Free-lensing

I was reading Whitney's blog, eat.sleep.cuddle, the other day and saw that she had given free-lensing a shot. Inspired, I set out for the tutorial over at A Beautiful Mess and tried my hand at the technique. Here's what I got:

They didn't turn out quite as expected, namely that everything came out blurry, but I love the light and shadows playing in these pictures anyway. I think a camera lens upgrade is definitely in my near future. Trying to keep the lens zoomed in while shifting the angle of the lens was harder than it seemed. not to mention the aperture on my lens is not the greatest, hence the shadows. No worries, I'll keep trying! I'd love to get this technique down!

Kevin Bass and falconwright

via falconwright

Love, love, love these clutches--the color combination and prints are fantastic! I have been a big fan of falconwright's leather clutches since I stumbled upon their blog a while back. So I am saving up some money to get myself one the next time their shop is stocked. A few weeks back Sandi Falconer of DEADWEIGHT and half the duo of falconwright posted that she had had received some fun postcards with baseball players with food-type last names that are drawn out and that she wanted to mail some out to some of her readers. Well, they looked too cute to pass up, so I signed myself up! It came in the mail last week and it is now propped up with some other art in the bedroom. Below is Mr. Kevin Bass. Get it? So cute.

Speaking of fishing, and also because Sandi asked, this is a picture of the one and only time I have held a fishing pole. It was last year! And I didn't catch anything. Wah, wah, wah... 

Anyway, go visit her shop and check out her paper goods and go visit the falconwright shop.

Thanks for the postcard Sandi!