July 23rd 2011 :: A, B, C, D.....

For my Individual Projects I class, one of my objectives was to create an alphabet using objects. So today Ryan and I spend 4 hours downtown taking photos, it was challenging but fun. I'm a bit tired so I don't really have much else to say except that some of the letters are a little warped cuz that was the only way I could get them to fit inside the rounded squares. Enjoy ;)

-Britney Wilson

July 15th 2011 :: B-R-I-T-N-E-Y

I'm no longer "Trainee"!!!!! 

(good riddance to all the terrible jokes/comments about "trainee" being my name, bahaha) I've finished my 30 day training period, and I am no longer a trainee, I am BRITNEY :D

-Britney Wilson

July 11th 2011 :: a Branch & a Guitar

Here's the background. Normally we park our car in the street out front because the entrance to our apartment is is in the front. Now, we were having small group at our apartment yesterday, so we parked in in our parking spot behind our apartment building so that there would be more room out front for our friends to park their cars. Alright on with todays story, I go around back to get the car to go to work and spot a huge branch sitting by our car. From where I was standing I could see no signs that the branch had hit our car *whew* but I walked all the way around to car just to be sure....and sure enough it had. So we have a lovely dent on our car from a stupid branch that fell from a tree during a storm that we slept through, the one night we parked in the back ;P Now don't get me wrong we are so thankful that the damage was not worse, a few foot more and we'd have a broken rear window! Plus we think we may be able to pop the dent back out with a rubber mallet from inside the trunk (we'll let you know how that turns out).

On a happy note ;) Ryan recently got a guitar from a friend, and the guitar was completely taken apart. So my hand man and I bought materials and he got to work stripping the paint of the guitar body.

The black layer was super easy, the grey one...not so much, and than after that there was a clear coat on it as well. The right bottom photo is the guitar mostly all the way stripped. (We'll update with a photo of the finished product :)

-Britney Wilson

July 4th 2011 :: Canoeing!

Happy 4th of July!!!!! :D For the fourth this year Ryan and I went canoeing with his parents Todd & Julie. We drove around trying to find an exit point along the Skunk River to leave our car, we finally found one that would be doable so we left our car there and hopped in with Todd & Julie to head up to Ames where our entry point was. 

After a slightly difficult entry, we all made it into our canoes safe and sound, and we headed out on our journey. It was lots of fun, the weather was perfect (hot enough to get wet but not unbearable). We stopped about 2 hours in on a sandbar to eat a snack and get wet! ;D After that we continued on for about another hour.

Now I bet you are thinking this is the end and what a perfect trip, well that would be wrong. Up to this point it was a great trip. Arms getting sore, tired from the sun, wanting a bigger meal than a snack. Turn after turn we would see more river. A bridge would be in sight we'd paddle swiftly toward it...only to find it wasn't our exit point. It took 3 more hours before we finally made it to your exit point. And thank goodness too, it was starting to get dark ("We're gonna die on this stupid river!" was said a few times as it got dimmer and dimmer). After a very difficult exit we finally got both the canoes and our supplies up by the road, Ryan and I unfolded our camping chairs and sat guard while Todd & Julie drove our car back to ames to get their car and the trailer for the canoes.

It was an hour wait, hot, sweaty, sticky from bug spray, bugs flying around, tired, sore, hungry...but a cheerful sight came along, a beautiful sunset (my phone camera doesn't do it justice).

and so we waited trying to be positive *cheese*.  We finally made it home, showered, applied aloe, ate some food, and SLEPT!!! The first 3 hours of the trip were great!! ...we'll leave it at that. ;)

P.S. We traveled 25 miles in 6 hours!!! ...yea we're pretty good canoers ;)

-Britney Wilson

July 2nd 2011 :: Farmers Market

Today I went to the farmers market to take photos for my Photojournalism class...and of course I couldn't pass up buying something too!! ;) I bought a fresh baked baguette and BLUEBERRIES!!!!! :D They were absolutely delicious!!!!!!

-Britney Wilson