Sorry for updating a couple of days early I'm just really bored.

First off, last Friday I saw Mamma Mia (the movie, I would be so lucky to see the musical) with Michelle, and it was great Some people it didn't make sense, but it made perfect sense to me. Maybe it just doesn't make sense compared to the original. But the singing was great and I think the actors did a great job

And then I didn't do anything over the weekend, except I set up an account on RedBubble. Mostly for fun and to get feedback from different people, but the site is more geared to selling art. You only have to be 16, which is great for me.

Yesterday I had another pilates class (the fourth one so far), and our instructor started us on some new moves. They were so difficult...I'm going to try to describe the hardest one. We had to position ourselves so that only our head/shoulders and feet were on the ground (our legs were bent), and then we had to raise one leg and then lower it back down. And we did that 30 times for each leg. You should try it. We were all laughing at ourselves because we were in so much pain xD

Now a few things about my most recent picture, "Images":

-Editing: I didn't do much to it, really. All I did was desaturate me and the background, but I left the lips and nails as they were. They really are that colour. xD And I did remove my freckles, but that's just necessary...

-Setting: With my camera, there's not that many options. I mean, it's a point and shoot. But for this one I used the "Soft Snap" setting, which makes the subject stand out more. It wasn't a huge difference, but it definitely helped get rid of some noise on me (did nothing for the background obviously) and add brightness.

-Makeup: I was cleaning my room over the weekend and I was going through my makeup, and I said to Amanda, "Do you think I'm ever going to need red lipstick in the future? How about red lip liner?" And she said no. So I put them in the "to throw out" pile. But, for future reference, you ALWAYS need red lipstick. Even if it's a horrible neon shade only good for photography or being on stage like this one.

-Removing the makeup: DON'T get in the shower with full makeup including neon red lipstick and lipliner. Seriously, don't. It's not going to come off like you think it will, it'll just get all over your face.

-Lack of Tripod: Yeah, I don't have a tripod. So let me tell you about what I did instead. I took my chair from my room, and stacked about 20 books on top. I had like, books I borrowed from friends, dictionaries, Bibles, you name it. And of course Harry Potter. It wasn't all that stable or portable, but it worked.

All in all it was pretty fun. Tedious, but fun. I want to do more of that type of shot, sort of more fashion-y. It's fun to experiment.

Now for features. I will try to actually have them up for 7 whole days this time




EDIT: Also, I'm less than 300 pageviews away from my goal of 5000! That's CLOSE! So if anyone catches it, I'll love you forever And feature some of your work in my journal for a week, since that's about all I can do xD

-Chelsea