Sunlight and Yarn

I am constantly on the lookout for three things: new trails, bargain deals on ANYTHING and new art mediums. Oh and good books. That seems to go over my small limit of three, but I have narrowed it down to those. Of all those things there is a plethora of each. My search never ends. My new art medium this month is yarn and the art of crochet. I picked up a few handy books at the library (totally worth it) and now I am starting on a multicolored blanket and practicing with some flower headbands. It is one of those things that is mindless yet extremely entertaining. I love it already and its only been day two. My little sister (the 10-year-old) has picked it up as well. We are learning new stitches together. On top of this I have added another interest: photography.

I always enjoy taking good pictures and I took the opportunity to practice on my brother, Joe. He is a senior in high school and we all know what that means: SENIOR PICTURES! Instead of paying the ridiculous prices for sitting fees, studio time and a photographer who is just going to crop and photoshop your face, I took out my little/awesome Kodak digital to Lumiere Park in St. Louis. For those who don't know what it is...it an awesome sculpture park in St. Louis (off highway 44). Despite living in STL for 22 years, I had never been. It was a great field trip.

We started out our adventure with a pit stop at Plato's Closet. It is a thrift store that buys gently worn brand names for teens and twenty something people. We used that time to find some sweet shirts for Joe to wear on our photo shoot. He bought a few shirts and an awesome green/purple jacket (that I am def. going to post later). I was able to find some more running gear, a Columbia jacket and another jacket that I swear I will never stop wearing. This was all for under $35.

The awesome jacket that Joe found in the Men's section. It is worth every eight dollars I spent.

Nike running shirt, coolmax style.

Columbia jacket that I found for WAY less than what it's worth. It will keep me warm for winters to come.

The park is full of random sculptures. I could try to explain this, but you will just have to see it for yourself. Here are some of the best pics that we came up with. One will ultimately be his senior picture that he can hand out to all his friends...at least end up on our mantle.

The best picture ever, but alas might only make it to Facebook.

Well we all know that no parent would chose this as a picture to frame...but its still cool!

This will be the end of my photo career until the next sibling makes their way to senior year (two more years to go). So until then, this is the extent of my abilities with a digital.

Until my next shopping spree or craft project competed...