Easter Weekend - Through the Viewfinder Photography.

Last year i blogged about my first attempt at through the viewfinder photography with a trip to the mountains.  I'm surprised I haven't really tried it again.  But I brought my vintage camera with me to my parents house last weekend and this is the result.  Not sure if they are great but they are different and I like different!

Weekend Travel Journal

If you remember I made this little journal a month ago for my shop.  The great thing about the shop is I have blank journals that I can use for spur of the moment trips! I decided to use this little blue journal for our weekend trip to the mountains.  Here is a peek inside: 

Through the Viewfinder Mountain Photography

Remember my post a couple weeks ago about the great vintage camera I found for $10!?!  Well I finally tested it out on some through the viewfinder (ttv) photos this weekend.  Dustin and I decided at the last minute (as in Friday night) to take a trip to the mountains this past weekend - antique shopping and driving through the Shenandoah National Park to test out our new camera.  I did take a travel journal and once I add photos I will be sharing it with you (hopefully tomorrow!). But until then check out some of the photos I took this weekend:

Great Vintage Find

I checked out a new (new to me) antique store this weekend and I found this:

I was beyond excited!! And it didn't have a price tag on it so when I asked for a price I got a great deal - which I am pretty sure was due to the fact that I look 12! This looking young really works in situations like this - if you look 12 then clearly you are poor which means you get awesome cameras like this for cheap.  Oh and I bought this because it has a large viewfinder and I can take "through the viewfinder" (ttv) photos.  - which is totally a real thing.  Check out this post by Pink Couch - it's why I was on the hunt for one of these cameras!

806

806... the number of photos I took in the two months I wasn't blogging. I felt like I was on a roll with the blogging thing up until December then life got crazy, so here is the run down of what I've been doing when I wasn't here blogging:

Moving into our new house: Actually Dustin did most of the moving...
Did I mention we moved into the house a mere HOURS before a huge snow storm

Went to North Carolina for Christmas with the familyPlanned and threw my sister a baby shower two days after ChristmasTaught some classesWent back to North Carolina to meet my nephew JarmonTurned 27. I don't actually have a picture of this but it happened. I am now officially in my late 20s, yet I still like look I'm 13.

Ok so maybe all that doesn't sound like a lot but it felt like a lot was going on. But here I am back and hopefully I'll be posting a lot more this year. I am still working on decorating this house so expect some of that and I plan on posting more scrapbook layouts and projects, hopefully with tutorials.

Autumn in Richmond

Last week the other Melissa posted this post about Autumn in Virginia. Fall being my favorite season, I immediately felt the urge to run out with my camera and find the nearest tree to start taking pictures so I could post them here. Well I did put it off a couple of days but on Sunday Dustin and I went to Belle Isle in Richmond. I took tons of pictures but after looking at them at home have realized there was a lot more green than I wanted so here are a few even though I don't think they look that much like fall....

My trip to Rhode Island

After teaching a distress ink class in the West End Wednesday night Dustin and I drove 9 hours to Rhode Island. The reason for our trip was to see Dustin's brother Zach graduate from Naval Officer Candidate School on Friday morning. We definately underestimated how cold it would be. And seriously it was the windiest day ever... it reminded us of South Dakota... and why we don't want to move back!

After the graduation we drove around Newport and walked around taking pictures.

Did I mention it was windy? Yeah my hair looked like that the entire day... and I swear I brushed it...

We definately made sure to get some seafood while we were there (though not at the place that I took this picture...) And we saw a few trees (literally like one or two) with changing leaves...

On Saturday Dustin, Zach, and I went driving around and shopping... and I made them go to the beach... I got in the water... and it actually wasn't nearly as cold as I thought it would be...

Though Dustin and Zach refused to go in....

It was a fun trip...however I am convinced that next time I go to New England I will be traveling by airplane... driving through Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City was no fun... oh yeah and smelly New Jersey....

Fun in the Park

We went to the park for the first time in like 2 months... and of course I brought my camera along...because really do you think I would have been going for a walk if I didn't have some other motive.... I could do a whole 12x12 scrapbook just with photos from Point of Rocks Park in Chester... yeah we go there a lot

Oh and I went shopping this weekend for scrapbook supplies... not that I needed more... so hopefully there will be a post soon with new projects!!