Restless weekend

The weather wasn't exactly super nice this weekend and I felt too restless to settle down on any one thing so.....

I started on the next chair...the very very ugly one. This one is going to be super simple. The top will be this old green color. The legs another more turquoise-ish color, and then the crossbars a nice blue. 

I got this far and had to find something else to do.

Debra at She Who Seeks, posted her art space, so while I was organizing my messy space, I thought I'd take a crack at mine.

This is what it looks like where I keep my paints while I am in the middle of a project. Messy. Messy. I do clean it all up and make it tidy at least a few times a week since I dislike clutter.

I have another space where I do a lot of my table top photography. 

The tubs hold bits and pieces I've created for Diorama photos. I use the bits for creating scenes.

I have bits and pieces of cardboard and repurposed 'trash' to make scenes. The original thought was to toss the 'bits' when I was done with them. However I keep using them over and over in different scenarios so I had to find a spot to store them.

The different drawers hold Lego Minifigures along with some other little 'toys' that I like to use for photography.

Toys are my favorite thing to do.

[Everything in the shot below except the little Droid are bits of things that were trash. I painted the bits, used old dried coffee grounds glued to surfaces for texture, and made a lot of whatnots ---> that's okay, I don't even know what the whatnots are!]

Sometimes I attempt still life shots of interesting bits of plants.

I'm not very good at this, but I need to keep practicing to get better at it.

Hopefully I will! These were supposed to be 'flat lay' shots. I didn't like the shots that much but found the textures of the plants and the old wood I placed it on to be interesting.

I worked on making a wire tree. I'm still practicing how to do water droplet macro photography. Right now the outdoor world and forest isn't exactly inspiring.

So I took this wire 'tree' and used a clip to hold it upright. I took a wooden block I'd painted years ago and stuck it behind the 'tree'.

I was going to practice 'water droplet' macro photography. So the tree looked like this.

I used a heavy gauge wire and then had wrapped jewelry wire around it to make surfaces for water to cling to.

The fun part was the macro 1:1 part. This is where focus and what I saw through the lens got interesting. I took a lot of shots, but this one is the one I settled on.

When working with with these small droplets and this close up, everything is manual. 

That lead me down the road to the world of abstract macro photos. The shot below was a red feather I had in my craft stuff. I used an old CD as a backdrop. I did a double exposure sort of and ended up with this.

Does it mean anything? Nope, not really, but the colors are vivid and it was a brain engager. 

My table top looked like a disaster when I tried something else and it didn't work. I put everything away. When I get frustrated, it doesn't help creativity at all. I have to clean up and give it a rest.

I took a walk in the crunchy and icy snow instead and got a breath of fresh air.

When I came in I looked at my desk and thought....I should be answering my Aunt's letter. She is old fashioned, we write hand written letters. 

I took out my Lensbaby lens and ... well....

this is the shot that made my day.

By the way, I was still to restless to sit down and properly write my Aunt back. 

I really should do that. 

Do you have a creative area that you knit, sew, cook, or do something amazing in? I don't do most of those things.