BLOOD IS THICKER THAN MUD

KINDERGARTEN BOUND

Welcome to the next step of your life son. Now Mama's gonna go home and cry her eys out.

My baby is a big boy OFFICIALLY now. My father was right when he said, "the older you get the faster time goes."

CAST AWAY

All photos from Spell

TUMBLR LOVE

DREAMIN MY LIFE AWAY

So I have always had the dream of selling my photography.  I have talked about it for I don't even know how long. I have some great photos I have taken that people tell me they love, or want, or I should frame.

I always had a little fear of.....rejection I guess.  I mean what if I spend the money to frame them and pay the money to set up a booth and set there for three days and don't sell even one.

Well I guess that would be worst case scenario right?  So they say think of the worst case and even though you may not like it can you live with it?  Well I guess I would have to, right?

I decided after I moved back to MO in August 2010 that I could be ready the following September 2011 to set up a booth.  Every year the city where I live has an Oktoberfest the last weekend of September (I know Oktoberfest in September but I don't make the rules) and they have all types of craft booths, games, music, rides, etc.

So I am going to do it.  I am going to shell out the money for the booth & to frame my photography and pray I at least come out even. :) I guess you never know until you try.  There are also some coffee shops around that carry people art or photography on their wall for people to buy.  I don't think the sales are big, but at least it would be out there I guess.

I haven't decided what I want to call my photography yet.....I thought about Far From Perfect Photography....but in The Sisters of the Perpetual Saturday my nickname is Boogie Butterfly.....so I've thought about Boogie Butterfly Photography. I've just doodle around with it:

So I am excited and nervous and excited and nervous and......well you get the point, right? 

So if you're in Missouri in September come and buy something and 
keep my dream alive..............

CHANGES...THEY ARE A COMING

Yes I have been on hiatus for quite some time.  I have had some changes going on in my life.
So I have left my big Lone Star state and moved back to my home state of Missouri is the basic of it.
I'm finally getting settled and ready to get back into my creative outlet of blogging & photography. This is the last pictures I took of the Lone Star as a resident with my camera. (I did take some cell phone pics on the drive.)

I am still getting settled in the new pad.  I do like my cute little house.  It's a big change from all the Texas big. I snapped a few shots around the pad to share.

In the living room I put up some of my favorite photography pictures that I have framed so far.

I've been wanting to get these in frames for a long time and I finally did.  I'm a bit of a procrastinator.....duh.

My long obsession with cook books.  I have more but these were the ones that actually looked OK to have out. :) I know in this day and age you can pull recipes off the net in a flash, but I just love cook books and the pictures in them.

This is one of the plants from my co-workers back in The Lone Star.  I have not killed it....yet.  It's so green & luscious I hope I can keep it alive.

Some views of outside.

I always wanted to put up twinkle lights outside on the patio.  I need to get another set, but for now I have a string of purple lights.  It keeps it lit and is kind of intimate but is not bright enough to attract all the bugs.

This is a photo of an apple tree.  I have two apple trees and a crab apple tree.  This keeps my back yard full of nature.  Birds, squirrels, and rabbits galore.  I love going out in the morning with a cup of coffee and just watching.  These apple trees and crap apple trees also have provoked an obsessive search for recipes with apples and crab apples.  We'll have to see what I can come up with in future recipe blogs.

In the back yard their were all these rock some buried and some just hanging out in a random spot in the middle of the yard.  One of our first projects was the boys and I digging up these rocks and making our own fire pit. Can wait to light it up and as a recommendation from my Mama cut branches off the apple trees and use them to roast  hot dogs over the fire pit.  Perfect for September & October. That is why I rushed to get it done.

Photo of sunrise in the morning.

I'm sure I will post more photos as I get settled in to my cute little pad. I will try to get my creative butt in gear and get my blog back on.
 

WEIRD & COOL