It’s my monthly post of instagrams!

I ate at Sweet Frog for the first time. That place is heaven.

Spring became official.

Spring showers did too, there have been some vicious thunderstorms.

I found a stash of collected matchbooks at my work the other day. I love how different each book is.

I’m obessed with tree silhouettes. Weird, I know.

I didn’t take any Easter pictures this year of my family. But Easter does mark 3 years since I took the first pictures that started my business. It embarked a totally unexpected business venture.

But I DID take a few snapshots of my brother’s/cousins playing basketball.

And they had a little audience

My cousin’s boyfriend is wearing this shirt. And it’s possibly a favorite.

I hope y’all had a Happy Easter! My life has been slam full of shoots and such lately, one of these day’s I’ll get caught up, ha!

Hey ya’ll!

I took a good long two weeks off from blogging. AND, I enjoyed every single minute of it. The only time I have to write blogs is at night when I get home from working my 10 hour regular daytime job. So to sit down at the computer again to post blogs is a forced habit.

Anyway, this post will be to reinstate the obvious – I’m odd. I’ve become so parcial to instagram. Instagram is a lot like twitter in the fact that it’s simple, and doesn’t consume so much of your time.

Instagram is an app where you take a picture with your iphone, and then chose a filter you want, and post the picture. LOVE. I love that I can take so many more pictures without having to carry around my camera all the time.

Once a month I’ll start posting a monthly instagram post, here’s this months

About once every 6 months, I have a group of friends that I get together with. This past time, we all made a homecooked ‘southern’ meal, with fried chicken, and tons of other stuff. So the two pictures above are from that night.

The next pictures are from my birthdayyy! My birthday is March 18th, so I celebrated all weekend My sisters ordered this cheesecake for me, and my mom made Oreo icecream cake – my two favorite ‘birthday cakes’

Karlin is my youngest sister, and she’s already 10. Since we’re 13 years apart she’s almost like my own. I know she’s growing up, but when she is grown I just want to remember her like she is right now.

I came in from mowing the other Saturday, and Maggie had left this out for me. Love her She know’s that I’m ADDICTED to lemon water. NOT lemonade, I actually hate lemonade, but I love a half of lemon in my glass of water. Adore.

Kaliann got a guitar for Christmas, so 80% of her free time is spent doing this…

I got my hair colored back to a more natural color. It feel’s so much more healthy. I took this picture especially for my sister’s giggle boxes.

I hope you liked my month to date in pictures! I’ll post more soon And this month is slam full of work. LOVE it.

How is it already the 2nd week of February? Life is starting to fly. Work, eat, sleep. That’s what my daily routine seems to be. I keep thinking that it will all pay off.  But how much will I risk to get there? If you follow my blog, you probably noticed that I took last week off from blogging. I took last week to reflect, review, relax, and cry. Reflect on how far I’ve come. Review on how far I’m willing to go. Relax, to breathe. And cry for God to show me a purpose.

When I started photography, I thought about it like most people do – it’s only taking pictures, how hard can it be? Well, taking pictures isn’t the hard part. Sure, it’s challenging; especially when I look at my images and I KNOW that I have so much more hard work to do. But the really hard work is the backside of my business. When I get home from my 10 hour work day at my regular Monday-Friday job, if I’m not editing pictures, I’m working on taxes, bookkeeping, invoices, finding ways to push my Brand, looking for new ways to blog, trying to figure out how to expand my clientele base,  and most importantly trying to make the best to be the best customer service for my customers as possible.

4 months ago I started dating a boy, he really was the best guy I could have asked for. Everybody asked about us all the time, everyone was so excited for us, because he was most likely ‘the one’. But as the months went by, it got more and more difficult for him that I work as much as I do. It got to be too much, and I didn’t feel like that was fair to him. That, breaks. my. heart. It makes me hurt that I can’t do it all. It makes me hurt that I’m tired by the time I see him because I just worked a 15 hour day. It makes me hurt, that he came at a time in my life, when I’m completely overwhelmed by my work. It makes me hurt, that I couldn’t be the girlfriend that he needed.

I realized that I started to resent my business. I resented that I needed to talk about it all the time. I resented that I thought about it all the time. I resented that it took up a huge portion of my life. So I took a break. I took a break to reflect, review, relax, and cry. I spent time for myself, with my family, and to pray about my relationship with him. I needed that, but this time around I want to try to find a balance.

Okay I’m hitting the publish button before I change my mind and delete this post k bye!

The Chronicles of Pinterest: a gaze of my boards. This site is brilliant. I know I’ve said it before, and I’ve even blogged on it before, but it’s truly brilliant. I love the receipes, the clothing ideas, the color coorindination ideas, the organization ideas, and on, and on, and on. I actually limit myself as to how often I get on there, because it’s usually a whirlwind of time, gone.

While exploring pinterest, I found ideas, and I found out things about myself. I love stripes. I love dark blues and grays with pops of bright colors and whites. I love feminine decor mixed with masculine. I love tea cups and I love owls.  I love quote’s that inspire me. Oh, and I love antlers. (I bet ya didn’t know that part, huh? )

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The country home was cozy warm, and smelled of the mornings lingering coffee and lavender hand soap. We would walk up the pastel blue hall and open the white door to imagination. Behind the white door were stacks of folded bed sheets. To us, they were dresses. You see, these sheets weren’t just any sheets. They were white eyelet. And another set was floral with ruffle’s that identified the top from the bottom. We wrapped, and pinned, until our ballgowns looked as perfect as the girls that got to the vintage prom dresses first. We grabbed the large clear bag of tons of colorful and tangled ribbons, and made our hair bows; sewing machine, hot glue, and all. We got the left over high heels, that jarred out 3 inches from our heels, because look, they ‘almost’ fit! We would walk from the playroom, down the hall, and into the elegant dining room ballroom and then secretly used the crystal danglers from the candle holders and chandelier as our earrings.

Thank you Mum, for letting us ‘secretly’ use your chandelier danglers as our earrings

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