Labels n' Stuff

Haven't been around much now that the BF is in town. He's leaving tomorrow. QQ.

While he was in town we did manage to get out to Iowa and took some pretty fun pictures. We had some great eats in Galena. Also stopped at the stinky cigarette casino in Dubuque. It was pretty icky in there and we didn't win anything.

In between all of our running around I did manage to get some work done in my package design class. the concept was to make the wrap like one of those Mexican fiesta celebration flags. Those are cool right? I couldn't find any place to print on clear vinyl for me for the label wrap. Without spending a lot of money I just kept getting this transparent looking crap that looked ugly when I wrapped it around the bottle. Finally I gave in and used the color of the soda for the die-cut areas. I think it came out OK! Jarritos, feel free to contact me! ;)

Spring is here!

...and yet again I am overwhelmed with school work! I had intended to do my first outfit post but I haven't been feeling camera-ready lately. Perhaps after I get my hair colored and trimmed and my boyfriend arrives on Tuesday he will be kind enough to take a photo or two of me in my duds.

In the meantime I have been getting friendly with my new Canon Rebel XS. I got it for a steal at Target over spring break. It was marked down on clearance and I bought the display model and got the camera as well as all the accessories I needed for under $400. Not bad, not bad at all!

I took the camera outside in natural light for the first time today to see what it was really capable of.  I had only been taking pictures of my cats in my room up until today.

I took over two hundred pictures of all the daffodils in bloom and a few photos of the crocuses coming up. I went to load my photos and it said they had all transferred to my laptop so I selected "delete all pictures on camera", then the program froze, so I force quit. I went to check my new photo set and nothing was there! All but five of my photos were deleted from my camera. ::crying on the inside:: I guess I'll do it all over tomorrow. The flowers will be all dewy in the morning anyways.

However I did manage this one

I also started a small garden with my nephew. We are growing giant Russian sunflowers, watermelon, broccoli, zucchini, catnip :3, and strawberries. The sprouts on some of the sunflowers are up and the broccoli are coming through too. More photos to come. Enjoy these first days of spring.

Update:
Went out this morning around 8a.m. and got these. It is unusually warm all of a sudden today.. storms later possibly tornadoes? Boooo.

Don't mind my precious big boy, Stuart! He loves the camera.