(Friday’s “Show and Tell” post is below this one.)

PhotoHunt

Theme: Funky | Become a Photo Hunter | View Blogroll

I didn’t know the word “funky” had so many varied definitions until I was trying to find something for this photo hunt! I’ve always thought of it as “mod,” “cool,” or “retro,” so that’s how I’ll use it today.

Since I was a child of the 60s and in high school and college in the 70s, I would have had a lot of “funky” things in that sense over the years — but I’ve gotten rid of it all. The closest I could come is this picture from a few years ago of the boys trying to make their poor, patient doggy, Suzie, look “cool.”

And….she can be “funky” by one of the other definitions as well in sometimes having a bad smell. 🙂

I sure missed the photo hunt last week! With a wide-open theme like “creative,” that would’ve been such fun. But it was a busy week, and I just couldn’t come up with anything…creative.

Theme: Sweet | Become a Photo Hunter | View Blogroll

There is this kind of sweet:

And this kind of sweet:

And then there is this kind….

…a 5 lb. bag of M&Ms. We used them to put into favors at our Ladies’ Luncheon. We also had some printed in words that matched our theme (“The Heart of the Matter”) and coordinated with our theme colors (pink and chocolate brown):

You can see more interpretations of this week’s theme here.

Theme: Hair | Become a Photo Hunter | View Blogroll

I didn’t think I had a picture for today’s theme other than various fuzzy bedhead pictures from when the kids were little, til I remembered this:

I was working at a fabric store and we were asked to dress up if we worked on Halloween. Though we as a family don’t “celebrate” Halloween, I didn’t feel there was any harm to dress up. And since we worked at fabric store — we were supposed to make something. So this is my Raggedy Ann outfit. I added red circle cheeks later.

I had to wing it to to make the “hair” by making a circle of white fabric, making a casing for elastic around the edge, and cutting a lot of red yarn, then sewing rows of yarn in circles around the white fabric. Then I added elastic to the casing.

It held up well through the years, even being tossed in the washing machine. All three of my kids had a “clown day” in elementary school, I think in K-5 or first grade, and they used the hair with the clown costume I made for them.

Theme: Shoes | Become a Photo Hunter | View Blogroll

I’ve been pondering this week’s theme for days. None of us has any interesting-looking shoes. Ideas I had for what would have made neat shots were hindered by the fact that I didn’t have access to the shoes I was thinking of (like Barbie doll shoes from my childhood). All the boys’ shoe sizes are too close to the same size to make a line-up from oldest to youngest look interesting. All I could come up with was this: a button of a Victorian boot on a piece of jewelry I made. I love the way it looks but I am so glad we don’t wear those these days!