Category: Personal

  • Personal | 30 Day Photography Challenge | Happiness

    Camera used:  iPhone 4s Program used:  Hipstamatic Film/lens used: Pistil and Helga Viking Day 3: Happiness. Any day that I wear my awesome glitter flats from Steve Madden is a happy day.  Just wearing them makes me smile and yes, I realize this makes me sound like a kid!  Seriously though, I love these shoes.…

  • Personal | 30 Day Photo Challenge | Gratitude

    I’ve always MEANT to do one of these 30 day photo challenges.  I even aspired to do one in October but life got complicated, weddings didn’t lean themselves to the picture of the day challenge and honestly?  Some days I just don’t feel like picking up my DSLR.  Sad but true.  However I am always…

  • Charity | Sips and Dips on Sixth | Hoyt Block

    •  This is my third year (apparently I never blogged last year’s!) working the Sips & Dips on Sixth event for Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and their 5th year doing this event. •  For a list of the amazing sponsors for the event, make sure you visit the Sips & Dips sponsor page. A…

  • The ANTI Anti-Mason Jar Manifesto

    Lately there has been an uprising against many things in the wedding world and it seems that much of this angst has been taken out on the unassuming mason jar and everything it stands for at a wedding. For what it is worth, I love mason jars.  When I was a kid, we had a…

  • Personal | Northern Lights in Ohio

    While photography is one love my Father shared with me, the love of science was another love that he had and tried to teach me about whenever he could.  From a young age I knew that you could use jewelweed (aka Touch-Me-Nots) as a soap if you break their leaves and mix it with water…

  • Personal | Ten Years

    It was a Tuesday – my “new” normal Tuesday after starting a new job two weeks before. I rolled out of bed around 8 o’clock after working until 11:30 p.m. the night before to get my manicure done at 9:00 a.m. for my upcoming trip to New York City.  It was my first trip to…

  • Personal | NKOTBSB in Cleveland, OH

    At the end of July right before I left for New Orleans (literally the night before) I saw the NKOTBSB concert in Cleveland.  I had actually forgot about the pictures I took until today when a friend mentioned the images and how much she liked them!  So here are some of the images I took…