Day 2 -What I Wore Today

Day 2 of the June 30 Day Challenge is What I Wore Today. Obviously I wore clothes to work and to teach tonight but I also wore jewelry. I wear jewelry everyday, most of it either made by me or that has some sort of gemstone with its energetic qualities.

Today included my engagement and wedding ring, which don't match and I love that. Each ring has it's own meaning and style. A big chunky ring with moonstone and garnet from Sundance. I love their jewelery and would be happy with one of everything. A moonstone pendant on a moonstone and amethyst strand that I made. Moonstone earrings that I made. And two Satya bracelets, one garnet and one smoky quartz, given to me by my friend and boss at Pure Prana. I would gladly take one of everything they have too. I'm doing a lot of moonstone right now because it's the new moon and I'm hoping wearing that stone will enhance the energy of the new moon and my intentions for it.

So while my day to day wardrobe can sometimes be fairly simple, trousers and tshirts, fun shoes (that's another days challenge) and jewelry mix it up for me.

Day 1 - Self Portrait - Post Yoga

So I've decided to do a 30 Day Photography Challenge. I've always wanted to do something like this to spur some creativity. Plus it's my birthday month, so why not do something fun.

As you can tell today's photo came from the iPhone. Let's face it, if there's even the slightest rigmarole involved with something, I'm less likely to do it. After I did yoga this evening, I was like, now would be a great time for the self- portrait. But I wasn't about to get the BC (big camera). And that's ok. Creative stuff doesn't belong just to expensive equipment. And it's not like I want to print this out and hang it on the wall. It was just capturing what was happening in the present moment.

A Quick Look at Spring

Here's what Spring has been looking like 'round our place.

Multiple Cute Families!

Caught up! Whew!! Here we have multiple cute families. A former co-worker of mine wanted to get photos of her entire family to celebrate her mother's birthday. There was the mom and dad, their 5 kids and then 4 of those 5 kids have families of their own.

I knew it would probably be a little chaotic especially with I think 5 kids under the age of 5 or 6. So I needed some tricks up my sleeve to make this fun for the kids. And to get them to look at the camera. Looks like the tricks worked.

And talk about the perfect day. It was chilly (not so perfect) and overcast (VERY perfect considering the shoot was at 10:30am). The color and lighting could not have been better.

Now that I'm caught up with work shoots, maybe it's time to have some personal fun. New lens baby composer and fish eye optic came in the mail yesterday. Can't wait to play!

Cute Little Family

Wow! I'm almost caught up!! Here's a cute little family I shot in April. They welcomed a new baby in March and wanted some family photos with the new little guy. Big sister was a little shy at first but once she got her Steelers jersey on she was ready to roll.

Baby Maycie

Here is Baby Maycie as part of my catch up. Maycie is in my Year in the Life series so we'll see her again in June for her 5 month shoot.

More Rock n Roll

Hot Buttered Elvis from April 2. There's more Rock n Roll photos from March but that would take connecting another hard drive to load them up. I'm in the process of organizing files and back up a lot of stuff so things are all over the place right now. So, these will have to suffice:)