Scavenger Hunt: Week 1

Going to try and do this every week. Because Ashley is amazing and has such creative hunts and also it will make me really try to find the beauty in everything I see. This week's is a little late do to NYC but here you go. FYI all pics are from NYC this week :)

1. Capture the Sky

2. Everyday

3. Furry

4. Life

5. Blurred

NYC In Pictures

Had a pretty good time. The Lion King was amazing and by far the best part of the trip! However the city life is so not for me and I am glad to be back home in my boring little life.
Around the city








Wax Museum


Natural history museum






View from our room


My boo eating lol

Week 2

1. Your weight and height : Same & 5'7''
2. Your  fitness challenge(s) for this week: Do Yoga for one hour 3 times this week. pilates 1 time this week for 40mins
3. Your food challenge(s) for this week: No junk food IE potato chips and popcorn. Start drinking green tea once a day. Continue with no soda only water.
4. How well did it go: As far as my goal of exercise yet, not so good. I did not do any yoga. I was sick the beginning of the week and then went to NYC in the middle to the end of the week. However I did do a lot of walking in NYC.
5. Failures and slip-ups: Mentioned the exercise above. As far as my water goal, I did ok. When in NYC I did have other drinks, but I still drank a tom of water well exceeding the 8 glasses a day.
6. Weekly challenge wisdom: Drink tons of water!
7. Advice to fellow GET FIT members: For exercise try to do something you enjoy. If you like to run or walk focus of that. If you are like me and like stretching try yoga or pilates.
8. Your self-portrait: Me after NYC rare pics of me with the hair done and makeup :p





    

& So The Lion Fell In Love With The Lamb..

Yesterday wad G and I's 6th anniversary. I am super excited because on Wednesday we are going to New York to celebrate! We are staying until Friday and have a whole lot planned. Wednesday we are going to see the Lion King on Broadway, we have second row seats! Then we are going to Madame Tussuads wax museum.

The next day we are going to do tons of site seeing and will be going to the Ripley's believe it or not odditorium. I also hope we will be able to go to central park and china town. The best part is of course all the pictures I get to take and of course spending time with my wonderful man!

My Best & Favorite...

Cell phone picture ever! I adore this picture, even though I have long upgraded to Canon Rebel from a cell phone this is still one of the most cherished pictures I have..and it is not edited in anyway so SSOCP (straight of out cell phone :P)

Red

I love this picture. Airi, Cute toes, & a tutu what can be better!

Ok Here It Goes...

My new years resolution this year (along with many other years) is to get healthy. I seriously can not stand the way I look. It kinda sucks because I always want to take self portraits and wear cute stuff, but wont because I am self conscience. So I started doing yoga this year and to be perfectly honest I have not kept up on it like I should. In order to gain some "help" I have decided to join some other bloggers in the Get fit, get healthy challenge. So basically this is my first entry...Oh lord lol.
1. Your weight and height : Too much! 5'7''
2. Your  fitness challenge(s) for this week: Do Yoga for one hour 3 times this week.
3. Your food challenge(s) for this week: No Soda or any other drink only water.
4. How well did it go: Will answer next week lol
5. Failures and slip-ups:Will answer next week lol
6. Weekly challenge wisdom: Start with small goals and work your way up
7. Advice to fellow GET FIT members: Just do it! If you are not happy with yourself fix it.
8. Your self-portrait: Only the face for now...Maybe full body in the future.






    

The Best Feeling

One of the best feelings in the world is when you finally find the perfect place in your home to catch the best light for photos! I found mine and am loving it! Of course now it is starting to warm up and I will be going outside soon.

A Little Peak

So as most of you may know we have been working on redecorating our house forever! Seriously it has been like year. Finally we are almost done! I do not want to post pictures until everything is 100% done, but here are a few sneak peaks.

We have the living room, hall, and bathroom painted, the walls are all decorated, the bedroom is almost done, and we got a new couch. The only other major things we have left is finishing painting the bedroom, getting curtains, and then putting in the new carpet. But for now here is a little preview of casa la Kala!

This is all in the living room FYI.

Three Reasons Why Lightroom 3 Is Amazing

I love Adobe lightroom. It is honestly 10x better than Photoshop when it comes to post processing. It is simple to use and the effect you can achieve are simply amazing. I use it for about 95% of my photo processing, the only thing I use PSP (Paintshop Pro) for is spot removal, noise eliminator, and to add effects such as texture if I want to. Below are 3 pictures all which where edited in Adobe Lightroom 3 only.

SOOC


After (this is a preset and iris enhancing only took about 2 mins)


B/W Preset


SOOC


After (using a preset, and slight skin smoothing.)


SOOC



After ( brighten preset and changed target colors to a slight green)


All these images took minutes only to edit. :) Also I make all my own presets, but there are some awesome ones available for download as well.

Here is my perfect eye setting, if your photo is on the darker side just adjust the brightness and exposer. Click for larger view.