“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
I recently broke my foot. It was non weight bearing for 2 months and two days. The day my hard cast came off I was a little nervous but excited to be done. As it turns out, I was quite naive about the whole aftermath of 9 weeks in a cast. I had thought I wolud walk out of the doctors office on my own two feet.
The following day as I was fumbling around with a CAM boot and crutches I had a bit of a meltdown.
The problem wasn't so much that my expectation of walking had been delayed. The problem was that, due to a lack of communication between myself and the doctor, the details of which do not really matter, I had no new expectations of what my rehab was supposed to look like. This situation was resolved within a day by my gathering some additional information, but it reminded me how important our expectations are to us.
There are a lot of quotes that refer to lowering your expectations or having non at all in order to avoid disappointment. I prefer the Jane Austen quote above. I realize the necessity of being flexible enough to revise our expectations but the idea of lowering them to avoid disappointments is just about the saddest thing I can imagine.
It seems to me that we should keep our expectations as high as possible and brave the disappointments. We need to be prepared to revise our visions when things don't go as we expect but that the worst thing we can do is to have no expectations at all.
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you will land among the stars."
Les Brown
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Easy Upcycled Paper Backdrop
What I know about photography could fit in a thimble. I want to take better pictures. I have purchased books on the subject and yet some how as soon as I see the words DLSR, white balance, shutter speed, aperture etc I glaze over. It seems too complicated and time consuming.
I am, however, trying to expect more from myself and while I am not quite ready to tackle all the technical stuff I am hoping that my new backdrop will help improve my photos a little.
Here is what I learned from this experiment.
My original thought was to use fusible interfacing as the backing but I didn't have enough for this project. So I decided to use heat n bond and make the project double sided. It is a little flimsy in places so I think my first idea would have been better. But it does work and it was very simple to make.
You need
A large piece of fusible interfacing
Large piece of heat n bond for double sided
Iron
Ironing board
Decorative paper
Step 1 - Cut interfacing to desired size and shape
Step 2 - Cut or tear decorative paper into manageable size pieces
Step 3 - Iron paper pieces to interfacing
Step 4 - For double sided back drop fuse a layer of heat and bond to the back of the interfacing and repeat steps 2 and 3.
Happy Halloween
Here are some last minute decoration I put together.
Happy Upcycling,
