August Goals and Rainbows

(There was a rainbow yesterday so you're getting the privilege to see a few rainbow shots along with my goals for the month. Well actually the same rainbow shot, just edited and then not. It's fun. For this one I cloned out some junk and tweaked the contrast and coloring a little.)

July Goals: (how did I do?)

1. Go on a date night (or 2 or 3) with my husband before he deploys. We did, we had a romantic dinner at Blue Moon Fish Co. and also some special time together (and our own hotel room with Ariana) while in Key West.

2. Spend lots of time with my sister and do sister things like get a pedicure together!

I think so! We didn't get pedicures done but we painted our nails a lot together!

3. Try my best to see my friends Maggie, Nancy and possibly Marie. I got to see my Aunt Lavon who drove down from Georgia. Also Nancy is coming TODAY for a few days!!

4. Enjoy the little things I miss while living overseas: mall shopping, air conditioning, beaches nearby, Momma's cooking! A BIG HECK YES!!!

5. Shed 5-10 pounds and purchase a new bathing suit! I doubt I've lost any weight, I don't feel like I have. While I have made some apparances at the gym, I think my vacation eating has balanced me out. I did buy a new black and white polka dot bikini that I feel pretty hot in!

July was a pretty relaxing month. I wanted to do a lot of easy, fun things and that's what I did!

August will be a busy one. My birthday! (eeeppp!), flying back to Germany, readjusting to the time change (it's always worse for me going that way), preparing for Rich to go back to the states for more training, preparing for his deployment. Sigh.

 (edited with a filter called "Toy Camera". No idea what it is, but I like it!)

August Goals:

1. Celebrate my birthday!

2. Read a book. I was slack last month. I guess reading 75% of "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" on the Kindle outloud on the drive the the Keys counts, but I didn't finish it so I need to do that.

3. Paint something new. It's been a while.

4. Plan my 30 day photo challenge (I want to host one on my blog for September, who's with me?)

5. Get back in the swing of Ariana's Alphabet. I just haven't had the time or supplies since I've been here.

xo's

Cat

What are your goals/plans for this month??

Oh, and in case you were wondering, here is the SOOC shot! I'm learning my way around my Aperture!

(Some shots just NEED to be edited! I'm fond of the first one, how about you??)

xo's

Cat

A New Photography Challenge!

This is going to be a fresh new start for a photography project. I started a blog last year as a project 365 blog, but around about 80 pictures, I was struggling to keep up and finding it hard to balance wife/mommy duty and come up with creative photos that pleased me. I'm not going to try to re-do a project 365 again.

This will be a mixture project. I wish I could keep up with project 365, but I don't see that happening. Two weeks ago, I stumbled on Clouds 365, which I totally fell in love with that idea. I  a captured the few sunny days we've had. 

Lovely...

After 2 weeks, and only having pretty skies for maybe 4 out of 12 days. I abandoned this idea. Nobody wants to see photos of a gray, cloud covered sky day after day. It rains a lot here in Germany, at least so far. I hope Spring/Summer are sunnier.

See...

Then I discovered Project 64!

A group of ladies are going to take photographs of ever color in a 64 Crayola box of crayons, and want us to join along in the fun. Sounded a lot like Color Week that I hosted on my blog last year. This is obviously longer with lots more colors! I think I can handle it. You can read more about it here on their blog.

I'm a week behind so here is my photo from week 1 (taken today) 

YELLOW GREEN

With that being said, I also am trying new techniques and always learning when it comes to photography. Every week, I'll try to post my favorite pictures. Creative, snapshots, b&w, portraits, macro, etc. You'll see cloud365 pictures when it's a sunny day haha, and every week I'm going to take a P64 picture!

Tomorrow I'll be posting my favorite photos of this week.

xo's

Cat

With my head in the clouds

Most of our snow has melted in the past 2 days so, 

Yesterday I went for a walk...

With my head in the clouds...

And it was a beautiful day...

Rainbow Cloud Photography

I'm still in awe of these photos that I captured the other day.

While driving back from spending the day at the Beaufort Water Festival with my Momma and Aunt Lavon, we saw this gorgeous cloud formation with awesome rainbow effects around it. 

I had to share! The colors were even more vivid than these photos show!

The whole cloud with the rainbow edges peeking out.

It was even better in person!

We were all stunned by the beauty of it!

xo's

Cat

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P.S. I'm working on a new painting series!! 

It will be released on August 1st!! Can't wait to share it with y'all!