Last night I decided to explore the world of hand drawn, digitally colored prints. I ordered one from etsy a while ago but for some reason, last night I realized that it isn't that difficult. I spent all of maybe an hour drawing, scanning, coloring and printing two images. Today I bought some nice cardstock and printed them out on there. They look really nice. I love the simplicity of them. I am turning the following one into a painting. I'm getting carried away.
This afternoon I took my laptop to Starbucks, my all time, favorite office. My laptop is old and runs pretty slow. It needs a new battery and the time resets every time I turn it on (because I need a new battery). But I don’t care. It’s totally worth doing a little work (nothing too intense) at my office away from my home office, ahem…desk in my bedroom. I’ve considered moving my computer to another room in the house so it would seem more like an office, but then I wouldn’t be able to watch movies in bed, haha.
Anyways, last week my mom totally turned me onto a new drink at Starbucks. Well, I don’t know if it’s new or not, but I’ve never had it before. It’s the Coffee Light Frappacino and it is awesome. It’s sweetened with Splenda so it has a 1/3 fewer calories than a normal frappacino. My normal drink is a soy latte with cinnamon, but in this terrible heat wave and drought we’re having, the frappacino is just the remedy I need.
Get ready for a long post. Last week I was in Laredo with the high school youth group from Redeemer Presbyterian Church, where Matthew is the youth director. We joined up with a church from Pennsylvania to help build the sanctuary of Iglesia La Vid and to help with their vacation bible school. It was so tiring. I helped with the vacation bible school every day. In the morning we spent an hour dancing, then we had some craft time, game time, music time, and snack time. We finished vbs off with more dancing! It was one of the best work outs I've had in a long time. For lunch, women from the church prepared meals for us each day and in the afternoon I helped in the sanctuary. I worked to put up sheetrock and supervise some of the youth. I also took pictures...lots and lots of pictures:
Yesterday I went to a boot maker's shop to photograph him for the San Antonio book...his shop is filled with years and years of hard work. Remnants of old soles lie in a pile under his work table, old grease and polish on the floor, and so many different kind of tools are all over the place. He is a Spanish speaking resident and fixing shoes and boots has been his only trade. His son, 19, works in the shops at the front desk and translates when he needs to. I was only in the for thirty minutes yesterday and 4 or 5 different customers walked in for help with their shoes or belts. His shop has a very small town feel to it. It's just him, his son, and his wife who work there. It's great to know places like this still exist. I know I've got some shoes that need mending...I'll definitely be heading over there with them.
Last Friday before Brandi and Michael's wedding, Matthew and I went to the Kimbell Art Museum and explored downtown Fort Worth for a bit. As an architecture major and lover of museums, I've always wanted to see the Kimbell...even the bathrooms are great...no I don't have a picture of them.
and one of Matthew...my model:
On Monday, our neighbors and good friends had a little girl...Miss Elizabeth Jane. She'll go by Eliza. She is the sweetest, most precious baby girl ever. She is going to be so loved and protected by her two older brothers. She comes home today and I know her brothers are so excited to have her home.
So I wasn't the photographer for Brandi and Michael's wedding in Burleson on Friday, but I of course took my camera along with me. Brandi had some great details at her wedding, and I am sure she did everything herself. She is so talented and crafty...anyways, here is a peek at her wedding and some of the fun things she had going on there. Congratulations Brandi and Michael on your wedding. I am so excited for you and your new life together.
I shot these for Brandi about a month ago in College Station and Bryan and I am so excited to post these because she got married tonight to her love Michael. I met Brandi in Italy in 2006. She was an architecture major also and roomed with a good friend of mine while we were there. I remember she would spend so much time talking on the phone to Michael. They had just started dating a week before she left. We went on almost all of our trips together. Fall break in Berlin, Prague and Salzburg, wouldn't have been the same without her. We bonded a lot over those three months and the following fall, she moved into my house with her roommate from Italy...Melissa...another architecture major and good friend. She stood by me in my wedding in 2008 and I am so honored that I was able to do her bridals for her. Congratulations Brandi and Michael!
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