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Have You Ever Thought About the Number 43?

by Lisa on July 13, 2012

Last night I was putting Levi to bed and he asked me, “Mommy, how many seconds does it take to put me to bed?” I didn’t feel like giving it much thought, so I just answered, “Oh, I don’t know, about 43 seconds.” “Oh,” he replied with a serious look on his face, “43 huh? That’s a number you don’t think about everyday.”

It’s so true. I don’t really give the number 43 enough thought.

Yesterday afternoon I had a rare treat of going out to lunch with some of my good friends. When we’re together we always, always laugh until we should be embarrassed by the disturbance we are causing. But we’re not embarrassed. The disturbance just makes us laugh even more. That’s the best kind of friends, the ones you can laugh with, then get serious, pray together then make fun of each other.

One of these precious friends is moving away and she asked me if I would like to come by her house and see if I wanted any of the “junk” she was leaving behind. When we pulled up to her old workshop she gestured toward a pile of wood scraps, “Do you want to rifle through this?” I looked back at her with a puzzled expression, “Why would I want a rifle?”

I may need to get my hearing checked.

But I did take a car full of treasures home with me.

I’ve got big plans for the leaky wheelbarrow and broken chair. And you can expect that big sheet of wood to show up somewhere in my etsy shop. Nothing goes to waste around here.

Today I’m taking Patience to the big city for some much needed Mommy/Patience time. We’ll stop at the craft store then have lunch and drive back home. It’ll be a quick trip, but plenty of time for girl talk. Maybe we’ll discuss the number 43 and decide if we need a rifle.

These are clearly subjects that I have neglected for too long.

Have a great weekend!

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A Birthday Weekend

by Lisa on April 2, 2012

One of these days I am going to put my feet up and leave them that way for a week. But then I think, someday the kids will all be gone and there I will sit with my feet up and wish I had things to do. So I embrace the business.

Last Friday I took Grace and a few of the other kids to Austin for her birthday. It was Grace’s 22nd birthday and there were some shops there that she likes, so off we went. But not before the brothers and sisters gave her some gifts.

It was the most gorgeous drive. The Texas wildflowers are in bloom and we just soaked it all in. So, so pretty. I could have kicked myself for not taking my camera. These are from my phone.

Noah was dying to go to the Lego store. He probably would have stayed all day if I would let him.

On Saturday morning Patience and I went out to a friend’s farm. They were having a planting party for their enormous garden. We went to take pictures. I’m not much of a dirt person. I will let Patience show you the pictures she took because I was busy sitting and fanning myself. I can give you tips on decorating, but I’m not much help when it comes to gardens.

Yesterday I filled shop orders while the boys mowed. Don’t you just love a freshly mown yard? It smells so good and feels so crisp and neat. Crisp and neat makes me happy. I could live on a golf course. Except I don’t play golf and I don’t want to.

Today is Patience’s 15th birthday so we’re off again to do some shopping. She invited her sisters to go, so we’ll paint the town red and be silly. I am sure there will be some Chick-fil-A involved and probably a lot of trying on clothes and wondering why they make everything so tight these days.

Maybe tomorrow I will put my feet up. This is a lot of activity for this tired mamma.

First SLR Images

by Lisa on January 10, 2012

Patience finally, after saving for over 2 years, bought herself an SLR camera. She’s been playing with it for the past few days and wants to show you a few of the pictures she’s taken.

Our ugly, falling down fence never looked so good.

Be still my heart….

Cool!

This last one is a card they have listed in their shop, Little Women….

How exciting to watch Patience learn to use her new camera. She’ll learn more in the next month than I have learned in 2 years of having my camera.

Youth. Ya gotta love it.

Kid to Kid: Try New Things

by Lisa on November 7, 2011

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I’ve been busy with my camera lately. These are a few of my favorites from last weekend.

I love playing with Scrabble tiles.

My sisters make great models for me to practice my close ups.

I’ve also been using my photographs to make Christmas cards for our etsy shop, Little Women.

I hope to encourage other kids to try new things and follow their interests. I just have a point and shoot camera and free Gimp photo editing software. I love learning new things by trying the different buttons on my camera and playing with lighting and scale.

Whatever you want to do….ask your parents to help you and work hard to learn. You never know what God has planned for your future!

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10

Patience’s Weekend Pictures

by Lisa on October 3, 2011

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We visited with friends over the weekend:

My sister, Grace:

Levi:

The field behind our house:

White Background

by Lisa on August 25, 2011

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I love white backgrounds, but unfortunately I don’t have a studio or a seamless white background like the pros.

I had Levi sit on a piece of foam core: about 24″x30″, and literally the edges of the photo are the edges of my makeshift white background. The trick was just not showing any edges, so it looks like my resources are a lot bigger than they really are.

I used two light souces.

1) The flash unit on my mom’s SLR. I just pointed it directly up at the white ceiling of the room, so it would bounce down as nice, even light.

2) Mini blinds! they may not be the nicest looking blinds, but they are awesome for diffusing window light, and getting just the right amount of light in your photo, at the exact angle you want it.

In this photo, he’s placed, directly next to the window, and I had the blinds mostly closed, but a little bit open, letting more soft, diffused light into my photo.

Even with careful light placement, without a big professional get-up, my white background is never going to be pure white, it usually turns out as a medium-light gray. So how do I get it to look really white?

I use a tool on my photo editing software. I use a free program called GIMP. I use a section called levels, and it’s used for making color, and brightness adjustments to your photo. In this photo, I picked the white eyedropper in the lower right hand corner, and clicked on a few of the spots that were supposed to be white in my photo, and voila! A perfectly white background. Now all you have to do is make minor color adjustments, and you have a profesional looking white backround!