So. after I dropped my camera, my 50mm lens would not auto focus.  I had to send it in, thankfully I purchased insurance when I bought the lens through b+h photo, whew!  I received a ups label via email, packed it up and sent it off.  while I am awaiting it’s return, i am left with my wide angle (10-22mm) an18-55mm, a 105mm macro and a monster 100-400mm.  My picture of the day project is somewhat struggling.

on January 30th, I finally took the time to take down the Christmas tree and all the other decorations.  The living room looks so plain and sparse.  I need to add more art.

January 31, the boys reading at bedtime, in my room :)

On Monday Feb 1, I finally got to meet an online friend IRL.  Tina grew up here in Hawaii and was home visiting, so we got together for what her husband called a craftmance.  I thought that was funny.  FabuLisa, Tina and I hit up Fisher, J’s Knicknacks and a quick lunch at the counter burger.

one of the 2 pictures I took on Tuesday Feb 2.  Groundhogs day ;)  Jordan was reading a book on picking apples.

Okay. so i usually go grocery shopping on Mondays but this week due to the craftmance on monday, I had to adjust to a commissary trip on Wed.  Jordan has a short day, so i had to hurry to put away the groceries before picking him up.  Obviously I hadn’t put everything away by the time I brought him home.  I walked out of the kitchen for a minute and came back to this:

Thursday, Feb 3, Jalen had an assignment to bring in 4 pictures of his favorite items on a usb flash drive, so we set up a shoot with the macro in the living room.   Jordan picked out his favorite marble to show me:

Friday February 5, I participated in my first online crop at twopeasinabucket.  I created this layout for Jen Jockish’s challenge.  Use paint, cardboard, bling, lots of pictures.

Today, Saturday February 6, We spent the day indoors, avoiding the vog.  Jordan and Jalen played a little ds, wii and watched some veggie tales today while i created the labels for Jordan’s valentine’s treats.  I still need to make a label for Jalen’s treats.

It’s been voggy around here and this past week I’ve felt a little loopy, coughy, sniffly, headachy and lost my voice.  Thankfully it’s bearable, no fever or any other yuckiness.  But I have minimized my outside time as much as possible.

So, if you follow me on twitter or are my friend on facebook, (and if you’re reading my blog, surely you should be both of the aforementioned…) you probably know I use another social media game called foursquare.  It is a locational game where you “check in” at different locations.  Each time you visit a venue you can either check in publically or “off the grid”.  If you check in the most times you are called “the mayor” of a location.  Currently I am the mayor of Hickam Commissary, the post office, the NEX, the NEX minimart, J’s, Aiea UMC, Bubba Gump, Burger King at Hickam, Fisher Hawaii, and Old Navy at Waikele.  I was also the Mayor of Target Salt Lake and Hickam AFB and the Navy Commissary, but I got messages from foursquare letting me know that others have replaced me as mayor.  I have to tell you, it’s a fun little game, but boy my competetive side has me thinking, hmmm, maybe I need to head over to hickam for something and target too while I’m at it…

Have you checked out http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com ?  It’s a new community with an option for a premium or free membership, a gallery, a forum and a social networking community.  I have signed up and have been enjoying finding my way around over there.  And let me just say, i LOVE the new gallery over there, it is so so much easier to upload. yay!

and Did I tell you? I’m taking the pen tablet basics class over at JessicaSprague.com.  I’m enjoying it so far, and can’t wait to learn something fabulous as I know I will.  I already love the downloads we got with the first lesson.  Here’s the first layout we did for the first week’s lesson:

It’s getting late, but be on the lookout.  I have some minty projects and some pea projects to share in the next few days. and I’ll be hosting a giveaway on Valentine’s day to celebrate my 3rd blogoversary.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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