merry christmas to me!

so. i got my christmas present early this year!!

as seen by the counter at the top of my blog, nicole & i are going cruising in the caribbean. my camera was getting old and i was ready for a new one... needless to say, santa decided to be a peach and grant me my christmas wish early this year! i got a panasonic lumix dmc-fh20 and i love it. it is fantastic! and i cannot wait to go take hundreds of pictures in the grand cayman islands and belize and honduras and mexico.... sigh. just a few more days! ps... just so everybody is aware i'm going to have a wicked hard time concentrating at work this week! lol!

this is my camera....

she's a beaut!

anyway... here are some random pictures that have been taken thus far...

haha... hayley & i were eating smarties tonight. i have no idea what this face is, but its making me laugh out loud every time i look at it. what a goof!!

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now for a little game i like to call "whose eye is it anyway?" 

and begin.

did you figure it out?

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1 ... dad

2 ... kelsey

3 ... me 

4 ... austin

5 ... mom 

6 ... me again 

(it was a trick... but i needed one more eye to make the grid even. haha.)

thanks for playing!!

:)

fish die...

fish die belly up & float towards the surface. is that their way of falling? just wondering....

anyway. i did a commissioned painting for my cousin... he really liked my other fish painting, so i figured i would use that as inspiration for the new one. he wanted a big painting to put above his king size bed. so this one is is 2 - 18x24's & 1 - 18x12. kinda huge... kinda simple, but absolutely fantastic. i'm pretty much in love with it.

fall festivities....

so... i had to work this weekend so i didnt really go to any halloween parties, i didnt dress up & i didnt even carve a pumkin. kinda lame? yeah, maybe so... but i did go to the corn maze out at buckelew farms last weekend [ps... it was also austin's first date! :) he was too cute! and it was fabulously fun!] and then last saturday we went to nightfall out at old tucson studios. i dont ever remember going there before, it was fun... not quite as scary as i expected, but it was still fun! anyway... here is the one picture from my halloween adventures. [hopefully adrian will post pictures of halloween before christmas gets here... lol].

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alrighty... so. halloween is over and it is time for thanksgiving... which means i get to redocorate! woot woot! i'm kinda a fan of thrift stores & diy right now if you hadnt noticed. lol... here's the whole shebang then i'll tell you about my wicked good deals :)
 

i'm in love with this sign... it was a $2 frame from a thrift store, $2 worth of scrapbook paper from michaels, and rusty wire from dad's shop. i had the ribbon and twine already. a cheap adorably cute thanksgiving sign for $4... not too bad, eh?

$3 for these candlestick holders... way cute. then i just used the paper covered balls [plus twine] from this project.

 i used the hurricane lamp from this project and wrapped a candle from the dollar store in the twine i already had... i dont have a picture for the little frame yet, soon enough though. and it will probably be one of hayley [much to austin's chagrin, haha]. and then i got this funny little cheese dish [does anyone know the actual name for it? not that it matters, i love it anyway.] it was $2 too... heck yes.

 

mom got this cute turkey from kohls for super duper cheap too, but i cant seem to recall how much, but it was a wicked good deal. 

how cute is our seriously cheap thanksgiving decorations?! 

i love them.