19 posts tagged “family”
I tried to capture some of the boat in black and white but I am not sure it does it justice:
Finding and shooting the boat actually turned out perfect. Later on in the day we stopped by the Gallery of Terrell Lester where I fell in love with this photo:
I borrowed this from his website and it honestly doesn't do it justice - its just beautiful and printed using the Giclee method. Its $1200 and I promised Matt if he ever gave it to me I would paint the entire interior of my house white just to match it (I may live to regret that).
But I am hoping that I can create a nice DIY substitue using the image of the boat. If I add a bit of a glow to it I might just get it close! Its not sitting on the water but I really like a monochromatic image with very little saturation - we will see!
More pictures of Blue Hill to come! Enjoy your weekend!
Not long after my parents were married they purchased a dining room table, this was 41 years ago now. Growing up this was our dining room table, our game table, our coloring table, our sitting and visiting table, our everything table. We didn't really have a desk in the house til I was much older so this table served as the only flat surface where things got done. I have ALOT of memories with this table: meals, games, visiting with family, talking to my mom....
My mother has hung onto this table and brought it to Maine with her when she moved. But the family has gotten larger. Kim has gotten married and had 2 kids, I have Matt and sometimes Jen brings a date to dinners or family events. It was just this past easter when I was bringing Matt and Jen was bringing a date that we convinced my mom it was time for a new table - there was just no way for all of us to sit at a table that only seats 6 comfortably. She was not loving the idea as my mom likes to hang onto things - but I had a perfectly good hardwood table in my basement that seats 12 just looking for a home - so we switched! Now I have the dining room table of our childhood and she has a whole new table to make years of memories with. We all sit much more comfortably at meal times and we can even have more than just the 10 people that we usually have when we are full up!
As for me, well I have been working hard to refinish the table. It takes a while to get 41 years of poly and shellac off of a pine table but I was able to get it done for the top and the fold down side pieces. I decided to paint the bottom white. The reason was partly because shanding down all those knoks and crannies would take another weekend (or two) and I didn't have that kind of time to spare and partly because I was interested in seeing if I liked that country look of painted bottoms and plain tops. I am going to treat the exposed wood with tung oil over the next week or so but for now it looks like this. Its not attached, I just set the wood on top of the legs.
I am excited to have the table, excited that I have something in my house that has all of those memories attached to it and looking forward to creating more memories on that table with family!
In a day and age where everything is NEW NEW NEW and BUY BUY BUY I think its important that we hold onto things that meant something to us, that we find new uses for older pieces and that we realize that NEW doesn't always mean BETTER.
the best part of this picture is matt is screaming... we went to the rides in downtown OOB on Tuesday night and Matt went on this... I rode a ride as well, more images to come
Hailey is now 6, but these were recorded when she was three, and they make me wish she was three again!
Hailey is now 6, but these were recorded when she was three, and they make me wish she was three again!
I told Erin when I left on Friday that I would blog this weekend - that never happened - I never even got to my computer and I am not going to say it was all good this weekend because it wasn't.... and this weekend left me to think about some stuff that I am still thinking about.
But there was fun to be had! On Saturday night the Walls family +1 came over for a fire and pizza and smores. The
girls and the chaos created by kids stressed Matt out so I am not sure if he had a great time, but we do love a fire and that outdoor fireplace is the best part about that house right now. We had spent the better part of Saturday planting the garden so I was sure to give them all a tour! Here Riley is able to show us how big the garden is:
Hailey brought a friend with her named Meghan and for a while they let me chase them around with a camera taking pictures. I tried to get them to sit on a bale of hay while I shot some but they weren't having it at all.
After a while and a few beers Brian decided it was time to use the chain saw so he climbed into the tree and pulled down some dead branches
Then he wanted the chain saw so I got it for him - this is where Matt really started having a bad time. Once he got the chain saw he cut down the rest that was dead
The girls seemed a bit nervous - mainly because Brian was up in a tree..... here they are huddled by my car
After Brian was done they all had a group hug:
It was all fine and now my tree is all better. It has already starting growing new shoots in the area that is newly exposed from when I had that tree cut down a month ago.
I love nature.
The girls even tried some fancy gymnastics move in celebration.
In other house news I got a new mailbox - so my family can quit nagging me to get one. My old one had a dent in it and was held up by bungie cords - but it worked so who cares!
Riley got her haircut today, Kim was v. upset b/c our idiotic hairdresser cut the curls when she knew we loved them. But still she looks super cute - and now she looks so much like a kid and so much less like a baby! Overnight Kim has 2 kids instead of one kid and one baby!
Hailey's spring concert was last week...i am just getting to the pictures now, I am behind behind behind....
Here is our little pig:
Here she is showing us her snout
Just a portrait:
This was my post from one year ago today apparently the weather was nice then but only after weeks of cold and a nor'easter. Here its been nice for over a week!
Her here is a shot from that day - my niece the trucker:) I LOVE HER and she got a new bike yesterday that apparently she is rockin! I can't wait to get over there and snap some images.
I wanted to test out my new camera bag last night so Hailey played model for me... and I caught some of the most wonderful images of her:
