Happy 24!!!

This past Friday this little photog turned 24! That's right this little cupcake is a whole year older.

I had a wonderful birthday, hands down the best yet (a big thanks to those who made it so special!). It surely didn't hurt that I have the best man in my life now to share this one with!

The day before I transformed, well not physically but on paper, I asked my mom to come do a shoot with me. So here are some shoots from our collaborative birthday shoot:
































































































































I'll share a couple of snapshots from my birthday later once I get them off of the boyfriend's camera! Happy my birthday! (what I said to everyone all day... yes I'm a brat hehe)

.Etsy Loves.

I love Etsy and have been wanting to create my own shop for a while now selling prints of my work but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Soon hopefully. I have also been wanting to put a book out with my "Shadow Tales" series and have the book all formatted and ready to go but I think I want to wait and do a couple more images for the book before putting it up for sale. We'll see.

Though I do not have a shop yet I do love to shop around and look at all the cute stuff in others' shops. Unfortunately, I not only have no money but am in a considerable amount of debt so I cannot buy any of these things yet but a girl can dream... and of course by dream I mean drool all over my keyboard like a chubby kid chasing an ice cream truck.

Here are a couple things I have been drooling over:























I'm in love with this drawing by Kelly Smith. This is number one on myEtsy-to-buy-when-and-if-I-ever-have-money-again-list =)


































This beautiful watercolor painting is by Jen Singh. Ugh... bestill my Peter Pan loving heart.
































How cute is this little pirate girl!? The painting is by Emily Martin,who has a zillion adorable prints in her shop that I love!





















Recycledwares
I'm in love with vintage suitcases but own zero. I would love to have one like the one above, they are just pretty pricey to ship always so I haven't bought one yet. I want to do a whole series with suitcases but that would take lots of suitcases. I think it's the symbolism of a suitcase that draws me to them in art.





















AntiNu

I LOVE this one! It's in my favorite color and everything!


There are soo many more little loves on etsy but for now this is all I will share! Toodles!

I know, I know...

I have been terrible about posting lately. Lo siento. Or sorry for our non-spanish speaking friends.

Good news for the blog/ bad news for me, my boss had to let me go for a while because of financial issues and a slow in business. Huge bummer but I understand so no big deal. I am trying my best to be a half-full kind of gal lately. This particular glass is half-full of free-time for me to work on my own work/portfolio. Hazzah!

I have been attempting to schedule several shoots for my kids portfolio. It has been a bit chaotic because I got SO many responses and it's a bit hard to get back to everyone and keep track of who's who. I'm trying though.

I did my first shoot for my kids portfolio the other day with one of the most ridiculously beautiful little girls and as if that wasn't a treat enough for a photographer they were super fun and sweet! Jackpot I know!















They also had some of their adorable family friends come over to be photographed. Lucky me to get to shoot so many cute kids in one day!








Oh and what do you think of the new logo?

I'm still working on it. I was going to hire someone but with no incoming money my lack of graphic design skills will have to make do for now.

I'm also hoping to get a new blog design that allows me to put larger pictures up. I will so miss this one though. I think it's adorable. =)