad and on the other one very much like me. (She looks more like herself on the first picture, but it's amazing to all of a sudden see yourself in a picture or two)

366 Challenge 159: Gift

As well as being a theme of the 366 Challenge, this photo pretty much sums up my weekend. It seems as if children's parties always comes in pairs. So driving around against the clock reading the map with a birthday gift on the dashboard, has been our pleasure at two occasions this weekend.

Regarding the other big happenings in my life: the flat viewing was cancelled due to an exterminator being there spraying the house..new viewing booked Wednesday, but I will take an extra good look as to what he could have been exterminating... The car is still not working, but yesterday as we were contemplating calling someone who could just come and tow it away so we'd never see it again, we drove past a Recover van. The guy was ever so helpful checking a couple of things (he even made a little camp fire on the pavement to clean the spark plugs to C's excitement), so today we are keeping our fingers crossed that the garage can come and pick it up and hopefully there will only be a smaller fix needed...if not the recovery man told us "you might as well get a new car". Encouraging.

Also, I want to welcome Crille, who bravely decided to join the 366 challenge even later than me. He is very, very close and dear to me and I am so happy that he has joined!! It's such a great way of keeping in touch, since we live quite far apart at the moment and I know that he loves photography, has always done.

Have a look at his 366 site: http://crillesphotos.blogspot.com/