First I'd like to mention the obvious to anyone who knows me I like cameras. New and old of course. I currently own about 10 + cameras although maybe about half are in working condition. Some are more collectors than others but still. I mean photography in general could be summarized into this also. I have my degree in photography despite actually using it Ill still always LOVE photography and cameras. I may be too poor to afford a fancy Nikon or Cannon digital SLR with tons of lens and built in filters but I'll continue to shoot and collect as best I can. Yes I own this exact old Polaroid camera as you see to our left but no i did not take this picture. I picked up this gem at an old thift store. Yes I shot the swing ride picture. It was a few years back but still a favorite. Photoshopped to get those colors to really pop. I like contrast.
Let us continue. Im a very big fan of Crafts. Maybe this goes along with the whole photography artsy type attitude but I love them. I love knitting with a nice size 15 needle and some basic thickness skein of yarn. (im not picky on the color). I can make some killer scarves and shawls! I may know how to knit but hell if I can make anything worth while. I enjoy coming up with ideas for new designs of clothes and trying to one day figure out my sewing machine(ONE DAY). I have a laminator machine in which I use scrap booking paper clearly for what its meant to be used for(JEWELRY!) cut out shapes and designs.. laminate them and viola! Of course you'll need other supplies as well but lets not go into that much detail. Im not the worlds best painter or so but hell if that will stop me. In a nutshell... Im a fan of any and all crafts. Except scrapbooks... they can shut up.
Im very hugely into the whole idea of Canoes. I love them. I want them on jewelry, I want them in photographs and your damn right I want to be in one right now!! (weather being about 50+ please thanks) I'll summarize I do enjoy all boats as a whole but row boats paddle boats and canoes. Oh how I adore thee. Kayaks?... Lets just say we did not have the best experience Kayaking the rivers in pittsburgh so maybe kayaks can be left out. I guess I really shouldn't hold that happening against the Kayaks themselves.. I should blame the smart ass hipster boy who wouldn't tell us what to do in the event someone tipped their kayak over. Oh and smart ass hipster boy who laughed at our misfortune... wawa is based out of wawa PA... aka middletown... aka pretty much media. ALL of which are no where near Washington DC. I hope he reads that at one point in his life so he doesn't embarass himself any further. Anyways we decided to Kayak Pittsburgh PA for Lisa's Birthday. It was supposed to be a surprise but of course I had to tell her. It was during our Girls weekend this past July which was incredible. Yes we even made shirts to commemorate the weekend. Most of them involved pictures of kayaks tipping also. So we decide to Kayak... Lisa and JV go first... then myself Lauren and Tina. Lisa being the smartest one asks "Sunshine" we will call him... "what do we do in the event that someone tips?" his reply..."you wont". We proceeded to tell him how he does not understand and this will happen to which he laughed.
So Tina or Laur ended up getting stuck right where we kicked off... it took about 10 minutes to get away from that damn landing strip!We all decided Lisa and JV were trying to win a race we clearly didn't know about so Tina Laur and I would stick together as the caboose. We were not secured in but more just sitting on this floating plastic kayak! In a no wake zone there were people water skiing past us due to some concert in Pittsburgh that night. The "no wake zone" turned into a "please wake as much as you can" zone. Bridge after Bridge we went under laughing and taking pictures with a cheap digital water proof camera that clearly didn't work from target and wasted our lives taking 12312+ pictures to show some amazing things that happened. So I guess this was dragonfly mating season and our kayaks were their steamy silky water beds that they had been waiting for. These damn things clearly attacked Lauren... Thus making her scream, wobble, and yes tip her kayak. Tina and I panic while the other two are on their way from hearing a scream and splash. She swims over to my kayak asking me to help her and me(being the amazing friend that I am of course) tell her to back up because Im not trying to tip. We managed to get all of her items out of her kayak into mine and somehow miraculously not have her kayak sink to the bottom. She kept trying to get in the kayak which would make the kayak be standing straight up in the water. At this point she cannot touch the ground and the kayak is now slowly sinking because its filling with water. To make this amazingly long story short after 4 girls laughing at their friends, 3 kind strangers also on kayaks and 3 kind young boys hanging out on rocks and 2 other failed attempts to get the water out of the kayak and get Laur back INTO the kayak she was finally in (and not tipping like the other 2 times!) We all finally stopped laughing enough to get our asses back to land and remember to Canoe more, Kayak less.Yes I realize I just went WAY off topic to explain the amazing story of my Kayak experience but when I couldn't stop laughing after remembering that story I decided this was way more interesting than things that I like.
Stop me before I've said too much. My music recommendations are shortly explained BUT largely encouraged.The first is two sisters with AMAZING voices covering the late Johnny Cash with Jack White. They are called The Secret Sisters. Their voices are nothing short of incredible. Although their style more country twang and very christian good girl their style and sass lead me to believe they may be anything but! The song is Big River again a Johnny Cash cover. Listen to it and tell me you don't love this song and yes this version of it as well.
My second one is a group called Family Of the Year. Their song Chugjug made famous thanks to an Advil commercial and I wont lie this is where I first heard this song. I love the upbeat attitude and gang sing along style of the song. Its something you want to go ride you bike, fly a kite or seriously just be laying on a blanket in the park to. I may have to do all of these while listening to this come spring time! They do however have ALOT of incredible songs Im going to recommend you listen to Chugjug AND Lets be Honest because well... lets me honest(plug) they are both worthy of bikes kites and blankets. Enjoy!
xo.
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