well helllooo beautiful!

happy thursday everyone! hope you all are having a fantastic week! i am sooooo excited to share this post with all of you! one of the things that i was so excited about may was the lovely and extremely talented kristi mcmurry shooting my citybirds creations! i received my photos just the other day and i am totally BLOWN AWAY!!

the pictures came out so utterly fantastic, that i just want to tell you all about kristi and her amazing work! she loves doing this type of photography and if you are interested in her AMAZING services i would hop on over to her blog and give her a little shout out! all you have to do is send her 15 items and the cost is $20 and each item gets 5 pictures. she sends your pictures back on a cd and walla, perfection! although act now as she may be rising her prices :D


as you all know having great pictures for your shop is a total must! now i feel citybirds looks so professional, i am just so giddy with excitement!!  here are just SOME of my favorites!!

a big huge THANK YOU to kristi, you are amazing and when i get more items ready i will be sending you another package :D you can check out all my new AMAZING pictures at my shop here!

i hope you all have a fantastic weekend. we have a fun packed weekend planned as long as the rain stays away... the sf bike party is tomorrow, a bit of gardening and treasure hunting for some bike parts and a little trip to the coast :D

see you on the flip side!

xo,
cb

a terrific new idea!!!!! come play with us!

 i am really excited to tell yall about an exciting new project that the amazing poppy at bears and bunting has started! photography has been a quick new hobby for me soni jumped at the idea. she is starting a world view globe trotter project using a camera that travels around the world to different people! how fun does that sound!!!! i signed up right away and you still can too! you have till september 10th to sign up so jump on over to her blog for more details! we still need some representation of different countries and below is a list of what we have so far! if your country is not on the list i say sign up! i love to travel but don't always have the means to do so and photos are a great way to take in some sites i may not get tosee in my life time!! hope you all can get involved too!

i am off to the eat real food festival! have a great saturday!

xo,
cb

new experiences

 the mister found this awesome 1940-1950's ciro-flex tlr camera the other day. its a new type of vintage camera for us and i have to say it is pretty cool. he bought it last week and since he is a clever man he found this website where it shows you how to use the lens of any camera, a cardboard tube and another camera to use to take a picture. basically a camera sandwich and the 2 cameras serve as the pieces of bread and the cardboard is the meat of the sandwich.... here is a picture he took with the cameras...

 i thought the whole idea was pretty cool and the picture came out with a vintage feel....and it isn't even film! he used our crappy digital camera...amazing right?

so after he took this picture we were both really excited about the new camera so we went to urban outfitters because they sell the 120 film needed for the camera. they only had black and white film which is a first for us so it will be even more exciting to use the camera with film we have never used before...double whammy!!!

the mister had been wanting to take me to this japanese garden he had discovered awhile back while on a bike journey. it is near our house so we went on a mini date and played with our new camera. here are some shots with our digital camera...

it is so beautiful and peaceful there, i could have been there all day. some of the koi fish were enormous and brilliant orange...you can kinda see one of large ones...his tail is under the dock a bit... i also loved the trees which reminded me of dr. seuss  illustrations...made me wonder if japanese gardens were an inspiration to him...anyone know?

using our new camera was really fun but it will take some getting used to because when you look through the lens the image is reversed and i am already bad with my left and right...all i have to say is the mister was very patient while i took his picture!

can't wait to share with you the results of our new camera!! if anyone has experience using one of these bad boys i would love to see and hear about it!!

xo,
cb