adding a SPLASH of color in the midst of a snowy day.

I'm home watching the girls today, filling in for Dad makes me appreciate all of the things he manages to get done during the day. Although the girls laid down for a nap almost and hour and a half ago they are still trying to whisper and Lily is lecturing Brea about how she cries "every day!" What imaginations those girls have. I'm afraid that we wont be able to elmocise (nice little play on words they did there huh?) after nap since they haven't done such a terrific job. We'll see though, if they lay down and sleep for a while i'll consider it :)

During their nap and in between visits to their room to hush them down, I've been working on some of my past photography. Playing with the idea of black and white with a splash of color. It was all the rage back when but now I see that it doesn't HAVE to be the cliche eyes, although I'm guilty of adding it in to the mix. I wanted to see what other things I could highlight. Give the idea a bit more thought and creativity. What else better to do on a snowy wednesday?

additional work::

A continuation of my recent projects. A few more cards...

Keeping busy in the cold weather

Although Colorado weather certainly trumps that of Iowa, its still nice to spend time inside during the chilly days. We went outside for a snowball fight today and lasted around 2o minutes. The snowman lost the battle.

Here are some projects I've been busying myself with post christmas...

Totoro

Lily and Aubrea Getting Down <3

After moving from Iowa, I told my fiance that when he moved out (a few months behind me) I refused to keep our mattress. Yep. I refused to move such an old dirty piece of shit, so once he got here we immediately went to purchase a new one. It took a few weeks to get shipped but its like a coma creation center in my room now. I have always been a heavy sleeper and let me tell you, this didn't help. Poor Chet is stuck getting up with Lily every weekend while I remain comatose. This last weekend was no different. Both Chet and my sister Jess were up with Lily and Jess's daughter. I was dead to the world. So Jess has been telling me how I missed out. She swore that I needed to ask Lily to watch the introduction credits to the movie Totoro because she swears that Lily sat and sang all the words. Now, when asked to do anything Lily does the exact opposite. Here's her and Brea getting down to the song, she didn't sing all the words but she could go pro with Brea as her back up dancer. <3

more fun pop up cards

Back to the old card making again. We have a lot of birthdays, get well's, etc and because I work with students I'm able to play with the idea of making cards all day long... its actually a huge perk to working in the school system. Not that there are many perks in this career, but hey i'll take anything I can get.
Here are some of the recent cards I've made..

Photography

My Favorite Snow Day

I was thinking of what my family will do this winter for snow days... I guess you would need some background to follow this train of thought. My fiance and I own a house in Des Moines and on rainy days we would pull out old paint or other fun things and spend that day working on our project.  Now of course, we are renting in our new city and looking for a new house to call OURS. Unfortunately that wont be this winter and we will really have to start getting creative with these snowy day projects. Heres my most favorite from last year, we got the idea to paint my daughters room then ran with it!

the beginning of the ceiling