My Alice in Wonderland

I think most people are aware that I have a fascination with Alice in Wonderland. I think it's just the sort of out there imagination of this little girl that speaks to a lot of girls. Sophia reminds my of how Alice would look as she's imagining this make believe world full of wonder...Sophia was so excited being my model today. She said she wanted to be in a mazagine...(yes, I'm aware it's not spelled correctly but that's the way she pronounces it). 

The Paper Flowers

This whole day I carried my camera with me everywhere I went. I always think that the photograph I want to take it going to be this like incredible thing that is going to bolt in my face screaming "Take my picture, take my picture" but I didn't get that big kaboom. Instead just as I was giving up on having a unique photograph today, I looked at my very own dining room table and spotted the very photograph waiting to be taken. My paper flowers...

I made these flowers from a book my old boss made me read once. It was actually a good book but I'm trying to reuse, recycle and re-purpose, so instead of getting .50 for it at Half Price books, I decided to make something with it. With the help of my Cricut, I made these beautiful flowers. And I'll have you know that I took them to my sisters Christmas party for a gift exchange game she plays and they were not appreciated. So I won them back and brought them home. I guess not all people appreciate the work of someone's hands. But in the end, I've received a lot of compliments for my paper flowers sitting right on my table. Where they should be. 

Making Photos Have A Story...or Photos Of Books With Stories

So there's a growing stack of books that I have intentions of reading...I used to be able to read a new book every week, but with a new baby, your priorities change a bit. A lot of the books I read are "chick" books, not to be confused by "romance" novels. I want to start reading biographies. I once heard this speaker say that reading biographies gives you perspective. I believe that. Hopefully next time I take a photograph of the books I want to read there is less books and more biographies. 

On a side note: I love tea......

and this is why cats get a bad rap...

So I still feel terribly sick, but the weather is beautiful and I'm determined to make a photograph everyday. I tell Sophia that I want to photograph her shoes. So I get down all the way to the ground, feeling all the drainage stomped up in my sinus slowing making its descend and I really just want to take a couple of shots then call it a day and what does my cat, Mylo, decide to do...well he wants in on the action too! Of course I'm hacking a lung here and Sophia is trying to maintain her pose and he DOESN'T GET OUT OF THE WAY! Needless to say, it took some heavy threatening and at that he leisurely strolled out of the frame...I did get a better image of her shoes but I really felt this one had a bigger story. Make your photographs have a story. Oh and continue praying for me, every time I cough I feel like my head is going to E X P L O D E....not a fun feeling......................

Sick...

So I am admitting I'm sick...I really didn't want to start the year off like that but I'm praying I get better soon. Maybe it was all the strenuous gardening work, ha! Anyway, one of my resolutions was to take a picture everyday so here goes 

I wish I could say something more about why I shot these photographs but I am pretty sure the medicine has
    kicked
             in
                because
                       I'm 
                            really
                                  really
                                       drowsssssssssssyyyyy

2011...I mean 2012 Resolutions

So I thought of my new years resolutions yesterday...I also looked back to last years...I actually accomplished a lot of last years resolutions so I'm really hoping to check off the ones for this year. Funny how gardening was last years resolution but I started it today. I didn't mean to really. I woke up, did my bible devotion and had a daily cup of joe.

My hubby had already started doing lawn work and as I walked back I was greeted with this patch of a mess. The owner before us had a beautiful garden there once and I've just let it be over taken with weeds and grass. So with out a moments delay I dug in

 (literally)

Even got the kids in on the fun...

Meet some new friends...

and after all our hard work I got myself a clean bed to start my new garden... 

Tune in tomorrow to see what I'm going to plant...

Ando de Gallo!

I'm so frustrated with my brother...I shall not name him, but really he has been so selfish with my mom lately. I really don't even know how to begin, but I think writing it down will help to let it go...I hope...Both my brothers go to get my mom at the border, I pitch in for gas because it's my mom ya know. So they go and bring her back, then I find out that my brother buys his MIL a kindle, PLEASE, the lady does not even crack open a book much less need a kindle but whatever, it's not really about the gift for her but that my brother didn't get my mom a gift! I mean this is the brother who comes to every single birthday party without a gift EVER!!!! So frustrating!!! We did not grow up that way, like it's RUDE...but anyway back to my mom...so then I text my brother, to hopefully wake up his conscious and this idiot responds, first: that his gift to my mom was picking her up at the border, whatever!!! He went at the LAST minute and he split the gas with my other brother. Then his second excuse was that he sends my mom money throughout the year so that's her gift!!!!!!!!! He's sent a total of $60 that I can recall, and this is for BOTH my mom and my dad for their living expenses!!!!! OMG! I think this writing it down is not working...I'm getting all worked up again...I don't want to blame his wife for this because he should stand up for his own mother, but both of them are so careless with their finances. Later they'll both be asking for money because they don't administer it right when they have it. They use they're children as collateral for sympathy and it's so annoying. Currently my brother is getting unemployment benefits, aka a check, every two weeks, PLUS he has a job that pays him cash on the side and about $600 a week he says...oh wait, plus $900 worth of food stamps every month, what a rip-off...I know I'm not perfect, this is only a rant, I love my brother and his wife and their kids but I just really needed to get it off my chest...hope I feel at peace soon.