today with tierany

I'm a sundress with a flower tucked behind my ear kind of girl. Slightly obsessed with bookstores and books, photography, flowers, laughing, traveling, cute stationary, lace, pastel colors, candles, fuzzy blankets, floral print, Disney World, mountains, natural light...and the color white. I'm happiest in Autumn but most in love with our beautiful world when snow has fallen. I love life, my soul mate since high school, my brother and sister (we are kind of the best of friends) and my 10lb dog, Tiki.

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Feeling Satisfied.

It's currently 4AM and I've completed all of my post processing for three different sessions, redesigned my Website, responded to potential clients' E-mails, packaged and prepared three packages for shipment tomorrow, AND in only two more hours, I'll have been up for 24 hours! I'd say today was nothing short of productive to the MAX! I'm feeling quite satisfied. But gosh does bed sound amazing right now.....

But first! As promised- I want to share a little preview from a recent session in a sunflower field! I first met this adorable little family almost a year ago when they hired me to photograph their Daughter's 1st Birthday and cake smash session. We instantly clicked and got along great! Their daughter is just the cutest thing you've ever seen. Now, almost a year later, we've reconnected for the purpose of updated family portraits! Little Miss Harper is up and MOVING now- so it was a totally different dynamic of a photo session. Harper provided us with plenty of entertainment due to her disapproval of the camera-HAHA- but luckily, Mommy came prepared with a lollipop as big as Harper's face.. and suddenly.. all was well!           Although I'm not posting any- we had lots of awesome sticky face, blue tongue, pure look of satisfaction photos in the end. This family is such a joy to work with. Did I mention Harper is the cutest thing ever?

Wishing you the happiest of Happy Weekends! I got so much accomplished.. totally ready to head out on Sunday for a little get-a-way until Tuesday with K. It's much needed and will be much appreciated.

I guess going away somewhere means I will probably have come back home and blog about it, right? ;-)

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For the pursuit of Blogging and finding my Niche

Hello and Good Morning- it's 7:53AM and this is probably my 10th attempt at Blogging. It's something I really want to do and I've tried many times, but life keeps getting in the way. I guess that happens, right? But I really don't want to settle for that kind of excuse. I'm the kind of person that never feels like I'm taking on too much- until it's too late and I'm completely burnt out. Pretty bad quality to have- I know. BUT, luckily I like to keep myself very busy and I don't like having moments where I feel like I have 'nothing' to do- so that's where I am trying to work in Blogging time, during those..."Okay what now.." moments.

If I'm not working then I'm at home working on a blossoming Photography business. Did you know that is A LOT of hard work and dedication? The kind of hard work and dedication where it's 2AM and you need to be up in 4 hours, BUT you're SO close to finishing up something that you've been working on for hours, but should have taken an hour at most, BUT it's new and hard and confusing and you're DETERMINED to have the pride of saying you made ___ yourself. Your eyes are bloodshot, and your working only off the light beaming from your computer screen, and your Dog has fallen asleep at your feet, and you start doing things and writing things that don't even make sense because you're THAT tired. And you told the person you share a bed with "Just another 20 minutes, promise" an hour ago, because that's probably what it SHOULD have taken. It's work. It's work, people, hard yet rewarding work.

In the past, I've struggled a bit with finding the right content for my Blog. Do I want JUST a personal blog that I don't even really share with people? Just an outlet for myself to write and share memories for future times? Do I want to do just a photo blog where I post photos I've taken of....stuff? Or do I want to go with the beauty blog route because I love beauty and I'm good at make-up and I'd like to share my creations, thoughts, and reviews..hmm.. but then I'd be joining the million other females with the same mission.. and that's no fun. So, then do I do a strictly photography blog and post photos from my sessions and all other photography related things? I'm a woman of many interests. I could create a blog about so many things. I also like organization and unification though, so I don't want something with completely different unrelated posts. At the end of the day, I still have not decided what exactly I want my focus to be. I have some ideas though. So stick with me while I try to find my Niche.

Enough chatting for now, I suppose, I'll spare you the "proper introduction" because I think it's more interesting to piece together who I am through my posts, thoughts, photos, etc..

Sending you BIG hugs!! And the idea of a promise that a post will be followed in the coming days showcasing a photo shoot I recently shot in a Sunflower field, that was in full happy bloom a week prior. Then we arrived to find a dead unhappy field of frowning sunflowers. Ah.. life.. got to love it, right? :)