For those who don’t know, Tina is the sister of one of my closest friends. We’ve known each other for the past ten years and she very successfully fills the part of the little sister that I never had …constantly annoyingly entertaining, and sometimes when she tries really hard she is super cute as well.

Every once in a while we get together and do a portrait session. Recently I wanted to practice black and white photography, so that is this session’s theme. I also absolutely love the old look of the area they live in, so of course I took advantage of that! Enjoy:

By the way, (if you can see the video above) this is the first time I get to use the new < video > tag in HTML5 supporting web browsers and show this video. This video is hosted on my web host, no need any more for Vimeo.com or Youtube.com, although they are neat for other purposes =)

You can read the history of the Begisholli refugee family here. Also on Kijiji

On Saturday November 20th 2010 there will be an in-house-sale. It’s like a garage sale, except it will feature some of the large pieces of furniture in the Begisholli household that they had to leave behind when they got deported.

The money earned through the sales of these items will go directly to them, in order to provide for their everyday needs (like streaming hot water, which is scarce and expensive in Kosovo right now) as well as items of food.

Location: 34 Ingleside Drive, Kitchener, Ontario

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Some of the items that will be fore sale you can see below:

A 4 month old matress that was $2000 in value when bought

A full six chair dining table set

There are two of these beds for sale.

Dryer

Washer