We have Clematis in five places in our yard. This is one of them. That’s our bedroom window you see in the photo, so it’s nice to have this in our view. I want to transplant some of it to the front porch. While we do have a vine up growing in the front yard, I’d like to add to it and hopefully screen in one side of our porch with pretty flowers! Plus, bees love it and I love bees! Apparently, it can be pretty invasive, but I’m willing to work with it since I’m starting from scratch.
We have this plant (Kalanchoe) in yellow, orange, and red. The red we got from a neighbor. It started as a smaller plant, but has now grown through two containers and has given us enough clippings to have three other plants. Anyone want any?? It’s super easy to grow! They are mostly kept as house plants, but I need to research if they can go in the ground, cause we have quite the surplus.
A couple of months ago we spied this mantle in the same antique store we found our kitchen hoosiers. It was only $60, but we didn’t really have any way to carry it home, and we just weren’t in the mindset of purchasing a mantle. After visiting numerous other antique stores in and around Huntsville, we decided we should give it another look. Although it’s a bit chipped here and there, it almost matches the original in the living room perfectly. Well, obviously we got it. I’m not sure what I want to do with it…leave it as is, paint, strip, stain…we’ll see.
I won these Alice in Wonderland nesting dolls from ebay. So excited!!! I tell ya, is actually kind of a challenge decorating a mantle. It took me a while to “settle” with what I have there now. I’m not 100% happy, but it’ll do for now! I am 100% happy with the AIW nesting dolls cause they are just too awesome.
So yeah, there’s a boring entry about house stuffs.
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I’ve never done one of these, and I had fun with Steph’s, so here goes:
1. Open a music player
2. Go to ‘all music’/’library’.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomize.
4. Find photos of the first 10 artists/bands that come up (no repeats and no cheating).
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are.
6. Paste this in your journal and do it too, so I can have fun guessing as well.
PLAY!
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The Dead Workers Party is filming a “steam punk” music video for The Counterclock Wise’s new song, Screaming Jenny. Their new album release is on Halloween (cannot wait…haunted house, bands, beer, so much fun!) night and I guess the video will correlate with it.
So anyway, we all trekked into the boiler room at Lowe Mill. This is generally always locked up, so it was awesome to get to photograph the inside of it without having to hold the camera up to the window. It’s absolutely perfect for the video.
more of the boiler room
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me & Dana (man, I’ve missed her)
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Yay! Andy and I set up a Crash Boom Bang Theatre Vimeo account for all of the filmed skits we do.
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Congrats to the lovely Rhiannon and her handsome husband Dustin.
And a huge thank you to them for letting me document their special day. It was definitely a learning experience and made me
very excited about this possibly becoming a “future.” Originally, I was just going to shadow the photographer they hired, however he stopped answering calls and such a couple of weeks before the wedding. He had disappeared with their $300 deposit.
I will tell you with no hesitation that being the sole “eye” for the wedding was very challenging. Unfortunately, the 35mm camera my dad was going to use (the one I grew up on) was still acting up the day before the wedding. We didn’t want to take any chances, so we decided to stick with just the Olympus and the awesome new (to us) large format studio camera…to use outdoors with portraits. Therefore, only the Olympus could capture anything that happened inside…which was the entire ceremony. And that’s where I learned the most. I figured posed portraits and the like would be easy enough, but it was the timing of the events that are just barely planned out during the rehearsal that presented a rush. An exciting rush that I hope to experience again and again.
Luckily, I don’t have to wait too long. Alice and Donald’s wedding is next month. And it’s at Lowe Mill. Those are my stomping grounds, so I’m super excited for it!
See more of Rhi and Dustin’s wedding here.
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