When I'm Sick

Flower from the Hubby when I was sick..also gave me P.S I Love You movie and a CD (so sweet!!)

I’m sure you have been wondering where I’ve been. Let see, I came down with Tonsillitis around last Tuesday and been busy with school and family. Finally now I am starting to feel better and get back to my normal me. Let me tell you what, I don’t think I have felt that miserable in years.. fever, chills, super sore ears and throat, oh and the worlds largest fever blister (which I still have..grr). I’m just happy to know what I have so I can take the proper medication and take care of my family like I should.

Flower from Ian when I was sick

The rest of my week is pretty busy. My first class of the semester ends this week so I have a final exam to take..scary then a bunch of ther quizzes to complete. Hey, what is a week without test a quizzes!

For those that are wondering, I will tell you all about my T.V stand situation when my new one gets delivered :-)

We’ll be back to normal soon!

Food Prices That Empty The Wallet

Remember that little quilt giveaway I posted about? Poor little me didn’t win but I know it now has a good home! I better keep my fingers crossed that she will give another one away at some point!

So what do you all think about the rising grocery prices? Pretty horrible, right? I popped into Food Lion the other day because my little milk chugger needed more milk.

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To my surprised it was $5.24 for a gallon of 2% milk! $5.24!!!!!! Ouch that really is going to hurt my wallet. By mid-afternoon he was getting pretty close to half the jug. I just have to remember it isn’t near as bad as the formula prices. Thank goodness for no more formula!!!

As you can see, I am still keeping up the pictures (go me!). My assignment for last week was a picture of punk rock, summertime, and cloning. I didn’t get to the cloning one but the other two were easy. The summertime one was a previously posted one:

I have to brag..I got one CU Favorite (awards given out for the best that week)

And of course I had to go to my best friend “Guitar Hero” for Punk Rock…

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This weeks new assignments:

Assignment 1. Posterize. Take a photo and transformit into an illustration. Painting, drawing, or even an illustration for a comic. I'll post a tutorial later today. ( I will have to wait until he posts a tutorial. :)Tag with cuwk15/1, cuAssignment

2. I feel bad a bout some of these ideas I've been coming up with lately, I feel like I'm phoning it in! So show us a picture of telecommunications. A huge part of our life these days, and surely there's a need for some great stock around this topic. Phone it in! Tag with cuwk15/2, cuAssignment

3. Roads: Many of us drive on them every day. Can you take an interesting photograph of one?Tag with cuwk15/3, cu

Roads, yes! I have really been wanting to try this one. Now is my chance.

Pretty much nothing else super cool going on in my neck of the woods. Just cooking dinner for my parents, studying German, enjoying evening storms, and taking way to many pictures. Love it though! Hope you all are enjoying your Summer!

My Mom's Flower

Happy Dance

I am at it again. More photog practice and new assignments! Happy Dance!! Time to tell on myself, I never got around to the square assignment picture. Even though the time is up I think I will try to take a picture for that this week. I wasn’t too overly excited with the way my other two turned out, but I guess that is what learning is all about. But I have already started on my first picture for this week and it turned out AWESOME!

Here is what is posted for this week:

Butterfly Lighting - We tried our hands at Rembrandt Lighting back in Week 46. This week, we'll try "butterfly" lighting (AKA glamour or paramount lighting). In butterfly lighting, the main light is positioned above the camera lens and aimed down at the subject. The name "butterfly" refers to the shape of the shadow under the nose. You may want to soften the shadow under the nose by bouncing the light back up into the face. You can do this with a reflector or any sort of reflector-like thing (white poster board would probably do the trick). Note that this type of lighting is usually only recommend for women, not men (models that is...the sex of the photographer is irrelevant ;-).Tag with: cuwk12/1, cuweek12/1, cu

B&W Flowers - If there's one subject that just begs to be photographed in color, it's flowers. But since that's been done over 6,000,000 times, I thought we'd try something different. Give us your most interesting black & white flower shot! Tag with : cuwk12/2, cuweek12/2, cu

Poetry - Include the words of a poem in your image. The photo itself should be inspired by the poem. The words may be added using your photo editing software of choice, or you may photograph them. Major bonus points for writing an original poem for this assignment. Tag with : cuwk12/3, cuweek12/3, cu


My attempt for Black and White Flowers:

What do you think?

The Butterfly Lighting should be interesting. I guess I will have to end up using myself and make this like the portraits you get at places like Sears. Pile my make up on high and give my best cheesy smile.

As for my 365, I surprisingly have been keeping up. YAY ME!! But (yes, always a but), I did have a slip up because I thought one picture got transferred so I deleted it off the memory card, only to find out it is nowhere to be found on the computer. So here I am stuck with a missing day..I might have to call it 364.

Showing off Grandpa's Glasses (he loves to put these on then give them to me to put on)

The quality is bad because it is the only picture I took that day with a point and shoot and Ian was moving, so his left eye looks weird.

Heart Bokeh: Here is what it is and how to make it http://www.diyphotography.net/diy_create_your_own_bokeh

Speaking of Ian, he is walking a little more almost everyday. Since my husband is away, I had to get a video for him to see. Ian didn’t want to cooperate so I had to entice him with his toy. It makes for a funny me but whatever works, I say!





I am off to the lake for another boat ride tomorrow with a 4th of July celebration in the evening. Cross your fingers that I can learn to take good firework pictures.

Beauty

These are the times when you can really see God working in all his glory. My Grandfather had an uneventful surgery and woke up well. As of yesterday, he was in a lot of pain but that is to be expected and he is on his way to recovering back to his chipper self. My Visual Basic class is on its last week out of 8 weeks and I have been doing better than I could have ever imagined. I just might be looking at getting myself an “A” this semester! All the hard work has really paid off but I am not done yet, I still have one lesson and a final exam to complete.

With all the glorious things happening lately I decided that our home needed some more plants to liven things up. I picked up a few flowers to put in a window box, a tomato plant, and this plant that flowers but I am not sure what kind it is..I just thought it looked pretty.

"The unknown flowering plant"

"Sad looking tomato plant with flowers"

"I am too lazy to open the door and take a picture..enjoy the window"

"The free plant we got and seedlings that are trying to grow"

I might go today and pick up this rose tree I saw because it looked so pretty and who wouldn’t want to have fresh roses everyday? The cactus that got freezer burned this summer needs to go and a rose tree would be a perfect replacement.

I just need to keep Ian out of all the plants. He has found a friend in the rocks outside, as they have turned into his new favorite snack. We might just need a fence there since he likes to hang outside but just can’t keep those hands out of things :-P

"Crawling away"

"Playing by the front door"