Spring Cleaning
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Maya Angelou We had a industrious weekend at home, I caught the spring cleaning bug so I’ve been sorting out a lot of things around…
Directions
I’ve been finding myself working on quite a few different things over the weekend. Changing the layout of the blog, adding in new features (such as my new portfolio link in the top right) which ended up taking a fair…
Let it Snow
I woke up on Saturday morning to see beautiful fat flakes of snow through the window, falling lazily to an already white-covered ground below. Mikey and my husband were both still snuggled up and cozy in bed. I pulled my…
Christmas Tree
The fetching of our lovely Christmas Tree. This is the biggest tree we’ve had the entire time we’ve been married, and we still had to ask the nice man to cut it down for us so that it would fit…
Thanksgiving with friends
We spent Thanksgiving at our neighbour’s house. We share a back porch, left our doors open and wandered back and forth with drinks and dishes of delicious food all afternoon as we were cooking, rushing as we braced ourselves for…
The Whistling Wind
The wind certainly whistles around the corners of our apartment building on those cold days, making cheeks and ears glow red. Last week we made sure all of the storm windows were closed and we’ve been mostly cozy in our…
Walking on a Sunny Morning
We’ve been having some beautiful Autumn weather, bright sunshine with a cool crisp breeze. My favourite kind of weather and perfect for doing outdoor projects with Mikey, so long as we dodge the odd shower of rain. We like to…
Weekend Reading
Some painting we did with watercolours earlier in the week. Mikey chose himself the same colours as the leaves he’d collected last week, I mixed the watercolours and soaked the paper before we headed out to the back porch to…
Annie
A while back I asked Annie if she would model for me so that I could do some more portrait practice. After all, taking photos of the same subject all of the time gets a little boring… even if he…
At the fair on an evening in August
A few photographs taken last Friday at Will County Fair. I feel as though I must have packed last week a little too full, I’ve barely had time to stop. Visiting Mikey’s vovô and vovó, and going to the fair. Making…
