Late posts

So I apparently totally suck. I was out for the last two days. The first day I had a sick child and then the 2nd day I was the sick one. Ugh-Not fun at all. Today I am up and feeling better. All of my children made it to school and I made it to work. But guess what I do not have my camera or memory card with me. I made a point to put it with my stuff last night so I wouldn't forget it today and guess what??? I forgot it. Very sorry, but I will use the excuse that I have been sick so therefore the brain is not working properly. I will try my hardest for either tonight or tomorrow to remember to upload my pics.
Until then everyone have a great rest of the week-I know I will (fingers crossed)

Okay, so I found #1 and apparently there has been sickness at her house so she is unable to blog. This is unfortunate because I really wanted to see how her challenge results turned out. Oh well, I guess we will have to wait until the sickness passes to see what great creative awesomeness #1 produces.

Ahhh... The anticipation builds.... Almost too much to bear.

I hope you feel better soon sister. I miss you : (

Challenge #3 results

Well I am back after a long (yet surprisingly short) weekend. This is #2 by the way. You would think that I would have had oodles of time to work on the weekend's challenge since my husband was gone for 4 days playing in the mud. Yes, my house is like Neverland. Neither one of us will ever grow up, but I digress. When #1 told me what the weekend challenge was I got all sorts of ideas on how I was going to rock this challenge. Unfortunately that didnt happen. Smoke is hard when you don't smoke or burn incense and trying to sum up yourself in a photo is impossible. Especially when you are rockin awesome like me and my sister are.

Onto my results. We will tackle smoke first since that is the first picture in my post. I already mentioned that I dont smoke or burn incense so naturally I went to candles to find smoke. Now apparently candles don't smoke anymore. I guess people dying at 45 years old from lung disorders made the candle peeps re-think their products. I had to be quick and snap away right after blowing the candle out. I am not super happy with my results, but I didn't want anyone thinking I was a slacker so I posted my best shot here. I used Photoshop to make my subject more appealing. I hope you don't think that is cheating because it isn't you stinkin' hippocrites!

Ahem! Excuse me.. I dont know where that came from.

Next we had the photo about ourself. I thought of all sorts of things I could photograph but nothing seemed really picture worthy. I tried books and my Carol Burnett "action figure" (she is not a doll) but they didn't seem to set the mood I was going for. Then, after both of my camera batteries died, I went into the living room to plug in my battery and re-think my strategy. While I was waiting for my battery to charge I turned on my favorite lamp and it hit me. This lamp would be fun to play around with and I think it kinda describes myself. This lamp is pretty, colorful, whimsical, artsy and my fav so it became my subject. After my battery charged I went to work and discovered that it looked best if I shut off all the lights and let the lamp lights shine through. This is what I ended up with. I hope you all like it.

In retrospect I probably should have turned the lamp so it was facing me directly instead of angled, but too little too late.

Now, I am wondering where my sis is. It is 5 minutes til and I dont see I post from her. I will go round her up and see how she did.

TTFN!

New weekend=New Challenge!!!

So finally ends a long and tiring week. YAAAA it is Friday!!! I hope everyone had a nice and wonderful week. I know that mine felt neverending. Sister #2 took the day off today (Lucky her) so that leaves me to enter in the challenge. This weekends topics are little more exciting (i think anyway) than usual-granting an opportunity to be a bit more creative and imaginative, which was the whole purpose for starting this blog in the first place-Right? Actually, the dessert topic was pretty exciting-I enjoyed that one alittle too much:)
Well, enough of my mindless dribble onto the CHALLENGES (drum roll please)!

Topic #1-Smoke-This one should be really easy to do and should really "spark" the imagination (i know terrible pun) So lets try to really get creative with this one and go all out.

Topic #2-A picture that describes you-This can be of anything and everything, your favorites, your likes, dislikes whatever comes to mind. And just for fun add a brief story that explains the picture(s). I am hoping that this topic will show more of our personality and help everyone get to know us better.

So pull out the cameras and put on your creative caps, lets get out and get moving. And as always post between 7:00 PM Sunday -10:00 AM Monday.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy weekend-Until Monday.
Sister #1

Partially completed

#2 here..

Of course my uber-productive sister fully completed the challenge. And while moving and organizing... I feel so shamed in her presence.

Unfortunately for me I had an over abundance of purple and my desserts were... lacking. I did actually attempt the desserts portion of the challenge, but my lemon pie was all oozy and did not make a nice picture. My husband said it tasted good and ate all but the one slice I had to wrestle away from him. Looking back I probably should have gotten a picture of that.

Purple was a very easy color for me. I braved the hurricane force winds and wandered out into my yard to hunt down a purple flower. Then after being whipped in the face for the umpteenth time I decided I should re-locate my hunt to Kroger. It was a very prosperous trip.. They had purple flowers aplenty.

After the flower expedition there was a BEAUTIFUL sunset in my backyard. Well, if you ignore the awful house in the middle of it. I am working on a way to eliminate it but I probably shouldnt say too much about it. I dont want to post anything that could incriminate me in court.

Well, that was the fruits of my labor and I hope you all enjoyed it. I leave you with my two best shots.

Yeah!! I completed it

Sister #1 here-YIPPEE!! I had a really long weekend so I had extra time to complete this weekends challenge. Lucky me right-except I was really busy and then when I got around to doing the challenge it was sooo freakin cold outside. I tried to go for a walk but it only took the wind about 5 min to help me decide that was not the great idea that it seemed to be. But worry not I did complete it. When uploading my pictures to flickr I realized that I have used my monthly limit already so I only got to upload a few pics. So I will post my faves here like I did last week.

Purple such a pretty color-But unfortunately it is still too cold out, so finding this pretty color in nature was very hard to do. I found this one lone flower in my front yard one day and it was gone the next.

Dessert-now this was a fun one and my family loved it. I made a bunch of different kinds of cookies one night and then cheesecake the next night. They thought I was silly taking pictures of it, trying to get the best image but they sure loved it when they got to eat it. My 8 year old kept asking about the pie all day yesterday so I finally told him that the pie was for looks that we weren't going to actually eat it but that just made him so concerned that the poor pie was going to get rotten. So he was very relieved when we finally ate and he realized that I wasn't really going to let that pie go to waste. He can be so dramatic sometimes. :)

Cheesecake (very simple)

tub of whip cream

package of cream cheese (softened)

can of sweetened condensed milk
about a tablespoon of lemon juice

graham cracker crust

Mix everything together until smooth and creamy. Spoon into crust and refridgerate until firm. Garnish with various fruits, chocolate chips etc.
Now you have a quick tasty treat that everyone in your house is sure to love.

Until next time-take care!!

Purple Desserts

It's that time again... Creative Challenge time!


Calm down, calm down...

I know everyone is gearing up for the weekend but put your Solitaire game on hold for a minute and listen up because this weekend's challenge is going to be more involved than usual. The color should be an easy one since Spring has cometh, but the topic will be a bit more challenging. On the plus side it should make your husband love you even more.

This weekend's challege is purple and desserts. So.. Go home, strap on that apron and get cooking. You have to be quick though. We need a picture before husbands, kids and neighbors mysteriously pop in to see what you've been up to. Pesky husbands, kids and neighors.

You know the rules. No posting before Sunday evening at 7 and no later than Monday morning at 10. Good luck!

Sister # 2

Green!!!

#2 here.... Please keep your jokes to a minimum.

Okay... I know I said no late entries, but the forces of the universe were against me this morning. I know I am the only person on the planet that hates the daylight saving time but going to work in the dark sucks. Do you want to know what sucks worse than going to work in the dark?? Having a flat tire in the dark. Luckily I live in the country where people still stop to help.

So... All that being said I am finally at work and after reading #1's blog I feel a little ashamed. I didn't even get 2 of the 3 challenges done. Unless I stretch it a little and say that the flowers make me smile. Nah.. That won't work. Truthfully though it was a beautiful weekend and all the flowers were amazing. I posted my favorite here but you can view most of the fruits of my labor on my Flickr account www.flickr.com/photos/cdm0205/

I apologize that there weren't more but I have been forced to paint and clean by the evil overlord that is my husband. I look forward to seeing all the results of everyone else (ahem, sister #1).

Weekend Challenge Complete ? Yes or No

Monday morning at 8:00. Wow, Daily Savings Time and I am tired. Oh well more light in the evening so it is worth it. My weekend was busy cleaning and moving, it went by way too fast. This week is spring break so thank goodness it will be a short week. Now onto the weekend challenge, I completed green and smile. I was going to get commute on my way to work this morning but forgot, I will just blame that on the time change :). Here is the link to my flickr account www.flickr.com/photos/lmmcgough/ so please go by and check it out when you get a chance. Now I will patiently wait and see what my sister comes up with- Knowing her she got all three and totally beat me this round.

Until next time-Moore Sister #1

The start of something great

This is Moore sister #2.

Moore sister #1 and I are trying to encourage our creative juices to flow. Because of this we are going to start giving ourselves creative challenges and critique the stuffing out of each other until one of us is in a ball on the floor bawling. Hopefully by forcing ourselves outside to be artsy we will find hidden stores of creative awesomeness we didn't know we had. And we fully expect this blog to become so wicked popular that Ellen hears about us and demands we appear on her show.

Challenge #1 (which we are completely ripping off another site until we are ingenious enough to come up with our own) - Smile, Commute, Green

Take photos using one (or more) of the specified topics listed above. Photos must be taken between post time and Sunday at 7pm. Photos must be uploaded to Flickr between Sunday at 7pm and Monday at 10am. No early birds, no late sleepers!

This is Moore Sister #1
I totally see Ellen calling us-if I could only think of something witty to talk about. Oh-well you did a great start for us on our first post. I would so really love to be wicked popular. Can't wait to see what we come up with. What totally sucks for me is I can feel a creative block coming on. Smile, Commute, Green that seems easy enough. I guess that means that I can't be lazy this weekend-I have to actually get up and do something. Until Monday-Hooray!!