So as I mentioned in one of my first posts, this August I spent some time in Vancouver, B.C. I loved every minute of it and really loved exploring all the spots. One day we went out to Granville Island and ventured around the sweet public market, picked up some yummy lunches and explored. We stumbled upon Origins Organic Coffee's mini-warehouse spot, because they had the back garage door open, and were roasting some DEEEEEE-LICIOUS smelling beans. After chatting with the guy and girl at work (sorry, totally should've gotten their names! my bad!!) I talked them into selling us two bags to bring back home to the other side of their neighboring country to the south.

I finally got around to brewing some of my snags this week, and I figured it would be something fun to document! So here it is:

The Roasting Station! ... in Vancouver

They smelt soooo yum!!

Mini-handheld grinder I snagged from my grandma's house after she passed. I grew up with the lady brushing my hair as we watched her 'programs' (aka soaps, my mom hated that she let me watch them (; hahah) and shoe shopping. At the time I used to find her black coffee habit disgusting, but I definitely have grown to understand the caffeine obsession!
... And I totally credit my addiction to her, neither of my parents even liked coffee!! 

ALLL DONEEEEE!!!

 

Hey, its me! Enjoying my great Vancouver coffee!!
Love it :) 

What are your favorite coffee brands?
Any sweet finds?? Or stories about the find?

I love to hear about coffee, I think its becoming a new hobby of mine!

One of my favorite things about being home, especially over breaks between terms when I don't have all kinds of school work and projects to be thinking about, is having downtime to browse the internet as I please, and catch up on some blogs I enjoy. So I figured I would share some of my favorites with y'all so maybe you can find some of your own inspiration from them too!

1. First up The Wiegands! This adorable little family serves up some serious life inspiration. Written by pretty mommy-artist Casey, the ups and downs of young family life she shares are a beautiful tribute to her lovely kiddos, husband, herself and their shared Christian faith. Although I'm not exactly what you would call religious myself, and I'm still years from having a family of my own, reading this loving family's blog puts a smile on my face with their daily doses of love and cuddles and honesty. Check them out for some lovely reads!

2. If you're at all into blogs about all things adorable, I'm sure you've stopped by Elsie's lovely blog before! Filled with all kinds of crafty things and fun pictures, I have loved following her over the years as she shared her inspirations with us, saw her hopes come to fruition as she opened her own store, and married the man of her dreams. Definitely one of my favorite reads!

3. little chief honeybee.  is all kinds of cute! She's another creative heart that I love to read up on. With her adorable girly style, as a young entrepreneur at the ripe age of 23, I find myself inspired to dream big and do work! to get where I want to be in the next few years. Also I'm just as obsessed with her litas collection and awesome lofty-cute home!

4. Charlavail this adorable rainbow-haired girl is a recent find of mine. I am in love love love with her sugar skull hair clips and wish I found them sooner so I could have ordered one of my own. I love her creativity and how she is trying to find interesting uncharted outlets for her art (the bakery she has in the works). I also loved seeing things 

5. The awesome Krista has me inspired to try the dreads, if I ever rustle up the courage! But who doesn't love a kickass mom, who at 31, can still totally rock the Rapunzel length dreadlocks?! Her 2 little tykes are super lucky to have such an artsy hip mom! It would've made getting a tattoo at 18 a little less of a family fight, for sure!

What are some of your favorite blogs?!
I would love to find some new reads!

Found the second part of a shoot I did in the summer with a good friend of mine, unedited and figured since I had some downtime I would do some quick edits and share them with y'all. 

Also, check out my new photography page on facebook please!

I recently walked over to the PMA for an art history assignment. So I just snapped a few pictures while I was there. Here they are:

The beautiful entrance of the museum.

Van Gogh sunflowers. My favorite, that I ended up writing my paper on.

The detail of "Vincent" on the vase, that he had recently started adding around the time of this painting.

Detail of the brush strokes.

Monet Footbridge and Water Lilies.

Detail of the Monet paint.

Art Museum ceiling.

Front Staircase again.

I chose to do my final project shooting portraits of my roommate Emma, here are the resulting images, scanned from the negatives.

These are shot in 4x5 black and white illford hp5 400 film.

So I just finished my fall term and I'm home for winter break. This term was my most trying yet, as I was taking 19 credits when most of the rest of the photography students in my class were taking around 13. My 2 photo classes were Large Format Photography, where we were shooting a 4x5 film camera, and Fine Black and White Printing, where I shot my final project on 120 film with a Hasselblad. I figured since I have been quite lacking on the updates due to this rough term, I would at least post the outcome of my classes here.

So I'll start with my 120 Hasselblad work....

All shot with Illford hp5 400 black and white 120 film.