The Crayola Factory

It was a rainy weekend. The wind howled. But that didn't stop us. We drove up to Easton, PA to visit The Crayola Factory.

The best part (for me) was learning how the crayons and markers are made. I love learning the science behind things. I couldn't get them to tell me what they use in Color Wonder markers though. Non-toxic, odor and colorless, and it oxidizes. If you have any guesses, let me know!

150 degree wax pours down like a river over this metal mold and fills the 100s of crayon shaped holes. Then cool water is pumped through the mold to harden the crayons quickly.

This is the machine that wraps the crayons with the paper.Serving Macaroni and Cheese to Maya. That is one of the most recent colors named by a 5 yr old little girl during a Crayola contest. In this room they give you each a pack of white clay to play with.Check out the sting ray! I drew Starry Starry Night (or something like that) on the ground in the sidewalk chalk area.
This place is pretty cool if your an artist.

These are wells of melted crayon wax that you could dip into and paint on a piece of paper.More wells... The crew.

Work it!

Finally we visited the Crayola store.

Look at all of these Crayola products!!

Here they house the worlds largest crayon.

Our family.

It's a great winter or rainy day activity. Check it out sometime!

Happy 1st Day of Spring!

March 20th. The first day of spring. To celebrate, we went for free italian ice at Rita's in Carlisle.

This was the line. Not nearly the nightmare that the line was in Harrisburg last year in the freezing cold!Maya got cherry, can you tell?
AJ had mango.

Even Max got his own custard.

We've been taking some family trips so I have more photos to share. Next month we're going to Disney World again- so keep your eyes out for those photos. Next photos up: The Crayola Factory from our trip last weekend!

Remake of a Classic

My parents approached me just the other day with a photo idea. They have a photo of me as a young lady in a dress my mother made. They thought if I photographed my daughter, Maya, in a similar way that we would almost look identical.

This one is of me.I bought an antique rocking chair, however, I did not have or get a background with a big old butter churn on it. So it's a remake but not a replica.Maya has more hair than me too."I'm jus weeding Mommy."Sorry little lady, the photo shoot is all over.

Such a cool idea though- maybe I'll do more in the future. What do you guys think? Does she look like me?

Las Vegas Style

The other night I had the pleasure of photographing a Las Vegas themed social event put on at the Letort View Community Center by the civilians of the Army War College. I got the biggest kick out of these photos!

They had craps tables... Interesting looking people running the tables...
People winning LOTS of chips...

Looking suave...

Dancing...

But best of all, they were taking some crazy photos at my photo booth!

Some people came in costume....
For everyone else, I provided PROPS :) Lots and lots of props!

The lovely Charity (in the purple boa) came to help out for the night. Many thanks Chair!

Here we are together :)

Shout out to the triplets who manned the coat room all night.

This is the first time I've done prop photos. I was a lot of fun. I'm predicting that this will be the start of something new. We could even set it up at your wedding!