Dan and Kristen Snyder Wedding

This weekend I had the privledge of photographing the wedding of Dan and Kristen Snyder. I"ve known Dan and his family most of my life. The wedding was beautiful as well as the couple.

They got married at Shade Trees and Evergreens in Frederick Maryland.



Dan and Kristen met while attending Messiah College, all of these people went to Messiah with the two of them.







Dan and Kristen where such a great couple to work with, they were fun and easy going, and obivously in love.

For favors Kristen and her family made homemade jelly.

Coatt: Morse- Code Necklace

I just found out that I won a wonderful Morse-Code necklace from Coatt. I'm so excited. Coatt creates necklaces that have messages written in morse-code, which creates a cool design, and gives you, your own secert message.

The givaway was hosted by Indie Fixx, which is an awesome blog that you should check out. Photo is also from Indie Fixx. http://indiefixx.com/

Make sure to click on my side bar and enter for your chance to win jewerly as well.

Trade Friendly Etsy shops

I've been thinking about doing this for awhile, and finally decided to make it offical. Fabricatedends is now a trade friendly buisness. What's this mean, it means if I have a product that you want and like, and you have a product or service that I want and like, we trade goods and services,  instead of money. It just makes sense, and I think that it could be a lot of fun. So let's start trading.



If you have an etsy shop that is trade friendly leave a comment below so that I can start to put together a list.

Etsy Finds: Helena Vedric

I just came across the work by Illustrator and jewelry designer Helena Vedric and really love it. Love the shapes, the wonderful use of color, and line quality. Stop by her shop: http://www.etsy.com/people/helenavedric

Inspiring: Box Gallery, Santa Fe

While in Santa Fe, we visited some galleris. I really enjoyed the work that was at the Box Gallery http://www.boxgallerysf.com/

Krista Peters

Scar Paper

Kate Carr

I also really liked the work of artist Kate Carr, she creates sculptural pieces with strips of fabric and wood.



Inspiring: Photography

http://greenweddingshoes.com/love-lemonade-an-engagement-session/

http://www.modnest.ca/when-me-becomes-we/

http://www.lovewedbliss.com/australia-wedding/nsw-wedding/modern-south-coast-nsw-wedding/

New Mexico

My husband and I took a week long trip to New Mexico to visit friends, and I fell in love. The weather was wonderful, while it got hot during the day, the evenings and mornings were perfect. Everyone we met was extremely friendly, and this was a wonderful relaxed vacation.

We visited Ghost Ranch, which was the home of Painter Georgia O'Keefe



We stopped in Taos, New Mexico to visit the Earthships. Earthships are made out of recycled materials, and are built in a way that allows for the home to run itself without any utility bills!



Supplies for  making an earthship



Click here to learn more about earthships, and to see more great examples of these unique homes http://earthship.com/