You probably remember it.  The first day of school.  For a whole week leading up to that first day, you rustled through your closet picking out the best outfit that said yep-I’m-still-me-and-I-still-have-style-welcome-back-to-school, but that also didn’t look too much like a pick-me-pick-me-pick-me!-please kind of outfit.  There’s a fine balance of bold and subdued in the […]

I was getting my hair cut only two days after moving back to Iowa and mentioned to my cosmetologist (a long time hair-friend of mine) that I was going to fax my resume in to a local dermatology office.  She said, “No, you walk right in their with your cute little face and they’ll hire […]

My sister and her family were in town for Thanksgiving.  As previously mentioned in the post about my parents, Meg and I had arranged a photo swap since we are both photographers.  We chose Sunday just from the sheer chance that it worked best in all of our schedules, but it turned out that it […]

They are the new hot rage and I’m loving them: accordion albums.  They fit inside your purse or wallet and are a perfect little substitute for Grandma’s brag book (or Mom’s brag book; face it, you love your kids!).  I wanted to try them out first, design-wise, before offering them to clients and so I […]

When I got to the grocery store today and pulled my list out of my pocket, I laughed out loud right there in Aisle 1.  Need I say more?

While we were together at Thanksgiving this past weekend, my sister, Megan, and I decided to swap family pictures.  (She’s also a photographer.  Check her out here.)  Mom said that she wants some pictures of her and Dad together since that hasn’t happened since…well, about this long ago.  (This, by the way, is one of […]