Pulling Me Softly
#MacroMonday
#PushPull
Size of the "S": 1 cm / 0,39 inches
Pushing works, too, to lift the lid of this small glass pillbox ;-) In my early teens, I had a soft spot for old stuff (I wouldn't call it antiquities, because these come at a different price). I found my then only second spectacle frames at a flea market, nicely silver-rimmed things, and used them for three or four years before I deemed myself too "grown-up" for them (at 15) and decided I needed someting more fashionable for my eyes. I loved old everything, cupboards, fashion (we are talking about fin de siècle), old lace, and old "luxury" pill boxes, you know, the small ones that are round or oval, with a nicely painted lid. This is a small glass box – old, of course – bought (for me, not by me) at a proper antique shop, and it was rather cheap, because the bottom part has a huge crack across the whole diameter and the lid, framed with brass, wasn't closing properly anymore already back then. The glass is of a beautiful turquoise-blue colour, with white bellflowers painted onto the upper lid. I've used both the glass box and the green Swarovski beads, which I keep inside and which once were part of a selfmade necklace, for another MM theme, "Trinket", you can check it out in the first comment, if you like.
My original idea of how to present this didn't quite work out: I envisioned a lightbeam shining through the opened lid, but how should I make the lightbeam visible? I cut a hole into a cardboard box and shone a flashlight through it, but that alone doesn't make the beam visible, of course. You need something else, smoke, steam, dust (no way!)... flour? Well, obviously I didn't use either for the image, because I somehow didn't have the nerve to play with fire and cardboard, or mess around with steam or flour, so in the end I decided to use an "old aquaintance" for some light trickery, the star filter. I will keep that "lightbeam idea" in mind, however, and hope that I can use it for a later MM theme once I have figured out how to set up eveything safely and conveniently.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a beautiful and safe week ahead!
Pulling Me Softly
#MacroMonday
#PushPull
Size of the "S": 1 cm / 0,39 inches
Pushing works, too, to lift the lid of this small glass pillbox ;-) In my early teens, I had a soft spot for old stuff (I wouldn't call it antiquities, because these come at a different price). I found my then only second spectacle frames at a flea market, nicely silver-rimmed things, and used them for three or four years before I deemed myself too "grown-up" for them (at 15) and decided I needed someting more fashionable for my eyes. I loved old everything, cupboards, fashion (we are talking about fin de siècle), old lace, and old "luxury" pill boxes, you know, the small ones that are round or oval, with a nicely painted lid. This is a small glass box – old, of course – bought (for me, not by me) at a proper antique shop, and it was rather cheap, because the bottom part has a huge crack across the whole diameter and the lid, framed with brass, wasn't closing properly anymore already back then. The glass is of a beautiful turquoise-blue colour, with white bellflowers painted onto the upper lid. I've used both the glass box and the green Swarovski beads, which I keep inside and which once were part of a selfmade necklace, for another MM theme, "Trinket", you can check it out in the first comment, if you like.
My original idea of how to present this didn't quite work out: I envisioned a lightbeam shining through the opened lid, but how should I make the lightbeam visible? I cut a hole into a cardboard box and shone a flashlight through it, but that alone doesn't make the beam visible, of course. You need something else, smoke, steam, dust (no way!)... flour? Well, obviously I didn't use either for the image, because I somehow didn't have the nerve to play with fire and cardboard, or mess around with steam or flour, so in the end I decided to use an "old aquaintance" for some light trickery, the star filter. I will keep that "lightbeam idea" in mind, however, and hope that I can use it for a later MM theme once I have figured out how to set up eveything safely and conveniently.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a beautiful and safe week ahead!