Seattle Day 1

To start off our trip, our 6:15 a.m. flight was delayed two hours. Got to sit around and attempt to sleep for two hours in the freezing cold Tulsa airport.

When we got there, we went to the hotel we were staying at, the Moore Hotel. We dropped off our stuff and got settled a little bit before meeting up with everyone for dinner. We went to this Sicilian restaurant with amazing food. Unfortunately, we had so many problems trying to get the check straightened out since they put all 12 of us on a single ticket and automatically added gratuity on it. The owner didn't seem to understand at all that we wanted to pay separately or didn't know how to separate the check so we all just ended up paying the exact amount and leaving. lol. Despite some frustrations, the food was actually amazing.

I ordered a veal pasta with a tri-color sauce.

The restaurant was really pretty outside and had this pretty and homey feeling inside.

We spent the rest of the evening down by the boardwalk.

This cool guy rode up on his bike in the middle of the dock and started doing Tai Chi. Super cool.

And then made our way up to this great bakeshop/ ice creamery. I didn't get a picture of my cupcake but I had a delicious lavender cupcake. I've never had anything lavender before, but omg, this thing was delicious.

Seattle Photo Tour

So I said I'd update with more about my Seattle trip. I'm not sure I really explained what it was so here you go.
The trip was a photography class where we got to visit and experience the life of Seattle. It was our job to capture the city through our camera lens'.

I've stared at my photos for far too long to edit them down to my best which I had about 150 photos that were great. Then I had to edit those down to around 30 to turn in for class. Even better yet is that I have to narrow those down to about 3 or 4 to have printed, matted, and framed. Not sure how I'm going to get through all of this. *sigh*

I was so worried before the trip because I only knew one person going, besides my instructor and his wife, and I didn't even like her because she went on my last photo tour to Chicago and was rather rude to me and others. I quickly made some great and amazing friends to spend the week with. My instructor and I commented on how the dynamics of this group were so different than the one to Chicago. While in Chicago, most of us had our own cliques and spent the majority of the trip with that group. In Seattle, we could easily contact any other person in the group who would willingly go with us somewhere and I got to spend my time with a different person/group every day.

We had some amazing and crazy adventures to say the least.

I'll go ahead and add different posts for each day and just back track the date on them later so you can see what happened each day without having to read through a monstrous post in one sitting.

Breezy Summers in Seattle

I just got back from my trip to Seattle for my photography class. I was all excited to blog from Seattle. We see how that worked out, lol. There was just so much to do there and I was absolutely exhausted coming in each night. I still have so many photos to edit! I absolutely loved it there. It was an amazing, much needed vacation.

It was interesting to wear leggings and jackets outside during summer. There's absolutely no way that would ever happen here in Oklahoma this time of year. The weather is great, although it was still a bit chilly for my taste. I was actually surprised to see that their winters on average are still warmer than ours. How odd. I think I just might move to Seattle now. I'll just work a music gig on the corner and I'll be set. lol

I'll blog a bit more another time about my photos and experiences there. It was absolutely a perfect vacation. :)

Independence Day 2013

So I had a great Independence Day spent with family and boyfriends setting off some fun and pretty fireworks. :)

We had dinner outside at my grandparents' house.

My grandpa took me to one of his neighbors who does some welding and made this great piece.

My lovely patriotic cookie cake! :D

And just some other fun shots from the day.

I hope everyone else had an equally awesome Independence Day! < 3

SoonerCon 22

So this past weekend was spent at SoonerCon. I had a lot of fun with my sister, but I honestly can't say I enjoyed the con itself very much. They cut back on a lot of stuff from last year. Less vendors, less artists, and everything seemed rather uncoordinated and most everything was running late. Despite a not-so-great con, my sister was able to sell some of her super cute amigurumis and some other crafted goodies at the table where my dad was selling his sci-fi books. Together, we're going to work on some more wonderful crafted goodies and hopefully sell at next year's Tokyo in Tulsa.

My sister even made me a super cute Evee just like these! If you're interested, let me know and we just might be able to work on something for you. :)

Highlights of the con:
1.) Selling crafts towards a table to sell more crafts!
2.) Hanging out with my sister
3.) Taking pictures with my sister of our cosplays
4.) Winning third place in my category for cosplay costume as Harley Quinn. :)

Check out some of our pics from the con. :D

Smith Wedding

I originally bought this dress from Charlotte Russe, but it got damaged when I tried to iron it. :(  Thankfully, my mom's a great seamstress and made a pattern from the original dress and sewed this one for me! :D

Earings and bracelets from Rue21
Shoes thrifted from a Goodwill in Arkansas

About a week and a half ago one of my niece's got married! I feel so old now. lol. Well, I sort of got asked last minute to be the photographer. I love opportunities to photograph events, but it's not exactly wonderful when you're not entirely prepared for what all you need to do. It was a ton of fun, frustrating that I was in a dress and heels, and painful after kneeling in rocks and not having the chance to really sit down for 5 1/2 hours. I did get some really great photos out of it and I hope my niece loves them, too. :)

Here's a preview. You can see more on my facebook page. :)