While I was at my moms I realized the one essential I am missing for the apartment: 

an aloe plant.

I got a new camera this week and I’m completely in love with it.  I got a Canon EOS Rebel t2i; not the most recent Canon Rebel, but close enough and cheaper than the t3i.  It’s been wonderful so far, but I haven’t had too much time to play with it since I’ve been moving in, my mom’s birthday, etc.

I got a little bit of time to take pictures of one of my favorite subjects: my cat Cyrax.  She’s a natural model.  More pictures will come when I get more time to play with my amazing new camera.

I am going to try something different from now on and try out a “photo a day” theme for my blog.  I think that will help to advance my photography skills and be a fun day to day project.  Sometimes there will be more than one photo a day, though.

Rich and I moved into our new home this week in New Haven.  We are on a pretty tight budget and so we’re taking whatever hand-me-downs we can find.  Luckily for us we got two couches from his parents, a nice three seater and a love seat.  To make it so it fit the room we took a trip to Ikea to get some fabric and then attempted to make couch covers by ourselves.  Below is a sample of the original fabric, followed my the new fabric and the finished product.

The whole project ended up being around $40 - $45 total, so a lot cheaper than the hundred dollar couch covers we were looking at.  I haven’t attempted the three seater yet since I got tired and hungry after this one, but pictures will come of that as well.