As crazy as they make me, I love them dearly :)
Spring Break, almost over…
More camping – just for a couple of days because it was ungodly hot during the middle part of the day. And now I have caught this horrible head cold and feel like the LAST thing I want is for the rat race to continue tomorrow morning!
I sized this one less wide than usual, and it’s bugging me, but I am too tired to fix it!
And this guy was hiding under our trailer as we were packing up to leave…
Good thing we saw him as we were going rather than coming.
We may not have lasted as long as we did.
WPPI 2013
My first time attending… I am going to try to never miss it again! So much fun, so many cool products, so many inspiring seminars. But mostly – total excuse for a girls’ weekend ;)
These are primarily taken with my iPhone — I did lug my camera around one day and pulled it out once. It was too much to carry around with me!
Our lovely view of the Hooters Hotel :) LOL
My kids would have been in heaven at the little candy shop…
Waiting for a class to begin…
A picture of the screen at a Photobooth example. It was a nice setup ;)
The Expo — Not easy to capture how massive it was.
I got to stand this close to Jose Villa as he spoke to a very small group for 30 minutes or so. He is really, really my favorite, it was perfect timing and right place/right time…
There were all kinds of crazy things going on…
A grainy iPhone pic with my photographer friend Monica — I had the best time with her and the other girls I met up with! And a screencap of the proof that my kids really, really missed me, LOL :)
Goodbye, Las Vegas. I’ll never forget you!
How many photo blog posts can I title as “Random” – LOL
A rainy day today. Spent most of it inside, even though I had so much to do around town. I like the rain, but only to watch it from inside my warm home…
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Hanging around the house…
Our first few days of spring break have been spent hanging at home, riding bikes, watching a few movies, making mud pies, etc. Lots of ‘don’t have to be anywhere’ kind of stuff, which is nice, for a change! Just a few recent pics of nothing :) I’m off to Vegas this weekend for WPPI – so excited to finally get to go!
Nuts!
Ainsley was in a play last week called “Nuts!” – she played the sun :) She got to twirl and spin back and forth with the stage all to herself while everyone sang about her (the sun…) She was on cloud 9!
Night Sky
This is 100 30-second star photos put together with Windows Movie Maker :) Thought it was kind of cool. Thanks to my friend Pete Ark for the idea!
DIY Tie-Dye
Avery had to give a presentation today about the planet Mercury, but she had to do so as someone other than herself. So she wanted to dress up as a comet, who had flown by Mercury and had observed some information about the planet… I had rainbow-colored crepe paper that we affixed to a belt and from a headband so she’d have a colorful “tail” following behind her, but she needed something else. I frantically searched Amazon and Ebay for a kid-sized tie-dyed shirt, and they were too much and shipping would take too long. So I decided to see if I could make one myself, and a-Googling I went. Turns out you can do a faux tie-dye effect with markers, rubbing alcohol, and rubber bands. First you section the shirt off with rubber bands (this much I knew…) then you color each section as well as you can with the marker and let them dry. Once dried, you take rubbing alcohol (we used an eyedropper) and squirt the rubbing alcohol onto the shirt to help ‘blend’ the colors. After that dried a while, I washed the shirt in the kitchen sink with liquid laundry detergent, which of course washed out much of the color, but Avery liked the effect and wore it today to present her project as Avery the Comet :)
