Where We Blog From

Posted on Monday, November 8, 2010 by Amanda

So this week I am a very lucky lady as the gorgeous Jane from Ill Seen, Ill Said has featured me on her popular Where We Blog From column. I was so thrilled when Jane asked me to share some photographs of my little blogging space. I really love taking a peek into people’s homes as I think it gives you even more of a sense of the type of person they are. There is only so much one can share via writing on a blog or with art of some kind, so these kinds of real deal snippets of reality are right up my alley.

Where We Blog From is such a fun feature and I have been following it religiously since I first discovered the fabulous Ill Seen, Ill Said. So yes, it is quite the honour to have been asked and I was happy to share a little bit of my world with her readers. Hello, hello Ill Seen Ill Said readers if you’re new to Mocking Bird! It’s lovely to have you here. Pop on over to Jane’s blog to see where I blog from!

If you follow me on twitter, you’ll see that I post ( I can’t use the word tweet, I just can’t) about these kinds of things as they happen. I’m a little slower to blog about them, so follow me on twitter if you want the goss as it goes to press!

Words To Shoot By also went live with a great group of Polaroid photography this week. I feel so blessed to be a part of such a great photography collaboration. The work is so wonderful this week!

Fall Roid Week 2010

Posted on Friday, November 5, 2010 by Amanda

Have you been enjoying Roid Week? There have been some amazing Polaroids in the pool this week and I have found myself some new contacts to follow which is always a bonus of Roid Week. My polas were a mixed bag, using Polaroid 600 film and Polaroid Artistic TZ film. There are a few more over at Flickr and I may even throw up another one before the day is done.

I’d love to see some of your Polaroids and instant pictures from the week. Leave a link to a favourite Polaroid from your stream in the comments and I will share some of them here next week!

I Am a Sum of All These Parts

Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by Amanda

Do you ever get asked “what do you do?” by strangers and pause before knowing what to say? You think to yourself, ‘ Do I tell this person about my day job, my hobbies, the things I stay up to the wee hours creating, my family or the thing I think about most throughout the day?’. I find this question hard to answer and am finding I’m being asked it a lot of late.

We should be able to reply,

I am a teacher

a photographer

a writer

a blogger

a planner

a polaroider

a note taker

a reader

a lover of musical icelandic beings

a party planner

a decorator

a homebody

a traveller

a listener

a wannabe sewer and baker

a questioner

an italian food eater

a road tripper

a beach goer

a latte drinker

and all that great stuff…

but we don’t. We just just recite off what we do to earn money and are done with it. I don’t think the question should be “what do you do?” I think it should be ” what makes you happy and how do you spend your time?” Am I being crazy here? I feel like every conversation I have with new people is the same and to me it seems so boring and not a real indication of who I am.

Our worlds are so significantly made up of talk about how we make money and how successful we appear to be, when we should be cheering for the things we love and things that make us happy.