Category: General

a joyous easter

green and orange easter peeps

Happy Easter to you and yours! I had a wonderful Easter day today with many of my favorite people. I feel very loved.

making an Easter skirt

Yesterday morning, I realized that I didn’t have any of my favorite flowery skirts with me at school. I managed to piece together an outfit, but Easter Mass is one of my favorite opportunities to wear something bright and flowery – something I don’t frequently do.

So I cut into some thrift store sheets, and turned out a skirt in under three hours. I should have gone to the darkroom to do my homework… but it was so sunny! Sunny days can’t be wasted in March.

Happy Easter to all, and to all a good night.

thrifted curtains and sunshine

yellow thrifted butterfly curtains in my dorm room

Would you look at the sun streaming in through that window!

Today was an amazingly sunny day. It was certainly brisk (high of 40), but no wind and no clouds. Add in the fact that the birds are finally chirping, and it’s starting to feel like spring!

I enjoy having photo documentation of each of my dorm rooms, and, really, each place I’ve lived. I can look back at pictures like this one and remember exactly how I felt in that room; how I felt during that year; how I’ve changed.

So today’s streaming sunlight reminded me to capture my Last Dorm Room Ever, and it will now live on in perpetuity thanks to the internet. But also, I wanted to share a picture of my beautiful thrifted yellow butterfly curtains!

yellow screen-printed butterfly curtains

I like the fabric because the butterflies are screen-printed, which allows these curtains to just barely pass my “are you sure this isn’t too granny-kitschy” test. I also, of course, love the orange accents. But I’m especially happy because I’m pretty sure these curtains were handmade: machine-sewn, carefully pleated, and then blind-hemmed by hand.

Add in the fact that these 4 panels fit my windows beautifully, and the set was 6 bucks… I’m sold. Nothing makes a dorm room feel more like home than happy curtains.

Happy Wednesday-Friday! (yes, today is named “wednesday-friday” because it’s a mini-Friday for me… no Thursday class!)

(click the images to see them larger!)

photographic gems of february 2013

yellow door

painted street

shale rock

white door

orange rock

Yes, this is the first set of “photographic gems” I’ve done in awhile. These are a sampling of the photos I’m submitting for my color digital midterm; I’ve chosen to focus on pattern & texture. enjoy! Click images for larger view.

(photographic gems: a monthly feature to keep my camera happy and my viewfinding eye sharp.)