What I'm Wishing

this is what i'm wishing for on such a rainy crappy day...

i want a nice cozy room with these gorgeous lit stars. i want that dining room table and that couch and that wall.

(All photos courtesy of IKEA blog)

NOLA pics

since it's taken forever for me to grab the pics from Bennett's memory card, i finally got them. this was my first endeavor with the Nikon. granted the light meter wasn't working, and it's not like I knew that or anything...anyway. i love New Orleans. i have a massive love affair with this city, and want to go pretty much every weekend. and it's not Bourbon Street and the drinking and the beads, it's so much more than that. it's the old houses, the food, the music...everything. if it wasn't so damn expensive to live there, i would totally move. last time we were there, we even caught a second-line parade after the wedding. this was not our video, but i wanted to show you what i'm talking about.

Here's some of our pics from the trip...

best beignets and hot chocolate in town. you can buy the mix at a ton of places around new orleans, including at the place. there's usually a long line, so make sure you get there early.

Picnik

i cannot believe i didn't know about this little website before. i have been playing with it all day! it's a neat photo website that lets you black and white, crop, have fun effects, add borders, etc. i could play on this thing all day. below are a few examples of the funness i've been having . i know you have seen some of these pictures before, but they're different!!

i mean, so much fun right?!!! most of the time, i like the look of all natural, but sometimes it's fun to actually see what your wedding photograper did to make only your face in focus and the rest blurry. this is probably a poor man's lightroom or photoshop, but since those are expensive, and this is, well not, i'll stick to this one for now.

www.picnik.com --- go have fun.