House for Sale!

Our house is for Sale!

We have been hard at work getting this house ready for market. It officially went up on Friday. Know of anyone who is interested in a great house, tons of charm, updated and close to the city?
Here is a little description:
Move right in to this fabulous home with classic details and modern conveniences. Plus, there’s a giant 800 sqft detached garage for contractors, car collectors or hobbyist! Architectural details – 9’6” ceilings, tall windows, orig. woodwork, random width h/w floors, door knobs, and more – have been preserved. Spacious L/R opens to the D/R, making one large bright and airy living space. Newly installed kitchen with retro charm. Abundant storage & new appliances make this kitchen a luxury to use. French doors access a sunny laundry rm with storage, greenhouse window & new half bath. The 200 sqft backyard is also accessed by a breezeway allowing light and a cooling breeze into the house. The master bedroom is open and bright and has abundant closet space. Full bsmt has lots of storage. New 200 amp electrical service, outlets and wiring. Convenient location off the main road, but close to shopping, Hinge Café, and the famous Tacconelli’s Pizza. Enjoy neighborhood living with easy access to I-95 and Center City.

We have put a ton of work into this place. Don has done such a fantastic job preserving the architectural integrity. We have used a lot of rescued materials to bring this place back to life and into the modern age. I will certainly miss it, but we are hoping to find ourselves a home with some land. We need to feel some grass between our feet, and so does our pooch. We most likely be moving about 45 minutes out of the city. I will update when we find our new home. Here's hoping our house will be a hot ticket for someone in this unstable market.

Take a tour of our house!

Living room looking to the back of the house.

Dining room

Dining room looking to the front of the house.

The kitchen.
This is the gem of the house. Rescued 1950's cabinets, 1922 cast iron double basin sink, restored Gaffers & Sattler oven, NOS kitchenaid dishwasher, and 1920's subway tile. The floor and counter tops are round penny tile. Notice our custom wine rack? There is also a custom spice rack and a pot filler over the stove. I will miss this kitchen tremendously.

Another view of the kitchen looking towards the back of the house and the laundry room.

Master Bedroom

Master bedroom, different angle. You can see my office through the door on the left.

My office.

New downstairs bathroom.

Upstairs bathroom

So there ya go. Pass along the information to anyone you think may be interested. I will provide updates as they happen. We have our first showing tomorrow!

Fox Philly's HOT list voting time again!

Last year I was very surprised and excited to place 3rd in the Fox Philly Hotlist! It is now starting all over again for 2008. Lets see if I can do it again this year!

Vote for me!

Julie Pete & Logan Family Engagement

Friday evening I spent some time with Pete, Julie and Logan. Pete and Julie are getting married in August and instead of doing a more traditional engagement session we decided to make it a family affair. Logan pretty much called the shots on this shoot, we followed him and did what he wanted to do. He moves quick too! We went on a walk through the neighborhood and then down to love park. The light Friday night was a dream.

This is one good looking family don't ya think?

Mr. Logan all grown up in his little car just chillin.

I always enjoy letting the kids loose and seeing what they do, you had to keep a close eye on this guy though. I like that you can see Pete making sure the little man was ok.

Amazing light like I said. I think this is my favorite color family photo of the day.

I had to include this one because I can't tell you how excited I am to see these guys on their wedding day. Julie is amazingly gorgeous. I love this image, she didn't even know I took it.

It was great spending time with you guys.
We are going to have a great time on the wedding day.

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Stretch

I am sorry I have been a bad blogger. I actually don't even like saying the word blogger, anyway... I have been busy. We have a ton of things on our plate at the house at the moment, which I will reveal soon enough.

Today I started a yoga class. It is high time I get myself back in a routine of activity. I have really let myself go over the past year and I am really not comfortable in my own body. An under active thyroid does not help matters in the slightest and it tends to leave me feeling very sluggish. But excuses excuses la-di-da. The class today was very good. I have never taken yoga on a regular basis but I think its exactly what I need right now to wake my body up. I also need the group activity. I can not be trusted to go to the gym alone, I think thats my other problem. I got too bored with my routine and could not bump myself out of it. I need motivation. I miss the good ole days of meeting Christina to go to the gym before work at Drexel.

In thinking about yoga I am actually quite sore from being out shooting with Miss Jackie Bayne this weekend and I also came across this image Ryan sent to me a few months back. I was out shooting Carina and Ron's wedding with him and he grabbed this oh so flattering photo of me. Kinda looks like one of the yoga poses I did today. I will have to pay extra attention in class to apply more poses to my shooting technique.
Here's hoping I can find my center again and get back on the active track of life.

Don't be stupid like me.

If you have an iphone and want to update it to the new software don't do it today. I should totally know better, what did I learn supporting Mac software all those years? Never update software on the first day in case of glitches. I was excited and as a result I am sitting with an unusable iphone right now until Apples servers can catch up.

find out all you need to know here:
iPhone 2.0 update problems

So if you are trying to contact me, I have no phone right now and won't until I can finish the update on my iphone. Who knows when that will be.

Learn from my mistakes. WAIT to UPDATE!

**EDIT**
After 4 hours I am finally back up. ahhh.