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Blossom and Six go on a band trip.

Artist Spotlight - Annie Moses Band

Annie Moses Band
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I absolutely love live music and I made a goal for this summer to see more live music because I don't go anywhere near as much as I should. (Note: this is not included in my summer checklist). Anyways, I just got back from seeing the Annie Moses Band play at TRBC. They were incredible. There is something magical about seeing an amazing band perform live. They are a family band that has been playing together for 10 years. On their youtube they are described as a "chamber-pop stringed band comprised of 6 siblings." Here is one of their youtube videos (note: this video is from 2008). 

Check them out on the web:

Youtube

Facebook

Website

Fine Arts Summer Academy (Great if you have kids!)

-K

Summer Checklist

So I got the idea to blog about my summer checklist from this amazing girl (here). So here goes!

1. Learn all the words to Brokenhearted: I've been loving this song by Karmin and I would like to learn all the lyrics without messing up. Mainly on the rap part. :)

2. Take a trip to the beach: Enough said. I want to take at least a day trip to the beach. Probably Ocean City.

3. Read Anna Karenina: I'm currently around page 50. It's a pretty long book.. almost 500 pages? And it's kind of a hard read, but I'm determined to finish it before the movie comes out. It's pretty good so far too. 

4. Finish gryffindor blanket: A while back I decided to crochet a gryffindor baby blanket (looks like the scarfs).. It took me forever to find the right colors, but I finally did. Once I was a little ways in I realized I made it way too big (lame me), so now it's a regular person size. I'm still thinking about putting it in my hope chest and just giving it to my kid once they get out of the crib.

5. Eat only locally for a week: I'm really wanting to do this. It's important to me to support small, local businesses, plus local produce is great. I'll have to search for a few places that are local, but I think it will be a lot of fun. :D I'll be sure to blog about it.. I plan to start in about 1-2 weeks when I get home.

6. Go to a yard sale: I love them and I want to wake up one saturday morning and just go yard sale hopping! :)

7. Shoot 10 rolls of film: I really want to get a lot of practice in this summer.

8. Watch 10 indie/10 foreign films: Indie and foreign films are my favorite kind and what I want to get into eventually... So I figured it would be good for me to check out what's out now. Btw my favorite indie film is My Blueberry Nights and my favorite foreign film is August Evening. (If you like indie/foreign films let's be best friends. :D)

9. Increase wardrobe twofold: Ok. I'll be honest with y'all I don't have many clothes. It sucks. Mainly cause I hate shopping (usually)... but I'm excited to go shopping this summer! Me and my two best friends have decided that this summer we are going to spend a day at each others house going through clothes and getting rid of stuff we don't wear (not much in my case lol) and then we are going to go shopping and buy a bunch of basics! I'm excited about it.

OKAY. That's my summer checklist. I actually had one other thing, but I can remember it. Oh well..

If you have a summer checklist be sure to share it with me! I'd love to hear what you're doing.

-K

PS. I'll be sure to blog about completing each item on the list. :)

Weekend Fun

So I've been really busy with this four week summer class that I'm taking (one week left!) and also with moving from place to place and apartment hunting.. I finally had a few days to just chill and I really wanted them to be somewhat productive. I'm hoping the rest of my summer goes something like this. Doing fun things and not just sitting around the house all day. So here's what I've done the past 2 days! :)


Yesterday (Friday) I decided to go to the Appomattox Court House (here) about 30 minutes east of school. It's fitting because the day before I gave a speech on Mary Surratt (both having to do with the Civil War.. ish.. research it :D). So anyways I spent about 3 hours at the national park and I had so much fun! :) I was happy that I went even though I went by myself. I don't really mind doing things by myself, so it's kind of an adventure. Sometimes I even talk to myself and make up stories in my head. lol. I'm sane I promise. :)


So basically Appomattox was the place where General Lee (Confederacy) and General Grant (Union) signed an agreement to end the war. The union won! ...(obviously...) lol. So they signed the agreement in a man's house by the name of McLean (which by the way had an amazing house!). So the whole town is really cute! I'll just go ahead and post some pictures. :)

The surrender.

I got one of these! :)

Meek's General Merchandise 

So they did these things where the person would act like actual people from the time period. It was really cool. The guy on the right was really attractive in person. :) Just saying.. 

Inside a jail cell.

McLean's house. In the parlor where the agreement was signed.

Ok so like I said the house was amazing. I'll try to explain it. It was a simple (but big) house that was basically divided in half. So on the main floor to the left was the parlor (seen above) and to the right was the parents room. On the top floor was two kids bedrooms (they had five kids). (Pictures below). And then in the basement on the left side was the warming room and on the right was the dinning room. I really liked how it was set up. Reminds me a little bit of a british home.

One of the kids bedrooms.

Far corner.

With play space in the middle. What a nice room. What kid wouldn't love this?!

I loved the openness of the stairs/hallway. It's interesting how the handrail was really low.

Parents bedroom.

BOOKS! :)

Dinning room.

Outside the back of the house.

Inside one of the slaves room.

House in the back with slave housing on the left and the kitchen/slave housing on the right.

FOR TODAY:

After going to the gym this morning I couldn't think of anything to do... and I didn't want to be lazy. So I decided that I'd go out and shoot some pictures. I then remembered about the farmers market downtown. So I decided to head downtown and see what would come of it. 

I first checked out the farmers market. I was sad that I didn't have any cash on me cause there was some amish homemade sweet bread that was looking really good as well as some peaches and cherries. 

I checked out this antique store that I've been in before. It's pretty neat. It's huge and has so many things. It doesn't smell the best. 

I love old pictures. It's fun to think of who these people where and the life they lived.

 Then I drove around for about 30 minutes in the direction of the mountains to see if I could find a place to take pictures. I came across these guys on a farm.

I started seeing signs for this so I was like hey I'll check that out... But sadly it was really small and looked closed so I didn't even go in.

On my way back I stopped at Goodwill. 

I kind of wanted to get this cup. It's so cool. It reminds me of Arizona/New Mexico in the 90's. :D

I sooo almost bought this. I was thinking it could come in handy some time. lol. You never know in college. :)

-K

Evan's Family - Mini Photo Session - Sneak Peek

Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to photograph a beautiful family. Here is a sneak peak of the session. Enjoy. :)

-K

music monday - Meg and Dia

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Been loving this song recently.

30 Day Photo Challenge

A few weeks ago a friend of mine invited me to join a Facebook group that did 30 day photo scavenger hunt. We are currently on day seven and so far it's been a lot of fun. Personally I wanted each of my pictures to be a picture that I actually take on that day, so that's been a bit of a drawback a few times as I can get pretty lazy about taking a new picture everyday. BUT so far I've been doing good. Here are a few of the pictures I've posted.

 A FARM: The beauty that surrounds a farm and makes you 

want to run around pretending to be an Indian. :)

 SHOES: My shoes inside the DC metro. 

They are pretty ugly, but they have lots of character 

and are super comfy so that's why I love them.

BUBBLES: The bubbles you get when washing your hands.

Oh, and each day everyone votes for their favorite and the person with the most likes is the days winner. So far I haven't won, but there is always hope! :)

-K