Birthdays, boxes...and shoes!!!!

Happy Thursday!!!

My husband and I celebrated both of our birthdays this weekend by going on a little getaway to Santa Fe, New Mexico! I can't wait to share some of the pictures from our road trip, but first I wanted to share a very unique birthday gift from my mom!

I've recently acquired a "thing" for vintage crate boxes. I've been seeing them pop up quite a bit on the blog-o-sphere lately, especially in DIY projects where people are mounting them on the wall and using them as shelves! I have to admit that I've become obsessed with this idea, and I've been keeping an eye out lately for a few of my own. So when Jason and I walked into the house from our long weekend to see 6 crates lined up in the living room waiting for us, I was thrilled! My mom, who just recently returned from a trip down to Austin, picked these out with the help of my sister Marisa while hitting up some antique stores in the area.

I can't wait to get these babies up on the wall! So hopefully there will be a before-and-after post in the near future! But in the mean time I couldn't help but drag the boxes outside to take a few pics. Side note- I have the coolest husband ever. In a normal household I think the sight of someone's wife dragging boxes outside at 8 o'clock at night just to take pictures of them would incite at least a little eyebrow raising. Not in this house! When he saw me taking pictures he came out to help me move the crates around. He even cleaned up an area in front of our fence so I could use it as a backdrop. Bottom-line: Jason=awesome. Duh.

Okay,so I LOVE shoes, and I just had to add a pair in this session:

So I might have a few too many pics of these heels... but deal with it peeps!

Time for some nerd talk:

These were all taken with my NEW 50mm 1.4 lens, unfortunately I didn't have it on the trip but I had a great time using it for these photos!  I had to do very little tweaking to these pics, almost nothing really. I love how it performed in such a low light situation!

I think I'm in love... :) Don't tell the hubby!