Fireworks

Fireworks Finale on Saturday night.
My first attempt at fireworks photography.

Travelholic Strikes Again

On a major burst of spontaneity, The Husband and I are heading to Paris at the end of the month. Can I hear a Woot! Woot!

Ironically, we had been planning a 12 day road trip to California over the last couple of days. As we were finalizing up our road-trip plans/schedule we got a phone call from our friends in Paris. One thing led to another (including a set of cheap tickets) and we're off to visit them for 11 glorious days just before we head back to work.

I'm thinking this will be a fab opportunity for me to practice my photography (to put on the walls of my new place)...and the crepes...oh the crepes.

Before and After

Everyone likes a good before and after right?

Closet Before

Now

Living room on our first couple nights:

Now

Only a couple frames have made it up on the wall so far.

Craft Space. No Before. Just happy that I somewhere to put my stuff.



Still have much to do with the decorating and accessorizing...but that's the fun part and I intend on taking my time scouring around for awesome finds.

Up to My Eyeballs in Boxes

Since school ended a number of weeks ago, The Husband and I were busy first packing, then moving, then unpacking. We're still unpacking and setting in even though we've been living in our new place for over a week and have spent pretty much every waking moment working on our house.

My favorite parts so far have been building shelving in the garage, setting up my craft nook, and buying some new furniture. Photos to come.

Our New Townhome

The Husband and I have had a crazy last week of school with our students because while trying to wrap up the school year, we were also frantically trying to purchase a house. I breathe a very happy sigh of relief now that:
1. I have said goodbye to the kids for the summer.
2. We got the townhouse! (It's official!!!)
3. Our Landlord that we currently rent from managed to find a new tenant only 12 hours after we gave him notice and they want to move in mid July (which means we get to move into our brand new place even before that!)

All the photos except the last one are of the unit we bought. I don't have any good living area photos, so here's the one of the showroom.

Shots From the Weekend

Sorry for the blogging break. I am working on cultivating other areas of life and trying to pull myself from my computer for the next little while. You all know how addictive and time consuming all this blogging can get!

Photography Class

For our photography class field trip today, we headed downtown to shoot and practice some new techniques. A cool trick we were taught to take macro photos is to take your lens of the camera, turn it around and hand-hold the lens backwards on your camera to magnify the images. The first photo is taken regularly and the rest are my attempts at macro.