^ i’m loving how the balloons look, aren’t you? this picture was rather hard to take… just because it was into the sun and i was afraid i was like burning out my sensor or something.
^ clara’s cake. this is what results of cake decorating skills after 9 at night. yes, 33 candles although she’s only 14.
we roasted hot dogs and had chili for dinner, and smores and cake and ice cream for dessert.
^ i’m not sure what she was reacting to… but it’s funny.
we all smell like smoke now.
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clara and dad ate breakfast at norma’s cafe this morning. the traditional birthday breakfast.
^ the birthday cake. spice cake, complete with raisins and walnuts.
^clara’s birthday dinner: carrot soup and ham with mustard.
^ melissa with her pumpkins
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this morning melissa made chamomile scones. i made whipped cream, and as it whipped i read anne of green gables. the part where she’s forgetting things as she’s cooking. and, as fate would have it, i forget my whipped cream. it whipped far too long and was close to becoming butter. but it looks rather like clotted cream, which is kind of what we were going for. irony much?
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^ bag of stuff. three cameras, 3 books (more in other bag), journal, list book, wallet, bible.
^ feet. driving.
^ creepy abandoned motel… and there was this guy hanging around it too.
^ highway poetry
^ houston skyline
^ trying to figure out the network connection with my awesome cousin randy… he was stop motion animating before his mom told him to do homework, which was playing his french horn. and now my other little cousin is watching youtube videos :)
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beautiful amy.
i can see this suitcase being a prop many times in the future.
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even though it’s not raining.
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it no longer seems like fall. it seemed like fall at the end of summer, but now it seems like summer again.
^ purchase of the day: vintage luggage for $2. !!!
don’t worry auntie steph. smiling with teeth pictures are coming soon.
^ vintage buttons. a handful for $1.
^ smile with teeth!
goodwill. craziness of tons of people. trying on things over my clothes because of the lines for the dressing rooms. finding sweet deals. everything being 50% off.
flea market. barely getting there and buying vintage luggage because i just had to have it. staying around this one booth because it had all the cool vintage stuff. paperdolls, letters, cards, envelopes. spanish money.
a.w. perry museum. going through an old house. being reminded of greenfield village. sack races. petting zoo. horses, chickens, goats, bunnies. some old(er) ladies tell us about spinning and grinding corn and coffee and about the courting candle. old russian ladies telling us that we should pick the pomegranites after we already had.
amy coming home. hearing about esoal and feeling for her and her bruises.
old town antique store. old maps. 70% off a ton of stuff.
taking tons of pictures.
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^ please disregard the slight grimace. taking pictures with self timer doesn’t always work so fabulously. anyway, i made this skirt out of an men’s shirt i got at a garage sale. from an idea from readymade magazine. it’s incredibly easy, just cut through the shirt below the underarms and make a place for a drawstring.
^ i’m really liking this hose thing.
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i slept outside in the treehouse. because i wanted to. for the experience. with a mosquito net, so i didn’t get eaten alive at night.
^ i slept outside although there was predicted thunderstorms. that didn’t happen.
^ all my stuff. and my foot. fabulous book: hope was here by joan bauer, peach for breakfast, walkie talkie although it meant connection to the world outside because mom insisted, glasses case, extra battery for dad’s macho flashlight, dad’s macho flashlight, duct tape flipflops, mosquito net.
< is this too weird of an angle? i rotated a pano.
^ all my stuff.
^ clara brought me a muffin for breakfast. after mom told her too. first, she came out with a muffin and was talking to me through the window. but she wouldn’t give me the muffin, she just came out to tempt me, and, in her words, to make me come inside.
^ me
^ what it looked like from the outside
^ 2nd breakfast
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^this is my figured-out-how-to-do-double-exposures face.
oh, and if the photos turn out i might scan the prints and post them.
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august rush.
Elicia Wetstein 