Monday, April 6, 2009

wedding data collection

It is worth noting that actual empty, clean baby food jars cost practically nothing. Pennies, each. However, the shipping...

I'm in an abstract phase of projects and planning right now. For one, it's mostly projects. For another, the projects are sublime: Buy baby food jars. Paint a perfectly good mailbox "pewter." (Is that even a color?) Hem seven yards of muslin so it can be called a tablecloth, for the exclusive-to-weddings "head table."

Eventually I will photograph all of these things, and at some point they may even make sense outside of my head. But in month -5 it's all abstract.

5 comments:

Harriet M. Welsch said...

What you need to find is someone with a baby. Because 5 months would be more than enough time to generate the jars, I would think. Speaking from past experience. Too bad my grandparents aren't still around. My grandfather worked for Gerber's. There were ALWAYS baby food jars at their house.

Liz said...

So... I'm beginning to wonder if the ideas in my head will come out as wonderful in their execution the day of...

Love to see it's not just me! :)

Julia said...

Photographer Kim/lilac leaf actually offered me jars, but we'd have the same shipping problem there. It's no big deal, just funny where the actual cost is.

Anonymous said...

I can be your baby food jar purveyor - how many and what size do you need? Baby charge goes through about four jars a day. Email me and let me know and I'll get on it.

Anonymous said...

p.s. Meant to add that I will cover shipping costs.