If you follow my blog any you'll know that I've been adventuring into photography a lot more lately for my blog but also in hopes of a future career path. Well I'm excited to say that I had my first paid photo shoot this past weekend! The day where I can "quit my day job" (even though its only down to 2 days) is looking more and more promising. It went very well and the photos turned out better than I could've hoped. This is the first time in a while that I've been proud of myself. Don't get me wrong, I realize that I work hard as a single parent going to school full time and working but when it comes to creative projects I never feel satisfied with the end result no matter how much my client raves about it. I guess it's just a perfectionist or insecurity thing. But I genuinely feel proud of something that I've done. Who knows, this could be my calling. Obviously I'm nowhere near perfect at photography yet and I have a lot to learn, but I feel very pulled towards it in my life now. And I've already booked two more clients for next week. I'm stoked.  Well tata for now. =)

kat

Today's a quiet day. with school being out for the summer I cannot even express the amount of weight that has been lifted off my shoulders. I can finally catch up on good movie watching without feeling guilty about it! I'm a netflix freak so I'm always hunting for good movies to watch instantly. Here's a few that are definitely worth watching if you haven't already.





Bunny & Bull This movie is definitely a new favorite. It was hilarious. The characters were genuinely interesting and hysterical. It's a little crude in the humor department, but I'm totally ok with that.  In the opening scene I was tidying up the house and the music and photography was so intriguing I sat down and just watched the movie. I did nothing but watch the movie, and that's saying a lot for me. I love everything about this movie, but most of all the visuals and the style. WATCH WATCH WATCH!








Heartbeats
One more movie that I love for the visuals and music.  The photography and style was just about perfect for my taste. (THE CLOTHING OMG!) The story is the kind of pointless drama that close friends blow into something much bigger than it is, but I guess that was kind of the beauty of this movie. Definitely definitely watch!

That being said I'm going to relax and just plan even more I have Anna Karenina at the house to watch... I'm super excited lol. Hope all is well in your part of the world.

tata
kat

I've got baby showers and invitations as well as the upcoming photo shoot on the brain this week. I've been collecting old floral fabrics, lace, tea cups and "milk glass for decoration. I'm finding such pretty and inspiring things on pinterest. *sigh* This will be an exciting week for me as well as the blog. Stay tuned for more on that!

Well happy monday everyone! kat ann




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 About a month back my son's school has a field trip to the zoo in Tyler, TX. I love this zoo, its not in the middle of Dallas so it's a nice chill, not scary zoo and it's never crowded. My favorite part of the zoo was the little bird "walk a bout" where you can basically hang out with birds and feed them. Conrad literally was amazed and in awe the whole time we were in there. Also, love was in the air at the zoo... let's just leave it at that haha.

After the school left we stayed a little while longer and made another round around the zoo and spent a long time in there feeding the birds. I had a proud mommy moment when there was another kid in there (probably 6 or 7) who was walking up to the birds and slapping them!! My son looked at me confused because he didn't understand why this kid would do that. He looked and the kid and told him not to do it because he was hurting them and scaring them. I'm glad that he has the sweet big heart that he does already. We has lots of fun and I took lots of pictures of course.

This was my first chance to use the only zoom lens that I own so far. I ended up picking this one up at a pawn shop for $90. Not too bad, it zooms decent enough especially for the price.

It's been exciting times lately! Last week the boyfriend adventured in McKinney checking out a few places. (1) We ate at this authentic taco place.. not too bad. I'm kicking myself for not buying this coffee table I found. If it's there when I go back I'll know it was meant to be haha. (2) My little family and my parents spent mother's day morning/afternoon at the local flea market ( probably the best mother's day ever) . Found this great leather purse and little mirror. (4) I"m becoming a sucker for anything triangular shaped. 

We finally ate at this great local burger shop called Terry's. It's literally right around the corner from out house and the prices are really low! SUCH GOOD BURGERS! Like, I'm drooling now. (5) Their "booths" are my most favorite color in the world... that coraly orangish pink. Like I used for my blog layout.

I've been getting more and more ready to open shop online, Conrad decided he wanted to make sure the hats were all up to par. (3). We've got an inventory of close to 30 dresses, 10 skirts, 13 tops, 6 jackets/blazers, about 20 pairs of shoes, and tons of purses, jewelry, scarves and hats. (6) (7) Crossing my fingers that people love the pieces I've collected. It's about 3 years of collecting.

Also, I don't think I've mentioned that we had babies two weeks ago... like kittens. (8)(9) My cat had 4 babies at about 1 a.m. one saturday night. Three of them are tortoise shells and one is peachy orange. I can't wait until they are running around. Conrad is completely smitten and protective over them. He melts my heart. =) I feel so lucky to be his mommy. He's such a sweet kiddo. He's the greatest gift a mother could ever want. Love you munchkin!

Happy mother's day to all of you wonderful mommies out there today! We have a special afternoon planned for us this morning that I'm excited about. Hope it's wonderful for you all.

I'm so happy that I have such a wonderful mother who is always there for me 100% and more.. no matter what I need.  She deals with me when I am a pain and encourages me to follow my dreams, no matter how far fetched they may be. She has always inspired me and helped me to enhance my talents and further my dream of working in the design field.  My parents even bought me my first macbook in high school which I still have.

I couldn't ask for a better mom or "Nana" to my son.  She has gone above and beyond to be there for us both, especially when we needed it the most. She's always ready with arts and crafts time when Conrad comes to spend the weekend and has the bug catcher ready to collect all the butterflies and rollie pollies they can find. I'm truly blessed. I love you mom! Happy Mother's Day!

Well it's been a busy few weeks for me..... hence the lack of blogging. With finals going on and two clients I've been working non stop with I've been going going and going. The first client,  I did a poster for the cool gals at Madames of Massacre for their upcoming fundraiser after meeting them at their bout in April. They are super cool ladies and I think this event is for such a great cause! The other I'll probably post sometime later.

The theme that they are going with for the fundraiser is Super Heroes vs. Villains. I thought it would be cool to make it look like a page from a comic book. I ended up hand drawing a few girls and then finishing it up in Illustrator. We were pretty crunched for time  so I had to pull it together in just 2 days but it ended up pretty cool. I wish I could've spent a little more time on the city in the background but in the end I'd probably still never be satisfied lol. What do ya think?

well I am out for now... lots more homework to do and some more shop stuff to get done!

kat