Just wanted to say that there's been another piece on Rawkis today and my photo has been used again & it's a decent size. Will try and upload a picture in the next few days.

Rawkis

Meet Rawkis. Andy, Laura, Lloyd & Papa Rick. i did this photo shoot for them a few months back, & today there was a piece on them in the local paper promoting a charity gig they're doing next week. And they used one of my photos!! It's really teeny tiny, but it's there! i took about 450 photos on the day, a lot of them need some serious editing, which i don't have the time for. Laura wanted the shoot done on a little boat that had been shipwrecked, which is in town. The light was awful on the day, but i think the moody clouds give dramatic effect! It was hard getting an angle that cut out all the background noise. And kids kept getting in the way wanting to play on the shipwreck. And the tide was rapidly coming in. i took some single portraits, some of the whole band, some of just Andy & Laura, some of the instruments, some of the band with the instument....

It was fun but exhausting & very challenging, i'm glad i don't do it full time. Laura was a great model though, so easy to photograph. So, here's a few of my fav's, and the published picture is the first one. Check out the link above to see some more of the pictures i took.

Maria Grace has done an awesome Make & Take over on 2Peas this month, go see here. All you have to do is print the pages off, embellish & make a front cover. Got me out of a creative rut last week.

Spent yesterday at Long Down Farm with Anna & Jake. He loved it. It was good to actually do something with my day off for a change & even better to be hanging out with those guys. I have 2 days off in a row this week. Such a big deal. Returned home though to get some news which is beyond sucky.

Mum found my name on the wall. She is going to leave it there.

Later i plan to watch The Illusionist, make some stuff and catch up on Heroes.

Painting with Light

i'm taking Cheryl's Painting with Light Photography Course at te moment and this week's assignment was to take a self portrait which included our name. Here's a few i took this afternoon. If the neighbours didn't already think i was mad they will now. i'm sure mum won't be happy when she discovers i wrote my name on the side of our house in chalk. i'm going to leave it there till she finds it. he hee

Fuzzy Head

If i go AWOL for a few days it's usually because of one of 2 reasons:


a) i'm super busy & living life so don't have time to blog

b) i'm not doing anything and am altogether too depressed to blog


This week it's because i'm in a funk. And finding it hard to shake it off... Too much going on in my brain. Sleeping a lot. Consuming too much chocolate. Not enough fresh air. Not enough time spent with friends.


But:


The Beach Boys are making me smile


Pineapple & orange juice taste good together


Blurry photos are cool ( & totally scrapable)

3 Months and counting...

Til i leave. All becoming a bit real and scary lately...

Just a quick post today to say check out Post Secret. Frank has put together a really cool mini video for this week's secrets. i am often surprised to find my own secrets on this site, even though i've never sent in a postcard. Nice to feel i'm not alone.

This week has been a week of loosing my phone several times, walking to work, wearing flip-flops again, seeing Anna, researching the Big Trip and worrying about going to Tokyo on my own. i thought it was a good idea at first, now i have further researched it i am not so sure. i am worried about offending the Japenese with my misuse of chopsticks, about navigating my way around the city and about what i am going to eat, as i am not all that keen on sushi. I'm not too sure why i am so bothered about Tokyo in particular, i am not worried about the other 5 countries that i'll be visiting, maybe because everyone keeps telling me how brave i am to be going there alone, and especially as it's my first stop. Not helpful people!


Picked this postcard up yesterday whilst at the cinema seeing this (Again!). It resonates with me so much right now as i am so unsure what i am going to do when i get back from travelling. i have been thing for a while now that full-time education might be the way forward, i have never been in a job that i loved and i think i need to re-train and find a career path enjoy sooner rather than later. i don't want to get stuck in another boring job that doesn't challenge me and leads nowhere. i think that i would enjoy graphic design, but am worried that i won't be good enough, about going back to studying again after so long and about the financial implications. Big Scary Decision. And one i'm not going to make right now. Who knows what direction my wanderings will take me this time anyway?

Mondays are OK these days

i am so happy not to have that horrible Monday feeling of having to go back to work after the weekend. My shifts are so higgildypiggldy that i am lucky to even get two days off let alone 2 days in a row! But it suits me much better working evenings and the occasional day shift, i function much better at night. i was getting tired of the 9 til 5 thing.

Today i ventured out of the house to go to the bank and to the bakery but that was about it. The local bakery does the BEST custard cream doughnuts in the world!

i watched The Fountain which was both rubbish and utterly brilliant at the same time. i'm sure i would apprciate it more if i understood the plot.

i scrapped these two pages {i'm still merrily scrapping away with Elsie's new lines}

Yesterday at work some hunky dish of a bloke got sat in my section of the restaurant and i was swiftly informed by one of my male colleagues that it was Niko Kranjcar, a Portsmouth Football player. i didn't have a clue who the dreamboat was, so happily let him take the table whilst i admired from afar.

Love, Post

No post for 3 days, then not only did we have our regular post which for me included Newton's Album, Little Miss Sunshine DVD and The Fountain from Lovefilm. But we also had a delivery from A Man with A Van which was my new Love, Elsie stuff. The Lola and Riley Lines aren't coming to the UK so i had to order it from America (i know i shouldn't be spending any money, but i needed it!). i only ordered last Tuesday, i think it's the fastest i've ever had a delivery arrive from the US. i love it so much, i already did a page today. i don't get to do boy pages very often so this was fun. i've known these guys my whole life & even thought i don't get to see them too often anymore i hope they are always a part of my life.

For this week's pencil lines sketch (haven't done one of those in a while).

Not much going on, but:

* i am missing having Annabananna in my everyday life

* there has been no post for 3 days and i am waiting for numerous parcels

*i am uploading as much music to itunes as possible so that when i finally get my ipod i can put is all straight on it

* i figured out the reason why the scanner keeps chopping off the sides of my pages. there is no way to fix it

* i am really liking Plain White T's