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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Hardmans

The Hardmans (family we Home Teach) invited our family over for a barbecue at the park. They have the coolest treehouse (see the walk way to get to it below). They cooked up some great stir fry straight from the garden and hamburgers/hot dogs. Tony is the greatest story teller and I tried to capture some of his facial expressions. You need video to truly appreciate it. His wife Joanne is a gem of a lady originally from Hawaii. (Note: They loaned us their big camp trailer for the funeral and Raeghn's mom and Tom stayed in it.)

Just threw this funny one in of Shad wearing Kaera's chair on his head playing with his sister! He's great with her!

The Shoot

Raeghn and I have some friends. Dick Broun and Sher Lisonbee. They live over the hill. They used to be famous photographers in Los Angeles. They have taken pictures of Carol Burnett, Seinfeld, Kojack, Linda Ronstadt, etc. Very famous. Lots of stories! They begged to take our pictures so for our date we dressed up and submitted ourselves to makeup and posing (both of us!). We MAY post some of the results when they get them to us.

Dick is always teaching me things about art and is fascinating to listen to.

Kvinde and I went on some errands Saturday morning and realized we hadn't gotten anything to eat so we dropped by Angie's restaurant which is famous for good breakfasts. We looked at the menu and Kvinde started to joke about "cleaning the kitchen sink" which is a huge dessert that takes about 6 people to eat. She had eaten it once on a YW activity and so as joking goes, we decided to go for it and not order anything else. Holy COW!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Summerfest Art Show

Shad and I did the Logan Summerfest Art Show on the lawns of the Tabernacle. Shad was an amazing trooper helping get ready. We worked until 4 am getting ready. We did our first canvas printing, wrapping, and framing and it turned out pretty good. We sold one for $250.

Here Shad is cutting the prints in our studio with the precision of a doctor!

Once we printed and cut to size we had to spray a sealant on the canvas since it would be out in the sun. It was about two in the morning and we were out on the street (fumes were too bad for doing it indoors). To keep the clamps from getting all varnished up we put them inside of plastic bags we found lying around.

Shad mounted all the hanging wires brackets on the back of the frames.

Then we stretched the canvas over a wood frame (Shad held the stretching pliers while I used the air stapler to attach the canvas all the way around the frame). It was about 3 am at this point and there are other renters in the studio building (we share the studio with two other friends). We were working in the basement and there were some old appliances down there so we put the air compressor in the fridge to cut down on the noise. It worked great until the compressor started to smoke! We had to open it up a bit but we weren't evicted so apparently we blocked enough sound.

And here is the final product. When we first set up the 10x20 tent the wind picked up just as I was staking it down and flipped the whole thing over. People came running and helped us right it up. We were exhausted at that point and close to tears (well me anyway) but some good samaritans helped us get back on track and we got the canvas prints hung up and ready for sale. The show went pretty well but I better keep the day job!

Kaera

Well it is probably a good time to unload a bunch of Kaera pictures.

Here is a doozy! It is actually just banana that didn't make it through the right entry way but she's cute no matter what is hanging from her nose!