Take a Trip: Our stay at Doe Bay

Ahh, Doe Bay. I miss it already. Franklin made a sweet video with the footage we got on our anniversary trip last month. I think video-editing/film-making is becoming his new favorite hobby, heehee. It's so fun to film+edit, and I'm so happy that we have another thing we both enjoy and can share and work on together. Here's the sweet little video he put together:


Location: Doe Bay Resort & Retreat
Music: One of a Very Few of a Kind - Of Montreal

I love capturing video of our adventures - it's like we get to relive our memories every time we watch 'em. I have a bunch of video I took when we lived in California for a short while, and it's so nostalgically satisfying to be able to watch those bits and pieces from that almost-forgotten part of our past. Our memories are fallible and become skewed over time, but video is typically objective and honest, so you can trust it better than your own noggin sometimes. It reminds me of this quote from the movie Slacker, haha.

Anyway, that's all I have to share today. I've been trying to stick to brooch-making this weekend. A shop-owner in Poulsbo contacted me about selling my cat lady brooches in her store, on consignment, so I'm workin' extra hard to get that ready to go. I've never made so many brooches at once before, it's crazy.

-Elizabeth

Take a Trip: To The Beach

Franklin and I decided that we want to start documenting all our trips and adventures by recording video footage and collecting bits of things from that area (like dirt, leaves, etc). Last week, we went on our first [documented] adventure: We went to the beach.

We scooped up some sand, and found some pretty rocks that caught our eye, and found a twig that had been weathered to the point that it felt all light & papery-weird, and not very twig-like at all. We decided that we wanna keep all our adventure specimens in baby food jars. I think I might paint the lids all different colors, and maybe build a special shelf to keep them on. Right now, this is all we have, but we hope to continue documenting our adventures like this, indefinitely. The only thing I wonder about, is what sort of things we'd collect in a big city sort of adventure. Sidewalk gum? haha. I don't even know. We'll see when we get there, I suppose.

oh, and here is our [hopefully] exciting video:



We tried to give it the feel of an old home video from the 60s or 70s. I added a cheesy film grain effect, and changed the speed, to make it feel more awkward and choppy -  like an old super 8 home movie. The widescreen aspect detracts from that feeling, haha, but it was the best I could do with what I had! Speaking of which, Franklin and I found an old Kodak brownie 8mm movie camera at the thrift store a few weeks ago, and we're so excited to use it! We just need to track down some film first.

-Elizabeth