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Magical Monday Is Now Monday m Time!

Amber — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:11:05 +0000

I’ve changed the name of the Moday blog post to Monday Me Time! This has been done for one reason, because I can! I don’t know why but it came to me in a dream for the past couple nights to change around the blog topic names. So it’s done.

Today’s post is a picture post of the “Shawl of Doom.” Those of you who follow me on Twitter know I’ve fussed with the Seraphina’s Shawl pattern for a good long while. I have tried my luck with 3 different types of yarn and only this last round has worked out. Using a non bumpy/tangly/splitty yarn has helped what little sanity I have left! We all know I’m a crazy hooker (Not THAT kind lol I mean the crochet kind!)

So today I proudly show off my progress on the shawl I lovingly call the “Shawl of Doom!”

I've finally started to figure it out!

Magical Monday – Craftiness Is In The Air

Amber — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:20:03 +0000

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on my crafts lately. Work and school have eaten away that precious crafting time that I hold so dear.

Recently I have been able to work on a few things. Today I don’t have pics but I should have them by weeks end. Thanks to a loving furbaby in my house I have a camera cord and yet I can;t seem to find the thing. I’m guessing it got snatched when I was cleaning up the desk area.

I’ve been working on what I lovingly call the “Shawl of Doom.” I am notorious for not finishing crochet projects. I have had 3 attempts at the Seraphina’s shawl pattern. 1 with homespun, 1 with boucle and 1 with some real thin yarn that seriously made my head hurt when I realized I’d gone through a ball of it and have a shawl made for a barbie so far!

I decided to grab a nice green skein of Vanna’s acrylic yarn and have one last go at the pattern. I couldn’t be the problem with it it HAS to be the yarn! I was right it’s the yarn. I should have listened to everyone that told me that a bumpy yarn will drive me insane when crocheting with it.

Next on my agenda is to put together some jewelry. I have a few car protection pieces to do and maybe a few necklace and bracelet sets. I want to learn how to correctly make a wire loop and I can then start making earrings that don’t fall apart.

I hope you are all having a wonderful week. Don’t forget to check out the giveaway here that will end Thursday!!

Photography For The Visually Impaired

Amber — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:59:00 +0000

Anyone who has read my blog has seen my dilemmas with wanting the new IPhone and the accessibility features that said phone has. through my journey to learn as much as I could about the IPhone I found a really inspiring and useful web community. Blind Photographers.
This is a site dedicated to persons with visual impairments who have an interest in photography. As an avid scrapbooker I found this site to be quite exciting!
The site is a blog and the members post about all aspects of photography for the blind and visually impaired. There is also a display of the members photography on the site as well.
As I did more digging there is also a Flikr group dedicated to blind photography. I am getting ready to join that myself and am super excited about the possibility of learning from other visually impaired people who enjoy photography.