365/08 22-28

Erp! This should have been up last week, but I've been busy, and the bf's been eating up the bandwidth, which makes it impossible to upload pictures. Blogger doesn't seem to like uploading if the other computer on the lan is doing anything internety :( Anyway, while he's sleeping, here's last week's pics.



Tuesday 22/01 - A pretty picture of some stones in a dish.



Wednesday 23/01 - In my plans, this was going to be the picture I took on Monday (when I didn't take any). The church hall where I practice dancing. I'm practicing Isis wings right now (as well as sword, but I can do sword in the house), so all that space is pretty useful!



Thursday 24/01 - Oh no! I don't seem to have a picture in my folder for this day! I was so sure I'd taken one :( Grrr, that means two days this month that I forgot!



Friday 25/01 - Tupac eyeing up my bf's dinner. Honestly, this is what he's like every time we eat, and he just will not stop it. I think he got sent out the room soon after this pic was taken.




Saturday 26/01 - A pretty sparkly thing for dance day. This is a close up of a large glass necklace I own. No photoshopping or nothing, just a close up.



Sunday 27/01 - You've seen this pic already - the baby hats for my cousin. I washed them before I went down to drop them off the next day, so this is them after drying. I wanted to test the machine washableness before I gave her them. This is also the day she was born, so it's a good pic for that day. :)



Monday 28/01 - I'd actually gone to visit my parent's to give them their anniversary present. They've been married 30 years now! This is the cards they got from various people.

365/08 15-21

Tuesday 15/01 - Dave the cactus. Yes, he has a name. :) My bf thinks I'm super weird for this, but I've always named things - plants, teddies, just about anything. Hmm, thinking about it, my sword doesn't have a name yet ;)



Wednesday 16/01 - Tupac standing under the weight bench to eat. He's weird :)



Thursday 17/01 - Sorry! This week is full of crap photos. This one is a close up of some rolls. I was trying to be all artistic and stuff, and took like, a billion pictures of these rolls, and they all were just - well, just pictures of rolls.



Friday 18/01 - Another trying-to-artistic shot. Well, I was trying to capture how pretty this light is through the window in my door. I'm not sure it turned out so good.



Saturday 19/01 - This is a bit nicer :) It's a close up of a bag.



Sunday 20/01 - I made a pomander with instructions from Beauty and the East, an orange and some cloves.




Monday 21/01 - Erp! I forgot to take a picture! So as filler, here's a picture of the cloves from yesterday. I thought the name was funny :) Fudco! I just want to do the Beavis and Butthead laugh every time I say it! But (hanging head in shame) I still forgot to take a picture :( That, combined with all the crapola pictures I took this week, makes me realise it's actually pretty hard to take a picture every day, without resorting to crap macros or pictures of the dog. I can see there's a danger of this turning into the Tupac show, which wouldn't really be the point in the whole thing. I want to take pretty photos, of things I normally wouldn't take pictures of, to stretch myself in terms of photography and art. So I'll have to try to think of imaginative things, which is quite hard. I'm sure there will be lots of Tupac filler days, but I suppose even if I take a few nice pics then it'll be worth it.

362/08 8-14

OK, I just noticed that I got all the days wrong for last week. I must have thought the New Year started on Monday or something instead of Tuesday, when it started in reality. For some reason reality did not figure in my interpretation of last week :) I'll try to get things right this week.



Tuesday 08/01 - It had been snowing the night before. Not much snow lay on the ground except on the hills. This is a hill near where I live. Even though it hasn't been snowing since, there is still a little bit of snow on that hill. This is my favourite picture so far - I love landscape shots.



Wednesday 09/01 - Lego Star Wars for the DS! I went out to the shops and spent some of my Christmas money. I love this game! I have it for the playstation 2 but my TV is broken right now, so I bought it for the DS. It meant I'd actually have a game I'd want to play on it, since my bf bought it ages ago, and I didn't like the game he had for it. Now I control the DS, mwhaha!



Thursday 10/01 - The local 'burn' at full flow following the rain the night before. This picture was actually taken during the day, but the clouds were so heavy that it looks like night.



Friday 11/01 - I spent all Friday making a new belt for my tribal class, and really did nothing else since I wanted to get it finished for Saturday. So here's me putting on the fringe. I'll make a whole seperate post about the belt soon, promise!




Saturday 12/01 - My new sword! I know, you've already seen this picture but it still counts as a picture for this day, doesn't it? :)



Sunday 13/01 - Another "I couldn't think of anything else to take a picture of, so I macro-ed something" picture. This time it's a cushion.



Monday 14/01 - The bf's new toy - a multigym. It was supposed to be his xmas present but some unexpected bills came up and he only just got it today. It's huge! It took 4 hours to build. The instructions weren't too bad, it was just that some steps were missed out in the written instructions, and the numbers of the screw parts sometimes differed in the picture from the written instructions (the picture ones were right, but it took a while to realise this). It's quite fun to play on, and hopefully I'll lose some weight using it (the bf wants it for the opposite reason, to build himself up and put on weight). It's a bit more convenient than free weights cos I don't have to wait for him to be free to watch me so I don't squash myself with the weight, but there are some exercises that the free weights are better for.

365/08 : photos 1-7

My first photos from this year! I gotta say, taking even one picture every day is hard! It sounds easy, but it's quite hard to think of something new, even in the first week. It also seems to make the days more distinct. You know how time seems to go so fast sometimes - you blink and a week's over? Well, not this week, cos I've been trying to get a picture that shows something about every day.



Monday 01/01 - an easy day to take a picture for. Calenders!



Tuesday 02/01 - My Dad bought a new computer last week, so he kindly brought me his old one. Of course, I don't have a proper desk for it yet, so it's sat on a TV unit he gave me before Christmas. It's set up in the bedroom, so I can watch DVDs on it, but it's also good for games, better than the PC I'm using just now.



Wednesday 03/01 - Snow! It didn't lie for very long, but it was snow anyway. (I love snow!) My dog was also very excited, running up and down the garden. I had to call him in eventually cos he was liable to hurt himself sliding about, but I think he had fun.



Thursday 04/01 - Part of my new years resolution was to be more beautified, so I plucked my eyebrows. I know, not very exciting for the rest of you normal people, but this is the first time I've done it like, ever! I know, I'm weird, but I just could never be bothered. But this year I'm going to sort all that out and be beautiful!



Friday 05/01 - My first cop-out picture of the year - the dog's hair on my camera's macro setting. I love how the individual hairs can be seen. I'm not much of a camera techie - this is as technical as I get, but I do like macro.



Saturday 06/01 - My friend was clearing out her dance drawer, so I got a lot of new veils. They're very pretty.



Sunday 07/01 - Another cop-out shot, but I thought it was funny.


And that's the first week of the year over. I think it's kind of interesting how I've got different shots for each day, and I like having to think about my day instead of just letting it drift by.

Happy New Year!

So, if you've been checking out the links on the right, you'll have noticed another ring I've joined. I've joined the project 365/52 group (the link links to the blogspot page, not the ring. You can get to that via the link on the right, I'm sure) The aim is to take a picture every day of 2008 (or every week, but I'm going for every day), and post it on your blog. Kind of like FroggieMeanie's blog the shots thing she did last year, which was very cool and I wanted to do it too, but I didn't have the motivation she did. I'm hoping joining the group will give me the motivation I need. So, I've taken todays picture already, but I'm going to post them every Tuesday, so there'll be 7 pictures next week (keeping fingers and toes and pointy knitting sticks crossed!)

So how was everyone's Christmas and New Year? It was pretty quiet here, but I got lots of lovely presents, including some knitting and dancing related. I'll post about them tomorrow, I just wanted to get my plans out here first. Keeping the motivation up, and all that. Plus, I need to take pictures of them, lol!