My New Ukelele!!!

In honor of the podcast Uketopia I bought a Ukelele. My friend Emily Hedrick created a great podcast on itunes about Ukeleles. It is getting good reviews and the KALA company sent her a couple of Ukeleles to try out. She is going to be travelling all around the world with their 'travel' uke and taking pictures with it in all different places.

She asked me to be a part of each episode by doing a section called "Tips and Tricks with Tamilisa."

You can check it out on itunes or go to the podcast website:
http://uketopiapodcast.blogspot.com/

Habitat for Humanity Gig

My band played this week for our 4th annual Habitat for Humanity gig!! So fun! Craig was nice to come work the sound for free.

Here are some fun pictures.














Me and Craig
















Our next performance will be July 21st at the Brigham Young Park downtown. We will be playing for the outdoor concert in the park as part of the Temple Square Concert Series.

I wanted to repost this because I love it.

Disneyland!!! While We're On the Subject...

Here is a video piece Craig and I made from our Disneyland adventure!!

Disneyland!!!

The most magical place on Earth.
How could I possibly let the opportunity pass on posting about Disneyland!!?






Welcome to Downtown Disney!










Craig and I got to go to Disneyland (for free!) a few weekends ago.
We were down in California for a convention for the weekend. The convention was only a couple of blocks from Disneyland so we made sure to go!














Here we are on Space Mountain! You may have to click on this image to make it bigger to see us. We're in the back. So funny.

















We met Mickey! :) (Can I just say that I don't like letting random people take pictures! C'mon folks...let's frame it up nice.)And last but not least...a Disneyland garbage can and ash tray.














How, you ask, did we get to go for free?? On Friday night that we were in CA, we attended one of those "come and listen to our vacation time share spiel things" and they gave us 2 free tickets as payment. They also fed us dinner and picked us up in a limo. I don't know of any Utah based spiel that does that! I could get used to California!















So that was how. The next day we came back home. Here we are on the plane ride.

Clean! From the Inside Out

Hummm!!! You think something is clean but take a closer look! This the front part of my computer, a fan, that I took out to dust! Look at the dust that accumulates INSIDE the computer! Yours may be this way too. My computer is easy to take the cover off so I often dust inside. You can use an air can to get most of the dust. But to really clean the fans, I had to also use tweezers and a toothpick to coax the dust balls out. And my computer isn't even that old! Well, it is now all clean!! :) :)

My New Violin!!

So, I've played the violin since I was 6 years old. And for the past 5 or 6 years, I have been playing in a bluegrass band. I play the mandolin, fiddle, and am learning banjo. However, I have never had my very own instrument (apart from 2 harmonicas and a penny whistle)!! Well, this Christmas I decided it was time. Time to have my very own instead of hand-me-downs that really belong to my parents. So here it is! :) A brand new Andare (German made) violin.