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So I bought an SD card reader a few weeks ago so I could load photos on my computer from my camera. Though after loading all the senior and engagement photos the SD reader has come up missing in the Bermuda Triangle known as our house. I was willing to pay a whole dollar  to whoever found it though after an hour we called off the search party in defeat. So when I find it I will post my photos I took at the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera exhibit at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (that is if I still feel like it is relevant enough to post them). In lieu of the Kahlo/Rivera pictures I have decided to post about my clumsy learnings in sewing and leathersmithing (is that a word?). I've taken advantage of my time with my family and had my mom teach me how to put in a zipper and how to change the needle on my sewing machine. Back in November of last year my friends and I tracked down leather couches being given away on Craigslist so we could skin them and reuse the leather. We ...

I've been a busy bee these past few weeks. I have been able to spread things out a bit though due to the rain on Thursday I had to move my little sister's senior photo shoot to Saturday which just so happened to be the same day as the engagement photo shoot I had scheduled. I now have several edited and I am sharing some of my faves with you. Autty's Senior Photos Julia & John's Engagement Photos Until later... xoxo r

STEP 1: Pick out a postcard while you are at Hammerpress during the Crossroad's Art District First Friday. Priscilla made sure I got my postcard selection recorded by being my paparazzi.  We have a winner! STEP 2: Create a leather envelope to be used as a wallet (pictures on this later). STEP 3: Make caramel candies and wrap them in parchment paper. (Note: caramels are very sticky and will fuse to the wax paper -___-)  STEP 4: Make a reusable drawstring canvas bag to hold caramels. STEP 5: Find a reusable box to ship it in from Blackwell Thrift Store. Oh you know, just a hallway of mirrors that leads to nowhere. I prefer the center box but the postcard doesn't fit.  I liked the pop of color and the metal clasp of the first one, so that is the one I went with. STEP 6: Package it all up and send it to the Steven, the ...

As I mentioned in my past post, I have been doing more hands on work with my business instead of doing it long-distance. Its been really fun meeting clients and taking tours. Though taking measurements of all the signage at apartment complexes was kind of disorienting with all the curves and ins and outs. I have taken two in depth tours at two of our suppliers/manufacturers locations. It was like watching Mr. Rogers taking a tour of factory, only this was real life. (My fave Mr. Rogers sode was the one where they manufacture crayons O_O). My first tour was at Custom Color which I took some pictures at (see below). We get most of our large scale banners and signage printed at Custom Color, they have printers that can print banners the size of skyscrapers on any material you could imagine. Some of the printers are so large that if you hollowed them out I could live inside of it comfortably. They have two rare and highly technilogical printers that print on fabric using colored gas, th...

Internet activity has caused me to fail at my post-every-day-of-August challenge. So we are now changing it to post-as-much-as-possible-during-the-month-of-August challenge. My birthday was this past Monday and it was super perfect. I spent the afternoon eating at Andre's Confiserie Suisse and birthday shopping with my Gma. And then later that evening I had several family members over for a summery birthday dinner (bratwurst, potato salad, watermelon,  spicy spinach madeline, etc.) and had a homemade gradient cake with almond extract icing...mmmmm. I basically have this week split up in two categories... 1.) birthday extraveganzas 2.) work related ventures. Since Monday I have been doing tours of different print shops and factories for my business (that I co-own) and getting inspired by the endless possibilities there are in printing materials and die-cut machines. More on that later! This evening I was treated to Oklahoma Joes (the original location that is connected to a...

I just realized that I didn't blog today and that I have no idea as to what to talk about except for the fact that in 30 minutes I will no longer be 26. O_O Aging never has really bothered me. It means I have survived and hopefully thrived and become wiser. The main thing I don't like about aging is feeling like I haven't done enough with the time I have been given thus far. I used to be more of a home-body, but I realized life is about experiences and relationships. You have to put yourself out there and do things that mean the most to you, and meet new people and tell stories along the way. Sometimes I am good at this, other times I burrow away and read a book or go on long walks talking to myself. Which I guess are good experiences too. Either way you put it, I am glad I am going to be a year older. (Evidently it took me 15 minutes to write this, because I am now 15 minutes away from 27) xoxo r

Since I have been in Kansas I have visited a great many galleries and thrift stores. I went to First Fridays at the Crossroads Art District as you know from my last post. And as promised I have photos to share with you. Autumn, Priscilla and I met up at the Belger as usual and took to the streets. We had a fantastic photobooth picture taken at the photobooth bus! I'll have to put that picture up soon! This was Autumn's favorite piece of the night. Autumn ran into some of her friends.  Following the galleries and the acrobats, we walked down to 18th Street to see the breakdancers outside of Birdies (see videos from yesterday). We then thought it would be fun to go to the Liberty Memorial and get some nice night shots.  Priscilla and Autumn were very inspired by the breakdancers and tried out some of their moves. I think they have perfected their moves, ...