The Kraus Haus

Have a happy day mommies!

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Happy Mother's Day to all of my mommies out there! Although I could not make real flowers for you, here are some photos of the beautiful things we have been making at the flower shop. Here are a few of my favorite ones I would have made for you, if you only lived closer!

Also, a link for the flower shop- fun job!
http://www.bloominbee.biz/mothers-day-flowers.php

Hope you all enjoy your Sunday!

Picts-

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Pictures-

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Pictures-

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Pictures-

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For once, we took a lot of pict.s!

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Spring Break in Washington DC!

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Adam and I took a break from our hectic work/school lives, and took a trip to DC over my spring break. I got a chance to meet LOTS more family on Adams side. What a crazy bunch! We had such fun time. I had never been to DC, so Adam had a fun time showing me all the monuments and sights. The first day we rode public trans downtown. We waked MILES, to all the monuments. The weather was perfect and the cherry blossoms has just started blooming. We bought a hot dog for lunch off a street vendor and ate in the park.

With sore legs, we woke up the next morning and got on the train again. It was rainy, so we spent the entire day doing museums. We went to tons of museums, but there were still more to see! Maybe on our next trip. :) My fav. museum was the Renwick Gallery( Arts and Crafts). We also saw the capital and the white house.

We stayed with Laura, Craig, and their kiddos the first couple of nights. Then we all had a big dinner together and stayed with Brad and Jackie the next couple nights. On the week-end we got to go to the Zoo and the Air and Space Museum. Thank you everyone for having us!

It was a fun-filled trip, and hard to leave! It made it a little easier to come home knowing the kitties were waiting for us. Lucky and Charm always spend hours smelling our suitcases when we get home from trips...Our children are so weird!

Photos-

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These are a few photos taken from a series I did of the '67 Mustang. They were taken a manual camera from the 70's and black and white film. I learned the entire photo process from developing film, to printing photos.

Prints-

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Mono, Solar, Linoleum, and Zinc prints made in my Printmaking class.

LOOK...a POST!

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Look at me, I am actually posting something! Yes, I do need to get better about this...

Since I don't have any cute pictures of babies to post, I will show you some photos of the work I have been doing in my art classes. They are pieces I have done over the last couple of years in my different studio classes. My emphasis is jewelry making and metalsmithing, so hopefully there will be more fun projects to come, using metals. Today Adam and I worked some more on turning the garage into a jewelry/metal studio- very exciting!

What I'm learning-

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Tuesday I get to learn how to do slip inlay in my ceramics class. This technique is what they use to put patterns and details on ceramics. Molly Hatch is an amazing ceramicist who I just ran across. Her work is delicate and botanical, and such an inspiration to my work!
Here is her website:
http://www.mollyhatch.com/
And, of course she is on Etsy!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5323052

Playing around with Photoshop-

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Here are some of the photos I had a chance to play with in Photoshop. Thank goodness I took Digital Art and Design last year and had a reason to buy it! Very fun!

What to do with unsellable flowers?

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Every week at the flower shop, we have flowers we can't sell. Although they look pretty, they won't have the long life we guarantee our customers. We are usually forced to throw them away.

However, last week I took home 2 buckets of flowers and had some fun. Here's the result!

Giada-

2009-07-14T13:51:00.000-07:00

One question...

"Why don't I look this good when I am cooking in the kitchen"?

Maybe that's why she has her own Food Network Show...

In another life I think I would like to be her!

Busy at Work!

2009-07-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

As mentioned by Bridget..."why haven't I been blogging?" here is the explanation! Just thought I would give you a link for the flower shop where I am lucky to design beautiful flower bouquets. I have been working full time this summer, because we have had lots of work!

http://www.bloominbee.com/
Here is our website where we have pictures of our wedding flowers- Last week we worked on 3 weddings for the week-end.

http://www.bloominbeeweddings.com/

Our First Anniversary!

2009-06-10T15:44:00.000-07:00

Just like most people we know, Adam and I are very much on a budget. We wanted to do something special to celebrate our the first year of our marriage, so I got creative. I was able to make a fancy dinner with a beautiful table setting for all under $10!

First of all, out kitchen table(which we got for a steal on Craigslist), is now in the kitchen. We moved it in there, since we are painting and re-flooring the formal dining area. Although its a little more crowded than we would like, it works for the time being. So, my task was to transform the kitchen into an swanky dining establishment...

As it turns out, we have the most beautiful hot pink flowers in our front yard, that were my inspiration for the table decor. I took a few items from our bedroom(candles and photos in silver frames). The place mats, cloth napkins, and napkin rings were all presents we got for our wedding.

For the last elegant touch, I set the table with our fine china(the first time it has been used!). Thanks Grammy!

Pasta, fresh bread with oil and vinegar for dipping, and a green salad with toasted almonds and garden tomatoes, and a chocolate dessert with chocolate mint hot fudge were the only cost, all under 10 greens.

We toasted with peach Italian soda to a year filled with many fun memories. Although our first year together posed many challenges, the great times have far outweighed the hard ones. The difficulties have worked to bring us closer together. We are excited to see what adventures our second year has to hold for us! Here's to our happiness and health!

While we were gone...

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Of course, while we were gone on our trip the kitties missed us very much. They still haven't scratched up any of our furniture, pooped on the carpet, or hung from my curtains(at least that i have seen). However, after returning from our trip, we noticed they have a love for small cords. They chewed completely through our main phone cord that all of our cordless phones gain power from. With that said, please call our cell phones until we can figure out how to fix our phones!

Pookie's Graduation!

2009-05-30T09:14:00.000-07:00

Our cousin Pookie(aka: Trisha Abbe) graduated from college last Saturday, and we got to be there! We drove from Omaha to Midland to join everyone in her grad celebration. Larry(her dad) showed us the sights of Midland and we discovered that they even have a drive through liquor store! Those always come in handy in college towns!

We also got to see Adam and Deanna and their sweet little Alisyn. She just turned the big 1 and calls everyone "puppy".

Nebraska Trip-

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Adam and I drove to Omaha last Friday morning to spend time with friends and fam. We stayed the night at Crystal and Erik's place and got to go to a baseball game with Scott(Adam's best man in our wedding). These pictures have been posted for Scott. ;) Good times...

House pictures continued...

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Pictures for Mom-

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Hi mom! Finally took pictures of our place; the rooms we have re-done at least. The bathroom shown is the one you saw in the demolition pictures, in a previous post. All we need in it now is to install the tile we already bought, and put in the toilet. I like how the chocolate brown turned out. The shower curtain was on sale for just $9.99, and was my inspiration for the colors.

I love my red living room, which was a labor of love to paint(thanks Adam, Valerie, and me!) Adam thinks it is lacking a big screen TV in the center, but if we did that, we wouldn't have been able to enjoy the nice, cozy fires we enjoyed this winter. We had more than enough fire wood due to the aspen trees we cut down in our yard(don't worry; still lots of trees left). Adam had fun with dad Kraus and the chainsaw. Boys...

My kitchen is my favorite room so far, though. I spend most of my time there, often doing homework and art projects at the table I set up in the center of the room. I also enjoy cooking in the oven that Dane so painstakingly cleaned up for me. Its the only thing we kept when we ripped out the kitchen. Dad Eastlick and Dane came last July, and helped us remodel the kitchen. New laminate floors, cabinets, fixtures, paint, appliances, and even a new fridge that they drove here on a trailer! I need to upload a picture of the room before...MAJOR improvement!

Last of all, our bedroom- This was the room we finished first, and lived in when all of the other work was going on. With a neat vaulted ceiling, and lots of closet space, we like it. However, I think the kitties think the bed is their own. They snooze on it all day, and save their energy for night time. Will we ever get on the same sleep pattern!?!

My Little Garden!

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I am having so much fun growing veggies, herbs, and lavender in my kitchen! Its still a bit cold to plant outside here, but Adam and I are planning to do a garden in our backyard this summer. Look at my cherry tomatoes! They are really growing now, and I can't wait to see what else does well. Any tips on gardening will be greatly appreciated. :) Also, what can I freeze, so we can enjoy fresh goodies during the winter?

Our new house-

2009-05-10T16:15:00.000-07:00

Whew! I think I am almost caught up all the pictures I have been meaning to show everyone! Here are pictures from our house we bought a year ago, and are still in the middle of remodeling. I am looking forward to taking a break from school this summer so Adam and I can work on more projects.

Here is a look at our current project. We had fun doing demolition on our hall bathroom. :) All it needs now is new tile. Finished project pictures to come!

Mexican Riviera-

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Adam and I went on a Cruise with Adam's parents, Laura and Charlie. We got to go to the Mexican Riviera. It was the best spring break ever!

Lucky and Charm Kraus- We love our kitties!

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More Wedding-

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Wedding Pictures-

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A fun surprise...

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I'm having fun posting things! Here are the BEAUTIFUL flowers my mom had sent to me for our wedding anniversary. Hard to believe it will soon be our 1 year! In order to make sure all the flowers in the bouquet were in season, she had them made up a month before 6-7-8. It was a fun surprise showing up for work at the flower shop and seeing that the flowers on my work station were for me! Thanks again mom!

Happy Mother's Day!

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Happy Mother's day to all the wonderful mommies and mommies-to-be out there! Your kids are very lucky to have you!

Engagement Pictures

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Here are some engagement pictures that were taken last year(before our wedding ;)) by my Uncle Dave, my mom's brother. He lives here in Denver, and we had a fun day of driving around the city, looking for good pictures!

I'm finally a blogger!

2009-05-07T14:41:00.000-07:00

I have been meaning to get my own blog site started for years, so here I am finally! This blog was finally created during me procrastinating during finals week, here are Denver Metro College(here is a picture of my school!). I have a 2 hour break on campus, while I wait for my night class. I usually do homework during that time, but my brain is just too fried to do anything else. This blog serves as my form of relaxation and a chance to do some non-school writing. ;) So far, I'm liking it very much!