Twitter & FB

so, i'm sort of using twitter for the polaroid stuff. follow here

so, i also have a facebook fan page for ehl creations. be a fan here

visit ehl creations, too.

so, that's why i've abandoned the blog. maybe i'll pick it up again this summer. we'll see.

update-ish

i had a fun week. very unexpected. while the first week of my vacation was painfully boring and slow, the second week was equally fast and enjoyable. some mini-excursions with a surprise guest, including wine and fun food.

i also completed two more items on my "things to do on vacation" list...sort shoes and donate items. it wound up also allowing me to clean up my closet, which was juuuuust super. so, i had all these shoe boxes filled with...shoes. many of them i had not seen in ten years. really. the receipt was in the box with a date of 8/13/98. i remember my mom and i searched and searched for the perfect shoes to wear with a super cute dress for my friend's husband's commissioning in the marine corps. i have not worn the shoes since, i have not worn the dress since, and the couple divorced about 6 years ago. in total, i donated to goodwill...

* 11 pairs of shoes (yes, 11. includes a pair of sneakers in quite good condition)
* 1 pair boots (at least i THINK they were the ones i wanted to give away)
* 5 handbags (i used to like to go through the sale stuff at old navy)
* 1 pair rollerblades with wrist guards (i haven't used them since fall '99...i remember it well)
* 3 t-shirt dresses that just look weird on me now. haven't worn any of them in at least two years.

none of these items were helping me exist. in fact, they were taking up precious closet and karmic space. if you recall, i've spent the better part of the last, oh, 12 to 18 months or so getting rid of things through donation, freecycle, craigslist and such. i've been able to curb my spending and really reform my list of needs. just because the item is there in front of me does not mean i need it!

today (friday) was my last weekday day of vacation. baby nora and i went to the natural history museum and saw "dinosaurs 3d." nora and dolley also met on the floor.


here is nora again.


aw!

new year update and rabbit forts

happy new year!

this year i resolve to have less stuff. i will continue with my freegan attempts with regards to not throwing stuff away if someone else can use it. i still won't dumpster dive, though. i will buy less stuff in general, with the exception of food, polaroid film, hay and socks.

my class has finished! i got an a-. go me. i hope to take another class this semester.

updates...luke's dad finally took a pic of the blue sweater i made for him. it's still a little too big, but aw. satisfaction.


we spent new year's eve with dante and his parents. he will be 1 in a few weeks! here he is showing off his 5 teeth.


my latest post-school hat for happy heads, dc. it's lion brand homespun...cheap but soft.


we made a rabbit fort on sunday night and it was quite popular in the living room.




finally, i worked on a bunch of slides. here are a few. check out the full set here. (these are all copyright 2007, duh.) i would like to do custom pet portraits. so far they've come out very well. here is rana.

different texture paper has very different results, same image and development times.


cool, huh?

and finally, for comparison with the pic from my last post...

week's worth of updates

ok so i'll go backwards from arkansas...

on the plane ride back i worked on a shawl...i finished it this evening but haven't taken a photo yet. i will soon.


next, i took some pics for slides. here's one in sepia.


need to crop this a little, but it's called "after party"


i started a simple baby hat for a co-worker's three months old on friday. she was born a month early and she's still tiny.


and here it is....i finished it this afternoon.


i made a mock banana sundae this weekend, too. used plain yogurt instead of ice cream. was really good. also peanut butter and choco syrup.


went to a bead show on saturday. this is all i bought! i was able to control myself somewhat. i've already used two strands for two pieces, so i'm well on my way to using some of what i got. i have plans for the pearls, too. plans!


i shoved some oat hay into this grass ball and doll played with it for a while. looked like a lot of fun.

damn you, slide printer! beer makes it all better.

yay!

my printer has arrived! i still don't have directions or the transfer kit (just some supplies that make it easier to do.) i got a regular 3x4 base and a 4x5 base. the 4x5 film comes in sheets and each one hates me more than the last. it took about 30 minutes of internet searching to figure out how to load the sheets, then how to expose them. i paid a tushie-load of money for a box of 20 sheets of polaroid 59 film, and i screwed up about 6 of them tonight. i stopped. the 3x4 film comes in packs of 10, so you just load the pack and you can use it for a while. i need to practice this weekend....the light, ugly, washed out prints i made tonight will just be practice. why are they so light? did i underexpose?

here is a pic...


also, i had three cans of beer from amsterdam...long story, but i didn't buy them...someone gave them to me in the airport in philly after we got off the plane. i had the last about a week ago...yum.

pretty NM pics and are you KIDDING ME?????

hello! i'm back.

first off, i had a fabo time in new mexico this past weekend! my traveling companion is the best.

and

and


we took hundreds of pictures!

i just dropped off three rolls of slide film at penn camera. they will be ready tomorrow after 5. (oh really? we'll see about that.) won't do me much good, though, because my slide printer finally arrived with the new 4x5" base after 6 weeks and it came WITHOUT DIRECTIONS!!!! HOW THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO PUT THIS THING TOGETHER? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? AND WHERE IS MY TRANSFER KIT? DUDES, THIS IS INSANE ALREADY!!! SEND ME MY STUFF!!!! plus, i was apparently "misquoted" and was charged $100 more than i was originally told. i complained, but they couldn't change it. plus, i didn't have it in writing, which doesn't surprise me. the girl i had been dealing with over there seems to be a huge idiot. she's supposed to call me back before the end of the day (PST) but i don't think i'll hear from her. i was told the directions and kit would be sent out first thing tomorrow, but i don't know if it will happen. i'm going to continue to call and harass them until i get my stuff.

wha-hoo! cake and josh rouse!

wonder of wonders, i went to another concert alone last night. i reached a point about two years ago where i said, "screw this. if i can't find anyone join me at a great show, i'm going alone!" i don't see it as depressing or anything. i can sing along and piss off strangers. i have no problem with that. (i WAS supposed to have someone with me...but that didn't happen and i couldn't sell the other ticket...so i lost some cash.)

last night was josh rouse at the birchmere. he rocks. he cracked some jokes and was in a general happy mood. they played some of my favs, too. i met him last year at an XM recording session. here's a pic from that....
i cut my coworker out because he was so far away anyway.

then i came home and continued work on the cake for the super secret going away party today.
here are the cakes, cooling.

then i trimmed them and put cherry filling in the middle. had a little accident and the top piece broke. i think i fixed it up, though.

i did a "prep" layer of frosting, put the cake in the fridge to firm up a bit, then a finishing layer of frosting so it wound up looking much better than i thought it would.

and for the beach scene...

i found this spray-on cake color at the craft store, so i used it for the sand. then yellow sugar crystals and blue edible glitter. (if you notice, i put the cake on four pieces of wax paper as i decorated. then all you have to do is slide the pieces out and you have a clean cake bottom and clean cake tray. it doesn't really look that messy. in fact, it's pretty sleek looking.)

then i put it in the box and fridge for the night with some tooth picks here and there to keep the box from getting TOO close to the cake, took it in on the metro this morning, and was surprised that it's actually in pretty decent shape now. it's in the fridge here, and i'll just have to do a bit of touch up later this afternoon. another department member is in charge of beverages and we will be making a mojito-inspired limeade and mint beverage. sure, we'd love some liquor in the middle of the day here, but that mystery bottle of scotch in the lunchroom is gone...

on another subject, i think i'm going to trim this and make a slide. going to order a whole new batch of them this weekend so if my PRINTER EVER COMES i'll be ready.

slides slides slides!

here are some more slide transfer images. i'm going to watercolor some of them and rescan soon.

amsterdam (next three)




japan


virginia/dc

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.