Posts filed under 'Photography'
My Quilts
I just got a new quilt while I was home for Memorial Day weekend. I took some pictures of it, as requested by the ladies at work. While I was getting ready to post the pictures I realized that I have never taken pictures of our wedding quilt.
Here is the first quilt. At Brian and I’s wedding we had the guests sign red fabric hearts. In the following months my grandma made a quilt using the hearts.
This is the signature from my mom and dad’s heart. If you look close you can see the hand stitching by my grandma.
If you look REALLY closely you can see the hand quilted heart design by my grandma.
This is the quilt that I got over the weekend.
This was started by my paternal great grandma.
Then was worked on by my paternal grandma.
Then lately my maternal grandma has started to finish the quilts that had been started long ago. She is currently working on another that is a double wedding ring for my sister. After that there are two more that need finished.
My sister did the tying.
Now I want to hand quilt it. Of course I have never hand quilted and don’t really know what I’m doing or have the needed equipment. I’ve been reading about quilting. Now I just need to pick a design and buy some equipment. Any tips from seasoned quilters out there? I would also like to add a patch to the back with our names, maybe in a family tree type of design.
Oh, does anyone know the name of this quilt design?
2 comments May 31, 2008
My first photography shoot
I just wanted to let you know that I have posted pictures from my first photography shoot on my photography blog and Flickr account. Head over and check them out. I will be posting more over the next few days as I finish editing them. Let me know what you think!
Also, as you can see over at my other blog, I am offering free photography sessions right now. Let me know if you’re interested!
1 comment May 30, 2008
Family Film Friday
I’ve taken on a huge project this week. I’m moving all of my pictures from my laptop over to the desk top’s external drive. The bad part is that some of these pictures are already on the external drive, so I’m having to sort through everything, get them into folders and delete duplicates. In the long run I’m hoping that this will help my annoyingly slow laptop speed up a little bit.
Looking through all of the old family pictures that I have scanned over the past few years I can’t help but notice all of the pictures of my grandad being abbused by us four granddaughters.
This is a picture of Grandad and I at my first birthday party. I had just stuck my hand in the cake, that’s him grabbing it out of the cake and keeping me from smearing icing everywhere. When I was younger and we would look at this picture together I would tell him that he had put my hand in the cake.
This is my cousin Kristen and I sitting on his lap. This man’s poor legs sure took a beating from all of us, but he never complained once.
This is my sister Angie playing dress up with Granddad. We have so many pictures of poor Granddad dressed up in women’s dresses and wigs. This poor man that farmed the same land he was born on and hunted spent his days playing dress up with four crazy girls.
He loved the Lord and his family. He was a good man. As far as I’m concerned there’s nothing better than a man that would do anything for his family and kids. I just wish God hadn’t taken him so soon so we could have all learned from him in our adult lives.
1 comment May 23, 2008
Happy Birthday Dad and uncle Don!
Add comment April 4, 2008
Happy Birthday Brian!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy birthday honey! I love you!
1 comment March 31, 2008
My new blog!
Add comment March 27, 2008
Happy Birthday Grandpa!
1 comment March 17, 2008
Randomness
I haven’t weighed myself in almost a month. Mostly because I haven’t been as good as I should be and I’ve been scared to see the results. Well, I weighed myself today and I’ve lost 1.5 pounds since then. I can handle that. Especially since I haven’t counted a single point or worked out since then.
I bought a digital SLR finally! I got it a few days ago. I’m still playing with it trying to figure out all of the wheels and buttons. I got a Nikon D70 from E-bay that came with two lenses, a bag, 5 gigs of memory, and a few other things.
I had to order a memory card reader from e-bay last night. The camera didn’t come with the cable I need to hook it to my computer, and the memory card doesn’t fit in any of the slots on my computer. So, it will be a few days before I can actually upload any pictures from it and post them.
We ended up getting between 10 and 12 inches of snow. I think we’re going to go to the dog park again today. I’ll try to post some pictures from yesterday and today that I took with my other digital camera when we get back home. Hopefully Brian and I don’t end up fallling. There is no salt anywhere in Cincinnati and we used the last of ours a few weeks ago. Most of the towns around here don’t even have salt left to put on the roads. Hurry up spring! I’m ready for some warm weather!
Add comment March 9, 2008
Family Film Friday
I’m going to post some pics of my mom’s brother Jr. His real name is Virgil, but since he’s Virgil Jr, he’s “Jr” by everyone in our family.
Jr and my aunt Janet
Jr, my mom, and my aunt Doris
Add comment March 7, 2008
Congratulations Erin!
My friend Erin just got engaged to a great guy Jake! So, to celebrate I’m posting another family film post today. Congrats girl!
We’ve been best friends since 2nd grade. I’m not sure what grade this was. Fourth grade Halloween maybe?
A Jr High pic, I think this is at a Valentines dance.
This is at our Junior Prom.
Our Senior prom. We were each others “date”. We had both given up on boys for the time being.
High School Graduation
I love you! May God bless your marriage!
Oh, and we found out about two pregnancies this week. One friends, another family. I was going to post pics of the new parents, but I’m not sure who all knows about them yet. So, you know who you are! Congrats on the new peanuts!
Add comment February 16, 2008
