My godson

 My best friend came over the other day and brought my godson with her.  He’s the one who I was making the babylegs for.  They were a little bigger than I had anticipated but after seeing him, and his fat little legs, they might just work.  I set them aside for awhile so I’ll have to pick them up again soon…before he starts walking! 

Anyway, I took some pictures while they were here….

 

 

 

 

 He has such gorgeous hair.  And he takes after his mother, which is a good thing.  I’m not so fond of her baby daddy.   

I’m realizing now that I posted mostly profiles.  It wasn’t intentional.  It’s just that most of the other pictures I took of him he didn’t look all that happy.

Quiet Waters Park

A few weeks ago, I took my dogs to Annapolis to visit Quiet Waters Park.  They have a dog park as wells as a dog beach.  My dogs aren’t big water dogs but they will (well, Beaker will) do anything for a frisbee.  These are some of my favorite pictures from the day. 

Because, sometimes one frisbee isn’t enough.

 

Actually, we have two because we have to tempt Beaker with one so he’ll drop the other one.  He’s that obsessed.

There is no such thing as sharing.

 

 

And back home again!

Themed photography: Eyes

I don’t know if any of you have checked out Nathan Lawrenson’s photography blog yet but you definitely should.  I like it because he’s an amateur photographer so it’s not so intimidating.  Recently, he started doing a theme of the week and you can leave a suggestion for what it should be in the comments section.  He picks one and then has the rest of the week to shoot, edit and post the pictures.  Well, this week he chose my suggestion, eyes.  So, therefore I had to post some pictures this week.  Since it was my idea and all.

So here are my favorites from shooting earlier this week.  I do most of my “shoots” at work.  I am a preschool teacher and have a classroom full of willing participants.  One boy in particular (the blue-eyed brown haired one) loves to have me take his picture.  As soon as I get out my camera he manages to weasel his way in to almost every picture.  “Ms. Kate, take a picture of me!”  “Ms. Kate, take a picture of me with (insert any name here).”  It’s quite cute.

     

I purchased Photoshop Elements not too long ago and as you can see, I’ve been having fun messing with my pictures.  There is still a TON of things to learn but so far I really like it.

I know I’ve been dragging my feet about posting pictures of some of the projects I’m working on but I’ve been busy working and stuff.  Sigh.  I really need to carve out some “me” time so I can actually finish some projects.  I’m great at getting them started but finishing them is another story.

Busy little bee

Ok, so I am not really that little but I have been busy.  Mostly with work but I have finished a few projects.  I think that is another reason I like making baby stuff.  It’s usually small and somewhat quick to finish. 

I finished the felt baby shoes and did another pair as well.  I don’t have pictures of the second pair yet but check out the finished red ones.

I also found a cute sunhat pattern and made one and am almost finished with another one.  I will try to get those pictures up on Wednesday. 

Felt baby shoes

You’ll probably notice a theme developing here. I make a lot of baby stuff. No, I don’t have any children but have been trying for quite some time, hence the whole baby theme. Anyway, I’ve just finished (well, one anyway) baby shoe. I think (and that’s all that really matters, right?) it’s the cutest thing EVER! I plan to put these on my Etsy store when they are done. It’s empty (my “store”) now because I want to put several things on there at once. I think it will look better. Enough about that. Check out the shoes….errr, shoe.

I can just picture a fat little foot wearing this. There will be a tie that goes through the eyelets…I just need to get some more embroidery floss. I think I will use the chocolate brown for the tie. Neither the blue or the green would look right.

Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C.

This past weekend my husband and I hopped on the metro to check out the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C.  We had  both been to D.C. before but had never seen the Cherry Blossoms or the monuments so we took a look at both.  The Cherry Blossoms were at their peak blooming weekend and they were BEAUTIFUL.  The perfect shade of the palest pink.

  

I took a bunch of pictures of the monuments too, but they weren’t as interesting as the flowers.

After all the fun (not so much though…it was REALLY windy) outside we headed down the mall to check out the Museum of Natural History.  We passed the prettiest tulips on the way.

The museum was pretty crowded but we managed to see most of what we came to see.  The 3D IMAX was awesome!  I didn’t get to go inside the live butterfly garden but that’s ok.  I saw this neat mosaic in the Western Civilizations exhibit.

What I was really interested in seeing was the orchid exhibit.  It was inspired by Charles Darwin’s work on evolution.  Pretty interesting.  And pretty, too.  The lighting was dim so I used a very high ISO which made for noisy pictures.  It was that or use the flash and wash them out.  I chose noise.

I took a ton of pictures but these were some of the better ones.  We plan to head back to D.C. in a few weeks to go to the National Zoo.  Just waiting on some warmer weather.  I don’t think I’ve been to that zoo since I was in middle school.  Should be a fun day!