Daddy loves Savannah…
This is more toy camera film (this time from my Holga), which was damaged as it didn’t wind properly, but I don’t care because I love this photo.
Damaged film is part of the thrill of the toy camera anyway.
I got this crazy little plastic ‘toy camera’ a while back and darn if it’s not the most fun thing ever! It’s called The Golden Half and it takes a 35mm frame of film and splits it in two, essentially giving you a diptych, which can be cool or awful. You get 48 shots from a 24 exposure roll of film.
I took it for a test drive the other week and got my film back and scanned. I am really really excited about some film I sent off a few days ago, but I’ll post that when I get it back.
I love my digital cameras with their super sharp lenses and amazing low light capability, but sometimes its just fun to push a button and not worry about all that technical stuff. It’s been a buuuusy year for me professionally and this camera is just the mental break I need. I mean, it has a plastic lens! It uses film!! I have a feeling I’ll be carrying it around with me often.
While cruising around on Etsy.com several months ago, I found the cutest store that recovered chairs and sofas. All of the pieces were traditional in shape, but the fabric was really modern and fun.
To my surprise and delight, that store also happened to be in Austin, about 3 miles from my house. When I found a cool shaped chair on Craigslist for a steal, I knew where I wanted to have it recovered.
The chair was delivered last week and I LOVE IT!!!!!
Thank You Spruce Austin! (http://www.spruceaustin.com/)
Here are the before photos (pardon the crappy photos – these are from the original listing)
And here it is now!!! I love you chair.
We pulled down all the Halloween boxes last weekend and that includes a box of our previous year’s costumes. Savannah has discovered the fine art of mixing and matching.
She has worn this cow hat almost everywhere since she dug it up. I did manage to convince her to take the Harry Potter glasses off before we went out to dinner the other night, but the cow hat stayed. I suppose it was appropriate that we went to Phil’s aka ‘The Moo’.
Savannah has been singing up a storm lately.
They are generally songs of her own creation and involve cows and pigs. Sometimes they are songs about birthdays, or rescuing someone. We have also been hearing lots of French school songs, which is very adorable.
She’s back in music class at the Lyric Opera this semester and I think she really missed it. I am sad that it’s not ‘Mom and Me’ anymore. She gets to go in all by herself. I suppose this is just the next thing in a long line of ‘lessons I will be waiting outside for’.
I have also been weaning her off of kid music. For a while, I was stupid and let her listen to kid-centered CD’s in the car and then it got to the point where that’s all she wanted to hear and I wanted to kill myself. I’ve got her listening to a lot of indy-pop. She’s also taking a liking to Coldplay’s Vida la Vida album and a the new Black-Eyed Peas album.
Our go to compromise is the classical station, which I have no problem with. You should have heard the excited squeal when one of the songs that has been featured on Little Einsteins came on. “This is the Joey song!!!” Actually, it’s Handel, but that’s a start.
Sing away little superstar!
**Edited to add: Oh she sang me a song tonight about how we would be friends forever. Stay sweet forever little one!**