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Handmade Walnut Cookie Table
A cookie table is a table specialized to hold cookies…right? Ok yes, that too, but the name actually refers to the type of cut that was done to obtain the piece of wood. A wood cookie is a horizontal cut of the tree trunk – the view you need in order to count the growth…
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Five Tips to Prevent Flooding in your House
Not everything in Los Rodriguez life is glamorous…actually, there is not that much glamour in our lives, period. We try to highlight the great times, but as Dr. House would say, life isn’t always sunshine and puppies! Up until last Friday it felt like it rained every single day for the past two weeks, which…
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Penelope’s Nursery Tour
Penny’s room has been a work-in-progress since we moved into the house, and we are adding to it all the time. There was no rush for us to finish P’s nursery before she was born because we didn’t really use it for anything besides diaper and clothing changes until she was about six months old…
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Dad Life in 35mm
After the post 35mm moms I had to do the same to celebrate Father’s Day! If you missed the last post, I’ve been busy scanning hundreds of my grandma’s Kodak slides (and I’m moving on to the McClure family next) and falling completely in love with the treasure trove therein. I had never seen any of these…
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Summer So Far
School is out, lightning bugs are here, and it’s 90 degrees every day this week, all of which make it officially summer regardless of what the calendar says. We’ve been making the most of it already with the help of Gia and Jackson – it’s fun to watch them learn to love summer and I…
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Taylorsville Lake
Every summer we look forward to frequent trips out on Taylorsville Lake with Marian and Stephen on their boat Water Music. Last June I had a pretty big baby bump on the boat…this year that lil baby was decked out in a super cool baby life jacket ready for her first dip in the lake! She…
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Trip to Alabama and Penny’s First Flight
Between Javi working on new furniture to sell and my wedding photography schedule, most of our free time has been spoken for this spring. Last weekend we set aside our projects and took a few days to go and visit my aunt Jane and uncle Bruce in Alabama. A few years have passed since we…
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Lately: Photos and Weddings
**photo session giveaway details at the end!** Wedding season is officially underway and I’m currently booking for 2019! I love shooting these crazy events full of love, happy people, and sweet details. I’m such a sap. This is my first wedding season since I joined Humming House in 2013…I had to give up weddings for…
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35mm Mommas
Over the last two months I’ve been scanning my grandma’s old family slides and have collected some real gems of motherhood and grandmotherhood in photos from the 1950s-1980s. I’ve been obsessed with photos my whole life (surprise!) and pored over our family albums as a kid to the point where I thought I had seen…
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Derby 2018 Pt. 2
On Derby morning I did a quick photo session with Corinne and her group of friends from law school before they headed off to Churchill Downs. It would be so much fun to shoot a Derby-themed wedding…all of the fashion and colors and hats and mint juleps. Or maybe I just need to book a…
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Derby 2018 pt.1
Happy Derby! It’s been so crazy around here with Derby season, wedding season picking up in my photography world, spring landscaping and gardening, and on top of everything Penny is teething so we are surviving on minimal sleep. On Thursday night we went to Javier’s company’s annual Derby party at the Kentucky Derby Museum and…
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Leftover Winter
Last Wednesday morning we woke up to a blanket of soft, fresh snow – the most snow I’ve seen in years. I couldn’t pass up the chance to get plenty of photos, especially while my mom and grandma were in town visiting. As soon as P woke up from her nap we bundled her up…
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Penny’s First Foods
Penny crossed the 5-month threshold on Feb 26! It feels like a long time and no time at all – I’m in the twilight zone where my brain feels like it’s going 100mph in neutral. We hit the four-month sleep regression a little late; just when I thought we were safe and lucked out with…
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My Moravian Workbench
After preparing the woodshop space, I needed to build a woodworking bench. The important feature about the bench I wanted was portability. Many of the plans I saw online were for beautiful benches that would never move from the place where they were built. You want a sturdy bench, and in most cases sturdiness comes…
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Salute the Staycation
Have you ever had that feeling that you need a vacation from your vacation? That longing for your own kitchen that has everything exactly where it should be, that need for the comfort of your own bed? I’m usually willing to endure the vacation hangover in exchange for breaking our regular routine, seeing some new places…
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Javi’s Workshop
I have wanted a workshop in our house for a long time, but I haven’t found the right space. Our house in Louisville has a garage, but it is not in the kind of condition I’d need for a permanent wood shop. There are several holes on the walls, it is not insulated, and there…
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More Weekends like This
Last weekend was damn near perfect, freezing temperatures and limited outdoor time notwithstanding. After several days cooped up in our house thanks to the cold weather, we ventured out on Friday night for the opening of D.O.P.E. (Dreaming of Patterns Everyday) at Revelry Boutique Gallery. I’ve been doing pop ups there with my shop on…
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Penny Threads
If you follow me on instagram or are friends with me on facebook you might have seen the 10 days of Penny Christmas photos that I posted of P wearing 10 different Christmas outfits. As soon as I found out I was pregnant last year, I started scouring goodwill, yard sales, and giant consignment sales…
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Penny’s First Christmas
The new year is under way and Christmas is getting too far away from me! So before another day goes by I want to share these photos from a terrific holiday with family. I’m always a little sad when Christmas is over…I LOVE the anticipation, the joy, the decorations, and especially the lights. I remember…
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A brief reflection on 2017
My Facebook feed is usually a mix of opposing views on pretty much everything from politics to the latest Star Wars movie, but there seems to be a united sentiment of giving 2017 a giant middle finger and hoping for a better 2018. For me it was equal parts hard and wonderful, but I have…
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