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March 23, 2007
Flickr Friday
1,000 Places I Want to See Before I D-I-E
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March 15, 2007
Flickr Friday
I saw someone else doing Flickr Friday and as someone currently obsessed with Flickr I loved the idea.
Spring IS Coming. Eventually.
[I tried to put these in order of what comes first here in the great northeast. I keep having internal debates with myself. I am sure that the crocuses come first. The forsythia (which I always thought was quite ugly) is my first real harbinger of spring. The crocuses will come out so early that there is still cold weather to be had, but the forsythia does seem to wait until the all clear has been sounded. I'm hazy on the appearances of the Lily of the Valley and the pussy willows. I never see pussy willows in the wild. Lilacs are last, but I have a keen fondness for them. Every time we move I think I will plant lilacs at my house, to savor the few short weeks they are blooming. I never have, but I still intend to.]
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March 12, 2007
My Feb Craft is LATE
Ok, so I was late finishing my February craft. I had one idea which I then decided was too hard and too complicated and I moved on to something else and then we went on vacation and then we got home and everyone was sick and I was very busy and now it is March 12. Huh.
Ok, this month was a bust. It was good if I wanted to learn something, which I did. I learned a lot, such as:
1. Even though I carefully made the front and the back of the heart the same size and lined them up a million times, when I sewed them together they were misaligned and the heart looks bad on the bottom.
2. Sewing wire in between two pieces of thin cotton isn't all that fun.
3. 20 ga wire is too thick.
4. Expending time and energy on sewing the wire is no guarantee that the clam will actually be shape-able once finished.
So there you have it. A big bust, but a learning experience. I actually enjoyed it when I wasn't wrestling with the wire, string, and sewing machine all at once.
Next month I am doing something easier. Pinky swear.
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March 6, 2007
Get Your Craft On in March!
If you know me, you know that it wasn't going to be too long until the monthly theme was something close to my heart. And what is closer to my heart than recycling? Well lots of stuff, actually, but not when it comes to crafting.
I love that Disney recycles cans and bottles from the hotel rooms. It always pains me when I stay somewhere and I see the cleaning people taking the cans that I have carefully rinsed and set in a neat row on the sink and throwing them immediately into the big trash bag. Wasn't my neat little row indication enough that I meant for the cans and bottles to be separated and recycled? As soon as I see them do that, I begin stashing the cans and bottles elsewhere so that I can recycle them myself.
The thing that Disney does not do that makes me a teensy bit crazy is they don't recycle paper. This trip I packed 2 paper bags and 4 or 5 plastic bags in the suitcases rather than throw them away. There was some more paper--a cardboard cup holder and some other bits that I desperately wanted to pack as well, but we left the packing to the last minute and we were running around like crazy and I just couldn't get my head around where to shove the other papers. I left them sitting on the kitchen counter with the pathetically small hope that someone would love them enough (or love land enough or trees) to recycle them. In my pleasant dreams they are recycled.
So recycling and crafting. Lovely concept. I haven't the faintest clue what I will be making this month, which is a tad bit disconcerting. However, since I haven't yet finished February's challenge I don't have time to worry about not having an idea for March.
Recycling. Is good. Let's see what you've got!
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March 5, 2007
Still wrapping
Lesson 6: Final Lesson
The assignment was to shoot something you wouldn't normally shoot, to move out of your comfort zone, to try something new.
I took this shot after sundown without a tripod. Goodness look at me trying new things! I do not love this shot, but K. likes it a lot. He says it is interesting. I say that something, anything, needs to be in focus. Also, I think the colors are too soft for me. (I hate the pink/purple background.) Well, it's all too soft for me. But I submitted it because it is interesting and because it isn't perfect and because it is something I wouldn't normally shoot. My Z. She is walking. Mostly away from me. As quickly as she can. Giggling all the while.
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March 3, 2007
Wrapping up another class
Hmm, somehow I am three lessons behind. How did that happen?
Lesson 4:
A photoshop thing. I used this photograph (again). I learned what actions were. I used Amber's actions. They did make my photograph look better.
Lesson 5:
More photoshop stuff. But a great assignment. Take a photo that tells a story. I suppose the best photos tell a story, or make you wonder about things, although I had never understood photography in quite those terms. So. A photo that tells a story. Is not the easiest thing in the world to do. No, not easy.
I shot a lot of photos. I came up with a lot of ideas. I tried to shoot strangers. (That was harder than I expected it would be.) I think the photo I chose to submit tells a story.
Here are some other photos which I took but didn't submit. I think some of them tell a story. It's a hard thing to know, since as the one taking the photo you know the story already.
Waiting
Sleep
Cell Phone
Only Tourists Were Wearing Shorts
