lunar eclipse

seeing our shadow on the moon, and seeing saturn just beyond (the blue one at the top of the frame) made the sky seem 3 dimensional for the first time. i've always looked at the sky and just seen pinpoints on a flat black surface. well, maybe now that will change.


 

a knitter in peru

i was recently thinking about my trip to peru and how, i think out of all of the places that i've been, peru was my favorite. now i wish that i had been a knitter when i went 'cause i would have brought back bags and bags of alpaca wool! i think alpaca is my new favorite fiber. i mean, you can't go wrong with something that's 60x warmer than sheep's wool!!!!

here are 2 videos that my mom shot of me during llama photo shoots. also are the images that came from the shoots.

  

 

my wonderful husband

i think he thinks my knitting is a little more snugly than my photography!

imaging usa

well, that was a good convention! but i was wildly disappointed with the closing party. we had the run of the tampa aquarium at night...god, it was so cool! but, besides some women shooting picts of themselves and guys with their cameras hung around their necks and their unnecessarily long lenses (the male photographers' way of making up for his inadequacies in the business end of things) no one was really taking pictures!!! so many people didn't even have their cameras with them. my husband even noticed that it was a surprisingly camera free evening! i guess that it's just a job to them.... and i feel bad for them! did they start out that way? did they not go to art school? are they just "too old" in their minds to have passion for photography ALL the time? i should have asked. maybe i'll never know.

here are links to pictures. the first gallery is fort desoto beach, the second is general picts from tampa and the closing party.

in the first picture below is from a lecture by julieanne kost TOTALLY great photographer and speaker and all around nerd. her speaking style was a lot like mine-slightly a.d.d. and fast and she talked to herself a lot. LOVED it!!! check her out here!

 

photography convention

i'm off to the imagingusa photography convention in tampa on saturday! i am taking my most recent project with me, a square blanket that's knit in the round from the center out. totally cool! (see picture below)

i've put the pattern into my "patterns" section.

so, i'm quite excited to geek out photo style and then knit on the beach. whoo hoo!

craftacular

hmm... maybe i am just too old for whatever was going on at that "craft fair" but it was really more like craptacular. there was only one ceramics maker. there were only a couple random knitters/crocheters with about 5 hats. only 2 people with handspun yarn and i don't think that they were the actual spinners 'cause the yarn looked exactly the same at both tables. mostly it was all printed tshirts and jewelry-neither of which i really wear. oh yah... and no photographers in sight! maybe i'm crazy, but i think that a craft fair in the suburbs would have been much more crafty!

i think i'm also disappointed 'cause i dragged my wonderful husband there thinking he would find some fun art or toys, but there really wasn't much of that either. there was one girl that made owls and whales out of felted sweaters. LOVED them! and she made these other little things out of felt, all with their own cute little story... like zee handsome devil.

check her out on etsy

indiepublic

i've been trying to advertise and promote my knitting and photography a little more. so, i made a page on indiepublic.com yesterday. i can never figure out if these places are good for getting my work out there to people other than artists.... people looking for art and not just making art. although, it's very nice to be around (in a cyber sort of way)

i've also been learning how to integrate flash pages into html sites-here and on indiepublic. now, i just need to crack open that flash book!


i nice woman in kauaii ordered 3 of my blanket buddis and one big one. i love the big ones, but i'm not happy with the yarn that i'm using for the little ones. i think i'm going to have to make the other 2 little bunnies with different yarn.

the picture above is a picture of the finished big bunny.

etsy

hey! did i mention that i have a fun shop on etsy? libby's etsy shop check it out, if not for my art and knitting, for all of the other great stuff on there... ALL handmade!