26 Jan, 2009
You know I don’t actually look like this, right?
So my mother came up again today to help out with Ash so I could spend some time sewing and getting things together. Ash basically forgot I even existed until I turned my sewing machine on and then I’d hear, “mama!” from the living room and off he’d come to see what I was doing. So, I was basically in front of the computer for most of the time, going through the FIVE FREAKING HUNDRED pictures I’d taken of myself in the first 30 minutes of his nap earlier in the day. I had neckwarmers to model, and I wanted them to look good.
Seems like a complete waste of time now, but I like photo editing. It’s relaxing. I went through all the photos and chose three of the best for each neckwarmer and then took out some of my freckles and undereye wrinkles and my annoying chicken pox scar between my eyes. It did take 500 pictures for me to get it right, even with the right camera and the sunshine coming in the office window at the right angle.
Here’s the proof. I didn’t even do the eyes very well because I was tired of it by then… but the one on the left is the original (completely untouched except for the image size) and the one on the right is what I’m going to put on Etsy.
