C.A.P.T.U.R.E Workshop 2011

The country gal's: a.k.a. Laura and I have landed in Texas for our 2 week vacation/visit's with friends/photography workshop. 

The photo class went AWESOME, and the two wonderful instructors made those 4 days absolutely wonderful. 

Thanks Allie and Laura, and we all can't wait for class numero dos! 

For those who want more details, here's the C.A.P.T.U.R.E blog filled with info and class pictures. 

Signing off,

~~Lizzy

7 years ago...

We were scrolling through Lightroom a couple days ago, and struck memory gold. We found pictures taken with our very first digital camera! We also found pictures of us playing dress up seven years ago. 

To give you a background on this first ever photo shoot, we were going for a historical theme. Laura was standing on a child-sized little red chair in order to get higher with the camera. We had decided on an old book, an apple, and Bingley as props. 

Although you can't see it in the pictures, we didn't realize till months later that we had forgotten to take the sticker off of the apple. :-)

This was also during Bingley's "Puppy years". He was a mini marshmallow back then. 

Notice the modern day sport's watch we forgot to remove... 

We cracked up quite a bit over this one...

So yes, this is where 

Laura got her very first start in photography. 

~~Laura and Lizzy

Another Sneak Peak.......

Elizabeth's dress is finished!

**going to start mine now**

~~Laura

Sneak Peaks..........

I have officially set up the dining table for the dresses! ...............

 Also, I was able to grab a shot of Elizabeth's fabric!!!

I will be starting the "dummy" dress tomorrow and hopefully will be able to take some photos along the way!!

~~Laura

New Sewing Projects?

Photos coming soon!!

Here is a sneak peak: Lizzy's fabric is almost identical to the pattern ^ photo, and my fabric is black and gold.

Happy Late Birthday Laura!

What Have I Been Doing Lately???

Taking pictures for a photo challenge!!!

Here are some of the recent ones:

"tree"

"friday"

"door"

"high contrast"

"flower"

"journal"

"self portrait"

"pet/animal"

"friend portrait"

"water"

~~Laura

Candles part 2

Barefoot Seamstress

Just added our hand-dipped candles and more organic baby burpies and booties to the shop!
Also, Elizabeth has added smaller flip-flops in the Women's 5-6 range.

Come and take a look!

~~Laura

Candles part 1

Don't know what yall think, but around here NOTHING smells better than 100% pure beeswax! MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm!!!!

I love the sweet honey-like smell that our hand-dipped beeswax candles make.
Here is part 1 of our journey of candle dipping..........

We started with 6 huge blocks (that equaled 17.2 pounds) of pure beeswax..........

Yes we did make a HUGE mess chopping these big blocks into smaller pieces! ;-)

As our harp teacher would tell you, I had several big blisters from scrubbing our "waxed" floor after it had a big layer of wax on it! Ouch!
We found this old pan and wonderful cast-iron skillet at goodwill-- love that store!!


Elizabeth had a wonderful time taping down a ton of paper that turned out to be of no use to our tile floor.......... but it saved all of our counter tops!!! ;-)


Our dad gave us these "weights" from his tool box and we tied cotton wicking to them. Now we are all ready to dip!



P.S. We have this old bar attachment to our riding lawn mower that we don't use -- yep!, you guessed it -- perfect place to hang our candles to cool! ;-)

~~Laura

Websites

Boy has this been a busy year so far!  Farmers' markets, sewing, websites, photography classes, baking, knitting, harp lessons, music recitals, guitar playing, candle dipping, soap making, birthday's...... we have done it all!  whew!  So many things to post about!  

Well, to start off I would like to mention that www.barefootseamstress.com is getting a makeover!  Elizabeth and I are making new additions faster than I can get pictures of them and then uploaded them on the site.  We are adding - funky, retro aprons, organic baby items including burpies, booties, hats and blankets, tea cozies, hand-dipped candles, homemade soaps, wonderful smelling lavender products, hand knit dishcloths, spa sets, and a bunch more that I can't think of at the moment!  ;-) 

A new addition to my list of "things that I love to do" is a photography business!  Yes www.imagesbylauraelizabeth.com is under construction!  Finally!!  :-)

Well, I will be posting our candle-dipping pictures as well as everything else that we have been up to very soon, so keep an eye out!

~~Laura

Fresh Bread Anyone?

Tomorrow we are having some friends over for a re-make of our Empress Tea!  This time we will be adding in some gluten free things as well as one WONDERFUL raw food dish.  Here is a sneak peak of one of the delights.........

More pictures and details later!

~~Laura

Come Join Elizabeth!

Come join Elizabeth at her new blogs!  Learn about what she eats at Life With Food Allergies and take  walks through nature along side of her.  These fun blogs are just starting to bud so keep on the lookout for new posts!  

~~Laura

P.S. don't forget to vote on her polls!  ;-)