Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Red Hair

I have been wanting to dye my hair red for a couple of weeks now but am kind of waiting till I stop breastfeeding. Plus I'm a little nervous, I've always been into changing my hair color but when I got pregnant my hair got really dark and I kind of like it. So I'm stuck between enjoying my natural hair or doing something drastic. I have this thought that I should dye my hair now while I'm young and adventurous because I'll have the rest of my life to enjoy my natural color but red is a bid step, ya know? Aggghh I can't decide! Anyways here are some colors I really like. My favorite is Mary Kate's, I love her.

Hayley Williams of Paramore.





Amy Adams















In other news, Eliza has her first cold! And she was so generous to pass it on to me! Of course the week my dad went out of town, I get sick and can't enjoy it... life is wonderful that way. I have a doctor's apt. tomorrow so we'll see.

Oh! I almost forgot! I changed my layout once again, you like?

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Photo Shoot in the Park

This weekend I had a photoshoot with my friends. We went to a park in an old neighborhood I used to live in and took pictures on all the playground equipment. It was kinda fun, I definitely enjoyed it and I like the turn out even better. So here's the pics!










The rest of them are posted on my fan page! Friend me? (:

Friday, July 9, 2010

Self Photographing

When I don't have models to help with the pictures, I just model all the clothes by myself. Which means setting up a camera and having to position it just right then setting the camera timer, running, posing, and then running back to make sure the picture is usable. Oh and make sure I don't look like I just crawled out of bed on top of that. It's kind of a lot of work! But I ordered a camera remote which should make it a lot easier. Anyways I've been kind of teaching myself photography and learning what looks good and what doesn't. I've also become kind of a pro at Photoshop which helps alot too. But I've picked up a few tips on the way.

These are from my little experiment yesterday (if you like the skirt, go here :) ). It took me a little while to get used to modeling, it's a lot harder than I thought! It takes a bit of testing to figure out if you tilt your head too much it looks like you have a mile long neck, haha. So here is me without a flash and no lights beside sunlight from the windows on either side of me.


This is me with a flash (my hair was wet and looked weird down), kind of washed out right?


So I made a "poor man's ring flash" and fixed that.


And then with a little Photoshopping I got this:



I'm pretty pleased with myself. This makes photographing clothes and stuff much more exciting now that I somewhat know what I'm doing! 

Oh also some exciting news, I was featured in a treasury! Pink Bows anyone?? I love all the items in it really!

I made a facebook fan page for store! Here's a link if you want to friend me (:

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Flower Power! Etsy Update

I've been into the florals lately, so here are some flowery items from my shop!
















Scrapbooking Obsession

I got a sudden urge to start a scrapbook for Eliza last week. So I did about 4 pages one night, 6 the next and I haven't touched it since! But here some of my pages (I just started so they're not that great but hey, atleast I tried). I like to believe they got better as I went but you can be the judge of that.






Wednesday, July 7, 2010

What I've been Up To!

Notice anything different??? I've changed up my layout! It took me forever to figure out how to do it but I kind of figured it out. Helpful Site- lot's of awesome tips!

I've also been crafting a little. I made a journal filled with magazine clippings of clothes to keep me inspired!
 Here are a couple of pages I've done so far.






During the week I went out and bought a flask to carry around for the weekend. I wanted to decoupage it but decided against it because I didn't have the supplies to seal it. So I made a flask dress!





I also started scrapbooking a bit but I'll talk about that in another post. To close this post, I have a funny little picture. Eliza learned to take off her diaper last week so this was my dad's solution.

Duct tape! Haha, crazy old man (:

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Summer Picture Story



The other day we had a few friends over


Eliza was so excited, she threw on my bathing suit top and these sunglasses that don't even fit her!

We cooked up some crinkle fries (only the best kind!)


and the boys grilled up some brats for themselves and hotdogs for us ladies. 


As soon as the backdoor opened, Eliza made a run for the pool! So I scooped her up just in time for someone to take a snapshot!


Everybody wanted to play with her, so she got plenty of attention! I don't think there was a bored moment all day and with babies that's almost impossible.


Then we changed her into the proper attire and plopped her into her favorite floaty. She has a little obsession with sports balls and was chasing them around the pool all day.


While she was chasing soccer balls, I was filling up the waterballoons for the big waterballoon war we would have later that day. We ended up filling 3 coolers full!


After all the day's activities, it was time for a re-energizing snack.... but Eliza was so exhausted, she just ended up falling asleep in her high chair.


The day was quite a success, I can't wait for more summer adventures! Hope ya'll are having a good one!