My Weekend

I have to say my weekend went pretty well. It began on Friday when I attended a film workshop at the Lomography store in L.A. It was fun going out and shooting with other people interested in photography. I have yet to develop that roll since I'm not completely done with it yet. I did manage to buy the Diana 110mm lens and adapter for my Nikon camera. I used it right away.

Saturday, me and my guy drove up to Solvang, a cute Danish little town in Santa Barbara County. The drive was beautiful but it was longer than expected. (Yes, that is a plaid VW van!)

The drive was truly scenic. Reminded me a little of Little House on the Prairie :)

Afterwards, we drove back to Santa Barbara to see the comedian Daniel Tosh. It was an awesome show. On Sunday, we went to Disneyland to see Captain EO. Something I haven't seen since I was around 8 years old. 3D back then wasn't that great and hurt my eyes. It was funny seeing it again though. Very 80's!
How was your weekend?

It's Been A While...

Since I've posted and that's lame. I have to get into the habit of posting or at least taking pictures and sharing daily. I have 3 more days until school is over (for now) so I've been a little busy working on putting together my portfolio. I have been working on a multimedia project all session on a group called the Society for Creative Anachronism or SCA. They are an awesome bunch and welcomed me to their events. Here are some images from this weekend's shoot.

Many people usually think they are kind of like the Renaissance Fair people but not really. They don't do it for show, they do it for themselves and really go into doing research from anything like food to "garb". It's a hobby that they really love and are passionate about. I had a lot of fun shooting their events and I plan going to a few more.

Lomo Mania

My Saturday went pretty well. A Lomography gallery and store opened up in L.A. and I have been anxious to see it. I finally went and it is amazing. They sell all of the Lomographic cameras and accessories and you can also leave your film to get it developed. Aside from that, they also have workshops on different things like film and pinhole cameras.

This store is a very hands on type of shop which I loove because I took my Nikon D200 and got to use an adapter so that you can use the Lomo lenses. This is what turned out when I used their telephoto lens:

It has an amazing soft focus and makes the images look dreamy. I'm in love with it and now my goal is to save up $ and pick one up.

Look at all the goodies! I can't wait to go back and pick up some accessories for my cameras. I want to get a flash for my mini Diana and maybe a colorsplash ring flash for my fisheye. I love plastic cameras! If you're in the area, I highly recommend you stop by.

Vinyl Lovin'

This week has been both stressful and really busy. My roommate and I managed to finish moving on the 1st around 2 a.m. I right away got to working on my portfolio for my 7 a.m. class that day. Not long after I began working, my back gave out and I could barely move. I finished my portfolio with 30 minutes to spare, drove to school and dropped it off. I definitely did not stay for class as I couldn't even sit down for that long. I got home, took a nap and went back to the old apartment to clean it up. I thought I was finished with that place but little did I know that the manager likes to pester me. Turns out my roommate didn't clean his part of the apartment and now she was harassing me about it. It was a situation wasn't that big of a deal but she decided to make it one. It's a shame that she's also the manager for our new place too. Ack!

With all that, I'm also trying to put together a multimedia project, shoot more news events and trying to pass my business class. With only two weeks left in the session, I need to take advantage of any spare time I can get. This means not really being able to pay much attention to unpacking and organizing...yet.

So how do I have time to linger on Etsy? I get distracted easily. Shame on me. If you go to my photo blog, you can see what I shot on Saturday. It was pretty awesome.

Anyway, since I'm not allowed to paint on rented walls, the next best thing is vinyl decals. Here are some awesome looking ones that I would not mind putting up in my place.

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These two weeks will be over soon then I will get to decorate till my heart's content.
Happy Wednesday! (Technically, I finished this post past midnight, so yeah, Wednesday)

I Wanna Bake

Now that I'm moving to a new place with a slightly bigger kitchen, I've been in the mood to bake. I haven't baked any sweets in a long time and I want to get back into it. Now that I think about it, Easter is coming up and I can use that as an excuse to bake some goodies. I was searching around Flickr to get some ideas and thought a few of these were awesome.

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I love these from my favorite baking blog.

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I also love baking cookies. Good ol' chocolate chip cookies are my favorite!

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And I am definitely not opposed to baking brownies either.

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This one is making me drool. I feel like Homer Simpson just looking at it.

Okay, now I'm hungry. I better get started on my packing again. It feels like such a long process but today should be better, my friend is coming over to help me.

Have a good Monday.

I'm so over moving. Right now I'm moving boxes by myself in my tiny 2 door car. My classes are early in the morning so I get the rest of the day to move. I usually make about 3 trips then I'm exhausted. It's definitely because I have to lug everything up a flight of stairs. I'm trying to move all of the little tedious things then have my friends help me move the big furniture and boxes. My strategy has been filling up 3 big plastic bins and emptying them in the new place, then repeat. I could probably recruit friends to help but I feel uncomfortable about asking for the help. I'm kind of weird like that. I still have a ways to go and I have until Wednesday to do it. I've decided that after this move is over, I'm so going to purge A LOT of my junk! I really want my home to look like this.

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No fair, I can't believe Katherine Heigl didn't come back for a few more episodes of Grey's Anatomy before really leaving. It feels so unresolved now :(

We just signed our contract to our new apartment. It's still a 3 bedroom but way cheaper. We're not going to look for a 3rd roommate so that extra bedroom will become...MY CRAFT ROOM! I'm soooo excited, I've never had my own craft room before. I immediately started looking for inspiration and this is what I found:

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How amazing are these rooms? Now comes the moving part, what a pain.