4.18.2011
Recent work: Infant portraits
4.09.2011
Ruby
Who can resist blond hair and blue eyes? Sweet little Ruby turned three in March, and this was my third time photographing her. Favorite moment with Ruby: When her mom put some "make-up" (i.e., lip gloss) on her lips, she licked it all off.
3.30.2011
Spring inspiration: DIY curtains
Hang on for a day, folks - I'm venturing away from plain ol' photographs to interior design for today's post! (That's a joke, really - I would not call this interior designing. Anyway.)
I don't know about you, but once the temperature outside is at least 40 degrees, my windows are open. Now I live in an apartment with standard (read: UGLY) mini blinds. These particular ones are slightly broken, super heavy, get dusty (my least favorite chore - trying to dust mini blinds. Maybe that's why I don't do it...), and have fallen down more than a few times. And did I mention these blinds are ugly?
To remedy the problem, I wanted to hang curtains. However, I just didn't have the inspiration for patterns/colors/kinds/etc. Finally last night my hubby and I bought some curtain rods in faith that we could work something out with our living room curtains. This morning, after a cup (or two) of coffee, I vowed to get those darn curtain rods (and curtains!) up myself after seeing a curtain compilation on Design*Sponge.
The materials:
The process:
1. Hung the curtain rods; in doing so learned I am semi-ambidextrous when using a screwdriver.
2. Since the curtains had no pocket to slip the curtain rod into, I came up with an alternate plan: create curtain hooks with the twine!
3. Use the sewn-in "pleats" in the curtain to determine where curtain would fold.
4. Used a hole puncher to make holes in curtain (this only worked because the fabric is a kind of vinyl material - not sure what kind of material it is, but it's great), punching 8 holes total in each panel. 
5. Cut strips of twine to loop through newly punched holes.
6. Once knotted, I slipped the twine loops around so the knot was hidden behind the curtain.
7. Hung my curtains.
8. Realized I should have used white curtain rods instead of brown. *sigh*
I don't know about you, but once the temperature outside is at least 40 degrees, my windows are open. Now I live in an apartment with standard (read: UGLY) mini blinds. These particular ones are slightly broken, super heavy, get dusty (my least favorite chore - trying to dust mini blinds. Maybe that's why I don't do it...), and have fallen down more than a few times. And did I mention these blinds are ugly?
To remedy the problem, I wanted to hang curtains. However, I just didn't have the inspiration for patterns/colors/kinds/etc. Finally last night my hubby and I bought some curtain rods in faith that we could work something out with our living room curtains. This morning, after a cup (or two) of coffee, I vowed to get those darn curtain rods (and curtains!) up myself after seeing a curtain compilation on Design*Sponge.
The materials:
- 2 vintage curtain panels (I got these free from a friend's mom's garage sale... in 2002. Yes, I have been carrying them around for that long. Sometimes it pays to hoard.)
- 2 curtain rods (from Target)
- 1 paper punch
- 1 spool of jute/twine/whatever it's called
The process:
1. Hung the curtain rods; in doing so learned I am semi-ambidextrous when using a screwdriver.
2. Since the curtains had no pocket to slip the curtain rod into, I came up with an alternate plan: create curtain hooks with the twine!
3. Use the sewn-in "pleats" in the curtain to determine where curtain would fold.
4. Used a hole puncher to make holes in curtain (this only worked because the fabric is a kind of vinyl material - not sure what kind of material it is, but it's great), punching 8 holes total in each panel. 
5. Cut strips of twine to loop through newly punched holes.
6. Once knotted, I slipped the twine loops around so the knot was hidden behind the curtain.
7. Hung my curtains.8. Realized I should have used white curtain rods instead of brown. *sigh*
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