Piggottography

So for a while I've considered selling my photography via Etsy and honestly was scared to do so. I guess I was afraid of being judged or someone saying that what I'm really passionate about sucks.

 

So anywho....I grew a set today and opened an Etsy shop for selling my photography as art prints. Here's hoping someone will want to buy one. I swear if someone does I will need a new set of britches.

Here's a link to my shop and you can also access it at any time via the page at the top of my blog.

Well I guess it's well beyond time for me to get in the shower and leave the house!

Have a great Tuesday ya'll!

How do I get my kid to stop saying boobies in public?

Good Monday Morning! 

So my kid has become obsessed with the word boobies. It might be kinda OK if I was the only person he uttered this word to. Nope, it's open season. He said it to the lady at the grocery store last week. I've tried time out, doesn't work. Is duct tape my only option. 

In other news.....

Ginger Boo and I were out early today at our fave place in town, the Discovery Center. We went for a walk out by their wetlands to check out all the baby ducks. If you follow me on Instagram (if you don't, you should, click HERE) you saw the video I posted of all the baby ducks yesterday. 

They are SO FLUFFY and there are literally about a hundred out there right now

So we are tooling along and I realize that the waterlilies and irises are all in bloom in the little pond right next to the museum. This is why I always have my camera with me :) Here's a few shots from our morning constitutional.

Yellow Irises

The Ginger checking out the little fish and bullfrog tadpoles, those things are huge!

All pictures shot with my Nikon D90 and 35mm 1.8 prime lens. Processing was done in Photoshop with Greater than Gatsby presets.

I hope everyone has a great week! 

--Cassie

Look What I Can Do

 

Anytime I get to show off my photography work I feel like Stuart on Mad TV. I don't always end up with my pants off like him thank goodness, that could be a real issue. Anyway....I've been doing photography for about 5 years now and I really had very few pieces of my own work in my home until a few months ago. We've lived in this house almost 5 years now and I have had a huge blank, green wall in my kitchen beside the breakfast table for the same amount of time. Being a cheap ass I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for some type of art work or other random thing to hang there. That's where my camera comes in.

 We have two huge hydrangea bushes in our backyard, one is a regular one and the other is an oakleaf hydrangea. I took these right after a rain storm with my Nikon D90 and my 35 mm prime lens. They were processed in photoshop using Pioneer Woman presets. 

Here's the finished product. Being cheap I didn't actually print these on canvas. I bought a huge pack of canvases in bulk and painted them black then I modge podged the prints to them. I didn't even have to put a nail in the wall because of the 3M strips that are SOOOOOOO fabulous!

Here's another couple of things I have hanging in the house that I have shot

These were shot at Folly Beach, SC near Charleston. LOVE IT THERE! If you go, hit up Taco Boy.

This is Folly Pier on Folly Beach

So I hope I haven't bored the heck out of anyone today with my photography. I hope everyone has an great Thursday. The hubs and I are heading out to the Arcade Fire concert in Nashville tonight. Should be a good time.

--Cassie

Pinterest or the reason I can't get anything done and feel bad about myself

Pinterest has to be the most EPIC timesuck ever invented. A few years ago when it first came about I was still a yearbook adviser and we had to ban it for the yearbook staff. They would literally just sit and scroll through the Everything page for hours and hours not getting anything done. I'd never experienced anything quite like it. Some of those kids needed a 12 step program to quit. Cold turkey was hard for them. Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE me some Pinterest. I am a member and you can find me HERE. I sometimes just sit and scroll and feel like I can be the best, craftiest, skinniest, and most organized mom ever! Then I wake up.
Here's my fave cray over there.

**Weight loss/workout/clean eating pins- If I had a nickel for every pin like this I'd be a very rich lady. How many different before and after/take this product/ don't eat crap that's made in a factory with chemicals you can't pronounce pins does one site need? I'm also not a fan of the take this product and lose 100 pounds in a week pins. I mean really. Just get off your butt. I'm all for weight loss and workouts and clean eating but it's kind of taken over Pinterest and sometimes I just want to look at cat memes and cupcakes.

 

**Pallets- I'm fairly sure that due to these pins that many businesses are putting their pallets under lock and key. SO far I've seen pins touting how to make beds, shelves, swings, artwork,towelracks, and sheds with pallet wood. How many things REALLY need to be made from pallet wood? Probably pallets. Just sayin.

Yup those are pallet house plans. Get crackin!

 

 

**Monogram- I just saw monogram Converse on Pinterest. WTF? Like any good southern gal I love having some monogram items but does everything have to be monogrammed? How far will people go you ask? See below.

Of course you can monogram your hunting rifle. Let me get my Cricut warmed up!

 **Makeup/hair tutorials- Some of these are really cool tutorials but some....not so much. How many gals really need to know how to do their hair just like Princess Elsa? There's a tip or trick no matter what you have going on above your shoulders. Got fine hair, we can make it thicker. Got curly hair? We will straighten that mess right out. Acne, age spots, dry/oily skin? Boy! Does Pinterest have an answer for you. It can be WAY overwhelming. Then there's also the whole chola makeup brigade. Seriously look it up. Some of those gals really do gorgeous make up but then there's the group that shop the Sharpie section of target for eye and lip liner.  If you want so laugh take a look over at glowpinkstah on YouTube. Her Baby Smiley character is my fave chola on the block.

This is a link to a hair tutorial for Elsa hair. You never know when you might need an epic side braid!

 **Dirty/weird shit or what I like to call Pinterest After Dark- No matter how many people are pinning monograms, hair tutorials, cute outfits they'll never have or DIY deodorant pins Pinterest will always have the underlying dirty/creepy. The crazy thing is that you don't have to go looking for the cray over there. Just go look at the Everything tab at the wrong time of day and you'll see all kinds of NC-17 shit. I'm a believer that people can do what they want within reason but , damn, how many naked ladies do I have to see while I'm digging around for gluten free recipes and projects to use up my plethora of pallet wood. I'll spare you the links. You all know what I'm talking about. There's also true horror stories, ghost sightings, and tons of other creeptastic shit. I spend too much time alone here to be reading about serial killers and ghost sightings. Seriously, I need to be able to sleep for real.

**Everyone on Pinterest has the same tattoos- I have zero tattoos. I want one but I'm a weenie. But really, take a look at tattoos over on Pinterest and you will find that every member has one of the following tattoos. 1. Some type of bird bird tattoo- some of these are really cool but I think the idea of a tattoo should be that not everyone else has it. 2. The dandelion puff being blown, sometimes turning into birds as they float away. 3. Some type of infinity symbol, sometimes with words. 

Please don't take this as a slight if you do have any of those tattoos. I'm not judging. Just saying that they are way popular right now. I can't really think of what kind of tattoo I want to get. Any ideas? 

The UniPac tattoo is pretty epic.

Well, I've got to actually go do something, like probably take a shower. Why is it that I can do so much all day long, but getting in the shower seems like too much sometimes? Hope your Wednesday is wonderful!

--Cassie

30 Day Challenge or what I like to call "I have to exercise every day?"

Hey Ya'll I've decided to join up with a 30 day fitness challenge with a couple of great ladies.

My weight has been an issue for me for about four years now, ever since we started makin babies. When I was young I was a ballet dancer and had some opposite weight issues if you know what I mean. That's a post for another day.

The real issue that I need to get a handle on is my relationship with food. I'm a binge eater on occasion. I'm also an emotional eater. I can't tell you how much I ate while my son was in the hospital. Did you know that at Vanderbilt you can get 3 pancakes as big as your head for $3? I know that all too well. 

Two summers ago I was in the best shape of my life from doing barre workouts and one of their bootcamps. However, since our circumstances have changed we can't afford all that jazz anymore. That shit works but damn it's expensive! I have to work out on my own at home and it's not so bad and no one has to see me sweatin to the oldies, except for the ginger of course. I've been able to locate tons of free workouts on the internet and I run pretty often. My poor neighbors have to see my big booty trotting through the neighborhood on the regular.

What do I want to get out of this challenge?

1. To get back into my clothes that don't fit. I LOVE clothes and I miss wearing so much of what I have because it simply doesn't fit or doesn't look good once it's on.
2. To feel better. I'm so damn tired all the time.
3. To look better. Um can you say bikini season?

What are my daily goals over the next 30 days?

1. Drink 100 oz of water every day- just get me a diaper, ok?
2. No fast food
3. No soda or sweet tea (house wine of the south ya'll!)
4. Tons of protein and veggies and fruits
5. Activity every day! This is not hard since I literally chase the ginger all over the place all day long.                             

So there it is! This challenge starts May 1st and I'm ready for it :) 

I've linked up the fab ladies who are running this challenge below. They're fab! You should check out their blogs.

On a completely unrelated note, why has my toddler started gesturing with hands so much when he talks? He looks like an extra from The Godfather right now.

 

--Cassie :)
 

Let there be light...or at least the right switches

 Happy Friday Ya'll! Here's the crazy that's already happened here before 9am!

Have you ever felt so stupid you wanted to disappear? I had one of those moments this morning. Long story short we've never been able to get our lights over our garage to work. We've lived here 5 years and no lights over the garage, ever.
This past week I had another electrical issue so I called in my favorite handyman, Eric from the Good News Guys, come out to work on that and look into our lighting issue. This is an awesome group of guys that donate a portion of their earnings to do mission work. I also feel safe having them in my house when it's just me and the ginger.
So he fixes the other issue and starts in on the lights. He took the light fixtures off and looked at those and still couldn't figure out what was wrong. Then he mentioned to me that maybe the switch at the front door isn't the one for those fixtures. I was like, WTF? Why wouldn't the switch at the front door work the outside lights over the garage?

Front door switch...why doesn't this work my lights over my garage???

Nope, the switch for my outside lights is tucked away in my garage behind a dryer that doesn't work and beside my extension ladder.

I had no idea these switches were even there...geeze.

 

YAY! Yeah ignore my house number all falling off and shit, nothing a little Gorilla Glue won't fix.

--Cassie

If you don't think this is funny we can't be friends

I have a twisted sense of humor. See below for reference.