My birthday party video: The next best thing to being there?

I have virtually no experience in video editing, but Susan brought her Flip to my birthday party so of course we had to have fun with it at the bar. And of course I had to spend all day playing with it in Windows Movie Maker. Apologies in advance for bad lighting, bad camera skills and intoxication. But for those that were there, a reminder of the fun. And for those that weren’t, I wish you had been! And Amy and Whitney you were right, I gotta get one of these things!

Also, there’s a mention in the video of Wade licking the camera for 2 1/2 minutes. I edited that part out. You’re welcome.


Happy (belated) birthday, Heather!

So I was trying to decide whether to post what I was getting Heather for her birthday since it was going to arrive late. But it arrived this morning at her house so I will wait for her to find it and unwrap it! Meantime, I wanted to say happy belated birthday (for the record, [...]

One night in Charlotte and the world’s your oyster

Blue hair gel, check. Leg warmers, check. Little Red M3, check. Great friends and great family, check. Even those I wonder about when I see you dancing with your friends … You’d have to Send Me an Angel to make this birthday party any better, so if you are on the East Coast (or a plane [...]

Happy birthday, Elwood

Elwood, you are one of the awesomest people I know and your birthday is the day we get to revel in that awesomeness (even if you are practically a Pisces). Chris and I made this poster to show you just that, although, you will see we weren’t the only ones that had our hands in it! Since [...]

How to really impress your friend on his birthday

If you read this blog regularly you know I’ve been helping Chris decorate his apartment in Athens, Ga. I’ll pause to pat myself (and him! He’s the willing participant!) on the back by showing you a before picture (which I just came across; you haven’t seen this before): Before he let me do my thing. [...]

Blue cheese, the Yankees and road trips

About 30 years ago my dad bawled like a baby when he held me for the first time. Has he told me this? No, but I know it must be certain. My mom had to undergo a C-section with me because I would have been breech. I was a month early, and apparently I decided [...]

I heart my nieces

Wanted to take a minute to show off my beautiful nieces and some of my design work at the same time … I designed these birth announcements for my sister-in-law and my brother for their baby girl, born in early September. Isn’t she beautiful? If you want more, I wrote about them here not too [...]

A birthday princess for a day

On my 30th birthday Susan surprised me with a headband from the kids’ section of Party City with hearts coming off of it that say “Birthday Princess.” To her surprise, it was my favorite present of the weekend. She gave it to me at 3 a.m. as we hung out at our hotel in Asheville, [...]

Turning 30 not so bad Vegas-style

It wasn’t my birthday, of course. I’ve been 30 for an entire 6 months now (ick.) This time, it was Susan’s turn to exit her 20s, and we did it Vegas-style. After taking a red-eye home and sleeping all day, I’m still adjusting back to East Coast time. I am tired, dehydrated, and out-of-whack. But [...]