A Life in the Making

Thank you so much for all of the advice, cheers, kind words and support on my last post. I wish I could say more, but I've crocheted for about 9 hours today (and made a run to ikea) so my brain is mush. So I leave you with a rather unfocussed, but very sweet little face who sums up my thoughts p...

The venue for my mother's wedding was dark.  As I shoot with what is essentially an entry-level DSLR, low light situations are difficult to get clear images without a ton of noise.  A flash was needed, but pictures with flashes tend to be wiped out and red-eyed messes.  So a bit of imporvisation ...

Saturday was one of those days where nothing got done, no one could get along and then ended with tears for 3 out of 4 of us. And so, when Sunday dawned bright and warm (ish), there was just one thing to do...go the place where we are all our best.     Rather than our usual haunt, we headed to t...

  Of course, there were inherent lessons about colour theory. Naturally, there was experiments in viscosity. Sure, there were discusions about smells and diffusion. But really, it was just awesome to get naked and paint in the shower with food colouring and shaving foam* and then pretend he...

Its been awhile since I did a tutorial here on SOTR and since crafters all over the globe use Friday to showcase their finished objects, I thought it would be fitting to show you how I get excellent photos of my projects.   ----- Lets say you have a finished object you would like to photograph.  ...

I had one of those "extremely deep at the time, but in retrospect oh so obvious" revelations the other day: I Can Not Do Everything. Man, I want to.  I want to sew all of our clothes, spin my own wool, knit everyone sweaters and mittens, take pictures, have a clean house, cook meals from scratch,...