Showing posts with label Instax Mini. Show all posts
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Instant Adventures #11 + Hospital Fun!

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I was trying to write a post about my Mom's knee surgery but I just couldn't get my words right so here's a photo post instead!

1. Rowers gonna row on the Chattachoochee
2. A cute face found outside of Pressed Panini Bar in the Marietta Square
3. Delicious Mint Chocolate Chip gelato from Sarah Jean's Ice Cream in the Marietta Square
4 - 6. Instax Minis of the traffic I sat through during the busiest Friday ever: Music Midtown, the BET Awards,  1 of 7 Garth Brooks concerts, and a Braves game all going on at the same time!
7. Channeling my inner Fly Girl with Lauren 
8. My Mom's knee after surgery
9. Fancy hospital breakfast
10. Second breakfast, of course!
11. My Mom and me right before she was able to go home :)

Hope you all had a great week!
Happy Friday!

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Weekend Adventures + Signs

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Saturday, the old man and I ventured up to Gainesville, GA for a birthday cookout with his family and I swear it was a time vortex!  We lost track of time going up there and we lost track of time while we were there.  It wasn't anything major, we just didn't know where the time had gone...

On the way home, we stopped by a fair.  It felt a little sketchy, so we didn't stop but I managed to snap a photo of the ferris wheel while waiting for the light to change.

Sunday, we went on a bit of a wild goose chase for this angel statue my Mom had told me about.  The details were vague: it was a beautiful angel at the top of a hill on one of her "famous" backroad shortcuts to one of her first jobs in Georgia.  Armed with that (and Google Maps), the old man and I set out on a mini adventure and found 2 historical cemeteries located inside...neighborhoods?

Yes, neighborhoods!  I wasn't dressed for adventuring, so I treaded very lightly and only managed to get the above shot of a tombstone of a thirty year old woman who passed on in 1890.  I also learned what Poison Ivy and Poison Oak look like!  Luckily, I didn't have any close encounters with them :)

Later that afternoon, I went over to W and B's house where we talked about signs and synchronicity and our own intuition.  W told me she could see her aura and I helped her (as best as I could) interpret what it meant to her, which spiraled into a wonderful explosion of creativity!  W called up her friend and we had him narrate over some footage W had filmed and let him be our voice to get our sadness out so we can let more love in!  It was awesome!

Okay - so where do the signs come in?  On Saturday, I was listening to my favorite YouTube channels and on the way to Gainesville (between short naps) I scrolled through Instagram and saw this beautiful post by my favorite inspirational lady, Xanthia Pink.  I don't usually comment (because I'm afraid that more popular users will scroll on by and only reply to their friends) but I felt so compelled to tell her how much that post meant to me at that moment and guess what???  She replied!  It was so uplifting and so wonderful that I had to keep the momentum going.  So - Sunday, W and I had the beginnings of a breakthrough and then yesterday, I had just grounded myself and a few minutes later, my old man came home and told me there was the most beautiful bird perched on the bush near where I had grounded.  Then, I was on the phone with Lauren in my back yard and there was a loud chirping.  Lauren could hear it clear as day and wanted to know what it was.  I looked around and in the tree tops, it was a Cardinal!  Why is that a big deal?  That's her spirit animal!  (maybe it was trying to tell her something!)

Then, I went inside (because of the mosquitoes) and attempted something I had done in a while: I pulled a tarot card to represent a person.  The last time I did that, I pulled a card for a very special person in my life and got the Ace of Cups - which scared me a little because I pulled this card for this person on their birthday and the emotions expressed were pretty spot-on.  So, I shuffled my deck until I was ready to pull and I got The Sun for a particular person.  It freaked me out a little but I liked the message it was giving me so I pulled another for another person and I got the Seven of Swords.

I know I'm being the Mayor of Vague Town but it makes sense to me.  The fact that I've stumbled back on this path through these YouTube channels and the rediscovery of my intuition...something feels so right but I need to do more spirit work.  I was listening to Caroline, a recent YT discovery of mine, on my way to work and it just clicked!  Now, all I have to do is take that first step!  Exciting and scary but it will be worth it!

Hope you're having an awesome Tuesday!

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Instant Adventures #10

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1. Victorian playhouse (and mysterious blob) at Swan House
2 - 5. Swan House
6. Tiny house (and mysterious blob) in the Alpharetta Square
7. One (of many) flower pots around Alpharetta Square
8. Abandoned farm in the Crabapple area
9. Cemetery in the Crabapple area

On Instagram, I joke that the mysterious blobs that develop on my Instax Mini prints are ghosts saying "Hi!" :)

How is your week going?

Happy Wednesday!

Monday, July 7, 2014

Weekend Adventures: Dino-corn + Summer Swap!



1. American Dino-corn is ready to paarrr-taaayyy! // 2. I accompanied the old man on a photo walk adventure around Alpharetta and snapped an Instax of this alterations place that has been there forever! // 3. My super sweet summer swap with Marisa! // 4. Some Rifle-inspired watercolor experimentation

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We celebrated the 4th of July and it was...hilarious!  My dad took over pyrotechnic duties (as usual) and lit up the sky for us to enjoy and it was a lot of fun.  I got to showcase my Baby Whisperer skills with my Dad's girlfriend's daughter's daughter - try saying that 3x fast!  I keep being told I'm great with kids and while I enjoy hanging out with kids, I don't see any in my future.

Marisa and I also did a Summer Swap!  Here's her post with all the items I sent her!  I sent her some Instax photos, some watercolors, a dinosaur (!), a cute little pouch I picked up at H&M, some camera stickers for her journaling, the flyer for my sister's store opening and some other little odds and ends that I thought she would enjoy!  :)
She sent me a Quartz with Amethyst (which I'm charging on my window sill), an address book - which I was totally planning on getting (!), some wonderful pens and pencils, a flower, bow tie stickers and some other super-awesome stuff!  I flipped out when I saw the 9 of Swords tarot card in there because: 1) That particular deck has a unicorn theme, 2) How did she know I'm learning the tarot?!, and 3) It's a sad card, apparently.  I feel like it is representative of her current situation and it could also be representative of mine at the same time.  Weird, right?!  More on that later...

In order to calm my mind, I picked up some watercolors and attempted to try my hand at some Rifle Paper Co. style flowers.  I think I did a good job but there's always room for improvement.  I also need to develop my own style, but I'm doing that another way.  More on that later as well!!

I hope your weekend was fun and full of adventures!
Have a great week!

Monday, June 23, 2014

Instant Adventures #9

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This weekend was quite the colorful and creative one!  I spent a lot of time at my friends' house helping set up a blue screen on Friday for test shooting on Saturday and in between, I found myself enjoying the wildflowers outside of two of my local Whole Foods.  They were so pretty!

1: Weeds and/or wildflowers 
2: Begonias
3: Hydrangea and purple coneflower mix
4: A little bee perched on a purple coneflower
5: Purple coneflower
6: Little flowers I painted for the June Challenge at the Postal Society

Happy Monday!

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Instant Adventures #8


We've been having a great time in Florida! Since we don't get to vacation often, this has been a great distraction.  If you want to see more adventures, follow along on Instagram!

1: My most favorite neon sign in the entire universe
2-3: Hogwarts!
4: The beach at Picnic Island
5: Henry B. Plant Museum aka The Old Tampa Bay Hotel aka University of Tampa
6: A sort of dark photo of the Don CeSar Hotel

Hope you're having a wonderful week!

Friday, May 30, 2014

Florida Adventure!

Church - St. Petersburg, FL Found a hermit crab house. No hermit crab tho This lil guy wants a bite of my sandwich Pier 60 St. Petersburg, FL Pier 60 - Clearwater Beach, FL

Hello from sunny Florida!  The old man and I are taking a much-needed vacation to undo a lot of the stress we've encountered lately and so far, I think I need to try and relax a little harder...I may or may not have gotten wound up about the seagull in photo #4.  Why?  Because I thought: "Hey, why not stop at the ol' Whole Foods, get some lunch items and have a picnic on the beach?"  Okay, so far so good.  I got a delicious sandwich from the best Whole Foods since the one in Philly and we were on our merry way to the lovely Clearwater Beach.  Once there, we made camp and started our picnic when some uninvited friends came.  I would've fed them some of my bread but I know if I fed one, I'd have to feed them all.  I also ended up eating the entire sandwich instead of half, like I originally planned.  These seagulls would've totally pecked through our stuff to get to that sandwich!
I was able to calm down a little, though.  I guess I just need to remind myself that it's okay to relax!  :)

1.  Instax Mini from the GA/FL state line
2. This church is beautiful and I love the stained glass.  We have dubbed this church "Heavy Metal Church" and/or "Rock n' Roll Church" (but you have to sing it like an 80's Glam Metal singer when you say it!)
3. We found this former hermit crab home on the beach yesterday
4. This little seagull (and five more of his friends later on) was trying to get some of my sandwich!
5. The view from Pier 60 in Clearwater, FL
6. A boarded up house in St. Petersburg
7. I LOVE the "Greetings from" post cards and I'm so happy that I've been seeing that design as art around here!  Greetings from Pier 60!

Has your weekend started?  Do you have any fun plans?

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Instant Adventures #7

Rolls Royce Instax Attack! On a cannon

This past week has been a busy one! I'm glad we get a long weekend :)

1. While running an errand on a rare lunch break, I saw a pretty and old Rolls Royce
2. My Instax Minis from the day I went to Roswell Presbyterian Cemetery
3. You can barely see us but Cynthia snapped Lauren and I saluting while perched on a cannon in Decatur.  You can see more Decatur adventures from Friday night here, here and here!

I hope you're having an awesome weekend! 
Do you have any fun plans?