16 Dec 09
I was tagged by Weareyouneak to show 7 things that are bling-bling! Sadly I didn’t make 7 and they don’t really count as bling, ha! I am so un-bling.
Sequins on my 1920s flapper dress / Indie’s collar / metallic silver nails / disco balls on my tree / stickers for mails going out
I’m tagging Y, Sel, Sarah, Diane, Young and Rae! Show me what you got ladies.
Well urm, these two photos stand alone, I know. I made new origami and went to the park to pick twigs for a project I want to try out. I’ll post more when and if it doesn’t fail.
P.S. I’m drawing the winner of frankie’s the photo album at midnight, so last chance honey!
| Tags: origami
8 Dec 09
Good morning! I’m so very excited about this giveaway, mostly because I wanted a copy so very badly after reading about it on Ringo, have a banana!, so I’m sure some of you would like to get your hands on one too! I picked up an extra copy and I’d love for one of you to receive it in the mail in time for Christmas.
Some of my favourite people have their photos in this issue. Amy Borrell of cake with giants, Annette Pehrsson of the hymn for the cigarettes, Sarah Beaver aka as sherbetone on Flickr and Caitlin Shearer.
To stand a chance to win, simply leave a comment. The giveaway will be open till 15 December, so it leaves me some time to mail it across the globe if need be! This giveaway is open to everyone in every part of the world! I will draw someone’s name randomly and announce the winner on 16 December. Spread the word! x
****Edit: The giveaway has ended*****
| Tags: frankie magazine the photo album
6 Dec 09
Images 2, 3, 4 are scanned from the Toast – House & Home catalogue which I now receive thanks to Diana of ourcitylights.
| Tags: toast catalogue, toast house & home
4 Dec 09
Started the day pretty early, coffee at the coffee shop, sun in my eyes.
Took a walk at Botanic Gardens before arriving on time for lunch
The heat got to us and that was our cue to leave for lunch at Tanglin.
Waiting for my family to arrive
My lil sister
Happy birthday pops
I’m a sad sick moop of mucus. It’s already Friday and I don’t care if it’s the weekend, oh!
| Tags: botanic gardens, happy birthday pops, swan lake
24 Nov 09
These are the tools & materials you’ll need:
• Black paper – normal paper will do, I find no need for thicker paper. This is what your lens hood will be made out of.
• Black tape
• A stencil of the size of your lens [I printed it out because I don’t have a geometry compass]
• A coloured pencil, to draw the heart
• Scissors
• Pen knife + cutting mat
• Ruler
Let’s get started!
After measuring the diameter of your camera’s lens, give a 0.1cm buffer. In which case my lens is 5.6cm in diameter so my stencil is 5.7cm in diameter. Cut along your stencil and you will have yourself a black circle.
As accurately as you can, dot the centre of the circle and then draw a tiny heart around the dot. If you’re doing it free-hand, try not to draw too tiny a heart otherwise cutting it out won’t be so fun. If you have a heart-shaped cutter, all the better! Or star-shaped, it will work too. If not, use a pen knife to dig out the heart!
Cut a strip of your black paper, about 1.4cm in width. You are going to turn this into a ring around your lens so no need for a long long strip.
So your black circle goes on top of your black ring. Be sure to do a fitting on your camera’s lens! Lots of adjusting and frustration here, at least for me.
Tape it together. I manhandle most of my belongings so I TAPED the whole thing together. So there, you have your heart-shaped bokeh lens hood!
The next thing is to make sure your lens is zoomed in all the way (at least 50mm), it reads 55mm on mine and you’re on manual focus.
Put on your lens hood, go to where the bright lights are and see what you come up with!
| Tags: how to make a heart-shaped bokeh lens hood, tutorial
