I'm helping you out....

with birthday ideas.  After all my birthday is coming up. :-)

I'm really digging these:

This awesome necklace is here

This freaking awesome necklace can be found here.

Honestly there's A LOT of jewelry done by this artist that I absolutely adore!!  And I have one more thing to show you guys....

This super cute beanie can be found here.

hint hint!!

Secret Sister for Girl's weekend

The theme for the weekend was "My Favorites" so for my secret sister gifts I started with my actual favorites and then narrowed it down to what the person would like too.  I had Laura's name and here's what I did:

Day 1 - my favorite things to have in my purse.  Who doesn't love chapstick, gum and a notebook?  Day 4 - I made the heart scarf I designed, but I used a lighter thread.

Day 2 - One of my favorite books "The Count of Monte Cristo"  Luckily Kim started talking about this movie & book on her blog a couple days before we left.  I kept quiet, I thought it may throw Laura off.

Day 3 - I made this bracelet for Laura.  It's simple and I just love the bow.

Girl's Weekend

So I had a girls weekend at the coast this past weekend.  It was a lot of fun.  There was a lot of laughing, lots of movies, lots of food, and great times with Laura, Kim, and Sarah.

Many faces of Kim and she has a cool photographer eye. She's learned lots from Laura.  She steps ahead of me.  She'll see things that didn't even catch my eye.

We all love to use our camera and experiment.  Laura is a good inspiration.  It's funny that we all can take pictures of the same thing but they will all be different. 

We went to the lighthouse.  I was fine going up the stairs.  I freaked out coming down.

Tried my hand at copying Laura and trying to get a reflection pictures in the utensils.

Kim was my secret sister.  I would have found that out Sunday morning but instead I found out Friday morning.

I love my hat!

Back in November when my friends were here visiting (and while it rained) we visited the Saturday Market in Portland.  Back in March 2008 when I visited the Saturday Market there was this vendor that sold hats made from men's dress shirts and they were super cute!  I didn't get one because "I'll buy one next time I'm up here."  Of course that never happened.  So I was looking for, but sadly she wasn't there.  I'm going to go up when it opens again for this year and hopefully she'll be there! 

But anyways, I did find this little old lady that made these super cute hats. 

It may have been a tad bit expensive but I've discovered something.  When you make stuff you have an appreciation for other handmade items.  You understand that fabric is not cheap and making things takes TIME.  So the price for the hat was actually understandable in my opinion.  Besides being super cute, the selling factor was this is probably her only income besides social security.  If I see her again I may buy more hats.

My new hair

Last week I got a sweet new haircut and then I had Laura dye it burgundy.  I bought this hair color on January 2nd because I wanted to start the new year with a new me but I wanted a haircut first.  Only a month later did I actually get it done.  Man I take forever...

The fine art of editing....

I'm trying to teach myself the fine art of editing.  I tend to want to keep all of my photos, even the ones that didn't work.  I need to delete the ones that are BAD and don't work.  I also want to be able to pick my strongest photos to build a portfolio.  It would be nice to have a strong portfolio that I can build.  I definitely need to get portraits in that portfolio.  I may need to discuss some photo shoots with my friends....

Oh yeah it's Monday night... I wonder if a new Castle is going to be on.  I heart that show!

Laura's Giveaway

My sister makes these AMAZING letters for the wall and she's having a giveaway.  You should check it out here and you might win one if you're lucky!


http://6lalas.blogspot.com/2010/01/giveaway.html