Scanner Success?

    Well, I tried scanning some of my jewelry pieces tonight... finally. It worked very well for some and very poorly for others, which is basically what I expected. There were some nice flat pieces that turned out well, like this blue and brown polyclay bracelet I made:

     But a lot of my pieces are too three-dimensional to be captured properly on a scanner, so I wound up with lots of blurry patches, like in this fishy necklace that I loooove:

     Lame. Anyway, I have a lot of photo cropping and editing to do before I can put these new pics up on the site. Look for them sometime in the not-so-distant future.

Wasting Time

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations." ~ Benjamin Disraeli

     I am alive. Sort of. As much as someone with no motivation whatsoever can be alive. There's really not much for me to say, but I'll try to draw it out so I can look like I'm accomplishing something here. That seems to be my approach to a lot of things in life. Anyway, my corner of the world has thawed out a little, so even though it's still cold, at least we're not all trapped in ice anymore. I feel like I've kind of been floating through life halfway asleep lately, but I'm trying desperately to drag myself out of this giant rut I'm in and do something valuable with my time. I did manage to post some of my artwork on my website, so that's new I guess. Also managed to make a few bracelets, but nothing I'm particularly proud of. Tonight when I get home from work, I'm going to force myself to make a necklace... as long as the two little girls I watch don't beat me up or something. Yeah, there's always that "if" factor in my life. If I'm not too tired, if I feel well enough, if there's nothing on the tv that requires my attention, if if if. Anywho, I'll try to post a progress report later. For now, off to work. Super Babysitter away! Woosh!

Hell Has Frozen Over!

     Oh wait. It's just Georgia. Never mind. Though if the Devil went down to Georgia, does that make Georgia hell? Hrm. In any case, my little corner of the world is covered in a sheet of ice and the bottom of my driveway resembles a hockey rink. Too bad I don't ice skate.

     In other news, my trip down to Florida yielded some interesting materials for me to work with. My brother and I took a walk along the beach and I picked up some rather nice shells along the way. I'm going to attempt to drill some holes in the flatter ones and see if I can use them for focal pieces in my jewelry. Of course, that won't really work out with the shells that have a spiral shape, but I'll find some use for them I'm sure.  They were just too pretty to leave behind. Anywho, my aunt and uncle gave me some sand dollars to work with as well, which I'm pretty excited about. I'm going to see if a lovely friend of mine would like to paint them and make a collection of sand dollar jewelry with me. I'd paint them myself, but Jess would do a far better job of it than I ever could, and it would give me an excuse to have art jams with her. It would be nice to get Amanda from Balagan Art in on the action as well, but that might be a little difficult considering the fact that she's still at Berry. Oh well. We'll see how it goes.

     Anyway, I think I'm going to try to scan some of my jewelry. It seems to be a pretty effective method for other jewelry artists, and since my mother has a nice scanner that's pretty new, I suppose I'll give a whirl. It would probably make my father happy since I'm pretty sure he's tired of coming up to my room to photograph tons of jewelry every time I make a new batch. I wish I could scan some of my drawings as well, but we definitely don't have a scanner big enough for that. I think maybe I'll put up some of the photos I've taken of my portraits on the site, just to get rid of that empty art page. At least it will do until I can get images of a high enough quality to start selling prints. But yeah, that's all I have to say right now. Guess I'll try to get some work done. There's a novel idea, huh?

New Year Blah-dee Blah Blah

     I really have nothing good to say here, but I thought I should let the world know that I'm alive. Been busy with the holidays, a little bit of drawing, and the Sims 3 Ambitions which I got for Christmas. I had a good Christmas and New Year's Eve (everyone should play Apples to Apples when they're drinking), though tonight I'm feeling rather stressed, angry, and depressed. Personal problems. Sometimes I really think I should be a hermit, or at least just stick with one or two people who are actually capable of being there for me when I need them. Speaking of which, my old college roomie is back in the area, which means that I'll hopefully be having a lot more fun and getting more work done. She tends to inspire me and keep me motivated. Honestly, I don't think I would have survived my senior project without her. So yeah, she came over the other day and we had a good time being all creative and stuff together. She paints, I draw, we swap ideas, etc. She's doing this new collage/painting thing that I can't wait to see when it's all done.

     So anyway, that's all I've got really. I'll be leaving tomorrow to visit family in Florida for the rest of the week, so I probably won't have any good posts until next week. Still, family can inspire you to say some weird things, so who knows? Maybe I'll write something interesting if I can find an internet connection while I'm there.