My quest for housing options outside the realm of normal suburbia has led me to many places. I look at old factories and industrial buildings the way most women drool over Manolo Blahniks. reZONED is one of my favorite shows and think the most creative application of a product isn’t what the creators intended. I LOVE my dining area wallpapered in acrylic gas station numbers and chandelier made out of Christmas lights.
Today, while reading Apartment Therapy, I came across what might be the coolest idea yet – container houses. While I’m usually anti-ticky-tacky, I LOVE this idea! Check out some of the concept houses here (also watch the cool video).
The 12 Container House may be a little out of our price point but isn’t is fantastic?! I LOVE the gigantic high ceilings. And orange is even one of the standard colors.
More realistically, we’re (hypothetically) looking at something like the Quik House. The Quik House is a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2,000 sqft prefab house made out of shipping containers. You can check out the PDF booklet here (MUCH easier to read than the website with the awful red background). They also have 3,000 and 5,000 sqft options as well.
Now we just need help finding an affordable piece of land….
My friend Steph submitted a picture for a scholarship contest. If she gets into the top 100, she goes on to the next round. Click & vote – (you can vote ever 30 min)
While I didn’t get to work much with Kamila 1-on-1 this time, I’ve worked with her once before, on a little present for Rob . It was SO great to see and work with her again. I totally love her style and personality. She’s incredibly approachable and normal; not pretentious or full of herself at all. Just the type of person you want to hang out with.
Also, she’ll do anything to get the shot - including hopping into a freezing cold fountain (see below). There were times I didn’t know she was even there but the pictures prove otherwise.
I also got to work with Cindy Patick last Sunday!! OMG she was so fun! She had such fun ideas and didn’t mind me being wacky. She even welcomed my penchant for climbing on stuff! We played off each other so well. Her sister assisted and also had some really great ideas. She natural eye for what was working or what wasn’t. I stole borrowed these from Cindy’s blog but she’s got a lot more great stuff over there. If you’re looking for a photographer, definitely check her out!!
Aren’t these FABULOUS?! Cindy Patrick is awesome! Check out her website or blog. Lots of love to her!
John was a blast to work with! So chill and laid-back, he put me totally at ease. You could tell he knew exactly what he was doing and was darn good at it too. He was SO much fun and not afraid to get down and dirty – even joining me to lie on the sidewalk. His work totally speaks for itself. Here are some teaser’s from John’s blog -
Also check out the wicked cool slideshow on his blog. Amazing.
Yesterday, 6 photographers, 1 videography team, and 6 brides got together for a little photo shoot around Philadelphia. It was SO much fun!! Rob v-logged the entire thing, so you can take a brief peak into our day. If you’d like to see the higher res versions, CLICK HERE for the playlist where you’ll find that option.
UPDATE: It’s better to watch the videos on YouTube —> CLICK ME. They’re all choppy here.
For more pictures, check out the official blog at http://www.phillyttd.com/. Links to all our wonderful photographers are on the left navigation bar (on the Philly TTD blog).
You may have noticed the Faves & Friends links over in my right hand navigation bar. And you may have noticed one of them was the Philly Trash Bash blog. But what’s this? you ask. This my friends is what I’m doing with my Mother’s Day.
“Trash the Dress” was a term originally coined by John Michael Cooper, a photographer in Nevada. Mark Eric, a photographer in Louisiana, started a blog to feature some of his work in mid ’07. The blog isn’t used anymore, as they’ve moved on to a website. Trash the Dress sounds a lot worse that what it really is. The whole movement is really about creation, not destruction. You can read their “why” reasons here. But to me, it’s really about the art. I love the idea of juxtaposingthe typical image of a bride, all white and pristine, with a gritty, industrial, urban space.
On Sunday, May 11th, 6 brides, 6 photographers, 1 videographer and perhaps some husbands will be gathering at the Clinton St. Bed & Breakfast for the Philly Trash Bash. It’s going to be SO much fun!! (And free for the brides!) The photogs are Kamila Harris, Cindy Patrick, John Arcara, Paul Roebuck, Sarah Schulte, & Stephanie Sherwood-Voch. Kenneth Stillmanis the videographer- you may remember him from our wedding!
We will be shooting all around Philly. So if you’re in the area, come say hi! I think we’ll be hitting up South St. Penns Landing, the Ben Franklin Bridge and I don’t know what else. If you’re friends with or part of the media, let them know! I know they’d love the publicity, so the email is media@phillyttd.com.
I’ve bought some cool accessories and wanted to post pics but my camera battery died and I think the charger is in SJ. Maybe tomorrow.
Yes, I realize it’s not technically summer but the next three weeks are going to be the closest I’m gonna get.
In the quest to complete this MPA program, I have decided to take 4 summer session classes. At Rutgers, the summer is broken into 2 sessions and I’m taking 2 classes each session.
Summer session I (May 27 – July 3)
Mon & Wed: Theory & Practice of Nonprofit Management
Tues & Thurs: Nonprofit Human Resources
Summer Session II (July 7 – August 13)
Mon & Wed: Resource Development for Nonprofits
Tues & Thurs: Nonprofit Budgeting
Yup. That’s class M-Th from 5:30-9:00pm. I know. It’s going to be a lot and I’ve been called crazy on several occasions. I’m not under any delusions about how not fun it’s going to be but 4 CLASSES! FOUR!! That’ll be 8 down and only 6 left. YAY!
Spring finals are over and summer classes don’t start until the 27th. Maybe I’ll finally print those pictures and work on our honeymoon photo album.
Today is my last final for the spring semester. I took 2 classes this spring, Political Economy & Analytical Methods. The Political Econ paper was turned in last week and tonight in my open book/open note final for Analy. Methods.
I went to the review session for it last night. Not sure it was entirely productive but I think it may have helped a little. I wasn’t at last weeks class because I had to work, so my classmates filled me in on what to expect format-wise. Supposidly there are only 7 questions but each question will probably have multiple parts, so that spreads out the points a little.
The final is crucial to our grade. It’s worth 30 (of 100) points. She’s currently only graded 56 points worth of work, so there’s not really a good way to guage what grade I need on the final to get an A – just a lot of hypotheticals. So…. fingers crossed for that.
. It was SO great to see and work with her again. I totally love her style and personality. She’s incredibly approachable and normal; not pretentious or full of herself at all. Just the type of person you want to hang out with.
