tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61179135582216590662024-03-19T02:18:21.906-05:00A+K ...all the way2 Married Film Students, making their way & sharing it here.Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-9351826820969075632013-09-14T12:11:00.000-05:002013-09-14T12:19:18.868-05:00My Quiet MorningFunny how little things make your thoughts go unexpected places.<br />
Since Husband doesn't eat breakfast and is gone right now, I was making myself a nice meal of turkey sausage, blueberry whole grain waffles and eggs (love breakfast!) As I stand there scrambling eggs I begin to wish I could make them as good as my Granddad. And suddenly I'm missin' him something sore! On this quiet morning I'd decided to keep myself company with our favorite Sunday morning Pandora station, Traditional Country Hymns.* Of course once I start thinking about my GrandDad, "I'll Fly Away" was the next song to come up. This song will <i>always</i> make me think of him, as sort of his anthem. He was an awesome pilot, and it was one of the hymns my Grandmother picked to be sung at his funeral.<br />
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So when I bucked up, and finished cooking, and was sitting in my little breakfast nook staring out the bay window as I ate, admiring the sunlight dancing through the leaves in all the big trees that line our backyard<i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">[writing-pause as my bridal song "Be Thou Vision" just came on </span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;">:)<i>]</i>...</span> suddenly a big wind gusts through and all these magical leaves fluttered down through my backyard from the treetops above. ...So Beautiful.<br />
Especially with the nice background music.<br />
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I may not be with family, or back home in Texas, but I'm very aware of what a beautiful place God has me in right now. Right where He wants me to be. It's a nice part of America, it's "The Natural State" which He knew I'd like, I'm still in my home country, land of the free, home of the brave. And this is just as nice a place to land :)<br />
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'So Blessed and looked after, by my true Father in Heaven.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">As posted to </span></span><a href="http://instagram.com/kwightarmstrong" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">Instagram</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> yesterday, but right on theme for this week God and I have shared alone, at home:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: proxima-nova, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">"The butterfly love note God sent. While I was waking up, laying in bed, it landed on my window in the morning light. And flapped and showed off its wings for quite a while for me :) </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">A nice visitor since I didn't have my Roo to wake up to."</span></span></div>
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*That station is awesome, it's so fun, and inspiring, and mostly filled with the beloved songs I grew up with in Church (and wish I still heard more these days). But if you don't like 'old stuff' a lot of the songs are done by newer bands (Third Day, etc.) with just enough modern twist, but with the familiar lyrics and tunes. 'Just makes you feel good. Even if you're not a Believer, you should try it, I think they're just fun songs to make for a Happy morning!<br />
<br />Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-61049751279544063742013-06-25T15:38:00.001-05:002013-06-25T16:02:23.079-05:00Understanding the 'Local Food' Cry<br />
<span class="userContent">Have you ever wondered what's up with "Buy/Eat Local?" </span><br />
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To be honest, I've heard that for years, but no one ever says why. I'd
mostly heard it in conjunction with 'support local farmers.' Which makes
sense, I mean who doesn't want to help '<span class="text_exposed_show">the
little guy,' the potentially struggling farmer who is your local
neighbor. And I've always known that transporting food long distances
isn't great for the environment in respect to that 'carbon footprint'
idea.<br /> But somehow I didn't really get the real reason behind it,
'til I heard <a href="http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/" target="_blank">Carolyn Steel</a>'s <a href="http://www.ted.com/" target="_blank">TED Talk</a> about how food shapes cities, and
really our world. Within her first few comments, it kindof clicked,
that theoretically it's what's best for us on a global scale; environmentally and
socially, etc. </span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> I guess it
also comes down to sustainability (another word I've recently come to
grasp just a little bit better, but maybe that's another post/story). </span></span> If we could all eat from locally grown and harvested
produce, then maybe distant parts of the world wouldn't have to keep
clearing forests, and ruining land to make mass-produced crops that then
also have to be shipped really far away. All done very industrially. <br /> Idunno, the general idea makes more sense internally, than when I try to type out an explanation.<br />
But, you might take a minute (or 15) and watch this interesting,
informative talk. You History folk might like it just for the
historical look.</span></span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/carolyn_steel_how_food_shapes_our_cities.html</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://blog.french-quarters.com/events-happenings/2011-downtown-fayetteville-farmers-market-in-fayetteville-square/" target="_blank"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"></span></span><img alt="http://blog.french-quarters.com/files/2011/07/100_2552.jpg" class="decoded" height="480" src="http://blog.french-quarters.com/files/2011/07/100_2552.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]">And speaking of 'eating local,' I've
been pretty interested in Farmers Markets and eating 'natural' for a
long time, but have only been to a few recently, and mostly enjoyed
natural food stores like <a href="http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/whole-foods-market" target="_blank">WholeFoods</a>, for variety, and convenience; but
I'm definitely now in the mood to go visit what's apparently knows as "The
Crown Jewel of Fayetteville"... the <a href="http://www.fayettevillefarmersmarket.org/" target="_blank">Fayetteville Farmers Market </a></span></span></span></span></span><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]">(which I've been meaning to visit since we moved here at the beginning of the month)</span></span></span></span></span>. </span><br id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:1]" /><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:2]">Who's with me? </span><br id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:3]" /><br id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:4]" /><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:5]">(See,
Activists? When you actually inform people about your slogan or cause
[whatever it may be] and what's behind it, they're way more interested to get on board and be
proactive with you!)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>PS- Update. <span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1]"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]"> </span></span></span></b><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]">There's almost always a lot more to consider on both sides of a point like this,
and usually a bunch of stuff 'on the other hand' that can easily make these plans
not totally the best option. But I was at least pleased to have finally a
better <i>understanding</i> of their cry... rather than completely jumping on board. Though the romantic in me, does want this notion to pan out just as she suggests it would.</span></span></span><br />
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]"><br /></span></span></span>
<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:0]">My very wise friend, Jared B., kindly replied with this reminder:</span></span></span><br />
<span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061772}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1]"></span><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1]"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[2:0].[3:0:0]">"<i>On
the other hand, I have heard the 'eat local' reasoning does not stand
up to scrutiny. For example, the rain-forest-clearing reasoning seems
less obvious when one considers it takes less land to mass-produce crops
than for small-time farmers with div</i></span></span><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:3]"><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:3].[2:1]"><i><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:3].[2:1].[3:0:0]">erse crops. Economy of scale actually lets the big growers do it with a lower carbon footprint than the local grower, too.</span></i><span id=".reactRoot[1141459].[0]{comment714368712829_2061713}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:3].[2:1].[3:0:3]"><i>I
like local markets because you can buy more ripened produce and bigger
better & cheaper watermelons. They're definitely something worth
taking advantage of, so enjoy your trip</i>."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0]"><span id=".reactRoot[7442177].[0]{comment714368712829_2061677}.[1:0].[4:0:1].[3:1].[4:0:1].[1:1].[1:0].[1:0:2].[2:0].[3:0:5]"> </span></span></span> </span></span>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-84032590537178854342012-11-02T19:33:00.000-05:002012-11-02T19:33:06.078-05:00Something NewSo I was re-visiting this always-neglected blog tonight, and boy, that random yoga post really needed to not be the last thing up at the top of the blog.<br />
And then I saw <a href="http://andrew-and-krystal.blogspot.com/2011/11/to-vent.html" target="_blank">this one</a> below, and started to write a little edit reply, which I decided to just turn into this new post instead.<br />
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...just a little update on where we're at I guess. <br />
It's been about a year and a half since we left JBU in Siloam Springs, AR. It's been a good and exciting time; lots has happened. We've worked on a bunch of fun productions, including more than one unit of a feature film; spent some time in Roswell, L.A & other parts of California, Dallas, Siloam again, and are currently in San Antonio. Lots of long production roadtrips have been had. Little Blue (our beloved old car) turned 200K crossing a bridge on the way back to Siloam this year!<br />
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I got a job as a Graphic Artist for an international Sign Company here in S.A., and Andrew's been keeping busy with contract production work (lots of traveling for him recently). We're still staying with Andrew's amazing parents but are finally at a point where we can stand on our feet a little better and get a little place of our own. It's probably going to have still be here in San Antonio for a while because of my job....but boy do I miss Dallas, and still super, really want to move back. My company even has headquarters there I'd love to transfer to, but they're not able to take me on there yet.<br />
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Within the next few weeks we should have found and moved into a new place, and life will keep on rolling.<br />
(until we get a reason/find a way to move to the next city on our journey!)<br />
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<br />Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-11173271473879166512012-01-02T23:46:00.001-06:002012-01-02T23:48:37.527-06:00Yoga...So apparently it's kinda funSo a few weeks back I decided I really want to get involved in some kind of adult fitness classes to lean and lengthen my muscles (and to get more fit all over). I decided I'd aim for ballet, pilates &/or yoga... since they're all kinda like dance which tends to stretch and lengthen muscle tone...and I just miss being in dance.<br />
Knowing that we're moving with Andrew's parents to a place in north San Antonio come the beginning of February, I started looking up options for such classes & studios, in that S.A. area. I figured the New Year would also mean there are good deals because of everybody's New Year's resolution sales. I found a nice YMCA with some good classes near the house, and even a really great looking Women's fitness center & spa that also offers 24 hr equipment access + classes to boot. <br />
Then I realized the New Year was about to start and I really didn't need/want to waste a whole month of not being active, here in New Braunfels, before we move into the City. And after looking into those other places I realized most places offer discounted or free classes for the new customers, so I went ahead and started looking to see what might be offered here for me to take advantage of in this last month in NB.<br />
Being a small town there isn't a lot offered, but I did find this really neat <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150342670420739&set=a.156008355738.143644.95674660738&type=3&theater" target="_blank">little yoga studio</a> in <a href="http://gruenelakevillage.com/" target="_blank">Gruene Lake Village</a> (the cutest little, new, shop/boutique community I'd never seen before). They have a really great <a href="http://www.tworiversyoganb.com/" target="_blank">website</a> that gave me a lot of confidence in them and info all about all their <a href="https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=6546" target="_blank">classes</a>, and <a href="http://www.tworiversyoganb.com/about-us" target="_blank">each instructor</a>, etc. It's kinda pricey, but I went ahead and decided to go for it, just buying the Beginner's $20 unlimited first week, so I can go to as many classes as I'd like, for this whole week. Oh and they have "Happy Hour" yoga every Friday for just $5 at the door, so I'll probably do at least those for the next couple weeks, too.<br />
Tonight I went to my first Basics & Beyond class. I started off by being late, ugh. They wanted me there 10 minutes early, so I tried to be even earlier, but of course I got a little turned around trying to find it, and ended up a couple minutes <i>late</i> to the class. Not a great 1st step, since I was afraid I'd throw off their Chi by walking in late and I might have to miss the whole class. But the instructor welcomed me at the door, and let me in, and despite her casting aside my mat saying "that won't do" and lending me one of their 'proper' ones to use, it went quite well from there.<br />
It was an hour and 15 minutes, and I had pretty good form all the way through, thanks to my lessons in posture (dance and choir), positions from ballet, and naturally good balance. Which was very encouraging to hear when my stances were "beautiful." Apart from not exactly knowing what some of the words meant, or if my head was in the right direction, and having my naturally pointed toes being corrected to flex my feet instead (another dance habit)...it was all pretty easy to do and understand. And of course that obvious boost of good mood endorphins from working out was present at the end of it all. I'm sure it's from the stretching, and new uses of muscles, but nothing like a shot of positive reinforcement to also put you in a good mood!<br />
Oh and the cherry on top, was that it was a perfect day to start, since yesterday Andrew's Mommy bought me this really fun, crazy, <i>hot</i>-pink tank top I wanted, just for working out in. The color, "90s Pink," is so bright & crazy it can't not make you happy...so it was fun to have a new piece of workout clothing to wear too! All in all a fun experience, and I'm looking forward to the other classes I go to this week, though I'm a little nervous about attending any that doesn't specifically say 'beginner' or 'basic' in the title, so I might only get to do 3 total this week, according to the schedule.<br />
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And here is a photo of me after my first yoga class...in my happy new hot-pink tank top. Neon sure brings me back to my childhood, does it for you?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDisDmujJqIcwZUIAv0rwEW7jCuuF-Aw4Grdi7U33_N08pVN7Ct015w2BjKD8wAIvKwSL0mPwEaD679TVzqh6ilWB2jfw-LTDOYH1tYwx4ivaccMAjnqpOgcBgbi8EsSADdclqq1j5IM/s1600/_MG_5670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTDisDmujJqIcwZUIAv0rwEW7jCuuF-Aw4Grdi7U33_N08pVN7Ct015w2BjKD8wAIvKwSL0mPwEaD679TVzqh6ilWB2jfw-LTDOYH1tYwx4ivaccMAjnqpOgcBgbi8EsSADdclqq1j5IM/s640/_MG_5670.jpg" width="426" /></a></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-34734289291977365742011-12-09T14:05:00.003-06:002011-12-09T14:09:18.162-06:00We saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him<div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star when it rose and have come to worship Him."</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I read this today, and it stirred some thoughts. When the Magi saw this star and knew what it was, they knew immediately what they would do, they would worship the new born Messiah. I can picture them having just arrived, being there in His presence and whole heartedly wanting purely just to <em>worship Him</em>. And that's when I began thinking more about Christmas time and this season, and how I want to emulate that fervor, and go & just purely worship Him. It seems so good and right, and being a Christian, with the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of me, I think we are naturally inclined to want that as followers of Christ. But while I can imagine what that must have been & looked like to be there in person, confronted physically with the object of worship, it's always been a little bit harder for me to wrap my head around the concept of worship for us here and now. I know I can sing songs of praise and worship, I can pray and worship verbally that way, I can kneel, or bow while doing it, I can Worship Him by doing my best to represent Him well, by following His Word, doing His will and obeying Him, which is also to Love him. But I do wish that I could be like those magi and more literally <em>go</em> and just <em>Worship</em> at His side. I Love my Lord, Jesus, my King and Saviour...and as the Holiday of His birth draws near, like the Magi spotting His star that rose, I too wish to Go and Worship Him.</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[9] "...[the Magi] went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. [10] When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. [11] On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh." -Matthew 2:9-11</span></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-71186476848313762302011-11-25T20:30:00.000-06:002012-11-02T19:35:56.816-05:00To VentLonging for friends, a community, a church home & the community that comes with that. And a home, in Dallas, I think. And consistent work in the film industry, on set. Oh, and a dog.<br />
I need to settle in somewhere. Anywhere, just to start, start making those connections, and friendships & community. I'd like it to be near so many of my good friends and family in Dallas. Other dreams are Vancouver (British Columbia- Canada), or Oregon, or even Austin or L.A.<br />
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If anybody knows of some perfect solution or place we could so-cheaply afford to live in any of these areas, please send word...getting kinda desperate.<br />
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EDIT: Wow, having written that last November 25, 2011...and reading it now, it sounded <i>pretty</i> pathetic & dramatic. That was one of those hard times after leaving school in AR and being vagabonds, staying with in-laws. I just needed some stability at that point I think and to feel like our own family of 2 capable adults with our own home and lives. It's still hard being away from friends our age, etc. But things have progressed...and I'm suddenly aware that this is turning into its own post, so I might as well move this onto a new one...<a href="http://andrew-and-krystal.blogspot.com/2012/11/something-new.html" target="_blank">see above</a> for that now...<br />
(^edited 11/2/12)<br />
<br />Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-51030252093359416892011-11-23T17:53:00.001-06:002011-11-23T17:54:34.853-06:002011 Wishlist<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">After I worked on figuring out what to get for everybody for Christmas, I decied to throw together all the stuff I've saved, listed, and bookmarked for myself all year, that I've thought I'd like to buy.</span><br />
<div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/">Pinterest.com</a> also came along and made it easy to ‘pin’ everything one sees online that you’d like to save and remember for later. They let you save things in categories; I have one labeled Wishlist, but there are things I'd love that are in the other categories too, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like ‘</span><a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/fashion/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fashion</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ and ‘</span><a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/around-the-nest/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the Nest</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,’ etc. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there’s Etsy too, where they let you ‘❤’ all your favorite shops and items. So you can see all the things I want from Etsy, at <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/StarGaiz/favorites?ref=pr_faveitems_more">my Etsy Wishlist</a>.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there are past lists on Facebook, some of which is now mute, but it’s fun to look back.</span></div><div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12pt;">Here are all the places I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">publicly</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 12pt;"> save things I'd love to get myself (or get as gifts).</span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=250494339045" target="_blank">2009 Facebook Wishlist</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=52317569045" target="_blank">2008 Facebook Wishlist</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=7750164045" target="_blank">2007 Facebook Wishlist</a></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/wishlist/" target="_blank"><b>Pinterest Wish List</b></a></span></div><div style="line-height: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Stuff found in other parts of <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/" target="_blank">my Pinterest 'boards'</a></b></span></div><a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/StarGaiz/favorites" target="_blank"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 12pt;">Etsy </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">Favorites</span></span></b></a></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is just my general typed-up list of some of the major points :) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[And all the stuff in green are links you can click on for the items]</span></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Useful things</u></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4764723" target="_blank">Sewing Machine</a></b>. I REALLY want/need one…all the time! Any experienced seamstresses feel free to tell me what might be a better one.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Paper Cutter </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">- Any than can cut paper in strait lines, fitting letter-size paper or bigger would be preferred. I so need one all the time. This one looked neat: <a href="http://www.overstock.com/As-Seen-on-TV/As-Seen-on-TV-Craft-Lite-Cutter/4768421/product.html" target="_blank">The craftlite cutter</a></span></span><br />
<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Porteen Gear (Custom Designed) Camera bag<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I REALLY want one of these, I posted all about it <a href="http://andrew-and-krystal.blogspot.com/2011/03/custom-camera-bags.html" target="_blank">here</a>. She also sells several other accessories I’d really like- like camera straps and lens cap pockets, etc., all in her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61224118/gift-certificate-for-medium-camera-bag?favorite_listing_id=61224118&show_panel=true" target="_blank">Etsy shop</a>. See my ‘favorite items’ of hers in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/people/StarGaiz/favorites?ref=pr_faveitems_more" target="_blank">my Etsy favorites list</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://silhouetteamerica.com/" target="_blank">Silhouette cutting machine</a></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A Massage</b> or gift certificate to a masseuse</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402742872/" target="_blank">Coffee Joulies</a></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Toothbrush sanitizer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/-291315.php">http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/notag/-291315.php</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://www.overstock.com/Health-Beauty/UV-Toothbrush-Sanitizer-Ultraviolet-Light-Holder/2454371/product.html">http://www.overstock.com/Health-Beauty/UV-Toothbrush-Sanitizer-Ultraviolet-Light-Holder/2454371/product.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jnoremfnq">http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jnoremfnq</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jnoqrrkpo">http://www.healiohealth.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=jnoqrrkpo</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazines/index.html?intcmp=topnavHP" target="_blank">National Geographic Subscription</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/825958/Paper-Mate-Write-Bros-Grip-Ballpoint/" target="_blank">Purple Pens</a></b> – These are my favorite to write with</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ice Cream Maker<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have wanted one probably half my life :) There's a romantic story behind wanting one.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pearlessence-Mist-Therapy-Fountain-Mister/dp/B000G7SJUA/ref=pd_rhf_f_t_cs_3" target="_blank">Room Mister</a></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ring dish/box<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A nice artist's <b>Paintbrush set<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Power tools.</span></b></span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="float: none;">I’m quite serious about wanting to build things. Have always enjoyed it, from tinker-toys and k’nex, to building club-house forts, and stage craft projects and sets. I’d like a good power drill, and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span></span><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-203002182/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;">air compressor</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="float: none;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">with</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span></span></span><a avglsprocessed="1" href="http://www.homedepot.ca/product/hvlp-gravity-feed-spray-gun/972001" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; text-decoration: none;">paint sprayer attachment</span></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><span style="float: none;">!</span></span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><u><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Future Kitchen Needs<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.lenox.com/pattern/index.cfm?fuseaction=patDetail&wid=1&patId=941" target="_blank">My Lenox china pattern: Coronet Platinum Dinnerware:</a> </b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Right now everything in my pattern is dramatically on sale, some as much as 45% off) We have two place settings right now, from our wedding. But I’m kinda paranoid that one day they’ll discontinue my pattern before we get a complete set. But they’re expensive. I’d love to have pretty much any piece from the collection, especially the bigger serving items, and at least 4, 6 , or 8 whole settings. One day in dream-world I’d love to have the entire collection for a fully set table.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Food Processor<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was always needing one for something, but don’t have one. <a href="http://www.shopkitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances-1/food-processors-3/-[KFP1333CU]-401117/KFP1333CU/" target="_blank">This would be great.</a></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Standing Mixer<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Would love to have <a href="http://www.shopkitchenaid.com/countertop-appliances-1/stand-mixers-3/-[KSM152PSNK]-400122/KSM152PSNK/" target="_blank">one of these</a> (in silver).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Beverage Dispenser</b> - A beautiful glass (or quality clear plastic) one, with metal spigot. I have this perfect beautiful idea of what to do with one in the entryways of my future homes.</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><strong><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crate & Barrel<o:p></o:p></span></u></strong></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><strong><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Cool stuff I once accidentally found & wanted<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=190&f=9512" target="_blank">Bedside Carafe</a></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=730&f=1692" target="_blank">Irish Coffee glasses</a></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=730&f=23845" target="_blank">Bistro Mugs</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=725&f=14260" target="_blank">Tea Infuser</a></b> or (cheaper) scissor-handled tea infuser<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/kitchen-and-food/tea-and-coffee-accessories/tea-bag-squeezer/s446630" target="_blank">Tea Bag Squeezer</a></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=395&f=24607" target="_blank">Virginia Punch bowl serving Set</a></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.crateandbarrel.com/Family.aspx?c=837&f=11658" target="_blank">Wedding Tea</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Wearables</u></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A Neutral Brown Leather Bag</b>, I do really love some of the Fossil brand ones with the rustic brass keyhole detailing. I ‘Pinned’ all the ones I like right now, <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803190/" target="_blank">here</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/fashion/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Polarized Sunglasses</b>. I need some. And I’ve also dreamt of having vintage Ray-ban Wayfarere glasses.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803183/">http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803183/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803106/">http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803106/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803099/">http://pinterest.com/pin/121667627402803099/</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Watch</b> – Have eyed some very sophisticated, beautiful watches in the luxury fashion ads of Vogue for a few years now (like Bulova, and Michael Kors), but Fossil has some really pretty similar ones I’d also enjoy, listed <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/fashion/" target="_blank">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">New Blue Jeans</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">, wide or strait-leg…kinda like carpenter pants for girls. I used to get them all the time at Old Navy, and now nobody sells them at all…I just want a comfy ‘boyfriend’ jean that doesn’t have to be fitted or ‘skinny’!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">VS Giftcard</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">. To the women I know, I have a whole wishlist of cute pajamas, jackets, clothes, etc. that I could use from there<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.wedaholic.com/images/design/lohanwhiteflashbangle.jpg" target="_blank">Whiteflash ring</a></b> (just a really skinny ring of tiny clear rhinestones)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=336255&PseudoMasterProdID=209951&trackingCat=39871&PseudoCat=39871" target="_blank">Miss Cherie Dior</a></b> (my ‘signature’ scent)</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><u>Beauty</u></strong><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conical Wand<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Infiniti-by-Conair-Conical-Curl-Wand/14321454">http://www.walmart.com/ip/Infiniti-by-Conair-Conical-Curl-Wand/14321454</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">- <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Remington-Ceramic-Pearl-Professional-Curling-Wand/14978530">http://www.walmart.com/ip/Remington-Ceramic-Pearl-Professional-Curling-Wand/14978530</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Round brush</span></b></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"><a href="http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/The-Complete-Calvin-And-Hobbes/1098367/product.html?siteid=MQbqfDApSfA-3fpd_ltYrqT7WgjGSH3ejQ&cid=118379&searchtype=A&keywords=the%20complete%20calvin%20and%20hobbes" target="_blank">The Complete Calvin & Hobbes</a></span></i></b></span></span></div><div style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- Jobs in the TV/Film Industry, on set.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A home of our own…any would do, but a couple rooms, and yard/room for a puppy would be even better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A garden<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- A winning Lottery Jackpot, to help with all of these things<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-20699640751299128622011-07-27T02:04:00.004-05:002011-08-07T22:34:24.204-05:00Creativity Inspired<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/59284102/"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/59284102_4UIlm4KV_c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
So I've been wanting to write this post for <i>months;</i> I still don't really even know where to start, I just wanted to share with you all some of the amazing places, things, artists, and creations that I've found over my last few years of blog browsing. Which is really what got me here, to my own blog, in the first place. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Beginning</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/"><img border="0" height="77" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHkt6FX3xQ3bSdMjppZ_UjfSPGVP5Tqs3fw4TTdN-262nVCCIvfH6JsC_Wq7A7i71h4vHPoLAgL4ZnUMcGuh7TV7ZWYtVmCATejup0E5BDBJLi0hJQJjpvE4ANvbnTSgWPtVw78zRsqik/s320/header1.png" width="320" /></a></div><i><b>Life in the Fun Lane</b></i><br />
It all officially really started with one simple search for ideas on how to make our own headboard. We had just moved into a little place in NW Arkansas to finish school and we had this tiny, old double bed with nothing but that measly metal frame to hold it up...and it had to be stuck on a wall with a window, so our pillows and heads kept wanting to fall into that window box, since we had no wall or headboard. Thrifty, crafty, resourceful person that I am, I was going to make one! My search for ideas and help with construction randomly landed me <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2009/02/instructions.html">here</a>, and I was hooked. Over the next couple weeks I read every post from day one of <a href="http://www.whiteberryreinvented.com/index_files/Page1947.htm">Holly B</a>'s blog, <i><a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/">In the Fun Lane</a></i>. This was the first blog I ever started reading, and following (I still do). She and her husband, and new baby, were blogging their way through the amazingly stylish do-it-yourself <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2010/12/overdue-hellos.html">renovation</a> of their <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2008/04/our-renovations.html">new home</a> (you should <i>see</i> their <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2011/03/our-closet-6-month-saga.html">closet</a>!). But the blog also included all her super clever/cute seasonal <a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2009/09/halloween-entry.html">decorations</a> she made, a few fashion finds, and the best part- her<a href="http://www.inthefunlane.com/2010/11/wrens-big-girl-bed.html"> furniture renovations</a>! <br />
I've always loved building things, working with my hands, tools, and doing stagecraft stuff for productions- so this was right up my ally, and something I've always wanted to do. It's addicting just watching her do it, via blog posts for the last 2+ years. I've learned a whole lot from her, and vow to get into it myself someday when I have a home w/ a little space to do it. It's so fun watching cheap/free ugly old furniture be totally transformed with paint and new hardware. She was eventually able to make a great business of it, it's so inspiring...that I constantly ponder ways I could make a small business with my own creative talents, while still pursuing my filmmaking dreams.<br />
This is just one of her crafty DIY renovations, that's not even the beautiful furniture you'll see she sells in her <a href="http://www.whiteberryreinvented.com/">WhiteBerry</a> shop.<br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Businesses</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Ok, so that was my gateway blog, and I've since been wrapped up in so many other wonderful blogs written by industrious women making their own little businesses out of the creative talents God gave them. And ever since then I've just been itching to create and peddle my own wares through beautiful websites I've hopefully created to be as beautiful as theirs. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are a few more that have given me tons of great ideas. Some of those ideas I've actually created from on my own, others I've just wanted to replicate for awhile, and hope to soon.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>Jones Design Company</b></i><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This blog website has probably been my 2nd biggest inspiration for expertly and perfectly executing a blog/website/online shop that works, and people love. Run by <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/about/">Emily L</a>., the Jones Design Co. is a beautiful website; designed so nicely, with everything clean and easy to find. Her <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/">blog</a> is constantly full of either encouraging, thoughtful posts from a beautiful <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/thoughts/twirl/">Christian</a> heart, super-inspiring creative <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/tutorials/">tutorials</a> on stuff I always (and often) immediately want to create, or just beautiful photos of her lovely house and gorgeous family. And that's just the blog posts. Her <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/shop/">shop</a> is quaintly tucked right into her blog, and sells the beautiful art prints and other crafty things she makes. It really makes me want to emulate her and put my Graphic Design & ScreenPrinting skills to use in just such a shop! Plus it's always a blessing to hear how this busy, creative Mom loves the Lord through all she does and experiences...oh and she loves <a href="http://jonesdesigncompany.com/create/my-handwriting-font/">typography</a> almost as much as me ;) which is always fun.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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my Mom's Mother's Day gift this year, but with more colorful scrapbook papers. </span></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Amy Atlas' stuff is just too much fun. I discovered <a href="http://www.amyatlas.com/index.php/main/about/">her</a> and her wonderful party dessert bars a little over a year ago, and have been swooning over some of her parties & fancy dessert tables ever since. Like this beautiful green & white Bridal Brunch dessert table, above. It made me want to throw gorgeous garden dinner parties all the more! (The leafy-green parties seem to be my fave, like this <a href="http://blog.amyatlas.com/2009/08/poolside-dessert-table-in-hamptons/">one</a>). When I was planning my wedding about 5 years ago, I discovered the great idea of doing a candy 'bar' guest table full of those wonderful glass canisters & urns that I love so much, filled with various beautiful candies, decorated with pretty ribbons & creative signage for guests to spoon in to favor bags. But this woman does them up better than anyone else I'd seen before! I couldn't help but share these photos and the link with my new sister-in-law, Rachel, when she was planning her wedding, in hopes that she might be inspired by it too. And she ended up having a pretty great blue & aqua themed candy favor table at her wedding last month! ...though she was probably already aware of the concept too. So for hours of fun, colorful, yummy inspiration, check out Amy Atlas Events' photo <a href="http://www.amyatlas.com/index.php/main/portfolio/">gallery</a> or her <a href="http://blog.amyatlas.com/">blog</a>! Love it :-d</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Blogs</span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like I said, either via links from one blog to another, or by being curious enough to click on the blog link of a commenter in a post I read, I've been introduced to a lot of very inspiring, creative web-logs. I have a lot of them in my follow list, but only a very few that I make sure to actually visit consistently.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>GillarGirl</b></i></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://gillargirl.blogspot.com/">This</a> blog's author, Tiffany, is another super creative mom with a beautiful family, and home. She and her husband are even in the middle of designing/building their second home (I so admire that, 'have always wanted to build our own dream house). Her husband runs a furniture home/decor type store, and she does some pro interior design stuff on the side...so obviously they have some pretty awesome style going on. <br />
My favorite thing in her blog is the posts on the <i>fabulous</i> parties she throws, especially for her 4 kids' birthdays. They are<i> a-maze-ing</i> and so creative. They're never made of the tacky mass-produced character themed supplies. She always does super tasteful, cute decorations, desserts, favors and invitations, and usually has some really great game/activity ideas too...pretty much all by hand. The parties always look fun and pretty. I especially love the ideas I get from her invitations and favors. These are some of my favorite parties she's posted: <a href="http://gillargirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/polar-bear-party.html">Polar Bear</a> party, 4 yr old <a href="http://gillargirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/four-years-old.html">RaggedyAnne</a> party, <a href="http://gillargirl.blogspot.com/2009/09/once-upon-time.html">Ballerina</a> Princess party.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</b></i></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><b>Black and White Side by Side</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/">blog</a> is a great compilation of inspiration. Maggie's passion is wedding stuff, and she always shows us beautiful examples of wedding trends on her <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/wedding">Wedding Wednesdays</a>. But she also regularly posts on any random <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/craft">craft</a> project, design idea, <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/apparel">fashion find</a>, etc. So I've found a lot of neat ideas, and plenty of other blogs, through her own site which I've only been following for maybe a year or less now. She's also got a sweet <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/christ-centered-christmas.html">love story</a> of her own, and a great personality that comes through her blogging, which lets her Christian faith shine through as well! Oh and she even does a few tutorials, and I've found a few amazing <a href="http://sidebysideblog.blogspot.com/search/label/food">recipes</a> from her blog as well.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Boutiques!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok, I'm kinda done with all the major creative inspiration stations I wanted to share with you, but I have to tack on one more for good measure. What kind of person would I be if I didn't tell you about Etsy?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Etsy</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">So I know I've definitely already told you all about <a href="http://etsy.com/">Etsy.com</a> at the bottom of <a href="http://andrew-and-krystal.blogspot.com/2011/03/custom-camera-bags.html">this post</a>. But I'm just gonna feature it here, too. It's the ultimate online, hand-made, boutique 'mall.' It's a site where artists set up their own shops (not unlike eBay) and list their hand-made creations for sale. The whole site is exclusively for home-made stuff, and its beautiful. You can <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">♥,</span> or 'add to favorites' any shop or individual item...and I've got huge lists of both. I wish I could share those with you, but only the account user can see their favorites...otherwise it'd be a great wishlist tool to send people! </div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been 'window shopping' Etsy for several years now, and even bought one or two things. (The only site in this post that I'd known of before the 'In the Fun Lane' blog.) It's also been a great place for art inspiration when I was stuck for ideas on some of my art project assignments at JBU...theirs every form of it, from clothes, to print-making, to party decor, etc. A lot of their shops and items have really inspired me to make things, and even made me want to open a shop and sell some of them...maybe one day. Until then I'll just have to live vicariously through my sister-in-law, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassicallyClaire?ref=pr_shop_more">Claire</a>, whom I was really excited to introduce to Etsy last week. I think she may even be opening her own little shop there soon, and I'm so excited for her!</div><div style="text-align: left;">(Oh, and you have to visit this super fun interactive '<a href="http://www.etsy.com/color.php?ref=fp_nav_colors">shop by color</a>' page, even if you have absolutely no interest in shopping there...is just fun for your mouse!)<br />
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<i>^ <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">{Update! Claire did, indeed, go the Etsy route and just opened her own little <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ClassicallyClaire?ref=pr_shop_more">shop</a> there, selling cute & useful memo boards. Check out her shop!}</span></i><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Pinterest</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Ok, so I thought of another thing to tack on here at the end (even though it's not a boutique). <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/">Pinterest</a>. This thing is pretty great. It's a site where you store all your online finds that you want to remember or save for later, in picture form. Like all of you that have those 'inspiration' file folders on your desktop, filled with JPGs you stole from websites you won't remember later, when you look through the pics. ;) Anyway, they let you create 'pin boards' for any categories you want, and you 'pin' each photo to those boards, when you find anything online that you want to keep. Plus it saves the original URL link so you can always go back to the web page it was from. You can also follow other peoples boards, to see what they're pinning...so you can share your own finds with others. You should definitely check out what I mean, by just viewing mine here: <a href="http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/">http://pinterest.com/KWightArmstrong/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;">And I can explain stuff or help you get started if you have any questions, too. You will love this!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">--</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So those are my main stops for creative inspiration in every form. Definitely check them out, and at least click on the links, if you don't feel like reading through my descriptive texts (but please do). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Come back here anytime to visit these sites I've compiled. And I'd love to hear how you liked them, what inspired you...and what places you enjoy, that I haven't listed here. Send me <i>your</i> favorite inspirations, and we'll spread the love. Thanks, & I can't wait to hear from ya! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Happy Creating :)</div><div style="text-align: left;">-<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Krystal-Wight-Armstrong-Cinematic-Artist/133811456702806"><b>Krystal</b></a></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-87014710440448026102011-05-29T07:26:00.000-05:002011-05-29T07:26:35.049-05:00Garage Sale!Garage/Moving Sale:<br />
We're married-students moving away from college & can't afford to take much with us, please come help take it off our hands.<br />
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Almost all our furniture, some appliances, and other stuff is for sale- on the cheap. Come by our front yard/garage at:<br />
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2151b Kristy Lane, Siloam Springs, AR 72761. We'll be out here Sunday and Monday of Memorial Day weekend.<br />
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<u>Things we're selling: </u><br />
~Large comfy sofa<br />
~a new cream slip cover that fits sofa<br />
~Love seat<br />
~Great Flat-screen CRT TV<br />
~Book shelves<br />
~Entertainment center<br />
~Black card table & matching chairs<br />
~2 flat-screen CRT computer monitors<br />
~DVD player (Panasonic)<br />
~DVD Box sets- Heroes S:1&2, Lost S:1, Lord of the Rings Extended Edition, etc.<br />
~Brand new (never opened) hand-mixer<br />
~2 nice work-lights (used to light student cinema productions)<br />
~Other miscellaneous items.<br />
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<b>Visit our <a href="http://fayar.craigslist.org/gms/2408878356.html">Craigslist</a> & <a href="http://eagle.jbu.edu/Services/Classifieds/show_ad.asp?AdID=20730">EagleNet</a> ads and spread the word!</b>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-75729411808775306602011-05-16T00:26:00.002-05:002011-07-26T21:28:57.115-05:00GlassI've always been enchanted with glass, especially colored glass, in pretty much any form- stained glass, perfume bottles, glass art sculptures, even practical things like vases, cups, and pitchers.<br />
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</div>I especially love when those latter things (even in their clear, colorless forms) are filled with hued liquids, add a splash of sunlight, and it's a thing of pure beauty that warms the heart. For this reason I've always favored glass to the porcelain mugs that coffees and teas are traditionally served in...they just make the beverage so much prettier and more appetizing, I think!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>So when this new trendy coffee & tea shop, <a href="http://www.pourjons.com/Pourjons/Story.html">Pour Jon's</a>, opened up in down town Siloam, I was was thrilled to be served our tea in these super cute little glass teapots & cups. I've gone back to enjoy tea with my husband & friends several times since. <br />
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I've always wanted a pretty glass teapot/kettle, and have had them on my registries & <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=52317569045">wish-lists</a> for a few years now. I've even admired some really cool ones at Starbucks for awhile. I've been wanting these certain pots that allow for loose-leaf tea steeping, with their built-in filters.<br />
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</tbody></table>But after enjoying a few of the pots at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pour-Jons/135602339825487">Pour Jon's</a> I noticed that theirs were provided by the <a href="http://www.republicoftea.com/plastic-iced-tea-brew-pitcher-w%2fclear-lid/p/V00954/">Republic of Tea</a> company, and I've officially added their individual personal pot to my list. Probably the coolest part about them, apart from their simple glass shape, is their clever spiral wire filter that sits in the spout to sift out any leaves from pouring into your cup! So perfect! And so pretty to watch all those beautiful tea leaves steeping in the pot without a worry :)<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I was just excited about this new little addition to my future dream home. I can just picture having this pretty little pot and a whole matching set of those cups & saucers for guests to enjoy tea and company together. I even imagine completing the image with a few large glass canisters on the counter with favorite flavors of their loose leaf teas. </div><div style="text-align: left;">When I was younger my dad got us a couple cans of Republic of Tea loose leaf teas (I recall the one with the tiger in the label's picture), but I remember not often using it because we didn't have such convenient methods for steeping it. So this would be a great way to further the tradition of those yummy flavors I'd see at bookstores, and now be able to enjoy with my own grown-up tea set!<br />
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Oh, and while re-visiting their site, I found that I'm also in love with these little tea cups too...see, just soo much prettier in glass, where you can see that beautiful, colored liquid! <br />
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</div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-27969900553667692692011-05-15T19:10:00.001-05:002011-05-15T22:05:05.886-05:00Lost & Found: REWARD!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">UPDATE: Nevermind, of course hours after this post I found it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">LOST: Brass Business Card Case (looks like a little gold case)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">On Thursday, May 19th, '11- I lost this little case somewhere on JBU's campus, or possibly at Siloam Springs Highschool. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">It was the first day of shooting my Cinema Prof's <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CarlisleSecret">thesis film</a> production at the highschool, and I was running around between there, and the JBU Art building, media lab & tv studio.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">It was my Grandmother's and has a small "D W" handwritten on the back with black ink. Inside, is a small stack of my own business cards that have my name, website, and e-mail address on them. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">It means a lot to me, and I would be most appreciative to anyone that can help get it back to me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">It can be dropped in campus mail to box #3193, or you can contact me to meet in person... I'd be happy to offer a REWARD for your help!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Please let me know if you have any info. Thank you so much!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">-Krystal Wight Armstrong</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br />
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</span>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-90509662274275817182011-04-23T18:40:00.003-05:002011-04-23T18:56:57.915-05:00Easter, update, & blog subscriptionsWe hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter weekend, giving God the Glory for the <a href="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/39">Great things He has done</a>! As my 'Wellness' Professor said this week, this is the most important holiday of the year, as we remember that God sent His Son Jesus to die on the cross, taking all of our sin upon Himself, and then rising the third day, conquering death so that we could be with our true & perfect Lord forever, free of sin that separates us from the Father. I hope that you all are enjoying the long weekend, celebrating that great love & sacrifice with loved ones of your own!<br />
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I know we're certainly grateful for those things, and for this little respite from all our end-of-year school stresses. We finally got through our Sr. Portfolio Show (lots to share from that later). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">by </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=1790107545673&set=at.1790067464671.2090415.1029120155.61802458&type=1&theater"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Heather Foley</span></a></td></tr>
</tbody></table>But there's still a lot to get done before the end of semester in about a week! Keep praying for us there.<br />
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After that we'll be working on the production crew for our Cinema Prof's MBA <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CarlisleSecret">thesis film</a> till the end of May, then our lease is up, and we're done in Siloam Springs, AR. We're looking for jobs & ready to move! So if you know of any needs in the video production or even graphic design industry, please pass along our names, & let us know! We will both have personal professional websites up by the end of the semester, too. Andrew's is up now, but still rough, and mine is just 'under construction.' But right now you can view several of the videos we've both worked on, at <a href="http://vimeo.com/andrewarmstrong">Andrew's Vimeo</a> page.<br />
And within the month check out either of our websites at: <a href="http://andrewarmstrongiii.com/">AndrewArmstrongIII.com</a> or <a href="http://kwightarmstrong.com/">KWightArmstrong.com</a><br />
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I really want to use this blog to keep family updated with us, hopefully on a pretty frequent basis. But I get kinda stifled on writing because I want it to be just right and to have nice photos to make it worth looking at (everybody likes visuals, I know I do). So I wait till I actually have the time, energy, recourses to sit and write complete, coherent, and attractive posts...all the while time flys by and tons of stuff gets bypassed over without ever reporting it to you guys.<br />
Most of it I blame on our crazy ever-changing schedules. We do so many things outside of classes that we never actually know when we'll have time to be home. It's pretty difficult having such a busy unstable schedule for the last 3 years we've been at JBU.<br />
I'm so bad at updating, you probably don't even know what those things are that keep us so occupied. They are classes, workstudy hours (mine are in the Digital Media equipment lab), we both work as Student Producers for video web content under the JBU Campus Communications dpt. (checkout the homepage videos & panoramic virtual tour at <a href="http://jbu.edu/">jbu.edu</a>), we have <a href="http://jbucoast.blogspot.com/">COAST</a> stuff which is sometimes <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&gid=27269553317">SFS</a> stuff (Student Filmmakers Society), various student video projects we work on or help others with, and for most of this semester til last month I spent all my free time coordinating the <a href="http://jbucoast.blogspot.com/2011/01/sws-theme-decided.html">Arties</a> award show as event planner, plus lots of other smaller things as they come.<br />
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Last weekend Andrew had the great opportunity to go to Roswell/Riodoso, NM with our boss <a href="http://www.roebuckmedia.com/">Jacob</a>, his wife Laura, and photographer <a href="http://www.markjacksonstudio.com/">Mark Jackson</a>. Jacob is a JBU Alumnus Producer who made <i><a href="http://coyotecountyloser.com/">Coyote County Loser</a></i>, and is in pre-production for his next feature, <i><a href="http://www.roebuckmedia.com/index.php/rm/project/4">CAMP</a></i>. Inbetween, he's directing a <a href="http://www.roebuckmedia.com/index.php/rm/project/25">documentary</a> about a band in New Mexico. Mark is the DP for that, and they invited Andrew along as a Camera Assist for their 1st days of principle photography (shooting). They were gone from Thursday till Monday morning, and I hear it was a great trip, but I know they all worked <i>really</i> hard, and were super tired after the long late night drive home.<br />
It was kinda hard on me, having never actually been away from eachother that long since we've been married. He once went on a 2 week trip touring with <a href="http://mercyme.org/">Mercy Me</a> when we were dating, but it's been awhile. We're grateful he had the opportunity, and hopefully if there's more travel in the future it will be after we've settled somewhere (soon) where we have a church community and I can have made friends and have a support net of other people around. Though of course we may both get to do some traveling for our jobs in film...I'm just not very good at doing it separately yet.<br />
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On the school front I will be graduating this May, finally; Yay! But since AR has different course requirements than what I already fulfilled in TX, I still have to take the CLEP to fulfill Western Civs I & II in the next couple weeks. I'm already studying up, but you guys can pray for me on that.<br />
Andrew still has just a few more electives to finish over summer to get his degree, but we will be celebrating together in May anyway!<br />
Next month we both look forward to working on Sned's (our Cinema Professor's) MFA film production, <em><a href="http://www.facebook.com/CarlisleSecret">Carlisle's Secret</a></em>, which will finish shooting on Andrew's birthday. Then a few days later our lease will be up, and hopefully we'll be outta here! And back to Texas... or wherever God brings the next job offer from.<br />
Right now we're gearing up for our Sr. Portfolio Show next Friday (15th), and so we're getting all our demo reel, résumé, & business card materials made up for job hunting. We hope to talk to some of our old Dallas contacts and get onto some productions there soon. Though we're open to work anywhere God may take us to. Honestly I just want to get out of school, and start work so we can get into the careers we love, have a place to live, a stable schedule that will allow us to cook actual meals & be healthy, time to blog and edit/upload all the photos we take, and allow us to get our graduation-puppy we've been talking about since we got married!<br />
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It's all coming so fast, and there are no assurances; but something's going to happen, we'll end up somewhere, and we <i>can</i> be sure of God's love, grace, and provision in leading us in His will for our life. Can't wait to see what He's got up His sleeve.Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-22003903496150811162011-03-26T18:46:00.001-05:002011-03-26T19:16:40.772-05:00Safari!I promised some photos from our Anniversary Safari trip! So here are a bunch of pretty animals. We took photos of a ton more, but here are the highlights, and I will for sure put them all in an album on my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#%21/profile.php?id=61802458">Facebook</a> page soon!<br />
Oh and disclaimer- the sun kept changing on me so they're not all perfect...this is pre-editing, mind you. But the new lens Andrew got me did amazingly on its own anyway!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a Scottish Highland Cow (or coo, as Andrew's taught me). He kinda makes me think of <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Neverendingstoryposter.jpg">Falkor</a> the Luck Dragon or some other Jim Henson creature!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We just thought this was hilarious. The people who broke the rules and opened their windows to feed the animals had all the camels swarm the car and one didn't get enough treats apparently, so he started chewing the car!</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> There were lots of exotic creatures, but some good ole Texas boys, too! Which I appreciated :)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's just like the quintessential 'burnt orange' Texas Longhorn, no?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">baby Buffalo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little baby was precious.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiger eyes! Would have been a lot cooler if the grass wasn't in the way....or if they weren't in cages!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canadian Goose, so iconic...no wonder they get put on money.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought these exotic ducks sure were pretty & photogenic.</td></tr>
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These ponies make me think of Ireland, mostly because of that <a href="http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/clondalkin-kids.html">cover article</a> of National Geographic from the early '90s...you remember that one, right? I used to have a subscription as a kid...miss it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The peacocks were running rampant and sure gave us some great shots! Such pretty colors!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patagonian Cavies! My new favorite rodent.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">These two little ones were roommates.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This little guy let me feed him some grass...so cute.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">You may guess that the red kangaroos were one of my favorite parts of the trip...plus you could pet them! They sure made these little girls happy!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got to know one another...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...Then were well acquainted enough to have a little conversation...he wasn't so sure we saw eye-to-eye on our differing philosophies.</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I also really loved the pack of Grey Wolves...they're just so cool and mellow; you know they think they run the place ;)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I like symmetry.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I believe this is a Zedonk...Zebra + Donkey. Funny character.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just thought this was pretty cool looking, very Hitchcockian, ya know?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at this cutey- playing coy. Was definitely awake and put its paw up at us just as we were taking photos. What a poser ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reindeer!! I don't know if I've seen any real ones before!</td></tr>
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That's all for now, like I said, there are lots more, and maybe I'll get them edited too, before posting the rest on Facebook.<br />
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Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-81896229909472603062011-03-20T19:23:00.003-05:002011-03-26T16:45:55.274-05:004 Years and Going Strong... Armstrong-style!<div style="margin: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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What a wonderful new day, today! It's Sunday, and just the beginning of this much needed, long-awaited Spring Break week. It's the warmest it's been in months. God has blessed us with this beautiful Sunny day with perfect 77 degree weather. The 'bunny bush' outside or back porch even has bright pink blooms all over it! Our windows & back door are all open and it's just a wonderful day!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Our newest bunny friend, a White Rabbit!</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">It's been a crazy long semester already, mostly busy making the <a href="http://jbucoast.blogspot.com/2011/01/sws-theme-decided.html">Arties</a> happen (the Oscar-like Award Show for JBU Art students). But it finally happened last Thursday the 10th, and seemed to be a success...so we feel like our semester can actually <i>begin</i> now! Sadly to say our housework & some studies got sorely neglected with all the planning and other responsibilities. So it's <i>soo</i> nice to now have a whole week off where we can get back on track with everything. And today I'm really enjoying doing laundry and housework with this sunny breeze wafting through the house.<b> </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>Anniversary</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In other big news, Andrew and I just celebrated our 4th Wedding Anniversary this Saint Patrick's Day! It was Thur</span>sday, so we had school, but it started out with a really nice chapel service with some beautiful Celtic inspired worship songs, that really blessed my heart that morning. The spirit really moved, and it was beautiful. They played 'Be Though My Vision' which was the song I walked down the aisle to, towards my waiting Groom, 4 years earlier...I cried a little singing it again that morning. And props to the worship team that day, it may have been the best chapel band I've heard yet (props to Sned on flute, and Katie Poteet on keyboard!).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>My Present</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">In the middle of the day Andrew thoroughly surprised me with a new lens for our 7D! We wen to get our campus mail and had a package slip (I was totally not expecting), I figured my mom sent something. The postoffice ladies saw me coming and acted all funny and conspicuously tried to stall me while they took awhile getting my package. They brought out a </span><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">B&H</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> box (!), they had clearly just tied a purple ribbon around. I was so clueless, but super excited to get something from the well-known camera/video equipment store in NY. Only other people get stuff from them, not little old us! At first I thought the package must have been sent with some note for the mail room people to 'wrap w/ ribbon upon arrival,' but had no idea how we would be getting something from B&H. And it took me way too long to realize it was a present from Andrew to me, and he had come in earlier asking the ladies to put the ribbon on it for him. Anyway, it was an awesome surprise! He knows I love trying to take nature/wildlife photos of all the creatures around our home here in the Natural State, but with our short lenses it's been frustrating. So he got me a great Canon zoom lens, a UV filter (we always keep one on our lenses to protect the glass), and a lens bag to protect it, since it won't fit in our current tiny camera bag that just holds our 7D & short prime lens. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">(Now I have all the more need for one of </span><a href="http://andrew-and-krystal.blogspot.com/2011/03/custom-camera-bags.html" style="font-family: inherit;">these</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> I wrote about in my last post!)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> So it was a great present from a really thoughtful husband who knew just the kind of thing I'd be really excited about! I know he'd been </span>working<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> lots of long hours this month that helped save up for this, so he deserves some </span>accolades<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> for his </span>awesomeness!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>His Present</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">For Andrew's gift (a much harder guy to buy for), I wasn't nearly so extravagant, but he'd been wanting a folding knife (basically a big pocket knife), so I cleaned up, organized, and re-stocked his grip bag (production tool bag) so it was all nice and ready to use for upcoming film shoots, and put 2 brand new pocket knives inside. One of the better ones I knew he'd been eyeing, and a smaller one that looked just as nice (but was a lot less expensive) and a great deal. I figured he could keep the little one in the grip bag as just another tool for convenience but carry around the nice one like he wanted. And I threw in a new green <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">carabiner</span> with a <span class="Apple-style-span">tiny compass attached, since the one on his keys had been roughed up and now silver from wear.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> He was happy with his more humble gifts, and I was happy that he also decided to finally cash in my old gift offer from earlier this year. One of our earlier holidays I gave him a homemade gift 'coupon' good for a new complete, professional <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=453042004044&set=a.453040514044.237712.76057349044">grip belt</a> of his choice (tool belt for on-set camera crew, etc.) So this weekend he did some research and picked out his new belt and all the essential trimmings to fill it with, and ordered that, so it should be here this week (we're both pretty excited about that new gift of his). We're both all set to do some serious filmmaking now! And I guess this year's gifts kinda show how nerdy we are about being excited to get film equipment as presents :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway once school was all done for the day (around 7p) we went into Fayetteville for dinner at Red Lobster (thanks, Grace Bible Church, for my send-off gift card there from last Summer); Yum! But that's not where the Anniversary festivities ended!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><b>Safari!</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Once the school week was officially over (pretty late Friday night) we had one more thing to go. Yesterday Andrew took us to the <a href="http://www.wildwildernessdrivethroughsafari.com/pictures.html">Wild Wilderness Drivethrough Safari</a> in Gentry! For $10 bucks each, it was a really awesome day trip! It was his great idea for us to go and make a day of it, packing a picnic, and bringing the new lens to practice with on all the wild animals :)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> It was a great idea, and he was so sweet to think of it. This place has a 4 mile drivethrough full of all kinds of amazing exotic (and more domestic) wildlife that just hang out all around the driving trail, and you can drive it as many times as you want! We took our time driving through once, while I took lots of pictures of the creatures. Then we got out to enjoy the walk-through parts where there were pettable animals (including the red kangaroos!), and some more up close, in pens & cages. Then we got back in the car to drive it again while enjoying our packed lunch of grapes, gouda, summer sausage, and wheat water crackers...it was fun to go back through a while later when we saw different animals in different places. We actually went through a 3rd time before leaving because we still hadn't spotted Andrew's favorite animal, the Red Fox...he was elusive, because we never did spot him. But after the 3rd drive 'round we headed home since it was around their late 3p feeding when they're less active. And we'd had a good fill of animal wildlife by that point anyway. I'll be sure to post soon with some of the great shots we were able to get with my new lens and all those cute animals!</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">So it has been a wonderful last few days of enjoying eachother and celebrating our marriage. Somehow I feel like 4 years is kindof a big deal, like we've really stuck through this and have made it past early newlywed-ness. We're for real, official, and know we will make it last many more (not that there was any question to begin with). I'm the most excited to finally start life 'for real' together now that we'll be done with college life this Summer. I'm going to graduate in May, and Andrew will just have a few more hours to finish over the summer somehow (maybe even online), and we'll get to move back to Texas and get lives, and careers, and hopefully a home really started. Wish us luck! And thanks for sticking with me, reading this long update, and waiting long periods between posts for any actual news from us :)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Love you guys!</span></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-48060236518672251462011-03-05T21:31:00.003-06:002011-03-07T14:53:08.222-06:00Custom Camera Bags!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://porteengear.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/s111e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" src="http://porteengear.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/s111e.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I almost want to keep this one all to myself. But it's too awesome to keep a secret! I just stumbled onto this new little business, <a href="http://porteengear.com/">Porteen Gear</a>, who makes '<a href="http://porteengear.com/design-your-own-bag/">design-your-own</a>' custom Camera Bags. And these things are amazing, and Beautiful! And I really, really want one, so bad!<br />
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<a href="http://porteenphotography.com/?page_id=2">Ms. Porteen</a> hand makes each one for you in 2-3 weeks. You get to choose the <a href="http://porteengear.com/choose-the-basics/">leather panels</a>, the color of the waxed canvas shell, the strap color, the interior canvas color (this is where you get to add a real <i>pop</i> of color!), and the unique <a href="http://porteengear.com/the-fabrics/">fabric</a> pattern that gives your bag its own individual style!<br />
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They really are perfect! Heavy duty materials, quality craftsmanship, great storage, and style. I love that it's made perfectly to fit a DSLR snugly, plus 2 detached lenses, or a flash. (Looks like it would fit our Canon 7D just right, since she shows hers with a 5D inside!)<br />
It's got great front pockets for lens caps, a pen, and an iPhone; and a great big easy-access front zipper pouch. There's another perfect Velcro interior pouch that fits an iPad, with foam padding between it and the exterior shell. Oh and there's the handy foam padding walls that fit inside to protect your lenses & camera body, and they move or come out to customize the storage space/shape inside.<br />
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The whole design is just so perfectly utilitarian, <i>and</i> beautiful! <em>I</em> sure want to carry it around! It's also really practical, because any photographer that travels knows that thieves know what camera bags look like, and we usually have to cover up the camera brand on the neck strap or not use it at all, to keep from making it more attractive and easy to spot as something worth snatching. So these pretty bags help conceal what's inside making it less of a target.<br />
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She even offers other fun useful stuff, like <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61224118/gift-certificate-for-large-camera-bag">Gift Certificates</a>, and these <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/61954806/new-color-purple-and-black-dslr-wrist?ref=v1_other_1">wrist straps</a> so you don't have to worry about dropping the camera (I use an annoying less cool version on my tiny point-n-shoot, so this would be a great idea for something like our 7D).<br />
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And Porteen Gear will also be offering equally-stylish full camera straps (which also solves that aforementioned problem of advertising your high-end camera brand to the world). Judging by her preview photo, they're gonna be really cool.<br />
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You can visit her <a href="http://porteengear.com/">web site/blog</a> for all the details and customizable options. But you order the actual product through her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/PorteenGear?ref=pr_shop#">Etsy* shop</a>, where she sets up your custom item to order. Her shop also offers the Gift Certificates that include the shipping amount so the recipient doesn't have to worry about a penny!<br />
The other little extras include- the fact that she sends you a FREE cute little zipper pouch for passports, or whatever, with every bag, and apparently she does a really lovely job with the presentation; gift-wrapping them for no charge, too! <br />
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Okay, so I might have gotten a little carried away, and sounding like I was paid for this endorsement or something (I wasn't); I haven't even touched one yet. But you know when you just find a great product, and get really excited about it? You gotta share! And so I am; incase one of you is lucky enough to get one, so that I may then live vicariously through you, until it's my turn ;)<br />
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Oh! And even if you don't order any of the products, she's a got a pretty useful blog there too, sharing traveling and photography tips & tidbits along the way. I already learned something useful with her advice on keeping <a href="http://porteengear.com/2010/09/12/us-customs-form-4457/">these forms</a> in your new bag when traveling abroad, so that you won't have to be stuck paying reentry fees for your gear that was already bought in the US.<br />
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Alright, so that was my PSA/wishlist post of the day.<br />
Happy March, by the way!<br />
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*Oh yeah, and if you've never heard of, or visited, <a href="http://etsy.com/">Etsy.com</a>....you're missing out. It's a site for small online businesses to solely sell their hand-made goods. Each Etsy shop offers something amazing from handmade jewelry, clothes, paper goods & stationery, to all kinds of art, and useful tools & trinkets! It's like a giant arts & crafts bazaar or cool online boutique mall. If for nothing else visit their <a href="http://www.etsy.com/color.php?ref=fp_nav_colors">shop-by-color</a> page and scroll around on all the colored bubble dots!<br />
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PS- (sorry it keeps getting longer) Porteen Gear <i>also</i> has a new <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/60408335/pre-order-small-camera-bag-blue-tapestry">smaller bag</a> design that features a nifty circle pattern on the lid. Check it out <a href="http://porteengear.com/page/2/">here</a> too (Though I'm still a fan of the big, original bag).<br />
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So I've already been kindof of bad at keeping in touch here with the blogging, so I think this is the perfect post to just share our <strike>annual</strike> Holiday Letter with you!<br />
We were so busy having fun with family (and then catching flu) over the Christmas break that we never got a new photo of us for a Christmas card, so we ended up making a New Year's card a little later. Then school started and all the new projects along with it, so many of them didn't get sent out until pretty late in January.<br />
I'm not very good at getting things mailed/sent in a timely manner especially with our current schedules. I think I actually have a couple more to try & send out that I didn't have addresses readily available for, and now, to tell you the truth I've kindof lost track of who I've already sent to...so, especially if you're family and you haven't gotten one in the mail yet, send me your current mailing address!<br />
Until then, here are photos of what we sent out and I'll post the typed letter below for you to just read here, digitally :)<br />
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We Love you all, and please forgive us for our scatter-brained unorganized methods of communication!<br />
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Here's the front/back of the pretty envelopes I designed to match:<br />
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Our letter had to catch up from missing last year's, so it was a little long and needed both sides. Here's the front:<br />
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And the back of our Armstrong family letter:<br />
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Here's what the letter says (this version is even cooler than snail-mail because you can click on all the links to see cool images/web pages/videos of what we're talking about in the letter):<br />
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</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; text-align: right;">January, 2011 </div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Dear Family & Friends,</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> Happy New Year to You! We hope this almost-annual letter finds you well, that this New Year is already starting out promising, and you were able to bring 2010 to a close with loved ones and lots of rest over the Holidays.<br />
We just enjoyed our 4th Christmas season together as the Armstrongs, though we haven't been so successful at wishing you well & keeping in touch for all of them. We mailed out our Calvin & Hobbes themed <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=505849347309&set=a.505486689079.2017956.61802458">card & letter</a> in ‘07 for our first Christmas, then we were only able to send e-cards w/ a family letter in ‘08 (which can still be viewed in my '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=504618987959&set=a.541193866609.2053691.61802458#%21/note.php?note_id=59542889045">notes</a>' on Facebook), and last year was so crazy you may not have heard from us at all! <br />
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It has definitely been a very packed last few years for us. It seems we've been 'busy' at every turn, since we transferred to John Brown University for our Cinema degrees in Spring ‘08; and we finally just accepted that this was probably going to stay the current status until we finished. But we are now finally almost there! </div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> Obviously we've had a ton of stuff going on since our last update, and one of the biggest was the completion of what we're calling our Senior thesis project. We're required to produce a Senior Cinema production for our degree, & Andrew and I co-produced a 17 minute short film called <i>From Below</i>, last semester. It is a sci-fi story, based on Plato's Cave Theory, set in a dystopian society. It was a huge undertaking, that several of our advisers didn't think could be pulled off, but in the end we were able to hold an official theatrical Premiere at the Siloam Springs 6 movie theatre to a fairly full theater of around 75 people! We both put a ton of work into almost every area of production, but specifically Andrew did a great job Directing it, and I (Krystal) got some great feedback for my Production Design work. And Andrew's brother, Frank, gave us amazing lighting as our Gaffer. We're quite proud of what we accomplished, for a no-budget student film with major time & resource constraints. You can view it (and many of our other projects) at Vimeo.com/AndrewArmstrong</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> The other thing keeping us so busy last semester was the great opportunity we had working as Student Producers for the video content of the brand new <a href="http://www.jbu.edu/">JBU Website</a>, which was just rolled out this month. We worked super hard with a small team of 3 other underclassmen, and our great boss, Jacob Roebuck, to complete a number of videos you can now see up on the JBU home page (JBU.edu) as well as the '<a href="http://www.jbu.edu/majors/graphic_and_web_design/">majors videos</a>' around the site, like on the <a href="http://www.jbu.edu/majors/digital_media_arts/">Cinema page</a>, etc. We both did a lot of work on different videos in each of these various capacities- directing, producing, shooting, artwork, and conducting interviews, etc. It was really rewarding to see our professional, quality work now 'published' on an official University web site, which has already got great reviews from the school President & others.</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">Perhaps even more exciting, though, was our opportunity to intern on the set on of an independent feature film, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=76057349044#%21/photo.php?fbid=448042799044&set=a.448041724044.233999.76057349044&pid=5862560&id=76057349044"><i>Searching for Sonny</i></a>, (complete with well known Hollywood actors, & experienced crew members) this Summer. We spent literally every waking hour for 3 weeks, working on-set or driving to & from Andrew's generous Grandparents' house to sleep a few hours inbetween work days. It was hard work, but so very rewarding. It was a great experience, and as our first narrative movie set w/ a budget, we learned <i>so</i> much more about how things work. We both did a lot of common Production Assistant stuff, but we also both got to work closely w/ a lot of important people on set too, like the 1st Asst. Director, who took special interest in us and kept Andrew under his wing as a Director in training (which actually got Andrew credited as an Additional 2nd Assistant Director!). We also got to do things like pick up actors from the air-port, & assist them on set; Andrew got to drive several of them around a lot (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1199811/">Masi Oka</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1310368/">Minka Kelly</a>, etc.). I spent a lot of time in Wardrobe where the ladies there really took a liking to me, and on my last day I got to be on the camera crew where they taught me a little on how to use the Red camera, hands-on! We were both on-screen extras a few times but Andrew even got a couple short roles all dressed up as a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photos.php?id=76057349044#%21/photo.php?fbid=450355529044&set=a.450355354044.235602.76057349044">cop</a>, complete w/ lines & fake facial hair! We came away w/ a lot, and really had a blast.</div><div style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">I think there are a few other things that have happened in the last couple years, but those were the big ones for us. This year, when we graduate & leave this little college town in NW Arkansas, we cannot wait to see where God will lead us after JBU! If it's simply back to Dallas, where we call home, we'll be overjoyed to be near friends & family again. But there are even possibilities of the film industry in Vancouver, BC (Canada), which would be just as exciting of a new start! Either way, we know God has great things in store, and we're excited to discover them soon, thanking Him along long the way for the joy & blessings inbetween!</div><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> Oh, I nearly forgot, on that note, we recently started a little family blog: Andrew-and-Krystal.blogspot.com There are only a few posts so far, but we'd love for you to come visit, look around, leave comments, & subscribe or become a '</span><a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/signin/home?st=e%3DAOG8GaAyiyVrxeyTyGFkb%252BKknpj70XuK8W7ezA%252Fe%252Bx2HOvhtgYX3b%252Fn2JTDpHlQgEbxw90M5SL2TZeMtjIdA0tkpFYSLPn6ZjRHp2UmTsqynhtZ%252FjHLgjtMGd3D%252F7dqUCnbQmDN72TjzjnTN6E%252B3MQqSmRXeRwJyjfSXh02Fmd0p113sBitAvkruh0aF5c5FFHX2w%252FqxfbwSBKKsRAkUP2BQi0E1qfWYPfDUtyP5t0pJ3gJiUWE475Y%253D%26c%3Dpeoplesense&psinvite=&subscribeOnSignin=1" style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">follower</a><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">,' so we can keep you in the loop on what these new changes will be as they are uncovered along the way.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">We love you all and pray that this coming year, (or heck, even this new decade!) is really filled with His Love, Peace, and Blessings for each of You! And we'd love to hear from you along the way, as well! Happy 2011!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">Andrew & Krystal Armstrong</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;">Andrew-and-Krystal.blogspot.com</span>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-11529682412569870842010-12-02T12:19:00.003-06:002010-12-02T19:38:32.364-06:00Wish List: PUNJAMMIES!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punjammies.com/collections/punjammies"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So I just found a new wishlist item: The Water Lotus Punjammies pajama pants. They didn't have a way to save items in a virtual wishlist so I decided to stick it here. Pajama pants have always been one of my favorite items of clothing (usually of the flannel persuasion), but these are so beautiful (love those colors & design details)... and for an awesome cause! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you're looking for a great gift for a special lady (or are one), you should definitely check out <a href="http://www.intlprincess.org/index.php/ipp/section/C2/">Punjammies</a>. They're pajamas & tanks made by women who are recovering from being enslaved in forced prostitution in India, through the <a href="http://www.intlprincess.org/index.php/ipp/content/what_is_international_princess_project/">International Princess Project</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've had the privilege to become friends with Jacob & Laura Roebuck here at JBU this semester. And Laura is the awesome woman who works for this wonderful non-profit organization & has introduced me to this fun & hope-giving line of clothes. </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I've become smitten with these pajamas and just wanted to share them with you here. Please visit their websites and consider buying some for yourself &/or friends, or even just <a href="http://www.intlprincess.org/index.php/ipp/content/help/">donating</a> (time or money). If you read their '<a href="http://www.intlprincess.org/index.php/ipp/section/C1/">about</a>' page you can get even more info on what they do and how they are giving hope and life back to these women in need.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for reading & Happy December!</div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-53735251638609948082010-11-16T21:36:00.013-06:002011-08-11T22:39:38.509-05:00"Vintage" Style <br />
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So I've been going through a real 'love of vintage style' phase for a while now. Not necessarily implemented in my own clothing style yet, but I've had a real thing for it, and love it when I see it, and maybe one day when I can buy a whole new wardrobe, I'd love to infuse it with a lot of new pieces like that.<br />
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I have a sneaking suspicion it all came from a combination of falling in love with vintage <a href="http://dolcepress.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/IMG_4047-w1024-450x434.jpg">letter-press</a> style before I started to get ramped up for the Typography class I knew I'd be taking for Graphic Design here... and having <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">watched</span> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433383/mediaindex" target="_blank">Good Night, and Good Luck</a>. I may have always appreciated things about these styles, but it's become more obvious to me in the last few years. This year I'm seeing it come up more referred to as "the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/mediaindex?page=8" target="_blank">Mad Men</a> look." I haven't even seen this show yet, but I think I'd like to. From what I've gathered, I may need to be <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">kindof</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">wary</span> of the content, but the setting & fashion of the time is certainly appealing.</div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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So this "look," as far as fashion goes, is really just late '50s / mostly1960s inspired clothing. There's something about it. It gets back to a time of more easily defined/identifiable roles as far as masculinity & femininity; which is <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">kindof</span> refreshing. Ladies were definitely, and quintessentially, feminine. Pretty hair, cinched waists, heels, nice jewelry, pearls, bows, faces made up. Men in their well-tailored suits, ties, and the hats, oh the fedoras! (swoon) Of course I'm idealizing it, but it seemed a very classy time, with a definite sexiness to all that polished simplicity.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>As I said, this vintage style has also piqued my interest in the Graphic Design area. I'm really liking <a href="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.185809889.jpg">older</a> natural looks with texture, and imagery from that time. Though when it comes to paper goods, I admit my taste for older style may actually encompass a much wider time-span, as I see myself drawn to old woodblock prints of things like antique cameras and bicycles, etc.<br />
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All that to say, it's really fun & inspiring. Makes me want to get really creative somehow. So right now, while I can't afford to infuse my wardrobe with it at the moment; I'm hoping to maybe make this year's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Arties</span> a "Mad Men" theme...because back then they had some super stylish parties!</div><div>And Rachel (my future sister-in-law) has talked about letting me do the invitations & print work designs for all their wedding stuff this Summer...and I would love it, if she would let me work in some of that style/theme in those <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">pieces</span> of her wedding! Especially the letter press stuff. They'd go especially perfectly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">with</span> her colors of Tiffany Blue & Red :D<br />
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<div><div></div></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-88773164440703625392010-11-11T23:03:00.012-06:002010-11-20T01:02:05.854-06:00That's a Wrap!<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4TNgKMi3vLnkK4akDCi5RiPsrRdb-xP_klK1mlMTvQDh2PdeX5xebZdxLtyqoDNsSG9fFhyphenhyphen0PWmqfGVQWsKyXdVwY5QYOOUPJ7MMP6CJu9wVr_SRtgagJJTpD61SGDwBDvsMYd32fUw/s1600/PosterForWeb.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538524698380283970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ4TNgKMi3vLnkK4akDCi5RiPsrRdb-xP_klK1mlMTvQDh2PdeX5xebZdxLtyqoDNsSG9fFhyphenhyphen0PWmqfGVQWsKyXdVwY5QYOOUPJ7MMP6CJu9wVr_SRtgagJJTpD61SGDwBDvsMYd32fUw/s400/PosterForWeb.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a></div><div><br />
</div>Principal Photography for <i>From Below,</i> our Sr. Project short film production as Cinema students is officially wrapped! And we celebrated with a Wrap Party tonight. Our last production day was this Saturday, but we did have to go back for one quick pick up shot on Tuesday night that we lost from a corrupted file...but it was all good because we also had the chance to go ahead and do some Publicity/marketing photos for posters, DVD & disc art, etc. Within the last 24 hours I created this movie poster for the wrap party tonight so we could have it printed out to unveil. We had two, and got almost everybody from the Cast & Crew to sign the posters with a silver sharpie. (If you didn't come to the party, & helped with production, please let us know so we can get you to sign them too!)<br />
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</div><div>It was a pretty fun little party, a chance to thank our awesome team for <i>all</i> their endless hours, help, and dedication. Andrew and our awesome Editor/Script Supervisor, Katy, cut together a quick blooper reel, a production still photo loop to roll while people came in, and a few rough cuts of some new scenes no one had seen yet. We had a celebratory cookie cake, punch, & popcorn, and we were so happy to get such a nice turn out. I think most of our cast/crew, and supporters were there with just a couple missing.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>The scenes are looking good, and the bloopers were really funny...and those weren't nearly all of them. I think it will be really fun to have an official complete blooper reel for the DVD. All of our cast and crew will be getting a copy and a credit, and obviously some fun memories & experience!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">It's due on December 8th for our Senior Project class, so we should have a really nice finished product then. Though we may make some more final adjustments to really perfect it after the course deadline too, but intime for the portfolio show we'll be in for Sr. Portfolio class next Spring during our last semester.</div><div>Obviously our post production team of editors, music composers, & audio guy still have a lot of work ahead of them, and I've got a lot more promotional material & artwork to design, but we're looking forward to a great finished piece. You should be able to follow along in its progress on our <a href="http://footholdproductions.blogspot.com/">Foothold Productions</a> blog too. And Andrew just made a Facebook '<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/From-Below/166953446659846">Page</a>' we'd love for you to "like." Look for a sidebar link to Foothold's blog, coming soon.</div><div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538542917387755106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhft_JlHw_eoaUBA9AWO1uJuEJiBBA9v1TSXYV2Zm4x1HESFOwnWxcUu9XWWqrCGFepbdARti0D8-DI_1-iOUOVDO0YIZD5cS1PPOWGZ7rFbTocjmoyaRxIpFUn3zgInpUN4-9bB0UBg/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 214px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></span></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-3480744355484191322010-11-11T17:27:00.007-06:002010-11-20T01:01:09.592-06:00A Happier Post<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3860127513_4f3527586d.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3860127513_4f3527586d.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 254px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 500px;" /></a><br />
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</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the reason for this post was the wonderful treat of THREE recent fox spottings! I'm not sure I'd even seen wild foxes before. This Tuesday night after staying up at the school, working on the videos we're producing for the new </span><a href="http://preview.jbu.edu/_home"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JBU Now</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> website rolling out this month, Andrew was taking me home at 4:30 in the morning, and we had the pleasure of seeing a beautiful fox run right across our path on Holly St. from the Admissions building to the cemetery across from the school. He had a big bushy tail with a thick white end, and when it made it across it turned to look back at us, So exciting!</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">again</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> on the same ride home, a street before our house, we saw </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> darker looking fox without the white tip, run across our path again! Quite a treat :) I think we'd seen one other one much more quickly run across the street one night last week, near the sager creek bridge down town Siloam. But the two late that night was especially cool, since they're my husband's favorite animal, and while my poor husband was finally taking me home to sleep, he had to go back and keep working for another hour or so that night, so I think that time those were more for him. (I call these happy treats, love notes from God; when he shows us beautiful things just from Him, to lift our spirits!)</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I couldn't offer actual pictures of ours, but I found some beautiful images of Foxes that were taken in Arkansas by the this photographer, </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33403047@N00/4810142814/in/photostream/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pat Gaines</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May you have some wild adventures of your own this week, and keep an eye out for those love notes of your own! :)</span></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-32264943757723070132010-11-08T14:26:00.007-06:002010-11-20T00:26:55.389-06:00Gone from this WorldThis has been a really surreal last few hours for me. I don't have any idea what to even title this post.<br />
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<div><div>This weekend was long enough as it was, being the last weekend of principle photography (production shooting) for our Sr. short film Cinema Project. We shot almost all day Friday, then an even longer all day final shoot Saturday, then the majority of Sunday was spent in the TV studio as student producers doing videos for the new <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">JBU</span> website.</div><br />
<div>Afterwards when Andrew was working on editing those videos, I read a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">facebook</span> message from Robyn, my old friend from youth group in San Antonio, letting me know that my first (and only other) boyfriend, Garrett <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Lierly</span>, had committed suicide. I was 1/2 way through a peanut butter cookie and had to put it down from becoming suddenly nauseous. Please be praying for his family in San Antonio during this time.<br />
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</div><div>We were just a teenage a couple for something like a short 3 months or something, our Freshman year of high school, but stayed friends in the youth group we were part of for the next couple years. I switched churches my Junior year, and haven't seen him much at all since our Sr. year when he transferred from his private school (where my father-in-law incidentally now works as upper school principle) to Winston Churchill High with me. I remember things kinda weird with him, like he was a really different person then, and from updates I'd hear every once in awhile, I guess it kept going that way for him. From <em>The Outsiders</em> 'Greaser' hair & leather, to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">mohawks</span> & piercings. Not that those outward expressive styles are bad, but apparently some more destructive habits came with them for him.</div><br />
<div>So I haven't known him for years, but hearing this news was till greatly saddening. It's so tragic, especially for his lovely family. He has a younger brother, Ian, and two really great Christian parents. I haven't ever really been faced with <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">someone's</span> suicide before (apart from a dear college friend's brother, whom I hadn't met before) and its' really confusing. So sad, and mostly sadness for others, I'm sad for his family; but it also makes one <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">kindof</span> mad too, and you're not even sure who you're mad at. It sucks, really. And then there's the why, and how does this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">sortof</span> thing come to happen to people who are surrounded by loving, Christian people? Doesn't seem like it should work that way.</div><br />
<div>Right here I must say how much I love my dear Husband (and the family he's from). He's so wise and loving. Andrew and I ended up staying up real late talking about all these kinds of things, and went into a lot of interesting theology I hadn't delved into in a long time, or some possibly even at all. We came to some really eye-opening conclusions. We figured out some encouraging ideas, and came up with a few more confusing ones along the way, too. God sure has some mysteries that don't seem to make things easier, but we take solace in the fact that we know He is so much wiser and has bigger plans for a greater good somewhere, even where it doesn't seem possible (or fair) to us.<br />
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</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs495.ash2/76884_452800933015_502903015_5673002_8296608_n.jpg" style="display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 247px;" /><span style="font-size: 85%;">My late Great Uncle Gerald Mooney<br />
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</div><div></div><div>The other weirdness that made this last days so surreal, was that after all that last night. This morning I found out my Dear Great Uncle Gerald died. Though this was a much 'happier' death (that shouldn't come off as insensitive, I promise). Gerald Mooney was married to my Aunt Nancy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Mayfield</span>, who was my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">GrandDad's</span> sister. Nancy & Gerald were 2 of the most wonderful people God has blessed my family with. They were both such fun, interesting, inspiring, kind, God-loving people. Aunt Nancy was someone I specifically looked up to & wanted to model myself after. She was fiery & passionate, and so full of Joy. A very strong woman, also dainty & beautiful. With a big laugh, who was so encouraging, & also outspoken to those she cared for, and outspoken about her faith in the Lord. In a really good, contagious way.</div><br />
<div>Her husband loved her so much, too. His was a very inspiring, obvious Love. Uncle Gerald was always so kind and sweet & fun to talk to. I especially remember how excited he was to talk to me about flying when I expressed interest in flying planes like my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">GrandDad</span>, a while back. He was so encouraging and excited, and lifted your spirits just talking with him & seeing his joy in life. Though you could also tell he was always a very sensitive, empathetic man, because he spoke of my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">GrandDad</span>, his friend, with such love & sadness in his passing. He was very open and truthful about his feelings & thoughts when it came to the people he loved & lost, like his wife & my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">GrandDad</span>. He had a powerful love you could see, and hear, & feel. </div><br />
<div>After his wife died a couple of years ago, you could tell he was crushed, and his last couple years without her was a struggle, so I am actually quite relieved & happy for him, to know that he is done with all of that here. He doesn't have to keep struggling or harboring those sad feelings anymore. I know he is now in the most perfect place, with his wife, her brother, and our Father. I was told his last words were: "I see God, I see Jesus, they are beautiful." And my cousin, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Karise</span>, put it this way: "Uncle Gerald died this morning after a terrible battle with Alzheimer's Disease. I know he has been reunited with my Aunt Nancy in heaven. He was a professor, a pilot, an avid train enthusiast and a wonderful father/grandfather/uncle/man/friend."</div><br />
<div>I'll miss him, Aunt Nancy & my other family there with him, but I'm so glad & encouraged they're no longer dealing with this fallen world. They are so loved.</div></div>Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6117913558221659066.post-3665903935307914422010-11-01T15:27:00.001-05:002010-11-08T22:53:47.649-06:00This New Blog<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2R-_ejlLzuCxhUJ47Jm-Cv56Es0VxT_V62HiwMIRxnBF1HYhDtarBvT8N6D_FmHSvzFTVpRPBBQ2-Ab9rIJBIGEHv5_dkxv8vt60VXQsS2_3U3mE_Uyc_F9FIVXSkD0f4YwJVj8jWH5M/s1600/contest.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2R-_ejlLzuCxhUJ47Jm-Cv56Es0VxT_V62HiwMIRxnBF1HYhDtarBvT8N6D_FmHSvzFTVpRPBBQ2-Ab9rIJBIGEHv5_dkxv8vt60VXQsS2_3U3mE_Uyc_F9FIVXSkD0f4YwJVj8jWH5M/s400/contest.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534821220027035906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">About the Blog & a little on Us</span><br />I've been wanting to have a nice little place to keep our thoughts, stories, and our friends & family in-the-loop about updates in our little family of two as we go along.<br /><br />So that's what this blog will be. We're two married-students in the our last year of undergrad University Education, here at John Brown University, in little Siloam Springs, Arkansas. We're Texans (whose families both moved us around a lot of other places growing up), and we can't wait to get back to Dallas, or wherever the Lord takes us, when we <em>finally</em> graduate this coming May (you can pray for us on that).<br /><br />We're both transfer Digital Cinema students here, technically majoring in Digital Media Arts w/ emphasis in Cinema, and I'm minoring in Graphic Design. We love making movies together, and hope to stay filmmakers in some capacity for the length of our careers. We've both got quite a few short films & other professional freelance productions under our belt, plus internships on one feature-length film, <em><a href="http://searchingforsonny.com/">Searching for Sonny</a></em>; coming out this Spring.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3303013/">Andrew's</a> an aspiring Director with amazing talent for leading, Producing, and Editing. And I kinda like to do it all. I'm striving for Production Design, because I love art and making a mythical word & all it's details come to life. Think the underground Goblin Market of Hellboy, or any of the locations of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, or InkHeart, etc. But I also really enjoy other roles like coaching/directing the acting, or script-supervising for continuity. And my first production job in videography at Irving Bible Church made me fall in love with lighting & shooting well composed video from behind a camera. So we'll see where all this leads.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Current Going Ons</span><br /><br />Right now we're both pretty strung out & tired from working as co-Producers of our Sr. Project film, From Below. I'm acting Production Designer & Andrew's Director, though there's clearly a lot more than just these two roles for the both of us. We've got a good team of fellow Cinema students helping us on each production day, and last year's JBU alumni Tyson Banks is our amazing Cinematographer.<br />With a lot of help from the crew, we've shot some amazing footage already, but this is our last weekend with several of our biggest scenes to accomplish. There's a whole 'underground' shanty town to build from nothing & a bunch of costumes & props to make/acquire by Friday w/ almost no budget. Please pray for us this week that we can get it all pulled off in time.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8npZpReeKPAg4CPNEH7sm7b4D024DsFuwxRUb2mxryiwzioqq-9ict2iN17thcz3ytkUamiXUTUf1ponPbGaX0NcaIwQw93XlebyKws8R_jIH_E-N2LK836VJHcAUBitxlQ-6ewPv67E/s1600/Alethia.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 171px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8npZpReeKPAg4CPNEH7sm7b4D024DsFuwxRUb2mxryiwzioqq-9ict2iN17thcz3ytkUamiXUTUf1ponPbGaX0NcaIwQw93XlebyKws8R_jIH_E-N2LK836VJHcAUBitxlQ-6ewPv67E/s400/Alethia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534820250145225538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Production Still Frame by DP, Tyson Banks<br /></span></div><br />In the mean time, You can <a href="http://busterdgould.com/andrewarmstrongiii/Senior%20Project/Mid-Term/ScenePresentHD.mp4">click here</a> to download the Quicktime file of the rough cut from some of the earlier scenes we shot. This Facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2056598&id=1169190081">album</a> by our Production Photographer, Josh Adams, has some Production stills of shooting days, and Trent Chopski (Assistant Director) has some more in <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1683071919676&set=a.1683047359062.2093060.1323956068">this album</a>. You can also follow some of Andrew's Production posts on what the movie is up to, over at the <a href="http://footholdproductions.blogspot.com/">Foothold Productions Blog</a>. If you didn't already know, Foothold Productions is the unofficial name by which all of our Armstrong films are made under. Its title comes from the Scottish Armstrong clan roots.<br /><br />Anyway, if you've read along this far, you probably really care about us :) And we'd love for you to "<a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/signin/home?st=e%3DAOG8GaCNJqY%252FVawJvMEm2tWH5dQtHXeYXavUJ3%252FCe2JbqlvYgRT5LCeWH3rVh%252BAsox6TcZP4hpL4CUJ4CaeZ3x%252BY9Xfrtu5KF0BiizEd1%252By3mYaz0lEaDIVsU3dY9Rg539FqR4kysE5bQu2NpCJoRQxDvhtlhgbe1p5wym6sajMzkF66lizs2ewZ8ficVovefandMG%252F8STOdToaMMemjbku59k0H9oXXlIBPZG0OlUAi8kxkaPuWFfU%253D%26c%3Dpeoplesense&psinvite=&subscribeOnSignin=1">follow</a>" our blog by pushing that button over on the side, or subscribing to the feed, which I admit I have no idea how those work. Please keep coming back for updates on what we're up to.<br /><br />Love you guys, and Happy November!<br />-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3303062/">Krystal</a> & <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3303013/">Andrew</a> :)Krystal Wight Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16310610382345882173noreply@blogger.com0