The pits!

It's cherry time at our house. We've picked about 30 buckets so far, and there are still cherries on the tree. I'm pitting, freezing and drying most of them. Last week I loved cherries, this week I hate them. I'm worried we will run out of freezer room before we are done.

Kerry and I decided to get a tattoo. Emily drew one up for us and we are going to Vernon for our consultation on Sunday.

Saturday night is pot luck fight night. Should be fun and interesting!

Artfreckles News

My designer stint with Artfreckles.com was a 4 month gig, but the other day, Shannon asked me to stay on as a designer! Yay!

Here are a few things I made with the Storybook 2 kit for July.

I stamped the 'for you' with Gold Lame Smooch.
I cut the scallop heart out with a Sizzix die, the 5 is a SU chipboard shape.
It's hard to see in the photo but the black background is Coredinations paper, I cut a snowflake out of acrylic and put it under the black paper and then sanded the top to expose the snowflake shape.

This box was headed for recycling, it's a cigar box from Cosmo Cricket and it came filled with chipboard. I made little walls and tags to fill it.

The kit came with a 'mushroom' die cut and I altered it to become a tree.

I saw this and had to make one. I'll probably never use it, but it's so cute anyways!

It's for card sketches.
And this is probably the best picture I got last night while trying to do my Photographers' Workshop assignment. I needed to shot a fast moving subject and practice switching speeds. We don't have any 'fast' moving subjects. We have slow and slower, and lazy. I got to shoot 2 out of 3 of those, I am going to make Lazy go out today and maybe ride her scooter. I do like that Kerry is in the background, all blurry, that's my favourite thing, and I like that Linus is pretty sharp and I don't hate the pool in the background, because that's our yard, I just wish it was not there.

Hot Dog!

He's pretty happy with himself, he can fit in the pool and because I forgot to turn the hose off, he's made it an infinity pool. He does this, then he jumps out and runs around like a rabid dog and then jumps back in. The pool is filthy.

She is not impressed.

These need to be picked today.

She thinks I'm funny...that's a good thing, right?

On candids vs. posed shots...and how the photographer/mom is never in the photos...

Kelli: I've tried to hand the camera over to my hubby, but I always forget to switch to Auto for him. He's got to be the worst photographer ever. And he's the one that came into this relationship with an extremely old Minolta and all the fixings and an education in graphic design. When I'm long gone the family will remember me as the one that eats with her eyes closed, laughs with her eyes closed, had 2 double chins, and crossed eyes when they are open. It's bad.

Karen: I always look forward to that one, hysterically funny person in class and I think you're it Kelli!

I guess that's something, right?

Fireworks

I will never be a professional firework photographer. But at least I got a couple shots I can live with.

Happy Canada Day!

We're playing it loose today. We haven't made any plans, although Kerry did say he wanted to see the fireworks and I told him I'd show him some! Just kidding, we might venture out to see them tonight, we might not. Maybe we'll have a special Canada Day dinner. And we'll probably use a few of these. Costco had all three, we love them and they go perfectly with our Margaritaville blender.

In other news, the Photographers' Workshop is hard. Karen actually wants us to do work, lots of it. It's Week 1 and our assignment is daunting and I'm sure as the weeks go by it won't be the only one! But I'm going to do it, and try not to get behind. I might have mentioned that I have put all the lessons on my ipod, I have been listening to them at least 3 times each so that they sink in. I'm not sure if it's working. I'm pretty sure I have already learned more in the last week and a half than I learned in the weeks of classes at the Rec. Center.

We took Linus up to my Grandpa's the other night. He hasn't seen Taya in ages, she's my aunt's golden retriever. They are the same kind of dog, but they look so different.

Linus had a stick, maybe 3 inches long and Taya grabbed the end of it. He's not use to having other dogs in his face. Sally would never do this and if he did it to her, he'd lose his nose. So he was pretty still while Taya tried to steal the stick, she did get it in the end but he held on for quite awhile.

It took him a long time, but Linus finally got comfortable enough to play with Taya. He was pretty tired afterwards, it was great. I got eaten by mosquitoes.

You know you're a scrapbooker when...

even your dog is embellished! He's talented, it's perfectly centered!

I was making a Christmas card, yes, Christmas, it's less than 6 months away you know, and Linus was hanging out with me. When we went upstairs he looked at me and I couldn't stop laughing. He kept the snowflake on until I got a couple of pictures, then he licked it off. Later today, it will be decorating some poop in the yard.

Today is Week 1 Lesson 1 of the Photographers' Workshop. I'm a bit worried, there were 20 pages to print out, and I've got a busy day. And Kerry made me an iced coffee late last night and like a sucker, I drank it up, and then wondered why I was awake enough to watch a movie that ended at midnight, why I was awake at 1 am, and 2 am, and then again at 4:30 am. So my busy day might just include a nap.