Dilly Dally Dailies

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I was able to have a really awesome conversation with a new-er friend tonight. We enjoyed coffee and each other and use our brokenness and experiences to speak into each other’s lives. It was one of those good ones.

While we were talking I ended up ripping up my coffee sleeve to make a girl and her dog. – it sort of just happened. Personally, I think she’s kind of cute.

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I managed to get home from the trip with just enough time to make it to church (it’s in the evening). I thought it was somewhat comical that I went to Las Vegas and then flew straight to church afterwards. Somehow it worked and I think that God enjoys us enjoying life, He just wishes we weren’t so stupid sometimes about what we think will fulfill us. But I digress.

We had a big, fun pizza dinner after the service and while I was cleaning up I realized that I hadn’t taken a picture yet (I spent most of the day attempting to sleep in the airport – our flight was super delayed.) So here we are – industrial sized cooking utensils, YAY!

  

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A few of the people on the trip decided to dress up as alter-egos, because – why not? So this is “Jade”  riding the bus in the rain.

Also, I think its rather funny that because of the pictures I chose to put up here you have no idea where I went – neener neener. 

Ok fine, I’ll tell you – we went to Vegas for the weekend for a friends birthday and had a blast! There you happy? Good.

Hi Friends, 

I’m on vacation this weekend – and you better believe I’m taking pictures. But I won’t be able to get them up here until Monday or so.  In the mean time here are some b-sides from January.  I’m planning on doing this at the end of every month… Some days I take more than one picture (this month I took a grand total of 623!) and it can be challenging to pick one.  So I was thinking I’d put a couple of the “almost but not quite” ‘s up here every now and again.  I played a bit more with some coloring effect on some of these which was so fun I might keep doing it.  (some of them got a little out of order – sorry!)

Hope you enjoy these, let me know what you think and I’ll see ya next week.

Muah!
Jules 

1-12-09: 225 E. Cota St. – This place was just too cool to only take one picture!

1-13-09: Santa Barbara Post Office

1-14-09: East Beach on a Beautiful Day!

1-15-09: another angle of my “make a bad day better” dasies 

1-17-09: A trashcan that says “grace” on it… deep.  (I played with the colors a lot on this one)

1-19-09: A really cool deck I found at the beach.  The sun was setting which made for some fun lighting. 

1-20-09:  limes make [almost] everything yummier. 

1-12-09: I didn’t realize we had a foodland (or that they existed at all) until I took a weird way to get to a friends house. I guess there is exploring left to do here.  I really like the reflections of the traffic signal and my camera lens (yes, I took this through my car window while at a red light). 

1-24-09: Agua Dulce Foursquare Church’s outdoor lighting (I went home for a wedding shower that day).

1-29-09: I loved how these flowers weren’t going to let some silly fence keep them from growing the way they wanted to.  I really needed this encouragement the day I took this. 

1-24-09: Wedding shower just isn’t fun without a wedding dress made of toilet paper.

1-12-09: 225 E. Coat St. again – (Can you tell I liked this place?)

1-23-09: They day I found the cool green truck I also found Colonel Mustard, a crazy cool patchy blue guy, and Rusty McRuster.

1-30-09: I think I need to look up more often.  I have fun playing with the colors on this one.   

1-30-09:  I really liked the abandoned crayons at the foot of this massive artistic column.  There are a lot of different meanings you could throw on this one.  I’ll let you decide. 

1-28-09: Another image from my paperclip jar’s modeling debut. 

1-17-09: Seriously, how does she look so cool? I can’t decide which coloring I like better.  Feel free to vote. 

What a month! Thanks for keeping tabs on me and Happy February!

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I spotted this while walking to the grocery store to get creamer for my office. I always put corrugated metal in my cactus garden, don’t you?

It seemed innocent enough at the time… to give my cute little oranges some cute little faces. But I soon found out that I couldn’t bring myself to eat them for it would destroy the happy couples’ dreams of their future life together.  Plus their chaperon has a monocle and I’ve always had a soft spot for people that sport monocles – they always remind of the steward in Disney’s Cinderella.  He had to take so much grief from the king how could you not feel sorry for him?

After work today I got to hang out with my old roommates at CorkTree Cellars – it was a wonderful time of feeling grown-up, hip and stylish.  I was hoping to get a picture there but it was too dark, so my little orange friends will be famous for the day. (and there was much rejoicing)

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I went to Silvergreens (my new favorite resturant) with my good friends Chris and Katie Humphreys for lunch today and found these arches and fun hanging lights. I’ll admit I boosted the contrast on this one quite a bit… because contrast is sexy.

 

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Today was a bit of a roller coaster but luckily it ended well – lots of candles and some goofy friends playing everything from hymns to Beatles to Stravinsky to MJ on 2 violas, 1 violin, 1 piano, 1 table, 1 crutch and 3 or 4 voices. It was a fun hodgepodge of music

Unfortunately it was too dark to get any decent pictures of the music making (I did record a bit of it though – i love that my camera as an audio record feature – and for what it is I’m pretty impressed with the quality).

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I don’t have much to say about this one. Godzilla and the Rancor, they’re actually pretty nice guys once you get to know them.

  

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Some friends of mine (and myself) traveled to the far land of Santa Monica to check out some galleries (and gelato) today. It was a day full of fun and inspiration (and gelato). This is the sun setting on Bergamont Station – a compound of galleries I will be going back to in the not-too-distant future.

(I also discovered that one can’t take pictures inside of the gelato place on the 3rd Street Promade.  It’s only January and I’ve already been shot down twice!)

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It’s hard to tell but he is giving all three of us back rubs at the same time. Tea, breakfast burritos, good music, and a massage boy – what a life.

(and I used the timer for this one, I’m going to say that still counts as me taking the picture. Besides I took other pictures this day I just liked this one the best.)

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Yay for a visit from Naomi!
Eek for that creepy painting!