Project Life - Week 6 (Feb 6th - 12th)

Project Life - Week 6
My Kenyan Visa showed up this week along with my passport.
My delish flatbread from River City Eatery. Yum!!! If you are from the area, you should certainly try it out.
This is how Max cuddles with me at night.
Compounding at work.
Weekly recap.
Zumba! and my punch card.
My mist storage.

Close up details.

I have to say I love that rainbow hearts card. I found it here: http://www.sugarhillco.com/shop/misstiina And I added the gray heart diecut from the SIL store. I'm pretty positive it's Amy Tangerine.

Project Life - Week 5 (Jan 30th - Feb 6th)

Project Life - Week 5
A busy week once again.
A night with my girls reminiscing the old day.
My new camera bag/purse showed up. It's an epiphanie and it is so cool. I can't wait to bring it to Africa with me. You can see that it fits a lot of camera gear.
Weekly recap.
Roxy helping me scrapbook.
An epiphanie card/packaging.
Current gas prices @ Casey's here in town.
Michelle's Birthday. A lime green cake. Superbowl Sunday.
Work at Lewis. A view of the backroom. Doris' last day celebrated with a cake.


And some close ups.

Project Life - Weeks 2, 3, & 4

I haven't updated Project Life for awhile, so here's weeks 2, 3, and 4.

Week 2: A close up of Max. A tenative itinerary for my upcoming trip to Africa (getting so excited!). Week in Review. Purchasing of my new camera lens from amazon.com. An experiment with my shutter speed with an almost full moon. My new passport came! (After the US post office loosing my old one.) My birthday - cakes at work and at Gary & Monica's. You can also see my first attempt at a digital overlay.

Week 3: Very cold out this week (well, probably normal for a winter, but not this winter). Season premiere's of 3 shows we like to watch. Mmmmm... Panera. Weekly review. Shopping for new workout/zumba clothes at Old Navy. (I love their compression active wear). A trip to mankato to mail off my passport to apply for my Kenyan Visa. (I sure wasn't going to use the USPS again!) Chris making a cat house to keep the outside cats warm.

Week 4: An awesome article this week in the paper about Ali living in Africa (the one I'm going to see in April!) My new camera lens came this week as well as my new camera strap from PhatStraps. Chris got my a cute new pin cushion. The weekly review. I ran my car directly into the ditch on accident on Monday. Doing my nursing home consulting duties. Mmmmm... love me some Jimmy John's (I pick it up monthly). A new picture of Jake running around the pasture with my new camera lens.

My new Epiphanie Bag - the Lyric - a review

A few days ago, I got a wonderful happy package in the mail - my brand new Epiphanie Bag! For those of you who don't know, Epiphanie has made a bunch of gorgeous camera bags that also double as a purse. You can read more about them here: http://epiphaniebags.com/ . I was really torn between the Lyric and the Stella bags. I really wanted the Stella bag in gray though, and that won't be back in stock until after I leave for Africa, so I finally decided on the Lyric in plum. I am so in LOVE.

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I couldn't find a lot of reviews out there that showed just what can fit in the Lyric, so I thought I'd share one.

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My loaded up Lyric. This is the long, adjustable, padded strap. It also comes with a shorter, braided strap.
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A peak inside it. There are 3 dividers that come with the bag. Two short and one tall. That makes 4 different compartments, plus the zippered pocket at the top. The interior is completely padded, so I don't feel guilty about lugging my DSLR around and worrying about damaging it. The material is very soft and fuzzy too, just as what is in my million dollar crumpler bag.

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My DSLR coming out of the bag with 100-400 lens attached. The lens was creeping out in this picture. I wanted to make sure that this lens with camera attached would fit in this bag prior to buying it. I think I may need to whip this out on a whim when traveling around Kenya, so this was very important to me.

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Without the camera. One full compartment at the top and 2 compartments at the bottom of the picture.

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Starting with the compartment at the top. My Pop-up Flash Bounce found at Photojojo here: http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/pop-up-flash-bounce/ . The best $30 I've spent. A lot easier to stomach than buying a flash at this point.

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Same compartment. My 28-135mm.

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Bottom-most compartment. Non-photography items in this one. My sunglasses.

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My android phone.

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My big wallet.

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A pill container and some gum.

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The next smaller compartment. My Lenspen lens cleaner.

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Same compartment. My 50mm lens.

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The top zippered compartment. A peak inside. Some girly necessities.

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My iPod.

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The front 2 pockets. The one on the right holds my keys.

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The one on the left. Extra batteries, flash drive, more memory.

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And my battery charger. Which isn't really all that small.

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A look at everything that fits!

- Pop up Flash Bounce

- Canon Rebel T1i with Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM and hood attached.

- Camera strap from PhatStraps http://www.phatstraps.com/

- Lenspen

- Canon 50mm f/1.8

- Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

- Flash memory stick and SanDisk MicroMate card reader

- Battery charger & 3 spare batteries

- Sunglasses (from H&M a few years ago)

- T-Mobile MyTouch Android phone

- Keys

- iPod

- Big pink wallet

- Visine, girly items, pill case, compact mirror, gum

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and I think that's it...

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That's A LOT of stuff!
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The bag itself is made of a synthetic leather. I can tell it's not a super expensive material, but my daily purses are coach. It's supposed to be water resistant, and I'm hoping the Lyric will stand up to any abuse I can throw at it. I guess we shall see in less than 2 months when I got to Africa. Hopfully I will report back after my trip!