The Owl in the Plum Tree

I couldn't love them more...

It is truly so inspiring to see people making music that actually takes TALENT! Each song of theirs has so many layers, even more than the original artist. They just look like they are having so much fun, that making music is so much fun and that is so refreshing to see. ps. the grandma dancing in the first one...TOTALLY reminds me of my grandma Peggy!!

It's all differnet now

I was talking with a women recently who really listened when I spoke, she is one of those people that makes you feel like what you are saying to her in that moment is the most important thing she will hear that day. You know most people aren't REALLY listening, they are thinking of what they will say next, how they will be witty or prove that they are smart. I will admit I do it sometimes and I don't want to be like that. I want to be someone that is in the moment...and that got me thinking...maybe that is why I am so drawn to photography and scrapbooking. You are freezing time and you can be in that moment over and over again. It seems like no matter how long I have been absent from journaling and taking photos and scrapbooking, I always come back to it with such excitement because I really do love it so much. I love taking that time to recognize, to appreciate and to remember.

I don't know whether or not you are watching Brothers & Sisters, but if you aren't...you are definitely missing out. Every time I watch that show I am reminded life is just happening...always...it's happening all around us all the time and it doesn't wait for the best time or the right time, it doesn't slow down when things get out of hand or too hard...it keeps going. I think this is also something I am realizing more and more as I get older, that life will hand you both the good and the bad all in the same week...the same hour, but it doesn't stop. It doesn't stop if you can't handle it. There are still obligations and people to love, things to get done. There is still happiness to experience even during the sad. There are still holidays and birthdays, first kisses and new puppies. I guess what I am trying to say is we are NEVER ready for what life throws our way, but really could we ever be? Would we handle things the same way if we had known ahead of time? Think about some of the hardest things you have ever had to go through, now think about how you got through them...step by step, day by day. It's the only way we CAN get through them, anything else is just too much.

I have recently made a self discovery that I should have made YEARS AGO. I have discovered that I am one of those people that spends all their time in the future. I'm always mapping it out, making plans, figuring out how to make it just so and most of the time, actually 99.9% of the time, it never goes like I planned it in my head. But that's the beauty of life, you never know what to expect, it's always changing, WE are always changing and that's how it should be. That is something that is so easy to say but so hard to EXPERIENCE. It's hard to live in the moment. It's hard to be present and appreciate, especially if you are always too busy making plans. 

So I think that this post was just my train of thought about why I love to scrapbook and why it matters so much to me. I haven't been moved to scrap in a long time...too long and I want to have fun with it again. I recently cleaned out my craft room and I sat down and looked through all my scrapbook pages and I was so moved. I was moved at the way I remembered things, the way time goes by so fast, I was moved to tears over lost loved ones, I was laughing hysterically over photos of my family and friends...and that's it, that's the good stuff that I was talking about, the stuff that just keeps happening no matter what. I think now more then ever I am realizing how important it is to document...to freeze time and remember for a while what life was like when, cuz it will all be different...and it is already.

A beautiful maternity shoot...

Arguably I am bias since it IS my sister...

 

 

 

 

It was such a fun shoot, we stomped in fields and tiptoed through weeds. I am so happy that she loves these shots, they are very special to me! It should be soon and before I know it I will be an auntie...I am SO EXCITED!

If anyone lives in the Denver metro area and would like to schedule a maternity shoot, just pop me an email. I am all about these kinds of shoots, there is so much room for personality and fun.

In other news, I am so excited about this great new creative and inspiring place opening up in downtown Denver, it's called Pomegranate Place and it's a retreat of sorts for women to come and live out there creative dreams and desires. I had the pleasure of attending the open house about a week and a half ago and this place it just to die for!! It's such a gem and I  foresee myself spending a lot of time there knitting,  painting and whatever else I can hang and do there. It's seriously like the most inspiring place! I hope to be posting a ton of stuff related to Pomegranate Place soon!!

It's gotten a little cooler here, as a matter of fact we are suppose to have some snow this week and maybe even a couple of times...we'll see. The weather here is too unpredictable...yet the weatherman keeps getting paid for getting it wrong, lol...How is the weather where you are!??! Is it feeling like Autumn yet? It is here. I made caramel corn and caramel apples this week and they are SO SO good. It's always so wonderful to remember how much better homemade things tastes, there's just no beating that. We have put up all out inside Halloween decor, just waiting to do the outside...we live in a very very old house that doesn't have electrical outlets on the outside of the house so we have to get a game plan together as to how accomplish the lighting that we want outside. I bought some stuff to make those graveyard headstones like Martha Stewart's. I hope I can get those done BEFORE Halloween gets here...ha! Does anyone know of any CHEAP and quick, but still very cute decorations for Autumn or Halloween? I am dying to do some stuff, but something different not the same old stuff that I keep seeing online. There are so many creative people in my parents' neighborhood and I just wonder how they come up with all this stuff. I'll have to keep my eyes open and my gears greased, cuz I am dying to get the outside done.

The lotto life...

...went to a farm, this farm to be exact, to get pumpkins and fall decor yesterday.

 

It was so beautiful. It made me wish I had a farm to call my own...with miniature donkeys and chickens. I think I would also have bees. I would love to have my own honey!!! But that's the lotto life...lol...maybe someday....right!?!? I'm trying the use the power of positive thinking here...it WILL work!!!

Nacho the laughing donkey

I took this shot this weekend at a function I was at and it has sort of stuck with me. It occurred to me that it describes EXACTLY how I am feeling lately. I feel like I'm on that team that just can't get it together enough to successfully get all the pieces of the scavenger hunt. You know like on Amazing Race, one of those teams that is all over the place,where someone thinks they know exactly what to do and it turns out to be the WRONG thing, or someone just gets too frustrated and gives up or starts a fight. That all somehow starts the proverbial snowball and before you know it they are dead last....Ha! Don't get wrong I do say most of this in jest and really do think there is a lot of good happening in my life too, this photo just struck me a quite poignant...at the moment...

It's so funny how life works out..well, it's not really funny mostly stressful and hard and then occasionally fun and carefree, but there is definitely an oddly erratic cycle to it all. It's perplexing, to say the least, how out of terrible moments, days or years the best most rewarding things can come. On the flip side it's equally peculiar how you can feel like you have it all figured out and then...BAM!!!!......just to make sure you're awake.....not TOO complacent with your happy time...gotta keep you on your toes...you're back where you started.

Now I know that I'm certainly not the only one going through rough times right now and I know that there are things that are far worse than my problems...but DANG...give a girl a bone...

And then I see things like this...the laughing donkey named Nacho(one of my favorite photos I took this weekend)...

...and I find my self laughing again, realizing that there is much more good than bad and feeling happy I got to experience another day...

not much going on...yet.

Not much happening here at the moment, but I have some fun news to share soon I hope! For now here are my gig poster faves...

it's feeling like fall more and more everyday

With the temperature dropping steadily every day...

 

We are spending more and more time outside in the yard playing frisbee and plucking the last of the weeds in the garden.

 

 

On another note...I am SO excited about the fall shows on tv. I watched The Vampire Diaries and was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it. I also watched Glee which I liked but didn't love, I hope it gets better. It's no surprise SYTYCD is on my list of favorites too. What are you dying to see, what are some of your favorites?!? I am trying to get into some different kinds of shows, I'm kinda bored with the same ones all the time, ya know?!?

Inside and Out

It's kind of ironic celebrating Labor Day when you don't have a job, and that is the one thing you so want...but none the less we shall take it with a grain of salt and enjoy the day.

Inside we are playing with yarn and watching fun fall movies like Hocus Pocus, Practical Magic, You've Got Mail...

 

Outside we are playing frisbee and taking brisk walks in the cooling air...

 

Hope you get to kick back and enjoy too...

Hurricane Roo Roo

There are some days that she lets me know that there is still quite a bit of puppy in her...this was one of those days.

This sweet face...

 

is a destroyer and this is why I lovingly refer to her as Hurricane Roo Roo...

 

...why yes those are the baby booties I have been working on for days...FABULOUS!!!

flares are the new black

My sister and I went to this beautiful garden on the CSU campus, it's part of the agricultural department and it's where all the students display their gardening ability...I guess, lol. Anyhoo...right before we left the sun decided to come out and I got just enough time to get a few good shots, these are two of my faves. The first is a Zinnia and the other is my sister's pregnant belly.