Travel Tuesday. Touring my Teeny, Tiny Photogaphy Studio

 Our adventure today brings us to a small room in my basement.

 I'm pretty excited to show you all how my teeny, tiny studio makeover turned out.

Remember what I started with??

Thankfully, I had kids willing to help out, and after a lot of white paint and some new base boards I had a clean slate to work my magic on.

I seriously had so. much. fun. outfitting this minuscule room.

 I hit up thrift stores and wandered the mall looking for rock bottom deals. I used every last bit of white paint, wielding my brush with abandon. I did a little bartering with Cindy Panek who's starting up a business of her own. She crocheted me some fabulous baby things in exchange for photographing her goods once she has her Etsy store up and running.

Win Win.

I rummaged through the house looking for whatever I though might work. All those not quite white towels will be perfect for filling baskets.The little green doll crib I got as a girl was dragged out from under the deck and scrubbed within an inch of it's life.

 I had a blast!

The studio was finally ready for business.
So, without further ado, I give you my new photography studio . . .

How cute are these? 

I love purple. Now all I need is a baby girl to dress up.

Isn't this one adorable!

I see a fairy shoot in my future . . .

I tried this with a real, wide awake baby. I did not get this shot. All I can say is that Holly had her hand right there for good reason.  (Ahem)

I hope you enjoyed your tour. I know I had a wonderful time putting this room together and now. .

I'm just waiting for kids to fill it. :D

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Travel Tuesdays. Wintermission

Someone Twittered the phrase Wintermission and it describes what we've had for the last few weeks perfectly.

Today was an amazing day once again and it's the last for a while if the weather man can be believed.

Days like this are meant to be savored and if you can share it with a friend, so much the better.

Jada and I headed out to our favorite Old Glenora neighborhood, this time staying a little west of the museum.

Walking here, much of it along the river, can't help but bring a peace that can be hard to find in the city. It always refreshes me.

I'm pretty sure Jada enjoys herself as well . . .

Time to go home . . .

Awwww . . .

Travel Tuesdays. A Byzantine Winter Festival

Holly and I decided to look for adventure in the great outdoors a few weekends ago.

It was a brave act. It's winter in Edmonton and you know what that means . . . snow and ice. 

Snow and ice is cold people! Some days it's really, really cold! Brrrr. And we are wimps. Winter wimps.

But, we pulled on our Big Girl panties (or in this case, long underwear) and headed out to the 'Deep Freeze . It was billed as a Byzantine Winter Festival and we were intrigued.

So you could join our little adventure, I made a video complete with marauding Vikings.

Enjoy.

Travel Tuesdays. A Winter Farmers Market

On Saturday Henry and I got up early and headed for the Old Strathcona Farmer's market.

Henry has been walking around in moccasins that are so well ventilated, more sock than sole touches the ground when he walks. He loves his moccasins though and as he bought them at the Farmer's Market we figured it was past time for another visit.

We went early so we could have breakfast and turn the outing into an adventure/date while we were at it.

Getting the chance to see green growing things was a good start to the day. . . .

Breakfast was fabulous and we lucked out and got too hear two amazing boys play the violin while we ate.

Strolling around after breakfast we noticed that many stall were empty and then. . . that the moccasin man's stall was occupied by someone else!

Bummer!

To top it off  when we got to the Happy Camel's stall they weren't there either! Whaaaat! No tzatziki or Za'taar flat bread???

Bummer!

I did, however stop to chat with this nice young woman who asked me if I was going  to the Byzantine Winter Festive the following weekend.

I had never heard of it. She urged me to go telling me it was the perfect place for a photographer. There are ice sculptures, fireworks, mummers. . . All manner of opportunities for interesting photos.

She called me an artist . . .

So that's where you will find Holly and I this Saturday.

Maybe it's time to see if I am. . .

If you live in the Edmonton area and want to go on a little adventure this weekend you might want to check out the Deep Freeze Byzantine Winter Festival as well.

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Travel Tuesdays.Leaving Winter Behind

It's been cold here. And not . . .  brrrr. . . it's dipped below zero, cold.

I'm talking three or four layers are required to open the door and get the mail out of the mailbox cold!

Cold isn't all that unusual in Alberta of course, but frigid cold this early and this often is!

What I need is a little holiday someplace warm. Someplace smothered in flowers rather than snow.

Since an actual vacation is out of the question at the moment, I decided to revisit my photo archives and go on a virtual holiday instead.

Oh summer, how I miss you. . .

What do you do when winter gets you down? Do you have a favorite escape?