True Things

• All of my photographs taken in the last two weeks have been with my ipod touch. I feel like I should be taking more photos with my other cameras, but this is what is easiest to use right now.
• Hipstamatic, Classic Toy and Plastic Bullet are my three new favorite camera apps.
• I have been taking photos daily. And have been very inspired by the shots I've captured. Even though a friend said that they were all so random it looked like someone had given a child with ADD access to a camera for the first time.
• I haven't blogged in about ten days. This makes me cranky. And slightly disappointed in myself.
• Super behind on crafty things I want to accomplish. Accepting it. Moving on with living life. There will be plenty of time for documentation later.

• Work is good. But very very busy. I had to work from home on Saturday to crank out a project for a deadline. Didn't like it, but that's part of being a grownup and having this kind of job. 
• I am so, so grateful to work at Starbucks and have the job I do. It is a fascinating time for our company. Also accessibility to this much caffeine has never been needed more in my life.
• Today I spent the day working on Halloween crafts with a good friend. I had a really great time. I started a minibook using BG Eerie and began working on a banner and some cupcake toppers for our yearly Halloween Bash.
• This year's party theme is: Superheros vs. Supervillains. I remain undecided about which side of the law my costume will align with.
• Every weekend between now and December 11th is fully booked with major social activities and/or traveling. This includes: a Halloween Craftfest Day (accomplished today), a trip to Victoria BC with some girlfriends, a trip to TN to visit a dear internet friend, Halloween weekend (cleaning and party prep!), a trip to SAM to see the new Picasso Exhibit, a Christmas Craftfest Day with friends, CKC Seattle, SteamCon, Thanksgiving, Urban Craft Uprising... and probably a few more weeknight things which I am totally forgetting about. I also at some point, would like to go to a First Thursday ArtWalk and also check out the new ArtFest Annex space. See above comment re: caffeine. 
• I have plans to eventually make minibooks for all of these events, and have even begun gathering supplies in advance so I can pounce on scrappiness when I can.

• Contemplating changing up the blog a bit. Will get to it when I have the time. Most computer time recently is taken up with editing/formatting photos. 
• Brainstorming ideas for new tutorials and value add items re blog content for my beloved readers. ;)
• Am about 75% done with my LSNED book. Have a few more photos to edit and then send to Costco for printing. Really want to get this one done. Planning on a much simpler book for next year.
• Need to get a few emails and packages out the door. This is weighing on me. Must prioritize. 

• Twitter is so great for micro-blogging.
• I'm sad that the sun is setting so early these days. Also that it has been raining quite a bit recently.
• I think Macrina makes the most delicious soup in all of Seattle.
• My laptop has four broken keys, and is completely missing the delete key. I need to get it fixed/replaced, and I think it is still under warranty, but I don't know if I can be without a laptop for the two weeks it would take to fix it.
• I'm continuing to practice texting with my thumbs. I've improved quite a bit

and those are my random truths for today.

hope you are well. 

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The best camera is the one you have with you

So... I went a little MIA from the internet due to my vacation this week. It was so relaxing. The trip was full of  pretty scenery, decent food and quality time with my sweetie (photo recap pending). It was indeed good times. But one bad thing did happen that I am compelled to share today.

On our hike through the Hoh Rain Forest, I forgot to take my Ipod out of my (supposedly) rainproof backpack. This lack of electronics paranoia cost me my Ipod, because when the backpack soaked through, enough water got through that the Ipod was basically ruined. (funnily enough, this was the same backpack that my Rebel died in... it's possibly cursed, at this point) I tried letting my poor little pod dry out (even used some rice) but when I took it to the Apple store today, it was pronounced DOA.

Single tear. Moment of silence, etc etc.

On the bright side, I got to turn in my old Ipod classic to be recycled and that got me a sweet 10% discount on a fancy new Ipod Touch (4th gen). It's got pretty much everything I like about the IPhone, without the pesky phone or service plan part.

I picked up free apps for google reader, flickr and twitter. The WiFi coverage in Seattle is pretty good, and I'm so excited to play with these.

Of course I was most excited about the camera feature. And Apps! And learning to type with my thumbs!

I picked up the hipstamatic, the plastic bullet and the incredibooth apps.

Here are some samples from our walk through the Arboretum this evening.

Plastic Bullet Shots

Incredibooth shots

Couldn't get any shots from the hipstamatic as the app crashed... will try to get more later this week.

So in love with these. All the lo-fi goodness of toy cams with the instant gratification of digital. Hurray.

Do you have any suggestions for cool apps I should know about? Tell! Tell!

Peace out. I'm going back to work tomorrow so I'm going to try and go to bed at a reasonable hour. Bleh.

just the facts for today

Currently on location in Port Angeles on assignment (vacation) to see our local temporate rain forest, coastal beaches, etc.

I have learned/confirmed three things today.

Fall is the most beautiful time of year. Also magical.

THIS is what Twilight really looks like on the Olympic Peninsula.

No sparkly vampires (thank goodness).

Spending eleven years with this guy has been awesome. We have the BEST adventures. :)

LSNED Book: Part One

I made some good progress on my book this weekend.... I'm really happy with how it is coming out despite the fact that I majorly screwed up the order of days (I accidently switched some of the days due to working on two weeks at once). Oh well, live and learn. And move on.

Here we go...feel free to click to see more detail.

Intro pages... I'm going to leave this blank for now.. and come back and write a perspective after it's all finished.

I'm really liking how these turned out... if you saw the video, you know what I mean.

So that is my progress for now... I'm really enjoying the experience... I mean, check out all that journaling!

Happy Monday.

Random Friday update

Totally random update today.

Yesterday's LSNED post involved painting. See? I'm still crafty.

Full pages SHOULD be up this weekend.... need another Costco photo run. Glad my creative mojo is back.

Also, this is my current power song. Feel free to turn up the volume. :)



I know, right? So major. ;)

So I'm still sick, but at least I am mostly mobile at this point. Unfortunately, this plague has spread to my sweetie, so my duty, as the slightly healthier person, was to get supplies for Udon at Uwajimaya (gigantic Asian market) for dinner tonight.

And the Udon turned out really great...

But that's not really what I'm excited to blog about....On the way out of the store I popped into Kinokuniya bookstore and what do I see?

A decent sized WALL of WASHI TAPE. For CHEAP.

Oh noes....
I never could get into using ribbon, but tape? Tape I love.

So... you might be seeing some washi in my projects.... soon.

Also, that Kinokuniya is a dangerous place. If you ever come to Seattle, and you like cute Japanese things (think of the office supplies) I highly reccomend you stop by.

Alright, that's enough of a blog post for today. Back later with more. :)