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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Picture a week

At this time of year many people decide to embark on a Picture a Day (PAD) or Picture a Week (PAW) projects, to kick start productivity or to try to learn a new area of photography. Often those dry up or become chores. I did a picture a week project in 2005, that produced some good images and kept me shooting, but none of the images have anything in common, other than they were all shot by me. There are some good and not so good pictures in there, but I waffled around different genres, which makes it next to impossible to really improve in any one area.
The one thing that I did start doing that year was adding more and more people into my pictures. That's something that is continuing with the portrait projects I've recently started. A PAD or PAW can be great, but with some more focus and keying it in to a particular theme would really help pull it together into something more than just a collection of good shots from a year of shooting. 52 shots on one well defined and narrow theme is a lot. It'll be a challenge to come up with fresh ideas by shot 20 or 30 or 40, but I think the value in hitting those walls is in the new ideas that'll come out of it - not just repeating ideas and images that you've seen elsewhere. The one experience I have had in this was shooting for two years in the Lady Bird Johnson wildflower center. I went there almost every week for two years. I found that after the first year I'd worked out most of the clichéd ideas in my system and actually produced a few original ideas, for me. But it took me many, many visits, shooting hundreds of images before I started seeing shots that weren't just copies of ideas that I'd seen before in other photographs. I found that I had to do those cloned images to get them out of my head, before I could start seeing something new or original for me. If I'd just shot there for a week or two, I'd have never got beyond those superficial copies.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Ways forward

I’d sent my meandering thoughts on my photography and where I’m going to a few people that I’ve corresponded with over the last year. Paul Butzi was kind enough to take the time to respond and let me share his thoughts with the world. I think Paul sums up a lot of the things I've been struggling with pretty succinctly, so I'm just going to put his response here, in the hope that it can help others.

It seems to me that what you're asking, really, is "now that I've built a skill base, and I have a process in place for working on craft, where do I go from here?"

In my mind, things always tend to play out along the same lines photographers seem to build skills up to a certain point, and then either stall (and continue making what I call onesies - good or great photos that are unrelated thematically), or else they seem to gravitate to working in a more extended project format. It seems like the ability to work in a focused way on projects is the skill that seems to vault photographers up over the stall point that I think you're hitting.

In the book "On being a photographer', by Bill Jay & David Hurn, they talk about working on projects being about developing a plan and working to the plan, having a shot list, etc. I'm sure that's a help to commercially oriented photographers, but for the rest of us, it's of little use. When I work on a project, it seems to be quite a bit less cohesive and planned, and the project often takes unexpected turns in ways I hadn't imagined when I started out. I know other photographers who have little rituals that they use, patterns they use to get engaged with the project in the large. It seems to be different for everyone, and so it seems like each of us has to work it out for him/herself.

The essential ingredient seems to be that the project has to be something about which you care. If you don't care a lot, it will just peter out and die.

So I'd suggest that you pick a subject that you care about, and photograph like crazy. Look at the images you get, and make prints, and put them up where you'll see them all the time. Spend some time thinking about them, about what they say and what ideas you get from the ones you've done, and what you'd like to do next. If you have other photographers nearby, get together with them and show them the prints and listen carefully to what they say - not so much about the individual images so much as the whole body of photos. Often the telling comments are the ones that they just let slip in a casual way - those comments are often about the overall direction they see things taking.

There's a weird thing - the best projects seem to evolve a lot and become addictive, and seem to start to embody things beyond just what's being photographed.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Picking a project

If projects are the answer to being more creative, how do you come up with the idea ? I've been occasionally hung up on the thought that the project has to be grandiose and special - something that is going to change the world like Dorothea Lange's FSA series or Ansel Adam's images that launched the National Parks program in the US. I know my projects aren't that important or interesting, so sometimes that stops me even wanting to start. But I don't think I should be comparing myself against those images that have been filtered down through history, so that only the great and good remains. Anyway, I doubt those were the first assignments those fine photographers had, either!
It strikes me that, as is common in many endeavors, that productivity is one of the main keys to being creative. Just get stuck in there and take the pictures. The theme, other than being something that really interests you, isn't so important, as long as it makes you take the pictures. Worrying that pictures I haven't yet taken, aren't good enough, is just another form of procrastination. If I don't take them, I can be certain they won't be good enough, that's for sure.
I've tried to pick a few project themes in the past and I have a couple that I've recently started. One thing I've noticed is that the more open ended and loosely defined the project is, the more trouble I have in making progress with it. That's for a couple of reasons. Firstly, without a clearly defined subject, it is sometimes even hard to know what is part of a project and what isn't. A loosely defined project like pattern or portraits is generic to the point of being meaningless. I've found more tightly defined scopes of subject or theme really helps me focus in. Another key is that the subject should be accessible. So choosing to shoot Tibetan monks might be an appealing idea, but not very accessible to let me shoot over and again. Texan cowboys might be a better idea (unless I lived in Tibet)
I've also found that a technical hook can pull the images together, either by using one camera format, or one lens, or keeping the post processing to a consistent style or colour palette. I have one series that is being shot all on a lensbaby. Another has the same post processing, lens and shooting style. The pictures hang together thematically and visually as a result. I've thought at times that this is a gimmick, but the more I look at other projects by other photographers, I can see this same concept used to link the images. When it doesn't happen, it can be jarring and the project looses cohesion.
The other key for me is to define an end point. While many people devote their lives to shooting a particular theme, returning time and again to the same subject, I think for now I need to know when I'm done. Perhaps more importantly, this lets me gauge where I am along the way and allow me to demonstrate progress to myself. It will also keep me on track - I can produce a shot list and just tick them off as they get done. I think that'll help make me move on. Shorter duration projects are also a part of this. For now, grand 5 year plans will just lead me nowhere. I'll be better off picking a project I can shoot in a weekend, or a month or 6 months and actually finishing it, rather than starting yet another long term, long range theme. Along with this, I've found it helpful to define an end product, so that I know what I'm shooting for. This might be a set of prints, or a pdf, or a book or a website - what the end product is doesn't really matter, but if I know where I'm going, then it can help guide the type of pictures I'm going to take.

The power of projects

I've spent a few weeks now struggling with just what I'm doing with my photography. I've built up a reasonable level of skill with a camera and I think I can produce an interesting or at least competent picture in most cases. There's a whole world of things still to learn but I've got to a point where I can get something decent.
So then the next thing I'm looking for is what to do with this ? I've entered picture of the week contests that throw a new theme at you. These stretch me and let me explore new subject areas. While that's fun and can produce good one-off images, I always feel the results are a bit superficial and clichéd. The constant changing of focus never lets me really get in to a subject or explore it in a lot of detail. That's been fun for several years and has left me with a lot of good images, but nothing much cohesive or that holds a viewer's interest. They don't have much to say or hold them together.
I sent my three answers to a few photographers who I admire and the response so far has been pretty consistent. Hopefully, with their permission, I'll post some of those replies, but the constant theme was the idea of projects as the way forward. Pick a theme that interests you, any theme, and really start exploring it. Shoot a lot on the same subject, look at the results, go and shoot it again. Follow your passions - find the things that interest you and go shoot them.
I've tried picking themes and shooting to them before, but always suffered from the idea that the results wouldn't be good enough or significant enough. But I think I just need to get over that and go shoot some projects. But I also need to finish them. Set an end point, produce something that says that this project is done so I can start the next one. Otherwise, I'll keep starting and never finishing or learning from them. That end point can change for each set, but something concrete, a set of prints, a book, a web site. Just something that wraps it up. Not all projects have to have an end point, but I think for me I just need to start finishing things.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Three little answers

Answers to the three little questions, posed earlier this week. What do you want to do with photography ?

I always struggle with questions like this - perhaps more fundamentally I can start by saying why I do photography at all. I like that it makes me see things that many people overlook. It slows me down, makes time pass at a different speed and engages me with the place I'm in, not what I'm doing next week or what I've done in the past. It gives me the permission to stop, look around and relax. I get a huge thrill when the images appear, as good as or even better than I saw or thought I saw at the time of capture. I get a kick out of the interplay of light and colour or really capturing something that shows the essence of the person I'm photographing or the place I'm in. I want to shoot travel pictures that make you want to go there, or feel like you already have. I want to shoot portraits that make you already know this person you've never met. So I want to communicate with the viewer, how I feel things.
I feel though that I jump around between genres of photography, doing a bit of landscape photography, a bit of travel, cover a variety of sports, some natural light portraits, learn how to use lights, clichéd macros of flowers, some wedding images. Along the way I might produce the occasional stand out image, but no real cohesive set of images or anything that might be considered to have a style or recognisable part of me in them. I'm youngish at 34 and younger still as a photographer, having only picked up a camera in 2001, but I feel at the moment that I'm not focused enough to do anything significant. Maybe that is fine, but I'm starting to feel that I'd like to be able to point to a set or sets of images and see some sort of whole, rather than a series of disconnected greatest hits. My wife says I'm great at starting things but often get bored and move onto something else before finishing. Maybe that's all I need to do. Finish some things. Significant is a very lofty goal, maybe just finished is better.
What are your goals ?
This seems to be the big gaping hole in my answers right now. Not sure. I suppose when I work that out, I'll have more of a direction to go in. What I'm missing is how to get from where I am to even working out a set of goals, never mind working out how to achieve them. I think I'd like to do some cohesive images as part of a project or series, but I'm struggling to ever find a series or concept that I'd like to shoot. I'm technically inclined and I think reasonably accomplished in the craft side of photography but struggling to find my way towards some sort of artistic ideas that are my own, rather than repetition of images I see in other people's work. That mirrors my education and upbringing, that was almost entirely technically focused too. I'm concerned that I'll find I have nothing to say. But I still think I'd like to find out.
Why do you enter contests ?
As a way to share my images. Also, partly for validation but mainly for the increased audience that winning can bring. I've won a few photographic contests and the feedback I get from the viewers is very helpful. I doubt I'd have gotten so many people to look at my images, without winning. So I enter contests for the thrill I get from winning and the recognition it provides. Also, in a less secure way, it provides approval from my peers on what I'm doing - the validation that I can take a good photo. I'm not entirely sure why I care for that validation, but it always seems to be there. Friends & family are always so gushing with praise, but I tend to not value that opinion as highly as I do that of more accomplished photographers - who should at least have a wider and more refined view of what good actually means.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Right under your nose

Some times the best photographic opportunities are right under your nose. Case in point, I was out with a group of photographers and we were all feeling a bit underwhelmed by the street corner in Austin we were standing on. Then I noticed the black and white patterned stone pavement we were standing on. This was the first time we'd all got together to shoot, so it was time for a group shot. Getting to a different angle is a great way to shoot groups and this black and white background was the perfect backdrop.
I quickly nipped into the parking garage above us and got to a good vantage point. Luckily I managed to avoid the security and only did a little bit of trespassing. A wee bit of directing and shuffling around got the group together and that's the shot above. Suddenly it went from what would have been a line of heads shot at the same level, to something a bit more dynamic with a much simplified background - just by noticing what was right under our noses. Because everyone is looking up, there is more light in their faces and all the attention is right there too. We were shaded by the building across the street which helped keep the lighting simple.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Three little questions

1. What do you want to do with photography? 2. What are your goals? 3. Why do you enter contests ? I was asked these three questions yesterday. I'm mostly stumped for a good answer or one that I'm happy with. I'll try to answer them over the next week.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

This weekend I met up with a group of local photographers to shoot in the downtown Austin area. Michelle had asked me to shoot some portraits of her and so I was on the look-out for a good background. We all met up in the Hickory Street Bar & Grill on Congress Avenue. I'd parked up the hill and walked down to the bar, passed the south facing wall. They'd just painted the wall on the side of the place in a bright orange/yellow. I met Michelle a few minutes later, saw her red hair, and straight away I had the perfect co-ordinated colour background for her portrait. That was easy!
I've often shot with more complimentary colours but I actually like the similar wall tones with her hair - I think it makes for a bright but still not too zany colour palette. We'd all met around noon and the wall was in full sunlight, as it faces the South. Luckily enough we were back at that bar a few hours later after shooting various back alleyways and parking garages. The sun was behind a building and the wall was in bright, open shade. Perfect. We took about 5 minutes to shoot the portrait, setup, walk through a few poses and done. The other shot was taken in the capitol grounds, shooting with all the lights and twilight sky as a background. As I got lower to the ground I started noticing the traffic lights reflecting off the pavement and so I just got lower to play with that and combined in the green traffic light as a hair accent. The camera is turned backwards to give me something to focus on - another good tip for night shooting - focus on the bright lights at the distance you want to shoot at - give your camera a chance to lock on. All in all, it was a fun day to go out and shoot with a bunch of photographers who are willing to put up with the more silly suggestions. Most non-photographers would be bored, rolling their eyes and generally wanting to just move on to the next thing, rather than taking just one more shot.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Cornered light

I'm sure I'll work out how to smile for the camera eventually. But for now, here I am looking dour as usual. Comes of taking pictures by yourself in a silent room! Spent an hour stuck in a corner, trying to work out how to light with just one strobe. The flash is on the camera right, bounced into a silvered umbrella at about 45 degrees to me. The camera left wall is being used for fill and the wall behind me is providing the backdrop.
Camera was set on f5.6 at 1/250s (the max sync speed for the strobe) . Flash is being triggered by a wireless remote (about $20 on ebay) Playing around with the distance between me, the strobe, the side wall and the background changes the relative light levels. Move the camera, flash and me forward, the background gets darker. Move it all towards the wall, the background gets brighter. Move everything away from the side wall, the lighting ratio on the face goes up. Move it all closer to the wall, the lighting ratio evens out. Change the distance of me to the strobe changes the intensity of the main light on my face. One light, so many variables to play with - and that's without changing the angle of the light to me, messing with the camera aperture or starting to mix in ambient light with a slower shutter speed.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Lighting on the cheap

I've been working on portraits with available light for about a year now. I've been trying to learn to see the quality of the light, to be able to recognise where the good light is, even in the bad locations. But all of this has been with the light as it is found, not taking control and setting up lighting. I'm slowly starting to build up a set of strobes so that I can expand my ability to create interesting lighting. This watch shot, while not a portrait, is helping me learn how to light better. I've built a simple macro studio, with all the usual features you'd find in a larger studio environment. But this cost me a few dollars. I can play with the lighting and hopefully expand my repertoire for portraits as well as product photography, while working on a small, quickly adjustable scale. The light on the watch is from two small strobes, on the left and right. They are fired through relatively large diffusion panels I constructed from tracing paper and some poster board. I also added in some white poster board above the set to provide some bounced fill light. The background is a sheet of neon orange posterboard to give some colour contrast with the blue & yellow watch. Before I added the various pieces of lighting modification, this is how it looked. Hard specular reflections from the overhead lighting and no light in the recessed LCD face, gives a flat, ugly appearance. The reflections in the glass also don't add to the overall appearance and the hard shadow under the watch isn't very appealing. The coloured background might put it a little beyond most of the ebay shots out there, but this isn't exactly good lighting or a good product shot. But with just a bit of effort and experimentation I got to the shot above, with bright, diffuse highlights and controlled reflections. As I continue to play with this small macro setup I'm learning more about how I can adjust and modify light and new ways to control and light objects. I hope this is going to translate into portraits I'll take in the future and give me an overall better idea on how to get the shot I want, no matter what the light happens to be like on that day.


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Amputation Spree - Messiah [Track] (2011, Self-released)

The more brutal side of death metal first came to the fore with bands like Suffocation and Dying Fetus. Since then many bands have experimented with the genre and with Devourment and arguably Mortician came "slamming brutal death metal", which is essentially brutal death metal with a focus on the moshing parts rather than the blasting parts. Slam has been getting a lot of attention during these last years, both negative and possitive. There are several slam bands that borderline deathcore, which is notoriously hated by many metalheads, but a great number of brutal death metal bands can also be hard to distinguish from slamming bands.

The one-man project Amputation Spree from North Carolina in the US to me is one such band. While featuring no -core elements, the new single "Messiah" definitely has some dominant slam parts. The pathologically themed band excels in relentlesly chugging ultra brutal death metal with deep guttural vocals and slamming parts. All of these elements put together make for some pretty good low-tempo brutal death metal, but I'd have to say that if you're not into brutal death metal the song Messiah isn't going to change your mind.

The otherwise good track has a tendency to boomy guitar sound, inaudible drums and some repetitiveness. If you're acquainted with Amputation Spree's earlier material - like Addicted to Beheading Children - you won't be surprised, for Messiah follows in the same magnificently brutal style. If Messiah is representative of the upcoming 3-song EP I won't be disappointed. 6/10 guitars.

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Aum - Of Pestilence... [EP] (2012, Le Crépuscule du Soir Productions)

Black metal from China? It's from Hong Kong, but yes. Aum consists of three members, one of which is also in the death/thrash band Aortic Regurgitation. The band has only existed since 2010 and had their first EP out the end of 2012. 2 years seems like a lot to write 6 songs, but the overall quality of these tracks is by far good enough to justify it.

It's obvious the band has its influence-wise roots in the Scandinavian scene of the 90's, but then again Aum have a certain touch of melody that makes the EP entirely their own. The riffs are like a mix of Immortal and Satyricon, the vocals a mix of Tom Warrior and Abbath, and the fast drumming is just short of reaching critical mass and causing a meltdown. This is tempo-focussed black metal with a thing for thrashy hooks and ruthless riffing, and it works. "Of Pestilence" may not be a titan of modern black metal, but Aum take all the best elements from various bands and put them together for some straight up good black metal.

To pinpoint the main weakness of the EP it is the fact that they build a lot of momentum within each song but don't utilize it properly. The songs fit together, but not sufficiently so to create a good flow between the tracks. Another thing is that some of the tracks have varying quality which makes me think the EP has been recorded during different sessions, or maybe even at different studios or handled by different personel. While this practice is not entirely uncommon it does give the EP a too diverse feel. They're small complaints in the grand scheme of things, but it does subtract from the overall score. 8/10 guitars.

1. Temple
2. Place of the Skull
3. Sheath to All Swords
4. The Forge of Zurvan
5. The Thawing of Pestilence
6. Aum (Acolytes to Eldritch Dimensions)

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Brunch is Dumb

Thanks to everyone who said nice things to me after my crappy race recap post. Even though Tim said every single one of those things ("It's just one race! You'll be back in no time!" etc.) somehow from online strangers it made me feel better. So thanks, guys.

After a weekend of laziness, reading and candy I figured I should try to deal with the intestinal drama and the leg pain business instead of ignoring it and then complaining again in a month. Right now I'm in day three of working out the very second I wake up. I don't know about you, but typically I need food RIGHT AWAY after waking. The people who do brunch are dumb and 11am meetup times mean I need at least two snacks first. But my thinking is that if there is nothing in my stomach, I can't be sick. GENIUS.

Slightly less genius is the fact that if there is nothing in my stomach, working out feels roughly one billion gazillion times harder than normal. That's just a rough estimate, I'll get…

Sorry For Being a Bummer - Here's Some Free Makeup!

I feel a little bad for burdening everyone with my pity party yesterday. While writing the post I basically made my mind up that I would never run again. I decided I would start lifting weights, maybe cycle, become a yogi...something like that.

Last night, hubby looks over my shoulder and asks what I'm looking at. I swear, I tried to block the screen like I found nude Ryan Gosling photos. What was on the screen? A race calendar. Four hours after crying about running I was looking up new races. It's a sick addiction, people. Sick.

I did refrain from running today and got in an upper body and core workout instead, along with 30 minutes of spinning. I'll take it, but I already miss running. Ugh.

To make up for being a downer I figured I would hand out some free makeup to your guys. Remember the box I mentioned a while back that I got from Vocalpoint?

Well they grossly overestimated how many friends I have. Typical. It's fine though, I have you guys to give stuff away to…

Feel Free to Skip This Post

No, really. Nothing to see here. Come back tomorrow and I will post a picture of some yummy food, or have a motivating life lesson or something. Promise. Today? I've got misery. And misery loves company, so be prepared.

Yesterday morning I woke up SO READY for my half marathon. Honestly, I wish I could tell you I was exhausted, or sick or something - I wasn't. I felt positive and excited. Ate breakfast. Got dressed. No internal bleeding. Just a good day, you know?

Drove up to Chattanooga - more good vibes. Packet pick up was great, thought everything was awesome and sparkly and fun. Goofy pictures were taken to commemorate what was sure to be an awesome race.

I'm not even kidding about how giddy I was. You'd think I was running this race with Santa Claus or something. Apparently even the chip timer on my shoe was exciting enough to take a picture of:

The first two miles of the race were pretty much on target - 8:53 at first and then a 9:10 because I told myself to slow…

T Minus 12 Hours!

The Garmin is charging.
The clothes are picked out.

I avoided fiber like the plague all day.
I carbo loaded with a sushi dinner.

I tapered this week (with the exception of 18 miles on Monday).
I'm foam rolling. Hydrating. Putting on compression socks.

Even my cat is encouraging me to run tomorrow. Can't let the kitty down, can I?

I plan on running each step of the half marathon tomorrow planning my post-run food. Does anyone else do that? Really keeps me going on long runs.

What do you dream about for post-race food?
I always think it will be something sweet but I typically crave something salty like Pizza or chips.

Come See How Good I Look! (Thanks Photoshop)

There is an issue that has been on my mind quite a lot lately - editing photos. I've mentioned it before in passing, and I wasn't surprised to hear that most of you are on the same page.

If I say that I eat three bagels for breakfast each day and DON'T - people would be up in arms.
If I say that I run 8 miles each day and DON'T - ditto for the grumpy mcgrumpersons.
So if I say through photos I look a certain way but DON'T in real life - is that ok?

I'm curious where you draw the line on this one. Is it cool to delete stray pimples in an otherwise profile worthy pic? Wrinkles? Love handles in that bikini shot? Everyone has seen those photos that have edited beyond belief (usually making women skinnier, tanner and um, a little more "endowed"). It's nothing new to see these pictures, which have been recycled on websites:

But what about when those people in the crazy edited photos are bloggers? Case in point:

On the left: normal photo. On the right: …

Is a PR Possible?

Last October I set out to run the Dalton Half Marathon and had one goal in mind - to break 2 hours. I felt it could happen, I had put in the work and even tapered that week. There was only one hiccup on race day, but it turns out that vomiting in the bushes at mile 6 is a pretty big hiccup. Final gun time: 2:01:22. My chip time disappeared somewhere but it was a small race so I don't imagine it was more than 20 or 30 seconds less, max.

That was the sole picture of me post race. If you look closely, you can even see a little of the vomit that made it onto my white shirt (bad call on that one). I wish I was joking. I was not a happy camper after that race. SO FREAKING CLOSE and yet so freaking far away from breaking 2 hours. A few weeks later I ran my first marathon, got injured and started all over again.

This Saturday I'm giving it another try at the Scenic City Half Marathon in Chattanooga. Part of the reason I ran my long run in Chattanooga on Monday was to run on part of t…

Behind the Scenes of a Blog

I get a few emails each week from readers asking personal questions about weight, fitness or food that I am happy to answer because it gives me a chance to share something with a new friend, reader or fellow blogger. I also get a few emails that are essentially about blogging as a whole. While I appreciate that people consider me a resource on the subject, it's kind of....well, boring as dirt to anyone who isn't concerned with changing their blog around, getting paid advertisements or expanding their "brand."

To deal with some of these questions, I decided to create a tab along the top of the blog called "Behind the Scenes." It will not be a cool way for me to dump leftover photos and earn more page clicks, sadly. I know you were all hoping for blurry camera phone pictures, right? Don't worry, I have plenty of those to go around.

Instead, it will be a mini journal where I update every few days when something blog-related happens that someone might be in…

18 Miles, Canolis and Mean Old Ladies

The last couple of months I have been doing about two runs each week with my friend Julie, who is training for her first marathon this April. Although it's nice to have someone to run with, it also means that I have to coordinate my schedule with someone else. Today was our long run, but technically it was for last week...if that makes any sense. It's entirely possible that I'm not even typing coherent thoughts since I just ran 18 miles, so bear with me.

Anyway, we decided that a change of scenery would be nice and headed up to Chattanooga to run on the Riverfront. It was supposed to be 8 miles out and 8 mile back, with a little extra to make up the mileage. But did it work out like that? No, it did not. Of course not. I got lost and dealt with a few too many bridges and steps for my liking, but the best part is that now I'm done and I don't have to run anymore. Score. Time to drink copious amounts of hot chocolate and refuse to leave the couch.

I parked in Whole …

Sexy Jeans and a Photo Shoot

In the last few years I have become an awesome, speedy and efficient shopper. Not in the grocery store, (where I pick up new items, read labels and just drool in general) but when buying clothing. I know what I want before I get there, pick up my size, try it on - done. No browsing or window shopping for me - I can stay home and not spend money just fine, thanks.

There is one item, however, that I cannot buy without extensive research, multiple trips to the dressing room and thorough analysis. Sexy jeans, you are my Everest.

When I was 17 I worked in England for the summer and lived with my grandparents. My grandmother, being the nice lady that she is, offered to buy me a pair of new jeans. Eight hours and goodness knows how many stores later, she declared that she would never ever take me jeans shopping again. And she hasn't. Maybe I'm just picky, or maybe it's because my butt decided to be four sizes larger than my waist, but I hate shopping for jeans.

My absolute favori…

Do I Eat Enough? Tricks Bloggers Use...

Every once in a while I'll get a comment or email from someone who questions one of two things:

a) Whether I eat enough
b) Why I feature so much unhealthy food on my blog when"clearly" I don't eat it.

I guess I find it kind of comical because those are basically opposite ends of the spectrum, right? I mean, it is possible for me to be eating too much unhealthy junk and at the same time not be eating enough?

The jury is going to have to stay out on what I eat or don't eat and whether it's enough. The bottom line is that I don't want to talk about every single thing I eat and don't plan to start anytime soon.

I don't want to make this some lengthy defensive diatribe. What I DO want to say is that no blogger is telling the full story. Honestly. Even those ones who post three times a day and send out 64 tweets an hour! So here are some things to keep in mind:

-Dinners aren't always what they appear. That big plate you see in the photo? That por…

I'm Re-Lay Excited to Head to Colorado!

If I started a blog post without a horrific pun, how would you know it was mine? I apologize for the "re-lay" though- even that's a stretch for me. So what am I getting so excited about in Colorado? This summer's Ragnar Relay! I will be running 187 miles this July - well, kind of. I will be running a little portion of the total distance, which is divided into 36 legs run by 12 people.

The team is made up of 12 bloggers, which is going to be a lot of fun. Plus, I won't feel embarrassed when I want to bust out the camera every 6 minutes to document super important stuff. Like snacks. So who have I tricked into running with me? The following ladies:

Van 1:
1- Me! No pressure being the first runner, geez!
2- Danielle @ Happy, Healthy and Strong
3- Lisa @ Because I Can
4- Jill H. @ Run for the Hills
5-Lauren @ Duck on the Run
6-Amanda @ Run to the Finish

Van 2:
7- Julia @ Pain, Pride and Perseverance
8- Rachelle @ Running for Trevor
9-Ashley U. @ Ashley and Diz
10- Ashl…

Sweet, Spicy and Vain - The Perfect Valentine

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Unless you already ate all the candy your mom gave you and now you have to go home and feel sick while watching the Notebook for the 17th time and imagining how awesome it is going to be when Ryan Gosling FINALLY wakes up and realizes you're the one.

No? Yeah, that never happened to me either. Moving on...

Sweet: The mass amounts of candy consumed around the world makes me happy today. Not least because of what we have at home. Ali sent me a package that I got in the mail last night and while I pretended to have a secret admirer in front of hubby I finally broke down and admitted the new man in my life was a toddler in Canada. I'm pretty sure Tim is cool with it now.

Spicy: A few people asked me for the recipe for the Thai chicken satays I made for Tim's birthday so I wanted to share the recipe on here. I'll be honest here and say that while the recipe itself is EASY, the ingredients aren't necessarily typical pantry items for ev…

Weekly Recap and a Little Sneak Peek

I think you all know the drill by now. I pretend for a couple of paragraphs that my blog is a workout diary, ooze false modesty but demand compliments on my fitness. You may now begin.

Monday: Ran 5K, walked 1.5 Miles
Tuesday: Ran 8 Miles
Wednesday: Ran 5 Miles, walked 2 miles
Thursday: Ran 5 Miles
Friday: Rest Day
Saturday: Ran 14 Miles
Sunday: Ran 2.5 Miles, 15 minutes of abs/upper body

Total Mileage: 37.6 miles of running.

See that last ditch frantic effort on Sunday night to do some speedwork and strength training? It would be super cool if next week I could do that midweek. For three times as long. And repeat a few times on other days. Yeesh. Cross training is tough.

In other news, I ran 10 miles today. My running partner of late was away for a week and needed a medium length run in the schedule and I figured it was a good chance to run outside before we get some snow! I know most of you are like "yawn, snow" but this will be the first of it we really see this year so I'm …

Happy Birthday (and a Hangover)!

Guess who is super handsome and is celebrating a birthday today?
This guy! Tim and I have both had an amazing weekend celebrating. Yesterday I got my 14 mile run in during the morning in honor of Sherry Arnold, which I was happy to do. As I read more posts from people who participated I feel part of something big and I am so proud to be one in a large group that honored the life of Sherry.

Post-run it was time to get ready to celebrate something else - my wonderful husband's birthday. We had a few friends over for a fun dinner, plenty of drinks and some impromptu guitar playing and singing. My kind of night. I made a bunch of foods with no discernible theme other than they are Tim's favorites:

I made bruschetta, a big salad, Thai chicken satay with a spicy peanut sauce, veggies and pita with hummus and a massive plate of sushi. (Homemade brownies and cookies and cream ice-cream for dessert!) I'm not going to lie - I wasn't sure if the food would be well received by every…

Baby Got Backne!

Oh, you're going to be humming Sir Mix-A-Lot for the rest of the day? My bad. The awful pun in the title was just too good to pass up.

I've always been pretty lucky acne-wise. Sure, I had pimples as a teenager that made me think the world was like, totally, like, going to end. (High school with a zit? No thanks. Cough, cough. I'm sick. Staying home.) But overall, my skin was probably pretty average. So could someone please explain why my chest and back are breaking out at the ripe old age of 24? I'd really appreciate that.

Seriously, this is an important issue for several reasons. Most importantly, because in order for me to show off the girls tops need to be low. Like, LOW. There's no under the chin cleavage going on over here. By the time I get low enough to the hint of chest that reminds people I'm a woman, there's acne. I don't need any more reasons to be self conscious of my chest, honestly.

I am going to say that this has definitely gotten worse …

I'm Feeling a Little Un-American

I've mentioned before that even though I'm a resident of the great 'ole state of Georgia, I'm only half American. That's right, half of my blood is tainted with tea and crumpets and those weird hats that the British guard guys wear:

While finding that photo I learned that each one of those hats is made from the fur of an entire Canadian black bear. I wouldn't throw red paint on a good looking leather jacket or anything, but bear hats are where I draw the line. Weird.

So despite the fact that I drink tea with my pinky finger in the air and occasionally pronounce "tomato" oddly, I generally consider myself to be American. Over half of my life has been spent in the states (Hawaii, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and now Georgia), I have an American passport, I talk a lot and I own a fanny pack. Ergo, I am American.

So what's making me question my authenticity as a citizen? The date of our British Airways flight booked for this summer:

I know. Boo-hoo, someone…

Cabin Fever and My Husband's Modeling Debut. For Hay.

There are plenty of great things about working from home. Yes, I get to start work whenever I want to. I don't have to commute each day. I can work in my pajamas and no one can complain. (Ok - hubby can complain but I ignore him) There are a few downsides though, too:

-Sick/vacation days are also known as a "days you don't earn money". So they happen infrequently, needless to say.

-It's super fun when people assume that "work from home" means my blog. Um, yeah right. I wish. As soon as Foodbuzz decides to pay me fulltime I'd be all over it, but until then? I'll keep my job, thanks. Samples of bars aren't going to keep me fed.

-I go stir crazy. Imagine waking up and running on the treadmill at home. Then working from home. Then making dinner at home. And then blogging at home. At home. At home. At home. Sometimes I go like three days and realize I haven't left the house. Seriously? That is not ok.

If I get a little crazy and realize that…


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Vanilla Buttermilk Cuppiecakes

As the city gets ready to dye the Chicago River green, I colored my buttercream frosting pastel green in preparation for St. Patrick's Day.  Enjoy this simple and easy recipe for vanilla buttermilk cupcakes from Amy's Goodies' blog.
3 cups cake flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3 sticks butter, room temperature
2 1/3 cup sugar
3 large egg whites
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups buttermilk, room temperature

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Combine all the dry ingredients into a large bowl and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl add the butter and the sugar. Mix until light and fluffy.
  4. Add the egg whites and vanilla and beat on medium speed for about 1 minute.
  5. Add about 1/3 of the flour mixture to the batter and beat until incorporated.
  6. Add about half of the buttermilk and continue to beat on medium speed until well mixed.
  7. Continue adding dry and wet ingredients, scraping the bowl and beating until incorporated after each addition. End with the dry ingredients.
  8. The batter will be thick and glossy.
  9. Line muffin tin with papers and bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool.
  10. Frost with vanilla buttercream frosting.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting [Taken from Joy of Baking's blog]
2 cups (230 grams) confectioners sugar (icing or powdered sugar), sifted
1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk or light cream
Assorted food colors (if desired)

In an electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, cream the butter until smooth and well blended. Add the vanilla extract. With the mixer on low speed, gradually beat in the sugar. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Add the milk and beat on high speed until frosting is light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes). Add a little more milk or sugar, if needed. Tint the frosting with desired food color.
Measure dry ingredients into sifter and sift into bowl.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Separate egg whites into a bowl.
Having a garbage bowl comes in really handy when separating egg whites.
Add egg whites to mixture.
Remember to occasionally scrap down the sides of the mixing bowl.
Add two cups of the flour mixture.

Then add 1/2 cup of the 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk.  Continue to alternate flour and buttermilk by adding two cups of flour mixture and 1/2 cup of buttermilk.

Dough should look thick and glossy.

Begin filling lined cupcake pans.  I prefer using an ice cream scoop for this recipe since the batter is thick.
The cake batter for this recipe tastes delish.
Bake in a 350 degree oven for 18-20 minutes.
In a new bowl, cream butter until light yellow and fluffy.
Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk.
Add food coloring.  Always begin with a small amount. You can always add more later if you want a more vibrant color.
I use a concentrated food paste color from Wilton.  You can also use food coloring.
Cream frosting on medium to high speed for 2 minutes.
Ta daa!  Festive St. Patrick's Day frosting!
Sprinkle with green sprinkles.

Enjoy your St. Patty's Day everyone.  Cheers.

Happy Baking.

  1. yummyyy! i just wanted to note how impressed i am at your perfectly cracked egg shell. i literally paused on that pic for a good minute admiring it. do you crack your eggs with one hand too? i usually have to dig out cracked egg shell pieces from the mixing bowl.

    save one of each baked goods and give them to me this friday. thanks!
    happy baking~

  2. Haha no I use two hands but just posed for the picture. :) But for a tip: I always gently hit the egg against a hard surface to create a dent in the shell. Then I use that dent to crack open the eggshell. Hope this helps!

  3. yummmm!! this is my new fav color for spring btw. hehehe.. minty green. looks good on clothes AND cupcakes. double score!


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What a big boy!

Little (big) Mr. Carter got his first tooth yesterday! (Have you ever tried to photograph a baby's tooth? Impossible.) Just another milestone to show us that our little (big) baby boy won't be so little (big) or baby-ish for long.
Since he won't show off his new tooth, he will show off his beautiful blue eyes

What a handsome little man.

(Maybe a LITTLE less tired looking?)

Beth said...

you look beautiful!I never noticed that you look tired while we were there.

emgraves said...

Thanks! I usually don't think I do either, but most days someone says "Gee, you look tired!". Well, duh! But Carter is starting to sleep a little more, so it is nice!


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June Brides

Oh yes the month of summer weddings. Fresh peony's, garden roses, beautiful flowers.  Today was a couple of great weddings one was in Grand Rapids Michigan at City Flats Hotel. What a great venue. My bride was also one of the photographers I work with a lot. She was such a gem. Here are a few photos I got to take of the set up. It was simple and amazing.


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MTC last days

The Arizona people! We loved to have lunch together and visit on breaks. Turks to Peru and Gulbransons to Argentina. See you in three years!
The three new Washington mission presidents. Greers to Kennewick, Larkins to Seattle, and Wilsons to Everett. We all had the same classes and got to know each other well.
Brian Fleming-my former Highland student who Dad set apart to be a missionary. Now returned and working in catering at the MTC.
Two Taylor cousins I met at the MTC. President Taylor and President Dorius. We're all related to John Taylor. He's our Great, Great, Grandfather.

The MTC was wonderful and tiring. Elder Holland, in his closing remarks, said that we all looked simply ashen when we reported on Wednesday. Now that we've gone through four days of intense training, he said we looked hysterical. I think he's right! On to Kennewick!!


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Climate Camp protest

Grounded: protesters dressed as cabin crew Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA(from

Climate Camp has begun, and its in all the media thanks to those wonderful people at BAA. They tried to have an injunction on about 5 million people from approaching Heathrow, members of all sorts of organisations like the national trust, RSPB, etc would have been banned. The police would have been arresting themselves if they had to enforce this. The camp is dealing with what is a fairly distressing subject - distressing because it is insane that this industry is being subsidised by the Government to such a large figure; because it's not helping poor people travel at all.

Most people who fly are wealthy, some with second homes abroad who fly lots to visit. A Mori poll published in 2001 found that people most likely to have flown that year were those earning over £30,000. The mystery is why its so cheap to fly, yet so expensive to go by train or bus. A few years ago part of this mystery was revealed, local authorities subsidise flights to get people passing through. The campaigning group Heathrow Association for the Control of Aircraft Noise (Hacan) has calculated that a single person on the average wage of £25,000 is paying an extra £557 a year in income tax to meet the cost of aviation's tax exemption. Hacan were the only people banned from the climate camp.

Brendon Sewill says in 'The Hidden Cost of Flying' that "Petrol for cars is subject to duty at 45.82p a litre and VAT at 17.5% of the price after payment of duty. The result is that motorists pay around 75p a litre, while airlines pay around 18p. The industry has also managed to avoid paying VAT on any aspect of air travel: tickets, aircraft purchase and maintenance, baggage handling, aircraft meals. It is all zero-rated - at a cost to the public of around £4bn a year. Friends of the Earth says that, between 1984 and 1999, bus fares rose by 42% on average, and rail fares by 35%. By contrast, over the past 10 years, air fares have dropped by 42%. See,,1099739,00.html

Flying is a horrible experience for most, queue up for hours, then treated like a sardine as the plane wobbles through 'turbulence', not to mention the contributing to emissions. Its unpleasant for those underneath, as pollution and noise descent on you.

Why does the idea of direct action so frighten people? Most protest is peaceful, its very rare for any violence at all, but then some of that can be down to police. I think the way police constantly video peaceful people is a waste of their time and resources, but it tells you that someone is scared of your action.

Camp organisers promise no behaviour that is going to cause any danger, but haven't ruled out illegal behaviour, they quite rightly point out that "Historically a lot of movements have required people to break the law to make things change. Just look at the suffragettes or the civil rights movement." (Indian independence, road building, you name it and someone broke the law trying to make the right thing happen).

Below some news from activists at the camp.

Late Saturday night, a field close to Heathrow airport site was occupied by about 100 people, the first wave of setting up the 2007 Camp For Climate Action. Twin double decker tripods were quickly erected and despite being just 800 metres from BAA's head office, it took the police two hours to find the site. There have been reports of two arrests and police copying data from mobile phones during searches.

There are now several hundred people on site and the camp taking shape. Police have been searching people and preventing access to the site on and off but in the last few hours this seems to have solidified into a state of siege with police refusing to let vehicles with power, water or toilet facilities onto the site.

Meanwhile, local residents celebrated "the place we call home" in the community arts and history project "our place".

campers info line 0207 043 3783
The following information is copied from the website:
We are on Sipson Lane, between the villages of Sipson and Harlington, North of Heathrow.

By public transport:
Train from Paddington to 'Hayes and Harlington' station.
From there bus 90, 140 or H98 heading South. Get off at the corner of Harlington High Street and walk West along Sipson Lane about 600 metres.
About a 2 mile walk - south into Harlington village then as above.
Go one station further on to West Drayton and take the 222 bus to the Western (Sipson) end of Sipson Lane.

Staines is quite far away - if you want to make your own way to the site don't go to Staines!

If you get lost trying to find the camp or any other enquiries then call 0207 3779088 . There will be someone manning the phone at the London Action Resource Centre 10am to 6pm from 2nd August who will be able to help you.

There will probably be policeman filming you at the station and elsewhere. Do not be intimidated.

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Greensboro NC Gluten & Allergen Free Wellness Event

September 10, 2016
10 am - 3 pm
(soon to be Wyndham Hotel)
415 S Swing Rd
Greensboro, NC 27409

Dr. DiNezza’s passion for functional medicine and path to healing had an unlikely beginning. Her chronic low back pain prompted her to enroll in chiropractic school to find answers- something no doctor body worker had been able to do for her in five years. While attending a class about the thyroid and the immune system with Datis Kharrazian she realized that this was a critically important (and overlooked) part of her mother’s thyroid care. What started as a quest to help her mom soon became a way for the doctor-to-be help herself. After an elimination diet and food sensitivity testing, Nicole discovered the cause of her chronic pain- gluten. Finally, she had answers (and relief)!

Dr. DiNezza is now the owner and physician at Infinity Holistic Healthcare in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In addition to her DC degree, she has gone on to pursue many hours of study in functional and integrative medicine, as well as earn her Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) certification. At her office in Chapel Hill, Dr. DiNezza frequently helps those with autoimmune diseases and digestive complaints, among other complex cases.

When she is not at the office, you will likely find Dr. DiNezza with her 6 month old daughter, husband and beagles. In her spare time Nicole enjoys rowing, kayaking, cooking and doing arts and crafts.

Jennifer Cuevas

The Gluten & Grain Free Gourmet supports delicious eating that is gluten, grain, soy, and poultry free. Jen Cuevas experienced her own journey to wellness by eating this way, and desires to share the message that life can still be delicious!

Just a few short years ago, Jen was ill with a multitude of issues (although not typical “Celiac” symptoms), including high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, sudden weight gain [over 60 pounds], Hashimoto’s, and arthritis (read more of her story here). After more than seven frustrating visits with various doctors, she finally learned about her gluten sensitivity and Celiac disease. In becoming well, she found that life without gluten was really great from a health perspective, but affected everything else that had a social factor.
In the time since her diagnosis, Jen has spent a lot of time learning. She was treated by Dr. Glen Aukerman (author: Better Health in 120 days) and attended all of his classes to understand the medical aspect of how various foods affect gluten sensitivity. After further health issues inspired her to do more research, Jen went completely grain and soy free in 2012, and became a certified coach under the direction of Gluten Free Society. She uses her own health journey to coach and inspire others to consider dietary changes as a way to achieve optimum health. In 2013 she established a support group, and found that food availability continued to be the biggest barrier to success. She began developing food products that support a grain-free, soy-free and even dairy-free lifestyle; many items are allergy-friendly and are free of refined sugars. She also offers allergen-free Communion to churches, raising awareness about the effects of gluten exposure.

After working for 20 years in the corporate world, Tarah Jakubiak founded Allergic Traveler. Jakubiak, president of Allergic Traveler has traveled the world since the age of two. She has been to 22 countries and 25 states. Jakubiak has been to all inclusives, gone on cruises, gone camping; backpacking through Europe, gone to the big cities, and little hidden gems. She has multiple food allergies but it does not stop her from seeing the world. Jakubiak is allergic to eggs, nuts, mushroom, soy, garlic, corn, sesame, potatoes, celery, shellfish, chicken, pork, peanuts, and many fruits. She is originally from Montreal, Quebec and now lives in Greensboro, NC with her husband.
To get in touch with Tarah:
Twitter: @allergictravelr
Instagram: allergictraveler

Meg Huebner

Meg Huebner is an independent food scientist and researcher with a background in organic chemistry, nutrition, and food history, and has been living gluten-free since 2007. She started the blog Gluten-Free Boulangerie in 2010 to create and share GF breads delicious enough for everyone to enjoy. However, she soon began to wonder whether aiming to replicate wheat through the use of gums, highly-processed ingredients, eggs, and other common substitutes might actually be hindering, rather than helping, the quality of GF foods. On a more philosophical level, she also felt these ingredients were still standing in the way of truly “real bread.”

Through continued research, Meg found that this “real bread” is indeed not only possible, but is also more delicious! She now develops whole-food-based recipes using techniques which bring out the natural structural and binding properties of GF ingredients. Some of these methods are new and experimental, while others are based on the diverse traditional uses of GF flours from around the world. She is currently working on a book which will explain the science of these ingredients and techniques in a way that is accessible to bakers from all backgrounds.

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How To Create A Procedures Manual For Your Cleaning Company Rochester NY

While most companies have specific policies and a printed procedure manual written up for employees to follow, your cleaning business may have started on a part-time basis with you doing everything.

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How To Create A Procedures Manual For Your Cleaning Company

While most companies have specific policies and a printed procedure manual written up for employees to follow, your cleaning business may have started on a part-time basis with you doing everything. Most likely, nothing was put in writing. With many different tasks pulling you in a thousand directions, putting your procedures down into writing has most likely not made it to the top of your "to do" list. But what happens when you want to go on a vacation? Or if you become sick or injured? Having a written policy and procedures manual for your cleaning business means your business can keep running if you do become sick or injured or if you decide to take some much needed time off.

So how do you go about writing down the procedures you do to keep your business running? Start off by realizing this is an important task to take on. Following are a few tips to help you create a procedures manual for your cleaning business:

1. Don't try to sit down and write out your manual in one sitting. You will get discouraged and most likely set the document aside and never get back to it. You do not have to tackle this project all at once. Instead, set aside a block of time every day or once a week to work on your manual.

2. Set up your manual as a Microsoft Word document and password protect it. Microsoft Word is an easy program to work with and allows you to easily make changes. By password protecting the document it will not be accessible to anyone else. Just make sure you share the password with a spouse or trusted assistant in case something happens to you.

3. Start by putting basic information into your manual. This is the information that you needed to get your cleaning business up and running and is probably scattered about your office in numerous documents. Some of the information you'll want to document include: your business address, e-mail, phone number, fax number, your attorney's name and address, accountant's name and address, bank account information, Employee Identification Number (EIN), sales tax number and credit card information.

4. When you are working on specific tasks for your business, whether that be sending out billings, making sales calls, etc., write down your procedures. If there are particular tasks that have to be done regularly, or other tasks you feel are important to the business, make sure you document the procedures, step-by-step. You can even dictate the specific procedures into a tape recorder and have those transcribed.

5. If you have other people helping you, such as an assistant, bookkeeper, or salesperson, have them document what they do. For instance, if your bookkeeper is responsible for paying sales tax she should write down all relevant information including when to send in the taxes, where it goes, who she or he calls if there are questions. Keep your manual consistent by creating a simple template that you use for all of your procedures. Following is an example for the format of a section:

1. Date Updated: _________________

2. Updated by: ___________________

3. Procedures Required to ____________________________________

4. List step-by-step procedures

A filled out page might look something like this:

Date Updated: 9/15/06

Updated by: John Jones

Procedures Required to CheckVoicemail.

- Call 555-5555

- Press the # key to stop the message

- Enter code: 9156

- Listen to messages

- Press 3 to delete message, press 7 to save message

Listed below are additional items that you will probably want to include in your cleaning business' procedures manual. This is just a general list. One of your first steps in putting together your own manual will be to decide what information you need to include.

- Important contact information.

- Customer contact information and contract information.

- Account numbers and passwords.

- Vendor lists.

- Legal information

- Type of business entity, important account numbers.

- Computer procedures, software and product ID's, back-up systems.

- Website designer, website host and registrar for domain names.

- Bookkeeping procedures.

- Procedures for paying taxes.

- Payroll procedures.

- Employee evaluation procedures.

- Where to find equipment warranties and service information. Information on your safety program including where to find MSDS sheets.

The easiest way to begin putting together your manual is to make a list of all the things that you and others do for your cleaning company that need to be documented. If you can delegate some of these items to others then do so! That will make your job all that much easier. Put together a template that works for your cleaning business and then start filling in the blanks. Before you know it, your manual will be completed. Print it off and put it into a three-ring binder so you can use it as a reference. Then if for some reason you cannot work or if you decide to finally take that vacation there will be procedures in place so your cleaning business can run efficiently in your absence.

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Tips For Creating Resume Watertown NY

More often than not, resumes are your first introduction to an organization – giving them the responsibility of persuading the reader to want more.

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With only one resume out of every 200 leading to an interview, it is important to ensure that yours is the one that gets noticed. There are a number of key tips to writing a resume that will come alive in the readers' hand, read on to find out more.

Step 1 – Research

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o What do I want to do? Research job specifications, websites, industry press.

o What makes me the best candidate for any job? Research job specifications, websites and industry press to discover the types of candidate's organizations are looking for. Use this research and speak to people within the industry to draw up a list of your skills, characteristics and experience that makes you the best candidate for any job.

o Select the jobs that you would like to apply for

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An XX position in an organization where YY and ZZ would be required.

Step 3 Write your summary

Using the research and brainstorming create a summary that articulately matches your skills and experience to the job requirements.

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o A statement of broad or specialized expertise
o Use 2/3 additional statements
o Breadth & depth of skills
o Unique mix of skills
o Special or well documented accomplishment
o Awards, promotions or superior performance
o 1 or 2 professional or appropriate personal characteristics
o Add in the sentence you created in Step 2

E.g. Solution focused and driven human resources executive with eight years experience in strategic management and large scale recruitment projects. The national lead for retention policies within a large healthcare provider that has lead to a 15 reduction in turnover among nurses nationwide. Seeking a senior HR management role that offers extensive project work.

Step 4 Resume Format

Now you have your job objective and summary, choose what format of resume best suits your type of job search. There are 3 main types of resumes:

Chronological – This is the most common. It is a chronological listing of your work experience with the most recent first. It is best for:

o People who have practical work experience without long periods of unemployment and minimal job / industry changes.

o Individuals who have shown growth within a single professions

Functional – This resume format focuses on skills, credentials and accomplishments. It highlights what the strengths are rather than when / where they were developed. The main formatting difference is that after the job summary / objective you list your professional or business skills and successes, followed by a list of the positions held. It is best for individuals who:

o Have lots of job experience and many jobs
o Are just entering the work force with no / little track record
o Are just pre retirement and have lots of work experience
o Are returning after a period of absence (return after maternity/paternity leave or long term sickness)
o Are changing careers / do not have consistent career growth
o Are Military personnel seeking civilian jobs

Combination – This resume format is a combination of the chronological and functional types. It is best for individuals who:

o Are advancing in the prospective careers and have an established track record they want to keep.

Step 5 Success Stories

Whatever format you choose you still want to include between 2 5 professional success stories for each role you have had. A useful method to help you create a strong resume is the mnemonic is CARS. For each job held think of Challenges you faced, Actions you took, Results or outcomes and finally Skills / Strengths that this showed you have. Using this story to create a sentence that speaks to how successful you were at your previous role. Remember to refer back to the words used and requirements detailed in the job description and use them where necessary so your resume is tailored to the hiring manager's specific requirements.

C – We needed to recruit 10 nurses before the opening of a new hospital ward in 4 wks time

A – Worked with team to create a shorter recruitment turnaround time, created a Team Leader specific to the project and negotiated the buy in of senior managers to sign off new recruits.

R – Recruited and trained all 10 within the 3 weeks, reducing the predicted $500k agency spend.

S – Negotiation, team leadership, meet deadlines, motivation, intuition and creative problem solving.

Resume – Successfully managed a team that recruited 10 nurses, expedited their training and start date in order to meet a 1 month deadline, saving the hospital a predicted $500k in agency spend.

Step 6 Education & Publications

Enter in reverse chronological order after your work experience and accomplishments.

The only time you put education directly under the summary would be:

o Recently graduated

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Friday, November 14, 2008

Here is a fun, weird and wonderful night I am part of. Nice to walk around the corner with only a banjo!

the most horrible night in your life
and etuderecords presents:

"the most horrible night in your nashville"

iaffaldano michelangelo - banjo
posgate tim- banjo
jurgensen arnd - banjo
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dutton paul - mouth, mouth harp
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At 9:00 PM, Blogger luce said...

sorry to have missed the gig tonight - train awaits - and yeah, ago with your kids next time i'm in - for sure i'd like that - and pop a banjo hockey in the mail for me chuck - i'm good for the fifteen bucks - can't wait to see and hear it -

love luce

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Cotton-Gesso Maquettes

Artist Dragan Bibin has developed an interesting method to create reference maquettes using gesso-saturated cotton.

He begins with an armature made from aluminum wire and tin foil, wrapped in masking tape.
This framework is coated with acrylic gesso. Then bits of dry cotton are applied to the wet surface and shaped with a small brush, adding more acrylic gesso until the cotton is saturated enough to hold the desired shape.

All the shaping is done with a small brush. The forms are built by adding layers of patches of the saturated cotton. This method is actually very fast, because you don’t have to wait for the surface to dry to build upon it.
The resulting maquette is inexpensive, lightweight, airy, very tough, and durable, since the acrylic polymers are fairly elastic. Once it is fully dry, it can later be sanded and painted with acrylic paints.

Thanks, Dragan!
Dragan's Blog with more pictures
Dragan's Website

Aubrey Studebaker said...

That's amazing! Really great craftsmanship. Thanks for finding/sharing!

Rachel said...

I like the reference models better than the paintings!

Craig Daniels said...

Paper mache all grown up!

Kevin Hedgpeth said...

Interesting! This process is very similar to the old "build-up" method for creating stop motion puppets. The difference being that liquid latex is used to coat the cotton.

ricardo said...

Very cool.
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to use something like latex, as Kevin said above, so that it would "trap" some light inside of the model once lit, then it might look more like real flesh, I suppose. But maybe it would take more time to dry, so...

NetRaptor said...

Now that is a fantastic idea. I wish I'd known about this back when I was still in art classes, because we had lots of cotton balls and gesso lying around. A bit messy for me to attempt in my apartment!

Christian said...

I just checked Dragan's Website. I think he's a genius:
Just look at this picture:

Focus for about 30 seconds on the blood stain in the middle of the picture, then take a look at a wall near you and start blinking.
You'll see an Apparition.

Today I bought me some wire to start working with maquettes for my next project!-I try to work with maquettes for the very first time.:-D
Thanks for posting this!

Alina Chau said...

THese are awesome!

Daroo said...

Great stuff.

Yeah -- I've done the latex and cotton method --but it ruins the paint brush (use disposable) Gesso would probably give you more detail (course you could make little texture molds out of plasticene clay, pour the latex in and then, once dry, attach the textured latex to the sculpture).

In light of the season, the latex/ cotton method is also good for mask making -- a kind of poor man's foam latex without all the casting.

My Pen Name said...

there are now sub 5000K 3d printers on the market - probably cheap services will spring up too - that should add a whole new dimension to maquette making - though i do thing there is something about making things with one's hands that makes a deeper imprint on the brain

Chibi Janine said...

Thank you for finding this. I was trying to find a quick easy way to make models to help with my art work and you posted about a method super


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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Drop of Life for the Farmers

By now, we all know about the pain and the helplessness of the farmers in Maharashtra because of the draught like situation, which is driving them to end their lives, as they are unable to earn their livelihood. There have been many who are reaching out to them and trying to help in their own ways and means.

The media had recently reported about Akshay Kumar's contribution of around Rs. 90 lakhs for the drought relief fund in Marathwada. Besides him, there is the inimitable Nana Patekar, who has set up 'Naam Foundation' in association with fellow Marathi actor Makrand Annaspure. Nana also said that the amount collected by 'Naam Foundation' will be used to provide gainful employment to the youth in villages which are suffering from drought.

In order to facilitate the process, there is a bank account which has been that has been opened with State Bank of India, wherein people who want to help can deposit money for the said cause. The details of the same are as below:

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As a of gesture of acknowledgement to this cause, a few members of our group, namely Nandini, Bhushan, Dipti & Pramod have contributed for a donation to the Naam Foundation.

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