August 15

They're black and white's.

But

You

Could

Also say:

They're white and black's.


But who am I to go against the flow of tradition.

Fresh in

I finally got the purse up. You can go check it out.

The shop.

Project 365; 285

At long last.

Finally created a decent header for the etsy shop.

I think my GIMP-ing skillz are getting better.


Ps.You can click on the banner and it will take you to the shop.

And

Yes,

I do realize I misspelled skillz. :)

Random Post

We've been having a lot of rain lately. Well, It got a little windy Monday and broke a limb off one of the trees. We got lucky because it almost nailed the camper.

Finished

Finished a leather project, you can check it out here

Review Entry-2 Picnik

Well, I think Picnik deserves a 4 out of 5!

I've used picnik before and thought it was really good. My opinion hasn't changed.

Pros
Auto fix really good.
Has a Straighten feature in Rotate.
When resizing you can keep the proportion.
A lot of pretty advanced features to be free.
Not a community
Really Really easy to get your picture saved to your computer.
Very user friendly, easy to use.


Cons
Can only upload one picture at a time.
No auto syncing.
Some features are only available if you upgrade for $24.95 a year (this could be a pro, but we're dealing with free picture editors.)

Basically I advise everyone get account even if you have Ps.

Below are the pictures I used to test.

Auto fixed.

Auto fixed, sharped and upped the exposure.

Auto fixed, straighten, and upped the exposure.

Upped the exposure.

Auto fixed, sharped and upped the exposure and contrast.

Review Entry-1

In one of the comment sections, Np pointed out a really interesting link.

Which can be found here.

Well, I've decided to examen each and every single one of the sites shown, and a few others I happen to know of. I have no idea how often I'll post the reviews, but I'll try one a week for now.

So now, I'll show you my test pictures.

These are the ones I'll be using to examen the sites.

I've split the pictures into 5 categories..

Portrait,

Macro,

Night,

Landscape,

and Black and White.

Now each one of these pictures are straight out of camera no post editing what so ever.

The first two were taken with my 50mm. While the Night and Landscape were taken with my 18-55mm. The Black and White was taken in camera and shot with the 50mm.

I'll be reviewing Picnik first.

Really cheap, but really awesome studio.

Really cheap, but really awesome studio.

I used two pieces of poster board as my background.

And propped them in a chair.

My pictures came out like this.

A little tweaking and a little cropping in lightroom and, you get this.


And you can see the purse here

New purse in the shop

Stuck a new purse in the etsy shop today.

Here

I was really happy with the way this picture turned out.

I used a pretty neat setup for this picture. I'll post it tomorrow cause I forgot to take a picture today.

Day 3

Sealed the dye. Then sewed the whole thing together.

The sketch pad in the leather case.

The pocket.

Day 2

Added a pocket to hold sketch pad.

Finished.

Took apart to dye.

Day 1

I though I'd show a project from start to finish.

This is project I've never done before so you get to see everything.


The project is a leather case for a drawing pad.

This is the pad I'm using as a guide.

First I drew up some really simple plans.

For leather I'm using a 6-7oz shoulder.

Above is a picture of an average sized shoulder.

To scratch the pattern out you need a square (the metal thing), a pencil, a modeling tool, and a yard stick.

Once I've finished scratching out the pattern, I cut it out with a pair of scissors.

Next I punched holes in on the top side of the leather pieces I just cut out.

Then I sewed them together.

(By hand. In case you were wondering)

The pieces sown.

A better look. I know the end is unfinished, but this is the first time I'm doing this pattern.

The first time I do a pattern I like to put the thing together then take it a part to dye it.

And this is the leather pad in relation to the drawing pad.

And that was day 1.

This was yesterday but I didn't have time to post last night so I'm posting it today.

I'll post what I do today later.

Also This isn't today's picture. I'll post that later today too.

Leather Purse

I've put another purse in our etsy store.

Here.

It came!

Last week my grandma flew up. While she was here, she and my grandfather gave me my graduation presents. (Which I'm very very grateful for. Thank you Mimi & Papaw.) Well, the last part of my graduation present came today.

And here it is.

Its the Canon EF 50mm 1:1.8,

and its awesome!

Messing around.

I sold it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally sold my first leather purse.

Here

So....because I can, I'm posting a picture of it below.

I've got a black one with a tooled flower on it, but I can't find a 12'' black zipper. So..I guess I'm going to have to search for one on-line. I'm also working on a small purse that I can sell cheaper, but I still have to cut the designs on it, and then dye it. My plan this summer is to make a bunch of these purses and go around to some of the local shops, and pawn my wears. I'm also planing on making a refillable leather sketch pad. I may do a step by step post on that, I'm not sure. Well, anyways, I was really stoked 'bout that, and thought I 'd share.

New links

I've added new links to my side bar, but as you may have noticed they're at the top. This group of links are solely dedicated to being new.....(to me). Basically if I find a website or a blog its going up in the new link section. So....I thought I' d explain what each link was.

Camera Labs- This site is really cool manly because they have video reviews, but its basically a review site based in the UK.

Diy Photography- Now this blog is really really cool, it show you lots of tips on different photo technique's and there's lots of DIY photography stuff. (consequently I think this one's also based in the UK.)

Strobist- Its kind of like the Diy photography.

Tominthebox News Network - Religious Humor/Satire- Well, I can't really explain this blog, but if your in to Christian politics you'll really like this blog. Also, the writers at TBNN make their points through the use of satire.

Man! I just used the word "really" way to much.

Well, I hope you "really" like the links?

Project 365; Day 71

Oh, the 90's

I believe this sums up the 90's.

Trolls

&

Ninja Turtles

I was cleaning out my closet this weekend, and found this in the back.

(anybody wonder why it was there in the first place?)

This used to be one of my most favorite toys when I was little. I also used to have a blue one, but for some reason I don't have him any more. O,well.


In other news I was a ponder'n about "project 365" and was wondering if we could try to take a picture of the same thing and post it on the same day. Kind of like "photo-hunter" except its not photo hunter. Just a wonder'n what your thoughts on that would be.

I just found the greatest web site ever!

Here it is

It's an online yellow pages for leather.

A Post with Words

Wow! has it been like forever since I've posted something with words. Well I've finally decided to address my problematic procrastination problem. As some of you may know I took a poll and asked which book you all thought I should finish, and you can find the results here. Well once I was finished procrastinating, I started a new book and another and another. So I decided to list all of the books I've read so far this year.

1. Murder in Mesopotamia
By Agatha Christie


2. Jeeves And The Tie That Binds
By P.G. Wodehouse

3. Stowaway
By Karen Hesse (a reread)

4. Monster
By Frank Peretti (another reread but a great reread)

And........that's about it.


Sad, I know.

But...

I've just got a nice stack of books from the "lie-berry" to quote my siblings.

And they are....

1. The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf.
(which I'm half way through with)

2. Parsifal's Page.

3. The Princess, The Crone, and The Dung-cart Knight.

4. The Quest of the Fair Unknown.

All written by Gerald Morris

I really like Gerald Morris' books cause they play off of
Sir Thomas Malory's la morte d'arthur. Which "is" the story of King Arthur.
The only down side of these books are...is that they are hard to find (at least for me) so....

Any ways I also got

Jules Verne
(a bio on Jules Verne)

Written by his grandson: Jean Jules~Verne.
(which is super nifty)

And since there's a 3 week time limit. I'm hoping to get these finished soon.

Project 365; Day 54

Cupcake

(Which, for the record, I had no say so in the naming of.)

Shorty really wanted me to take her picture today.

So, I did.

Some times you need to oblige your 8 year old sister.