In the works -- March 28th, 2012

We dyed eggs last weekend with a couple friends. I tried to make a gradient egg, but these little pink spots showed up.

I made this clutch on a whim from a vintage napkin.

I'm hoping to stop by the thrift store this week and pick up more napkins and see if I can write up a tutorial.

But I will have to refine a few things.

Lastly, I finished my See and Sew dress, which I'm naming the Tres Marias Dress after The House of the Spirits. I modified the pattern substantially--it's tight where needed but still a bit baggy around the waist. Honestly, I don't mind that because it means I can sit and enjoy a meal without feeling like my belly will burst the seams. Now I just need some sunny weather and a date night.

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Is anyone else freaking out about losing Picnik? 

I don't have photoshop and I hate launching GIMP every time I want to do something simple like rotate/crop a photo. I have consistently had problems with my photos' orientation, and I hate that photo rotation isn't a feature of Picasa web albums. Can anyone tell me why that is? As far as I know, both flickr and Photobucket let you rotate.

What's weird is that the past few times I have gone into Picnik, my photos are oriented correctly there, though not in my albums or on my blog...so I rotate them 360 degrees just to be sure they show up on the blog correctly. But I just dread to think of how tedious it will be to simply rotate a photo once Picnik is gone. It's already annoying, and I hate duplicating uploads.

Anyone find a solution that works for them? I'm not super tech savvy, so I may be overlooking the simple answer.