Thursday, June 11, 2009

Coming Soon...



...the NEW BLOG!!!

After having this wonderful "blogger" blog for almost 3years (what? really?!) I am moving to a custom blog attached to the website that I have designed to match the new branding. So get ready to update your bookmarks, it's a pretty sweet looking blog. :)

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Guess Who is Sewing This Weekend!?

Me! Me!

Here are afew more ics from the recent "fash.the.dress" grad shoots! You can check out the updates website with the gallery HERE.






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Saturday, May 23, 2009

New Look

A few people have asked me about the new look to the website. It's my new "branding". I did feel like the old branding suited my style, but it wasn't quite perfect. So, I set to work with some new colours in mind, and a list of what I wanted people to "feel" when they saw it all. Check out the website HERE & tell me what you think!

Yes, I will be updating the blog to match. :)

Friday, May 22, 2009

Delicate Wishes



These pictures were taken with my 5D using the "Reverse Lens Technique". AKA: The Poor Man's Macro. :) I do have a couple macro lenses, but I was curious to play more with this technique. I have done it before using some of the lenses I own for my normal shooting, but recently had an idea and bought a used, manual zoom lens from eBay for about $40 in order to try out some things I had read. I think I will post a tutorial on it, because it sure is a GREAT tool to play with.

The part that stunned me the most when looking through my viewfinder, and through the images after, was the CRAZY BOKEH!! SO COOL! You can't tell very well in these pictures, but I have more and will post them with the tutorial. :)



Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Please Vote

No, not in the election up here. On UrbanWedding.com

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If you click that snazzy screen cap above, it will take you to the page where my ad is listed on their site. I notice not many of you have rated me yet, and I encourage you to do so, please and thank you. :)

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Busy! Planning! Excited!

That is how my days have been lately. I have been busy planning, and I am excited!!



Do you have your morning coffee, afternoon tea or evening glass of wine ready? This is a PIC HEAVY POST!! YAAY! I love pic heavy posts! Don't you?!

First... I got a new bracelet from Etsy. WOW, I love etsy. This bracelet is the perfect thing to encourage Earth Day all year 'round!! It's made from recycled bike tire!! dullleadsinker is the brilliant creative behind these fabulous bracelets! She also makes chokers and belts! I am SO getting a belt when I am done my new work out DVDs. (Yes, I bought work out DVDs off late night tv. More on that later.)

You can also see one of my new nail polishes in that pic. A yummy deep, dark, glittery burgundy. Looks black, until you get close to it. I rarely wear nail polish, but when I do I tend to suit that dark, edgy stuff. I also got a GLITTER FILLED, cherry red the other day. Going to try that in an "at home" day before I venture out in it. :)

At the beginning of the month it was my son's 3rd birthday! Holy Hana! I can;t believe that much time has flown by! So much has happened since then! Can you believe that I stopped sewing and selling my dress creations for girls not long after he was born?! It's been almost 3 years since I have made any funky clothing for sale!! Oh crap. I always do this... digressing. Off on a tangent. I'll get back to that one though. ;)

My son turned 3 and along with turning 3 was saying good-bye to his tricycle, and hello to not only a big boy 2 wheeler (with training wheels) but also a COOOOOL peddle car!!

We were lucky enough to have my dad in town and so the playing began! (Some of you who have read this a long time will know my dad works abroad and comes back every 3 or 4 months for a visit, and I am REEEEALLY close with my dad. As a total daddy's girl, and as a friend. For those who didn't know that... now you do. :) )





At first my son thought it was all about pushing him around as he giggled with glee. Then when we all got tired of taking turns, and wanted him to actually learn how to use the cool peddle car, a wee bit of crying and having a snit ensued. Quickly recovering when he realized the only way to have fun was to get on the thing and go. Then the only issue was "ride the new bike, or ride the new car". Not a bad problem.

The peddle car I actually found at a GREAT kids consignment shop. Saw it outside when I pulled up and KNEW that was what was coming home with me. I usually go to kids consignment shops to any gifts for the kids, before I go to the store to buy them. I truly believe there is too much plastic crap out there, and any time I avoid buying new plastic crap, I do. Garage sales would be place #1 to find stuff, and we are now getting into perfect garage-sale weather, but my kids have enough crap right now, thank you very much. :)





Love these pictures of my son with my dad and my sister. His face in the one with my sister is PRICELESS!!

LOVE IT!

He has such a Christian Slater/Jack Nicholson look.

It has been a great month or so of having my dad visiting with the various bits of family around Langley & Washington as well as his friends on Salt Spring. Lucky us. Lucky him too. ;)

He heads back today or tomorrow, but I don't feel bad for him having to leave this awesome family of his... he's heading to Tuscany for a wine tour with some of the closest, and coolest, people. Lucky bum.

Yes, I'm totally jealous. But when I'm a big kid I will start checking things off my "must do" list too. :)

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Took a quick picture of a couple of the CDs I was sending out. In the time that I have started using this cool new packaging I have sent out a bunch without taking pictures! Oops. So I took some recently. Ta da. You like? I do!



This picture was from "date day" with my man. What a totally wonderful day. I planned a few things to do with a bit of room for wandering. It was awesome. We found a great tea shop, had FANTASTIC sushi, walked through an amazing forest to come out the other side on the edge of the ocean and a beautiful sunset. It was a delicious day!

Okay.. So... the announcements!!!!
I know some of you are going "finally! Geez that girl can TALK!" ;)

They are both to do with the business aspect of my life.



Can you guess what one of them is... ? Here is another clue.

Any guesses? (I am feeling rather cheeky right now! Hee hee!)

And for the other announcement... Did you know rhembein does GRAD / PROM / SENIOR portraits??!! Here's a taste. And soon there will be a new gallery up on the website for you to view too. :)









If you want to come have some fun and get some grad portraits that better reflect who you are, as well as get some sweet pictures of that outfit you spent so much tie picking out... gimme a shout! If you live in the Lower Mainland that is. ;)

Monday, March 30, 2009

Short, But Sweet

Well I have intentions of doing a longer catch-up post but I need to take a certain picture first.. you'll see. I have a BIG announcement I KNOW some of you will like (since you HAVE been asking for/about it... hee hee hee).

With Spring Break just having ended for us, and my dad visiting, it has been a bit hectic. SUPER fun, but hectic.

For now I wanted to do a quick picture share of some playing in Lightroom 2 I have been doing recently. I am LOVING making presets and these are two of my faves, with 2 images from a great photoshoot with a wicked fun couple.

What a difference a little tweek in colour can make.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Updates. Updates.

So, in my last post I mentioned how I would love to be able to play that song (Bretah Me by Sia) on the piano. That got me to thinking... My MacBook does about everything. Why can I not play the piano on it? Hmmm. GUESS WHAT! I CAN!! It CAME it with a program called Garage Band, and rumour has it that I can play piano on there!! YAAY!

When I have a bit of free time I plan to check that out and try playing that song! It has been a long time since I played piano, so I know I wont be great at it, but I bet it will be fun... especially on my Mac!



On another note.. I have been working my butt off getting photos edited to upload to the website. If you go on there now you will find a few changes, but today and tomorrow will reveal the most changes. Or, I should say, additions.

Hope you are having a great week! Back to editing I go...