The new kid in town!

If you follow me on Instagram, you've heard my news! If you don't... well let me introduce you to the newest member of our family :)

This is a game changer, folks. This gave me 50X more confidence to go out there and take some photos! In fact, I have a client meeting today that is going to be a very exciting venture for me!! But more on that later...

Just look at it next to my old camera. It just LOOKS more professional. 

A camera doesn't do all the magic. I still need to upgrade and invest in lens, flashes and other goodies [yes all goodies!] but this alone excites me. This camera is so nice and crisp alone, compared to my baby DSLR [who i'll miss, not gonna lie!] I'm still getting the hang of it cos it is VERY different from mine but my initial reaction when I got it home and out? 

We call that Tina's "cheesy smile". I've had that smile since I was little, when I'd get really excited about something. Looks like I never lose my excitement :) I'll show off this camera and what it can do real soon! In the meantime...

HAPPY WEEKEND!! 

My lovely, lady tote!

Last Tuesday I did something I almost never do. I seriously splurged on something for myself. With all this saving we've been doing for a year and a half for the wedding - it felt good to REALLY buy something for me! Yesterday, it arrived.

My amazing Jo Tote! Miss Marigold!

And she is hella cute! They offer 9 different colors of this bag - and I was seriously torn. It was either the yellow, or the gray or the red. Well the red was out of stock til April and these babys dissapear QUICK! So I asked Jose. He picked red too...then saw it was out of stock and said YELLOW! ok... PURCHASED!

I can't explain the love I have for this bag all ready. I love Miss Marigold... and our future together is gonna be a good one. It's be so hard bringing my camera around in my purse, getting thrown against everything else. I hated it. So now, no worries. Plus it doesn't ONLY hold my camera. It comes with compartments for you to put in to personalize the inside of the bag perfectly. So it will hold everything I use daily in my regular purse PLUS my camera PLUS my camera goodies. Oh I'm so happy!

Can you tell? lol I love that it has the attachable shoulder strap too. So I can hold it on my shoulder or on my arm.

Marigold, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship!

I'm sooooo thankful for...

I just want to take this time to think about the things I am REALLY thankful for this year. Like my dogs :) who we brought to the vet today and are both perfectly healthy and in the best shape of their lives! And who I literally can not live without

 Or my brandy new camera. Seriously. You really have no idea how much I love this thing do you? Here is my like 16 hours after me owning it :)

 And my little man Hitchcock, who is suddenly a BLAST to take pictures of with my camera! Now I can catch this quick little bastard and every move he makes! And if it wasn't for Hitch, I don't know how I'd wake up for work without him being my second alarm clock!

 For my man. Making every single day easier and easier to live. He is the shit. I love him

 And to all of my family whom I love... but especially my mother, my best friend. Who, without her, we would seriously not be getting married. I love this woman and respect her more than I think she knows!

lol! This picture is from July 2005 when my sister, my mom and I took a vacation to San Francisco. And we go to Pier 39 to see all the sea lions and than we find out they migrate south in the summer and we only saw 2 fucking sea lions!!! We were pissed at them so here's my mom giving the sea lions the finger!

[and my mama's in the scooter because she has MS in her one leg but she's the shit! obviously that dont stop her from traveling!]

Hope everyone has a fabulous and full Happy Thanksgiving!!! :) I'm thankful for my blog friends too!! I love you guys!! :)

My amaaaaazing birthday gift

Jose year after year tries to top himself with an amazing gift for me for my birthday and christmas [valentines day and our "anniversary" aren't too serious] and this year just for my birthday he all ready amazed me. Meet the new member of our family :)

 Thats right baby. I am now a PRO digital camera lady :) And this thing has not left my side since 2 weeks ago. Seriously... when we went down to Atlantic City I brought it with me and made it sit in the hotel room so I wouldn't ruin it at the club! It's my own little pride and joy ... Canon EOS Rebel XS 1000D 10 MB! Yesssss!! :) AND thats not it! But my mom hooked up me too!

 She gave me a nice, big memory card, a cleaning kit, a ginormous camera bag AND a tripod [which will really come in handy when we're on our honeymoon and vacations!] AND to test it out, I used Riddle for an experiment. My first picture is with my powershot point and shoot [which is a canon too! which I LOVE still!]



Obviously I've only had this camera for a week and a half so I'm still getting used to it! But I am SOOOOO excited! :) Every day I'm fooling around with something else [like I JUST fixed the white balance for when I take pictures indoors! They seemed a little yellowy! Yaaay!] But this is MY baby that I will take care of til the day I die! Every night I clean it [seriously] and every night I take its battery out and put it in it's little bag to sleep :) WHOO! I dont think he can top himself!

But the REAL question is... how do I top this gift for Christmas???