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A+ A+F Campus Resources: I feel like having a computer at home is a must to keep up with the weekly work. I do have a printer that I use to print the assessments, to help study, and to print the syllabus but I could see how one could make it through without a printer
B A+F Student Body: Great Diversity of Young to Old. Most students are working individuals in their late 20s - early 40s. The male to female ratio seems a little female heavy, but almost balanced. You run into a wide range of students, for example you can be in your last class with someone who this is their second or third class of their degree. You can view student's biographies and profiles and message anyone. There is a great diversity of people brining a lot of previous experience and job experience to the table.
A A+F Tuition & Financial Aid: A Lot of Information in a Scheduled, Short Time – Education is well worth the tuition. Books are included in the tuition and are sent to you every class, which I think is one of the best parts about the school; they send you the best resources, both text, online, and cd to give your hands on experience and simulation. I feel prepared for my career choice and love all the staff members who are always very helpful and nice and love staying in contact and helping their students.
Campus Resources: Used Several Different Computers from Home, Laptop,Using Starbucks Wi-Fi and My Work Computer. Used several different computers from home, laptop,using Starbucks Wi-Fi and my work computer.
A+ A+F Academic Experience: Business Management – I enjoyed the classes and learned much more than I thought i would. The classes on Human Resources and Business Math were tough but fulfilling.
A+ A+F Academic Experience: Instructors Were Involved. All of my instructor had real world experience in the subjects taught. I, being an older student, had differing opinions that some of my instructors and probably drove them nuts. this did not deter from my grades.
A+ A+F Overall Experience: Very Satisfied – I have completed my studies and I have had a terrific time. The time management process that I have used during school, helped me work my regular job while going to school. I have read complaints from some of the past students and only wonder what they were expecting when they enrolled. I did notice that some of the other students were not paying attention when given instructions during online classes. Integrity as far as citations and giving credit to cited sources is of the most importance. I would have finished with a 4.0 grade point average, but i failed to turn in an assignment when I was not near a computer connection. I still have no complaints.
A+ A+F Academic Flexibility: Anthem Success – I chose Anthem for the flexibility but I am learning so much more than I thought I would. I love this school!
Career Services: I have not yet graduated so I am unsure, but all the other staff is very nice and professional so I imagine that the career services are as well.
A A+F Student Body: Busy Lives – It is an online school, so a lot of people attending have a busy schedule they need to work around. From what it seems, there's a wide variety of cultures and beliefs. We recently did an assignment on learning styles and we got to write a short essay on our learning styles and comment on our fellow student's essays. It really opened my mind to the different kind of students I get to work with.
A A+F Academic Flexibility: Easy and Work With Me – I love online school! Particularly this one. From the moment I called to request more information they have helped me so much. They assisted me every step of the way, when I had questions, they answered them no problem. There is almost always someone to talk to if I have questions. My school schedule is so flexible and easy to work around, I have a child so that's very important that I can get my work done on my time (or should I say, my child's time). My teacher explains everything thoroughly and encourages student interaction. The assignments aren't overwhelmingly difficult, and they give me everything I need easily accessed 24/7 on my student log in page. Anthem online is very helpful with everything and try their best to help me succeed!
Academic Experience: Havent Started Yet – I like everything they've showed me so far and I cant wait to start and earn my degree.
A A+F Academic Experience: Academic Experience at Anthem College Online – I am presently taking Business Management classes at Anthem College Online. It is a great set up for me. I can work on school assignments at my pace and if I need help the online tutors are there and have given great assistance to me. The faculty are available to answer any question I may have via email, the Moodle messaging service and their own personal phone numbers. the faculty have been very gracious and flexible when it comes to attending lectures and answering the students questions.
Career Services: At present, I do not know much about the career services at Anthem. I haven't made the opportunity to research and use the service that Anthem has in this area.
A A+F Academic Flexibility: Flexibility and Anthem College – Anthem College online has given me flexibility to work around my work schedule. The instructors and administration have implemented a new policy to allow students to work with instructors with assignments and the deadlines the assignments have. This is my first higher education institution and I am very pleased with the program created for me and the time lines that I have to finish assignments. While working a full time job and attending online classes, Anthem has given me the help I need to succeed at school and apply what I am learning at my job.
A A+F Online Courses: Online Is on MY Time – The teacher's usually respond quickly to your questions when you e-mail them. If you call, staff is eager to help. I enjoy being able to do the work on MY time online.
A A+F Academic Experience: The classes are only 4 weeks long so they go by very fast. The teachers are friendly and eager to help you succeed. The staff is AMAZING, always ready to help in any way they can.
A A+F Tuition & Financial Aid: I have no regrets about choosing Anthem online. I believe that this school has my best interest at heart. When I had to go through financial aid it was not a difficult process. The financial aid counselor was great and answered my questions as soon as I had then. I did not fill like someone that was just being pushed through I was a person to them. If I choose to continue my education after I graduate I will go with Anthem again.
A A+F Online Courses: LOVE ONLINE CLASSES – LOVE ONLINE CLASSES, BECAUSE I CAN WORK ANYTIME I WANT
A+ A+F Overall Experience: School Integrity – Looking at my experiances with other schools, I enjoy working with the staff at Anthem College. I have delt with schools in the past that have been rude and threating but not with Anthem. I have a lot of respect for this school and the people that work for it.
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I wrote this about 3 months ago, but I believe the bulk of it to still be true...if anything, the percentages and costs, according to the article, are even worse:
For all of you that think Florida's new law requiring drug testing for all welfare recipients is a great idea – this is nothing more than the state, once again picking our pockets and using your fear and loathing to justify it. According to the law, applicants must pay for the drug test. If they fail, they will be denied benefits for a year. If they pass the test, we the people reimburse them for the test. According to most studies not engineered to support this law, the incidence of drug abuse among welfare recipients is no higher than the general population – somewhere between 1.5 and 3%.
From an article in the Economist – "The bill affects only cash benefits, not food stamps. And though it requires welfare recipients, of which there are roughly 113,000 in the state, to pay for the test, it raises their initial welfare payment to cover the cost of the test—so long as they pass it, that is."
The people of Florida will be paying for at least 97% of the drug tests!
Some questions you ought to be asking:
1) How much is the drug test going to cost? The state estimates $10. Really, only $10? – Do you honestly buy this? Governor Scott's own company charges $35 per drug test (Oh, you didn't know he owned one of the larger drug testing companies in Florida?...ahem, sorry, his wife owns the company since it would be "improper" for him to pass a law benefitting his family and friends. Got to keep it on the up and up, no conflict of interest don't cha know).
2) Who will be administering the tests and what will that cost? According to the state, the Dept of Children and Family Services and it has already been budgeted. So DCF is awash with the time and money to add the extra burden? Good to know they can handle it, especially coming off the win they had with Nubia Barahona (a 10 yr old girl, abused from birth then murdered – under the "care" of DCF).
3) How much is it going to cost to defend this law in court? Laws similar to this in Michigan and Georgia have already been struck down in violation of 4th amendment rights. Whether you agree with it or not is immaterial, it will be struck down too. Everybody understands the Constitution exists to protect citizens from the majority, don't they?
4) What kind of drugs are they testing and how long do they stay in the body? If they are doing urine tests, all the offenders need do is refrain for a day or two for testing of the more dangerous drugs. If they are testing with hair follicles (much more accurate for long term abuse), the $10 test becomes really laughable.
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Lovely tradition. Lovely. We need more stuff like this in all our neighborhoods. Its all about the birth of Christ.
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1 french baguette
bunch (10-15) of small sweet peppers (sliced)
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3 tbs capers
3 tbs chopped fresh oregano
3 tbs chopped fresh italian parsley
1 hot chili (serrano, habanero, jalapeno) de-seeded and minced
1 small tomato finely chopped
Olive oil (about 4 tbs)
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Co – Operative Food journey continues. Time lapse of my recent journey from Reigate to Luton. Made this 2 min time lapse as en experiment to see how the iphone performs. Not sure its worth watching to the end. But I hope to improve on this further with more iphone time lapse car journeys and other subjects.
Co-Op Food South East Road Trip
845 miles and still counting. Currently photographing store mangers portraits for The co-operative food across the South East. Having a great time meeting friendly and dedicated staff. Drinking to much coffee and eating to many chocolates brownies though.
Photographing Rasberry Pi for the FT – Portrait of Eben Upton
Recent portrait work commissioned by the Financial Times to photograph the Eben Upton the Founder of Cambridge based Rasberry Pi for the FT Business Page. Rasberry Pi manufacture pocket sized affordable computers for school children. Priced at £24. The company has won acclaim for inventing the versatile computer which can be put to a multitude of uses.
Taking a screen shot or capture of your iphone display
Only just found out how easy it is to take a screen shot of your iphone screen. By this I mean the ability to take a photograph or copy the iphone screen to your Photos folder on the iphone. This is useful if you want to store information that might only be available when you have an internet connection, copy a message, or if you need to quickly send an error message for technical support.
Once your iphone is displaying the page you want to capture e.g. a webpage, email, message etc. follow these steps.
1) Simply press the Home button and the On/Off/Lock switch at the same time.
2) As you press the Home button and On/off Switch simultaneously the screen will flash white and a camera shutter will sound. You have then captured a screen shot of your iphone screen and this can be viewed in Photos.
If you get the timing wrong Siri will open or you will lock the iphone.
I believe this works for all iphone/ipad's running iOS 2.0 or higher.
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Quick location portrait lighting in the Surrey Hills
I recently shot a quick self promotion photograph of a model holding a champagne glass and watching a Sunset on Reigate Heath, Surrey. The image was pulled together at the last minute, due to my schedule and wanting the ideal weather conditions, despite the amazing weather we have had in the last few weeks. There has not been many clouds or there has been to much cloud cover at the time I wanted to shoot. I finally got my window of opportunity after the first wave of thunderstorms toward the end of July. This is an explanation of how the shot was created.
I found the location after many evenings walking from home to the Windmill at Reigate Heath Golf club. I was struck by the calm and tranquility of the surroundings with the quiet occasionally interrupted by the metallic tang of golfers teeing off from the nearby golf course. As the Sun set the view and hills seemed to take on a grand ambiance. I returned with a camera and captured a basic wide/panoramic landscape image. I had not really intended to shoot into the Sun before sunset but while waiting for the Sun to vanish I took a few shots to review.
1) Here is the first image before the Sun set
2) and image after the Sun had set.
It was clear after reviewing the results that the winner was the shot before Sun set. The image shot into the Sun had a greater tonal range than I was expecting this was increased with enhancement in Lightroom using the graduation tool. The contrast was also excellent and this is mostly in part due to the amazing optics of the 21mm Zeiss (Distagon T* 2,8/21) lens used. A fantastic lens for landscape photography by reducing flare exceptionally well. The first image taken directly into the setting Sun struck me as a great image to use for an email announcing my recent relocation to Surrey. It is positive, bright and has the obvious connotations with bright horizons and new beginnings etc. It only lacked one thing a person.
I decided then that I needed a model to complete the composition and because the location is very close to the Reigate Heath Golf Club house restaurant/bar it must have one of the best views for dining and drinking in Surrey and so it seemed appropriate to have a model posed with a drink enjoying the setting Sun and views toward the north downs. I just needed my schedule, a model and the sky conditions to align. When they did one evening after a long hot day I grabbed my camera equipment two lights and raced to the location before the Sun started to kiss the horizon.
I had planned the lighting placement and new where I would need my two flash lights. As the model was placed very close to the camera position would certainly be in shadow I wanted to place my lights so that they complimented the existing and only other light source of the setting Sun. The position I chose to shot from had the added complication being on a slope downwards from the camera position and in my haste to leave and get to the location I had forgotten to bring anything to put under the light stands to make the ground level, in the end this was overcome with my camera bag and by using the club patio area.
I placed the first light (1.) in front and to the right of the model aimed slightly on her right side and front. The second light (2.) was placed on camera left much further away from the model and in the polar opposite direction of light (1.) I took a couple of test frames and decided that the position of light (1.) was to directional and created obvious harsh shadows behind the models right arm as seen here.
Light (1.) was positioned closer and more to the side of the model with the expectation that the shadows would shorten and soften. The second light (2.) also needed tweaking this was placed again to be more in the opposite direction further forward and aimed back toward the model. In order to stop the slight stand from toppling over on the ueven ground I put the handle of camera bag under one leg of the light stand. Ordinarily I would have an assistant hold the light or tie the stand down with weights and bungee cord. Both lights were unmodified SB800′s. It made sense to leave the lights bare so as to align with the suns very directional light fall. Exposure ended up being f/10 1/50th sec iso 100 with the lights set at 1/4 – 1/2 power I think, as I was working very fast I don't recall the exact power level. I used an exposure which would give a good balance between the brightest area of sky and the foreground trees/foliage. I recall wanting as much depth of field as possible without exceeding the output from the lights. As the sun was brightest light source I worked quickly at finding the right aperture to expose the flashlights and then reduced the shutter speed to provide the exposure for the model sky and foreground trees. The unprocessed raw file would need work to further help balance the foreground and background this was achieved by using grad filters in Lightroom and curve layers in photoshop. Then adding colour correction, contrast layers and a solid colour layer of mid grey set to 27% opacity in a lighten blend mode to soften the dark shadow areas. Finally adding a subtle vignette mask to the edges to further bring draw your eye into the image.
Final Lighting position digram below:
Final result works very well and conveys the relaxed atmosphere and beauty of the location. It also demonstrates the importance of lighting on location. The result would not have been possible without supplemental lighting to add shape and detail. Post production was also an important element to balance the foreground with background and enhance contrast.
Alex Orrow has relocated to Surrey
After five fabulous years in Cambridge and continued expansion of my business and client base, I have chosen to relocate my main office to Reigate in Surrey. This places me centrally between my professional bases in London, Cambridgeshire and the South East with improved rail, road and air access to my clients elsewhere across the UK and Europe.
The main core of my work continues to be commercial and corporate portrait photography.
New Look Archive Website
The platform I use to supply and archive images online has been redesigned by photoshelter. The interface is more streamlined, updated to be responsive to screen size and provides better tools for social media sharing. To complement my expanding online archive of stock images I intend to begin uploading more images taken locally within Surrey for purchase under licence.
Wireless Ipad tethering is here! CamRanger Review
For some time now I have longed to have a simple light weight tethering solution for Nikon cameras, more portable and light weight than a laptop. When the ipad and camera connection kit came along I thought this might be the solution, unfortunately it was not that simple. There is now a fantastic product available called CamRanger that allows wireless tethering to mobile devices and laptops via wifi. Created by Dave Pawlowski and his wife Melissa, who both have a love of the outdoors. They needed a wireless device to control the focus and framing while taking distance shots with both Dave and Melissa in a kayak.
Its a small device about the size of an iphone which plugs into the USB port of your camera and then transmits via an ad-hoc wifi network to your mobile device phone/tablet or computer. It has a range of 50m and is straight forward to setup and quick to use.
I love this device for location shooting and an aid to composition especially as it has the ability to operate the Camera's LiveView function. Enabling me to leave the camera position and work in front of the camera, positioning objects or directing models while viewing a live image of the frame on an ipad/iphone. It also makes reviewing the frame or image by the client/art director very straight forward especially as the ipad is cable free. The transmitter will fit in a pocket or clip to a belt/tripod in the provided pouch and so its very easy to shoot with the USB cable attached and walk around with camera in hand. Dave and Melissa's blog provide some other creative ways of attaching the transmitter to a camera
I have not tested the range of the signal yet, but as I do not have a need to be more than a few metres from the camera I am not to concerned with any range limitations.
The camera is controlled via the free software available for mac OS/iOS, Android and Windows OS. Setup takes about 2mins and the interface is well designed and thought out. Once connected to the camera its possibleto view images alreday captured to the camera memory card or to import directly to the tablet/laptop. Obviously its a lot faster to view jpgs rather than raw files and I tend to capture Raw+jpg for this reason.
My drawbacks to the CamRanger iOS application:
- If the camera is offline and not connected, its not possible to see images which have been saved to the device already from within the CamRanger app. You need to open the camera roll in Photos to see the images. This is fine and makes sense, however I would prefer to remain within one application and be able to view images offline if the 'Auto Save' option is on. CamRanger has a very simple but great ratings matrix and the ability to use this is lost once offline.
- CamRanger app will display captured image thumbnails within the main interface screen during each connection session. So if you disconnect and reconnect a new strip of thumbnails will be created for the new captures. This can be frustrating if you lose the connection. You will then need to reload the entire memory card by tapping the memory card icon to view previous shots. This can be counter intuitive for some clients who expect to jump to a previous shot but also see the latest capture. There is also no option to view jpg only and so if your shooting both Raw+Jpg the scroll through to previous shots can take a while.
I'm very pleased that this device has come to the market place, I think it fits well the photographer who needs a portable lightweight tethering solution for location shooting. It would not be well suited for those shooting very large files or who need the reliability of wired tethering. I have yet to go kayaking with it but its inspiring some great possibilities for self portraiture. I will update this post as I use CamRanger more in the future for commercial work and hopefully provide more insight into how effective its use can be in the field.


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Dodd-Frank: The Courts Take A Hard Look
The landmark Dodd-Frank bill, like the "Affordable Health Care Act" (aka Obamacare), continues to spark controversy. While no one doubts that the financial industry needed some refined regulatory oversight, the escalating compliance requirements of the legislation have imposed real cost burdens on financial institutions, which need profits to recapitalize themselves and extend credit to the badly limping economy.
Frequently the true impact of legislation is not known until the executive branch crafts the implementing regulations. Not surprisingly, the Obama Administration has opted for regulation on steroids. But targeted enterprises are fighting back in court, and the courts are increasingly returning a verdict of "Overreach".
The Washington Post reports a number of incidents where the courts have smacked down overzealous regulators or may be on the verge of doing so. Interestingly enough, one of the lead attorneys arguing against the government is Eugene Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. One case involved a regulatory cap on the number of commodities contracts that a trader is allowed to have, despite the absence of any such provision in the actual legislation. Scalia notes that regulators cannot point to good intentions to justify their rules. Under the law, they must take into account both economic impact and the defined scope of the enabling legislation.
"The agencies gave reasons that didn't add up, contradicted themselves or failed to respond to significant criticisms raised by the public," Scalia said in an interview. "Any one of those things is going to result in a rule getting thrown out by any court at any time."
Of course, several favorable court decisions do not a rollback make. Future trends will be determined by the ideological direction of all three branches of government. And voters will play a decisive role in determining that in November.


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Myra Breckinridge, one of Raquel Welch's most controversial films (she played the eponymous character, a post-op transexual), was screened last month at New York's Lincoln Center as part of a retrospective of Welch's career. When it was first released in 1970, the movie bombed with extreme prejudice and was universally panned by critics, most famously by Time, who quipped that it was "about as funny as a child molester." Forty-plus years later, the movie's still uncomfortable and shocking, particularly the scene where Welch rapes a guy with a strap-on dildo. "I won't kill you," she (he) announces. "I'll just educate you. You and the rest of America!" (And educate us she did.)
But hindsight has given some perspective to the much-maligned farce. "For all its flaws," a writer for the New York Observer admitted in a recent story about the Lincoln Center screening, "the film accurately documents a culture-wide fixation on the body of Raquel Welch." And that, more than the artistic merits of any one of her films, is really why Welch is such an enduring cultural icon long after her heyday. Even her most memorable films, like the prehistoric soft-core porn that is One Million Years B.C., aren't especially good. (Have you seen it recently? We dare you. It's cringe-worthy.) But whatever your age, you've probably seen (and more likely had dirty thoughts about) that poster of Welch in a fur bikini.
This past December, Welch came in at #2 in Men's Health's Hottest 100 Women of All Time list, beating some very hot competition. Some might dispute her ranking, but those people are fools. Welch, unlike so many sex symbols before and after her, has never fostered an image of giggly innocence waiting to be corrupted, or a naughty Lolita up to no good. Even when she was barely old enough to drink, she always seemed like a woman, very much in control of her own sexuality. We called Welch to talk about the milestones of her remarkable career, which continues its five-decade winning streak this Sunday, March 11th, when the now 71-year-old legend guest-stars on the CBS drama CSI: Miami (10 p.m ET/PT). She was charming and outgoing and surprisingly funny, especially when she described herself as "just another American actress with a nice rack."
Men's Health: I heard you got injured on the set of CSI Miami. What happened exactly?
Raquel Welch: It wasn't really that bad. The story was picked up by the National Enquirer, so of course it got blown out of proportion. Right before I was about to do the show, I broke my foot. It was just after Christmas and I was at home and I swear I hadn't been drinking all that much. (Laughs.)
MH: Somehow I don't believe you.
Raquel Welch: It's the truth! Anyway, I ended up falling and broke my foot. All I could think was, oh my God, I've got this shoot coming up and it's going to be weird.
MH: Why would it be weird?
Raquel Welch: Well, what if I couldn't stand up on my own? I didn't want them to have to put my character in a wheelchair or hobble around with a crutch. But I healed very quickly and made it just under the wire. We'd been shooting, I don't know, maybe two days, and we were on location outside of this big beautiful house in Pasadena. I got called to the set, and I had to walk across this area that was all gravel, and I'm wearing these very high-heeled sexy shoes. I'm kinda' wobbling around and the guy who was escorting me to the set, who's a big muscular guy, he says to me, "Let me carry you."
MH: Very chivalrous.
Raquel Welch: Exactly, yes. And I said "Great, thank you." Because I really didn't need to fall down, especially with my broken foot just barely healed. So he picks me up and carries me, and we're just past the gravel when he starts to lose his balance. We're starting to fall, and I'm thinking, oh come on! This can't be happening to me!
MH: Did he fall on top of you?
Raquel Welch: He would have, but he twisted his body around as we were falling, making sure I wouldn't hit the ground. He took the brunt of the fall away from me. After we landed, David (Caruso) comes out and walks me to the trailer. He's just white faced. "Are you okay? Are you okay?" I'm like, "I'm fine, it was nothing." Meanwhile, the poor guy who was carrying me, everybody in the crew is razzing him mercilessly. They're like, "He dropped Raquel Welch! What a schnook! What a doofus!"
MH: It sounds kinda fishy.
Raquel Welch: What does? Him falling? It wasn't his fault! And he was so sweet, trying to protect me on the way down.
MH: Yeah, he "tripped" and then maneuvered himself so that you accidentally landed on top of him? Come on, that's the oldest trick in the book.
Raquel Welch: You think so? I don't know.
MH: There's not a heterosexual man alive who wouldn't pretend to fall if it meant you'd land on top of them.
Raquel Welch: Well sure, but not necessarily on cement. In front of all your buddies? I don't think so.
MH: You were on set that day to play the baddie on CSI, the matriarch of a crime family.
Raquel Welch: She's a really wicked woman. She's a murderous nogoodnik. She has no redeeming qualities whatsoever about her. I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever played a villainess. I just hope people don't confuse the character with me, and think I'm some wretched, horrible bitch.
MH: I think people understand that this is make-believe.
Raquel Welch: Probably. And besides, there are people out there who think I'm a wretched, horrible bitch anyway. (Laughs.)
MH: I don't think you're right about this being your first villainess. What about when you played yourself on an episode of Seinfeld?
Raquel Welch: Oh yeah, I suppose so.
MH: You were the evil, alternate universe Raquel Welch.
Raquel Welch: That was so much fun. But I thought of her more as a diva than a villain.
MH: A diva who physically abused her underlings.
Raquel Welch: There was that. (Laughs.) It can be cathartic to play such a horrible ball breaker. But it's also exhausting. I mean, I wouldn't want to do it every day.
MH: There was speculation that the Seinfeld character was loosely based on you, or at least your reputation for being a bit tempestuous.
Raquel Welch: I'm tempestuous? (Laughs.)
MH: Well, you have Bolivian blood in you, right? It's my understanding that you don't want to cross somebody with Bolivian blood.
Raquel Welch: Well, I'll tell you something, Bolivian blood isn't a whole lot different than anybody else's blood. But yes, I do have Bolivian blood. My father was Bolivian, which makes me half-Bolivian. It's where I got some of my exotic features and certainly my skin tone. And I guess my.... visceral reaction to everything is kind of tinged with the Latina chromosome. But I consider that a good thing.
MH: No argument here.
Raquel Welch: Not everybody is comfortable with my ethnicity. When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.
MH: They being 20th Century Fox?
Raquel Welch: Yeah. I signed with them and almost immediately they wanted me to change my name. They came to me and said, "We have the solution. We figured it all out. You're going to be Debbie Welch." I think they were paranoid that Raquel sounded too ethnic. And I thought, maybe I should be more paranoid than I am. But I wasn't raised thinking of myself or my background as particularly exotic. I felt very American and middle of the road. I knew that I had a little salsa in my blood, but on my mother's side there was the whole English heritage.
MH: What was the studio's argument for changing your name? Did they come right out and say, "It's too ethnic?"
Raquel Welch: No, it was nothing that obvious. They said it was difficult to pronounce, nobody's going to remember it. And they had a point. In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky. But school kids are one thing, your career as an adult woman is another. I took it as a challenge. I was like, "Well, let's see what happens." You either embrace your identity or you let them force you into homogenizing yourself.
MH: But they weren't asking you to do something that wasn't already commonplace in your industry. Frederick Austerlitz became Fred Astaire, Bernard Schwartz became Tony Curtis.
Raquel Welch: That was mostly an American insecurity. Americans were not sure how to deal with the exotic. I was lucky that one of my first movies, One Million Years B.C. was made in Europe by a British company. The Brits, and a lot of the rest of Europe, seemed to really love exotic women. The fact that I was American and exotic just made me more appealing to them.
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STATE WILDLIFE BIOLOGISTS PREDICT GOOD WATERFOWL HUNTING IN OHIO Spring pond indexes and breeding duck surveys indicate good reproduction
COLUMBUS, OH – Ohio waterfowl hunters should have good opportunities to take some of the most popular species of waterfowl, based on the findings of biologists at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
The spring pond index for the prairie pothole region of North America (Kansas to central Saskatchewan) and breeding duck surveys indicate an above average reproduction year for most duck species. Ponds are housing near-record numbers and good production has been noted from most of the primary breeding range.
Closer to home, the Upper Great Lakes states showed above average conditions and good production of mallards this year. The Upper Great Lakes are the primary breeding range for mallards harvested in Ohio. Mallards are Ohio's number one harvested duck and can be found throughout the state.
Wood ducks, the second most important duck to Ohio hunters and the state's number one breeding duck, also appear to have had a good production year. Late summer rains have dispersed the birds and should provide a variety of hunting locations for Ohio hunters.
Canada geese are the most harvested waterfowl in Ohio and can be found in good numbers everywhere. Locally raised giant Canada geese had the second highest population estimate this spring and all indications are there was excellent production across Ohio. Migrant interior populations (Southern James Bay and Mississippi Valley) of Canada geese have also had good production. With proper weather, the hunting outlook is good to very good.
With good habitat conditions, Ohio hunters will enjoy a liberal 60-day hunting season once again this year. Pintail and scaup showed slight population increases that are permitting full seasons for pintail and a continued two-bird bag for scaup. The record population estimate for canvasbacks has allowed the first two-bird bag in recent history for this species.
The success of Ohio waterfowl hunters has more to do with weather conditions and choice of hunting location than available ducks. Hunters should be scouting their territories now and securing landowner permission where needed. State wildlife areas are in good condition with excellent fall food potential. An extended summer drought early in the season caused moist-soil plants to occupy many traditional wetlands. A flooding of those areas by late summer rains has provided additional waterfowl habitat. Hunters should not only check out their traditional spots, but also more marginal haunts for food production and water quantity.
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Clinton is planning to unveil his new surplus projections as early as Monday, according to congressional Democrats, lobbyists and others who spoke on condition of anonymity. He also will propose using the budget bonanza for faster debt reduction, enhanced Medicare benefits and deeper tax cuts, they say.
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But Treasury Department figures have shown unexpected mountains of federal revenue in recent months, leaving only the precise size of the updated surplus estimates unknown. Both major presidential campaigns have already begun trying to use the new figures to their advantage.
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''The surplus is a result and a symbol of our prosperity,'' said Gore spokesman Douglas Hattaway.
The comment underlined the Gore campaign's hopes of taking credit for the government's unprecedented fiscal health.
Aides to Texas Gov. George W. Bush have tried using the figures to rebut Democratic arguments that the likely Republican nominee's budget plans are irresponsible. Bush has proposed a $1.3 trillion, 10-year tax cut. He also would allow Social Security recipients to invest part of their payroll taxes that support the program in the stock market.
Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said the Texan would use extra surpluses for debt reduction and strengthening Social Security -- both of which are highly popular with the public.
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3 weeks ago
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Roadside Assistance v TED
I spend a lot of my time as pictured above (way too much): on the side of some backwoods road, praying that someone will eventually stop, and that someone will know a little something about cars. Usually, this does not happen, and McGyver tactics are employed to reach the closest pueblo.
Though probably best not to go into all details, the latest escapades take the cake. A mix of anger, frustration, hopelessness and the feeling of life wasting away beyond your control, lost to the hands of mechanics somewhere on a mountain road, only to achieve nothing; the van got left behind, the story unfinished.
As this uselessness plodded its course, TED talks in all their eclectic shapes and sizes filled rooms in Oxford, wrapping up yesterday. (If by some chance you are not familiar with TED, please take the time to at least download some talks from their rad site, or through their itunes podcast).
After gaining interest from my homey Jenny Stefanotti's Twitter feed from the conference, I went looking for more info (she started blogging again, fyi).
Ethan Zuckerman won. Ethan, who runs an unbelievably informative blog (that, admittedly, often flies over my head on the technology side of things), took it upon himself to do what appears to be live summaries of most of the talks. They are currently the first 40 posts or so, and well worth the read.
From Tan Le's helmet that can allow brains to accomplish tasks without using the body, to Wikileaks - a site i can't believe I didn't know about - that publishes leaked documents at rates that make journos shake their heads, to encouraging accounting for human rights in the supply chain, and even making origami out of hate mail received after starting a campaign called 'From 52 to 48 with love' that encourages caring dialogue between regular Dem and Rep people and putting said origami on plants or cats. (see below)
If you're in the mood for stimulation, reading Ethan's summary notes will certainly teach you something you didn't already know.
Guaranteed cooler than being stuck in small towns with Mexican mechanics.
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The Kirby Vacuum has been around for decades and the selling tactics and tricks have been the same since the beginning. The salespeople go door-to-door, where they normally sell to elderly consumers and involve high pressure pitches. The investigation reveals that the salespeople normally won't leave until they sign a contract and many stay for hours upon hours till the contract is signed. Further, many people have filed complaints with various agencies, complaining of the selling tactics used by these salespeople and yet nothing has been resolved.
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In this investigation, Dateline exposed what experts call deceptive sales practices in the marketing of equity indexed annuities - especially to senior citizens. Hidden cameras captured the claims agents made and the critical disclosures they glossed over when they thought they were alone with retirees.
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"Focus on Children, a Utah-based adoption agency, is accused by the U.S. government of tricking Samoan parents into giving up their children for adoption and falsely telling American parents they are orphans." The reporter traveled to Samoa to track down families that were affected; she found adoption agency recruiters exploited the families' religious faith, as well as bribed them with cars.
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"Over the past four years, we've reported so many stories of ineffective government, mismanagement; and corruption that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom refuses to speak with us for any report. In January, we learned that his Press Officer was taking it a step further- going on-line under fake names and blasting us on local blogs, including our own website. This story gave viewers an insight into the resistance all investigative reporters sometimes face, and the difficulty of pursuing hard-hitting stories."
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This series of investigations revealed that in the last four years, officials have prosecuted five cases of slavery in Southwest Florida and that an estimated 20 to 50 thousand people a year are smuggled into the U.S. as indentured servants. These "slaves" are abused or mistreated and many women are forced into prostitution. Some women are tricked into coming into America under the illusion that they are being recruited as models.
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Frontline/New York Times Television looks into how the credit card industry manages to increase their profits while average Americans increase their debts. The investigation reveals "tricks of the trade" which increase profits and hit consumers with late fees and penalties. The biggest "trick" of them all is universal default where, after monitoring the customer's financial activity, the companies raise that person's interest rate, based on whether or not they think the customer has become risky.
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School's out, #lovecapetown Moms and Dads, and these summer holidays, there is plenty to see and do with your little ones in the Mother City. Get out into the sunshine and enjoy a variety of fun activities, take in a show or spend the day at the beach with the little people in your life: -
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Capetonians are weather sensitive creatures and nothing makes them happier than the arrival of spring – turn on some sunshine, add a spray of spring blossoms and everyone is in a good mood!
Cape Town's Spectre Spectacles: Legends and Ghost Tours
We've shared our top haunted places in Cape Town with you but there are loads more spooky tales and ghostly wails to come out of the Mother City, including one of the ghost of Verlatenbosch ("Bush of the Forsaken").
Top haunted places in Cape Town
Cape Town is the oldest city in the country, with many tales of brave pioneers and its fair share of broken hearts and tragedies. It's only natural that our Mother City should have a few ghost stories. Here are some spooky spots….


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New Party Theme – Monster Baby Shower
A few weeks ago Bill and I traveled to Tulsa for a maternity photo session and Bethia and Joel's baby shower. I had the honor of designing the invites and some of the printables (as well as helping plan it). I love party planning. It's in my blood. It gets me excited. So when Bethia told me she wanted to do a fun outdoor monster themed baby shower I was excited at the chance to do something different.
The first step was to create an invite. We pulled the tree image from the sweet trees Joel hand painted on baby Addie's nursery walls. The colors are also pulled from Addie's nursery. They turned out pretty much perfect and I can't wait to see more folks use this design.
We also created some circles and party labels for the event. I kind of love them. They're monsters but they're also cheery. The circles topped key lime cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and lime zest as well as dark chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
One thing I've wanted to do for a while was the whole cover-the-table-with-black-paper-and-write-food-labels-with-chalk thing that's been all over pinterest. The mother-to-be and grandma-to-be and aunt-to-be were all for it so we did it for the Taco Salad Bar and I think it looked fantastic. We also created a few large signs to say HEY this is a taco salad bar.
The outdoor games were all Bethia and her family. The day before the shower Bill helped Bethia's dad make a giant yard sized Jenga game out of 2x4s. We will be making one of these for our house for sure. It's pretty great! There was also croquet, which the men played a very competitive game of while saying things like "well done good chap" and "cheerio" and things like that. Bill tried to find stick horses so they could play polo but alas Target was fresh out of stick horses.
Last but certainly not least, Bethia's sister handled the decorations. I'd forgotten how fun and happy simple streamers can make a party. She certainly is a streamer pro at this point.
And that was the baby shower, in a very quick recap. Thanks to Bethia for getting pregnant so we could all celebrate. And thanks to Bethia for taking lots of instagram photos. Issabella decided to have a major freak out the moment people arrived for the shower so I spent a good deal of time trying to calm her down and didn't take a single photo of my own. Photographer fail.
But there is designer success because now you can purchase the Monster Baby Shower printables on our etsy shop DilibertoDesign. Better yet we can customize the invite, 2″ Party circles, and all the components to turn the Monster Baby Shower into a Monster Birthday Party or just a Monster Party! Just sent us a message and we'll get started.
The Baby Shower
Yes this is way late. This post is incredibly overdue. But you know what isn't over due? My baby, she came on her due date. Impressed? You should be.
Sorry, it's 2:00am. My brain wanders at 2:00am.
Anyways, to the matter at hand, our baby shower…
You see we never really had a wedding shower cause we got married in a fever. Hotter than a pepper sprout. Not really though, but isn't Johnny Cash great? Truthfully, we had a decently long engagement, 10 months, but it was 2008/2009, the market was bad, we were kinda freshly out of college, and we lived in Tulsa with our other freshly out of college (or still in college) friends. Basically there wasn't a lot of money. And while I'm sure family and friends in other cities would have thrown us a shower, we didn't have the cash money to fly out there. And we preferred people spend money to be in Tulsa for our wedding and make memories with us rather than give us things. So we had a freaking fantastic wedding on a tight budget, I mean I used mason jars as center pieces before it was trendy, and we partied, and it was epic and people still talk about how great our wedding was. I'm lacking humility here because really, it was that great. Ask anyone who was there and they'll tell you.
So when I thought about having a baby shower I was stoked. I wanted to recreate the fun, epic nature of a party that was our wedding, the goal: for people to have fun and for it to not feel like a traditional shower. No one would be smelling melted chocolate in diapers, and seriously no one needed to guess how big around my belly was. Whoever made up that game should be beaten with a wet noodle.
I LOVE planning parties in a weird Sandra Lee, Martha Stewart kind of way, it's what brought about my party printable line. And while I realize it's not typical to plan your own baby shower I have amazing friends who love me and put up with my weird obsessions for Martha Stewart party goodness and they basically let me plan the whole thing. And then when pinterest boards were full (oh what my wedding would have been like if they had pinterest 4 years ago) and we had done sketches of how the food would be laid out and lists were made and tasks designated we all got together and made it happen. And it was epic.
Here are the details: co-ed indoor/outdoor shower with a woodland creature theme (to match her nursery decor), poker for the men, a fire pit, s'mores bar, wine, beer, and lemonade, and a hot dog bar. I also brought the smash book I'd been recording every week of the pregnancy in, so people could see what the last 8 months had been like.
While everything was just about perfect and there was a party printable for everything imaginable, the thing that made our baby shower so great was the people. I left feeling so overwhelmingly loved. Here were close to 70 people, all there blessing us with their presence and with presents because they love us and because they love a child they've never met just because it's ours. I remember sitting on the couch that night, staring across the room at the loads of gifts that covered our very large fireplace and crying as I slowly caressed my very 35 week pregnant belly, knowing that this child would never lack for anything, especially love.
One of the things I cherish most from our wedding is our guest book. We had a photo booth (Bill proposed in a photo booth) and folks basically scrap booked a page with their photo booth images and left darling notes for us. Since we weren't going to have a photo booth for the shower (trust me, I looked into it), I created a Photo Guestbook of our maternity photos and everyone who attended signed it. We actually took it to our OBGYN office and had everyone there sign it. Even all the nurses when Issa was born signed it. Her foot prints sit next to a photo of my pregnant belly. It's one of those things that God forbid if we're ever facing a natural disaster I will grab and save from destruction, because in it, that love I mentioned above is expressed in words from our family, friends and the folks who made Issa's arrival into the world possible.
The other thing I will grab is the quilt above. My mom is bursting with creativity, people have always said I get my creativity from her. And now that I'm a mom and I see her as a grandmother I understand that it wasn't something that was genetically passed down but something she fostered and nurtured and allowed to happen and grow every time she let me flood the yard and make mud pies. I hope I can do that for Issa.
So 4 months after Bill and I got married my grandmother passed away. My mom's mother. And it sucked, a lot. Because she was kind of our spiritual rock. And I loved her. And she made delicious strawberry jam. And I remember as mom and I cleaned out her very small one room apartment she filled a box with Gram's clothes, a few pairs of PJs, a few fleece jackets I'm sure my Gram had had for ages, and a jean dress I'm pretty sure I remember her wearing since I was teeny. I didn't ask why, it didn't seem curious to me. It actually seemed kind of normal. And honestly I'd sort of forgotten all about it until the baby shower.
You see the quilt above is made from my Grandmother's favorite clothes. And my mom made it. As I pulled it out, the last gift we opened that night, and mom began to read through the scrapbook that she'd made to explain the whole thing to Issa I started balling. I wasn't alone either. There were sobs among everyone watching us open gifts. It's one of those things I will cherish forever. And the funny thing is, when Issa was two weeks old and she wasn't sleeping at all at night, and consiquently neither were we, wrapping her in this quilt, dubbed The Grandma Hug, was the only thing that would comfort her long enough for her to fall asleep. And now, she sleeps with it every night.
That was our baby shower. It was epic. I can't thank my friends and family enough for helping make it happen with all their hard work and with just being there to make memories with us and to celebrate this little peanut of a girl who has stolen our hearts.
Free Printable Christmas Gift Tags
So I wrapped a few of the gifts I have finished and realized, I don't have any gift tags. SO I whipped up some very simple Christmas gift tags, printed them off, punched them with my fancy dancy 2″ Fiskars circle punch, punched a little hole in the top to run ribbon through and TA-DAH gift tags, for free (or whatever three sheets of card stock and three print outs on my printer costs, definitely less than buying them). After I created these I thought, simple, easy, done, I should share the wealth! That's why I'm offering this free download of printable Christmas gift tags!
Just click this link to start the download (or click the photo below, that will start the download too). Print off your tags, I'd suggest using white card stock, punch them out using a 2″ punch (you MAY be able to get away with a 1.5″ too), punch a standard hole punch in the top and get to wrapping and tagging!
Just please remember these are free for personal use only. You can find TONS more printables at our etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/dilibertodesign, we're always adding new items so check back often.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!!
Custom Invitation Design – Araibian Nights
I love design.
Like bees love honey.
Like a teen loves to text.
Like a fat kid loves cake.
But really let's be honest, who doesn't love cake?
This week I've been doing a lot of custom invitation designs and will be following them up with party printables to match. It gets my blood flowing. I knock out a really home run design and I'm energized, I feel like I could run a marathon. The whole process is a battle of layout, content, fonts, and color and I love to win.
Currently I'm working on a redo of this custom design for an Etsy client who saw that post on my blog. It just so happened that design fit her event perfectly. Bonus is she's having me print them so I get to play with papers and stocks and all those nerdy design things that brings a good design on a computer to life in print.
While looking for the original file I ran across this custom design I did a while back which I just LOVE and silly me, I forgot to share it here on the blog.
I'm sorry. Please save your lashings for later cause here it is.
Anyways, I've got to get back to it, just wanted to share this while it was on my mind.
Little Boy's Dinosaur Birthday Party
These dinosaur 2″ circle party printable decorations are piping HOT off the presses (or off the computer I suppose). I haven't even shot the promo shots for them yet. I was just too excited to have them just sit in my computer files, waiting to be shared with the world.
I'm really really excited about them!
I don't think you could tell.
They make me wish I had a little boy to throw a dinosaur party for because as I was making them I was getting all these awesome ideas of party games and DIY projects. And since I don't have a little boy to share them with I'll just share them here on my blog so I can live vicariously through mom's with little boys and dinosaur themed parties.
First off, I created an Dinosaur Birthday Party Etsy Treasury and there is A LOT of cool stuff out there, but more on that in a moment.
A Dinosaur Birthday Party Game
So I thought it would be hecka cool if you did a child style archeological dig. It would be great if you already had a sandbox, if not I suppose you could use a tarp and cover it with sand. OR you could use the game as a good excuse to build a sandbox <link to a SWEET sandbox I pinned. But make sure you build a sandbox with a cover on it, or neighborhood cats will thank you for building them the ultimate giant litter box. And let's face it, you don't want your party guests digging for that kind of treasure.
1. I found these very cool personalized sand pails from DeLaDesign over on etsy. She'll do them in just about any color, so you can have them match the green, orange and blue in the party printable design. She will also do them with a SWEET dinosaur on them instead of the alligator pictured. The goal is to get your guest list nailed down ahead of time (by sending out our dinosaur themed printable party invites, wink wink) so you can have Debi over at DeLaDesign create one for each of your guests. I'd definitely suggest getting a few extras, without names, just in case.
2. So what will your child guests be digging for…well anything really, candy, fake dinosaur bones, those little plastic dinosaurs you can get at the dollar store, tubes of bubbles, anything. OR they could dig for this. Yep, that's right, its concrete dinosaur bones, and at a great price too. I'm the educational type so I'd take the opportunity to teach the kids all about archeology and dinosaur bones and all of that.
They'd love me or they'd hate me.
3. But they're guarenteed to love me if they're also digging for these. This are probably the coolest cookies ever! They come individually wrapped in cellophane bags with ribbon. If you made sure that ribbon was tied really tight I'm pretty sure you could bury these in your sandy archeological dig without them getting…sandy.
The rest of the Dinosaur Birthday Party Etsy Treasury is below, there's a lot of really good stuff down there; handmade dinosaur bunting, dinosaur shaped crayons, and patterns for DIY crochet Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Triceratops. I've also included some decoration staples like cupcake papers, cupcake stand, dino cookies, striped straws, and an oilcloth tablecloth in coordinating colors. It's the perfect dino party for sure!
Black, Red, White and Gray Party – Etsy Treasury
I wanted to create a party based off the colors red, gray, black and white to show that you don't always need a theme for a party to look great! 15 amazing etsy vendors later, plus myself and this etsy treasury was born.
You could use this color scheme for a guy's birthday party or valentines day party. I based this etsy treasure on the sample of my newest party printable line, Stripe and Dots Custom Color. The sample uses red, gray, black and white that we used for a friend's 50th birthday party. However, it has complete color customization, you choose the color! And it's a full party, everything you need, for $25 bucks. Seriously! You can click the photo above to go to the complete Etsy Treasury and view all the great vendors.
Party Design – How We Bring it Together
Here at Diliberto Photo & Design we do a lot – portrait photography, wedding and event photography, business branding and marketing, and event and party design.. Today I'd like to focus on our party printables and party design and how we make that all come together by showing you what we did for Bethia and Joel's wedding.
We started by sitting down with the bride and talking about her vision for her wedding, the color scheme, the look and feel, the style of the event. She wanted colorful and fun so we went with it and came up with an over all graphic design theme for her wedding.
The Wedding Invitations
I was lucky enough to be able to do a For The Love of Couples engagement session with Bethia and Joel and we knew they wanted to include an image or two on their invitation. Even though the invitation would be seen by guests months before the wedding I knew I wanted it to coordinate with design elements we'd use later in the wedding decor and accessories. So I created their own wedding seal, which we used on their invitations, party printables, and their photo guestbook.
What else is great is that if we replaced the date with their home address created awesome return address labels for their custom thank you cards!
The Decorations and Printable Decor
We had a lot of fun working together to create Joel & Bethia's custom printables and wedding decor. Bethia was a very hands on bride and did a ton of crafting with friends and family to create her perfect wedding. Her boquet was probably my favorite of all time!
She created it using antique broaches she found on ebay and local antique stores. It was beautiful.
Anyways, back to the printables. Bethia knew she needed 2″ Circles for cupcake toppers, food labels, and 2″ thank you circles. At first she had planned on doing adorable colorful bags with different artisan sandwiches in them so we created these to stick onto the colorful bags:
Last minute they changed the food menu so we scrapped these awesome food labels and went a different direction. I still love these labels and hope I can eventually find a way to use them.
Bethia planned on making tons of cupcakes and using them on tiered platters for the centerpieces. She asked if I could create 2″ party circles they could attach to lollypop sticks and use at cupcake toppers. We utilized their personal seal as well as elements from their invitation to create the 2″ circle cupcake toppers.
We also created 2″ thank you circles with the phrase "thank you for sharing in the merriment" as their thank you circles. In the wedding invitation wording that Bethia wrote "to be followed thereafter by merriment, dinner, music, and cupcakes" which is where we got the thank you for sharing in the merriment line. The cheers wine glasses were from their invitation.
Wedding Accessories
While the whole wedding was AMAZING, and Bethia did a great job of bringing everything together, one of my favorite things was their photo guestbook.
It's an exclusive item from Diliberto Photo & Design, we explained the whole thing a while back on this blog post. Basically we used photos from their engagement session and left space for people to sign. In my opinion it's way better than a book of people's signatures.
To top it all off, we also used their custom wedding seal on the back of the book.
It was SO fun to be at the wedding and watch people look through the book and sign it. Most people wrote wonderful message to the bride and groom and I hope that this book becomes a cherished piece in their home that holds tons of memories and love from family and friends.
The last and final thing we created for Joel and Bethia's wedding was the little instructional signs which were framed in inexpensive frames. Signs like these need a bit of planning but they really bring it all together and helps guests know what to do. For Bethia and Joel we did a sign the guestbook sign and a few other instructional ones as well as two quotes that really summed up who they are together. The one below by Dr. Seuss is probably my favorite:
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
And that's how we bring it all together. For Bethia and Joel's wedding I had the pleasure of working directly with the bride but we love working with wedding planners too. These custom wedding collections are some of my favorite to create and the most exciting part is seeing them in use, among all the other elements of the wedding and decor.
Are you planning a wedding or party? What kind of theme are you doing? Is there anything we can do to help?
Free Live Photo Booth for New Years
We did our first run of the live photo booth at the Upside Down Christmas Tree Party and Art Show last weekend here in Houston. It was a grand success because people love photo booths and they love to be silly. I love that I still get to interact with people and that folks feel like they are a movie star walking the red carpet (you know that, plus silly fake mustache props).
So in the honor of this being a new service from Diliberto Photo & Design, and of everyone being so thrilled about it, we'd like to do a three hour photo booth session at a New Year's Eve party this new years. Did we mention we'd like to do it at no cost? Yeah, that means FREE.
But, "why would you do it for free?" you may ask…well it's new service and we feel with any new service we need to test run it a few times and work out all the kinks before we feel like we can honestly charge people for it. Even with how well it went on our first run at the Upside Down party, we learned a lot and we feel like we could learn some more, so why not do it on New Years Eve for free.
So here's all the details:
What You Need:
1. People, aka a New Years Eve Party expecting 50 or more guests. We want to take A LOT of pictures so unfortunately for this round small parties are out. The more guests the better, but we'd like to top it off at 175-200, any more than that and we just wouldn't have time to take everyone's picture in three hours.
2. Your party has to be in the Houston area. While we'd normally be totally willing to travel, this time we'd like you to be local. (We might consider Galveston too, just let us know).
3. A space where we can set up, we need about a 8′x8′ space at the least. In a corner or against a wall is great, it can even be outside. Believe it or not, the photo booth at the Upside Down Christmas Tree Party was outside at night.
4. A desire to have fun. We want to do some insanely fun photo booth pictures!
What You Get:
1. A FREE live photo booth for three hours (roughly a $600 value). Live mean's its more of a back drop with lights and a person with a camera running it, think red carpet event photos, rather than your traditional teeny photo booth.
2. Lots and lots of props. We'll bring all the props, this includes the fun lips and mustaches you see in the pics above as well as some special New Years Eve themed props.
3. All the photos are posted on facebook within two days of the event for your guests to share and download. We bring little cards for people to take that have all the info for downloading.
What You Need to Do:
1. Check out the pics from the Upside Down Christmas Tree Party on our facebook at www.facebook.com/dilibertophotoanddesign. While you're there we'd really appreciate if you'd "like" our page, it makes us smile a lot. And please share this with your friends!
2. Leave a comment on this blog post with the time of your party, general location (ie. area of town), number of guests expected and e-mail address (to prevent those pesky spam bots from stealing your email, feel free to type it like this: info at dilibertophoto and design dot com).
3. Make sure you leave a comment by Tuesday, December 28th. Because on Wednesday we'll be picking a random party. We'll contact you via e-mail to work out all the details.
We're looking forward to it!!
How To :: Make A Wine Cork Holiday Wreath
Before my grandfather passed away he had his local pub save boxes and boxes of wine corks for him. I think they were originally going to go to my aunt but somehow I ended up with them. I've been pinning tons of wine cork projects on my pinterest and finally settled on a wine cork wreath. I found one similar to the one I created above but it lacked any sort of instructions so I figured I'd make one and tell the blogosphere how to make a wine cork wreath.
Start with a straw base like the one above. They come wrapped in plastic wrap, you'll need to take that off, but wait until right before you start the project, otherwise you'll have straw everywhere.
You'll also need a whole heck of a lot of wine corks. Though I think you could probably make this with the plastic ones the real cork ones work best. A variety of shapes, sizes, and labels are also a plus. A few other things you'll need are a hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, thick floral wire (the strips, not the roll), wire cutters, ribbon, and berry picks (if you want to use them).
Many of the tutorials I read said to just hot glue the corks on the straw. I wanted to make sure they lasted over time and instead of attaching them on their sides (where the surface area would be larger) I wanted to glue them on their ends so they'd stick out and have more texture. I also really liked the look of all the shades of red from the ends of the wine stained corks.
So I developed this way. I cut about 3″-4″ long strips of floral wire (the thicker kind), dabbed a bit of hot glue on the cork and on the end of the wire and jabbed it into the cork. There was already a hole in most of the corks from when the cork screw went in so I usually just used that same hole. This process takes a while because you have to do it with each cork and there's at least 100 or so on the wreath. Bill and I had fun doing it together, listening to music and chatting. The time it took actually flew by.
After you get quite a few going you can start putting them in your straw wreath.
Put some hot glue on the end of the wine cork (the end with the wire sticking out) and a little bit on the wire itself. Then you stick it in the straw part of the wreath. You want to go in a line starting with the part of the wreath that will sit against the wall.
It's important to rejoice at every completed row!
Once you complete row one start on row two and keep going row by row until you fill the whole front side of the wreath. You don't want to go all the way around because you won't see what is on the back and you'll want it to lay flat against the wall or door you hang it on.
As with any home project Sam is there to help by smelling and inspecting things.
I love the texture and colors. The advertising side of me loves seeing all of the different brands and logos. They're all so individual.
We wanted to make it even more festive by adding red ribbon and some fake berry picks. I chose the dark red berries to replay the colors of the wine stained corks, but really you could use any kind of berry pick or holiday pick. I think feathers would be really cool, or something glittery.
I weaved the berry picks in between the corks, cutting them down when needed. Once I got everything where I liked it I went back and stuck them into the exposed straw where I could and hot glued them down.
To add the ribbon I knew I wanted a bow at the top and enough ribbon to hang the wreath. I weaved the ribbon around the corks and left enough on each end to tie a bow and leave a good bit to hang it with.
The last and final step (if you want to) which I didn't take pictures of is I took a bit of left over felt and hot glued it to just the back of the straw wreath where it lays against the wall. Really the only reason why I did this was to keep the straw from littering my house every time I took the wreath out.
And that's it! Our wine cork holiday wreath is currently hanging on the inside of our front door. We love it!
If anyone else follows this tutorial I'd love to see photos of what you create! What holiday crafts are you planning?
Thanksgiving Party Printables
Introducing our Thanksgiving Party Printables! I'm so excited for these, they were a blast to design and they feel all warm and fall-ish.
I'm pretty sure the turkey is my favorite part. You can purchase them at our etsy shop! And because you heard about it on the blog we're offering a discount of 10% off all Thanksgiving Party Printables by using the coupon code TURKEYDAY. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!