Finding Fun

Yesterday I had one of the best days I've had over these past 11 weeks. It started off by FINALLY getting together with my husband's aunt (Shannon) at her store to practice my photography skills. We started talking about this BEFORE Christmas and today we finally both had some free time. Well I packed up my equipment and headed out.

Once there it took awhile to get going because we weren't really sure where to start. But I suggested they (Shannon and her business partner) start picking out items they wanted photos of by artists they wanted to feature as I got set up.

Fast-forward 5 hours later I was exhausted, my back hurt, and my eyes were sore...I was done. By no means did I photograph everything they have (they have a billion items in their store) but I got a pretty good sample of items.

I was so excited to get to practice somewhere other than my kitchen with objects other than our dishes, pillows, foods, etc that I absolutely did NOT expect any sort of payment. So I was completely surprised and thankful when those ladies not only bought me lunch (an amazing club sandwich with extra thick and crispy kettle chips) but allowed me to choose a piece of copper jewelry! WOW! Here's a sneak peak of what I chose (the cuff on the right):

I will be spending time over the next couple days to sort thru all 236 photos and edit the best. I'll post more when I get thru some but I was just so excited by all the fun I had yesterday and by my amazing bracelet that I just couldn't wait :)