One year ago today, I was photographing antiques in Round Top, Texas for the Crave Austin book.  I love old stuff, so I snuck in a few personal shots while I was at it.  There were a lot of crowns at the show, so expect to see them showing up in the Pottery Barn catalog soon.

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Here are the rules.

No boys allowed.

1.  No food allowed

2.  No shoes allowed

3.  No drinks allowed

4.  Pick up the mess you made.

People under 13 are not allowed.

Oh, and Please Knock!

(Holly’s bedroom door)

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Back, by popular demand, Suzi’s SXSW iPhone Round Up.

Got a wristband and used it to sashay into a gazillion shows at SXSW.

Starting on Wednesday night, some standouts were the Muffs, then Thursday with the Spits, the Zeros, the Notekillers, Jim Jones Revue and Chris Pierce.

This series is from Friday, beyond that I have nothing because my iPhone died because I just started Twittering (I’m still in my first week!) and that used up all my camera power.  Good info for a photographer to know!

Here I am, wearing my thermal pajamas (it was ridiculously cold…oh, that Texas weather!)

Random street band.  They were so serious…super cute.

People started doing orange tequila shots.  Sorry about all the orange themed photos…totally unplanned.

Japan Nite at Elysium.  Here’s the guitarist from Red Bacteria Vacuum.  An all girl metal band.

And, finally, my favorite!  Okamoto’s.  They were fantastic musicians.  The lead singer looked like Mick Jagger.  I got showered in his sweat because I was in the front row and he was…energetic.  They all were.  I have a big crush on these guys! 

Thanks for looking at my cruddy iPhone pix.  Now back to my day job.  I feel like Clark Kent.  Mild mannered wedding photographer.

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I love high tea and cucumber sandwiches.  I tried to make those fancy little sandwiches myself one day.  Unfortunately mine were a little disheveled.  Apparently cutting the crusts off sandwiches is a skill set I don’t have.

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I stayed at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago awhile back.  I was shooting a wedding and wanted to swing by the Art Institute while I was in town.  The hotel was a block away, very convenient.  Plus, I love a restored old hotel with fun details.

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Winning wool at the Western Idaho State Fair.  It was all so soft and silky.  Um, I mean, wooly!

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Happy Birthday to Noah!  Great guy, foodie, hockey player and bass player.  I confess, I quite like him.

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A boy and his dog.

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Goodbye January! 

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One of the benefits of staying on Trudianne and Billy’s farm is eating well, especially those fresh eggs.  Super fresh.  We went out and gathered up eggs that had just been laid!  I was fascinated to see the difference in yolks between a store bought egg and a freshly laid egg.  Trudianne has a sweet dog named Seumas, who supervised us in our egg gathering, then needed to rest after all the excitement.

Trudianne and Billy also took me site seeing.  Well, more like “food-seeing”.  Don’t even get me started about the wonders of cinnamon bacon.  We made a pilgrimage to Portillo’s, a legendary Chicago hot dog place. While eating the famous (and soggy) Chicago Italian Beef sandwich, I witnessed their first married scuffle, as Trudianne tried to bogart Billy’s french fries.  And yeah, those fries were good (I may have snuck a few myself). 

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