Eleni

THIS is why Flickr is so freaking cool

One day while I was mindlessly surfing, ahem, doing research for Eleni by surfing Flickr, I somehow came across a photostream by a gal named Tess and I immediately fell in love with her photos.  Intrigued, I poked around her profile and found her website, low and behold much to my delight I found that she's LOCAL!  I was ecstatic, I mean stuff like this doesn't happen to me, I look on Flickr, and read fun blogs and everyone is so far away, but yet   I hemmed and hawed for a bit, (don't know why) toyed with the idea of family photos, but wasn't sure if I should do it.  Then on a whim (or looking for a distraction from cleaning) I logged on, called her up and we made a date.  The day after Thanksgiving she arrived at our humble abode with her camera, and well,  I'll just let the photos speak for themselves...

I have over 100 photos from the shoot and am in love with each and every one equally.  I can't say enough nice things about Tess or her wonderful gifts, thank you for making these so special!

PS-two posts in two days, aren't I miss fancy pants?

all our fall crap

That's it, what was once a wondorus and festive harvest-y display, was a big pile of crap on my front lawn yesterday.  Although the munchkin and I are both sick, we braved the cold yesterday to help with what I hope is the final fall cleanup of our yard, but there are some leaves still up in those trees so we will see.

I have been busy with orders and stuff but I hope to post more regularly because I am a big fat blogging slacker, and for that I aploogize, bad bad Helena :(

It's on baby....

My babes turns 1 next month and we will be celebrating his birthday and what should be a national holiday on Thanksgiving weekend.  We are doing it early so my brothers' girlfriend, who's also my favorite Brit, gets to witness the festivities before she crosses the pond to go home.  Anyway, we've chosen a theme based upon a photo we had taken on that trip to the White Mountains. 

We all know I like cowboys and am really sort of obsessed with it actually, so we are going at it full force. I'm ready for a house full of crazy kids, looking forward to running the vacuum 17 times to get ground-in cake out of my carpet, can't wait for the screams of "it's my turn", the whines and the general chaos that will ensue all for my baby's first birthday party.  I'm thinking though that if things get too out of control,  I've got the ginormous camera, and I'm not afraid to blackmail kids into behaving.  I  will point, shoot and post here if parents don't control their children.  So bring it on I say, BRING IT ON!