Month: June 2005

Our Honeymoon!

In honor of our 1 year, 1 month and 1 day wedding anniversary, I have decided to finally take advantage of my Flickr account and upload honeymoon photos! All of the photos I have uploaded today are from the first day of our honeymoon. We flew from Houston to London, took the train from the airport into London, took a cab to our hotel, crashed and took a much needed nap, and then went walking about South Kensington – to Harrod’s, Wagamama’s, and just general sightseeing.

Hmmm… I guess I could have uploaded wedding photos first. Oh well. I was looking through honeymoon photos, so I went with them.

I’ve got about 2000 more to add, but you can view the first ones in the Honeymoon – London album. The Paris photos will follow. And then some wedding photos. I didn’t take many wedding photos, since I was sort of busy with everything else that day.

Enjoy the pictures!

Update: As of 9:30 pm Central Time, I have uploaded and captioned the rest of the day 1 photos. Whew. The scary thing is, that is probably the least photos I have for any day of our trip, and I have been weeding out the duplicates and ones that just aren’t very good. This could take awhile, but it is worth it!

Also, some of these will eventually end up on Pixelog, which I plan to start updating again next week. (After I clear out 6 months worth of spam comments.)

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Stamping Goodness!

Yesterday I received my new 2005-2006 Stampin’ Up! Idea Book in the mail, and I LOVE IT!!! I love the new colors they have introduced along with the 120+ new stamp sets, and I was so excited when I went to the site earlier today to place my customer’s last minute retiring orders and I spotted the new stamps & colors on the main public website!

I can’t wait to see what the July special will be. I have a feeling my wishlist is going to grow! I did really well and passed up several of the retiring stamp sets. Instead, I ordered the adorable monkey stamp set from the Summer Mini catalog with the free merchandise I earned.

I think tonight is a good night to sit down with the new catalog and work on placing post-it flags on all the goodies I want to get!

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Flickr Montager…

Post author By Christine
Post date Thursday, June 30, 2005

Playing with the Flickr Montager is a lot of fun.

Yes, I have other things I need to be doing. Back to work. And posts to write later. But for now, I’m playing with the Flickr Montager. It’s all MJ’s fault.

Fine, some of you might not enjoy playing with the Montager as much as I have. How about checking out the videos at Geek Fantasies? I think #5 is the most amusing.

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Post author By Christine
Post date Saturday, June 25, 2005

Mullets Rock!

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Home Again, Home Again…

We had a great time in Kentucky, but after being gone for almost two weeks (counting my retreat and the trip to New Orleans), it feels so nice to be home again.

Well, nice and frustrating, because I’ve decided that I want to rearrange the storage bedroom into my crafty room so that the dining room can be a dining room again, and I need to have Salvation Army or someone come and pick up this old couch (anyone need a cream-colored leather couch that has a broken spring? If you are willing to come to my house to get it, you can have it.) So, it is nice to be home, but I have so many things I want to do that I almost don’t know where to begin. I guess it is time for a list, so I can set some priorities.

Speaking of priorities, being offline for two weeks with the exception of work has definitely changed mine. Down time with my family is definitely a top priority, followed by household tasks I want to accomplish, and then the creativity need to be a better photograph (and post some of my photos for a change) and knit more goodies. It has been a good thing. If you miss me, feel free to write – but my posts here may slow down somewhat. Or they may change to fit my changing priorities. Whatever strikes me as the right thing to do. I was worried about this at first, then I realized that is a sure sign that the blog is controlling me. I can’t worry about that.

So as I started to say – our trip to Kentucky was *wonderful*. It was nice to have a chance to visit with Mike’s parents in a calm setting. I’ve only seen them in person twice before this trip – once was the first time I met them (yeah, like THAT isn’t stressful) and the second time was the wedding. I didn’t get to see them the day after the wedding even, when I was a little more sane than I had been in my sleep-deprived state the day of the wedding. So this trip? Niiiiiiice. Calm. Relaxing. I think our entire family needed that.

The rundown of our vacation is coming soon. First I need to go and do more laundry.