"Send Your Mum's Out for Spray Cream"

I forget how much I take for granted.

This photo was inspired by this one by Rosie Hardy, watching Mary Poppins and the crapness of British summer.

www.flickr.com/photos/rosie_hardy/2610389721/

I've wanted to go out and take pretty sun lit pictures for ages, but unfortunately I forgot the sun doesn't live here anymore, so I'll have to make do with the shadows.
When I was taking this I phoned my mum to ask her if on the way back she could pick me up some whippy cream, and she got really excited thinking i'd made something lovely like a cake.
Sorry Mum! This picture is for you!

The picture was created using three different photos, one of myself on a chair in my room, one of wooden flooring and one of pretty victorian wallpaper.  My room is really dull, so I fused the wallpaper/flooring into my image using photoshop tools, such as clone and the eraser at varied opacities.  It took a long time, as I had to be really finnickity about bits like the semi-transparent table cloth and holes in the chair back.  I also chose to add realistic shadows using the burn tool.  I magnetically cropped myself and the table, and set the two as a new layer, adding a "vintage photo effect" and fiddling with colour and that.  Then I selected the whole image and hung it in a pretty frame to the left.  Yay!