Dispatch From LA

screams & squeals

a friend gave me the little orla kiely journal.  it's just the right size to have some more fun with my new tape!

my regular camera battery was dead so i grabbed my ipad and used hipstamatic for these quick snapshots.  it's one of the apps that i use the absolute most. 

another one i love is the i-Qi clock alarm i wake up to every morning. worth every one of the 199 cents i paid for it.  and then some!

my sister got an ipad!!!!!!!!!!!!

we talked today on her way home from the apple store.  basically a series of screams and squeals and exclamation marks.  one after another.

yes i am!

i finally found the app that instagramers use to make the little mosaics.

!!!

and it has a corner rounder.  huh?  NO WAY!  yes way.  it's true.

picframe.  you might want it.

i tried a few others but didn't like...

 i thought this video was d e l i c i o u s.

 lisa bengtsson 

 

tomorrow is sunday and i am going outside first thing and staying out all day.  yes i am! 

if you pop over for an impromtu visit you better knock on the back gate.  cause that's where i'll be!

you might be put to work clearing brush up on the hill in back.  you don't care do you?

Saturday part 2

I posted an article on facebook last week about 20 breakfast places to try in LA.  My friend Lewis & I decided to start knocking them off.  One by one.

except...i don't think this one was on the list.  oh well.  we added it.  took these with my crappity crap camera and drew on them with SKETCHBOOK PRO app for ipad.  I have a few art apps, but like SP the best.

 

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otherwise. just don't

I made this crock pot chicken pot pie.  I recommend you make it if:

A.  you hate yourself

B.  you hate a friend and want to get back at them for something

otherwise.  just don't.

iPad scribbles!  done with sketchbook pro app for ipad.

good messy fun.  the one on the left is from a rug i saw on pinterest.

sunny 84 degrees

catboy & catgirl are snoring away on the couch.  i'm doodling on my ipad.  watchoodoin?

4 tens & 9 ones

It's officially official. I'm not a little 48 year old anymore!

I'm a 49 year old!

My sister was visiting this weekend and gave me this vintage-look book cover case for my iPad. I loves it! If you have an iPad you know how slippery they are. I've already dropped mine twice. There are more pics of it over at my Followgram page. Link down in bottom sidebar...

I'm Instagramming it up! That is to say when I'm not playing scrabble on the Words With Friends app on my iPad. I toggle back and forth. And I'm only playing with 2 people so if you want to challenge me to a game of scrabble my WWF name is my full name. I think I can take on about 5-10 more games. If I don't take up the challenge with you it's only because I'm up to my ears in letter tiles.  don't worry.  Unlike Alec Baldwin, if i'm on a plane playing WWF I will cease and desist when asked.  I will not cause a scene.  I will not!
When I come to my senses I have a backload of posts to share involving Dutch ovens, travel journals, cats, and iPad visual journal pages. They're all up in my head. Somewhere.
I was just telling a friend last week, "I don't understand all the INSTAGRAM hoopla. I don't alter my photos. I don't want to alter my photos. I don't want to see anyone else's altered photos. And I don't do social networking."

Big spoon
Filled with words
Put it in my mouth
And eat them.

HAH

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digital visual journal exercise

sticker letter app + sketchbook pro + amazing typewriter

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it is not november

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brave new world

painted over existing visual journal page using SKETCHBOOK XPRESS app. the only part left of the original is the bit of yellow rose wallpaper. sort of feel like I have discovered another world. utterly infatuated. mmmmmm. you can't tell can you?
keep sharing things with me I am v.v. curious. the links are leading me to new places...

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advent calendar gone wild

i started with a photo.  i haven't uploaded any photos from my camera yet so i'm afraid i'm the only subject of my experimentation on my new ipad.  shameful.  yet uproariously fun at the same time.

used tracing paper app

then went into sketchbook xpress app to muck things up a bit.  

a dramatic hairstyle!  

pink lips!  

a lime green chair!  

i simply have no aptitude for realism.

finished things off with a luminance app chaser.  i didn't have a choice really.

p.s.  in my last post i mentioned sketch & draw app.  it's actually sketch & frame app

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wanna take your regular advent calendar for a spin?  a high voltage, kick in the arse spin? go HERE and just do it.

a sample below.  courtesy of my SISTER!  i was SO doing this in my garage today while i was cleaning it out.  it's my new excercise routine.  play their advent calendar and dance along.

sKetch and frames

sketch & frames app + label box + noteshelf
If you post with your iPad leave a link in the comments so we can click over!

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driving

noteshelf + camera bag + the amazing typewriter

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High JInx

 

100% noteshelf 

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posting by email

I'm posting this by email since the blog press app is unreliable. Practicing before I touch down in the wilds of southern Mexico in about 10 days. 11 parent conferences, 4 christmas performances, 24 punks, and 0 windstorms between now and then. One of yous get over here and make me a drink!
For the image above I used these apps: labelbox, noteshelf, & infinicam. After school I do a donut out of the parking lot, then speed home to iPad school.
More later!
Keep those iPad app recs coming. Violet Cadbury did you go to funny comment school? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Your made up apps were v.v.v. Funny!
Xo to all and to all a good night!

P.s. important lesson in school today: taught punks the international reindeer call. 20 people outside on x-mas eve all making the sound can get unmanned sleigh w/ reindeer in 5 minutes or less to land on roof. Angel said, "will it work with just 3 people?". I said, "ordinarily no, but if you are all members of the same family yes"

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