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The twentieth time’s the charm.

So one of my friends sent me this because he saw it and said it reminded him of me so much he peed-a-little-in-his-pants laughed. Had to share. This is every wardrobe change for me.

You can imagine my mornings…. and how my house looks.

Toodles mis bebe’s… it’s WAY past my old lady bedtime. Cup of tea and bed for me.

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The name on everybodys lips is gonna be… Roxi!

Roxi and I are co-workers at the lovely land of Urban Outfitters and we decided, a few weeks ago, to head out to White Point Gardens and have a quick photoshoot to catch a few promotional photographs for her music venture. She is an AMAZING vocalist and person and even though it was FREEZING that day, I am really stoked about what we caught!

Check out her music at  www.myspace.com/roxannamariemusic

Roxanna Marie: Sneek Peek

I’m working on the finishing touches to Roxannas photos today, setting up a proof gallery for her and am REALLY excited to share these photos with you! Here’s a little sneek peek into our VERY cold shoot a few weeks ago…

Character Project

So I am an avid watcher of great TV series and one of my favorites happens to be Psych, which airs on USA Network. I’ve been seeing these little spots for something USA commissioned called the ‘Character Project’. I decided to check it out and I am truly blown away. What it is, as it is explained on the website, is a collection of images from photographers that set out with the purpose of capturing the diversity and uniqueness of the people that populate the American landscape. It’s a truly spectacular portfolio and I find it incredibly inspirational to flip through. Check it out and see that character isn’t just something you hear about, it truly it what makes up all so beautiful!

From the collection 'Highway 50' by David Eustace

http://www.usanetwork.com/characterproject/

The BBC thinks we might be a bit daft.

So my cousin sent me a survey on facebook about how well read we are and how our education stacks up against that of years past. It’s interesting, and I brought in an interesting number of reads! I really enjoyed doing this one and was a bit surprised at how well I did! How did you stack up?

The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Instructions:
Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read. Tag other Book Nerds and Publish.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen x
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien x
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte x
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling x
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee x
6 The Bible -x
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte x
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell x
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens x
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott x
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy x
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller x
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien x
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger x
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger x
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchel x
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald x
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens x
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy x
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams x
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh x
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky x
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck x
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll x
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame x
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy x
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens x
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis x
34 Emma – Jane Austen x
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen x
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis x
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini x
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres x
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden x
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne x
41 Animal Farm – George Orwel x
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown x
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery x
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy x
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding x
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan x
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel x
52 Dune – Frank Herbert x
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen x
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon x
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens x
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley x
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon x
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez x
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck x
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov x
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold x
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas x
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac x
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding x (hey, hey, before it was a movie…sheesh)
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie x
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville x
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens x
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker x
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett x
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce x
76 The Inferno – Dante x
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray x
80 Possession – AS Byatt x
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens x
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker x
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert x
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White x
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom x
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle x
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad x
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams x
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas x
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare x
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl x
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo x

78 for me! Thoughts?

High Maintenance

Had to share this one, whilest Rob and Justin sit in the living room studying the camera angles and fight sequences of ‘Desperado’ the girls are sitting in with me, Lilly got hot from burrowing into the covers and so she went to lay on the cool tile in the kitchen. Bella is our other baby basset who gets a bit antsy when she cant see where everyone is so she went in to find Lilly and lay down with her, well, you don’t mess with Lils when she’s tired so this is the face she gave Bella when she got to the edge of the kitchen. It’s classic!

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

so, for the very first post on this, my new online space i wanted to share with you a little of who i am, and what has been going on in my life. alot of you are already friends who have followed me for quite some time and have followed me from my myspace blog, which, has served me well, but just wasn’t adequate for what i’ve been doing lately, and, well, it’s just time for a change!

so, here they are, you’ve been messaging me about them and now i’m proud to present some of my all time favorite photos from my wedding! for all of you who have just found me, thank you for visiting! i look forward to getting to know you and i’m excited to hear everyone’s feedback, i want this to be a space where you can share and also a space where you can help me better my designs and photography. i’ll post often and share my highly unusual life here, so get ready for a life less ordinary! without further ado…. photos!

we had an irish knot tying ceremony where our mothers tied our hands together to symbolize their blessing of our union, they we're pretty excited about the Irish favorite the matriarchal blessing hahaha.

this one requires an explanation, we opted for a homemade funfetti wedding cake, since it was a tradition for rob, his sister and i to make one when i drove down every weekend to SC to see them, this thing was HUGE, six tiers of funfetti with a little display of our favorite things, film for mr, drawing for rob.

my little brother modeling our wedding attire, black tux, pint vest, and chuck taylors with pink laces…

our wedding attire, white tux, pink vest, white chucks, white dress, and BRIGHT pink shoes with a pretty bow on top

my very first love! daddy!

you know it’s funny when the photographer has a face like that!

bahahaha, sorry Sara, my beautiful one! i couldn't help but share!

boone and rachel, my bridesmaid who was married a few weeks later!

my other little brother bustin a move

jordan on the left corner...

... and richard just to the right of center. these boys bring it to 'shout'