Music to my Ears....

If you know me...

you know I am a bit of an old soul when it comes to music. 

I completely blame this on my mom and dad.

I'm sure they are okay with this. ;)

So this one....ah yes I know it word for word. It's okay if you think it's corny. I am completely cool with that.

The lyrics are beautiful and they set me free.

Listen here! (if you want too) >>> Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

These guys were one of those one hit wonder type deals. I'm glad they happened because this song puts a smile on my face....and I dance around....as usual.

I decided the lyrics needed to be a little fancier than me just posting them as regular text... so the above happened.  ;)

I think I might have other plans for these lyrics. I'll let you know if these plans play out! 

Smile :)

Green River Ordinance

If you need something good to listen to.....I'm here to save you! hehe :D
This is a good one, I promise.....


"In a world that gets lost in making plans, just be my woman...
Yeah, and I will be your man..."


Green River Ordinance---Dancing Shoes

Furniture Market and New Projects

The furniture market was absolutely wonderful! I had to control the urge to run around and do a million happy dances during the time that I was there :) I tried my best to act like a professional. In reality only business owners are supposed to go to these types of markets. One of my teachers emailed the people over the market and had it approved for his students to attend the market. I was absolutely thrilled to be there.


Some of my comments while being there:
I want to sell furniture.
I want to do this when I grow up.
I'm so happy with life.


I am sure there were a bajillion more things I said like that! I honestly see myself doing something like that someday. I can't explain what an amazing feeling it is to feel like you belong somewhere or to know you want to do something like that for the rest of your life. I want to spend my weekends at markets buying things for my store. I want to spend countless hours arranging my new inventory and working on inspiring displays.


Back to the furniture market, I had an absolute blast and even bought something! I have been wanting display hands forever.....and ever! I like the older ones that  that are specifically for displaying rings. Some of them sort of look like this one....

As much as I would love to have a vintage one I haven't come across one and been willing to let go of the amount that was on the price tag. I'm still searching :)

Anyways, I like random pieces like this and I like (display) hands in general, vintage or not, preferably unique. One of the home decor accessories dealers at the show had a set of hands that I fell in love with immediately! (I know that sounds really strange...hehe) I got the set for 9 dollars!!! They were one of my treasures for the day! On the way out of town we stopped at Atlanta Bread Company and ate a late lunch after that we stopped at an antique store and I found a little glass jewelry box thing...not really sure how to explain it. I have two others made kind of like it...they're perfect for holding my bracelets and earrings! It was my other treasure for the day :) I'll post pictures of them soon!

Sunday, my dad, mom, sister and I went out to eat for my parents 31st wedding anniversary! It's actually today but that was the only time we could celebrate as a family.

I love them so much and don't know what I would do without them!

and I love my daddy's face in this picture! :D

Love this crazy girl!



I had photography yesterday! We started working on scan-o-grams. He had us bring objects to class and then arrange them on a scanner, cover them with a black piece of fabric, and then scan that into the computer. We now have to edit these scans in photoshop and make one that is black and white. We will be using cameras from now on, but this was a neat project to start with. He showed us some examples of this technique in class. They were a little different than what we did, I thingk sort of a primitive form of scanning maybe (called photograms) but some of them are really neat. Here are a few...

Adam Fuss, My Ghost 1999

Stephanie Valentine



I had my interior design studio II class from 8:00 to 11:45 this morning. Our first project is a collage based on a painting. There is a little more detail to it than that, but in short that's it. I am pretty excited about this project and finding pieces to use in the collage. We had certain paintings that we had to choose from and this is the one I chose....

Lee Krasner

I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon! My camera is in and I can't wait to start snapping pictures! I'm sure I will have tons to share with you soon :)

Don Henley-The Boys of Summer :)  I don't have a list of all time favorites....this would be pretty far up the list if I did though

Christmas in August!

Originally I was going to rent a camera from the university for my photography class. I contemplated on buying one and talked with my mom and reasoned with myself on why I shouldn't purchase one. Well long story short after class yesterday I ordered one. and oh my goodness I feel like a little girl waiting on Christmas morning. I am ecstatic about this class and learning to use a camera and about all the things that go along with photography! 

This will be mine soon! I must come up with a name for her/him!

(note:I name things randomly,remember "Critter"?)

My teacher gave us a list of things not to photograph. It included: Pets, Cars going down the street, The Chapel of Memories (church here on campus), or anything on campus for that matter. He told us that he wants us to dig deeper and push past the cliches! I love it! He wants us to create art through photographs, not just take pretty pictures. As the semester unrolls I promise to keep you updated on my projects. There are some really good ones! I hope that I can get the hang of this picture taking thing. ;)

Once I get my camera figured out I am going to start using it for the pictures that I post on here. I am sooo very excited! I am also thinking about maybe doing a 365 day self portrait challenge. (May sound conceited, but it's to help me develop new ideas and ways to go about taking pictures.This is one of my favorite blogs and where I saw this idea! >>>> A Beautiful Mess <<<<<<Here is where she gives some tips and ideas!

Breaking news>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MY CAMERA JUST SHIPPED! YIPPIE times a million and 8!
                                      Happy Dance!!!!!!!!!!!!  :) :) :) :) :)

Since I am in a camera state of mind here are two others I am extremely interested in:

First, I want an old poloaroid....my mom thinks that they might've had one a long time ago and told me that she would look at her mom's house to see if she could find it. If that doesn't work out, you can get them fairly cheap on EBay. The tricky thing about poloaroids is getting your hands on the film. It can be sort of pricey.

I think poloaroids of random objects displayed together are so neat!

Just an example of some :)



Secondly, I would like to eventually someday own a Holga Lomography Camera. They actually have starter kits on amazon that come with film and a book. Just in case you're interested >>> Starter Kit

Here are  some examples of pictures taken with this camera >>>>>Lomography Pictures

I love the way pictures taken with these cameras turn out! It's almost like instant art!

While it's on my mind, I just want to say that I can't promise I will be able to post everyday once the semester gets going full swing. My major is a very demanding one. However, I will try my hardest to post as often as I can. Even if all I have time for is pictures of my work, I will try and make it happen. I am going to attempt to be more on top of things this semester and not put things off until the last minute.

I can't believe it's Thursday! I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon!

Smile :)

If you need help smiling, let the sound take you away >>>> Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf!

P.S. I have this one on vinyl!

Thursday! yay! :)

The fair was fun last night and Rodney Atkins was great! So were the fried oreos and the ferris wheel! However it was ridiculous how expensive everything was! I guess I am finally getting to that age where I really realize those kind of things and how quickly it all adds up....oh well....I still had a blast :)


Even though I have been cutting for around two days straight now I'm actually not sick of this project yet... :)
To me it looks like something out of a whimsical story book! Which is completely a good thing :) :)

I decided to change the owl patterns that I was questioning yesterday, they caused a little to much jumble. I went with other patterns of green orange and blue and placed them across from their same color. I think it looks more unified this way :)  Once i get all the leaves and the little pieces that go on all the owl bellies cut out....I'll be done!

I don't know if anyone is familar with Pandora radio but it's absolutely one of the best things that a tech savy person ever thought of! It's completely free and you basically make your own radio station! All you have to do is just sign-up for an account and start listening :)


Example: I really like fleetwood mac...so if i went to pandora.com and typed in fleetwood mac it would start playing music that was like fleetwood mac's music.... I just did this and the eagles take it easy popped right up (ah! I really like that too!!!) seeeeee it's so cool! oh so then there are two little buttons that look like a thumb that's up and one that's down....if you really really like the song you can click thumbs up and pandora knows to play more like that....thumbs down and pandora will steer clear!!! you don't always have to click those they're just a little extra thing....you can also skip songs, but!!! you can only skip 6 times!!! you can change stations whenever you want just click create new station...


ok soooo correction I don't think you even have to have an account!one of the perks of having an account is that the site saves your stations....


Lately I've had my pandora set on Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, this morning in class I was listening and her song Nothing but the Water came on.....It's good stuff! I've looked for a version of it on youtube but they're all live and recorded so instead I'll just post the lyrics....


I have seen what man can do
When the evil lives inside of you
Many are the weak
And the strong are few
But with the water
We'll start anew


Well, won't you take me down to the levy, take me down to the stream, take me down to the water,
we're gonna wash our souls clean, take me down to the river, take me down to the lake,
Yes, we'll all go together, we're gonna do it for the good Lord's sake


I have fallen so many times
For the devil's sweet, cunning rhymes
And this old world
Has brought me pain
But there's hope
For me again


There's a little more to it but this is the best part. I'll keep looking for a recording of it. She isn't necessarily a Christian artist or anything she's just a newer fresher voice and she kind of does what she wants...




ohhh here's a picture from girl's night out the other night :)

I know all of this is a little random....but it's just one of those really random days for me....hehe :)

Waiting in the Weeds

I was just going to post once today but I couldn't really wait until tomorrow to post this song....

It's just been one of those days....and this certain song is keeping me company at the moment....

Waiting in the Weeds - The Eagles
I have to give props to my mom for feeding my music obsession and making it possible for me to hear this one live....Truly Amazing....It's just as good coming through the speakers on my laptop tonight though :)

Waiting in the Weeds  <<<< click to hear it!!

Song facts:

Don Henley told Billboard magazine on October 12, 2007: "Here I am, just turned 60. I'm not complaining. I'm thrilled and delighted. None of us ever thought it would go on this long. But we are a determined bunch of guys. We take our time. We are not afraid of the passage of time, necessarily, and we've been sitting one out for a long time. That is kind of what 'Waiting In The Weeds' implies. Again, on the surface, that's a love song, but it's also about this band. We've just been sort of waiting for some of this bad music to die down, for certain trends to go away, so that we can get out there on the dance floor again. We are a band that knows how to bide its time, and how to wait."