Photography Books

In an effort to raise fund for the upcoming wedding, we've decided to self publish and sell some of our photographs in book form. We actually found a really fantastic website that has made the process very easy and almost painless. Please check out the website here. All the funds from the sale of our books will go towards our super fantastic wedding. Check back for updates as we will be putting up new books as we continue to shoot.

Thank you!
-K

mostly about hansel and lily our cats

This blog is dedicated to those furry little ones who keep us on our toes and bring joy to our days. This will also serve as a pictoral introduction to our family...aka the kids, our cats.


here's Hansel
this is hansel as a kitten











These are a few of the pictures I have of my oldest cat RIP Z



Hansel and Z enjoying a nice fall day.



In Z's passing brought sadness to the whole household including Hansel. So we decided to adopted a few new family members for us and Hansel.


Here's a picture of Lilly one of the first few days we had her. She's about 4 weeks old; we think



Lilly's about 3 months old below



Below is Hex....she's part siamese and very vocal and weird. This pictures sums her up perfectly....





And then there's Zander.......he's my (tim) cat; Kay tolerates him. There's no picture of him because he's too big. But seriously he is a big cat; I didn't say fat, I said big boned. And neither one of us have a good picture of him. But he's big and black. He's Hex's brother.

Here are a few more recent pictures of the kids.















With that said it's late on the east coast and it looks like lilly has the right idea..................



bed time
tk

We need a new lamp...

so we all have that favorite item in our houses/apts; mine happened to be an Ikea lamp (see picture below). well very long story short we got Lilly was 5 weeks old and she used to climb on said lamp without hurting it and it was cute. Well as Lilly got older she gained weight and she realized she has claws. Well the old saying the older you get the wiser you get does not apply to cats because one day i got a picture and a video message on my phone from Kay. There are several things wrong with this last sentences. First I own a phone that i can receive video messages from another phone; we can invent phones that take, send and receive video messages but we can not cure various cancers; oh sorry I digressed. But the other thing wrong is that my poor lamp had been found beaten nearly half to death. I know this because I have pictorial and video evidence. After arriving back to my residence I examined the crime scene myself. I inspected everything and reached the decision that the lamp is completely fine. The picture and video was a joke. The light still worked; it may be in 3 or more pieces but it works. Look at the pictures below and you'll see what i found.

-tk

Our Lamp Before...



Our Lamp Now...



The Culprits

Lily... we used to call her Lily Monster, but now she is:



Lily The Destroyer of Lamps!



Xander... he's just plain evil.



-K

Red Maple Leaves...

There are a couple of different types Maple Trees apparently lol. One of the houses by our apartment has a red maple tree in the yard. As the leaves mature, the go from a dark green to a deep reddish brown. So I'm going to probably incorporate these types of leaves into the center pieces too :)

Here's a picture..



I'll post pictures of my test roses as soon as I have them done..
-K

No boring wedding cake for us!

We love cupcakes. Really. I mean look how Tim proposed :)

So instead of having the traditional wedding cake, we are going to do a cupcake wedding cake, or also know as a cupcake tree. Here's some pictures of the popular cupcake wedding cake..





We thought we were completely original in the idea, but I guess Martha Stewart went over the topic way back in 2003! Lol..



We are going to try and do a different twist on the good old cupcake tree. One of my friends is very crafty and is going to try and make us something similar to this...



Hope everyone loves cupcakes as much as we do!

-K

Centerpiece Idea!

So I found a website that shows you how to make Roses out of Maple leaves. What a unique and cool (read cheap) idea! I'm going to test it out on some green maple leaves soon. That way I can see how long it takes me to do them, and most importantly how they will ship. If things work out, when the fall color change happens, I'll be able to get a bunch of nice different colored leaves to use as centerpieces.

Here's some pictures :)





-K

More Flower Ideas..

So I talked to a couple of florists that would actually give me some feed back today (FINALLY!!) and it seems like a few of the flowers I was originally going for are not going to be in season or very hard to find in Sept. So I've been looking for other ideas and here are the flowers I've found that I like...

Orange Ranunculus



Orange Gerber Daisy




I also found a website that has all the flowers I like, plus more that I've found, that sells the flowers in bulk. I could essentially order all the flowers I want, and make the bouquets, etc myself. (I worked at a florists briefly when I was in high school and according to them I have a natural talent for it.) And any extra flowers can be used for the cake or any center pieces. I'm still going to wait and see what kind of quote I can get from the florists I've been speaking to, so we will see. Thank heavens I have a year left to finalize all this :)

-K