30 Day Photography Challenge - Days 8, 9 & 10

Day 8: A bad habit.
Do you think it's necessary for me to keep all of my old plastic cups from the numerous Pub Crawls and random can coolers from my days at SCSU??  I don't think so.  We are having a garage sale in two weeks so I was rummaging through a bunch of old things to get rid of and these jumped out at me.  Also notice the abundance of seashell necklaces in the lower right from my travels to cheap souvenir shops.
If I haven't worn or seen them in 7 years, it's probably safe to get rid of them.

Day 9: Someone you love.

Rizzo of course.

Day 10: Childhood memory.

Whenever my brother Jeff and I would go and sleep over at my Grandma and Grandpa's house, we would rent Adventures in Babysitting EVERY.SINGLE.TIME.  How they sat through that movie with us probably once a month is beyond me, but they did!  I still love that movie to this day, hence the upgrade from VHS to DVD.  The blanket is also a memory because at the same Grandma's house, they had a blanket with that same pattern on it.  When I saw that vintage looking fabric at JoAnn's a few years ago, I had to buy it and make a fleece tie blanket out of it.

30 Day Photography Challenge - Days 5, 6 & 7

Day 5: From a high angle.
The Dust Particles view (before they hit the floor/shelves) of my shelves right by my bed.

Day 6: From a low angle.

The Dust Particles (after they've hit the floor) view of my shelves right by my bed.

Day 7: Fruit.

Bananas and apples are pretty boring, so I threw a tomato in there because technically, they are a fruit.

*side note* the fruit is never sitting in the windowsill, i just put it there for a more 'classy' touch.  It's all about creativity in this project!

What a Job he did...

I wasn't sure if I was going to post about the loss of Apple Great Steve Jobs, but after viewing my blog today, I realized that Steve Jobs has obviously affected my blogging life.  Not only do I post blogs from my Mac computer (minus the few times when I blog via my 'droid phone), but I realized today more than ever, that the background picture of my blog is in fact, one of the first Mac personal computers.  I obviously knew this when I designed the background back in January, but today it really jumped out at me.  It's like Mr. Jobs was welcoming me to my blog and saying "hello" to me.
Farewell, Steve Jobs--your ideas and dreams will live on forever!

Steve Jobs (left) with one of the first Mac personal computers.  *image taken from Google images*

30 Day Photography Challenge - Day 4

Day 4: Something green

Money...the symbol of American Happiness; unless of course you lose it or don't have any.

This post resembles two things today-- one being the subject of course; my "something green" in my photography challenge.  It also represents the amount of cash I had to put in the vending machine at work today to purchase a rinky-dink bag of already popped popcorn.  "Wow" you may be saying to yourself... "that's a lot of money for a small bag of popcorn".  The bag was actually 95 cents but of course when I put my money in and pushed the buttons, the silver twirly thing that holds the bags in place got stuck halfway and the bag didn't fall.  I remained calm and casually walked back to my desk and pulled out another dollar.  Back to the machine I go, expecting to put my buck in, press B4, and have the silver thing twirl enough for both bags to fall.  Of course, I expected wrong.  Just the first bag fell and the second bag was hung up on some other non-necessary mechanism in the vending machine.  By this time, I am losing my cool.  I bang the machine a few times and casually turn around to see a table of ladies watching me lose my battle.  I didn't want lose face in front of these women, so I said a couple snide remarks about the machine and they gave me the go-ahead to pound the crap out of it.  I did a few running shoulder shoves into the glass, but that damn bag wouldn't budge.  I finally gave up, but not without final payback... I've always ignored the little friendly reminders on the vending that tell you if you lose money, to fill out a form and "we will get back to you".  When I've lost money in the past, I figured it's not worth filling out the form and bringing it all the way down to Purchasing.  Not this time though, I had had it.  I was down a dollar and had a bruised shoulder--Aramark isn't getting away with my dollar that easy.  I filled out the little form and marched it down to the appropriate person...

I should receive my dollar back next week.  

30 Day Photography Challenge - Days 2 & 3

Day 2: What you wore today.
This was one of a few outfits.  I picked this one because I had it on for he majority of the day-- cut off sweat pants and a grungy t-shirt...worn while outside digging up the plants weeds in my garden.
I am pretty sure the stain on the shirt is from an old tomato getting squished on me...I could be wrong though.

Day 3: Clouds.

For those of you reading this who live in Minnesota, there literally were no clouds in the sky at all today.  I searched and searched but could not find a single one!  So, I got a little creative...

this is technically still a real picture because i took it of the tv -- the clouds are just computer generated

Welcome Home, Boys

Remember the sad garden post from a couple weeks ago?  Remember the even sadder pumpkin I had growing?  Well the growing basically came to a halt and I knew it would never turn into the gigantic pumpkin I once dreamed of.  I knew it wouldn't turn into a carriage at the stroke of midnight and I knew Prince Charming wouldn't later sweep me off my feet because the mysterious glass slipper pink Croc fit my foot.  Anyway, I decided to take the little guy out of the embarrassing state he was in...laying in the grass all green and heartbroken, knowing that he'll never get that chance to turn bright orange and sit on the front step with a vanilla scented tea light glowing inside him...and I brought him home.
That's right, I brought him inside and gave him new life.  I dug out the ol' art supplies and gave him the best makeover he could ask for.  I replaced his sad green exterior with a ravishing orange hue, complete with an authentic brown stem and everything.  And instead of him getting his insides gutted out and lit on fire and his face getting sawed into triangles and squares, I painted a nice, yet somewhat creepy, face on him.  Then I glazed him with some Mod Podge to help preserve his skin for as long as possible.
I present to you, the creating of Mr. Pumpkin (pretty original name, huh?):

apple shown for size comparison...Mr. Pumpkin didn't have much to brag about.

A day or two later I saw his friend from across the garden dangling from a separate vine.  I debated on whether or not I should put him out of his misery or keep him dangling and attempt to grow a bit more.  In the end I decided to also put him out of his misery and bring him in.  I didn't give him the ravishing makeover like I gave Mr. Pumpkin, but I did leave part of his vine on his head for that "fresh from the garden" look.  I don't have a name quite as original as Mr. Pumpkin, so I am calling this one "Mr. Pumpkin's Little Friend".  Together they sit on my TV stand, all pumped up for October baseball.  With the look on his face, sometimes I like to think that Mr. Pumpkin is laughing at his little friends perm gone very bad.

Picture (hopefully) Perfect

I found this photography challenge on Pinterest a few months ago:

I've been wanting to put myself up to the challenge but always find a reason not to.  It's a big commitment but I figured with the first of the month being today, it's the perfect day to start my 30 Day Photography Challenge.  It's a simple, yet semi-time consuming task.  Basically it lists a different photo subject or style for every day of the 30 days.  I probably won't post my picture every day, I will  group them into a handful of different posts.  You'll just have to trust me that the picture was actually taken on the day it was supposed to be.  I will be honest if I forget or skip a day...I am not going to turn the Date feature ON on my camera...I don't want that yellow number mucking up the awesome picture project I am about to embark on!  :)

Day 1:  Self-portrait.
*note: it's not really cold out yet...I am just modeling the hand-made hat my aunt gave me today.