Archive for August, 2010
We spent our Saturday at Sauvie Island which is a cluster of farms (many of these farms have veggies and fruit picking) and markets just 20 minutes drive from our place. It’s the most beautiful summer’s day in Portland — not too hot in the sun, not too cold in the shade and with blue sky and perfect breeze.
Pretty flowers (you can cut these yourself to purchase by the bunch).
There are sunflowers too.
And then we drove around the island for a few minutes and found a U-Pick farm (they grow all kinds of fruits and veggies that can be picked and paid for by the weight — like a grocery store that grows on earth). Blueberries and Blackberries are in season now!
These are the most gorgeous black berries ever, and they taste amazing!
We were told that blueberry season is ending soon, but we still found plenty of delicious blueberries.
It makes me happy that, living here in Portland, our kids get to experience simple and wonderful things about nature — like that yummy things grow on earth (and not in grocery stores pre-washed and packaged in plastic!) and that ever changing edible blessings comes with continuously cycling seasons.
Todd was telling me about HDR imaging technology that’s getting more commonly featured on digital cameras and I suddently remembered reading about multiple exposure (…from what I can vaguely gather, multiple exposure might be one element of HDR technology but not all of it) setting on my camera in the user’s manual. And I thought to have fun with it for few moments.
…But I don’t own a tripod (I want one!) which means that I can’t make use of this multi-exposure thing in the manner that it’s generally intended. So, I tried layering obviously different images (instead of exact same ones exposed differently). It’s nothing you can’t do with several regular images in photoshop or some such software but I do enjoy instant fun sometimes!
Here’s one made from three exposures of different parts of my work-in-progress wrist cuff:
And here’s for a more subtle effect — composite of a spool of thread on the table with the back of the vintage hand mirror (which I got for $0.50!!):
And inside of the mechanical clock in the dimly lit (with blue light) room (aka our office/studio at night):
I wanted a project that I can start and finish in one sitting, so I assembled this wrist cuff mostly from scraps that were already on my desk. It only took me about 15 minutes from start to finish because I used sewing machine to do all the stitching except for the buttons and I didn’t bother with making clean seams (it’s meant to fray a little with wear).
The word ‘LOVE’ is stamped onto fabric using fabric ink, and the rest of it is scraps of fabrics, bits of laces and vintage buttons.
I found this chocolate on my desk. Todd got it for me probably because the packaging is cute and it has toffee in it.
Todd’s picking up pizza for us and we (Immi, Ashland and I) are waiting in the car. I rolled down the window to snap this fun junktique shop located on Hawthorne.
I never get bored of waiting in the car in fun areas of Portland, there’s so much to see even if I don’t step out!
Here’s my current spinning project using this fiber. I’ve added small amount (probably about 0.3oz — the main batt is 3.6 oz) of colorful fiber and also some sparkly synthetic fibers (not because I didn’t like it the way it was, but I wanted to have better chance at having enough yarn to make something with it!).
I’ve had really bad migraine for past 2+ weeks (I think it’s finally going away!). And absolutely nothing helped except for spinning this very happy color yarn (because it’s meditative??). My OB prescribed me narcotic type pain meds (supposed to be safe for the baby…) but she told me it’ll make me loopy and I shouldn’t be in charge of kids by myself while on it — since such a solution won’t help me at all, I’ve left the prescription unfilled. It looks like I’m making pink yarn again in the photo, but it’s mostly not pink, I promise!
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