littlebreezy-maille

I've finally gotten an "adult" job (meaning one that is more than 20 hours a week and uses at least one of my degrees, not one that uses *ahem* other talents) and unfortunately have had a lot less free time lately.  However, chainmaille has become that thing I do after work to cool down, so I've actually been fairly productive and on a stainless steel kick lately.  Pictures hopefully soon to follow, even though we all know how bad I am about actually documenting my projects... :P Instead, I will just have to tide you all over with a picture of my adorable snake instead. :D

Survived grad school, although with mixed results and large swaths of unemployment.  I've been using crafting and other things as an outlet and stress relief.  The result of this is I have a giant pile of stuff I've made, and haven't actually gotten around to photographing.  With a lower quality camera, anything I can do with lighting and setup will help mitigate technical faults... so this week will hopefully be me playing with my cobbled-together light box and any lamps I can get my hands on. Since I used to do a lot more photography and visual arts, it's nice to feel like I'm no longer neglecting that side of my aesthetic interests, and g

I have survived the summer of academic boot camp,and get to start it all over again in one week!  Yay!  Woo-hoo!  I like exclamation points! *ahem* So, I've been doing a lot of chainmaille work as a distraction from the massive amount of things I really should be doing, like sleeping and getting ready for the fall semester.  I also got a new and non-broken camera for my birthday, so I've been able to take pictures of some of it.  One of the things on my to-get list is definitely a small tripod, my hands are perfectly capable of working with 22ga 3/32" rings but shake somethin' fierce whenever I try to take good photos of my work. Speaking