Just Muddle Through It

Last week I had a new project idea that I was all excited to work on.  I picked up the supplies I needed when I was in town, and was ready to work on it first thing in the morning.  I thought I was good to go.

Normally when I have a project that requires a photocopy, I use my laser printer, because the ink doesn’t smudge.  But this project required a copy from an inkjet printer, and it wasn’t until I went to work on the project that morning that I realized one of my inkjet cartridges was empty.

I decided not to stress about it.  I’d just move onto another project…one that doesn’t require the use of my inkjet printer.

A project that just required brown paper, a stencil and paint.  I had all those things!  I was good to go again.

I started happily working on my project, and reached for my camera to take photos of it in progress,

and then I dropped my camera.  

I dropped it HARD.

I quickly picked it up and turned it on, and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw the lens wasn’t broken and the camera powered on fine.  I thought I had gotten lucky.  I thought I was good to go.

But then I started snapping in-progress photos of the project, and the photos were completely out of focus.

I fiddled and fiddled with it, and go it to focus a little bit better, but it was still bad.

I optimistically hoped that it was just the lens that was broken, and not the camera, so I drove into town and bought a new lens.  I started working on the project again, and snapped another in-progress photo.

It was less blurry, but still not normal, which meant the camera was the problem.

By this time it was getting late in the day, and I had nothing to show for it, except a broken camera and a half-finished project.

Rather than throw a fit, or sit and mope, I decided to just finish it up, and hope I could get at least a few tolerable photos.

Taking the photos took longer than making the project.

I muddled my way through it it though.

I got the project finished, broken camera, crummy photos and all.

And the next day, I got myself a new camera! I found a great deal on it, and it included 2 lenses, so I felt like it was meant to be.

I’ve been wanting a new model that could do some things my old one couldn’t, so I’m excited to learn some new camera tricks.  I’ll let you know how it goes as I learn.

I am just happy I could photograph my simple little brown paper project…without crying or yelling. 🙂

Obviously, you don’t need a tutorial to make an simple project like this.  Even with my awful photos, you can see how easy it was.

And next week when I work on that new project, I should really be

good to go (keeping my fingers crossed!).

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