New Photography Site

This is the official announcement of my new photography site. I love to take pictures and play around with the features on my camera. SO, if you want to see a little silliness and creativity from the imagination of Amy Cramer go to http://amysphotobucket.blogspot.com/ and dive in.

New Hobby

Klaron Kool and I have recently discovered the world of refinishing our furniture. In Columbus, Klaron found a dresser in the garbage pile of one of our neighbors. The dresser, was covered in 4 inches of snow and had child graffiti engraved on the sides. So, in the dark of the night, Klaron drug it over to our house leaving behind him the parallel tracks of a stolen dresser. Luckily it snowed even more that night and our tracks were covered.

After 6 months of me refusing to put my clothes in it because it leaves wood shaving on my shirts and in my socks, Klaron decided to refinish it. We went to the local Walmart and bought all the necessary supplies: Stain, Polyurethane, 180 grit sandpaper for the in between coats, 100 grit sandpaper for the hard to smooth areas and of course brushes of various sizes.

When we got it all home, I decided I wanted to refinish my nightstand that I had bought at the beloved DI, oh how I miss the DI, and painted about 3 years ago. So we each had our projects. Then we ran into 2 unavoidable dilemmas: 1. Where are we going to do this project because we live in an apartment? 2. Sanding with sandpaper is not very fun!!

To resolve dilemma #2 we made another trip to the local Walmart and bought A POWER HAND SANDER!! oh baby. After bringing it home we found the solution to dilemma #1 in our own living room. Here's what I mean:



By opening every window in the house, turning on a fan and putting down a little newspaper, our living room was magically transformed into a workspace.



We found we could even watch movies while sanding on the laptop.



After 2 days of inside refinishing in the living room, we started to find dust ON and IN EVERYTHING!!! So on Saturday we brought our projects down on to the driveway and there we spent the day sanding and staining. I wore a protective mask to shield my growing baby from the dangerous fumes and dust.



Klaron sure does love his sander!!! What a fun new hobby we've found. Hopefully someday we'll be able to have a real workspace to do some serious woodworking!!

Inside Amy Awesome and Klaron Kool

We're not against a little blog borrowing...thanks Aubrey. I thought this was really cool, so Klaron and I both did one. Here's what you do: You type in your answers to the questions below into Google image search and you pick a picture from the first page that comes up then paste the URL into the mosaic maker at http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php

HERE WE GO!!!

AMY AWESOME



KLARON KOOL

What is your first name?
Amy
Klaron. Look closely at the picture for Klaron's name, its hilarious.

What is your favorite food?
Right now I CRAVE mashed potatoes!!
Tacos Al Pastor

What high school did you attend?
GHS, Oh Baby YES!!! Westside League Dogs, WHOOAAAA!!! That means Gridley High School
Gabrielino High

What is your favorite color?
Sea foam green
Klaron says "Green," just green!!

Who is your celebrity crush?
Matthew McConaughey
Evolet from 10,000 BC, not sure what her real name is.

Favorite drink?
Chocolate Milk, all day everyday!!! MMMMM
Cactus Cooler

Dream vacation?
Antarctic Cruise, I want to play with the penguins and feed the walrus. Oh and see the glaciers.
Aspen, said like Lloyd Christmas

Favorite dessert?
Really good Key Lime Pie
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Cake, no substitutes

What do you want to be when you grow up?
A Renaissance Woman!!! I will know everything about everything.
Filthy Rich. Like walk my dog from a helicopter rich, you know the type.

What do you love most in life?
Family, its unanimous!! We both love our family.

One word to describe you?
Carmex Addict. I know I broke the law and used two words but I had to. I have to have my Carmex!!! I have tubes everywhere, at least 3 in my purse, one by my bed and probably a few in forgotten coat pockets.
Klaron says: Weird

Your Nickname?
Merlin. I am a victim of permed hair. As a child I used to perm my short hair multiple times in a year, making it one lovely, voluminous, puff. My loving brother compared my hairdo to our pet ram, Merlin, and to this day threatens to teach his son to call me Uncle Merlin.
Klaron says: Nernon

Holland Art Walk

Today we added a little culture into our lives. Downtown Holland is an artsy area, so we decided to go on a sculpture scavenger hunt. We had a map of where the sculptures were and we walked around downtown looking for them. Whoever spotted one first got a Starburst. It took about 2 hours to see all the sculptures. Each is very unique and beautiful. If you click on the mosaic you can get a more detailed look at our adventure.