i want it to stop snowing forever except for moments like this one. 

Ballerina

I adore her!

My photos+Yogurtland= :)

I am not going to lie, I do enjoy seeing my photos in action especially when they on a YOGURTLAND website.
    
(thanks Leah Thomas for sharing)                                                          

Charlie goes to a party

Doing scary things is scary

Last Friday I was on a conference call with two of my older brothers, they were hounding me about the fact that I never take risks, that I have been playing it too safe in all aspects of my life.  They are so right and I am so tired of being shackled down by the fear of trying and failing.  I decided that I am going to really start breaking down the walls... I know everyone has them, there are fears that hold everyone back from becoming something greater and I own many of them and unfortunately keep them close.

SO HERE I GO.

I made a list two nights ago of all the things that scare me and for the next two weeks I will attempting to walking through them ( literally for one of them...wearing high heal shoes all day long for no reason... fear of being feminine).
I will post them as I go,  also another fear (being honestly open... I like to keep things inside where they are safe).

Last night I wrote and it was nice.

scary.

CHARLES

forgot this one

sad but true.

An attempt to get organized

The other week I spent a large amount of money on boxes and a label maker to aid me in the organization process.  

and then my ADD kicked in...

Post-it drawings

My desk and computers are always littered with drawings/ideas/notes/lists made on brightly colored Post-it notes.  I go through at least a pack a month.  I always feel bad throwing away the cool ones 'cause who keeps Post-it notes?  Last night I decided that I will start keeping the ones I can't part with and will be gluing them into my sketchbooks.  I actually like the look a lot,  instant frames. 

some drawings done during the hours of procrastination I have accumulated.

twins

i love going to parties only to find that i am wearing the same thing that a guy is wearing.
or maybe scott is wearing something a girl would wear.

Overcoming fear can be fun

After getting into a fight with a few friends about how stupid it was to own guns (mostly because they scare the crap out of me) I decided to try the gun thing out and get over my fear.  I am not going to lie, I had a lot of fun shooting.  I guess I am tired of being afraid of so many things and it felt really good to fall in love with one of them, but really, it was hard not to when I was with some of my favorite people. 

the group of us: Me, Robert, Stina, Jack, Benjie, Natalie and Jim

the essentials 

I will be doing this again.

Escaping planet earth for a brief moment

first of all, sorry for the long absence.  Sometimes I don't want to blog and so I don't. 

Exploring Utah, my mom and drove through the desert yesterday to just explore and to give Max some time to run around.  We came across a clay mine that felt like a chunk of a different planet was implanted on ours.  I couldn't believe the colors, as first I thought it was some art instillation (not really but that is where my mind went).  Earth can be cool... 

happy to be wearing boots , poor max ended up with clay boots by the end of the day.

I thought this was so great, I saw a little max print adjacent to a horse shoe print. 

Expired film

I have been carrying my old 35m film Nikon around with me in my purse and car and pulling it out when 

i feel like it. 

Max.

yogurt land with the kiddos in Burbank

Yesterday after lunch with my lovelies

how could i not take their pictures?

Spring is coming

and i couldn't be happier.

people

8 years ago...

I photographed these.

The rolls of film have been sitting in a box for a past 8 years, I have never bothered developing them because I knew that if they were worth anything I would have done that 8 years ago.  I finally got curious enough to develop them, 6 rolls, most were garbage (and one was a little bizarre... sorry Casey haha).  There was one roll that I was really excited to see, while in school we had an assignment to photograph the damage caused by a fire ( I can't remember where the fire was, it may have been Simi Valley?) it was a 4x5 camera class but I must have loosely shot around with my SLR.  I thought some of them came out kinda nice even thought the film has rotted. 

just a flower

Annie (we miss her so)

The road trip to the fire sight, my old car (i miss it so)

Caitlin

Kelly

this was pretty cool

I am wishing I grabbed that camera and checked to see if there was film in the camera.

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