One of the hardest things about working for yourself from home is the lack of human interaction.   There’s no one to talk to.  To swap stories with.  To lean on.  I didn’t realize how hard it would be.  Chris would come home from work, after spending two hours in traffic, and I would be [...]

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  We’re not really sure when his birthday is.  The East Valley Animal Shelter thought he was about 1.5 years, but, who knows for sure.  Sometimes, while I’m rubbing his ears, I think about where he came from.  Who his family was.  What life was like before escaped, got hit by a car and ended [...]

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  I used to shoot for myself all the time.  Pictures of, well, everything I was doing, everywhere I went, everyone I saw.  I am BEYOND blessed to be able to shoot for a living now.  But I think that when you shoot for others, the shooting for yourself takes a bit of a backseat.  [...]

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  I realized today that I hadn’t blogged.  For way too long.  I’ve been busy busy busy, but nothing to interesting for the blog yet!  Really, it’s just been editing & album designing & shooting ladies that are entirely too sexy for the blog! So, we’ve been relaxing and hanging out with Mr. Basil.  Getting [...]

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  A few weeks ago my friends Chris & Allie of The Reason were in town and they introduced me to my newest obsession… The Instax.  I absolutely loved the camera and the images it created.  I NEEDED to have it for our trip to Sonoma.   So much so that when it didn’t arrive in [...]

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  Last September Chris & I became the proud owners of a project house.  The place was in shambles… it was a dirty, gross, disgusting disaster area that only a parent could love.  And we did.  We loved every single thing about it.  It’s old, built in 1929 and has so much character.  Not all [...]

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  When did that happen!?  We’ve been going back and forth a few times thus far and I keep thinking that it’s fall.  Like after we installed central Air Conditioning in the house and then it suddenly got very cool.  At the time I was so upset that we wouldn’t get to put it to [...]

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  I’m going to be out of the office from Tuesday thru Saturday.  My bestie is becoming a DOCTAH!  I’m so wicked excited for her that I’m flying to Nashville to watch her defend her thesis.  I’ve been told that I will only understand about, well, likely none of it.  Something about malaria and microscopes [...]

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  I am OBSESSED with my cats.  Seriously, I don’t think I could love my boys anymore.  If I could take them out with me, without looking like a crazy cat lady, I totally would.  I once bought leashes for them (bordering on crazy cat lady, I know) but they didn’t really appreciate the feel [...]

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Turns out, website building is a super long and hard process.  There’s all kinds of coding and bugs and crazy-way-beyond-my-abilities stuff to deal with.  But, at WPPI, a photography convention in February, I found ShowIt Sites.  I’d been using their slideshows for quite a while, but hadn’t been formally introduced to their website program.  And [...]

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