Month: March 2011

Hey guys, another week down and spring is still not officially here. I am please that Mr. Weatherman has predicted a warm and sunny day, but we’ll see if he keeps his word this time around. I’ve found these Sunday portraits to be a lot of fun and the perfect opportunity to play with different photoshop effects/techniques. I’m going to try a bunch out until I land on the perfect one. The image above was done with a modified cross process technique mixed with a subtle pin hole love. That sounds fancy, but it really wasn’t all that tricky.

1^ I’m almost done with my current freelance project and I’m looking forward to having a little extra free time on the weekends.
2^ I’ve almost finished the first book in the Hunger Games series and I’m really liking it so far. I must say the first half of the book wasn’t holding my attention, but now things are intriguing. Moving onto Water for Elephants next!
3^ The boy and I decided we are in desperate need for a little vacation with hopes to travel out west. Trying to pinpoint the perfect location and currently thinking about places like San Francisco, Portland, Austin, Denver or somewhere in Arizona. We’ll see!
4^ I donated to the Japan relief on Friday and it felt really good to help out just a little bit. Check out how much money has been raised. Amazing!
5^ The boy is actually starting to show a little more interest in taking pictures with my new camera and I’m super excited. This means that you might see me more in pictures, since I’m usually the one behind the camera. Oh..and I think we are doing a Vlog tomorrow, together! hahaha
6^ My hair looks really stringy in the above picture. I really need to do something about that. I hate having super fine hair!

Happy Sunday and stay tuned for our video blog tomorrow!

I’m not really a true hoarder, in that I don’t keep trash and I don’t keep stacks of old newspapers, but I do collect little pocket-sized treasures that are probably only “cool” and important to me. If I catch anyone trying to throw them out, you’re life will be over…just kidding.

I stumbled upon miss Quiet Violet’s post about her little treasures and found it really fun. Here’s some of my little treasures and don’t forget to stop over at her blog!

The Eiffel Tower Notebook: this keeps a very in depth documentation of our two week back packing trip though France and Italy a couple summers ago. I wrote about everything we did and now I can relive every moment.

Photobooth photo of my mom: this is a series of photos of my mom and her friend back in her school aged days. I love how goofy she’s being. ( my mom’s on the right )

Photo of my grandfather: I believe the story is told that he bought this car down in one of the southern states and was traveling back up north to pick up my grandmother. Prince Charming.

Strength stone: this metal stone was given to me by my aunt in one of my first years of college. I remember getting it in a time when being strong was the perfect message.

Paper Crane: I keep this crane in my house, but he’s always changing locations. I adore paper cranes and they remind me of a dear friend from college. We’d make cranes every second of downtown we had, usually out of the university newspaper (suduko section)

Cup for tea: The boy picked this set out for me at a local thrift store the first summer we were in St. Louis. We didn’t have a lot of kitchen stuff with us at the time and I was desperate for ‘chai drinking’ cups. They are the perfect size!

Fabric swatch: This is the fabric swatch of my first couch. This was my first ‘real’ piece of furniture and a graduation gift from my parents.

Buttons: The whitespace button reminds me of my years in art school during college. The gymnastics button is a symbol of the 19 years of gymnastics.

I could of pictured a bunch of things, but then you’d call me a hoarder. haha.

Do you collect things? Have little treasures packed with memories?

*All photos taken with Canon Rebel T2i, 50mm 1.4 lens

Practice makes perfect, right? I’ve been trying to get out each weekend and do little photo shoots with my new camera. It’s going to take some time for me to explore all the ins and outs of this fancy pants camera, but I’m really enjoying it so far. I’m definitely not a pro and could always use some tips/suggestions if you have any to share.

This past weekend, the boy, the pup and I went to our favorite park here in St. Louis to walk some of that puppy energy out of Porter James. He’s a wild child and I’m not even sure our 2-hour adventure pooped him out in any way. O’well.

The walk wasn’t overly exciting, no drama decided to come along. (Thank Golly) The sky was gray and the wind was blowing. The ground was wet and muddy, but you could see little signs of spring trying to poke their heads out. The pine tree forests smelled like Pine-Sol®, the pup was oddly scared of rocks, and clouds hovered above.

Spring, we’re waiting for you!

This is my very first “What I Wore” post and being in front of the camera is something I just DON’T do. But, I’m in love with this cape, so I tried to be brave so I could show it to you. The cape was bought from TwitchVintage shop on Ebay. Robyn updates her vintage clothing shop every Thursday night with amazing stuff, and once I saw the cape, I bidding on it like a hawk and WON! ( cost me $10 baby! ).

I’ve never worn a cape before, nor do I know how to wear a cape, so It’s been sitting in my closet for some time now. So here’s the cape…worn with jeans and my new platform shoes. Capes are cozy and kinda like blankets, so they are pretty much perfection.

*Photos taken with Canon Rebel T2i, 50mm 1.4 lens

Cape: TwitchVintage Ebay Shop
Jeans: Gap (pretty much the only brand I can find to fit)
Shoes: Platform sandals from Target