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Weekly Photo Challenge: Intricate

02 Saturday May 2015

Posted by Lula Harp in photo challenge

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intricate, macro, patterns, photos, wordpress weekly photo challenge

I have had quite a week.  I saw Bob Dylan, had babies, found a new favorite watering hole, and got a bottle tree.  While I’ve still not entirely recovered from all this excitement, I knew exactly what photo I would post for this week’s challenge.

It’s always interesting when you go back through all your pictures and find patterns you didn’t entirely realize were there.  I know I like miniatures and macro, but I am finding that I also like intricate patterns where there seem to be done.

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This bucket of crayons from a craft store was the picture I knew I was going to post.

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I always like the sight of a freshly filled jar of new Qtips. One of life’s little pleasures.

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A perfectly aligned store display; rows neat and bright colors are always… SQUIRREL.

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This is one of my favorite pictures. Beautiful and fresh, delicate and intricate.

Hope your Saturday is as beautiful as mine is making out to be.

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo

challenge: “Intricate.”

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workplace win

26 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by Lula Harp in work

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art, craft, dream catcher, fimo beads, photography, photos, rag rug, work, work to live, workplace

I am a drone in an invisible sea of drones.  I’m perfectly happy being invisible and getting my work done and being left alone to do it.  Evidently I do something right because people come to me and ask me how to do xyz or abc.  I find that pretty flattering, but also a little disconcerting, because I’ve tried to not let anyone know I know anything.

What I have made abundantly clear is I have a life on the outside.  Kinda sounds like prison, sorta…  But, my point is I’m the office do-gooder, cheerleader, and work-life balancer.  I’ve encouraged people to work on Rebuilding Together, to walk with us for a cure and most recently I got us an inner-office art show.  It is this, that I am most proud.

It began a year ago when we moved into a new space.  Bare walls begging for art. And they go to posters .com to fill the walls!!  WTF?!  We have however many floors of worker bees and without hesitation I could name half a dozen co-worker artists whose work should grace that space.

We have an annual survey of stupid shit like are there enough beatings, is moral low enough, should the beatings increase, and how can we possibly make your time here suck more?  After we complete the survey, uppers review our “anonymous” answers and we have a meeting to discuss what we are going to do to improve this.  After the posters incident, I said in a meeting, I wanted to see an exhibit of our collective creativity.  It has taken a year, a few “surveys of interest” and a couple of presentations to make this happen.  The little mouse’s voice was finally heard.

While our artist participation wasn’t great in numbers (I’m sure that had nothing to do with the fact we got this together in 2 weeks after a year of feet dragging), it was great in creativity and enthusiasm.  We had someone bring in fimo beads with faces and flowers, a cast bronze bowl, gorgeous photos, lots of drawings, a dream catcher repurposed from a tomato cage (brilliant!), poems, a glass mosaic, and a rag rug made from old mis-matched socks.  I am like a proud parent that we got this off the ground and that an office overflowing with apathy and indifference gave this the slightest nod.

I’ve had several people come by my desk and tell me how good everything is and how happy they are folks brought stuff in.  I guess the invisible shield is coming down.  I suppose it’s ok when I’m known for working to live and not living to work.

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weekly photo challenge: distorted

02 Friday Mar 2012

Posted by Lula Harp in photo challenge, photography

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bus stop, distorted, photos, rain, raindrops, USA flag

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fun photo holders

31 Tuesday Jan 2012

Posted by Lula Harp in crafting, photography

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crafting, hot glue, photo display, photo holder, photos, recycle, repurpose, vase, wire

Modern technology is a blessing and a curse.  Blessing: digital cameras.  Curse: never printing all the awesome pictures we take.  So, what to do with all the photos we never display?  Display them in cool wire holders!

Another fun gift I made for the holidays were twisted wire photo holders kinda like this but better, because I made it!  Here’s a quick and dirty tutorial on how I did it and what I used.

Getting started with all my supplies:  Wire, wire cutters, vases, styrofoam, glue stick (to wrap wire around) and decorative rocks. hot glue gun not pictured.

I used a slightly heavier gauge wire than I’ve seen in some of these kinda things.  Available at your local home mega store.  This whole roll was about $6

So, I ditched the glue stick and found the marker was a better wire wrapping mold.

I put some foam in the vase and inserted my twisted wire.  I applied hot glue then added my decorative rocks.

Add photos and Ta-Dah!

I also used flower pots, small wooden boxes, salt shakers and shot glasses as my holders.  They all turned out super cute.  Just one more fun way to up-cycle.

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