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{my creative space} photographic proof

January 26, 2012 By Kellie 2 Comments

So last week I resolved to blow the dust off my camera and get out and take some photos.

And you know what ~ I did!

So in this post is a selection of photos I’ve taken this past week. But I’m still working hard to create that habit.

Although I’m slowly pushing myself more and more. Doing a little things like walking out of the office while on a break to take photos with my iPhone, looking in my own back yard for inspiration.

Along with “make it happen” I need to remember to “try harder”. Or as Yoda would say: ”There is no try, only do”. Or something like that.

Okay, so it might be time to step away from the flowers and take something else.

There’s always a little something different over at quotidien.

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{my creative space} creating a good habit

January 19, 2012 By Kellie 9 Comments

They say it takes 21 days to form a habit. I may have started about 10 days too late.

To be fair to myself, I’m not failing completely. But perhaps I’m not doing as well as I would like. Or as well as you might think.

So it’s confession time.

My camera gear hasn’t been out of the bag all week.

And by no strange coincidence, I returned to work this week ~ both at the paying-the-bills job and to a mountain of freelance work.

My hermit-like tendencies to stay at home all day until heading off to work are not that conducive to the whole taking lots of photos thing either.

So my camera stays in the corner.

Yeah, that’s what I think, too.

I’ll catch you later, I’m off to take some photos.

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{my creative space} snap happy

January 12, 2012 By Kellie 10 Comments

The one thing I want out of 2012 is to be a more prolific and courageous photographer.

What does that mean?

I want to take more photos, more often and all the time. I resolved to take my photo gear to more places and even get my iPhone out more often to capture moments. I resolve to not worry about what people think when I stop, drop everything and take a photo.

I would go as far to say it is one of the biggest things holding me back as a photographer.

So far, I’m doing well with my goal. I’ve taken my camera everywhere we went, I’ve whipped out my iPhone without a thought, I’ve immersed myself in the taking and left the fear and the worry behind. Because of this, I found more scenes that were “Polaroid-worthy” and I’ve taken more photos, and I finally feel I have quotidien on the right track.

I’ve experimented and snapped everything from cows to the moon. {Funny juxtaposition that}. I’ve used digital, iPhone and film.

I just did it. And it feels great.

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{my creative space} … gets a makeover

January 5, 2012 By Kellie 17 Comments

Well a good tidy up at least.

New year, new start and all that, yesterday I finally got to something I have been trying to get to for weeks, if not months. Giving my study, studio, office, whatever you want to call it, a good tidy.

{Desktop from Smashing Magazine, street sign a present from Hubby, easel from Studio Lakshmi}

It had been somewhat overtaken by piles of everything on the floor, on desks, on chairs, on shelves and had become somewhat a disaster zone. But it is one of those things I need the whole day to do. I can’t get stuck into if I have to go to work in the afternoon or out for dinner or anything. I dedicate myself to it.

{inspirational clutter}

There are still some bits and pieces to finish off, and as much as I would love a clutter-free zone, that probably isn’t going to happen this year, or perhaps this decade, let alone this week. Let it go.

But it’s tidy, I can work in it, and so can others ~ it’s a two computer zone ~ and, thanks to summer trading hours, I have a new office chair to complete the look.

{Lanterns from Spotlight on left, on right a print by Alicia Bock and a plate of letters}

I did also mange to put up some frames and prints, which had been part of the piles, and Hubby was very obliging with hooks and untangling and hanging the paper lanterns.

And now that it is all tidy, as a reward, I can put up my fairy lights.

Ready to start creating for 2012.

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{re-lime rewind} my not-so creative space in 2011

December 29, 2011 By Kellie 4 Comments

This week in the holidays I’ll be revisiting popular and favourite posts as part of {re-lime rewind}. Hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane.

Today, a quick peruse through the creative space archives, and I’ll admit, 2011 was not my most creative year. Although it was somewhat of a foundation year. Expanding camera types and techniques and picking up a few bits and pieces to spur creativity on. In 2012, I think I will aim to get more out of my creative space. If you look closely , you can see a bit of theme ~ interspersed with the lamentation of a lack of time: photography, paper and technology.

i made a book

I made a book! Sort of. Actually, it’s an e-book, or iBook.

Yes, in times when I could have been a tad more productive, but no one was really paying any attention, I made a book.

Introducing the debut issue of e{pulp}, which suggests there might be an issue 2, who knows?

But it was fun and I thought I would give it a go.

It is a really little e-book, only 12 pages, almost an e-zine, in a format not entirely suited to the genre.

The format is not well suited to images and is actually best suited to novels with reams of text. So I have taken this a bit out of the square so excuse the sometime odd page breaks and somewhat messy formatting. Each device or computer will render the book differently based on it’s size and the user-defined font size.

Download the first issue of e{pulp} for iPad/iPhone here

It is best viewed on an iPad or an iPhone ~ you just need the free iBooks app to view it.

Once you download the ZIP file, unzip it and you’ll have a short readme.txt file and the epulp_issue1.epub file. Open iTunes 9.1 and higher and simply drag the ePUB into the Library area of iTunes on the left side. It should now appear in the Books Area of iTunes and once you plug in your device, you can select it as a book to sync in the Books Tab in iTunes.

But never fear, if you don’t have an iPhone or iPad, you can read it on Adobe’s free computer application Digital Editions.

I’ve also made a PDF version and a Kindle {it’s black and white} version.

What can I say? I can’t walk away from anything new and shiny, and I’m excited by the possibilities this idea could turn in to.

jumping through hoops

This is about a month overdue, but this little project was “in the hoop” for the Creative Collective May project, it just never happened.

I had some leftover hoops from a little crafty project with the kids a while ago.

My idea ~ framed photos.

My tools ~ my photos, hubby’s work’s fabric printing machine

The result ~ voila, and me having to learn how to cut and back an embroidery hoop. Let’s just say it was a sticky situation. And I’m not showing you the back.

Think I’m going to try a few more though.

In other news, I got together my little snail mail packages for the creative collective snail mail swap. This is what is heading off to my receipients. Reminded me why I love snail mail.

wishing, hoping, stamping and thinking

Hello, welcome to Thursday, and perhaps one of the busiest days in the blogosphere ~ creative space day.

First up, did you get the whole song title title?

Don’t fret, that’s not the extent of my creativity today. Although I don’t have a whole lot to show for my creative output this week ~ a whole lot of doing, not a whole lot of physical creating.

What I have been doing is some stamping? Actually, what I have been doing is some buying, of stamps.

First off, I couldn’t resist this stamp from Present & Correct. It joined a growing collection of stamps on my desk.

And then I saw this deal on oh hello friend! and got my own 74 Lime Lane stamp.

So, stamping. I need some practice, too.

And I’m also thinking ~ about my little corner of the web’s two-year anniversary TOMORROW. Sorry, but I’m trying to think of a fun way to celebrate it with all of you and, well the day is fast approaching and the ideas are … blank.

So, I’m wishing and hoping for some ideas, more time … you know how it goes.

adventures in film

I couldn’t hold out any longer so at the start of the week, during a trip to the photography lab, I dropped off the films that were in my Diana mini and the Yashica film camera I bought off ebay a few weeks back.

Putting in films is always an adventure ~ bit like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get!

I was particularly intrigued by the Yashica, its focusing mechanism wasn’t overly sharp through the viewfinder and I wasn’t sure if anything would be in focus.