Week 3: 1st Birthday

Hey everyone!! Yes this is a little late but I am posting :)

Last Saturday was Chase's First Birthday! He is my best friends baby boy! To make it easier we will call him my nephew.. :)

well it was his first birthday and she threw him a party at her boyfriends place of work. (a pizza place) We enjoyed pizza and cake and soda and hugs and kisses :)

he had a big pile of presents and he loved them all., but I think his favorite was the guitar his uncle TJ got him.

Here are the pictures, some of them are not so great, i was trying to do all manual again... and the lighting was hard... well.. ill let you see for yourself:

I hope you enjoyed them!!!

Peace & Love Jme

Week 2: The town Library

Hey Guys! It's Thursday again so here is another photo post!!

I have been meaning to go to my towns library fro a few weeks now and I finally got around to going there.
I used to go their on "field trips" in elementary school and I used to think it was sooo big, but going in there now it feels really small. I still love it though!!

I went in looking for the Hunger Games, or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close but both books were out. That didn't discourage me from looking around though! I actually picked up a book, and some of you might be surprised that I haven't read it yet!

Well I took some pictures of the library I hope you like them!

Here is the Library, It is a little dark but i like the way the sky looks in it, and the hint of sun in the left corner

Here is a lighter picture of it!

here is a close up of the outside doors, I just love it!!

and here is the book I got. I have seen all the movies and loved them! I have never read the books, so here I go! I hope to like them just as much!

So what do you guys think??

Do you still visit your local Library?

Peace & Love Jme

Sew-n-Tell Friday-Infinity Scarf

Hey Everyone!!! 3 posts in one week! I'm on fire!!

I used to do sew-n-tell Fridays all the time, but then I stopped. I don't know why it was such a good motivator for me!

So I am back this week!!

This week I made myself a flannel Infinity scarf. I found the tutorial here via pinterest :) Really easy to follow tutorial, and I can't wait to make some light weight ones for spring!!

I got the Turquoise Hounds-tooth Fabric from Mardens, when I went up to Maine to visit Garrett's mom for Christmas. I love this fabric!!!

Here are some self shots of me wearing the scarf. Did you know that it is really hard to take a picture of your self in the mirror? I don't know if I should be looking through the view finder, or just holding it. So some of these shots with my face in it are pretty funny.

I hope you like it!

 A close up shot. Oh and that's my camera strap slip cover that I also made out of Flannel.

Here is one of those goof head shots. But I like it because you can see all my feather hair extensions!

Please go and check out other Friday finishes over at Amy's Blog!!!

Peace & Love Jme

Week 1: A Brisk Morning

Hey Everyone! It is Thursday, and I stated the other day that I would try and post a new picture from the past week every Thursday.

Well here we are week one!

I decided that I better get outside today to snap a picture because I used the ones that I snapped last weekend already in the post earlier this week. OOPS!

I needed to get some exercise in today anyways so I bundled up and took a walk with my camera. I snapped 29 photo's this morning and I am only going to share 2 with you. Oh the joys of learning how to use a DSLR. Well I think it is rather fun and like to see all the different shots even if some are FAR worse the others!

So I had a place in mind when I stepped outside this morning. About a half mile down the road there is this pond, with a great mountain view. And the sun was shining so bright it was a nice warm place to stand still for about 10 minutes! :-)

I started off standing, but didn't really like what I was taking, they looked like typical landscape shots with the sun, so I decided to get down on my knees and take the shot from a different angle.

Here is what I came up with.

I love the sun in this one, with the shadows on the ground, and the little bit of snow we have left!

I also love the sun in this one, It looks like a giant star...which it is haha, and the rock wall in the front looks mysterious. I also like that I put it in black and white!

Other ones that I took were way to bright, and not good. But I got the hang of it. 

One thing I would like to learn more about is my ISO setting. I know the basics about what it means, and everything, but I would like to know more.

I hope you enjoyed my pictures! Hopefully I will be back next week!!

Peace & Love J-me

January

Hey Guys, So I haven't been keeping up with my goal of posting at least once every two weeks. So I'm going to try to do that again! I'm thinking that maybe every Friday I will try and post a favorite photo from the week before.. we will see though!

But  here are some pictures from the month of January, and a few at the end from this weekend on my walk with Garrett. I hope you enjoy them!!!

Garrett and I went to visit Tonia and Big Boy Chase!!! He will be 1 this February!

What a cutie!

Garrett was spray Painting his bike, i thought this shot looked really cool!

Garrett and I used to spend a lot of our time together in the basement at his house. He would do woodworking and I would watch, or help him, He also taught me how to use all his Dad's tools. This is something I did down there when I was bored of watching him, It has been there a while, and every now and then I darken it up again! :)

My family dog Hank, and my sisters cat Mocha, hanging out on the couch together!

This is from my walk today with Garrett, There are a lot of Alpacas down the road from him

A pretty view of the mountain from our walk

A cool tree on his road

the same one.

Garrett heading down the driveway of the mini viper

I hope you enjoyed the pictures!! More stuff on things I have been working on craft wise to come later this week! Now it is time for sleep... too bad the Pat's didn't win the Superbowl :(

Peace & Love

J-me

2012

Hey everyone it has been quite a while since I have posted. And to those of you who actually read I am very sorry. I know there is really no excuse for my absence, but here is the one that I have come up with. I got my new camera and was really excited about it and spent most of my time playing around with that. Also my sister got married on Dec. 17^th, and I was her maid of honor so I was very busy with that. I also was trying to make a bunch of things for Christmas presents this year, but I had no time I could only make a few small things so I then had to buy the rest. The big project that took up a lot of time was/is my Nana’s quilt for her bed. My Mom and I have been working on it and had the top pieced just in time to wrap it up for Christmas. We hope to have it all quilted by the end of January, but by the looks of things I don’t know if that is going to happen. It’s a 1930’s inspired quilt via the fabrics, and we really wanted to tie it, but my mom (made the mistake of) asking her if she wanted it tied or hand quilted and she said hand quilted. So now we need to get hand quilting! Here is a picture:

My nana opening the top :)

So anyways there was that then Garrett and I went up to Maine to visit his Mom which was REALLY fun, and on Monday January 9^th we celebrated our 10 year anniversary J

But what I want to focus on in this post is New Years. It is 2012, a new year a new me…I hope. So far this New Year in the 7 days that there has been I have had some sort of physical activity each day. In Maine I was playing the Xbox Kinect, and then when I got home I have been going for a mile walk each morning. Even Garrett went with me for one J I’m going to try and go to some more Zumba classes, and hopefully get back into running. Baby step… The stress this holiday season just ruined my diet. So I’m getting back on track with that.

Garrett and His mom Playing the Kinect

I’m hoping for there to be a lot of new and exciting opportunities for me this year. I’m going back to school, just to the local Technical institute (NHTI) to go and get my Basic Accounting Certificate, which if I enjoy the accounting I plan to go and get my masters in it. For those of you who may not know I went to school to be a middle school math teacher and I am currently working at a bank because there hasn’t been any job opportunities in that field. So I picked accounting because the accounting field is growing and is said to continue to grow until 2014. So this year my plan is to get my certificate and find a job in the accounting field. Maybe even an internship for the summer.

Here are something’s that I would like to get done this year, in life and in my blogging J

-Garrett’s NIN quilt (which was supposed to be a gift for our 9 or maybe 8 year anniversary) finished by his birthday this year!
-Finish the top (at least) for a strip quilt I have had cut for over a year.
-Finish the top for the Hexagon Quilt I have started over a year ago.
-Finish the Patchwork squared quilt I did last year, I have made the top but I haven’t sandwiched or quilted it yet because I think I want to make it bigger.
-Make products for craft fairs
-Try to keep my Etsy shop updated. Which it has nothing on it now.
-Post at least once every two weeks
-Get better with my photography
-Buy a sewing machine all for my self which I won’t have to share with my mom, not that I don’t mind sharing  (if it is alowed in my budget....maybe even if it is not)
-Learn some new quilting techniques

I think that’s a pretty good list for now. I’m sure some of these things will not happen but I am going to keep referring to this list and try to stay on task!!!

Here is a picture I took at Garrett's Mom's House

Thanks for reading J

Peace & Love J-me

New Camera!!

Hey Guys!!

So I bought myself a new camera for my own Christmas present! Well actually I have been saving for a while now, and I decided Black Friday would be a good time to purchase one! I have been torn between Nikon and Canon. I talked to a family friend who is a photographer. She uses Nikon but she told me when she buys a new one she was going to go Canon because she feels that they have better sensors, and the image and color quality is better. Then I have a good friend who uses Nikon, and she is a great photographer as well! She loves Nikon and i loved using hers!
The decided factor was price. The Canon had better deals, and I liked the way it felt in my hand. I got the camera kit (Canon Rebel T3) with lens for 100 dollars off normal price, and plus I got a free case, 8GB memory card, and UV filter!

So that's what I went with and I went and picked it up, and I love it! I have yet to read the manual, but i have been playing around with it and I am happy with what I have been seeing.

Here are a few of my pictures I have taken!! Enjoy!

 My Troll Beads :)

 Working on Christmas Ornaments

 Love the dew drops in this one!

 My sister's cat yawning

Playing around at work, hey its my business card!

Liking the lights in the background!

 Can you tell I like to Blur Backgrounds?

Our pens at work.

I hope you enjoyed them!!

Peace & Love J-me