Tree Branches and Mod Podge Oh My!

            " Life's Too Important to be taken seriously!"

Hey everyone!
     So today I woke up with the expectation of it being a lazy day. I didn't get up until after 11 after dreaming all night about who knows what and I knew it was going to be a good day. I sat on the couch for a while, until I realized I was bored... and that this day couldn't possibly be a lazy day because I had too much energy! (sleeping 'til 11 does that to you) so I went and got my Christmas bins and took them up to my room.
     I went to work putting up my Christmas tree in my room. sorting out all the different sized branches and making sure they were properly "floofed" as we say.

After setting up the tree I got slightly distracted for the next couple of....hours....I found Mod Podge...and paper..Some of my ornaments needed some "revamping"  So I got an idea (thanks to pinterest) to make them new again.

my work space

Before

After

I made 8 of these little ornaments, and while you may look at them now and say "Oh that looks easy." It's not! I mean it's easy but terribly time consuming!

     Once I closed down my ornament factory I had set up  in my bedroom, I  cleaned up my mess and went about decorating the rest of my tree. The lights went up, then the ornaments, and after putting on half the ornaments I realized I  didn't put the string of beads on, so  carefully put those on as well.

 I was quite proud of myself to be perfectly honest. I spent a long time making sure all the ornaments were in just the right place, and I took lots of pictures.
     By the time I was done, it was night time, and I went down stairs to see what the rest of the world was doing, because apparently they weren't mod podging paper all over glittery ornaments... (crazy right?!) 
     The rest of my night was consumed by learning a new song on piano, eating dinner, and watching Unaccompanied Minors (one of my favorite Christmas movies)
     In the end, my lazy day turned out to be quite productive and I got a lot accomplished :)

                                Have an extra spectacular day everyone, or if you are up late like me GO to sleep! ;)

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Exciting News!

Hey Guys!!
   
     So this is  a post out a pure excitement! The day finally arrived,  I never though it would get here but it has. Two nights ago my beautiful camera was left sitting on my door step. The UPS truck had been driving down our road as we left for church, I yelled and screamed in begging my parents to turn around, but sadly they did not.
     We didn't get home until after 11 O'clock, I jumped out of the car and ran towards the house. The nice UPS man had leaned it delicately against the door, it was so pretty in its boring brown box, it looked like a Christmas present that had been left outside. I grabbed the package and ran inside. I took a picture of the box with my phone and then just stopped..I starred at the box, part of me wanted to rip it open and another part of me thought it was too good to be true. I went and grabbed a knife from the kitchen and started cutting the tape off slowly. I opened the flaps, and saw the camera box with REBEL in big red letters that you couldn't miss even if you tried. I slipped the box out of the brown one and set it on the table. For a moment as I opened it this awful feeling of dread came over me, " What if  I ordered the wrong one?" "What if they got the order wrong or something is broken?" I scarred myself so much that I hesitated and thought about waiting to open it. Thankfully, I'm a courageous girl though, and I continued opening it. I plunged through all of the flaps and papers and bubble wrap, when finally it revealed the Canon T3i! My hands shook as I took it out of the box, I help it like I would hold a baby, I took the lens out of its packaging and hoocked it on, along with the battery and an SD card. I walked around the house looking for something to take a picture of. I settled on taking a Cliche mirror picture. Ignore the following dirty mirror, frizzy hair, and chipped nail polish, focus on the camera, and the fact that this was my first picture with it :) 

     As I tried to take a picture of Gabe the little battery light started flashing red and wouldn't let me take another picture, so with reluctance I found the charger in the box and plugged it in to charge. It took two hours to charge, and they was no way  I was going to be able to stay awake that long, so I went to bed dreaming of all the wonderful pictures I would take the next day.
     I woke up the next morning wide awake and with a smile, I looked at the camera to see if it was truly here and it was!
    I walked down the stairs holding it close and my mom just laughed when she saw it. "You can't set it down for a minute?" I shook my head laughing. It felt like Christmas morning.
     I ate breakfast and then my siblings and i straightened the house. It went by quickly because I said if they cleaned fast I would take them on a walk.
    We put on our coats and went outside. It was an absolutely beautiful day, just perfect for taking pictures. We took a long walk. Emma and Gabe ran ahead doing flips and races and whatever else they could think of, while Maggie stayed back and gladly posed for pictures.

 All in all it was a great day. I snapped pictures of everything and managed to put over 100 pictures on my card.
     If people thought that I had an addiction before, they are in for quite the surprise! I have such an obsession :)

                                           Have a great day everybody. I know I will ;)

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Catching Memories

"We do things every day and never know when we are making memories"

Hey Everyone! Alright, It's November 13 Less than two months away from being 2013!! Last year at this time Rachel, Lindsay and I were all just talking about maybe possibly starting a blog, by the end of the year I had decided that my "new years resolution" would be to start a blog. Never in my dreams did I ever think I would actually keep it up for an entire year, sure there are only 24 posts, but hey, I've kept it up, and now almost one year later I am still typing in this box every once in a while because I love talking to the few people that read this. Thank you to those who do =)
      Now that I'm done reminiscing, on to the real reason I am writing this post. I have a photography obsession its no secret, I always post pictures on here, and I saved up a crazy amount of money for a camera. I carry around a camera with me everywhere I go and I don't know what I would do if I couldn't take pictures all the time. That being said, I've decided to start I photography blog. I want to take pictures for people, because its what I love, and since it's so close to the holidays and everyone is getting their Christmas Pictures done, I thought why not? I'm always looking at other peoples photography and wishing I was doing it, I'm always coming up with new ideas, or changing what other people have done in my head. So last night after thinking about it for a while, I started asking a ton of people what I should name myself. Of course I could have just called it Abigail McLemore Photography, but how boring is that? I wanted something that would stand out, but wouldn't sound weird, so all day I asked mom if she had any idea, I txted friends and got some of the most ridiculous names ever! Finally it was almost 10 O'clock at night and I was still trying to think of something to put inside the box that said "blog Title" Mom started lloking up photography quotes and I was looking up old camera names when mom thought of Memory Catcher. It was perfect. Abigail Nicole.. Memory Catcher. It fit. I typed it in the box as fast as I could and it looked right. And thus was born Abigail Nicoole...Memory Catcher. Here to catch all your memories, kids don't stay young forever and everyone always wants to remember little details from years ago, I can help do that by catching your memories on camera.
      I'm really excited to be  doing this, it really is somthing that I love to do and I hope I do well at it. :)
      Thanks for reading this and if you want go ahead and check out The Memory Catcher  :)
                                           Have a Beautiful Day Guys! :)
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