Around Downtown

We spent a few hours on Friday exploring downtown Springfield and snapping random pictures (including spilled Cheerios in a parking lot). A perfect summer afternoon browsing the treasure trove of vintage goods at Hakaar's Bazaar and coffee time at The Coffee Ethic. Our summer is humming along and I'm feeling the need to slow down a bit. I'll plan to pop back in here mid month.

Little Red Riding Hood

Our Little Red Riding Hood filled her basket will all kinds of yummy treats tonight but that pesky Big Bad Wolf (on a stick) was up to his old tricks. Thinking of all you 'lil ghosts 'n ghouls on the East Coast. Hope everyone had a fun & safe Halloween.

Blue For You

A windmill drive by, Kansas in June.


Just a nice blue window from the archives.

Cookie monster donuts at our favorite doughnut dive, Varsity Donuts.

Blue swings at a local park.

Some blue for you and Poppytalk's Summer Colors. Have a beautiful weekend :)

Eye Candy

Most of the weekend was spent photographing some of my personal collections for a special project. Since I can't share them here yet I took a few Hipstamatic images so you'd have some eye candy on this Monday afternoon. Enjoy!

Hipstamatic Vignettes

Last year I was taken to posting a weekly image of a vignette from around my home or studio. Unfortunately, the series of faux Polaroids died a quick death when Patrick and I gave each other iPhone's for our 10th anniversary this past summer. Long story short, I quickly fell in love with Hipstamatic. Anyhow, I realized I have many Hipstamatic vignettes from about my studio that I've never shared with you. So....enjoy!

Snowy Footprints

Wishing you & yours a beautiful weekend whether or not you have snowy footprints!

Piles of Things

You know how when nothing is coming together right it helps to take a step back...(breathe)...and then CLEAN, clean, clean? Somehow the act of dusting, scrubbing, purging, organizing and general straightening up of things is good for the mind and body. Well at least it's that way for me! My studio received a bit of this cleaning action over the weekend as did our stove which was long past due. Our house is by no means "company ready" but it's been enough to make things start coming together again (ie, now I can find that particular book which I know has the perfect image of a certain pair of feet for the collage I'm working on without going crazy and throwing the entire bookcase across the room). **whew** Ok. Now that I'm feeling like myself again, I did remember to take some snapshots of the piles of things that I cleaned up around the studio. Boy am I glad it's a new week.

Birthday Moments

A few captured moments of yesterday's birthday activities. We gave her a fishtank and visited Petco. Bobby, Betty, Patty and two snails; Pokey and Speedy have joined the family.

Our Thanksgiving Week

A random assortment of snapshots from our Thanksgiving week. The tree was set up, stockings hung, a countdown-to-xmas paper chain was created, lots of goodies were baked and consumed, all of the special holiday books that only come out at this time of year were unearthed. In general, much fun was had by all!

The shops have been quite busy and I've a pile of orders to pack but before I sign off a reminder that Sushipot's Holiday Sale is continuing until midnight (CST) tonight. Enter coupon code, SUSHIPOT20, at checkout to receive 20% off your entire order.

Salvador 84 Anatomy

Hipstamatic released a new lens called the Salvador 84 with their latest iphone app update. It's been a lot of fun to play around with and the resulting images are indeed quite surreal. These images were taken of anatomical book plates circa early 1900's and the film used was Ina's 1935.