Some of you might have noticed that I have some online photo albums on Webshots. The first and second ones I haven't uploaded photos to in quite a long time; but still people look at the photos every week. ( I usually just stick them all in the third one now).
In fact it completely amazes me how many people look at them. Every week I get an email telling me how many views there were of the photos that week, how many downloads there were and also the total views and downloads.
To me the numbers are surprising. This last week alone there were 7,140 views of the photos!
Total photo views are 371,857 with 1,924 downloads. Wow!! There must be a lot of people out there that are interested in Mexico.
Not too much going on here, it is warming up. I think it got to around 34 or 35 C. today, not sure didn't really look this afternoon.
This morning I went shopping for a baby shower gift, yes I am invited to another baby shower this Saturday evening. This time it is for our landladies brothers daughter, She is due at the end of the month and will be having a boy apparently.
Picked up a gift, got it wrapped and did some other shopping at the same time.
This afternoon I went to the Casa de la Cultura and signed up for their July art classes. They start the 5 th of July and go to the end of the month. Four weeks, twice a week for an hour and a half each time. Total cost 250 pesos, ( that would be about $20.43 CAD). Very reasonable. I am interested in seeing if any of the people who were there the last time I went will be there.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
This And That
Last week when I was at Spanish class the teacher told me that her daughter had been to Mexico City and had brought her back some Yucatan style dresses. She hadn't unpacked them yet, so I told her that this week I would bring my camera and take some pictures of them.
I actually remembered to take my camera with me and she brought out the dresses. Lots of lovely hand embroidery. She had on a lovely fuchsia colored top which she said was machine embroidered; but that photo didn't turn out well.
Here are some photos of the dresses. They are certainly very pretty and I am sure that she will get lots of wear out of them this summer as they are cotton and should be cooler.
It is hard to see the embroidery as the dresses kind of hang together when not on a person; but it gives an idea of the work that has gone into them.
I loved this black one, it has lots of work on it. I thought it was machine embroidered; but she says it is hand done.
It is worthwhile to enlarge this picture to see the detail on the dress. Lovely.
I have been doing some painting a few times a week and tried to do some Plumeria flowers with dew drops or rain drops on them. The drops turned out not bad, the rest of it, not so good. Practice, practice, practice I don't think I have tried any flowers before in oils. I did do some years ago in acrylics in the "one stroke" type painting style that was a fad for awhile or maybe still is?? I don't know. I tried another beach scene and another wave scene and am going to try a waterfall next. After that who knows. I am having fun anyway and that is what counts I guess.
I actually remembered to take my camera with me and she brought out the dresses. Lots of lovely hand embroidery. She had on a lovely fuchsia colored top which she said was machine embroidered; but that photo didn't turn out well.
Here are some photos of the dresses. They are certainly very pretty and I am sure that she will get lots of wear out of them this summer as they are cotton and should be cooler.
It is hard to see the embroidery as the dresses kind of hang together when not on a person; but it gives an idea of the work that has gone into them.
I loved this black one, it has lots of work on it. I thought it was machine embroidered; but she says it is hand done.
It is worthwhile to enlarge this picture to see the detail on the dress. Lovely.
I have been doing some painting a few times a week and tried to do some Plumeria flowers with dew drops or rain drops on them. The drops turned out not bad, the rest of it, not so good. Practice, practice, practice I don't think I have tried any flowers before in oils. I did do some years ago in acrylics in the "one stroke" type painting style that was a fad for awhile or maybe still is?? I don't know. I tried another beach scene and another wave scene and am going to try a waterfall next. After that who knows. I am having fun anyway and that is what counts I guess.
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