General Creativity

Last month I began work on my first stained glass circles project. I cut circles and wrapped the edges in copper foil. This weekend I soldered the edges. One step closer!

My 2016 Projects list includes “Create 3 difficult stained glass pieces”.  I’ve been wanting to make a stained glass project involving circles for quite a while, so today I cut 9 circles of varying size and color.

After about 40 hours of work, I present you with my FINAL favorite photos project, featuring my favorite pictures from 2011-2015. I deleted over 15,000 digital photos [!!!] from these 5 years. I’ve gotten into the habit lately, particularly since starting this blog, of taking about 20 photos of everything. Over time, that creates a mind-boggling amount of duplicates!

After finishing my photo scanning project, I decided to look through my 15 years of digital photos and post my favorites in 5-year groups. On Thursday I posted my favorites from 2001-2005. Here are my favorites from 2006 through 2010.

I bought my first digital camera in 2001. My recent photo scanning project has gotten me curious to look back through the past 15 years of digital photos. So without further ado, here are my favorite photos from 2001-2005.

Over the past 3 weeks, I’ve scanned > 2,000 photos, > 300 personal documents, and almost 500 pages of a “book” that my high school friend Christyne and I wrote in the late 1980’s. Phew!!! I finished scanning PHOTO ALBUM 4 last week, but got pre-occupied with the other stuff I scanned, so wasn’t ready to publish this post until tonight. Here are my favorite photos from PHOTO ALBUM 4, which covers years 1999-2000.

I scanned PHOTO ALBUM 3 over the weekend, while I was in bed with a nasty cold. Here are my favorite photos from PHOTO ALBUM 3, which covers years 1997-1998 [when I was 26 & 27 years old], including some from my trip to Great Britain in 1998.

I have 2,000 non-digital photos from years 1987-2000, stored in 4 photo albums. I’ve wanted to scan them into the “cloud” for years, and finally started 2 weekends ago. My last post covered my favorites from PHOTO ALBUM 1. This post covers my favorites from PHOTO ALBUM 2 and were all taken during 1995 & 1996, when I was 24 & 25 years old.

Growing up, photography was always a hobby. I didn’t get my first digital camera until 2001. Prior to that, I used a variety of SLRs and point-and-shoots. I have 2,000 non-digital photos from years 1987-2000, stored in 4 photo albums. I finally started scanning them into the “cloud” last weekend. Here are my favorite photos from PHOTO ALBUM 1.

This weekend I created 3 new stars for our living room window. I dressed them up with pre-tinned copper wire to make them look like snowflakes. Pre-tinned means it’s already been dipped in solder so it saves me the headache of trying to lay an even layer of solder over it. It’s very easy to hold the wire designs with needle-nosed pliers and solder them to the stars.