I AMsterdam!

i will post more tomorrow. just uploaded my pics from this past week visiting shosh in amsterdam! lots of fun. almost gave my mom a heart attack on the street. see what happens when you don't read my blog? you are surprised by a family member in a foreign city.

apparently, the dutch require a license to drive a shoe. would have been nice to know that ahead of time...

(we were here in the hague at the time)

and remember...

now i know that the #1, 2 and 5 trams stop here.

but yes, more tomorrow. do note the cable hat i am wearing. this trip did include, in fact, knitting. i started it while waiting for my first flight at DCA and finished it three days later. more on that tomorrow, as well.

PLUS...i just picked up a light box today! finally! plus, i got a coupon from another customer at the store! >dancing at desk< now i can check my slides much more easily.

necklace and menorah

so i made a menorah last week for chanukah. i made a menorah out of sculpy, thinking it was a great idea.
so, it melted.
every night it melts a little more.
here it is before chanukah started, when it still looked all pretty. i'll take another picture of it at the end of the holiday so you can see the aftermath.


also, my mom asked for this necklace...oh, a year ago? maybe more? i strung 6 strands of freshwater pearls onto 5 pieces of acuflex and then knotted them. the caps and clasp are gold fill. she thinks i still haven't done it and she'll never get it. i'm going to give it to her next week in amsterdam. shhh!
it's ok, though. she won't know because she refuses to read my blog. anyway, i think it's a pretty cool necklace and i want to make one for myself now. hm....


next week i will post from shosh's computer! haha.

School shuns tech, teaches fountain pen

School shuns tech, teaches fountain pen
In this age of cell phones, text messages and computer keyboards, one school has returned to basics. It's teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16151317/from/ET/




So? What do you think? Leave a comment. This goes back to the whole handwriting issue I tried to discuss several weeks ago.

first polaroid transfers!

more to come as i perfect my technique!
from the camping weekend in october...

also from camping weekend,

my girl


these prints came from slides i made from digital images i had. sent away for them sunday night and they came in yesterday (wednesday) from tonawanda, ny, near buffalo. where are the slides from cvs? still not here. they all know me in the store now. i'm the crazy one. i want my forking slides. never take film to cvs. argh. i hope they come before the weekend so i have something to play with.

return from iowa

so freggin' cold. so cold. i think it brought the cold west with me, because it was apparently around 65 the day before i landed. outside temp for my arrival? around 20. i'm a zombie now, but i wanted to post tonight before i begin an intense study of my inner eyelids.

i didn't knit at all while i was there. (WHAT????) tired hands for some reason.
thoughts....

maybe it was the cold.
maybe it was the corn.
maybe it was the pork on my plate at dinner last night that i had to gently avoid.

however, two nights before i left i set up the daylab jr and practiced printing a few slides i took a few years ago. i totally figured out what i had been doing wrong before! duh. i am re-energized now and am looking forward to trying new things! i went to cvs and bought a ton of candies to photograph....dropped off the film the night before i left but it still isn't back. when i handed the film to the kid at cvs he didn't understand why i didn't want prints.

"wait you don't want any prints?" asks he.
"it's slide film," says i.
"but you don't want prints?" repeated he.
"no. it's slide film. you don't make prints. you make slides," responded i.
"uh ok," mumbled he.

dude, just put it in the box. you don't take care of it anyway.