Juneau in the backyard

Little Knits

ADORABLE! Hats and photo props made by this fabulous Etsy'er: I want one. Check out the shop here
 
 and here are some great booties for a little man by Pink2blues : check them out here

Graphic Schoolhouse Moodboard

Moodboard by Scruggers

I threw this together today for kicks and giggles:

Sidewalk Chalk-passin it on

http://www.ehow.com/how_2083921_make-eggshell-chalk.html


How to make sidewalk chalk from eggshells!!!

Introducing ::::::

DRUMROLL PLEASE...the one, the only Juneau (okay she's not the only Juneau out there, whatever). She's a purebred hererochromatic eyed husky lady with black and white markings...and she is currently asleep on my shoe. I am mush.


Her hobbies thus far include:

1. being ridiculously cute
2. howling with her little paws put together and her head thrown back. 
3. prancing. No klutzy puppy feet here.
4. eating puppy chow at lightening fast speed and then looking at us like we are starving her and gave her nothing at all.
5. swimming in her water bowl, we're hoping she figures out that she doesn't fit
6. biting. (not us thank goodness!) She is teething with her little wolfy teethies ( oh my! i'm typing baby-talk). She loves her little chew toy that we can hide treats inside of. It occupies her for hours. 
7. playing with the hedgehog. Nope not the live one, the stuffed one. She already has fetch down and will bring it back. Not to mention (or brag) she comes when she's called and stays at our heels in the yard even if she's not on the leash!!

we're getting a puppy !

Let the countdown begin!!! four days from now we are getting a little husky girl with one blue eye and one brown. I am so stoked, this was Charley's birthday present to me....well actually..the remake of birthday present number one. 

Half a month ago, we adopted a dog named Kira. She was adorable, a husky-Australian shepherd mix. Unfortunately she was six years old and had a history (abused, left to her own). She bit to get her way and maintain her pack dominance. After a lot of thought and grief, we gave her back up, knowing that she needed a lot of work and a different home environment. So here we are: try two. 

Entirely the wrong dog, I took these pet photos for my mother in law the other day. This is her new Welsh Corgi pup named Anooshe.

photo by scruggers 

painter's block

Water-coloring isn't my favorite, i'll admit, too much oozing and thinking ahead. It is great though, for planning and ideas. I need to come up with a bright bold painting with lots of van gogh swirlys, light and reflections for a client. It will hang above a retro couch. I am lost for ideas however...completely not happy with the stuff i've though up so far. 

Arg....maybe I'll sit on the porch with some incense or something. 

Baby Shower Card

Baked, Charleston SC

The coffee and bakery "Baked" in Charleston, SC on East Bay street is definitely worth stopping into. Its beautiful urban interior complements their goodies made from scratch daily. These are some photos from a recent engagement shoot I did where we enjoyed a cool moment and a break. ( The one with the deer on the cupcakes is from baked.com)

check them out here:   http://bakednyc.com/

Charleston Food Show

The Charleston Food show is a gathering of vendors and cooks to share tips, products and taste food. This year the Executive Chef at Saluda's in Columbia was giving a demonstration on lamb. Charley went to assist in the demonstration, and I came along for free food to take pictures! The camp stove they were using to sear the lamb exploded during the presentation shooting it's metal cap into the air and knocking Blake's hat off. Needless to say it got everyone's attention. Other than that, it was a huge success and many people commented that it was the best lamb dish they had ever tried.

We later attended a mozzarella demonstration and got to taste hot just stretched mozzarella on cracker with apple chutney. Amazing. 

We also got to sample several fine cheeses. Ginger Root beer, fancy desserts, gourmet crackers and a whole lotta stuff. 

Theme of the week: Asian Cuisine

My Darling makes the best sushi in the world :) Having watched him make it several times now, I thought "easy peasy, I can do that". Unfortunatly most times I think that, it goes horribly wrong. Like in this case I invited my friend over, couldn't find shishami grade tuna. Asked publix guy. He recommended the frozen stuff. DON'T ever ever ever ever eat frozen fish it sushi . Its gross, I know for a fact now. It's also a good idea to know what temperature to flash fry the sushi. Cooked nasty fish in sushi is extremely gross. 

Lesson Learned. On the plus side, I did discover that at Publix they have these Asian seasoning packages for general tso and other style chicken dishes. Exactly on my speed of cooking: just dump the seasoning with the liquids and add your chicken and rice. They taste just as good as takeout.

Gray and Blue Living space

 The walls would be a pale grey with dark hardwood floors, white crown and trim molding. The chairs would be recovered in the fabric below (it's a little more subdued), not the one in the picture (ew sick). Here is a breakdown of the cost not including paint or tax:

$70.00 drape

$35.00 chair

$59.00 lamp

$100.00 block

$29.00 pillows

$999.00 sofa

$20.00 shelf

$20.00 frames

$399.00 table

$279.00 rug

TOTAL: $2,010.00

facebook graffiti is so addicting

Let them Eat Cake...

cakes by my husband the pastry chef: The first cake is a Lemon Raspberry Chiffon Cake with layers of lemon buttercream frosting and raspberry mousse. The second cake is a dark chocolate cake with strawberry filling covered in chocolate ganache with white chocolate covered strawberries.

what makes the red man red ....

http://www.ohdeedoh.com/ohdeedoh/outdoors/teepee-sandbox-102749

I absolutly LOVE apartment therapy and they frequently post really cool ideas from subscribers. Some of them are okay ideas, and then this one hit the spot. Need you ask why?

1. because you can play cowboys and indians...who doesn't?

2. I love sand. I love playing in sand. I hate getting burnt.

I would have loved this as a kid. I so want to make one for my kids....(future kids...much future kids...).

so that tree painting...

I painted over the tree painting (earlier post). I had stared at it long enough to decide that I wasnt a fan of the direction it was headed. I had an idea for a "cloud study" of sorts for a while, so I started that in our little dark bedroom upstairs. I used a series of reference pictures for the clouds and I wanted the horizon/land to be somewhat like what you see when driving through Timmonsville SC. This picture is the base. In order to cover up my green trees so that they wouldn't show through the clouds, I picked a neutral grey for underneath. If you stand on an angle, you can still see the vertical lines in the finished painting. O'well.

This photo was taken in outside light and the photo below shows how it usually looks in our dark livingroom. The sky is a mix of cadmium blue and white blended in sections to acheive a unified color, although it looks rather blotchy from the pictures. You can see the difference between the base/unblended area underneath and the final coat on top.

Overall, I wasn't too thrilled about my final product because I wish I had planned the composistion a bit better. I wanted it to be like BOOM big happy glorious cloud when you looked at it...but I feel like you go..."hmm thats wierd. Is there a train down there? atomic bomb?"