A Grad Announcement

Well I finally did reach that 25!! Yay me!! =)

But, alas, that isn't the topic of this post. Just wanted to show off a couple of Senior Announcements that I designed. One was for an actual client (Kandice) and the other is for my portfolio. Kandices is almost 100% self created. Her patterned background is actually Stef's bed cover that I took a picture of. All the paper and aged look is self created also. On Ashley's the patterns are mine and the foliage brushes are credited to DesignFruit. Super talented that guy! Without further adieu...

Senior Announcements

Can I just say 25?!

Today I did my weekly weigh-in and so far I've lost 24.8 pounds...so why can't I lose those LAST 2 OUNCES!!!?! LOL. That's my goal for this week--I am bound and determined to lose 2 MEASLEY ounces. I must! Once I do I will post again with the biggest font/celebration I'm allowed. Wahoo!

Oh yeah, and I just bought a skirt that was a size 8!! I've had to give away a lot of my other clothes because I've "under grown" them. lol. Size 8--I haven't worn that since Freshmen year 10 years ago!

Sigh...life's good.

I think we were tired...

This is hilarious! I think it'd been a loooooong day...

My New Favorite Drink

I have discovered a new drink that I love!! I HATE water all by itself but need to drink it so I normally flavor it or drink a lot of ice tea. But today I was thirsty and stopped by to get something to drink and saw these new drinks that I've been seeing around called FUZE. They are SO GOOD!! Some of them look gross (like dirty water ewww....) but they're really good! Try one...

Breath Taken Away...

I HAD to post this picture of Rachel. Its going to be my first photo on my website! She turned out SO pretty!! And she was on a trampoline!! I wish I could remember the lighting I had on these...

SO JEALOUS!!

Took this picture of the girls and the sund hit Lina's hair so prettily (another Deanna word) that I had to post. I'll get some more edits up soon.

Latest Photo Shoot

So I'm still doing the post processing on this shoot but this is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Ash photographs beautifully so we got some really nice shots of her. This was overexposed in color but voila!! its beautiful in black and white. I love happy accidents!

$750 GONE!!

Yeah!! We're doing it! Mat has been working two jobs and I've pulled in whatever money I can get, add some taxes and we've paid off $750 in debt. I know this isn't major bucks but we're just getting started. We've taken care of our "little, annoying" bills. Its seriously so energizing, motivating and a major relief that we're getting rid of our debt. We living like no one else so later we can live like no one else. If we buy it its because we have the cash for it. I'm SO looking forward to posting updates on our progress! Next up...St. Louise Hospital, but look out Citicards because you're next!

Charleston Chewy is Chewy, Louie. But not too chewy.

I hate titles so that came off of Yahoo! Its been raining crazy here (we had hail today) so in between the weather I took some pics and edited them. I'm loving Lightroom and have been working on my b/w conversions. Along the way I came up with a new light urbanish (completely my own word) look that I tried on a couple of Stefanie's pics. Here, here.... to see the black and white ones click HERE. I'm posting the colored ones up here. Sorry if they look a little off, I'm still working on getting my monitor calibrated but may just have to quit editing on a laptop. Sigh... such is life.

(Light Urbanish)







(Light Urbanish)

(My FAVORITE!!)

I'm Luvvin' It!

Got a camera, got a lense, need another, made a logo, took some pictures... I'M LUVVVIN IT!!

(sorry about the low quality!)