Let’s face it. I pretty much wish I was born in 1934 like my grandparents so I could have lived through mid-century America.

I have been waiting my whole life (not an exaggeration) for mid-century style to come back.

I got a new soundtrack on CD the other day — Promises, Promises — and I really love the album design. It’s a musical based on the 1960s movie The Apartment, and so has a delicious mid-century feel.

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Add that to … I have been thinking about the direction I want the design of Lemon and Raspberry to go.

The site officially launched in May, with a free Wordpress template that I customized to the best of my limited ability, with photos I took of lemons and raspberries for the visuals.

I’ve also got an ebook half written, with the layout roughly started by my marketing partner, and I’m aiming for a mid-September release.

So, yeah, I should start thinking about what I want to do design-wise for real.

Vintage-inspired, mid-century awesomeness.

So I thought that a mid-century, vintage inspired branding of Lemon and Raspberry would be so fun! Something that *feels* contemporary (not old/vintage) but still inspired by mid-century style.

In order to get some ideas of what I like, I thought the best place to look for mid-century contemporary design was probably Vintage Ad Browser.

Good-bye hours and hours of my life.

I literally only got about 1/3 through 1 decade of 1 category.

This is going to take awhile ….

Here are some fun ones (all from the 1950s):

I started with the travel ads (love) and got more ideas for more projects ….

How much fun would it be to use vintage ads for a location in your scrapbook/travel journal for a trip?!

Like this one when you go to Oregon, or this one when you go to Switzerland, or the Arizona Biltmore or this other one for your trip to the Bahamas (Kaitlin)?

Fun ephemera to stick in whenever you need a transition, or as background to journaling or a title page …

But wait! there’s more!

TWA had this fantastic series of ads …. all with the exact same layout but with different stories …

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And, my personal favorite …. Southern California:

SoCal vintage ad (1950s)

I even found one for Rome …. And I’m sure I can find one for London and maybe even Alaska (next year’s vacation)

Super excited to set aside a Saturday to just immerse myself …. There are so so so so sso oooo many vintage ads uploaded to this site! I can’t wait!

Vintage Ad Browser

Take a look!

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Today I have a guest post up at My Sundry Musings – a blog friend of mine (Catherine) who is taking herself on an Hawaiian vacation and asked me to fill in a post for her!

So fun … (so jealous)

I’ve blogged 5 tips for better summer vacation photos! Take a look, leave a comment and let me know if you have questions!

First, in June I photographed Kristian and Stephanie’s wedding down in Orange County at the Wayfarer’s Chapel. They came in from Oregon to get married in this glass chapel …. I only shot the ceremony and portraits, but it was so so gorgeous.

At the beginning of July, I joined Renee Bowen in photographing a wedding at Middle Ranch.

sidenote: This was the *first* wedding I’ve photographed only 45 min from my house. It was so nice to just go home afterwards, rather than go to a hotel.

sidenote #2: I love second shooting. I connected with Renee via Twitter. Twitter rocks.

Finally, last weekend I second shot for [b]ecker – an Orange County wedding photographer. This was a Catholic wedding with a Korean wedding as part of the reception activities. So fun!

If you want to see more images from these weddings, keep an eye on Teegan Photography!

Although, they DID perform at the Hollywood Bowl (waaay back in 1964-5 I think) …. And recorded an album (The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl)

(video below … blame the poor sound quality on the legions of crazy fans)

Last Saturday, we ALSO saw the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl – or, rather, a Beatles tribute concert ….

My parents, grandmother and great-aunt all came out from Phoenix for the weekend to attend the Hollywood Bowl. Also along for the ride, my uncle/aunt/kids who live in Santa Clarita (that side of the family has a long history of summertime-Bowl attendance).

If you’ve never been to the Hollywood Bowl …. it is no ordinary concert venue.

For one, it is an amphitheater. Huge outdoor seating area.

We were a bit nervous when the sky started POURING rain as soon as we got off the freeway … but it stopped relatively quickly and our seats weren’t even wet.

There’s kind of a tradition of picnicking at the Bowl. The fancy schmancy seats are boxed in areas WITH table to sit and eat dessert/wine/etc DURING the concert …. But everyone else just gets there early and parks somewhere on the premises with their picnic blanket and cooler.

We brought take-out from my favorite place (Tomato Patch), along with wine, water, sodas, and about 14 different kinds of sweets …

The show started at 8:30p ….. Just after sunset.

Andrew got there about 8:28p (he was at work)

Ted, Kristi and and Lucas got there about 8:38p (they were at Lucas’s basketball game)

First of all, you should know that I love (love love love love love) strings, and having the LA Philharmonic play with these Beatles songs was just fantastic. Makes my heart soar with the eagle’s nest

The concert was set up w/ 5 different vocalists … including Brian Stokes Mitchell (love him) and Todd Rundgren (Andrew loves him). ….

The vocalists were from every genre : jazz/pop, soul, rock, Broadway, and dirty old rockstar.

The whole gamut.

Which means a huge range of Beatles songs were covered.

(Todd Rundgren dressed up for ‘Mr. Kite’)

At the end, all 5 artists came on stage for the big finale numbers:

Let it Be (prompting the lighters/cell phones seen in the images below) and Hey, Jude.

The Beatles are the best …. if only one of them had been there …

P.S. I’m going back in a couple weeks …

Apparently (according to Wikipedia), true X-Files fans have named themselves X-Philes (from the Greek root “-phil-” meaning love or obsession). Not that we’re obsessed by any means, but I kind of love that fan-name!

Sidenote: I LOVE that we can live stream movies via Netflix through our Wii. We may not be watching our Netflix discs all that quickly, but we are DEFINITELY getting our money’s worth with the live streaming.

Andrew’s bday was Monday and he decided he just wanted to stay in all day and hang out …. so, we FINISHED X-Files season 1! Started season 2 last night.

There’s something about ‘Spooky Mulder’ that I just love.

Yes, the graphics in these shows are a little cheesy. Yes, the scripts started out as phbt but are getting better. Yes, they are about ghosts and extraterrestials.

But they are SO MUCH FUN!

I’ve seen some of the episodes…

When I was a sophomore in high school, my Chemistry teacher took maternity leave for the 2nd semester and we had a long-term substitute – Mr. Senate (he preferred it if we called him Mr. S)

The way our high school was set up, all the chemistry classes for all the teachers followed the same schedule/curriculum/etc. And since we all had to use the same lab space, we all did the experiments around the same time …

Since Mr. S was super fantastic, our class got days (and times a week or more) ahead of all the other classes…. And so, to kill time until EVERYONE moved on to the next unit, we would watch X-Files on DVD.

So awesome …

There are 9 seasons, I think ….. I guess they move from ‘monster-of-the-week’ episodes to over-arching themes of a shadow government, a ‘colony’ of extraterrestrials, etc …

I kind of love government conspiracy theory…. it’s fascinating …. I can’t believe the kind of nutty stuff people believe (p.s. I just started subscribing to a video podcast ‘Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know’) ….

I can’t wait til we get farther in the series where there conspiracy angle becomes more pronounced.

For reals. I love this stuff.

With all my heart.

Last year I got to go to 2 (TWO) musicals at Pantages — because Julie wanted to go and needed a date, I guess

Then, for Christmas she gave me a gift certificate for the Pantages.

And I hyperventilated a little bit…..

And then strategically planned how I was going to get to see one of my top choices on a weekend (since I work nights) that Andrew could also go.

No small feat, I assure you.

But !!  We did it!

In the Heights is playing right now and it was HIGH on my list of shows to see …. One girl I went to high school with (and understudied) was in the original cast, it won all kinds of Tony awards AND I recently got the soundtrack so was at least moderately familiar with the music ….

Thursday of last week we drove down to Hollywood (had to buy directly from the box office rather than online) …. consulted a bit with the theater employee helping us. …

We had originally planned to go to the Sunday matinee (cheaper), but he told us that Lin-Manuel Miranda wasn’t performing in the matinee.

I don’t know how much more we paid to see him, but it was SOOO worth it!

Lin-Manuel Miranda is the creator and STAR of the show In the Heights….. And I’m a *little* bit in love with him …

SO, Sunday night we got all gussied up and drove down to Hollywood to see In the Heights ….

And, honestly, I cried.

I *felt like crying* just from the pure joy in seeing a real, live, professional musical (oh yes, a professional production is MUCH different than community theater) …. But I was able to hold back those tears. I got a rep’ to protect. (10 points if you know what that is quoting).

But *did* cry at a certain moving point in the show … because it was just so fantastic.

For reals, y’all. I listened to the (2-disc) soundtrack about 3x on Monday.

So glad we got to see it …. So glad Andrew loved it (almost) as much as I did …. So glad Lin-Manuel will be reprising his role in the still-in-development movie of In the Heights.

I can’t afford to buy my own tickets, but if anyone needs a date, I am more than willing to go again!

P.S. Next year we want to see Avenue Q!! Or Hair. Or West Side Story. Or Spring Awakening.

Andrew’s studio works on A LOT of records. A lot of big, popular records. Records that win Grammys, for example.

The studio just passed it’s 2 year anniversary, and as part of their gifts, the big boss bought all the guys the plaques of the 2 records they made recently that went gold!

Too bad they’re not any bands Andrew really likes

Andrew now has started his collection for the walls of his “someday” studio …

Which, by the way, Kevin has decided should be named “Caesar’s Ancient Roman Recording Studio” …

Lemon and Raspberry is a website/blog that will be updated regularly (daily, possibly) on a variety of topics that fall under the umbrella of arts, crafts, inspiration and photography.

I have a lot of fun things planned – included DIY projects, photography lessons, online chats, blogging resources and maybe even an etsy site with some handmade creations.

I’d love if you joined me over there every day and your feedback is most welcome….

ALSO :

In honor of the new site, today I am launching a FREE ebook on better photography.

This 29 page pdf features 3 really easy ways to make your images even better.

All the steps are completely do-able with any camera you have – do NOT think you need to buy a fancy dSLR to make better images.

Each of the 3 steps includes

• the how and why
• possible drawbacks
• unexpected advantages
• examples from my photography and others
• extra credit projects

This ebook is completely free. No need to shell out a couple bucks or join a mailing list. Just download it to your computer and start playing!

Please click on the image below to visit Lemon and Raspberry ….

I have a new website launching and I can’t wait to share it with all of you.

I’m talking inspiration, I’m talking crafts and DIY, I’m talking paint and projects and fabric and photography.

Maybe even an Etsy shop!

I hope you’ll all join me Monday, when I’ll reveal more!

Keith and Shannon are super super cute!

Take a look at these highlights …. there will be more posted at Teegan Photography in the coming weeks ….

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