What do you mash to make it do?

I'm participating in Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch. Thanks to Susan! This is about changing pictures and cameras.

If you are you a fan of the Squidbillies, (heaven help us) you'll recognize the title. I intended to tell Blayne about my new camera. So I headed to our bathroom with the big mirror for a camera self-portrait.

Once there, my plans ran amok.


My new camera is blue, my old is silver-ish. Both are inexpensive point and shoots with wide angle lenses. My two little tripods are way cute, fit in my pocket, and help me avoid the flash.

Now what was this post about? Oh yeah, I'm just winging it. I can put the tripod on the wall if I want to shoot higher:


Oops, now I'm shooting the toilet paper. Blayne would never do that. Trouble is you don't really know what you've got until your pictures are on the computer.

This looked like a good one to me. It's what I see while doing cartwheels in my shower. Time to kill some time with Photoshop Elements.


First a 90 degree rotation. Makes me woozy but you can still see the little little rugs from Anthropology. The rugs rock the room big-time.


There are so many delightful color things happening in here. It's one of Gordon's typical budget color marvels. It starts with a neutral (Classic) 990 "Hampshire Taupe" both bath and bedroom also have one wall of dark HC-68 "Middlebury Brown."

There is a floral, vase, and vine motif, with whites, greens, reds, yellows, and purples pulled through the rooms. Even the can of Comet blends with the greens.

This is a delightful space we get to use every day. Now I've straightened out the photo but lost the rugs and highlighted the TP:

Watch the purple: from the abstract vase, through the rugs, up to the hydrangeas in the vase, to the little hydrangea watercolor at the faucets, to the florals over the bed.

This is inexpensive design rocket science and we get to brush our teeth in here!!! But there is more Photoshopping to do with my crooked picture. I see this image every day.


Now what was this post about? Was it about point and shoot cameras? I don't remember.

This is another little vignette I see every day but the original picture doesn't really cut it.


So I Photoshopped the image in the mirror and Chris Lewis' Starry Night vase, (purchased at the Morningside Elementary School auction eons ago).


That's more like it. The mirror highlights another hydrangea thing and the view though windows. Don't tell Chris that I broke the vase. My steady handed daughter, Katherine, helped me glue it back together.

Thanks,
Terry

P.S. Yet another bit in the flowers-in-a-vase motif: the picture above the throne.


P.P.S. Sometimes you need pictures to help you see your own rooms. This is a Bill Harrison bathroom and it seems kind of modern in it's current state. It certainly lives modern.

Thanks to Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch.

Acres of Atlanta Urns

Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Fridays" blog party; I hope y'all will click here and have look. Today, I'm hooked on urns and particularly AW Pottery's acres of urns. (If you didn't get there here are some pictures from the Castleberry Hill Art Stroll last Friday.

This is one of our front porch concrete urns. Gordon picked it out from House Parts in 1989. It's as heavy a truck and just as pretty.

I came to urns later in my life and these are the urns that did it. Now, I'm a urn-guy and I fully support Tara's rule: "Every pot you own should be so fabulous it can remain empty. Because, of course, you will eventually want your pots empty. "

Been to AW Pottery in Atlanta? It's just east of Peachtree Dekalb Airport. The've got a lot of urns. They rock pots, literally acres of pots. They have a little cart to drive you around if you need it and strong guys with fork lifts. When you visit Chamblee's Antique Row, just head south on Chamble Tucker and turn left on Cumberland Drive across the street from the airport and the CDC.

What about No Mas? (see below) Where do you shop for urns? What about concrete urns?

AW is your source for these fishheads: for fountains, downspouts, for wonderful fishy goodness.

I had to measure and sketch them.

This one was from Pier 1.

No Mas in Castleberry Hill, Atlanta is loaded too. They have more urns from Mexico than you can possibly see in one visit.

This is actually a section of a cast stone column, that looks like an urn to me.

Somebody put a hold on 6 of these.

Thanks to Hooked on Houses' "Hooked on Fridays" blog party.

Lora Groton Rust - Ceramic Designs Studio Show

Ceramic artist Lora Groton Rust has a show this weekend on Zonolite Road, near Emory and Morningside, home of Floataway Cafe. You need to be there:

May 8, 9, & 10, 2009, 10AM-6PM
1198 Zonolite Rd., Atlanta, GA 30306, LoraRust@yahoo.com, 404-805-0979


Salt-Fired 9" Bowl by Lora Groton Rust
My 3 children got this bowl for me for Father's day and my birthday.

This weekend is Victoria Greenhood's spring studio show. Victoria is is a jewelry designer in Atlanta who sells out of Nantucket during the summers. Very clever of Vickie to have a jewelry sail on Mothers' Day weekend.


Amber Shell Plate by Lora Groton Rust

For the family girls Victoria's show is a must see and only a mile away on Zonolite Road. I tag along but this jewelry business it a bit too girly for me. I can only take it for a few minutes at a time. Fortunately, Victoria's new tenant, Lora Groton Rust is showing her ceramics this weekend too.

Lora Gorton Rust's Studio is right next door. Victoria personally escorted me over, explaining that Ms. Rust's ceramics were selling fast. Within 5 minutes Victoria had bought a bowl!

There there I was in Lora Groton Rust's new studio with a collection of amazing ceramics. (Translation for Terry: stuff made out of clay.) I don't know much about how it's done. What I do know is that I love sculpture, clay stuff is sculpture, and ceramic artists have no limits.

Lora's work knocked me out. I ran back to tell my girls and waited patiently until they picked out their jewelry, and Mother's Day jewelry for mom and grandma. It took 3 days.

There is a secret: The backs / bottoms of most of her pieces have beautiful designs too.

Detail - Latte Bowl by Lora Groton Rust

Finally they made to Ms. Rust's show. They loved it as much a I did. As you notice above, they got a bow!

Here is Lora Groton Rust's Flickr portfolio. There is much more at her show. But you'd better get there soon.