picture days...

confession #1: i'm a closet wanna-be photographer... i really love still life. one day when i grow up, i'd love to be a professional photographer, stylist, graphic designer, illustrator, artist. i do not have any formal training in the fine arts department or photography. but i do love to capture beauty in different ways...create something sweet + there's something about France+ the Eiffel Tower that tugs at my heart...that's when something clicked and i started making these paper eiffels+i wanted to capture their beauty by taking pics of them...i also love drawing them...maybe one day i'll be able to set foot inside my beloved Eiffel but for now, taking pics+drawing them fill my heart with glee.

confession #2: i'm always asking what day it is or i'm always looking for a calendar to see what i need to be doing...and of course, i never can find one...i always divert back to my yahoo page...which isn't very pretty...

ok, so now why the confessionals? well, put those 2 together and what do you have? pictures+days...this is a new project i'm working on~monthly calendars of my photos to share with all of you...every month i'll put up a new photo/collage of mine...feel free to use them...i'm hoping you'll enjoy them... this will give me a chance to spark up some new inspiration for myself, improve my photography skills, think out of the box + finally know what day it really is...hahhhh!

bonne nuit

xoxo

January~a new beginning...

*Package of Love to Dionne~ PIF + Bday gifts

Happy New Year!

Hoping everyone enjoyed all of the sweet Holiday Season in 2010.

A lot has happened since my last post.

I'll try to post some pics soon.

2011 has already been hopping with events:

• 1/1-brought in the new year @ home (pics to come)
• 1/3-sent a kindred spirit (Dionne) an overdue package of love* (see above pic)
• 1/3-spent time w/ my sweet family @ Chicago's History Museum (pics to come)
• 1/7-wow...celebrated 17 beautiful years of wedded bliss with my sweetheart (actually we'll be going somewhere nice 1/29~more later)
• 1/8-my dear folks celebrated 45 years of wedded bliss (pics to come)
• 1/1-1/14-my family + I fevorishly worked on our Sketchbook Project journals
• 1/15-hosted a brunch @ my house for my niece+nephew's 1st Holy Communion (pics to come)
• 1/22-hosting another brunch @ my folks house for my Pop's 70th + sweet niece's 14th birthday
• 1/29-attending a Winter Whirl event downtown...to celebrate my Pop's 70th and me + my sweetheart's 17th wedding anniversary...
• working on decluttering studio + home
• working on upcoming art projects
• working on self-improvement projects
  
  This is a brand new year and I'd like to update this journal of mine a little bit more often. I'd like to discover new artists/blogs and continue to become inspired. I'd like to continue to improve myself. I'd like to enjoy more of life. I'd like to capture more beauty in different ways. I'd like to start something exciting...this is a new year, a new beginning...

Welcome January...here I come, ready or not...