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Jun 07 2008

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I Saw Red: Ruby Saturday

It’s been almost a week’s worth of red at this blog~ I’ve enjoyed fiddling some more with my camera to try to photograph each crimson, blush, and sunny red that has caught my eye, and today I thought I’d try that little flower button setting on my Kodak Easyshare to capture RUBY…

The setting helped capture my new ruby cell phone (complete with QWERTY keyboard…texting will be soooo much easier now!) as well as the floral details on the mat beneath it:

and worked even more magic when I tried to photograph all of my ruby rings at once. Do you know how many blurry shots I’ve taken over the years? The flower button just might be my new favorite setting on the camera!

You might think I have a thing for rubies… I admit red is one of my favorite colors, but I didn’t have a lot of ruby jewelry until my husband came along. Every year I get a new ring or earrings, but as I don’t usually wear more than three rings each day, I have to make sure to rotate through my stash so none of them feel left out.

Awww, poor me.

*snicker snicker*

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Off to spend time with friends at a BBQ~ hope you are having a terrific day!

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Jun 07 2008

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Oh Yes, I’m Red-dy for the Weekend!

Filed under I Saw Red, crafts

Do you remember the red glitter from yesterday?

I have been looking forward to learning how to make banners for several months now, inspired by lovelies I’ve found on other blogs. Dear Daughter’s transition from junior high to high school seemed like just the right opportunity to try a new-to-me-craft idea, so I collected the materials, using mostly her favorite color, purple. I thought red glitter would be a nice contrast!

I spelled out “high school girl” in plain chipboard letters, glued, and glittered them…

Measured my 12X12 paper, marking 3, 6, and 9 inches to draw lines for triangles…

Look at these pretty purple floral pennants!

I glued the floral triangles to solid purple cardstock and trimmed with pinking shears…

Punched out squares

and hearts…

Added the glittery letters

and then used hot glue to mount the pennants on purple ribbon…

The very best thing? She LOVES it!

Next time I’ll use smaller triangles, and larger letters, but for my first effort, I’m pretty pleased!

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We’ll see what red inspiration I’ll find for tomorrow, the last day of

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