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May 3, 2008

the Right Side of My Brain

I’ve desired to know how to draw for years. After several tries with “learn to draw or sketch” books with instructions and suggestions, I’ve finally decided that The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was worth the time investment it would take to read. It is more than a “learn to draw” [...]

April 28, 2008

Les Miserable on ?Contentment?

Another favorite passage from Les Miserables:

Jean Valjean  Book First XVI: “There are people who ask nothing more; living beings who, having blue sky, say: “it is enough!” dreamers absorbed in marvel, drawing from idolatry of nature an indifference to good and evil, contemplators of the cosmos radiantly diverted from man, who do not understand how [...]

April 22, 2008

Light Box

So I recently opened my own Etsy shop. In order to do this, I had to photograph my rings.

After viewing the photos on my Etsy shop, my husband went to his shop and quickly made me a Light Box covered in silk and gave me some instructions on taking photos.

So today, I tried again. The silk [...]

April 16, 2008

Sharing, but not the germs

I’m still not well, not well at all. I have blogged some lovely posts in my head, but have not the energy to type them out. But I’d thought I’d share a couple favorite blog entries that I’ve read lately. Enjoy.
Amusing me some more
the moleskine song and other journaling goodness
amanda ∞

March 17, 2008

Roof Dogs

I love the city. Never a dull moment here. Every January the drumming group across the alley breaks out of the house and drums through the streets of our neighborhood in the freezing cold after 10pm. This year they even had flame throwers.
We have the most interesting characters living in our neighborhood, many entreprenuers, a [...]