My life in California with my husband Craig and our sons Henry (7), Ed (6), and Charlie (4).

My husband Craig and I live in amazingly beautiful Northern California with our three boys. We adopted our first child, Henry, after almost 5 years of trying to get and stay pregnant — including 4 miscarriages. Two days before we adopted him, we found out I was pregnant with the embryo who would later be known as Eddie. Henry and Eddie are only 8 months apart! 2 years later I got pregnant with Charlie, and the rest is (very messy, smelly, and loud) history. Yes, it’s true, we have 3 boys who are less than 3 years apart.

(In posts prior to May, 2008 you’ll see that I used pseudonyms for my kids. Here’s the translation: “Mike” is Henry, “Robbie” is Ed, and “Chip” is Charlie.)

Erika Jurney
2625 Middlefield Road #115
Palo Alto, CA 94306, USA
* * * NOTE that this is a new address as of February 2009
650-248-2451 
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My current favorites are my Sony Alpha DSLR-A300 for stills and my Sony HDR-SR10 for video. I edit the video on my Mac with iMovie.

In my purse or pocket I keep my Sony Cybershot DSC-T2 and my Apple iPhone.

For underwater I use my Canon Powershot A510 with an underwater housing.

My first SLR was a Nikon EM, and then my mom gave me her nicer Nikon (whose model number I can’t remember right now). When my husband (then my boyfriend) and I moved in together, I bought a Canon faux SLR, and I don’t remember that model number either. I have also had a Sony DSC-F828, a Sony DCR-TRV19, and a Razr phone.

I shot Super 8 and Regular 8 film using whatever camera was available at my school (SF Art Institute) and whatever I could scrounge at Goodwill or my grandparents garage.

I used a lot of Polaroid peel-off film in an old camera I found at the Salvation Army.

As a kid I had an assortment of point-and-shoot cameras where the film came in those thick smelly wrappers and the flashbulbs gave off a faintly carcinogenic smoke when they fired.

My first camera was my dad’s Brownie Hawkeye.

I write about beautiful handmade things at Try Handmade, and I have a product review blog. You can follow me on Facebook and Twitter, see my photos on Flickr, and watch my videos on Vimeo.

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