Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Year: 2009

  • Garter Yoke Cardigan

    This is what I have been working on the past month, the Garter Yoke Cardigan from the Winter Knit1 magazine. I made it with some Cotton Ease that I had in the stash. I really like how it turned out. It’s very roomy. I’m used to wearing sweaters with a bit of negative ease but…

  • President Obama on YouTube

    I have yet to jump on the Youtube bandwagon. However, I just bought an iPod Touch and thought I check out the built in YouTube application. I noticed that one of the most watched videos was President Obama’s weekly video address. How freaking awesome is this? Obama is doing a weekly address on YouTube. I…

  • sunset at Seabright with Cold Tone effect

    sunset at Seabright with Cold Tone effect

    There was the most AMAZING sunset at our old beach, Seabright when we were down visiting. I think I took a hundred pictures of it. I downloaded a trial version of Lightroom and used one of it’s pre-packaged effects on this one. I liked the way it turned out. My trial is over and i…

  • S

    S

    Another one taken at Big Sur. I loved the way this cove formed an S.

  • Big Sur Fishermen

    Big Sur Fishermen

    I took a bunch of pictures on our trip that I would like to post on the blog. So I think I will post one a day or one every few days. This was taken on the Saturday before we left to come back to Spokane. We went down to Big Sur to one of…