Taking advantage of a few days to myself while Rico is up in Zambézia Province working on some business plans, this weekend I am:
- baking the most delicious banana chocolate-chip muffins with soft brown sugar instead of the granulated kind;
- finishing a custom jewelry order for a friend, including a fabulous necklace of chunky Ilha de Moçambique trade beads with assymetrical accents of Hill Tribes silver;
- learning herringbone weave with silver wire;
- designing and making Rico's 30th birthday ring;
- trying to build a light box so I can improve my jewelry photos (the current quality of my photos is a massive pet peeve of mine);
- enjoying the first mugs of hot chocolate this year (granted it's still super warm out, but I'm embracing the slightly cooler weather for all it's worth);
- working on a strategic plan for my jewelry business;
- doing a few observational sketches (my goal is to learn how to do portraits decently);
- catching up with my parents on the phone;
- cuddling two kittens and a big bruiser of a cat;
- having breakfast with a girl I met through the blog who recently moved to Maputo;
- exercising on the treadmill;
- drinking vinho verde;
- sleeping.
2 comments:
Ali, have you seen this DIY light box? http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-to-diy-10-macro-photo-studio.html
Here's a picture I took in the one I made: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elizaevans/2179879904/
My cats destroyed the tissue paper in mine, but while it was intact I was happy with it.
~Liz - Awesome, thank you so much for the link. I'll have to hide mine from the gatos lest it meet the same fate as yours.
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