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Well, hello there. Yeah this is late, but I was out getting drunk with a bunch of physicists last night so didn’t have chance to get this written!

• Hopscotch Rug! I’d love this, but we have no where to put one. Plus it’s ridiculously over priced… uh…

• Great round-up of digital illustrators from Smashing Mag

• Cullen get’s pwned by the count, thanks BoingBoing!
• Also on BoingBoing this week, how to build a backyard chicken coop. I bought I book about keeping hens last week..! I WILL CALL ONE JAWS II!
• 10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone from the Oatmeal

• Gummy bear chandelier! via craftzine blog

• Find me something cute than a smiling Fennec Fox cub… I dare you!
• Future of CSS typography, from smashing mag.

• You’ve more than likely already seen the new OK Go video, but here it is. Purely genius.
• Past photos in the present. Nice photography project!
• Visualisation of which health supplements are worth it, interesting display of data!

Hey guys, how’s this raining turning out for you? My feet are freakin’ soaked :(

• D’ya like flowers? photography? Check out these 50 pretty epic examples of flower photography.
• How the internet works cartoon, tbh I struggle with this whole internet thing… uh, that can’t be right? hah!

• Quit hiding your cables, dress them up! Via unplgged
• Annie’s eats does chicken and shrimp jambalaya, we’re having a deep south cook-off in our kitchen in the next couple of weeks. We’ll have gumbo, jambalaya, red velvet cake, corn bread, sweet p’tatos & all manner of cajun goodies. Think we’re doing a sausage jambalaya!
• FinestImaginary were featured in a cuteable cowboy round-up this week, check it out!

• Loving this fox plush by Sara Carr, on etsy.

• How to make homemade taffy, definitely one I need to try!

• T-rex garden statue, echoing the geekologie writer’s view — DO WANT!

• This is well cool, a nissan cube frozen in water and etched. Neato, see more at the indie quarter blog.

• The lost art of Inglorious basterds round-up on OMG posters!

• If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the Photoshop Cook video above.

To keep the blog ticking over in this busy period, here’s a draft I’ve had for a while. Enjoy!

So, my weapon of choice (uuum… what’s the term for camera? you know, like an axe is a guitar?… anyway) is a canon 400D (that’s XTi to some). And whilst I love love love it for all it’s worth, I do love my lomography and vignettes. Sooo I once saw this tutorial on how to make your DSLR into a pinhole. Nifty, thought I! So here we go!

Here’s your ingredients

1 DSLR camera (or, a camera with convertable lenses)
1 spare body cap (don’t use the one that you actually use, cos we’re gunna drill holes and shit)
Thin aluminium or thick tin foil

Here’s the tools you’ll need

Coarse sandpaper (try 20 or 40 grade)
Dremel/hand held drill/power drill
Thin needle
black marker
electrical tape (darkest colour you can find)

First things first, you want to sand off the name from the body cap. There’s no real reasoning to this, other than it gives you a nicer flat surface and looks tonnes neater with the finished lens. Use you rough sandpaper, or one of your dremel attachments, then finish with a finer grade.

Then, drill a hole through the very centre of the body cap, quite a small hole is best! On the inside of the body cap, over the top of the hole, stick your thin aluminium/tin foil using the black electrical tape. Through the centre of the hole, and the aluminium, use the finest needle you have to poke a tiny little hole. TADA! You’re done.

Here’re some photos I took using the said pinhole lens, have fun playing with you camera settings for this one! Long shutter speeds and a tripod are most definitely your friends. I also really like the dirt spots, but they also make me feel like a bad camera mother.

Yesterday was such a nice day, Adam and I decided to get out of the house for a bit… somewhere that didn’t involve supermarket shopping, DIY stores or parents’ homes. We headed to a local historical beauty spot called Oakwell Hall. It’s a small manor house that was built in the late 1500s which has a tonne of surrounded land with some prescribed nature walks, a cafe, a shop, and a bazillion dog walkers. We strolled along the nature trail (which is only short at 2miles) and then walked around the house garden for a while. Have some photos…

Sunshine!

A rare ‘couple’ photo.

Pretty thistles. I’m loving the bokeh on my tamron lens, it’s so much smoother than on my canon lenses!

Hey guys, hope this makes up for last week’s cold induced absence. This week’s been a good one, if a little too warm.

• If I were a paper princess, I’d like to live in this paper castle.
• I bought the calculator watch of dreams! It’s currently winging it’s way to me :D Wahoo!

• To say I really fucking want this would be an understatement. It would match our kitchen amazingly. omg.
• Doe Deere wrote an interesting article/interview about running your own business.

• Take a look at the diana multi pinhole camera, this looks amazing! Find it on the lomo website.
• This week on twitter, I’ve been mostly enjoying #moonfruit.

• I want those nikes this much. I’ve been playing with outfit ideas on polyvore. Note the watch of dreams, too.

• My flickr favourites seem to have a ridiculous amount of norwegian forest kittens.Tiem to start looking at other things again!
• Happy 4th of July weekend to all my American friends, we’re headed out for steaks tomorrow night in celebration!
• The FinestImaginary giveaway winner was announced on the lovely little deer blog, they went for the pink teapot necklace! For those of you who didn’t win, I’ll be posting a competition on the FinestImaginary website this weekend. You can subscribe to the blog over there to be the first to know! Also, use code ‘madeyoulook’ for a sweet saving at checkout :D