Slideshow #3 & Blog Sprucing

If you are a regular follower/reader of my blog, you may have noticed that I have made some changes to my blog. I replaced the header photo with a new one, added some pages, a new background, and made things look a little cleaner. It bugged me how cluttered my blog looked, but I never took the time to do anything about it.

Turns out, this didn't take as much time as I thought it would (yippee!), and though I still haven't hired someone to design my blog for me, it was free to do and is now a little bit fancier than it was before, but not crazy/blow-your-mind/out-of-this-world/elaborate fanciness that it could be had I hired someone who actually knows what they are doing (because I don't really). I still plan to add another button for more variety, but that's taking a backseat since today we are leaving for a weekend couple's retreat with our Fusion group (so excited!)

I hope you like it, 'cause I really do (and so does David actually, HA!).

And now onto a very special slideshow: Paris.

I have been to Paris three times now (possibly making it four this summer, but that's still up in the air). I know this makes me super lucky. I don't take it for granted!

The first time I went was in high school through my French class where we also visited Holland & Germany.

The second time was in college with two girlfriends. We also toured Italy.

The third was on my honeymoon. I always knew that my ultimate dream trip to Paris would be on my honeymoon, so we made it happen. As you may already know, we started the trip in Ireland (view the slideshow here), made our way to London (slideshow here), then to Paris and lastly a tour of Italy.

When I was making these slideshows it was difficult for me to not play favorites and to avoid taking a little extra time with Ireland and Paris. As such they have become my favorite of the four slideshows. It's probably the music.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy a little trip to Paris... I know I did!

Per usual, please press play immediately followed by pause to let the video load a little before pressing play again to view. Thank you!

Honeymoon: Paris from Andrea Carpenter-Heffernan on Vimeo.
A video slideshow with music of my honeymoon in Paris with my husband, David.

Music by:

Édith Piaf
Christopher Gunning
Frédéric Foret
and
Yann Tiersen

Slideshow #2

Last week I "premiered" my video slideshow for Ireland, which you can view here.

This week's premiere is from London, England which was the second country we visited on our 4 week long honeymoon.

If you like The Beatles, you might like this installment, although the video was only long enough to feature two songs. The first was an obvious choice for a honeymoon and the second was one of my favorites of their more upbeat songs.

I hope you all enjoy!

(It's not as long as last weeks video ;-D)

Again, please press play immediately followed by pause to allow the video to load a little before pressing play again.

Honeymoon in London from Andrea Carpenter-Heffernan on Vimeo.
Slideshow with music of my honeymoon in London with David.

Music by The Beatles

Slideshow #1

I finished the last slideshow last night!
And then I made the DVD menu this morning!
And then I burned them onto discs to hand out to family!


(Can you tell I feel excited/relieved/accomplished??)


Yup.


So after finishing up all of that in my down time* I still have to make the labels for the discs and covers, but that should be simple enough, right?


*I say down time because I really do feel pretty down today. I've been way more tired than usual, light headed, dizzy when I get up (I even cancelled my workout sesh with Lauren, which I was looking forward to), and to top it all off, I ran out of my heartburn medication and my chest has been ON FIRE all day long. Thankfully David saved the day and swooped in after work with some pills and I was on my way to feeling a little better.


And after some time of troubleshooting uploading to Vimeo, I've finally figured it out and can present you with slideshow number one (whether you want to see it or not).


So I give you...


Our honeymoon...


In Ireland, the greenest place on earth and my adopted home away from home.


p.s. please press play and then pause to let the video load a little before watching :)

Honeymoon: Ireland from Andrea Carpenter-Heffernan on Vimeo.
Slideshow with music of my honeymoon in Ireland with my husband, David.

Music credits:
Lisa Hannigan
and
The Irish Folk


I worked pretty hard on these so I really hope you enjoyed!