This is my life

Some of you might remember the programme 'This Is Your Life' with Eamonn Andrews and his big red book.  To celebrate my 70th birthday today, here is a photographic version of my big red book.  Key moments rather than a photo a year!

1949

1950s

1960s

21st birthday(1970)   By now I was wearing contact lenses!

I don't seem to have any photos for the next 13 years!

 May 1983

Andy 1986

 August 1999 - 50th birthday champagne breakfast

 25th Wedding Anniversary 2008

 Andy & Naomi's wedding 2009

60th birthday 2009

I have done such a lot in the last 10 years.  Retired, travelled, art journaled, run online challenges, taken numerous workshops etc, most of which has appeared on this blog.  I've done so many things it's been difficult to choose one photo.  So representing the last 10 years here's Roger & I trying to take a selfie using my camera rather than my phone. It was supposed to be of us eating ice cream in Manly.

More importantly 3 grandchildren (2 boys and a girl) have been born in 2015, 2017 and 2019.  In the Hopper family line there has only been one child in each generation since at least 1850. Each time just one boy. Andy broke the mould by having two boys. In June 2019 Hopper history was made. Our granddaughter was born.

Crystal Rose Photography  @crystalrose.photo

And so to today.

Thanks for joining me to celebrate my special day.
Bernice

10+ in 5

What on earth does 10+ in 5 mean?  Well, my friend Sandie has a monthly photo challenge on her blog called 5 in 5.  You take as many photos as you can in 5 minutes and then choose 5 to share.  The photography group I am in chose to take this idea but share all the photos we took in the 5 minutes.

I haven't been out anywhere lately so I stood next to a tree in my back garden.  I may have taken the challenge too literally.  I stood in the same place for the 5 minutes, although I did turn around on the spot.  Looking at Sandie's photos I think it might be possible to move about to complete the challenge!

 

 

Some of the above are not as in focus as I would normally show people.  I did delte 2 that were really out of focus.

Why not join in with Sandie's 5 in 5 challenge?

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Festival of Quilts

Last weekend I went to the Festival of Quilts.  I am very fortunate that the show is only a 25 minute bus ride away.  I have a bus pass so the journey is free and I don't have to pay the extortionate amount that is charged for parking.   I was also very fortunate to be given a ticket for the show in return for an hour's stewarding on Leah Higgin's gallery.  Surrounded by breakdown printing!!

I spent much longer at the show than I would normally and I think I still managed to miss bits because photos come up on my Facebook newsfeed of textiles I don't remember seeing.  In this post you will only see photos of things that caught my eye.

Connecting threads, fading borders by Annelies Ghyselen

Plot 105: 52 weeks by Alice Fox

Several pieces by Eszter Bornemisza

I think this piece may have been the most popular exhibit in the show.  It's certainly the one I've see most on my Facebook newsfeed.

Breakdown by Sue Hotchkiss

Binic Boat Stack by Deborah Sexton

Summer Time by Janet Bevan

Twelve by Natalia Davydenko

Three Poems by Stephanie Redfern

shallow water by hanne ladegaard

Fractured Circles by Robyn Fahy

Blue Mesh by Lucie Summers

Venice by Janice Gunner

Fading ii by Christine Chester

And after spending more than an hour in Leah's gallery I did not take one photo of her work.  What was I thinking!!!!??!!

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice