- testing iPad blogging apps…
I’m testing a couple of blogging apps for the iPad… none of them really have hit the mark yet, but hopefully I can decide on one because I’ve seriously been neglecting Scatter Pig and I miss sharing all of my little internet finds, my knitting adventures, & my bits of news :)I found this notebook last night while surfing on Betty, took a capture of the image, cropped it with Photoshop Express for the iPad & now I’m testing BlogPress… although it looks really nice & familiar, the official WordPress app is missing too many features to be useful.
- birthday week
This was the surprise waiting for me when I woke up on my birthday this week! I didn’t expect it, and it was a wonderful surprise. Her name is Betty and she’s beautiful :)
- knitting challenges
All it took was finishing this one small lace project so quickly to have me thinking about what other lace projects I have in my queue. Butterfly was the winner, mainly because I’ve wanted to knit this dress since I first saw the pattern in 2007. Unless I’m having a very girly summer this year it’s unlikely I’ll be wearing a lace dress very often, but it’s such a pleasure to knit so far that I’m not overly concerned with whether it will go to waste hanging in some dark cupboard.
Looking at the charts I felt like I was in for a frustrating time, trying to keep track and memorise a complicated pattern, while working with lace weight yarn on larger needles – something I generally don’t like much at all, I like my lace on 2mm needles or a size equally ridiculous. On closer inspection this pattern is so simple that baring some other project catching my eye, Butterfly will be finished within the month.
And now it’s time to get back to it :)
- grecian
I finally snapped a couple of shots of my Grecian FO over the weekend, these photos are a long time promised on here and over at Ravelry :)
My favourite aspect of the project was by far was using a hemp blend for the first time and the sideways cable edging, I really liked this technique. You can see by the puckering around the shoulder area that I followed the count for picking up stitches in each area exactly – it’s not as noticeable when worn so I don’t think I need to re-knit the neckline.
Right now I’m on a skirt & dress knitting kick so I’ll probably be casting on a couple of new projects over the next week (and no, I haven’t finished that last shoulder of Honeybee, but I’m sure the inspiration will kick in soon… right?).
- a sneak peak
I love gardening and one of my hopes is to have a big vegie garden that I can play in… and that we can get most of our food from of course :)
For starters we’ve planted some chilli plants and herbs in planters hanging over the balcony. Now there’s a wait until Spring to get everything else – I can’t wait!
Once they all settle in I’ll take some better photos.
- barely domestic
It was a nice moment. I saw one of these prints by etsy seller WildLifePrints in etsy daily email, and after following the link this print The Cultured Cow really grabbed my attention (The Cultured Cow belongs on my wall).
It was only after checking the seller info I realised that I’d already discovered and admired the more serious work of the talented photographer Jeff Frieson. I love the light and shape in his photos, they’re really beautiful, and there are some similarities to his alter ego’s work :)
- absent…
I haven’t been online very much for quite a few weeks now, but I promise it’s due to a series of very good reasons! An unexpected trip, a new job, and a move all around the same time has left me with not much time for a lot of things. I found my camera usb cord yesterday morning!
We only had minor injuries, lots of sore muscles, and too many boxes from the move.
I have found some knitting time, abandoning Honeybee on the final stretch (just have the shoulder shaping on one side to complete…) instead starting & finishing Ishbel. It isn’t blocked, but it’s finished!
A side note, I am loving the redesign of Flickr! It and the update of the wordpress backend interface seriously makes me even more motivated to redesign Scatterpig, it’s definitely time to find someone more competent than me at coding blogs who can turn a psd into a template for me…
I’m happy to be back :)
- outerland
The preview images from Allison Davies book of photographs Outerland promise a beautiful experience. I enjoyed these three for their colour and texture.
- lost
Lost… it was such a love it or hate it tv series.
I loved it :) In so many ways it was a fantastic story and I am not disappointed in the ending at all – how else could it end?! Not one person I know likes Lost and I really think they’re all missing out, I enjoyed even the seasons that went off track and seemed pointless.
I’d love something cool, besides each season on blu-ray (currently only have them on dvd…) to memorialise the series and I’ve found two sites selling products that definitely fit the bill.
The auction of small props used during the filming is currently being previewed, the website unfortunately gives no indication of the auction date – I would LOVE some Dharma Initiative beer cans or condiment bottles!
Also, artist Ty Mattson is selling silk screened prints with a perfect retro feel on the abc site, there are 3 or 4 prints I could definitely live with them hanging on my walls. My favourite is the print I’m showing here because the story line of Locke is one that I particularly liked, I really did love that character.
- lantern slides
There are some beautifully coloured lantern slides on flickr released under the creative commons from Norway. I always feel like hand tinted photographs look like they’re from some sort of story book land, especially when people have been liberally coloured in the face, big red lips, huge red rosy cheeks, strange straw coloured hair.
Flickr has come a long way!
After it started becoming so popular there was a worry amongst the original, more professional amateur photographers, that the whole site would descend into happy snaps of pet cats and kids birthday parties taken on point & shoots. Thus lowering the professional tone of the site.
Well I think that it’s proven we can all co-exist on this great site (including people like me who have far better cameras than their skills can handle ;) ) and it has become an invaluable repository of photographs such as this one above where we can all access historical images from countries all over the world.
I’m a bit of a flickr cheerleader, I’ve met some fantastic people and some very talented photographers through this site, I love being part of this community.