Cutest Pumpkin in the Patch

Who doesn't love babies and pumpkins?

I got to shoot my friends baby at Bates Nut Farm for a 6th month photo shoot

and all I must say is prepare to melt when you see how darling she is

She was so sweet and happy almost the whole time!!

 I'm absolutely obsessed with her little bright eyes and her fuzz head lol

Lets Make A Trade

Recently I got a call from my boss to do her friend a favor.

She has done done so much for me over the last two years so without hesitation I agreed before she even let me know what I was doing.

She then proceeded to ask if I would take family photos of her professional photographer best friend

in exchange for my own professional portraits.

UHHH SOLD! Please that's easily the best favor I've been ever asked to do.

I was a tad nervous to take Jen's family photos due to my lack of experience, but I found out she absolutely loved them and I loved mine as well.

Here is a few she took of me.

Location: Sunset Cliffs

Dress: Captains Helm

Jacket: Gap

Belt: Captains Helm

Pinterest Project Success

So I come from a pretty crafty little fam so making fun things 

is possibly one of my favorite things to do.

Thanks to having a mom who owns basically every art supply Michael's sells

the ideas I find on pinterest can actually come to life.

A few months ago I was looking for a way to store my jewelry

I had this tree looking storage that became more of a disaster then an organizer

so of course I went to Pinterest like any girl would to find something to make/buy

I kept seeing ideas like THIS and THIS and decided that buying something similar on esty wouldn't be as fun as making my own.

So I went to a garage sale and found a perfect picture frame for .50 and went to my moms Art Lounge to start creating!

I tried to snap a few pics while I was making it so check out my finished product :)

My mom is obsessed with beautiful Indian silks so I tore one apart to use as a background to make it look more Bohemian.

ps. those little question marks are small hooks you can pick up at any Michael's or Home Depot.

I decided to color the hooks with spray and I used a translucent sealing spray to keep the color from rubbing off

TAAAAAADAAAA :)

I found a perfect little twig strong enough to hold my bracelets and drilled holes to secure in my hooks.

I must say I'm pretty proud of my one of a kind jewelry organizer

I apologize for the terrible picture quality, but I wanted to show you the end results!!

She's A Brick House....

Never truly understood those lyrics

but I figured since I recently discovered the cutest little brick wall

 it was pretty applicable right?

SO the brick wall I'm talking about was shown in my last post with miss Shelbs

we discovered this place after we both guzzled down some delicious iced coffee from

E Street Cafe.... well at least I think that's what it's called

Anyways so after that we roamed the streets of Enci and found ourselves this precious little brick wall

Seriously nothing better then stumbling upon a new little place to shoot

kudos to her for putting up with my nonsense and wanting to walk 

ALLLL OVVVVA Encinitas lol

xoxo

Gemini Twins

Happy Birthday to my sweet little gemini sista from another mista

SHELBY RAE

This girl rocks my socks and I'm so grateful we have remained friends all these years...

all the way back to middle school when we would make up secret code names for boys (grapes) and design

overly trendy shirts covered in puffy paint.

I love you so much my dear and I hope you have a rockin' birthday

Ps. I dug deep into the depths of my ancient photobucket account to find these gems,

enjoy!

Clearly we thought we were the coolest kids on the block for preforming a routine

as Spice Girls

(left to right: Victoria as sporty spice, Ellie as Posh, Shelby as Ginger Spice, Me as Crazy Spice, and Chloe as Baby Spice)

 So uh yeah this pic is rather awk but hey it really shows off our early modeling days

riiiiiiight?!

gosh we look like infants

(I hated smiling obviiiii)

ahhhhh the start of the dark hair days!

FAST FORWARD

Now I will give a little up to date look at the Birthday Girl

Here is a few shots I took of her recently....

 Happy 21st Birthday

xoxo

Coachella Blue

Coachella blues are real kids.

Literally still depressed that I'm not at coachella anymore... it's a problem.

I was able to go to Coachella for the very first time with a super rad group of people.

I've been wanting to go for about 4 years now and it never panned out so you can imagine how excited I was when I finally got my hands on a weekend 1 ticket.

(weekend 1 allllll the way)

My mind was completely consumed with coachella for about a solid month or two 

trying to cram in as much music as I could.

I discovered some seriously mind blowing bands in the process, but I will get to that on another post.

The prep process for coachella was insane, besides trying engulf myself in as much indie and dj tunes every chance I could get, searching high and low for original outfits (the amount of hours on pinterest I spent looking for ideas was disturbing), and trying to organize camping gear with a bunch of boys was definitely not easy, but it was alll so worth it.

here are some of the outfits I chose..... so I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted at the festival, but I just so happened to have a mini shoot in the backyard before I went lol

Until next year Coachella

You stole my heart and my voice..... literally for two weeks after.