Tuesday 30 March 2010

Please may I have a badge maker of my very own? Please?

I borrowed a badge maker from a work friend for the weekend and my goodness I had some fun with it, to the point of somewhat embarrassing regression. Seriously

Five days later and these (above) are what I have to show for my efforts with the stampy-cranky machine which looks a bit like this. The Space Invader badge (perfect for provoking violence on a crowded train...) is a bit off centre (OK, very -- and how squiffy is the shot itself?! Bad. Bad.).

But I'm crazily proud of my WORD NERD badge, and the Craft Queen badge I made for my pal at the owl and the party hat! Less enamoured of my b seen badge but it's a start!

Oh and ... I should explain that "Fit as Biscuits" is a very arbitrary expression that a friend of mine invented about five years ago and which I rather took to. Takes some explaining as I'm not sure biscuits can possibly be fit (in the way that, say, Dominic Cooper or Hugh Jackman may be) but ... anyway. It makes a quirky badge, and with it I plan to bring the expression to the masses.

Sunday 28 March 2010

eye owe you

Love love love this picture: the fairy lights, the avenging-angel look . . . everything.


Photo of comedian Laura Solon by Jake Walters for The Guardian


I was inspired by this and by a feature in this month's Digital SLR Photography magazine to do my own. Some of them just plain freak me out. These are self-portraits so I've technically just scared myself silly... Click on the image collage to view.

 

Devon must be missing an angel

Long overdue: a snapshot of a short break to Devon . . .

Saturday 20 March 2010

amateur eye've neglected you!

Aargh, I've really been neglecting this blog. I thought I'd make it an homage of all things purty but there are plenty of blogs out there doing that very thing and so much better than I could ever do it so... I'm going back to my roots (!) and posting my own photos on here ever so often. I have a backlog from the last three months including some more seaside-y pictures, but I've also been creating this website and holding a family photoshoot to raise some money for charity and for more equipment, and also to build up ye olde portfolio.

There aren't enough hours in the day for everything I'd like to do but I'm working on that.

Love,

qb x