woven and spun

It’s really quite insulting to be walking through the mall and have someone offer to straighten your hair. There’s a kiosk at our mall that sells hair straighteners, and there’s always someone standing there offering to straighten people’s hair. Said person always asks me. I like my hair the way it is, thank you very much! I’m going to tell her that someday. Instead, I usually get perturbed, say “No thank you,” and keep walking. But someday…

Also, I finally found shoes! Two pair, at that! I like them. I’ve been having the hardest time finding something besides Riley shoes or running shoes. Slipons seem to be the fashion, and they’re really cute, but I need a strap to hold them on my feet. I have high arches, narrow heels, and problems with the tendons in my right foot. All that makes it very hard to find shoes. But I got smart tonight and checked the girls’ sizes at Payless. I wear women’s 7 to 7.5, and I found a girls’ 4.5 is about that size too, and fits perfectly. Most of the girls’ shoes have straps. So I found shoes. It’s such a relief to have that over with.

Seriously, anyone who enjoys shoe shopping must have perfect feet that can wear anything.

I put up some pictures from my new camera! See here if interested. I love my new camera.

I got a camera on ebay tonight! I’m so excited! It’s a Canon 20D, and I really got a great deal on it. It comes with a lens and seven filters. I can’t wait to get it! It’s a better camera than I was hoping to get. It’s discontinued now because Canon upgraded, but it’s in the pro-sumer line, which is a step up from the amateur cameras I was looking at. I found it an hour before the auction ended, and really didn’t expect to get it. I was pretty excited at the thought of getting an SLR at all, but this is better than what I thought I’d get! I’ve been really enjoying learning more about photography and taking photos with my point and shoot. It will be a lot of fun to take it to a whole new level and start learning so much more.

…you can’t take photos outside because your lens keeps fogging up.

I was getting rather worried about my camera, because I couldn’t get it to focus, and everything was so dark, despite the bright sun and the settings I was using. Then I checked the lens and realized the problem. After that, I kept a microfiber cloth out there with me to clean the lens periodically, and that worked much better.

Before
After

My cat locked me out of the house today. I went to get the mail, came back, walked up the front steps, and grabbed the handle of the screen door. The door wouldn’t open. I knocked on the door and waited while one of my sisters came to open the door. When I stepped inside, there sat the cat, blinking at me. She had actually flipped the switch to lock the door. She was sitting on the table beside the door wearing an expression too deep and catlike for me to grasp. But I know she was laughing at me. I think it was payback for the pictures of her bath.

Most definitely not a happy cat. She’s pretty good about it though, and will stand there and let my sister clean her up without much fight. She just gives out an “I will kill you look” while doing so.

One more picture. I dare you.

A little less angry after the bath, but still not happy.

By this point, I hoped to have taken a lot more pictures, posted a bunch here, and kept up with my blog a bit more regularly. But I got that virus the day I got my camera, and caught the flu the day I got over the virus, so I haven’t exactly felt up to all that. However, I think I’m finally getting over all that stuff, so hopefully I’ll have a lot more pictures to share in the coming days, and will have more to write about here, something besides being sick.

I do have one picture I want to share of our cat, Belle. She’s such a cute thing, which makes her a likely candidate for a photo subject.

From the brilliant Daniel Gardner:

I haven’t been posting nearly enough lately. I hope to start posting more though, between pictures and craft projects. Which brings me to…my new camera! I got it for my birthday, and love it. It’s a Canon PowerShot A570. I’ve been playing around with it a lot, trying to figure out the settings. I’m getting over a virus I caught the day I got the camera, so with that, I haven’t been up to taking as many pictures as I hoped to have by now. I have gotten some, however, and I’m having fun figuring things out. I really want to learn more about photography, and this has a lot of manual settings, so it’s good to learn with.

This is my favorite so far:

Also, I made my mom an apron for her birthday, and took pictures as I went along. I plan on posting those soon, with general directions for how I made the apron.