Still here!

But there's been a development:)  Our little man arrived 2/23 and we're just getting home and getting settled.

Your regular 365 blogging will resume shortly and I promise I've been taking lots of pics and have great things to share:)

Project 365: Days 45 - 50

Wow! Time is flying - I can't believe 4 days have passed since I posted the last set if pics....lots of fun things have happened...:)

Feb 12: Yea, time flew by so quickly that I totally forgot to take a pic today! We had company over for the weekend and they all arrived today so no pic.

Feb 13:  Pics from the impromptu shower.  Aunt Lee made little lolly pops with baby washcloths and bibs...too cute!

Feb 14:  There was a swarm of front loaders, tractors, and bob cats in our neighborhood working to make our roads wider than just one lane.  I'm so happy they showed but I'm sure there are some neighbors that are peeved that their freshly shoveled walks covered in large blocks of snow!

Feb 15:  My brother showed up today to start the mural for our son's room!  You can't see the walls but he'd penciled in the blocking for the mural.  The paints are ready for him to get started in the AM.

Feb 16:  The artist at work!  He spent hours - HOURS - working on that wall!  I can't believe how much time he's put into it.  We sent him home exhausted:(

Feb 17:  Lots of progress.  Poor J was burnt out and needed to get back to work so he'll have to come back to finish the last of the details (detailing the trees, putting in the grasses, drawing my owl just to name a few).  I'm sure he'll shoot me for posting this before it's done but I'm just so proud of it.  He put the Matterhorn in there for us!!!:)

Project 365: Days 40 - 44

Feb 8:  I wanted to take a pic of our kitchen reno to show other folks and it happened to be the only shot I took that day so it will have to do!

Feb 9:  Again, was taking a pic for a friend of mine of the mobile that I made for our little mans room.  I know it has lots of kid unsafe things on it so it will hang far away from his reach, but it's still pretty:)

Feb 10:  People pay good money to spray this on their windows at holiday time to make things look more festive - 40 odd inches of snow and 40 mph winds and it was free!

Feb 11: Another product of the lovely winter weather we've been having around here.  I know I've posted icicles before but they've multiplied!!

Project 365: Days 35 - 39

So, there's a theme to the last few days worth of photos - Blizzard 2010!  

Feb 4: We'll start with the weather forecast...

Feb 5:  To the first night of snow - taken past midnight so technically this is on the 6th but I'll count it as the 5th since I hadn't gone to bed yet.

Feb 6:  The evening of the 6th as the storm broke - 34" later

Feb 7:  And Sunday, a play day for the dog!  We found a new game for Macie - search and rescue the tennis ball.  We'd toss the ball and she'd dig until she came up with it

Project 365: Days 30 - 34

Jan 30:  Kinda of ashamed of this pic.  I was half assing it just to get the pic in for the day.  It was cold and snowy outside and I really really didn't want to go out so I shot this from my front porch.  Say hello to my Autoluken Laurel which has been heavily post processed because the original was crap!

The only good thing about the image is our new watermark in the bottom right...how cool is that!?

Jan 31:  Macie decided to help with some of the tile laying.  Check out her right eye area.  She must have brushed up against Mark and picked up some mastic on her fur.

Feb 1:  Mark likes to have a beer while he works in the kitchen but today we were out of beer so he had to settle for wine.  So sad because this wine smelled divine and I can't yet have any:(  boo...

Feb 2:  You're probably getting tired of our dog...oh well.  Once the baby is her you can grow weary of him and I'll have a variety of subjects to shoot.  She loves the clothes on our floor (today was laundry day and I was folding them to put them away - i promise!).

Feb 3:  Yet more snow!  This time I did don a pair of boots and venture out of the house as far as the mailboxes at the end of the driveway!

Project 365: Days 25 - 29

Wow, it's been a busy week!


Jan 25:  Marveling at two things - 1. my toenails are painted (8, almost 9 months pregnant - that's a feat!)  and 2. my right foot/leg is slowly trending toward tree stump shape!

Jan 26:  Handsome hubs!

Jan 27:  He was relaxing with a glass of wine - not me:)

Jan 28:  Playing with the white balance.  Left image is auto WB and the right is custom WB

Jan 29:  Aftermath of an evening with two geeks....dueling laptops...

Project 365: Days 21 - 24

Jan 21:  Cute little mushroom night light from little man's room!:)  I was at a loss again for something and this just kind made me smile so I figured - what the heck!  I even turned out the lights for a good show!

Jan 22:  Macie lounging on the new rug in the baby's room....V's are known for their proper posture and we find her alot with those pretty paws crossed in front of her.

Jan 23:  Bad 365'r today...we had company and I totally forgot to pull out the camera - and there were so many good shots i could have gotten I think!  Oh well, I'll make up for it tomorrow!

Jan 24:  Okay, I am making up for my miss yesterday - two different subjects for you.  The first is DH's tool bag. I couldn't pick one that I liked so you get both of them:)

The second shot is a pile of goodies that I'm assembling into health kits that will be sent to Haiti with UMCOR.  The kits take just a few min to assemble and cost about $12 to purchase (or if you're a savvy shopper like me, only $8 each!!!)  

Project 365: Days 18 - 20

Jan 18: So, today I made binky holders out of ribbon and snaps.  The second shot is of my poor finger after it met its match with the hammer:(

Jan 19:  Our pup has a habit of hiding under my clothes in the closet.  We figured out it was because it was warm under there (heating vent protected by the clothes).  Now, when we're in the bathroom or in our room she's generally hiding out under there.

Jan 20:  I was struggling for something to take for today.  I had to leave for our baby CPR class and was waiting by the window looking for DH and saw this heggie sitting on a box in the baby's room.  I dropped him into the decorative grass from my shower and voila! A great pic:)

Project 365: Days 15 - 17

So, it seems I've been doing this every three days....maybe that pattern will continue, maybe not:)  Anyways, here's the latest installment of my 365 project - I'm still taking them every day!!

Jan 15:  So, Macie has taken to sitting on top of her crate rather than in it these days...I thought it was hilarious the firsts time but still get a kick out of it even months later.  The poor crate top is sporting a serious sag from her 40lb heft!  I adjusted the exposure a tad but not much else.

Jan 16:  These cuties are from my baby shower this weekend!  My mom's co-worker has a daughter in high school that's an aspiring pastry chef.  She took a pic my mom had and turned it into these cute little cup cakes!  They were the dessert and favor of the shower (and quite the hit might I add!).  Aside from a quick saturation bump and tiny vignette these are SOOC.

Jan 17:  I had to take a pic of this bug it won't do it justice.  The image is from the front of my maternity book that my friend at Good Things to Come Photography assembled as a gift to us for the shower.  Inside are the most amazing shots with beautiful quotes and notes of encouragement from all of our friends and family.  I get teary eyed just thinking of it.

Project 365: Days 12 - 14

Jan 12:  The sunlight in our bedroom this AM was really nice but hard to deal with (it was far too direct I think).  I messed around with the manual settings for a while to see what i could get but wasn't happy with any of them.  This one is the best of the bunch I think , I love how her eyes are in focus and her nose isn't.

Jan 13:  As part of my version of nesting for this baby ( i think ) I've been on a craft spree!  Countless trips to JoAnn and Michaels and hours spent on line looking at craft blogs has led me to the two beauties below!  I saw a mobile that I loved on etsy but couldnt fathom paying the $90 they wanted for it so I thought I could do it myself.  These two little guys are the first of about 6 or 8 that I need to make.

Jan 14: Again, more nesting, I'm trying to teach myself how to crochet so I can make these cute little amigurumi animals!!  This is my basket full of yarn and the how to book....it still have a TON to learn!

Project 365: Days 8 - 11

Jan 8:  This was on our morning walk. The snow had crusted over and had the tracks of not only my husband and our pup but other pups and animals as well.  It was an interesting shot.  I had to pull back some of the blue since that's what you tend to get when you photograph snow and I've not figured out a way around that yet (my WB settings were of little help).

Jan 9:  I couldn't pick just one today since we had two great ones to share.  Both of these were morning walk pictures.  We were headed to Macie's favorite field to play ball.  I love the second one where she's pointing.   She's pointing at Mark because he's getting ready to throw the ball but she's pointing none the less (she's a Vizsla and they're bred to point hence my excitement)

Jan 10:  Another day where I couldn't pick just 1.   I started out trying to photograph the icicles outside our bathroom window on a fully manual setting (which didn't work, the exposure difference was just too great - I had to LR the pic to get some things back)  and when I turned around there was a great silhouette of me in the shower enclosure.  You really only get the belly in this shot as my head is all squarish because of the camera bottom but none the less I like the shot.

Jan 11:  Below you'll see the fruits of my trip to JoAnn Fabrics!  With the birth of little man approaching, I've been searching high and low for great backgrounds to use to photograph him (and other props but that's a totally different post).  JoAnn was having a big sale and I was in the same plaza so I figured I'd stop.  The left and right fabrics I found on the red tag table for $5.00 a yard each.  The middle one was in the children and nursery fabric section and was only $6.00 a yard!  All are 57" wide and should work well with my new plexi!  Now I just need to make a stand of sorts so that I can hang them to shoot.  Draping them over the loft railing is working for now but the lighting is questionable most days.  I'd rather shoot in the kitchen where the lighting is fantastic!

Project 365: Days 4 - 7

Jan 4: decided to have a photo shoot with the puppers.  Until our little one arrives you'll likely see lots of pictures of her:)

Jan 5: So, I tried to take a few shots of myself in the mirror (since today is the day I normally do my weekly belly pic) but found that unless I jacked the ISO up way high, i just couldnt hold the darn camera still enough.  This was one of the best shots i got.  First one is SOOC and second is after a little LightRoom fun:)

Jan 6: So, i finally made it out to Home Depot to get some plexi.  I've been wanting to try a shot with plexi for a while.  Since there's not little one to shoot yet, the teddy was my star today! First one is with a minor correction in LR and the second is just having fun in LR.

Jan 7: I was looking around the house for something to shoot for my daily photo and thought about taking a pic of the art for the baby's room but as I looked around I saw his new little onesies laying on the floor and had to take a pic of that.  First one is SOOC and second one is after a little LR.  It was actually pretty okay SOOC:)