Well this just goes along with how i feel anyway - yes that was a very Eeyore statement, but we all go through rough times. Now would be one of mine.

As some of you may know i was working on a pin-home camera that i made out of clay. There are a series of pictures of I See You - as it was going thru the firing process. As you may have remembered i saved my wheel-thrown pin-hole camera from its first disaster, however when taking it outside to sand the bottom it slipped from my hands & this ti...

Ahhh - Finally - that was alot of work. So this is a finished greenwear pin-hole camera. In case you forgot greenwear is only just what i consider the 1/2 way point.

I thought a final picture was needed to show you what it looks like with the top put on showing off its new button stopper/shutter.

I will be soooooo excited once i get to glaze this and fix up the metal piece that i will insert as my pin-hole. Eeeeeeeh - thats my excited noise.

Now where was i - um, oh yeah i just squeezed a soft bit of clay into the little hole, then i have a stamp that i made and i press that it onto my piece of really soft clay until i get a nice impression.

Well - this one is almost all put together. I suppose i would say this was at the 1/2 way mark. It still must be bisque fired, sanded, then glazed and the final firing.

Also this little pin-hole camera got a name it's called Blinded By Beauty.

As for now this pin-hole camera i'm working on is name less. So this is me & i'm working on finishing up another pinhole camera, it took me a long time to finally decide on how to make the hole for the shutter (besides for the piece of metal i have to cut later) Anyway i was trying to think of different ways to cover up the shutter.

So this was my latest idea - to make a small hole and put sorta like a plug into it. I start off by making the hole, then taking really soft clay and rolling it b...

Yesterday i was sanding a piece of metal (soda pop can) to use as the pinhole for the NEW camera i'm making. Well, thats about as far as i got - because as my other name *Side Track Sally* took over. Who knows how i ended up with material spread out all bout the floor & was cutting into a skirt then, looking at bills, GETTING the crap scared out of me from my bank sending a letter to me that my card had been compromised? WHAT? Thats not cool.... Id be getting a new card w/a new pin - make sur...

Hi, its me in this capture i'm finishing up the pin-hole camera ;D i am placing black foam inside the lid to make a nice and snug fit. The pin-hole camera is glazed in my pinky's pink with a bit of plum squiggles just sitting there to the left her name is Little Wings.

Finally i had all the supplies i needed to get that show on the road. I even made up a small tube pinhole viewing thingy (not sure what to call it) But the reason i made that was so i could test out the size pinhole i would ne...

This is me and i'm loading film into my pinhole camera. Trying to remember to stay still for nearly a 45 seconds feels like such a long time when listening to hear the shutter close.

Before I had a chance to use this camera I had to go to several shops to try and find chemicals that I needed to develop the film and who knew that even though i live in the capitol of VA that the camera shops around here wouldn't have everything i needed... oh like matte paper film, Dev, Fix, SB... i mean really...

Ok Finally you get a peak at the top of the pin-hole camera and a wee bit of the side of the bottom.

This is a picture right after i have taken it out of that little rusty bin with a pair of tongs. Its still very hot - oh and before i forget to tell you - i dropped it! AAAAAAH yes i did, i felt it slipping out of my tong grip so i got super super close to the ground so when it finally slipped out of my grip and went TINK onto the hard pavement i was sooooo hoping it didn't put a crack into i...

Ahhh - Finally - that was alot of work. So this is a finished greenwear pin-hole camera. In case you forgot greenwear is only just what i consider the 1/2 way point.

I thought a final picture was needed to show you what it looks like with the top put on showing off its new button stopper/shutter.

I will be soooooo excited once i get to glaze this and fix up the metal piece that i will insert as my pin-hole. Eeeeeeeh - thats my excited noise.

Now where was i - um, oh yeah i just squeezed a soft bit of clay into the little hole, then i have a stamp that i made and i press that it onto my piece of really soft clay until i get a nice impression.

Well - this one is almost all put together. I suppose i would say this was at the 1/2 way mark. It still must be bisque fired, sanded, then glazed and the final firing.

Also this little pin-hole camera got a name it's called Blinded By Beauty.

As for now this pinhole camera i'm working on is name less. So this is me & i'm working on finishing up another pinhole camera, it took me a long time to finally decide on how to make the hole for the shutter (besides for the piece of metal i have to cut later) Anyway i was trying to think of different ways to cover up the shutter.

So this was my latest idea - to make a small hole and put sorta like a plug into it. I start off by making the hole, then taking really soft clay and rolling it b...

Here you see the last bit of things i needed to finish up my clay pin-hole camera. Lets see theres a cork with a needle in it, rubber cement, black foam, black duct tape, scissors, and of course a sheet of newspaper to spread all this stuff out on.

Once i got into it, doing the last bit really didn't take that long and was not really that hard. I would say the longest part was drilling the hole and sanding the piece of metal from the soda can was the most time consuming.

So now i need some ot...

This little box was made because I had some leftover clay all rolled out and my friend Sara was nearby. I asked her if she wanted to see how i made the boxes with the little pointed feet. She excitedly said yes!

The lid i cut a leaf shape and bent up the ends - i thought it would be most interesting. Not very practical for taking around in a bag - but who would want to hide this cute little camera? Oh an yes, this was made into a pinhole camera.

Its super sunny out today!
Would be good for ...