artsy fartsy

so i'm not exactly artistic. i can't draw or paint, sculpt or make a mosaic to save my life. i can however, create. i shall give you... a list. i can

knit

crochet

cross stitch

sorta sew

take pictures (i think they're artistic anyway)

make jewelry ie bracelets, necklaces, earrings

that, then, is how i am artistic. really, everyone is artistic in some way or another. i only bring it up because i have been doing a lot of the afore mentioned lately. i just finished crocheting a pair of slippers. (which are, incidentally, too big). i hemmed  a pair of pants tonight. a couple of weeks ago  i knit a washcloth. i've been taking scads  of pictures the past couple of weeks. mostly film (although the first roll i wasn't really taking any pictures and the canister of film was exposed to light. heck if i know how that happened-i didn't load the thing). tonight i took some digital pictures though. my sister wanted my to take some of her all dressed up so she could put them on the picture board she's making for their graduation party.

and i just started crocheting a blanket for my bed. not that i need another. i have three fleece blankets from the store and another that i made. the one i'm crocheting i got the idea from a girl in my english class. she said she was making one and i thought it was be a good idea. mine is going to be sorta of a patchwork. get rid of the random bits of yarn that i don't have enough of to do anything with.

also... last week i made ten pairs of earrings and a bracelet. how's that for productive? but don't think i'm some prude who only makes her jewelry... i have plenty that i've paid for as well.

gosh. i make it sound like that's all i do. it's not. i do have a life. a job. friends. school. family. i read. i am not solely creative.

anyway... how do you express yourself artistically?

cameras and art festivals

exciting news on my home front. at least for me. i have a friend who takes pictures with film. they tend to turn out well so i thought i would give it a try. my dad has film camera so i asked him the other day if i could use it. he acquiesed. then he started talking about how one of his friends had given him a film camera when they had switched to a digital. i went and got that camera instead. when i asked him if i could have it (after all, he already has a camera) he said that i could!! it's a minolta x-700. and it came with about a thousand dollars of equipment: a flash and  a zoom lens. exciting!! i've been snappng photos and playing around with the f-stop and light button (?).

today i spent the afternoon walking around downtown. the annual arts festival was this weekend. i haven't been able to go since high school. sadly, i couldn't get anyone to go with me. so my dad came with. i wasn't going to walk around by myself. i was possibly going to meet some friends, but only if we randomly ran in to each other. which we did. hurray.  we watched some dancing, which was pretty awesome. walked through the craft tent, ate chicken on a skewer, listened to various muscians perform. i asked a few people what the thought of the festival because i'm going to write a profile on it for my english class. after we met my friends we walked through the regional art exhibit. there were some pretty interesting pieces in there.

and now it's on to homework. you're probably bored with this post anyway. :)