Christmas with the Leon-Guerreros

Before Franklin and I head out to spend time with family on christmas, we like to have our own little private christmas at home, just the two of us. This was our first christmas together as a married couple, huzzah! and we've already acquired some sweet holiday traditions:

1. make the house smell like breakfast
2. wear silly hats

 What I got Franklin: Vintage Suzuki Omnichord, Vintage GE Keyboard, Clash of the Kings

My favorite part of christmas was Franklin's reactions to his gifts, haha. Doesn't he look so happy in that last picture? ha! I see christmas gifts as an opportunity to show him how well I know him :) I think I did pretty good this year, heehee. If you've never heard of an omnichord, here's a demo video I found on youtube for your viewing pleasure: CLICK HERE to see what an omnichord sounds like!

What Franklin got me: Diana F+ lomography camera, Speedball screenprinting kit, a Camera Obscura record and a REALLY AWESOME DRAFTING TABLE!

I've been super obsessed with my new Diana F+ camera. It's completely manual, right down to opening and closing the shutter. It takes 120 film, which I've never used before, but I'm oh so excited to see how my photos turn out. After looking through all the photo albums at Franklin's grandma's house, it makes me really want to be more conscious about collecting tangible photos for future generations to gaze upon. It's sad how all my photographic memories are digital, and if my computer crashed, they'd be lost forever.

Anyway, how was everyone's christmas? I hope it was fun! It gets hard to make your own christmas and find your way of cultivating that christmas spirit when you get older, without feeling like you're trying too hard to recreate your own childhood memories. but you get there eventually! I feel like we finally got there this year. It definitely helps to wear silly hats, I tell ya what.

-Elizabeth

Snow Day

Going through old files on the 8-track, I stumbled upon a recording Elizabeth and I did last winter when we got snowed in and couldn't get to work; aptly named "Snow Day".
It's kinda loungy, and feels more like a lethargic, lazy summer day in France, rather than a snowed-in excuse to skip work in the Pacific Northwest.
Maybe thats its charm?
Maybe not.

I use the ol' acoustic and bass drum/tambourine set-up, while Elizabeth did the lyrics, sang, and played the keys.

Take a minute out of your hot Labor Day weekend, and have a listen to Snow Day.

-Franklin