Happy New Year!

I hope everyone has been enjoying the winter holidays. Here in Portland we actually got a few fantastic hours of snow and I am keeping my fingers crossed for a few more days worth. It may be cold, but it has been quite a lovely winter so far. I am hoping for a good 2010, normally I don't participate in the whole New Years Resolution thing, but seeing as I am turning 30 this year, I have all kinds of plans for life and for my business.

..Business..
1. TAKE MORE FILM PHOTOS
2. Organize, sleeve, arrange by date from oldest to newest and scan in all of my negatives.
3. New Website
4. Have a logo designed
5. Put together a Art Gallery portfolio and resume.
6. Put together a Wholesale catalog
7. Apply for all Renegade Art Fairs, One of a Kind shows and the POOL trade show in Vegas
8. Start booking Weddings and Portraits in other big cities
9. TAKE MORE FILM PHOTOS

..Personal..
1. TAKE MORE FILM PHOTOS
2. Ride my bike more
3. Go on more hikes
4. ROAD TRIP
5. Hang out with friends more
6. Take a day off of working at least once a week.
7. Eat more veggies
8. TAKE MORE FILM PHOTOS

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I am also going to make it a point to do more blog posts and be consistent about it. One of my weekly posts this year is going to be sharing my archiving progress with you. I have already gone through and sleeved and organized by date all of my negatives, which by the way is a lot and took for freakin ever! The first ones I want to share are my VERY FIRST roll of film ever taken back when I was a Sophomore in High School, Spring of 1996 and taken with TMax 100 Black and White, with my Minolta X570 manual camera.

Don't judge me to harshly, keep in mind I was only 15 and had no clue how to use my camera yet. My parents have the first image framed and signed on their mantel, it was the first image I ever printed in the dark room. Maybe it will be worth something some day! ; )

hmmmmm....

Well, not quite what I expected. Ive been trying out some new film [new to me], I think I might just have to stick with my normal film. I'm not all that big on the reds I get from Cross-processing it. But it works with graveyard photos. You can check out the rest of them on my flickr page. I took these the day after Halloween at the Lone Fir Cemetery in SE Portland.

On to the next...

I've got just a little bit of oil left in the candle...

Crafty Wonderland was GREAT yesterday, but now its on to the next. This Thursday in Portland, a Holiday Art and Gift Sale at JAM on Hawthorne from 5-9pm. Then it is off to San Francisco for the weekend for the 1st annual Renegade Holiday Event. I wish I could stay longer than just for the show, but its my last event and last over all work of the entire year and even though I am very excited for the show, I will be very happy to have about a week and a half off of work.

I am really hoping for some snow, but not until December 24th. I need to be able to finish up my art events and all of my out of town friends need to be able to fly home to Portland so that if anyone gets stranded, its here with me! : )

Crafty Wonderland

I can't wait for this Sunday, Crafty Wonderland will be a blast. I hope to see you all there and don't forget that the first 200 people through the door get a goodies bag full of fantastic things.

CRAFTY WONDERLAND - Super Colossal Holiday Sale

December 13th, 2009 . 11am-7pm

Oregon Convention Center

777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd, Hall D

Senior Portraits in the Pearl

Unique Los Angeles

I had such a blast in LA this past weekend. We got to hang out with pretty much all of our friends that used to live in Portland, ate a fantastic meal at Casa Vega, and drank many delicious drinks at the Tonga Hut. Its always so good to see old friends. We also got to go out a few times with are fantastic friends Matt and Kandace, the two talented minds behind MNKR. Surprisingly enough, out of the 300+ vendors, we were placed only 3 booths down from one another.

There were so many wonderful vendors at Unique LA and to my surprise, I managed to get out the door only buying a few things. Had it not been so busy and had more time to walk around, I'm sure I would have spent every last penny I made. As usual, I got myself a few shirts from MNKR, as well as my absolute favorite print from Brigetet B.

It was a bit sad to leave the sunny and mid 60 degree weather, to come home to below freezing weather of Portland, but at least it is sunny and even in the dead of winter, just as beautiful as always. Its back to work time though, I hung a show yesterday at..... mailed off some special orders I got down in LA, finished up the last bit of editing from all of my portrait shoots before I left town, cleaned my house, weatherized the apartment windows, played with my cat [who is still a bit mad at me leaving him for so long], went grocery shopping, put all of my art left over from the show back in the studio and watched Across the Universe. Today I have one more show to hang and then I am taking the rest of the day off, hopefully to take some pictures, but then to watch a movie at the Laurelhurst and drink beers. Thursday I am back at it with portraits and getting ready for this Sundays, CRAFTY WONDERLAND!!!!!

Hope everyone else is loving life and enjoying the lovely sunshine!

LA LA LAND!

Off to LA for the weekend and super excited about the show. For all of you LA folk, I will be in town for the 2nd Annual Unique LA, Holiday Edition. I still have a few free passes left, so shoot me an email if you want some [misha@mishaashton.com].

Happy Weekend Everyone!!!