Trolleys are a process
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in geeky, trains | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_232" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Trolley Car Diner Sign"][/caption] A few weeks ago, after checking out the Morris Arboretum (located as far northwest as you can go in Philly without actually leaving the city), Craftyangie and I decided to check out the ...
Graflex RB Super D
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 8 Comments »[caption id="attachment_220" align="alignleft" width="143" caption="Graflex RB Super D SLR 3x4 camera"][/caption] What's 7 inches tall by 7 inches deep by 6 inches wide, has a big 152mm lens, and a giant mirror inside? A World War II era giant SLR camera, that's ...
Scrappy pincushion
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Posted in embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »What does a craftster do when she's bored or stressed? She grabs fabric scraps and makes craftsy things with them! Check it out: The yellowish fabric scraps are from a Purl Soho order placed a few months back. It is ...
Fixed the Bellows. Now what?
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | No Comments »A couple of months ago, I wrote about my first tries using the Kodak Vigilant Six-20 to take pictures. I experienced some unexpected light leaks from extremely tiny holes in the bellows, and figured out how to plug them up ...
Slide Film is tricky, after all!
Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in geeky, hobbies, photography | 4 Comments »Or is it? (That's a nice, vague introduction!) Well, I've been reading a lot about different kinds of film, including slide film. The color rendition is supposed to be totally different than from negative film, not to mention more of a ...
Learning simplicity
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Wedding, embroidery, general crafts, sewing | No Comments »Remember the photo album I made for Windi? Well, my aunt's birthday was coming up and I was about to send her copies of our wedding pictures when I though, why not make something special? maybe something like the album that ...
A May to remember
Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in Flowers, Uncategorized, crafts, embroidery, sewing | No Comments »I learned how to embroider, in school, when I was 8*. I was in a private elementary in México, and it was tradition in the school that for Mother's Day you had to make a gift. Yes, I said make; none ...
Summer vacation?
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized, food, gardening, hobbies | 2 Comments »As much as it seems as if I was away on vacation (as Thad is the only one blogging lately), life has been quite far from that. While we did go briefly to Mexico, where Boombadeus got to finally see where ...