Paw Prints

I’m finding my mind all taken up with setting up digital photo albums because i’ve a bunch of images not up, documentation requiring photos i want up, the lost scarf project, and a landslide of craft supplies and papers to file around my desk. It’s some sort of obsessive compulsive thing, i’m sure, so i’ll just move on to the links that have caught my eyes.

(I did end up with a bird feeder from a two liter bottle which created a use for the Dremmel. Hoorah!)

Surfing

I’ve learned about bokeh, a quality of optics i suspect i need not worry about yet. I need to be able to hold my camera steady enough for the in focus part to not be blurry, first.

And here’s another simple book binding tutorial.

Photobooks

This reminds me that i am curious whether any photobook sites offer full bleed yet. One interesting aspect of this is that one could photoshop up some interesting collages appropriate for consecutive full bleeds. In particular, i’m thinking of a gift book of mail art (before we knew of mail art) that i’ve received from a friend over the years. (Do notes passed in English and science class count as mail?)

QOOP: full bleed mini books from Flickr, not what i had in mind.

This review recommends shutterfly.com for basic books — and they do have a nice neutral white layout and full-bleed pages. The recommendation for sharedink.com is slightly better quality. The author notes that, for the one time pro account payment of *cough* $120-something you can ftp photos to their server. *glow* I like that. The time saved over using some damn web upload form can easily be worth that. (Also, pros get more storage, and get more attentition to the printing, and, and…)

In looking around i also found viovio, which has a very different feel from the shutterfly.com soft covers. (It’s a photo cover.)

We were out of town for a bit, and had a house guest before that. I worked on the blanket ground (CR2006.05) while at some airports and on some legs of the flights. It was quite comfortable to work on while flying. Christine’s scarf (CR2006.02), however, has gone missing. I know we showed it off to Kimberly, but i haven’t quite figured out where we put it.

Christine finished her cross stitch ornament, and Kimberly brought a gift of cross stitch. Photos when i have a suitable gallery maker package. (And that may mean porting cthumb to the Mac — so that i can continue tihe the existing galleries!)

And while we were out of town he pet sitter turned off the iMac — thus turning off the home blog and the image galleries.

administrivia, crochet

Some images here are hosted at my home server and were likely unavailable this weekend. We had to do some surgery, but everything is back to normal.

I am always happy to hear of broken links and other infelicities. Please comment away.

administrivia

I spent a great deal of time working on a WordPress theme last weekend, which is a creative activity. The stopping point can currently be seen in my words blog, where i’m trying to collect my poetry from over the years.

I’ve kept at a little crochet, mainly the blanket ground (CR2006.05) and the scarf (CR2006.02). I’ve scanned in some fun mail-art received, but have not got it up anywhere. Indeed. The home server where i had been collecting my images, is having a fan or drive problem that sounds too much like my pager for me to sleep through. It was off all last night and we’ll try vacuuming it out as first repair. (A couple of weeks ago the weekend was spent backing up the data.)

Shoes and sandal ideas: http://www.hollowtop.com/sandals.htm — describes using a tire for a sole. I’ve fantasized about crocheting shoes, and essentially imagined making the sole as the hollowtop author described — painting something waterproof on the bottom. (My solution would have not been as sustainable, admittedly.) But tire treads! My sister pointed out one could recover blown out tires for the purpose. It appears it would be possible to buy something suitable, too.

administrivia, ideas, recycle, rising waters