These Days...

My photograph today, makes me feel like a Cat-Lady. I'm not by definition a Cat-lady, I mean I'm engaged and I have a social life. I most likely wont live my life out knitting at home alone with 7 cats. But, my photo today is of my cat. Her name is Princess, my family has had her since I was in the 2nd grade, which makes her something like 16 years old. She has been a loyal, calm, gentle and loving cat her entire life. I will miss her more than words can express, when I move. The past 2 weeks she's been having some issues that frequently occur in older people, she's a cat and we've never had a cat live quite this long so we are unsure whether this is a normal "old cat" problem or if its indicative of a more serious problem. But, we're worried, and the thought that I might NEVER see her again, is down right devestating to me. So, my photo today is of her.

Have a good night.

These days...

I'm starting something new here today. This idea has been mulling around in my brain for a week or so and I have decided to act on it. I happen to be moving from this wonderful place called the dc metro area, to the amazing city of Austin, TX. This is both a happy and sad occurrence. It will be so difficult to leave everything I know, all my friends and family and move half way across the country. But at the same time, its so exciting to move to Austin, where I'll get to see my Fiance every day, and start a new job, and be where I'm suppose to be.

So, I'm a mix of emotions. The idea is, to photograph my life here in Maryland from Today (Sunday) until Wednesday June 9th, when I leave on my 2 day journey. Originally I thought I would just document the Maryland side of things, but upon further consideration, I have decided that I shall document the entire journey, including the move into my new apartment at the end of June. SO, that means everyday for the next 37 days, I will be posting 1 or 2 photos from my day. Not of random things like I usually do for my photo of the day, but of the things and people that make up my day. To document the things I love about Maryland, about my 2 day drive to Austin, and about my new life. It will most certainly be a challenging thing but, I am sure that I will be glad for it. This is the biggest thing to occur in my life so far, I think its worth documenting.

I have decided to name this little thing of mine the These Days... Project. The title is inspired by a song from the Denison Witmer Recovered Album called These days, the original song is by Jackson Browne. I have had this album since it came out and I just love his rendition of the song, and lately its been stuck in my head.

Today, after church I met up with Miss Sarah Patch. We got lunch in Adams Morgan at Tryst, and then headed down to the National Gallery of Art, to enjoy a Photography Exhibit . It was a great day. I am certainly going to miss spending time with Sarah, she has been one of my good friends since I was in the 5th grade. It was great spending the day with her, and so I made her my subject for my photographs today.

Now I'm off to the grocery and then I'll hopefully get to curl up with some hot tea and talk to the fiance. Have a great night!

Mandy + Joe the Full Post-Wedding Preview

I think this post's title says all that needs to be said. If you've followed my blog for any amount of time, you know that this post has been long coming. So here is the story: back in November the 3 of us headed down to Alexandria, VA and the district to do a little post wedding shoot for them. They had been married about a month and I wanted to try out a new camera. So we made a day of it.

Enjoy!!

This would be great right now...

Moroccan Mint Tea, Chocolate Salty Oat cookie...

This would be great right now... but maybe with hot tea...

Busy Busy Busy

SO I have been Busy Busy Busy this week with editing of photos, wedding stuff, moving out stuff, and work has been super busy with a bunch of special events this past week. To top it all off, I went to my friend Jess Morris's wedding on Saturday to see her become Mrs. Jessica Friley. It was alot of fun. Today My mom, My sister, My aunt and My cousin all went with me to a bridal expo in Gaithersburg. We had a great time, and it gave me some great ideas. The main one is what my table centerpieces will look like. Originally I thought I would do eclectic candle centerpieces but have decided to modify that by adding mason jars with flowers in the center of the table with a mish-mosh of candles surrounding them. I did a test run so that when I meet with the florist, hopefully this week, I'll have something to show her. I thought that since I was going to be taking pictures of them anyway I would post them here as well. Enjoy. Have a great Sunday afternoon!

From blog stuff

I'm back...sort of

It has been a long time since I have posted and I apologize for that. There is a good reason, and that reason is that my computer died on me and is in the process of being fixed. I did a senior session a few weekends back and have been itching to edit the photos and post them but have been unable to. I also have the final post for Mandy + Joe post wedding and the rest of the photos from Melissa's photo shoot. Once I have my computer back I will be full of posts, I promise. :-)

I have also been SUPER busy with wedding planning. Almost all the major aspects have been finalized.  I'm a bit excited, the wedding is only 5 months away.

Hopefully I'll have my computer back in the next few days and I'll be feverishly editing away and hopefully posting by Friday.

I hope everyone has had a great weekend!

this is the snow that never ends, it goes on and on my friend...

so it snowed for 2 entire days and is going to snow again on Tuesday. I have to say I actually dont really like snow all that much, but I do like taking photographs of snow and hulling up in the house with a cup of hot tea and a good book or movie when its snowing.

Today I decided to venture out and take some photos. Here's the only one I really liked...

Tomorrow I have to leave work early to head back to the doctor to get my arm checked out again and hopefully get this big blue cast off...

My arm still really hurts, actually just about the same as when thet put the cast on, but I hate having the cast on, 1.) because its really itchy and 2.) because I hate the limitations it creates in my normal everyday activities. But we shall see what is to happen next. I'll update in the next couple of days. Have a great night!

P.S.-The photo of my cast was apparently taken last Tuesday, which leads me to believe the meds the doctor gave me caused some me to do some time travelling, because I don't remember taking it :-)

What I've been working on...

This past week I have been working hard on Valentine's day mug cozies and other accessories to put up on my etsy and also trying out some cool new techniques. In doing all of that I created a valentines day card that I'll be putting up for sale on my etsy shortly. I just need to see the test card turns out and then I'll place the order. So here is what the front of card is will look like.

Check back around Wednesday either here on the blog or on my etsy to purchase one.
I should have some more valentine's day items up on my etsy by Monday or so. Keep checking back.

 I will be meeting up with my friend Sarah to go to a Haiti benefit show at IOTA in Arlington tonight so I hope everyone has a great night and a good weekend!

Red Valentine's Day Mug Cozy

Here is a photo of the Red Valentine's Day Mug cozy I made for my etsy page. It is now for sale on my etsy page, check it out  here . I'll be posting more Valentine's Day Mug cozies on my etsy soon, so check back later this week for more.

Have a great day!

Nothing quite like a clean and organized work space. :-) I spent Sunday night cleaning and organizing my creative space because, frankly, it was a HOT mess. Nothing was organized it was just all piled up, so much so, that I couldn't even use it at all. Lol. But now its wonderful and clean and has inspired me to be crafty once again. I made a cute new valentine's day mug cozy that I'll be putting up on my etsy page tomorrow. Since every post is better with a photo, here is one of my newly cleaned craft space:

Photo shoot-Melissa 2010

On Wednesday I got a text message from my good friend from college, Melissa. She asked me if I would be able to do a last minute photo shoot with her so she could have some head shots for an audition she has this Sunday. Well, of course I jumped at the chance. I can't turn down a good challenge, taking and editing photos all in one day. It was a lot of fun and I got some really amazing photographs of Melissa, she is just stunning and amazingly photogenic. Here is a slideshow with the photos I edited for her today. I'll post a full preview next week when I've gotten around to editing more of them. Have a great Saturday, And thanks Melissa!

Family

Today I spent the day with my sister Katie and her family because its my mom's birthday. We went shopping and then to my niece Grace's (my sister Katie's daughter) christmas play that was rescheduled. The play was so good. It was simple and pretty short, maybe 30 minutes but it was really nice and all the kids did an amazing job. Right after the play was over my sister was holding her other daughter hannah and it was such a sweet moment so I told them to look at me and I snapped this shot. You might remember both of them from my photo of the day this past wednesday, originally this fact had deterred me from choosing this photo but it was just too good to pass up.

I've decided that I am really over winter, and that the only reason I thought I liked it was because of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. I wish the cold weather would go away because it makes me a bit mopey, I tend to want to curl up in a ball and avoid the world. Not a good thing to do so I'm trying to fight through it and hold out for Spring. Well enough random musing, have a great night and a great Monday tomorrow!

Photo of the day

I spent the entire day wandering around Alexandria Va. on a photo adventure with my Best Friend Mandy, so naturally my photo of the day is of her. Just a little more insight into my life. It was SO cold, it definitely felt like winter. When we first went out we were like "Oh its not that bad, everyone was just over reacting" and then we were out there for more than 10 minutes and we were Freezing! I'm sure I'll be posting more photos from the day in a week or so. But for now here's my photo of the day:



Have a great night.

Photo of the Day

My photo of the day would probably be a lot better if I had taken photos this morning of the snow OR if I had remembered to bring a memory card with my to my friend Lindsay's birthday party, but because I was a flake and didn't, my dslr sat on my desk all day and then in a chair the whole night, longing no doubt to take a fabulous photograph. What this leaves me with is exhaustion and a lack of creativity and thus a mediocre photo of the day. Have a good night.

p.s. Tomorrow's (Saturday's) photo hopefully be substantially better, because Mandy and I are going on a photo adventure :-)

photo of the day number 4

Today I thought I'd give a little perspective with my photo of the day today, so these 2 photos (the photo of the day and the runner up) are both my view/perspective when I wake up. So you get to see what I see. Enjoy!

Photo of the day:

the runner up:

Day 03- Wordless Wednesday

Day 2- Photo of the day

Today I was able to have coffee with my best friend after work. It was a spur of the moment thing and I am certainly glad for it. It was great to sit and chat and catch up while drinking some coffee. I took some photos while we were there to use for my photo of the day today because it definitely fits the bill for this photo week challenge of being a sneak peak into my life. So, I present to you, my loyal readers (all 2 of you :-) ) my photo of the day, along with 3 other photos from the event. Have a great night!

Day 01 of 07

As I mentioned earlier, this week of daily photos will all be a sneak peak into my life. Today's photograph is of my message board at my desk, it has alot of stuff that inspires me on it and a lot of reminders for myself. I did not realize how personal this week of photos would be when I thought the idea up, but it kind of is. Its not just a sneak peak into what I see day to day, but its actually a bit of a window into my world/mind and thats a bit personal. Its odd, and makes me feel a bit vulnerable.

Here is my photo of the day:

And the Runner up:

Its back

I've made the decision to bring back the photo of the day for the week, so from now until sunday check the blog in the evenings to see a little sneak peak into my life. I contimplated doing another month long photo challenge but opted out so as not to put too much pressure on myself when I plan to start a few projects and do a few portrait sessions in the next month. Well check back later tonight for today's photo of the day post. :-)

Welcome 2010

2010 is officially here, and has been for three days now. The new year always gets me thinking about all my dreams and goals and where I stand in reaching them. I've never been much of a fan of new years resolutions, I just think they are kind of silly and cliche but I find myself reflecting on the year that just past and the year ahead and have decided that maybe I need to start actively pursuing my goals and dreams. Active pursuit requires a plan. I haven't really gotten to that but I have some rough ideas of what I want to accomplish with my existence in the next 365 days. This realization has gotten me a little excited for the new year and so I've decided to say "Welcome 2010!" and all the wonder and challenge and promise you bring. So, while I sit and wait for my boyfriend to call me to let me know he arrived home in Austin safely, I decided to play around in Photoshop. Have a good night and a great 2010!