"Appy Tuesday!"

yeah, bad pun. But this post is devoted to apps! One app in particular: the Insight for Living Canada FREE iPhone app!! We've been working on it for the last five months or so, and last week it was finally approved! Even though I don't own an iPhone, I am extremely fond of the first app I've ever designed. :D

This morning we celebrated its completion with this lovely iCake app. (first of its kind, i think!) It doesn't stream quickly or look right on your iPhone (probably hard to un-install unless you run it through the dishwasher...), but it sure does taste good! If you like the cake, you'll like the (AWESOME) app, available FREE in the app store!

Pillow Perfection!

More creative fun! I love it when I get an idea, run with it, and then get to blog about it. Yeah...lame, but somehow it makes the excitement last! And I think you'll like this one. I felt the itch to dive back into mine and my moms fabric boxes again yesterday, and this is the result!

I'm starting to spend hours a day dreaming of the home I'll get to decorate in just over 4 months (!!!) with my fantastic fiance. Now, there is one thing I love that he's not so excited about: pillows. If I have my way, we'll have LOTS of pillows. If he has his way, we'll have a few pillows. So my compromising plan is: just keep making pillow covers!!

All of this to introduce my latest pillow project. I'm not sure what my long-term plans for this pillow are, because it looks great on my bed, chair, and on our lovely leather couches. And probably many other places (as demonstrated in my photos-it was sunny, so I used my favorite natural studio again-the yard). But for now, I will just look at it and love it! I love a sewing project gone right! (this is largely thanks to me actually taking the time to measure, pin, line up stripes, and change the bobbins so the thread is actually the right colour...half my sewing projects don't get as much attention to detail lol! And strangely enough they don't usually turn out well).

See? Lovely on the couch.

Doodle Dee

More Illustration fun! This piece is purely JFF (just for fun, I totally made that up myself) and to provide some more entertainment and inspiration for my dear readers. Today at work for some reason we were talking about how we used to have to get dressed up in our sunday best for church every week, and I think that's what inspired this piece. But who can really know how those synapses connect? lol!

PS. Happy Birthday Dolita!!

 

Camera Ouch: the bad news and the good news!

The Bad News:

The Good News:

that's a new LCD screen for only $42! Not bad, since I thought it was a goner! So I'll keep you posted. I haven't experimented yet to see if its just the screen that's busted. My gut is telling me the rest of the camera is fine, but you never know.

For anyone who missed it, I went skating and was clumsy. Surprise!! Unfortunately, the camera was in my pocket. Ouch. Oh the drama!!

And now, because I don't want this post to be boring, here's a few more quick little birds :)

White and Light

The other day I was reminded of a project I had to do during my first year of DAAD (digital art and design) in my digital photography course. I thought the course was a bit of a joke...as far as artistic composition and photography skills it taught me nothing. 

As is often the case, however, the value of that part of my education has only become clearer over time. I was taught about the technical side of exposure, aperature, and shooting in manual mode, all of which had been completely foreign up to that point. Most of what I learned in that course only made sense to me afterwards, as I really began to experiment with my (at that time) Canon powershot S5IS. Followed by my Rebel XSi, my work Olympus E1 (good old boy) and my new work Nikon D7000. (I'm slowly making my way up, i have my sights set on the top ;)

Back to my university project: We were challenged to take both a "low key" and a "high key" image (Low key being very dark, high key very light) with as much detail as possible. I ended up shooting a random assortment of jewelery, shoe-laces, and broken pottery in an attempt to create an interesting composition, and the result isn't worth even digging up. At the time, I had no concept of "making" a picture. Using light, movement, creating composition rather than finding it...

The point: look at my fun high-key image I took in the studio the other day! Simple, boring...yet lovely...

 

Ship Ahoy

Sometimes great ideas abound, and sometimes they don't. When they do, it usually means I have left-overs! Here is an illustration concept that got rejected (by me) today. I was going for an "art deco" feel but also inspired by some more modern trends...anyways, I enjoyed the result and thought I'd share! 

Oooops...

 

I'm not sure if anyone has visited my website lately, but if you do right now, this is what you'll find. (dont bother trying, i promise you, my account is suspended lol). This is the result of changing your email address and failing to change your contact information with your website host providor. I got "invoice unpaid" emails for a few months before they suspended my account, but unfortunately I never checked my old address in order to actually recieve them...oops!! 

So my website is temporarily out of commission while I get it figured out. Its not the end of the world since 

A) I have a job and it wont hurt my employment

B) all my updating is done to this blog, not my website

C) I've never been happy with it anyways, and

D) pretty soon I wont be LMK...and I have some new ideas. So maybe I won't renew it! 

We'll see! So,

Today's Lesson: remember to change your contact information with anyone that matters...lol!  

And today's inspiration: check out Stella & Dot for some fantastic jewelery!