Braceface No More!

6 years of orthodontics, 2 years and 7 months of braces, one very long and painful 5 and a half hour facial reconstruction operation and 10 months recovery and i FINALLY have the perfect smile!!

My updated facebook status as of 3 oclock Thursday 15 April 2010.

It has been a long time coming and I haven't stop smiling since the minute I stepped out the dentist chair! I have had problems with my teeth and jaw since I was young and I had to have an operation over the summer to correct my bite. It was a 5 hour operation and I lived off liquids for months and had to sleep upright for weeks. So I have 6 metal plates and 26 screws in my face holding it all together and I am finally starting to get the feeling back and the reduction of swelling on the right hand side of my face, and about time! So today has been a big day getting the braces out and seeing the results of 6 years hard graft, and it has been worth every second. Back off to the orthodontists next week to get my permanent retainer fitted and get my before during and after photos so when I have then I will post them for everyone to see the difference.

Long Exposure

Mucking about with the long exposure on the slr camera my boyfriend and I were making the most of the warm weather over the weekend and decided to go out at night and play around with the settings and a torch and see if we could come up with anything good. These were our results after a few practice shots, and we got something not too bad....

These where done using a 15 second exposure and we used a pretty standard sized car torch but to achieve a better effect I think it would be better to maybe try and use a laser pen light, or one of the wee lights you can get for your car keys?! And then instead of trying to figure out how to write our names backwards next time i will just write it normal and flip my photo!! This way hopefully will be able to sign it and get a better and neater finish.

Homemade Presents

It was my longest friends 21st birthday just in the middle of march and I hummed and hawed for ages on what to buy her, because I wanted to make it something special, meaningful and something she could keep so for some inspiration I logged on to good old facebook on to her page and looked through the photos of the two of us and then my brilliant idea just came to me!! I had photos in a box in the loft from when we were kids and I thought of making a collage scrapbook from when we were babies right up to the present day. Combined with a nice bottle of alcohol we could get tucked into to celebrate together!

There is nothing more I love than homemade, well thought out and personal presents and my friend Lindsay is just like me so I knew this would be something she would appreciate. Apart from making it a wonderful present my main motive really was to make her cry, and this I managed successfully, and not only did I get some tears from her I got her mum reaching for the tissues too! All happy tears tho.

After a few late nights and several trips up and down to the loft, morrisons photo centre and sneaky meetings and calls with Lindsay's mum to collect some good photos my book was finally complete and in the end turned out to be a very successful present. I was so happy when I seen the look on her face as she read through all the pages laughing and reminiscing of our 20 year friendship and of course when I seen that all important tear running down her cheek! So here is a small selection of photos of the book...