I am just finishing up Brad & Liz's engagement photos... they turned out so cute! The happy couple also asked me to design a Save the Date magnet for them. I took little hints of what Liz has in mind for her wedding day and incorporated them into their Save the Date. For example: Liz loves bumble bees. So I chose a font that was dashed - like a bee's path... and colors that reflected her buzzzzz-inspired color-scheme.
I love the challenge of taking a client's imaginative ideas and translating them into an image that makes them say, "WE LOVE IT!!!"
Seriously, few things make me happier than making other people happy. :)
I love the challenge of taking a client's imaginative ideas and translating them into an image that makes them say, "WE LOVE IT!!!"
Seriously, few things make me happier than making other people happy. :)
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Tonight I'm doing one of my favorite things: writing letters.
I love everything about letters and letter-writing. Stationary... pens... words... thinking of friends and loved ones... remembering memories and looking forward to new ones. Spending time writing a letter is like spending a little window of your day with the person you're writing to... that's a gift in itself.
I love everything about letters and letter-writing. Stationary... pens... words... thinking of friends and loved ones... remembering memories and looking forward to new ones. Spending time writing a letter is like spending a little window of your day with the person you're writing to... that's a gift in itself.
All I'm trying to say is... write a letter.
I'm off to do the same.
I'm off to do the same.
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I hope you'll enjoy this beautiful work by Katherine Mansfield. It's a story that explores the nature of ignorance as well as the beauty of awakening to reality... even when reality is painfully difficult to face.
And after all the weather was ideal. They could not have had a more
perfect day for a garden-party if they had ordered it. Windless, warm,
the sky without a cloud. Only the blue was veiled with a haze of light
gold, as it is sometimes in early summer. The gardener had been up
since dawn, mowing the lawns and sweeping them, until the grass and the
dark flat rosettes where the daisy plants had been seemed to shine. As
for the roses, you could not help feeling they understood that roses
are the only flowers that impress people at garden-parties; the only
flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Hundreds, yes, literally
hundreds, had come out in a single night; the green bushes bowed down
as though they had been visited by archangels.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee.
"Where do you want the marquee put, mother?"
"My dear child, it's no use asking me. I'm determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest."
But Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek. Jose, the butterfly, always came down in a silk petticoat and a kimono jacket.
"You'll have to go, Laura; you're the artistic one."
Away Laura flew, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It's so delicious to have an excuse for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things; she always felt she could do it so much better than anybody else.
Read the rest of Katherine Mansfield's, The Garden Party, here.
Breakfast was not yet over before the men came to put up the marquee.
"Where do you want the marquee put, mother?"
"My dear child, it's no use asking me. I'm determined to leave everything to you children this year. Forget I am your mother. Treat me as an honoured guest."
But Meg could not possibly go and supervise the men. She had washed her hair before breakfast, and she sat drinking her coffee in a green turban, with a dark wet curl stamped on each cheek. Jose, the butterfly, always came down in a silk petticoat and a kimono jacket.
"You'll have to go, Laura; you're the artistic one."
Away Laura flew, still holding her piece of bread-and-butter. It's so delicious to have an excuse for eating out of doors, and besides, she loved having to arrange things; she always felt she could do it so much better than anybody else.
Read the rest of Katherine Mansfield's, The Garden Party, here.
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Happy Birthday to my wonderful Mom!
My family spent the evening all together... just how I love to spend my time. We ate some incredible Uncle Yu's takeout for dinner and then enjoyed Grandma's fluffy yellow cake while toasting ourselves by the fire.
I love being with my family!
Happy Birthday, Mommy. Love you.
My family spent the evening all together... just how I love to spend my time. We ate some incredible Uncle Yu's takeout for dinner and then enjoyed Grandma's fluffy yellow cake while toasting ourselves by the fire.
I love being with my family!
Flowers from Dad to Mom...
Harley can't stand to be left out...
Harley can't stand to be left out...
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If you want to feel classy while reading in public, or if you want to pretty-up your library, or if it's just easier for you to read a beautiful-looking book... buy Everyman's. They're so pretty!
I have these books sitting on my desk... yes, because they look good... but also because I love to be reminded of books that I have truly enjoyed. As the possessor of an English Literature degree, I have read my fair share of books; many that I only tolerated or disliked and a few that I thoroughly and completely loved.
The smaller books you see on the right are Romantic Poets... a leftover legacy from my Age of Romanticism class with Dr. Hotchkiss. I loved the class because of my professor and because of what we got to read. It was the first time I can remember enjoying and understanding poetry. One of my favorite poems from the course was Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias. I recommend you check it out if you've never read it; it will take you 2 minutes.
The book on the far left is Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Allende is a brilliant woman and a fabulous writer. I had the opportunity to hear her speak and meet her at a book conference I attended at Book Passage in Corte Madera last year. She is fiery, direct, and a deeply creative soul. If you want to read anything of hers, pick up House of the Spirits - it took me 3 days to read and I only put it down to eat and sleep.
Jane Austen's Persuasion is nestled there in the middle. This is my favorite Austen novel... and one of her slightly less popular works. Admittedly, Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility make for better movies, but this one takes the cake, in my opinion, for a better book. If you haven't already read it, I recommend it.
Chinua Achebe's Thing's Fall Apart is resting to the right of Austen. I didn't especially love this book, but it reminds me of my passion for Africa. During my undergrad, I took two trips to Uganda - lush, green, warm, beautiful Uganda. When I returned to the states I was absolutely overcome with a desire to understand the African people... so I began to incorporate the study of African lit into my major. I ate up all kinds of African literature... none of which I particularly enjoyed. But the idea of those green rainforests, the red dirt, the humid air, the children's white smiles, and the hot-milk tea that floated behind the narratives was what meant something to me.
I like having my books around because it reminds me of things that matter specifically to me. They're little memories and eras of thought in my life - wrapped up in paper, thread, and cloth.
I have these books sitting on my desk... yes, because they look good... but also because I love to be reminded of books that I have truly enjoyed. As the possessor of an English Literature degree, I have read my fair share of books; many that I only tolerated or disliked and a few that I thoroughly and completely loved.
The smaller books you see on the right are Romantic Poets... a leftover legacy from my Age of Romanticism class with Dr. Hotchkiss. I loved the class because of my professor and because of what we got to read. It was the first time I can remember enjoying and understanding poetry. One of my favorite poems from the course was Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias. I recommend you check it out if you've never read it; it will take you 2 minutes.
The book on the far left is Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. Allende is a brilliant woman and a fabulous writer. I had the opportunity to hear her speak and meet her at a book conference I attended at Book Passage in Corte Madera last year. She is fiery, direct, and a deeply creative soul. If you want to read anything of hers, pick up House of the Spirits - it took me 3 days to read and I only put it down to eat and sleep.
Jane Austen's Persuasion is nestled there in the middle. This is my favorite Austen novel... and one of her slightly less popular works. Admittedly, Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility make for better movies, but this one takes the cake, in my opinion, for a better book. If you haven't already read it, I recommend it.
Chinua Achebe's Thing's Fall Apart is resting to the right of Austen. I didn't especially love this book, but it reminds me of my passion for Africa. During my undergrad, I took two trips to Uganda - lush, green, warm, beautiful Uganda. When I returned to the states I was absolutely overcome with a desire to understand the African people... so I began to incorporate the study of African lit into my major. I ate up all kinds of African literature... none of which I particularly enjoyed. But the idea of those green rainforests, the red dirt, the humid air, the children's white smiles, and the hot-milk tea that floated behind the narratives was what meant something to me.
I like having my books around because it reminds me of things that matter specifically to me. They're little memories and eras of thought in my life - wrapped up in paper, thread, and cloth.
Michael Duenes:
Great thoughts, and I concur about books. I think I bought a good number of the books in my library for reasons other than that I wanted to read them all. I just like the look of them, and they stir something in me that wants to learn and better understand the world and the one who made it.
(03.09.09 @ 05:01 PM)
Kate Kalsbeek:
My AP Senior English teacher named her cat Ozymandias after Shelley's poem, and it tickled me to see you mention it. Haven't met too many people who know what it is! I am very glad to see that you like Austen too - I think it shows real good common sense in a person and my respect for them instantly goes up a notch or two. Although, not only do you have a Cannon to my Nikon, but you prefer Persuasion to P&P so I guess that's really where we part ways. :) I love seeing the little glimpses to what all adds up to make Katy, well, Katy (besides your great photos). It's nice to see others who love books, art, music and all things beautiful too. You just express it WAY better than I could!
(03.10.09 @ 12:08 AM)
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