Archive for November, 2010
I am so excited you guys! I can finally share with you my Spud & Chloë design! Technically speaking this is the second design I have created outside of my indie line, but it is the first one to be published. We got the go ahead to blog/rav our designs and I am sure the Spud & Chloë website will be updated soon with more information as to when it will be available. It’s in the Spring 2011 line!
Go give it some love over on Ravelry!
Continue reading “BeTween Cardigan for Spud & Chloë” »
You might think by now I would be in the throws of writing the book. A year ago if you told me I had gotten a book deal what would I be doing a few weeks later I would say “swatching, and knitting and sketching oh my!” my first deliverable was a LIST! It was very exciting, let me tell you! Okay actually it was exciting because it will effect everything I do for the next 9 months but I just thought it was funny, very anti-climactic. It was still fun though, and I quiet enjoyed writing that list.
Continue reading “Book writing is slow business” »
November 18, 2010 · Filed under Life, Uncategorized |
In this family, it’s all-tinker-bell, all the time. Okay well it’s also a lot of cinderella. Which I actually find to be a really perfect movie for a 3 year old, accept I don’t like telling her the “bad guy” is a step-mom, it’s just seriously messed up how many of the fairly-tales have evil women as the main bad guy. I just call her the “mean lady” and I don’t like telling her the sisters are mean to Cinderalla, because then she would start projecting or imitating that onto her baby sister I think. I’ve found I like to be really careful in what she watches. I’ve given in to a bit of the princess stuff but not too much and the weather has been so lovely most evenings (when it’s not raining) that we love to go outside for a few hours in the afternoon. I’ve tried convincing her to wear something other then one of her costumes, but it’s not worth the war. I was able to get her to put jeans on though with socks and shoes so she wouldn’t be too cold. She was completely blissed-out on life.
Continue reading “Are you a tinker too?” »
November 15, 2010 · Filed under Life, Uncategorized |
A few days ago a good friend of mine and I went to a local tree farm (wonderful place) so that I could take some test/prep shots for some upcoming christmas photos I am taking for a few families. I was wearing some thin cargo pants, and my birkinstocks (and socks because I am lame and don’t care). So we had myself and BG/LG and my friend and her 12 year old son, and twin toddler boys. Walking along I felt something on my leg below the knee. I remember shaking my leg, and whatever it was crept up HIGHER and touched my knee. It felt BIG, it was crawling up my pants. I put LG down away form me and began jumping up and down and screaming. I remember looking at my friends face while I did this. She looked at me in shock, I don’t even think she said anything accept maybe “are you okay”. The THING crept up to my thigh. In the space of about 2 seconds I remember thinking, “I can’t take my pants off in public”, and then as I felt it creep up higher, my thoughts went to “oh heck YES I AM TAKING OFF MY PANTS RIGHT NOW BEFORE THIS THING GETS UP HIGHER!”.
So I did, as quickly and spastically as one can manage while screaming, I took my pants off, and while I did this the 12 year old boy turned around which in the moment was just really hilarious but at the time I remember seeing him turn around but I didn’t really care. So there I am standing in the middle of a dirt path on a tree farm, with 5 kids and my friend starring at me in shock, as I stand in my shirt and underwear. It was one of those moments in life, one of those moments that anytime you begin to remember it, you simple can not stop smiling and laughing.
Continue reading “Those crazy moments” »
November 9, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized |
On my quest to learn more about manual photography this past year, I’ve tried a lot of forums. I even sucked it up and tried some of the paid forums, so I thought I would share my experience with you.
I’ve been on the internet a long time, I started off in mIRC chat rooms way back in the day (1997) and I have to say the phenomenon of paid forums seems to be very much centered around moms. I’ve seen parenting forums that are paid, and breast-feeding forums that are paid, and photography forums that are paid (lots of them mom togs aka Mom Photographers). In all my years as a front end coder, it was always extremely easy to find forums with access to random strangers willing to help a fellow geek out, able to get answers to many very complex questions. Photography, breast-feeding and being a mom? Ya gotta pay for that apparently. I’ve always found it rather disappointing but I was left frustrated with the free photography forums so I decided to test a few out.
Continue reading “Photography Forum Review” »
My name is Brandy Fortune, and I design knit-wear for kids. I love Crème Brulée, Sci-Fi, 70 degree weather and reading a good book in bed. I spend my time knitting, sewing, taking pictures, co-editing the web-zine 
