It's a....

BABY!

It's actually a girl! But you knew that from the pic... right? ;)

A couple of cards

I finally am getting to do some crafting again:

Christmas '07

Half Dahlia Fold

Outsourcing

Help is getting harder and harder to find...

Living room laminate floors: complete

Thanks to my Readers Digest handyman book, and some support calls to my Dad I finally finished the laminate flooring in the living room. I'd hoped this would've only taken a few evenings, but given that we live in a four-plex, I had to shut down around 9 each evening. Add a couple nights off, and it turned into a week long job.



It's good to have this phase of the project finished. Now we can spend some time enjoying the living room again. In particular, the cats are going to appreciate that the construction has ceased for a bit.

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Thanks Mom and Dad Y.

My lighting gear, a Christmas gift from Tamara's parents, arrived in the mail today. I've now got some lighting umbrellas, stands, wireless triggers, and a few other little goodies to further develop my photography.

Here's my Pentax flash shooting into one of the umbrellas:


And me tinkering with the flash while it's attached to the stand:


Here are Tamara and Oakley posing under the new lighting:

Post weekend update

So after painting all weekend (a little tiring), we've now completed step one of our renvations. The colour looks great. There were a few mishaps, the most major one being this:


Josh accidently bumped into the paint can, which actually left us JUST short on paint for the walls. But on the plus side, we tore up the carpet and are now doing laminate. Josh is hoping to get installation started this week. Currently we have about half of the carpet in the living room pulled up, and we have stacks of laminate now in our dining room just waiting:



So that is this week's project (well, next couple weeks, since we are headed to Calgary on the weekend). We are planning to do the living room, hallway, landing outside the master bedroom, master bedroom and the 3 flights of stairs connecting all that. We figured if we decide to do the other 2 bedrooms at a later date, we can always get a different laminate.

Anyway, just a quick update. Our renovations are progressing and we have laid out our plans for the next few months. Sadly currently the only room that is fully useable at this point in time is our bedroom (which has some extra stuff piled in it, and the main bathroom. Everywhere else is in chaos at the moment. I'm aiming to get the kitchen in working order again today (just a lot of clutter from painting and such).

New Year

So, although we've been really bad about posting for the last year, I'm renewing my commitment to this blog.

I made 1 resolutions this year:
I will produce one card per day of the year
-this means that if I miss a day, I'll have to make an extra card another day.
-this also means that I will have to keep a craft corner permanently set up
-I will do all occasions and hopefully produce more than 365 cards in the year

Josh also made a resolution this year:
He plans to take a picture a day

So this year has started out alright so far. Since we got back from our Christmas travels and visits, we've been organizing and planning our house out a little. We have weekend projects coming out the wazoo. This coming weekend we are painting (living room, front entry, hallways, stairways), as well as replacing all light switches and electrical outlets. We will also be replacing all the baseboards. We decided to get this done this weekend, as there will be no couch in the living room (new one coming soon), and we haven't gotten our LCD TV yet, so it isn't mounted yet. So perfect time to get it done.

Other weekend projects we have planned are:
-painting nursery
-building DVD storage unit
-installing a dishwasher (FINALLY)
-clean basement out, and go through things stored in crawl space

I've got all the furniture planned on where it is going, but until April, when our tennant moves out, we can't access one room, making other rooms a little more crowded.

So this blog will now be converted to an family update (as it was before), as well as a posting site for all my cards and scrapbook pages (I'm just converting to digital scrapbooking. Josh may post some of his pictures here as well (hopefully). So this blog will definately pick up in posts, and hopefully regain some of its readers, as well as gain new ones.

Happy 2008 everyone!

More

Actually, here's one that is a whole series. If you just wanted a series that is slightly different but all quite similar.

For Melanie

New Eagles studio release

Didn't know this was coming until today, but I'm pretty excited about it, especially since my first concert experience was the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour on my 12th birthday.

Favourite TV Moments

This is totally random. I'm watching a TV show right now counting down the top 30 funniest moments in TV.

My favourite sit-com moments aren't necessarily the funniest of all time:

• Friends - In the episode where Joey and Chandler win Monica and Rachel's apartment, they make a grand entrance, riding their white dog statue into their new apartment, saluting the girls with their arrival. There's just something about that scene that cracks me up.


• The Office - After a successful prank on Dwight, Jim and Pam "air-five" from their desks. Priceless.


• That 70's Show - Leo giving Eric a tattoo. "Debbie's really gonna like this, man." A physics text book would even be funny if read aloud by Tommy Chong.


• Simpsons - After a successful bargaining session with Mr. Burns, Homer celebrates by spinning on the floor cheering "whooootwhootwhootwhoot." Another one that never loses its funny.

Accidental self-portrait

While shooting some panoramics of the High Level Bridge this evening, I happened to get an accidental self portrait as well. This was just one of my divider images between panoramic series, but the silhouette effect turned out pretty cool.

How's that for entertainment?

What's the most unique entertainment you've ever seen at a wedding reception? The shoe game? Hardly! How about a tractor trailer bursting into a blazing inferno? Now we're talking.

Today's Big Bike Fun

Today I took pictures as Jodie, Melanie and Deb rode the big bike for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. It was a lot of fun, and here is a couple photos I took.

Still looking for that portrait

I want to go for a walk

On the border

A neat feature of my new camera is the ability to shoot multiple exposures. I played with that feature a bit during a pit stop in Field.

Watching hockey

Teemo sat on the bed and cheered on the Tigers to a win over the Giants tonight. With his colours, he'd fit right in at the Medicine Hat Arena.

In bloom