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    Watercolour challenge: toddler doodles

    ByRasa Pelham April 30, 2018January 10, 2026

    So this month for my watercolour challenge I decided to collaborate with my own 2 year old toddler (Eek!!). I enjoyed watching Lukas do art so much that I thought it would be very cool to create some careless abstract art inspired by his doodles and fill our kids room walls with it. Isn’t that…

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  • Practicing Art · Travel

    Watercolour challenge: jungle

    ByRasa Pelham March 21, 2018February 6, 2024

    To be completely honest it was very hard to come back to painting but once I started I really felt peace and joy. I felt inspired by the plants that I saw on our holiday in Dominican Republic. Tropical climate plants are so so pretty!!! I am inspired to have some of them at my…

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    Why I'm putting my phone down for 28 days

    ByRasa Pelham January 31, 2018February 8, 2024

    So here is a good idea, how about we ditch our smartphones for a month?! This is what I thought when somebody I follow on Instagram claimed they did it last year. Back then I thought it’s not a good timing to do it, but I was definitely interested in the freedom (I presumed) I would…

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  • Practicing Art · Travel

    Watercolour challenge: forest in snow

    ByRasa Pelham January 24, 2018February 8, 2024

    As you may have already noticed I enjoy taking challenges, and for a good reason! Challenges are good for achieving goals. Not all types of goals of course, but if you want to learn something or get to start doing something then this method is the best (at least in my experience). In the past…

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    Water colour and embroidery wall art idea

    ByRasa Pelham October 18, 2017February 16, 2024

    I love love love (and still falling in love further) with water colour! I did some watercolour last month and this month I decided to incorporate some embroidery in it. This is why I thought to try to paint on the fabric and let me tell you it totally works!!! It felt almost the same…

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  • Practicing Art

    Photography challenge: birthday cake "smash"

    ByRasa Pelham October 24, 2016January 10, 2026

    I don’t know if you heard of a term “cake smash” (I am sure if you google it it would give you plenty of examples), but I wanted to try it on Lukas real bad! I thought it would be sooooo much fun for both of us, because I believe Lukas enjoys making mess :D….

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    Photography challenge: white balance in pregnancy announcement photos :)

    ByRasa Pelham October 1, 2016January 11, 2026

    I have been wanting to announce our news for quite a while now but we have had few challenging weeks which is why I did not find any good time to sit down and blog (and I must admit I am not the most creative on making such announcements anyways). So the announcement is….Lukas is…

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    Photography challenge: shutter speed to capture motion

    ByRasa Pelham April 8, 2016January 11, 2026

    When I was searching how to use speed shutter I came across many beautiful pictures like these on Pinterest, which inspired me to do photography focused on motion. Although shutter speed is meant to control the light that comes through the lens it seem that it is often used to capture the moment in very…

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    Photography challenge: focusing on still life

    ByRasa Pelham February 24, 2016January 11, 2026

    While last month I was playing around with DSLR to find out what it can do, this month I decided to focus more on focus …basically trying to achieve focus in my pictures where I want it and in what depth I want it (not letting camera to decide for me automatically). This is why…

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    Photography challenge: playing around with camera settings in Shortstown

    ByRasa Pelham January 27, 2016January 11, 2026

    After failing to achieve my goal to take better pictures last year, I decided to really push myself and achieve it this year. And what is better way to achieve your goals than setting yourself a challenge and actually planning how you are going to make it happened? So there we are, I started my…

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