Daily Photo Project Update

Well, I haven't been perfect at taking a photo every day, there's been several days where I've totally forgotten to do it.  Here's some highlights from when I have remembered though!

A couple of donut/pineapple-shaped chips from a bag of Trader Joe's hawaiian bbq flavored chips.

Finger-painting is good :)

My beautiful sleep mask from Etsy seller BibBon

Another new needle-felted friend.

Bake caking :)

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Craft Show Necklace Display Project

I am doing my first craft fair at the DIY Gallery in Silverlake this Sunday, as part of the Etsy Los Angeles Street Team.  It's been a very long time since I've been to a craft fair, certainly since before I started making jewelry, so I really don't know what to expect.  I've been studying the Etsy forums and Flickr groups about what to bring and how to set up a display.  Some common advice is to avoid having too many items laying flat on the table.  While searching for ideas on how to do this, I came across this project on DIY Sponge.  I was very excited until I saw the required materials:  wood, a jig, sandpaper...  And worse, the template link is broken.

Luckily, thanks to Google, I found this much simpler version, constructed from foam core board.  The title of the article is "Make a $1 DIY jewelry bust" -- my black foam core board cost me $5 at Michaels, but nevermind...

Still though, it linked to the DIY Sponge project with the broken template, so what I did was print out this image.  Then I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to enlarge it on the photocopier, so I placed the small image on my board, traced around it with a white pencil, then drew around that a little bigger, before finally biting the bullet and drawing the size I wanted to cut out.  You can see the evolutions it went through on the back of the finished product:

I then cut it out with an X-Acto knife (not easy on the hands...), cut out a triangle from the remainder of the board, and taped it onto the back to make it stand up.  And it worked!  I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, what do you think?

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Daily Photo Project Update

I have managed to keep up with my daily photo project without missing a day since I missed Day 5.  Here are a few of my favorites since the last update:

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3/29/2010:  The number 1 fell off my mailbox and I have yet to glue it back on. It's been sitting here on my counter for oh, at least six months...

4/1/2010:  The blossoms in the park near my house continue to amaze me with their perfectness.

4/5/2010:  A glass of water by my bed, sitting under the lamp for too long.

4/11/2010:  The park in the morning after a rare L.A. rain.

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Daily Photo Project

I started a photo-a-day project on March 21st (though I already missed one day through sheer forgetfulness, 3/25....).  So far I haven't put a great deal of thought into them, but just tried to snap something from my day.  I'll be posting these on Flickr here, but here's the first five:

Sun 3/21:  Laundry day
Mon 3/22:  View of the palm tree in my neighbors yard from outside my house.  A lovely sunny afternoon.
Tue 3/23:  New dress
Wed 3/24:  The critter.  Shame his nose isn't sharp, but I'm sure there'll be many more of that guy.
Fri 3/26:  After work cup of tea.

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