NEW BLOG!

I have a new blog! I won't be posting to this one anymore, time to retire it.

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2nd Dress project

This was a fun dress to make, it took 5 hours to glue together on her, but the shots were sooo worth it! It was an awesome shoot, and we had a blast, and isn't the model just so super beautiful! I love her! click on the images to see the full photo.

Paper Dress "Fringe" project

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This dress took me three whole days to make. I did it through conference and all day last Friday. Yesterday I glued each flower individually together forming it to my models body. It took three hours of her standing and allowing me to fit the dress to her, glue, pin, tuck, rearrange and form. She was awesome and so patient. We spent the next three hours shooting her indoors and (poor girl!) outdoors (it was sooo cold!) I got home at 1:30 in the morning! It was a fun project and I was really excited and happy with the results.

It's been a while since I have been excited about my photography projects for school, but I'm enjoying this one. two more dresses to come! (I just have to spend the next many many hours making and designing them!!)

Life Update

I have felt very blessed the past few weeks. I feel like the black cloud that was hanging over me and hanging in my heart has finally moved on. I feel at peace. I feel happy. I am no longer upset when others are happy, I don't begrudge them anymore. I don't know what put me in my hell pit, but I am glad I finally climbed out. (well, that's not true...I know a LITTLE of what put me there...very personal things...) anyway, I feel like me again. It's a strange feeling. As I was listening to conference this weekend, I was overwhelmed with just how "ok" I feel. For so long I was just angry and mad at everything, and I was struggling to not be annoyed with everyone. It was just some feeling I let myself start feeling, then couldn't stop. I prayed hard for months to let the darkness go, and one day, after my surgery, it just left. I felt like I had had a weight lifted off my shoulder.

I appreciated the lessons taught during conference. I loved the talk that said "Just stop" and "don't judge me just because my sins look different then yours"

I have too much in my brain right now to post a coherent post, but just wanted to jot down a few notes from my weekend. It was a great weekend. Ashton and I planted some peas, onions, lettuce and strawberries in the garden, then enjoyed just sitting together and listening to conference. I worked on my school project of making paper flowers and Aspen worked on making jewelry. Ashton enjoyed resting. I've enjoyed all the posts on conference experiences from my friends on their blogs! It's been so nice to read other peoples experiences.