Out with the Old...

... and in with the new...

I will say that I hate feeling like a quitter. And I am not a quitter. Sometimes it may take me a while to complete a task, but I will eventually get it done.

For example: I have this blanket I have been crocheting now for the last... mmm... 6 years or more. I think it is one of those continual, never-ending projects that I have. The blanket is HUGE. I mean, humongous! It will probably be able to fit a family of 4 by the time I am done with it. I am nearly complete, a little more than half way.

But that said and having provided a little background on myself, I will say that I am not giving this project up.

It will be hard completing the daily task, with working as a teacher during the morning and being a mommy 24/7, but I am going to do my darnedest to do this.

I am excited! I got a new camera! It is a Samsung NX100. It is one of those new compact systems cameras (CSC), or as DPS seems to enjoy calling it, a mirror-less interchangeable lens camera (MILC). It is like a DSLR but with the compactness of those smaller digital point-and-shoots! I love it! I just cannot wait to be able to build up knowledge on the functions, and maybe be able to get other lenses (like wide-angle, fish-eye, macro). It is SO exciting! It has an adapter so that I can use Cannon EOS lenses with it! I hope to one day get that! How awesome that would be!

Anyhow, I am going to be doing research when I can to find some themes for the weeks of 2012.

Hope you all have had a wonderful year! I am excited to find out what 2012 has to offer! 2011 made me busy with a baby, a special education teaching position in a great district, and whatever else life decided to throw at me.

Until next time, take care and enjoy these last few days!

Slacker!!

I wish I could say it is for good reason! But I cannot. I have no good excuses for my not taking pictures. I hate the fact that I started this project and did not continue it. But I can jump back in, I think...

After our trip to Heber, AZ, I lost my camera. Well, not so much lost as misplaced. I felt horrible, my camera was missing! I don't have any other options for taking pictures except for my phone, and that just doesn't take good pictures. I found it a while later, and guess where it was? In the bottom, and I mean very bottom, of the diaper bag. I thought I had removed everything out of that bag, but apparently not.

The hardest part of missing my camera was all the shots I lost out on taking of my son. That made the camera missing very hard.

I think taking pictures is harder because Nikolai is more mobile now. Before, I would set him down on the floor and take some pictures of something and he would still be where I put him on the floor. But now he crawls, moves and gets into EVERYTHING! SO I have the short amount of time during his naps to take a picture, if even that! So I am using his nap time now to write and say how much a horrible person I am to not have taken pictures this last month. 

I am still discouraged with limited capabilities of my camera; and the fact that after all the pictures I have taken, I do not feel I have gotten better, but instead worse. I am running out of things in this house to capture in still, and have it be interesting.

Until the next photo, I will be sadly looking through my viewfinder. And just that, probably just looking...

Week 16: Water - Days 106 & 107

Water, a wonderful thing to have in the desert. Like the monsoon storm we had last night and into the morning. Too bad I didn't get a picture of the rain. It's amazing how often we use it, how much we need it, and we don't entirely realize it. Like a friend of mine got off work early yesterday because the doctor's office she works at (she is a phlebotomist) did not have water. The office stayed open, but she deals with bodily fluid samples. Um, a doctor's office not having water? Can I say ew?

Day 106

I was washing my hands and thought, "oh! water, I could use this for my project!"... Not exactly ony of my brightest moments, but it was in the early morning and I was tired from lack of sleep...

Day 107

Poor Byron's ears (my son's stuffed bunny). They are perfect for chewing, but that also means that they get nasty really quick! Just like Edgar's nose (my son's stuffed elephant). So last night after my friend Brenda left, I started up a load of lights and threw in the two stuffed animals.

Week 15: Days 103-105

Day 103

My quilt... At this point in time, it is ready to start being pieced together! I started that on Saturday, but got a before picture...

"Time to Sew"



Day 104

I love the rain. It started when I was feeding Nikolai, which of course, the thunder distracted him. So we decided to go outside and watch the rain. Nikolai was more interested in the cars passing by. It was nice and relaxing for the two of us.



Day 105

"Mommy's Time to Play"

I am so stoked! I saved up some birthday and Christmas money and bought myself a cricut! I was going to get the smaller one (they have 'em at Big Lots), but Brandon said to wait because I wanted the expressions one. So, now I have it! Granted, I only have the two cartridges it comes with, but that is ok, the school year is starting soon! :)