Dress for Bug

A few weeks back we took family photos. But unfortunately it was so cold she had to wear a sweater and also a jacket.

I made her this dress an hour before we had to head out the door, it was a total rush job. I fashioned the bottom part of the dress from one of mister lovely husbands discarded t-shirts. and the top was just some left over jersey knit fabric from my stash.

Personally, I think it turned out pretty good considering that she goes through dress so freaking fast. Oh yeah and that Balloon is the original one from our family photos. it just wont fall to the ground keeps on floating.

family picture story

In most families this wouldn't be a story. In mine however it's a full on WAR! Husband reeeeealllly doesn't like having his photos taken, well not so much taken but doing the whole get ready spend money, smile, act happy.. (Wait WHAT!!  Act?...) anyway. This year I was going in commando... no no no that's not the correct word. :)  More like Stealth mode and I was determined to get at least one photo were we all looked at least halfway decent and that I didn't have to beg.

Here's the story.:
I had a Dr appt. to get my foot checked out, I hadn't had an x- ray on it since I broke it last year (oops) So I used that as an excuse for him to come home early to pick me up and take me. the wheels started turning in my head. I saw that Amy Twitty Photography (<;-----pssst I know her!) was having a mini shoot deal so I figured why not!? And besides Husband couldn't get to bent out of shape for a 30minute photo sesh.
what to do about clothes.... hmmmmmm hmmmmm FANCY DATE? I told him we were going on a fancy family date and that I needed to be presentable. Which I was all for jeans and a nice shirt she was the one who left his slacks on. no complaining here.  CLOTHES-check
Day of he gets home and I informed him that I was driving so we started driving down Main street and he looks at me and says "we aren't going to the dr are we" 
me: "nope" 
him: "well that kinda dissapoints me. I was going to ask him a question"
me: *laughs*

next stop freakishly large balloon and when I say large I really mean if they would have filled it up to where it was suppose to be then it would have never been able to fit in the back of my car.

I get back in the car and he says "we are doing pictures aren't we" and keep in mind its a grumpy child tone.

hahahahaha! Gotcha Sucker. I'm driving, photo destination is just down the road and you get to eat Tucanos and hang out with me and Bug all night.

It ended up being such a great evening. After dinner Husband and I were headed over to this fantastic vintage-esc candy/toy store called Blinkenstaffs and on the way we saw Santa! (to bad I didn't bring my dang blasted camera, figured one set of photos from that day was going to be enough) 

Bug was soooo excited, and I was pretty proud that she wasn't afraid of him at all. She sat on his lap and when he asked what she would like for Christmas she simply said "Lots of Ariels" he was a sweet Santa very soft spoken. After that we were off to the candy shop.!

All in all it turned out it be one of my most favorite days of the this year.

Photo Booth Experiment

I'm so calling it that even though all the post editing done to these photos to get the photobooth effect was done in that oh so lovely thing called Photoshop.

Once again Why am I taking photos of bug and I... One it's totally AWESOME and Two I have yet an other ginormous pile of laundry that should really be self cleaning if it would like to get washed any time soon.

I have also labeled this post in three very appropriate ways, one being procrastination, I mean I should have had this Label A LOOOOONG time ago but I figured thats what Blogging is.

I forgot to mention that Avi was the one who pressed the button on all but one of these photos. she was super excited to be taking pictures and running before the timer went off.

Loves 4

Love the graininess of this photo

Love the red lips in the Queen of hearts fashion

Love the finger to the dimple.

Love the Girl

instead.

This is what I should be doing...

That my friends is only about half of what I actaully need to wash. I think it's about time I start going through and either put the things Bug doesn't fit into in boxes. she can go about 3 weeks with out me havingg to wash anything she has that many clothes. (thank heavens for hand me downs!) can I tell you how much a actually loathe doing laundry. I'ts not even the washing part or the folding that drives me nuts its the putting back where it belongs that tends to get out of hand, or kicked off the bed or even slept on. or all of the above. Just not a fan

Now for the INSTEAD part.
So instead of starting the laundry like I should have Bug and I were playing abround with the camera and I thought we would try out the timing setting and get some pictures of ourselves together. Why not right?. So here is what we got:

pretty sure I love it! my favorite part (other then it being a photo of me and bug) is that it's taken in front of that pile of laundry.. take that laundry!


well I guess I'm off to do laundry.... *sigh*

wordless wednesday

almost... to much to get acomplished to day, however I was finishing the final touches on some photos and saw this one and was loving it!

Photo Friday - week ?

This photo kinda gives me the creeps.. I don't hink this looks like bug very much. I"m thinknig the blue teeth added with the blue tongue is throwing me off =)

Photo Friday - Week 8

It counts when the photo was taken on a friday right?

I started to wash my car and the neighborhood kids finished it for me. Awesome.

Photo Friday - Week 7

Photo Friday - week 6

I can't believe how long her hair has gotten!

Photo Friday - Week 5

I really should learn to post these on friday..

Photo Friday - Week 4

Today's Photo Friday has two parts. One being It was so flippin' nice outside today that we played and two check out Bug's cute dress! It Was a birthday present from her G.Grandma. Bug thought it was a perfect dress to twirl in and so demonstrated over and over and over again. I wish I had that much energy!

Thanks for the pretty dress Grandma R.

Photo Friday - Week 3

Ok so its few days late, this photo was totally worth it though!

I have had this mask for I don't know maybe 5 years or something like that. My parents went to Italy and this is one of the things they brought me back as a gift. I LOVE IT! and it has been sitting on my closet self for maybe 2 years. I wear it for Halloween everyone in a while. Bug saw it and was so excited to wear it so I couldn't say no. That and she walked up to me and said "Can you play with me I want you take my picture" I'm not going to say no to that!

Photo Friday - Week 2

Photo a Day - Day Ten

intense thinking at tea parties

Strawberry Obsession / Photo a Day - Day Nine

So apparently I am obsessed with fruit, well mostly strawberries. Which is weird because I am not the biggest fan of strawberries or even fruit for that matter. (I wont pass up cherries or pears) I also think smoothies are weird, the thought of drinking fruit kinda grosses me out. That doesn't mean I don't drink them I just have to be in the right mind.. and yes I said mind on purpose since it's all in my head how I feel about fruit.

This entry is turning into something odd so I will cut to the chase.:

voila!

OK so it's not that interesting.. however one of these strawberries is real and the other one I found in my garage (that means it's fake) Can you tell which?



That's is for my nonsense. Oh and One more thing, I was lucky enough to take my darling nieces pictures this afternoon and also hang out with my wonderful Sister in Law and her husband. I should come up with code names for them..

 She was such a trooper while we moved her around and woke her up more then once. LOVE HER!

oh I've got the code names... here goes
Sunshine and Mr. T.. I think Mr. T suits my BIL well ... :)

Photo a Day - Day Eight

OK I'm a bit behind on the photo a day, Obviously since I started this at the end of January you would think I would be close to finishing by now.. Eh. I"m over it.


I have NOT purchased a zipper in about 5 or 6 years. When Husband was working for a certain nursing home they would do a yearly yard sale to raise funds for the river trip they take the senior citzens on ever year. Whoever was marking the prices for things really underestimateed how much a zipper was worh I got an entire gallon ziptop bag stuff and overflowing with zippers for .50 CENTS!! this is what i have left its a bit less then that overflowing bag and to tell you the truth i am not a huge fan of putting zippers in so I usually try and find projects that don't include one.

Photo a Day - Day Seven

This is really a strawberry post but I thought I would add it to the photo a day.

Husband and I got produce from the bountiful baskets this weekend and some strawberries came with it. I swear these were the smallest strawberries I have ever seen!  I really wanted to take a picture before Husband devoured them all.

I went to get a dime to show you how mall it was and I came back to this:  Bug had taken the tiniest bite out of it. I'm sure she thought I wouldn't notice. 

She was happy when I let her eat it. can't say you get Strawberries in winter to often without having to spend 5 bucks for one little container =)

Photo a Day - Day Six

Nothin' says I'm comfy like a ballet shoes, underwear and a t-shirt

Photo a Day - Day Five

Bug is now in dance