Pentax K1000

So I mentioned the other day in one of my 100 Days Happy posts, that I bought a new camera while out at the flea market. Well it turned out that there was already a roll of film in the camera, and a couple pictures had been taken. So not knowing what kind of film was in the camera, and just with a hope that all the settings were correct, I set out to fill up the film and see how the camera was. And now I got them back, and unfortunately they seem a little under exposed, for the most part as most of the photos are a little grey, but it was a good lesson on making sure your settings are correct, because in this case some things were a little off. But all in all I got some photos I really like and the couple that were on the roll already look really cool, and I wonder where they are from. But first here are some of my shots.

Firstly Daniel and I went around Lauriston Castle, and the next day it was nice out so I took a meandering walk through the Dean War Memorial Graveyard, the Modern Art Gallery Grounds and up past the Castle on my way to Trumps, the photography store.

The ones from Lauriston Castle are not quite as crisp but I still like them anyway.

The scans aren't of the best quality, but they are pretty good, the pictures are better, one day I will work out how to use my scanner better.

And here's where they start to get a bit better, 

And these are the found photos on my camera, she said she never took very good photos, but I think these are brilliant. Hopefully I will remember to try to return her pictures if I make it to the next flea market.

I am off to Roslin tomorrow, so hopefully I get some good pictures again.

100 Happy Days 43-49

So I am a little bit late updating my 100 Days Happy this week, our internet totally died, so we have been trying to get it fixed al week. But yesterday someone came out and found how to fix it, and thus I am back!

I am also on holidays this week, but don't be expecting exotic locations or anything like that, I'm just using up my holiday days before they expire. Hopefully a holiday is on the horizon, as my residency came through and I'm all paid up with my lawyer. But we have lots to do in the house and not to mention the washing machine also decided to kick the bucket. But hopefully soon.

Anyway lets get going, week 7!

1. Home made Green Onion Cakes

2. T-Rex's can do stuff, with assistance

3. Flitch and Mrs Norris for Wizarding Wednesday

4. New Washing Machine

5. Watercolour by the Castle

6. New Camera EEEEE!!!!!

7. Walks with Dixon

I also got a parcel from Camille, Caryn and James, I need to get a photo of it cause my family kicks ass! I really need to remember to get photos... 

100 Days Happy 36-42

So, here we are again, and I've got my photos for another week. I would say nothing so exciting as getting word that my permanent residency has come through happened this week, but I did receive my actual physical card. So that is exciting as well as our passports, the two years of bank statements from Daniel and I and other miscellaneous papers needed for my application! So yay that is exciting, it isn't one of my photos though, not sure it would be a good idea to take a photo of my new visa and put it all out there, but it did indeed happen and so Saturday's happy, is probably a close second.

Anyway without further ado.

 

 

1. Light Exhibit in St Andrews Square

2. Parcels from Canada

3. Cross Stitch progress

4. Big Hair, good hair day

5. Valentines Day, I rememebered!

6. New Tunes, hanging out with pals

7. Mammoth Bus!

All Things Van Gogh

I recently started cross stitching again, and I thought I was doing pretty well so I wanted to challenge myself with something bigger and what better than to fuel my ever growing  love of Van Gogh than to do a cross stitch of one of his paintings. Now when I looked into it, I didn't think it would be as complex, but I am having a brilliant time working it all out and here's the progress over the past week and a wee bit.

You can totally start to see it come together, bu that is just on panel out of four, my plan is to do it a panel at a time, and move forward that way so I don't get too ahead of myself!

Also while we are on the Vincent Van Gogh topic, I stumbled upon a kickstarter for an entirely handpainted animated movie of the story of Vincient Van Gogh as told through his paintings, unfortunately the kickstarter wasn't funded but the good news is they are going to relaunch it! Its well worth checking out what they are doing!

You can find their Facebook here and hopefully a link will pop up for the kickstarter too!

And finally, I got a few surprises in the mail, one from Amber, she had been to Harry Potter; The Exhibition, in Edmonton and passed on some goodies to me! And a Parcel from my mom full of sweets and a Tim Hortons mug, now I will just need to get my hands on some Time Hortons Coffee!

100 Happy Days 29-35 and More

So at the beginning of this week I though that my next seven of the 100 Days Happy would be all about the new cross stitch I was starting, buuuut  I had amazing news on Friday. My application for permanent residency has been approved. So that shifted the whole week completely! Not that the new cross stitch isn't going well haha. But here they are, seven more days.

1. Mailing Birthday cards to Canada

2. New Cross stitch pattern, its gonna be huge!

3. Walking to get more thread, and the castle was being beautiful

4. Making Leak and Potato soup, YUM!

5. Celebratory Thai!

6. Lemsip for the cold

7. Sherlock and the Great Mouse Detective comparisons for the win!

To go into Friday a bit more, Dixon and I went for a meal, and to see the paper lantern terracotta warriors, that were on display too. I popped to see them in the daylight and at night, and it was more impressive to see at night but way harder to capture. But still really cool. And afterward we went to Chang Thai, for, you guessed it, Thai food! The food was so nice as the service was brilliant. I got a type of curry I had never had before, and Dixon had steak, and was feeling manly, and got it spicy, it was really spicy. But everything was so good even if it numbed Dixon's lip! So it was a brilliant day all around.

So this weeks Friday will be a Happy Day that will be hard to top!

We also had Champagne and Gingerbread with Gail and Gordon on Saturday, so that would have probably qualified for Saturdays happy, but I totally forgot to take a photo! I suck.