creating

I love to create, I'm often working on something, it helps to keep me inspired and creative... any given day I can be creating something (I often make my husband roll his eyes!!)... Thought I'd start to share some of the things I do from time to time. Last year, I was in a club at Colorful Creations in Hyannis, which by the way, is a super store, everything you could ever need to create amazing scrapbooks, and so much more, cool papers, great stamps, you get the idea, if you haven't been, you so should... anyway, I digress! One of the projects was to create a mini album (well, okay, 6 mini albums all the same), and as I'm totally addicted to Eclipse mints, I used my collection of tins to create my mini-albums... (I don't feel guilty about the mints not being environmentally friendly because I make cool art out of them!) My albums were less about the albums and more about the storage of the albums, although my sample I brought was a fun little flip book of Adriana doing the hula hoop (another post perhaps!)...

I used alcohol inks to cover the Eclipse tins, and then added beads of Fimo clay I had stamped with some of my fab stamps prior to baking, a few beads, a bit of funky yarn, some ripped pieces from an old dictionary & an old music book, and voila! a mini album... People often ask me what altered art is when I tell them a lot of what I do is that, this is a perfect example!

Earth day every day...

Happy Earth Day! Do something to save, embrace, love, take care of, or otherwise protect the Earth today... I'm a big believer in Earth Day every day, it's easy to do small things which will add up to a big difference... and in this case, 1 person really can make a difference... Teach your children well...
how amazing our Earth is, how very much we have to lose...

Alison and Mike

A beautiful early Spring evening on Mayflower Beach, along with a gorgeous couple, made for a fun portrait session... I'm looking forward to Alison and Mike's wedding in June... Congrats to you both, may your lives together be always filled with love....

another year, another NEIPP

The theme of this year's NEIPP, was the Roaring 20's, what fun... Taking a business course all week, instead of fun and creative photography classes like I normally do, just about made my head explode, but boy am I ready to start (4 months in) the year off right... Being a photographer on the Cape, my 'year' is my season, it starts in earnest early July and runs through December. January to July is preparation for the craziness to come. We did have a photography assignment in my class, to make a recognizable object unrecognizable... there were some very creative entries... I had fun with the lights at Ocean Edge, I love the concept though... Since we photographed that day, I've looked at quite a few things differently, and that's what keeping your creativity is all about... I photographed my first beach session of the year when I got home, I'll share the images in my next post... it was just the first of many beautiful sunsets I'll photograph in this year... (to be continued...)

NEIPP

off I go to New England Institute of Professional Photography for a week of intensive study with John Hartman... I can't believe it's been a year since I studied with Don McGregor... my intern will be one of Don's models this year, she's so excited, it's fun modeling for a group of crazy photographers! I'm sure to be quiet for the next week, while my head is being filled with lot's of great knowledge... forgive me if I'm slow returning calls/emails... I'll tell you all about it next weekend!

Earth Hour revisited

Wow. I hope that you joined me in turning off the lights on the 29th, I know one of my wedding couples, Jennifer and Tom did... We played one of our favorite family games, Blokus, followed by a crazy game of Agitation (the British version of Trouble). We also talked about what each of us could do to save the earth's resources. Adriana enjoyed it so much, she asked if we could do it every day! I think we'll definately incorporate an earth hour into our lives on a regular basis... go take a quick peek at the photos, entire cities in near darkness... One person really can make a difference, and one person working with thousands of others... what a world we can save... Visit Earth Hours' blog for the photos...