Bored

So I'm super bored and work this week. It's not all bad to have nothing to do at work, but it sure makes the day go by slowly! Anyhow, I am catching up on blogs that I used to enjoy on a daily basis and found this neat idea from stitch marker. You type your answer to a list of 12 questions into the flickr search bar, and using the Mosaic Maker create a piece of art! Just copy and paste the URL from flickr into the Mosaic Maker, hit create and there you go. Just to get a look at some of the pictures on flickr is amazing.

This is a great way to browse flickr if you've never done it and also a great way to try out Mosaic Maker. I became a member of bighugelabs, and there are a ton of cool things you can create using that website. Unbelievable fun!!

Here are the questions. Try one for yourself!

The Questions:

What is your first name?
What is your favorite food?
What high school did you go to?
What is your favorite color?
Who is your celebrity crush?
Favorite drink?
Dream vacation?
Favorite dessert?
What you want to be when you grow up?
What do you love most in life?
One Word to describe you.
Your flickr name.

Enjoy!!

What Happened to April??

Wow,

Not one post in April. Good thing I don't have a huge fan base!!!

I joined Paperbackswap.com yesterday. It seems like a really good idea. I added 10 books in order to get my first 2 credits. I'm not sure that I like that you have to have credits in order to request books. The only way to get credits is if someone requests one of your books. Other than that it seems good. The main idea is that you post your used books that you no longer want and request others' books for free. You only pay for postage and shipping when you ship one of your books. You pay nothing to receive a book. I haven't requested a book yet, so we'll see how that works!

I haven't been doing much crafting or photography. I hate how I do that, I get a big kick then it fizzles, that's what happened with photography. I will try to get back into it now that there's sun light for more than 6 hours a day.

Oh, I made some great granola last week. Here is the recipe. It is so good. You can add whatever you want. I'm not a big fan of chunks or 'stuff' in my food so I just went for the oats and the coating. There is a generous amount of coating so I may try adding more oats. The coconut option sounds really good too. I may try coconut next time and craisens would go really well in it. Slivered almonds would also be a good addition. The granola is awesome in yogurt. That's all I've used it for but there's enough crunch and spices to make it really good. And it's all done in the microwave. Really good!

Well I guess that's it for now. I will try to add some pretty pictures for the next post.

It's been a while...

It's been a while since I've posted. Not that anyone reads this anyway, it's just for me I guess. Life's kept me busy.



I've been working on another Ribbed Lace Bolero. This time in brown, I think I will like it a lot better than the white. The white is kind of dressy and the brown is more laid back, I think I will have more to wear the brown one with.



I've picked up sewing again. I just have to hem the bottom of this top then it's done. I also reconstructed a sweatshirt into a cardigan. Just simple and black, I made it 3/4 sleeves and cut it up the middle and will be adding some kind of closure either snaps or buttons to complete the cardigan look. I just have so many things that almost finished. I need to finish them! The bolero has a ways to go but the cardigan and top are almost done, I will finish those by this weekend.



That's it for now!

Great Job

I said in a previous post that I would post about the earrings Ross gave me for Valentine's Day, well here they are.

I need to start taking pictures during the day. The beads are actually purple, but at least you can get the general idea of the style. I've worn them a few times already. I like them a lot. The purple isn't too purple, which is good since I don't wear much purple, I've worn them with black and they look really nice.

Ross started an internship with Julie Sanford. He found her by looking for an internship on Grand Valley's website. He only needs 150 hours and he does most of his work on his computer from home. It's not a bad deal for him. Unfortunately it is unpaid, but he's learning new things too. Here are a few samples from her website. I'm not sure if you can order from the site, but I'm sure she can be emailed if you find something you love!

I would love to have a job like hers, or any creative design work. Julie recently set up her studio in a little building in Grand Haven. I'm hoping Ross will introduce me to her so that I can learn how she started up her business. I also see that she has already signed up to attend a few craft fairs this summer...I wonder if she needs any help!!

I don't know how Ross finds these great jobs. He doesn't even know how great of an opportunity this would be for me, but I'm hoping he keeps me in mind through all of this. He is setting up a data base of her current mailing labels, and she wants him to research how to get her work sold at current retailers. She seems very talented.

Jess and I are taking a silver clay class. I thumbed through some of Julie's magazines that she wanted Ross to look through to learn the industry, and I noticed that silver clay was a very popular theme through out the magazine. So Jess and I are taking the class at Creative Fringe. It is a little expensive for 2.5 hours, but I think it will be something fun to learn. I feel like I've been spending all my money on classes. But I don't want to be sitting in a cubicle forever, this job is just to get me to the next item on my wish list, and the list is growing quickly!

Staying On Track

I'm trying to post more regularly, for no particular reason except to prove that I can. I have my photography make-up class tomorrow morning. Should be a good one since we will actually get to take pictures in the day light!!

Our assignment was to take 3 pictures that we want to share with the class focusing on Aperture, Shutter Speed, Metering, White Balance, ISO and Exposure Compensation. I mostly chose my Apterture and the camera chose the Shutter Speed, I chose the White Balance, ISO and Exposure Compensation. It was hard to find things to photograph since I had Thursay evening and this evening available to take pictures and Thursday was Valentine's Day so I didn't get many pictures taken. Here's what I've got.



The top left is Abby Rose Sullivan, Ross's dog. She is the most beautiful, friendly, loving dog ever! I took her portrait! It's a little blury but she had a hard time holding still! The flower is also at Ross's house. His mom got this as a kit for a Dirty Santa game. I think she made out pretty well in the whole deal. It is such a vibrant red/orange against that beige wall. I think the colors pop quite nicely. I'm not sure if I'm going to use the final picture or not. Ross decorated his chocolate chip pie very nicely and wanted me to photograph it. While the swirl is beautiful, I like how the Cool Whip looks on his fork. If I would have thought about it I would have taken more time on this picture, I don't really like the orangy tint but it was dark and a fire was going, so it kind of captures the mood.

Happy Valentine's Day!

I finally got my camera to connect to my computer!!! So I'm back online with the photo blogging, now I have no excuse not to continue posting my thing-a-day projects.

With Ross being unemployed we decided not to do anything big for Valentine's Day this year. I decided to make him a chocolate chip pie that I found here. My parents and Ross and I went to Jack's located in our local Holiday Inn for their famous perch dinner. And it was as good as ever. Then we came home and had this delicious pie.


Ross had two interviews today. One was for his internship and he got it! Yay!! Getting so close to that diploma! The interview is with a woman who makes her own jewelry right here in Spring Lake. She is working on opening a new studio and she wants Ross to help her with that and several other computer related things. She was generous enough to give Ross a pair of earings to give to me for Valentine's day and I love them. I will post more on this later, I haven't photographed them yet, but I will because they are beautiful. I will also post her website and other store information. Her work is really beautiful! I told Ross to get me an in with her so I can do something I really enjoy with my time. He did say she will be looking for an assistant in the near future!! I'm ready!

Hope you all had a great Valentine's day! I have a photography class this Saturday so hopefully I will have some interesting photos to post!

New Ring

I thought making wire wrap rings would be easy, quick and fun. I think I was right! I went down to Creative Fringe, our local bead shop in Grand Haven and picked up a ring mandrel so that I could form a circle and in a specific ring size. I need to work on wrapping the wire tightly around the mandrel, it's pretty hard to hold it tight! I also bought some 18 gague silver wire so it won't tarnish. I think it turned out alright. Not perfect but it was my first attempt, I can only get better!!
I need to work on my picture taking skills as well. It was late last night when I took this, that's my excuse. I should take a better one, but this will have to work for now.