When Chris and I were dating, he once said to me "I’m so happy that my life is happening with you."  He said it in passing, not a particularly special moment.  And yet, it’s stuck with me for many many years.  I quoted it in our wedding vows.  It’s so simple.  So real. That [...]

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    Most people are surprised to find out where I’m from.  They kind of look at me in shock and can’t quite figure out how I made the transfer from a teeny tiny small town in the South to Los Angeles.  I grew up in Oriental, North Carolina.  It’s a small town of about [...]

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  Chris & I are planners.  We think and research and talk to people and do more research.  Then we think some more.  And eventually we might make a decision.  But we like to take time.   On occasion, we’ll decide to go about things a little bit differently though.  Two weeks ago, on a lovely [...]

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  My mother is an amazing seamstress.  Her mother was an amazing seamstress.  I feel as if it runs in my blood.  So, a few months ago, my friend Jess & I took a sewing class and I fell in love.  We learned how to make pillow cases and I’ve probably made, oh, 395 pillows [...]

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  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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