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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Myers Briggs Personality Test

My results after I took the Meyers Briggs Personality test:

Introverted (I) 76.67% Extroverted (E) 23.33%
Sensing (S) 63.89% Intuitive (N) 36.11%
Feeling (F) 51.52% Thinking (T) 48.48%
Judging (J) 60.61% Perceiving (P) 39.39%


ISFJ - "Conservator". Desires to be of service and to minister to individual needs - very loyal. 13.8% of total population.
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

A list of Make-your-own e-Commerce sites you might want to check out

I just thought about compiling a list of eCommerce sites that provide people the opportunity to sell mainly bespoke, handmade or vintage items. This is for myself and for anyone else:
image from st.johnsbury academy website

Winkelf site closed for good due to web host issues
Bonanzle now Bonanza
Smashion
Market Publique
Etsy or course
Ebay obviously
Shophandmade
Artfire
European Etsy.com Dawand


* UPDATE ADDITIONS*
                                                                                                                                                                          Pappa Shop I'm not too familiar with  
                                                                                      this one     
                                                                                      I will have to look into it more.
                                                                                      Big Cartel
                                                                                      Goodsie
                                                                                      Zibbet 
                                                                                      Copious

A few others to consider Magento/Zencart/Volusion/Shopify. Links coming soon!




The other companies that make money from just selling online vintage. You cannot setup a shop on their site


        
                                                                                        image from criticalmiami.com

Violetville
Free People Vintage Loves* outrageous prices

And there are websites that specialize in selling consumer products made in developing nations. These are called worldshops and they might sometimes be apart of alternative trade organizations. Here are a few I know of:


SERRV
Greenheart
10,000 Villages









I will be adding more to this list in the future and doing reviews of the ones I've tried.

Friday, January 7, 2011

New Project LIGHT TENT: UPDATE

This epic project that started off as an idea for a solution to my problem of not being able to catch the sun for picture taking has ended and here are the results!

My pictures SUCK! And with that said let's toast to my next project. Getting a shiny new camera because it has to be the cameras fault that my pictures are bad.
The camera I'm using now is a 4 megapixel Fujifilm Finepix e500 and these are the pictures it took for me:

 
 

The middle picture isn't so bad but generally I think the pictures are pretty dark in a lot of place. The contours of the clothing don't capture all of the light. The strange thing is that the camera is not capturing what I see. The placement of the overhead light clamps gave me a lot of trouble. At first I tried duct-taping it to the ceiling but it came down after about thirty minutes - thankfully on the top panel. My attempt at putting a nail in the ceiling didn't work either. I just settled for putting the nail as high on the wall as possible below the ceiling. I would have preferred to have to light shine at the object and not directly over it. Then again I would have preferred to have a drill and an actual wall sconce to house the light bulb so that I could extend it over the tent and adjust it as needed but we can't have everything now can we?

 When I was buying all of the supplies for this project I had to fight my boyfriend tooth and nail over the light bulbs because even though he had never done anything with photography for some reason he was adamant that I use regular light bulbs and this had nothing to do with the price. I got him to buy two 42 watt CFL's which are 150 equivalent and one 150 watt incandescent because the cfl's can be pretty pricey and I wanted this to be a low budget project.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hairwrapping


I have what people in the African American subcultural community call natural hair. It is not straight. The picture above is is one I found while searching for hair wrap styles. This is the only one I could find that I liked. A lot of the ones I came across looked like the ones that Erykah Badu would wear

and these are pretty ostentatious in my opinion. I don't want to look like a diva or an African queen. I just want to protect my hair and put it away when I don't feel like dealing with it.