Happy Moments: Capturing Them with Fujifilm's Instax Mini 8

I am a spoiled young lady!

This bad boy was waiting for me when I arrived in Calgary Thursday evening. Ill have a blog coming up about my amazing trip to YYC coming up a little later this week, it has been too busy to blog so far! Between packing up eight massive boxes to ship across the country back to Nova Scotia, Friday night’s Stampeders game, wining and dining there has not been much time to put my thoughts in blog form.

Today, just a quick not about the Fujifilm Instax Mini 8, I was so surprised to receive this when I arrived in Calgary. Sometimes I wonder how often people still get their photos printed these days. We take so many photos these days of everything from our meals to hairstyles and outfits just going to work on an average day (yes, I know people who “selfie” their outfits on Instagram everyday before work), printing them all would be unreal! Not only would it be costly, it would be super lame. Think about labeling all those photos the way photos in photo albums are captioned on the reverse side of the photo, so many of them would be #ridiculous.

I am so excited to give the Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 a test run today when my cousin brings her baby over an have some instantly printed photos to take home to Nova Scotia to my grandmother who has only met her great-grandson once.  The last time we visited family in Ontario I had to make a trek through Oakville to find a place with a working photo printer to print photos for my boyfriend’s grandparents, all of the places I normally print photos (Walmart and Shoppers) were unable to print photos in seconds. That is no longer a worry with my new toy!

I am hoping we can capture some special moments from Kev’s military graduation on Thursday with this camera for his family. I feel like using it is kind of like a retro throwback to an old school Polaroid camera! 

Side note, nothing about this is mini! I am surprised at the size of the Fujifilm Instax Mini 8, it makes sense that it is larger than the digital cameras that I am used to because it prints credit card sized photos. Still, I am so used to having one of the smallest cameras on the market (Nikon’s Coolpix S01 10.1 MP Digital Camera) that people often refer to as a “spy camera”, so this is a big adjustment!

I think this is going to be such a fun addition to big events like weddings and family reunions, but I may have to buy a bigger purse soon with all of these new gadgets!

I’ll let you know how our test run goes this afternoon! :)

DIY Creepy Family Calenders

This month my goal is to crank out all of my mandatory blogs, because I tend to forget about them when I get busy at work.

This blog is a nice little reminder that I am kind of obsessed with going to Disneyworld (someday I will stop talking about it) and a cute/creepy idea for an upcoming Christmas present if you are on a tight budget.

My family has only ever had one real family photo (and as mentioned in previous blogs no real family vacations), so instead of trying to wrangle everyone into a photo shoot or even a family vacation, I decided to do something much more creepy… both!

So if you are trying to convince your family members to finally go to Disneyworld with you or maybe you just want a calendar with your family photos jazzed up a little bit to help you get through the year take a moment and Photoshop your family in various locations, you can even go back in time!

Okay, I may have stopped after two months on the attempt to Photoshop an entire creepy family calender like this. Please, feel free to out-do me and email me your results!

I just spent a good half-hour perusing the internet to attempt to find the original photo; I am pretty shocked at how easy it was to find these bad boys but not the original… 

First Looks At Baby North West and Kanye West's Interview On Kris

Keeping it in the family, Kanye West visited the Kris show today and talked about being a 'musical genius' and a new dad. Kris of course is Kris Kardashian Jenner, the mother of Kanye's boo Kim Kardashian. During Kanye's visit he offered up the first photos of baby North West, his precious two month old daughter. 

When you read what he says in the Rolling Stone article it comes off as 50% ramblings of a egocentric maniac, 49% I better do this interview or this crazy lady (mother of my baby's Mama is going to kill me) and 1% man changed by love and a new baby . But, watching the videos is completely different. I judged all this self promotion (for both Kris and Kanye) as a all you can eat buffet to feed their egos, but in the videos of the interview Kanye actually comes off more like a cuddly teddy bear (not unlike the bear blasting off into new adventures on the cover of Graduation). 

Here is an a quote from the Rolling Stone article, quoting Kanye on the Kris show.

"The only thing I want to do in life is help people, and that's what's so disturbing about being written up in society as being some type of enemy. The last thing I would want to happen to my daughter is some crazy drunk black guy in a leather shirt to come up and cut her off at an awards show."

If you want to let Kanye finish you can read the rest of the article on Rolling Stone. Or check out the YouTube video. Both are posted below.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kanye-wests-10-best-quotes-on-kris-jenners-talk-show-20130823