Candle Holder and Salt-Pepper Shaker Sparkles

 

If this looks like a flood of photos,that's because it is.

 I can't paint all the time, I spent half an hour playing with my phone and my mothers candle holders. It's amazing to me how a simple set of Salt-Pepper Shakers can sparkle. I love my fairly lights.

Sparkles, Sparkles and Sparkles

 

Define Sparkles...

Physical Effect: To shine brightly with small, quick flashes of light, like sunlight on water or the reflection of a diamond.

Personality: A person who "sparkles" is described as lively, intelligent, and witty.

January 19, I put away all Christmas, but left the tree because its cold and I like sparkles because this is my Florida fireplace. 

January Sparkles, from My Nook,  it is now Feb and the tree is still there.

Before I got old and memory impaired, the house was full of candles, and I collected from thrift stores candle holders, the long ones , not the fat ones.. 

I have not used these in about 10 years.

It Feb. and I am Sitting on my sofa, and this is what I see. 

The tree is still up, but I did remove the glass balls, now its just a sparkle tree.

But wait, there are more, to be continued

MOODling - from my sofa

  

I sat reading others posts and opened Cheerful Monk.     (follow the link to see her post for her thoughts.)

moodling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

–Brenda Ueland

I remembered that just a few minutes before I read her post, just about  4, I sat moodling on the sofa, idly tapping the screen on my phone to change the lighting of my view of the nook sparkling.

changing the light focus, lighter and lighter of what I see

Suddenly I tap compose text,send to myself, take a photo  to send, and when it asks, Remix? 

Why yes, I think I will, I aimed the lens at the same view and typed Add Beau great Dane,to this photo, 

Google AI did it and did it well...  I have been moodling and did not know it.

My Dive down the moodling rabbit hole, causes more hours of moodling.

Do you moodle? Are you a moodler? Which of the below are you?

Did you know moodling is a valid word? Even for Scrabble. Have you heard of it before now?

1. Moodling is a creative practice of aimless, imaginative daydreaming and idling, often used by writers for inspiration (as defined by Brenda Ueland),

2.  "Mindful moodling," a calm, doodling-focused activity for mental well-being, using stamps, stencils, and patterns without pressure for a final product. 

(this one fits me the best, but I am some of all)

3. Moodling is unstructured, happy dawdling, allowing ideas to surface, or simply relaxing and enjoying the process of creating without an agenda.

4.  moodler is a word and is a verb, meaning to doodle, or dawdle mindlessly

Playing with Bokeh Blur in the NOOK

 

This was almost a Wordless Wednesday post, except I wanted you to know, Bob and I both have skin cancer removals today, both at 4 pm, same room, same doctor, same time.

Will see you Thursday, pray I don't spend the night holding pressure on Bob's incision, he is on blood thinners, and I do a lot of that, almost every day

Interesting Tidbit? I have 300 Band-Aids, all the same size and another 100 of different sizes and shapes..

The last two are my favorites. Above the cat is blurred but is sharp in the mirror

below, the sharp is the chimney and the middle to bulbs are sharp and bokeh blur is on the other chimney glass.

Sunday Selfie of a dim bulb

 

I sat staring at my nook light bulbs and since I had the phone in my hand put it on 2 toned black and white setting on Insta toon app and took a few pics. 

While taking the photos I noticed DUST covering all TEN light bulbs. I might not be the brightest bulb in the box, and most likely I am a dim bulb, I hate dusting and now I wiped them clean with microfiber and a few days later it was BACK... 

What was I thinking?

I know all lightbulbs attract dust. 

I still love my light bulbs and everything in the nook.

All of you light up my life, thanks a watt for reading this post.

I love you all, watts and watts

the Happy Whisk, thank you for your email comment.

You have such a bright and wonderful energy about you and I don’t even know if you know that about yourself. 

we never know how much our words can lift  other spirits up..

Don't be afraid to shine, spread your light where ever you go.

I love my light bulbs

 

I do a lot of staring at the nook. I am IN LOVE with my new lightbulb strings of Fairy Lights.

The two above I tooke with my Samsung Cell phone and the ones below I pulled up Insta-Toon App and kept changing the filters taking photos.

I have a question. Can anyone tell me how to put these portrait photos side by side on the post, 

NOTE I am taking Sat/Sunday off from blog land. I have appts 1/2 day on Monday and am not feeling 100 %, my vertigo is about 95 % OK, I am able to walk the dog and do some housework but spent most of the day in bed on Friday.

We have doc appts for bob with orthopedic doctor, on Thursday because he just can't walk, and another on Friday for echocardiogram and LIFE is stressing me out.

Will be back on Tuesday to tell you how my visit goes.

I have a 9 to 12, neuropsychological assessment with a Phycologist on Monday. 

I AM STRESSED about that about bob and life in general

Haha, the more stress I feel the more photos I take.... LOOK OUT

Ms Clean used Mr Clean

I found a new way to clean mirrors and glass. I bought this package of Magic Eraser, 9  of them during 2020 because they did not have them in Walmart. I still have 6 because they last forever.

I had pulled one out to clean a blueberry stain off the Kitchen counter and for some reason I decided to try cleaning the nose prints off the sliding door. 

Wow! wet eraser, wipe it back and forth dry with clean micro cloth and Boom! 

then I did the bathroom mirrors and BOOM

Since I put up the NOOK lights, I cleaned the entire mirror, all the glass shelves and all the glass

things that sit on the shelves with the eraser. 

Thats a lot of WOW! Swipe and Wipe! Above top right is 7 AM, left is 8 am

bottom right is lights off at 9 am.. it looks good without the lights turn on too.

Old Nook, New Look, part 2

 In Prior post Yesterday I left you "hanging" in the story installing the lights above, when I stated  "I will finish the nook tomorrow, I am too exhausted to finish it.  If you know me, think now before you scroll down. Did I finish or wait until the next day?

I sat on the sofa for an hour, drawing on the iPad and suddenly leaped staggered to my feet and 

uncoiled the ten wire coils of #@$%^ lights

cleaned the glass shelves, top and bottom,

cleaned ALL the pieces of glass that reside on the shelves

It took me 2 hours to finish. Looking at this, I can't see HOW it could have taken two hours.

(see the bulbs? none of them were in the right place, some rested ON the glass shelf, some snugged to close to the glass shelves underneath. It looked HORRID)

It took the 2nd hour to get the bulbs where I liked them. There may be future changes.

Warning tsunami of photos below

enlarge by clicking but only if you want to...😉😁

I fretted for days deciding if I wanted to stay with Cool white lights or change to Warm White. I changed and guess what? The Christmas lights I put on the tree last year are COOL white.
OH NOOOOOOOOO can you spell OCD? I despise changing lights on trees so much I might have to get a tree with pre installed Warm White