Rain in NOLA

Well I'm going to Mardi Gras in 12 days! Rob and I will be with my brother, his boyfriend and a big group of great people. New Orleans is such a cool city and I'm excited to bring Rob for his first time there. Pompob on Flickr has this great set of rainy days photos in the French Quarter.


While this looks beautiful, I'm hoping for sun and a mid 70's temperature.


A strip club and crawfish joint... welcome to New Orleans.


One of my favorite things is being able to walk the streets with alcohol, as long as it's not in a glass bottle. Pennsylvania would be quick to arrest a person for that.


There's a little sign under "Pat O'Brien's" advertising mint juleps. The perfect southern drink, along with an early morning bloody mary.


I can fondly remember getting 2 bottles of Jim Beam from Matassa's Market.


This isn't quite in the French Quarter, but the swamps are beautiful. Rob and I are excited to hang out in swamp country on our visit to the Big Easy!

Red and Pale Yellow

And not one picture with french fries and ketchup:


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Pink and Blue

I've been having a lot fun with Multicolr Search Lab's Flickr search by color page. You decide on the colors and it pulls images from Flickr that match your search. It's amazing seeing 50 thumbnails of all different photographs that look so similar because of the colors.


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Expect a few more of these posts, I'm being entertained.

Playing Cards

What a handsome set of playing cards, for sale at Park Life. Ok, they're $175 but such a fresh re-design of the old royal characters.

Summer Fair

To remind you of warmer days, I'm posting a set of carnival photos. Carnival, summer fair, amusement parks, they're all similar. I've always had an affinity for carnival photography. It's easy to see why: the white and rainbow light bulbs, vintage rides, good memories and so much color. This is one place where I actually like over saturation and Photoshop coloring.




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Current Event

Christmas

Christmas is in a week and here in Pennsylvania there's a snowstorm! I think we already have 12 inches on the ground and it's not supposed to stop snowing for another 12 hours. Since I can't go anywhere, I figured it would be a good time to update on all of these Christmas-related things:



I bought 99 cent stockings from Target and cut out our monograms from felt. This was a fun and really cheap craft that I can re-use next year (if Rob is lucky).





On the way to New York City with the Yanchuks, we saw this crazy car.


My adorable Santa Clause mug!


We didn't get a Christmas tree, so I made a little Christmas tree garland for the living room. I just used scrap material (from wrapping paper, cardboard, felt and a Forever 21 bag).