4 posts tagged “editing”

As I have mentioned before I am currently unemployed. Even though I am one of the lucky ones, I have state and union unemployment available to me, it still gets to me. My mood has not been all that great, it does not help matters none that we have had so many rainy days here in the Midwest lately. When I first was laid off I was working on my beaded jewelry in and effort to keep my mood up and with the thought of selling it as a way to make some money. Unfortunately I have not really been doing much with that either, I just was giving in to the blah feeling of it all.

In an effort to break out of that mood, I have been taking pictures of the jewelry that I do have made. (even though I do not like the quality the camera gives me, that is for another post). Last night I started working on editing for upload. I do not have much done yet, but it is a start.

I just uploaded some pictures of one piece that I have repaired. I showed the piece to both WPG and Country by Design when I got to meet them, but unfortunately it was broken at that time. So I wanted to post that one first so that they could see how I repaired it.

The necklace has a glass heart pendant and when I originally made it the pendant had a glass loop on it for suspending it from the necklace itself, but I broke it when I was storing it away to take with me on vacation. I have since repaired it using some copper wire to make a cage and loop for the pendant. I will probably not sell this item because even though I have filed down the sharp edges of the glass where the loop broke off of the heart, I do not want to take the chance that I missed anything. I am not sure what I will do with it now.

The other night I spent almost 10 hours working on trying to get some good pictures of some beaded jewelry that I had made several years ago. I had a lot of trouble with the lighting and with focus. I want to get some really good pictures, so that the actual detail of the beads and the stitching can be seen. My camera, actually two different ones, just do not seem to get the shots that I really want, so I guess these will have to work for now. (there are more than just these few photos, there are more on my flickr page.

I have been downloading photos from my camera and playing around with editing them. I have also started a new Flickr account (still trying to get the hang of it). I also have uploaded to my vox photos (still having problems with my dial-up connection causing problems with the upload). So to have some fun with the photos to balance out the stress of technical problems, I played around with the colors of one particular photo and thought I would share them.

Hope they are as much fun to look at as they were to make.

I have been filling my time with some fun on the computer. I have been scanning old photographs (some not all that old) that I do not have digital images of. I have then been editing them, saving them, and posting them on VOX (yeah VOX).

My little photo library is getting rather big, but I have been dividing it up into collections to make it easier to browse.

Under the house

I made a collection for pictures of the close quarters under the house that I had to work in recently to fix our propane lines (basically rip out the very old and start over with all new rigid pipe) It was not very fun, but it did give me a strong sense of accomplishment. It also provided a very real sense of security, because I knew all the old leaking, corroded, worn copper lines were now replaces with very solid, very well supported rigid  pipe. I also made sure to install shut off valves in multiple locations so that if something went wrong with an appliance or a piece of the pipe, I would not half to shut down the whole system.

I also uploaded some more photos of my Oreo cookie, who is still doing well. She should be finished with her antibiotics in a day or two. I am keeping her in the house as much as possible during these last few days of cold icky weather.

I also started a new collection so that I could upload some photos of some of our pets from my childhood (only one uploaded at this point, but working on more).

This is my Shadow Puppy aka Saddow in little kid speak, lol.

Oh did I mention that parts of my house are over 100 years old? We have a corner stone with the date 1905 carved into it. I uploaded a photo of that too. It is not all that easy to read in the photo but this is it:

1905 a

Well I think I will go have some more fun with my photos. I also added a few more winter shots. (I knew if I took a camera outside I would take more no matter how much I told myself that I had taken enough, lol)