The One About Inori

This photo is light painted. Which means that this shot was shot completely in the dark. f1/18, exposure time 8 secs. Most recommend an ISO of 400 but this was shot on 250. The subject is illuminated by a single flashlight that had a cardboard pasted over it and a tiny hole poked through the center.
All focusing was done manually and I’m very happy to achieve the effect I want!

This figurine has a story – Her name is Lenore and her creator is Roman Dirge.
I made her out of sculpley clay and painted her (because I was then too poor to afford coloured sculpey). She is ALMOST 10 years old and was a gift from me to my then boyfriend. He loved it so much he kept her in a pristine condition and then we got married and she’s still around today. She was one of the first handmade gifts I gave to him (along with many t-shirts with hand drawn characters which he wears till this day even though the characters have faded away).

Sigh this is the best my kit lens can do for macro shots. I can’t wait till my macro attachments arrive! Then I can really play with macro – my dream come true. Hurry hurry international post!!!

Forrest Gump said that “Life is like a box of chocolates.”
To me, my life is like a tin of colour pencils. You can’t always have blue (the colour that makes me the most happy) days and sometimes you have brown or grey days.
If we would open our eyes to look around, life is very colourful indeed….
We even dream in colour!

I’ve decided to join in the fun.. I know… I know… it’s the middle of the year already!
My mum recently bought me a Nikon D7000 and I’m determined not to let her become a white elephant and I really do want to get to know her better. So I decided to take up this project!

Here’s the first installment:

This is the cardigan (or rather, part of it) that I’m designing. The notebook holds my design notes and diagrams. The book below it is Jodi Picoult’s “My Sister’s Keeper”.

Effect I used on this photo is Lomo!
I’ve always loved Lomography but alas, it’s so costly to develop rolls and rolls of 35mm film. I have a Supersampler but it’s been untouched for years. I love the Holga the best of all.

Oright…. so how can I make up for the lost time on this blog?

Would posting a heap of photos help you forgive me for abandoning this place?

Okay.. just roll along with me here….

First up, recent photos of the kids!

I love his feet and toes.

Through my (fisheye) lens.

Look at the way he is looking at her! LOL.

He was about to push her!!!!

So…. are we interested in what I’ve been up to recently?
Well.. I’m having school holidays at the moment and return to Uni early July (which is soon!!)

I’ve been knitting loads and reading loads, happy to be away from assignments and exams for a bit!
Here some photos of my WIPs (Work In Progresses):

My Olive blouse, knitted with Wollmeise (Blau Tinte 100%) and the collar was knitted with Malabrigo Sock (Caribeno). It’s an endless Stockingnette stitch right now and I only work on it when I need a project that doesn’t need much brain juice.

Well I thought knitting a blouse or cardi in sock weight was bad enough…. Clearly I’m insane to start a Featherweight cardi with malabrigo Lace. I know, right? It’s not in hibernation yet but this is at the bottom of my WIP list. Grrr.

This is my Huntington Castle Pullover. Knitted in Rowan Summer Tweed. I’m left with just a little bit of the hood and seaming the sleeves to go!!!

Uh… another semi-abandoned project… This is crochet and I’m trying to make a hexagon blanket throw for our sofa.

I have another major WIP (possibly the last of its kind too) that I’ve been brewing and that is this:

Which kinda explains why I’ve not been updating much (on top of the school work and housework I have!)

I know my tummy is big for weeks (16 weeks now) but I am assured it’s normal as it is our 3rd baby and my insides expand much faster for subsequent babies.
I’ve JUST finished with feeling nauseous and horrible everyday and am now able to keep my dinner down much better. My spirits have improved although I still feel tired a lot of the time.

We are not finding out the gender of the baby and he/she already has a nickname! It happened when one day we asked the kids,

Me to Sunshine: Do you want a baby brother or a baby sister?
Sunshine: Hmm.. I want a baby sister.
Me to Chubbs: Do you want a baby brother or baby sister?
Chubbs (eyeing the carrot in his food bowl): I want a BABY CARROT!!
Thus, we have our little baby carrot.

Okay dokey. If you are on my list of Facebook friends, you’ll be able to see the other photos I’ve taken……
Once again, sorry for the absence… I will try to make up for lost time.