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Mr. Pepidies might be small, but his persona sure isn’t. As a finalist for a million dollar cutest dog contest, he has been featured in the press more than once. (Here and here for starters). Being a rescue dog himself, should he win Pepidies intends to donate all of his winnings to dog charites. If you are so inclined, you can vote here.
Describing Pepidies as feisty would be something of an understatement. He’s got a heck of a personality packed into that little body.
That blogging break lasted much longer than I meant it to. Basically FOREVER. I am sick and tired and a little bit blind from dealing with all of this website baloney. Don’t even think about going to the main page of my website right now; it’s a complete and utter disaster. I have enlisted some much needed help with that fiasco, so hopefully it’ll be ironed out pronto. In the meantime I would love to get any feedback on the blog design. There are still a few things here and there that need to be tweaked, but you get the idea. Also, everyone should take a moment to appreciate those custom post titles. (If you’re not seeing them, let me know. I will probably throw my computer against a wall, but better to know now). So, yeah, I would estimate I spent about 10 hours getting those custom fonts to work. It may not sound that important to you, but I’m the mule-headed type that gets an idea in my head and just cannot let it go. I was running into a multitude of problems and dead ends, and then Mary saved the day. THANK YOU, MARY.
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I have an insane amount of client shoots to catch you up on, but I’m going to hold off on those for at least another day. I’ve been unusually, monumentally stressed out lately. It’s just been one of those months where you feel like the universe is stacked against you. So I’ve been in the mood for a little frivolity.
My dad’s girlfriend, Dee, has an amazingly artistic eye and is an avid collector of… well, stuff. But really, really cool stuff. She’s an estate sale monger and you would not believe the things she comes away with. I am especially enamored with her collection of vintage ladies’ hats, and because Roux is so unusually talented at balancing things on her head, I have wanted to do a vintage Roux shoot for a few months. Last week, in the midst of all this stress, I took an afternoon off, set up my studio, and Roux and I had a costume party. The thing that never ceases to amaze me about this dog–and I realize I’m more than a little biased here–is that Roux actually wears the hats. If I didn’t know better I would swear she has a highly advanced set of cultural references and knows exactly what, say, a film star from the 1920′s looked like. Or a housewife from 1962. You’ll see what I mean.
I caught this moment after the shoot, while I was starting to put everything away. She’s definitely hoping that looking cute and standing still will earn her more Mozarella.
Tomorrow I’ll get back on track with client shoots. Thanks for your patience!
Do you ever glance over at your dog during your daily routine, stop a minute and just think, thank God?
Of all the dogs in all the world, I’m glad this one is mine.
Still working on blog + website changes, but I hope to be back to regular blogging next week.
Every morning I hand write myself a daily list of things I plan to get done, and at the end of the day anything I haven’t gotten done gets rewritten at the top of tomorrow’s list. The two nagging items that have been transferred from list to list for months now are to update my website and edit the look of this blog. The website has not been updated since before Christmas, shame on me. It’s not even a real representation of what my work is like now. It’s anachronous. (And no, I didn’t actually know that word until this morning, so don’t you feel bad if you have to look it up).
All this is to say that if you stop by the blog, or God forbid the website, and it looks all crazy like, be patient. Hopefully my heroic attempts to code this change myself will be successful, but I’m expecting some battles.
And because it would be silly to do a post on a photo blog sans photo here’s a quick one of my little sunflower.
I’m a firm believer in the power of friendship, especially friendship between women. My best friends know me in a way that nobody else ever will, and I them. I’m halfway through my twenties, and I know there are so many difficult–and wonderful–times ahead of us all, but I am already blown away when I look at how enduring these friendships are. When it occurred to me do this shoot with Lauren + Sam that was part of what I aimed to capture. The other part? Their absolute, irrefutable inner and outer beauty.
