Shimmyfest 2007

Shimmyfest 2007 - ROCKED OUT!! WOO!! What a great time! Here are a few photos!


Silly me!! Oh - my new eyeglasses - check it out!


kitty sparkle on 2 layers of wine glasses and a layer of shot glasses!

Kitty Sparkle ROCKED it!

Disco Diana!

The awesome-ness of Colleen!!!!


Mirage - Russellville, AR


Me!


Belly Dancing Divas.....I mean DISCO DIVAS!!! WHOO!

Desert Fire - Fayetteville

My husband is HOT!!!!

OK, so no...it hasn't been a full year since we got married (Doug I married at last years shimmyfest) but shimmyfest was last Saturday....I'm still on a belly dance "high" - it was so exciting. I look forward to shimmyfest every year. Anyways, shimmyfest marks our wedding and boy I was just so excited to have the love of my life there. Doug is just so exciting and did I tell you all he is HOT HOT HOT??? My man makes me swoon every time I see him and my heart flutters like crazy. Almost a full year of marriage and I'm crazier about him now than I was over a year ago!!! He really makes me all "foggy" and I can't seem to concentrate because I'm in la-la land. Ok, ok ....I'm making you all sick but being in love is nothing I have ever experienced ever! (well the exception of my daughter but that is a different love - you all know what I mean!!) Anyways, I'm just so proud of my hot husband and I'm so excited to be his wife and I can't wait to see what is in store for us. Being in love ROCKS!!!!

July 14th wedding

I photographed another wedding for Stone Ridge Photographers. Saturday, July 14th. The wedding was at Colonial Courts which is a pretty neat place. Stefanie and Mike were super cool and I had a great time at their wedding!

Wanna trash it?

Trashing the wedding dress is creating quite the "buzz" in the media. I am all about taking someone out and having fun "trashing the dress." We don't have to destroy it but you can totally let your hair down, not worry about your dress getting dirty before the wedding (you're married already!) and just having a good time in the great outdoors. Let's go have fun!




This is Sarah in her dress - 5 years later!! She didn't care that we were in the woods and there was dirt on the ground!

Fairies, wood nymphs, gothic chics - oh my!

So I get this "inkling" to do fun dress up photos from time to time. I called my family and friends up and said "let's go into the woods and do pics!" I asked my bestest bud Haley if we could use her driveway and she said "yeah!" So here' what we did!


My other bestest bud - she's all dreamy in the woods!

My mom dressed as a fairy along with Amelia! How cute is this?

The witch runs thru the woods!

Make your own story line.....attack of the witch!

The beautiful Sarah. Can you believe she has 2 young children? She looks awesome!!!

07-07-07

07-07-07 was the most popular wedding date of the year! I booked a wedding through Stone Ridge Photography. I had so many inquiries for this date but I got the opportunity to spend the day with Ashley and Channon. They were such an awesome couple and Ashley was full of personality!


I had meant for Ashley to turn the other way and look at her ring but things were going SUPER fast, I like the photo either way! It's so dainty and beautiful!

Macro shot of the rings - LOVE her ring - so unique!

My assistant Shane grabbed this amazing shot during the ceremony. Bravo to him - he has been shadowing me at weddings and is really picking up photography!

A cute pic of Ashley! Her mom made her dress - WAY cool!

It was definitely HOT outside, so glad the bride thought of having fans for all her guests.

Uh oh....the cops showed up! There was actually a "hit & run" at the reception! One of the guests backed into another guests car and sped off! The lady had to call the cops to file a report!

Ashley and her dad - walking down the aisle. Love the look in her face and love how proud her father is!

ONDA OK Magazine

So I photographed the centerfold for the July girl for ONDA OK Magazine. The owner, JP, took video of the photoshoot. For the August issue - I'll make sure to wear something a bit cuter - lol!! JP plans on video taping each photoshoot. I think for August I want to get a hot chick on a chopper....

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.fullscreen&videoid=2040456514

Part of the nerd club!

He he he he.....I'm now in the nerd club. YAY for me! I got my certificate of acheivement from the University of AR. Maintained a GPA of 3.5 and higher and I got the certificate in the mail. I am definitely proud! My friend Duane says that I'm now officially in the nerd club and that is one club I want to be a part of!! So I figured out that I could graduate this spring with a BA if I wanted to but I'm going to continue for another year so I can get that BFA so I can teach art classes if I wanted to. I am still holding onto that Disney World dream, though.....

So Doug and I are trying to figure out where to go on our late honeymoon. We are thinking either Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Disney World or an Alaskan cruise. Decisions!! What to do! Anyone? Suggestions?

So Doug and I are 95% moved into the new place. We stopped looking for houses.....it got to be too hard trying to go to school & shoot weddings. The stress level was too high and we decided that renting for another year would be the easiest thing to do. We are in a condo and we like it. The animals are trying to adjust - they are a bit freaked out by the new place. I'm on the prowl for some new furniture, though. I'd like to get rid of my "past" (furniture) and have new stuff with Doug......so if you hear of any great 4th of July furniture sales - tell me!!!!!

........ I now officially have 7 pairs of eyeglasses. I am obsessed with glasses! I just bought a pair of prescription sunglasses and a pair of metal cat eye glasses with rhinestones in them. They look like the old 50's glasses that are so way cool. I found out that I can wear contacts now but I like my glasses and I'd rather stick with them! .....if you're in the need for new eyewear go and see Doug for glasses. He is a licensed optician and can sell you some awesome eyeglasses!

............more photos coming soon..........of the eyeglasses - lol!

Coooool Wedding!

Talk about multi-tasking!!! I was hired to shoot a wedding but then the bride found out that I was a belly dancer. She asked me to do double duty and hired me to shoot the wedding AND to dance/entertain her guests. I was so thrilled and honored. I was pretty tired after shooting but I found that boost of energy and danced! What a blast!

My Amelia

Aahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! I miss my Amelia SO much. She gets to spend quality time with her dad for 2 weeks (summer visitation) and I'm missing her something fierce!!!!!! I just had to post pictures of her because I miss her so much!

Jennifer at Branch Photography

I finally got to meet Jennifer at Branch Photography. She is so way nice and down to earth! Her and her husband Keith do some nice portraiture work. They have a really neat studio in Fayetteville. Their specialty is mainly portraits and they are beautiful portraits for sure!
The one cool thing about being a photographer is getting to meet other photographers. Well....Jennifer asked me to pose for a few photos for her and I think they turned out so fun! Thanks Jennifer for goofing off this past weekend......we gotta do that again! :-)