Under a Blue Moon

The week in review:

February 20 – D is for Daisies

February 21 – Q is for Quilt

February 22 – M is for Milkglass

February 23 – S is for Set-up.  The gyrations I go through to try to get my feeble light to cooperate with me.  This is the best spot (morning light comes in through the windows on the right) but I don't always want the view through the window so I put up vellum to block it and then hang sheers over it so it doesn't look like a piece of paper taped to the window.  The spray bottle is to smooth out wrinkles in the cloth on the table.  The foam board is to bounce some of the light coming in from the left onto the subject matter.  The cat is just there to ensure things run smoothly.

February 24 – C is for Chicken Eggs (I found some delicious light in another part of the house – I think some of this photography stuff is starting to sink in…)

February 25 – V is for Vegetable.  It's gotten to the point that I'm wandering around the produce aisle picking up various vegetables and thinking "hmmm – this would photograph well…"  Not the most interesting picture but I was trying to take a photograph of things of various thicknesses and have them all be in focus.  Didn't quite get there but it's close.  

February 26 – X is for Railroad X-ing.  Captured out a moving train.  I do like the small town feel of this picture.  I don't even know what town I was rolling through when I took this. 

 

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I love earrings.  If I'm not wearing earrings I feel kind of like I'm not properly dressed.  I also lose earrings with an alarming regularity so I tend to like inexpensive ones that can be easily replaced and I won't be too broken-hearted about losing.  

Even though Forever 21 isn't geared towards my demographic I do find them a good source for fun, inexpensive costume jewelry.  One thing I will say is their earrings tend to be really long so I always pay attention to the dimensions when ordering online.  I'm not opposed to MacGyvering a pair of earrings to suit my tastes.  I have removed extra loops to shorten them up.  

I thought this collection was fun for Spring.  And for less than $25 for all four pairs you won't break the bank.

(This is not a sponsored post.  F21 has no idea who I am or why I'm shilling their earrings for them.  If F21 would like to compensate me by sending me the above earrings feel free to drop me an email.)

I wanted to share a couple of recent Etsy finds.  I love Etsy for finding vintage treasures.  I like it ever so much more than eBay just because I don't care for the whole bidding business.  

I also feel that Etsy is more personal than eBay.  I feel like the sellers are more accessible.  I'm sure there are lovely eBay sellers too – I just have a hard time finding them. 

Anyway – on to the goods.  These are fairly recent purchases.  I did go on a bit of milk glass bender last week but I'll save that for another post.

The first thing is this gorgeous kimono.  It is the most beautiful shade of creamy white with lovely pink, green, white and gold embroidery. And those are hummingbirds, not butterflies. 

I envision myself swanning about the house, drinking my tea all while looking elegant in my lovely kimono.  The reality is I'm afraid I'll slosh tea on it so I haven't swanned yet.  

What is that saying about not saving your precious things for a special occasion?  I need to remember that.

The other thing I bought was this pretty pin for my brooch collection. To me it is kind of masculline looking in that is appears to be a medal or emblem of some kind.  Yet the white makes it very feminine.  

I have no idea if it is the emblem to some fraternal organization but I imagine wearing it and some elderly gentleman coming up to me and giving me a secret handshake or salute.  

Here's a funny side story – years ago one of my coworkers, an older man, asked me if I would retype the bylaws to the fraternal organization he belonged to.  This was before electronic file keeping and most documents were hard copies.  So I spent a couple of hours typing it up for him.  

I cannot tell you how tempted I was to insert a couple of my own bylaws.  Like naming me as the Grand Poohbah-ess over everything. Or having a parade in my honor every April 1st.  I resisted though. 

Feel free to call me Grand Poohbah though.

The week in review:

February 14 – O is for Olive Tree

February 13 – W is for Walk.  Taken with my iPhone3.  I can't tell you how many times in my lifetime I have walked this path between our neighborhood (growing up) and school.  

February 15 – A is for Asphalt.  Taken at my elementary school. There were a couple of kids playing basketball about 10 feet away and I didn't want to freak them out so I just snapped the one picture with my iPhone and kept walking.

February 16 – R is for Ruin.  This was taken from a moving train.  The original is quite boring.  So I cropped it and played around with textures and adjusted the color.  It has a 70's vibe to it that I kind of like.

February 17 – U is for Utensil.  Kind of like this one.  If you look closely you can see the photographer. 

February 18 – G is for Gardening (Or galoshes.  Does anyone call them that anymore?).  Taken with my iPhone3.  I should have taken an after picture so you could see all the weeding I did.  I also got two bareroot roses planted.  Yay me!

February 19 – E is for Experiment.  I made my own lightbox to see if that would help with the light situation (still fiddling with it…) and then I played around with black and white actions for Photoshop Elements.   I liked the b&w versions better than the color ones.