2.2.10

I love a little Laughing Cow and loved this adorable new packaging. I'm a sucker for a cute logo and perfect symmetry. The portion of the cubes are a little small - like I use one cube on one cracker, but I suppose that helps with the overeating.

1.25.10

This is a tad overdue, but this chica celebrated her birthday last week! We had a pretty big group that got together to celebrate at Cafe Continental, NOT Lombardino's as one might guess from this image. Happy Birthday, Nancy!

4/52: things that start with A

So I am really liking this generic theme rather than what I was doing the prior weeks. I'll obviously have to go back to doing those from time to time since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet though...and I'll probably skip Q and X and maybe Z. This was fun though! I'll admit I waited until Sunday to take all of these, but it was fun basically playing I Spy as I drove down the street trying to find things that started with the letter A. The scene in the car went like this: me talking out loud to myself naming everything I saw as I passed it. tree. T. nope. bridge. B. no. garbage. no. arrow. A. yes. pull over. And here they are...


Arrow (liquor baron was pretty sketch, btw.)



Arch

Is this a stretch? like maybe it will show up again in D week as a dome? we shall see. Looking back I should have gotten a shot of the most famous arches of them all - the GOLDEN arches. Dumb. It is only like my favorite restaurant. I wish I was kidding.



Adverstisements



Awning

week 5 (and 4)

Week 5 is going to be things that start with the letter B.

I realized I never posted what my theme was this last week. Not that anyone probably cared or noticed anyway. It was things that start with the letter A. It was actually kind of fun, which is why I decided to go with B this week.

3/52 - things associated with winter

I wasn't too good at doing this one last week. It was a mixture of being sick most of the week and busy for most of the weekend. I was really hoping to get a cool "see your breath" in the frigid cold shots. I'll still attempt to get that one done before winter is over though. It probably couldnt have even worked last week though since it was "warm"...like maybe a little over 32 degrees...woohoo heat wave! Anyway, this is all I got because it was right outside our door. I tried some different editing techniques on every one to give some variety at least.

1.16.10

A practice in nail polish comparisons. I'm not sure about the names of the purple shades, but I know the right hand (Meghan's left) shows (from pinky to pointer) OPI You Don't Know Jacque, Essie Mink Muffs, OPI Over the Taupe and I believe OPI Somoan Sand.

I took this with my point and shoot - at night with no flash. Even though I am usually anti-flash, I think this might have been an instance where it could have been a good thing.

2/52 - what's in my bag?

First up, my purse.

First, I had to take Thomas out to get to the rest of the stuff (ha!)




food portion: Stride gum in sweet cinammon, a half eaten bag of pretzels that I promptly threw away and my fave, Halls Vitamin C cough drops.



beauty portion: some earrings, bobbys, a much too expensive lip balm (Sugar), 2 lip glosses, lotion and some aspirin.



pens and a dull #2 pencil.


my wallet



do you ever get that feeling that all of a sudden your purse is really heavy and you aren't real sure why - then you dig around and notice there is a full bottle of water at the bottom?



a bunch of garbage



my nerdy coupon organization. The small one has gift cards, reward cards, receipts and important papers. The big one keeps all our coupons - organized into really anal categories.



Which leads me to my makeup bag:

I love this one. Eyeshadows are so purdy...and MAC is my brand of choice.



love. this. bronzer!



I just started using this Prescriptives moisturizer. I got in on sale at the Company Cosmetic outlet store at Johnson Creek. So far so good.



last year around this time, I was in the midst of a mascara obsession. I had so many tubes, it was ridiculous. I had to cut myself off and force myself to use them all before I bought any new ones. I am proud to say, I am down to my last tube!



I can't live with out those Pond's cleansing cloths...and I love me some Jonathan Silky Dirt.

week 3

Things associated with winter

(forgot to post this last night, woops)

1.2.10

This light display on University Ave. is the same every year and always looks really cool. I'm not sure I captured its awesomeness though...

1/52 - Morning Routine

ok, so this was way harder than I anticipated it to be. I underestimated how much I am not a morning person. Trying to get some interesting shots, sometimes with one hand, while being against the clock to get ready for work was no easy task...especially because I was still dreaming about laying in bed the whole time. So I'm while I'm certain that these pics don't really convey my morning routine, they are the best ones I got.

And as a side note: anyone who has lived with me will know that the picture of my face is so dead on what I look like in the morning. Jon and I were seriously cracking up at how accurately it depicts my grumpiness in the a.m.

Week 2

What's in my bag?

so...things in my purse, makeup bag, etc.

52 project

This year I am going to do a 52 project. I heard around the internets of some people who have done this in various ways, but I am sort of making up my own rules. Basically I will have an assignment or theme every week. Likely the assignment will be in a Scattergories type form or a photography technique I want to try out. (ex. things that take my money, things that are red) I will post a minimum of 1 picture for the theme, but likely there will be more. The assignment will be decided and posted by 12am on Sunday every week. When I will post is another issue....hopefully I'll do it before Sunday of the following week, but I'm not making any promises.

I like that this will still give me a reason to seek out things to photograph, but it isn't as "easy" to just take a picture of whatever struck my fancy like I did with the 365. However, I obvi reserve the right to take random pics and post them 365 style :) I will also need some help coming up with themes, so I welcome any readers to give me suggestions. Like now. Go ahead. Leave it in the comments.

As for the theme for week 1: My Morning Routine.

See ya in a week!

2009 365 project wrap up

I did it!

I can't believe it is over! The year looks so short when it is smooshed into a collage, doesn't it? Actually, when I look back on the posts, it seems to have gone by pretty quickly too. (and the winter seems shorter, which doesn't seem possible) I really thought that maybe I would forget to do it a few days here and there, but I didn't. It totally became second nature to look at everything as if it was a photo opportunity...and as I mentioned a couple weeks back, it really made me practice and get better at composing, shooting and editing. Since I got my SLR back in Feb, I really owe this project a lot of gratitude for learning how to use that thing as well. As they say, practice makes perfect.

Which brings me to 2010. I am not up for another 365 project. I need a break from the daily grind (...but I could definitely see myself doing it again in 2011!) And so I decided to take on different project - one that could arguably be harder than the 365 actually. (that's coming up in a separate post.)

So that's it! Below are 15 of my favorite images in no particular order and some stats from the year.

279 were taken in Madison

• 156 of those were taken at our home
• 25 at my place of work
• 20 downtown

37 were taken in Milwaukee

• 13 of those at my parents' house

10 were taken in Green Bay

6 were taken in Chicago (or the greater Chicago area)

24 of posts were taken in a store

19 of food
23 in or of a restaurant
80 of objects
16 of nature

Top 5 people who made appearances:

Jon - 37 appearances

Me - 34

Cooper 15

Tom 12

Meghan 9

12.31.09

And there she is. The last picture of this project! I went to Party City in hopes of finding those 2010 glasses so we could have a fun picture, but they didn't have any. boooo. Oh well. This picture was taken exactly at midnight - or maybe 11:59. We aren't much a pair that gets into the New Year revelry, so we went to dinner and watched (500) Days of Summer (which was awesome). Happy New Year! 2009 recap coming up...