Taller and Shorter

The true title of this post is:  I was I was a little bit taller and I wish my shower curtain was a little bit shorter….

Why do I wish I was taller? (and a baller…you’re welcome for the annoying song stuck in your head)…

I started painting the guest bathroom last Thursday.  I sent this cell phone picture to Nate to see if he had any suggestions on how I could reach the corner above the shower.  The ladder was too wide to fit in the tub and the toilet was in the way outside of the tub.  My only solution was him helping me when he got home.  The rule with my painting craziness is that I have to do it alone and not drag him into it. 

His response: “That is going to look really weird not painted.”

Jerk.  But he did help me…after some whining, of course.  Is there any other way?

Next guest bathroom issue, the shower curtain I ordered.  I was really into the spa-like feel so I went with a white waffle curtain. I also wanted it extra long (96”) because I had read on a few blogs on how the extra height looks so lovely. I was wrong on the white and the height…

 

This picture actually makes it look better than what Nate and I think it looks like in person. 

The height was just really weird….like we were trying to hide something…other than the shower. I think this height looks better in bathrooms where the shower is off to the side, not straight on when you walk through the door. We also have 9 foot ceilings so the curtain didn’t reach the ceilings like the examples I had seen.

The white was just too much white.  The curtain made the rest of the white in the bathroom look sort of ivory…and as you can see, the curtain is very see-through.

On a happier note, the walls are now a pretty grey…much better than the previous Macadamia…

The shower curtain can be returned in-store and I have a new one on order…I’ll leave you in suspense on that one…

What are your thoughts on shower curtain height?  Is there such a thing as too much white?

Guest Post: The Flipping Couple

Today I’m over at The Flipping Couple sharing a few of our favorite things in our kitchen…

Cindy and her husband are flipping a beautiful house up in Minnesota…

They do some pretty impressive work…and must not like sleep.  Now I know why Nate and I don’t flip houses…sleep.  They are also in love with their dogs…my type of people!!

Be sure to stop by and say “hi” and check out all of their hard work!

Learning to Use Our Nikon- Fireworks

Nate and I own a Nikon D5000 and Adobe Photoshop Elements 9. 

We are slowly learning how to use them to their full potential. We aren’t photographers.  We don’t plan to be.  We just both enjoy photography and capturing those special memories in our lives.

We’ll start sharing with you tips and tricks that we are learning along the way….

Fireworks are hard to capture. The following photo was taken with our Canon point and shoot…

Definitely not the beautiful fireworks that I remember seeing off of Navy Pier!

The following photos were taken last night along the Mississippi river using our DSLR….

 

Here’s how to capture these shots: 

• Use a tripod as capturing fireworks requires a long exposure. 
• Set the focus to manual.
• Change the adjustment ring change it to infinity (the sideways 8). 
• Switch the camera mode to manual (M on Nikon), and using the dial switch it to “Bulb”mode (for Nikon it will say TIME on the screen for the exposure time) and then set the aperture to something between f8 and f16 (I used f16 for all the shots).
  • Bulb mode lets you set the amount of time the shutter is open, one press to open the shutter, then another press to close it, this way it is easier to time the fireworks. 
• Use a remote shutter release as pressing the button on the camera will create shake in the camera and the picture will not be as sharp. 
  • If you do not have a remote then do not use Bulb mode, set the shutter speed to at least 2 seconds (most of my shots were somewhere around 10 seconds) and use the self timer at 2 seconds to avoid shake. 
• These photos were shot in RAW and I did some minimum processing in Photoshop Elements Camera Raw (changed white balance, made the color pop a little bit through the camera profile settings) but shooting in JPEG would work as well.

Any questions?  Do you have interest in more very amateur photography/Photoshop Elements tips?