For Meghan Joy Yancy! We met Meghan in our photo studio last Spring, and instantly knew who she was from following on Instagram. She's such a lovely light in this world, and we loved making these for her.
"This is a Christmas present for my sister. (Yes, I ordered one for my mom...then made my husband buy me one and now my sister wants one too!) These are two pictures of our grandmothers when they were younger. The one in color is our paternal grandmother Martha. The black in white picture is our maternal "meme", Miriam. Martha passed away from ALS/dementia and Meme passed away from dementia. We mi…
Photographs are emotional, not logical. Nobody has to understand why you love it, why it tells the story of who someone was, someone is, what a person means to you. We’ve grabbed photos from long ago that we forgot about and been stopped in our tracks. Grabbed by the emotion. We’ve wondered how in the world we could have ever moved past something that feels so representative of our lives. Or a…
Some of the best business advice we’ve ever received is that if you’re not a little embarrassed about your work when you launch, you’ve waited too long. This is totally different than putting out junk — we would never feel good about doing that. Instead, it’s the idea that you simply can’t know how you’ll improve — or even where to improve — until you get started.The challenge, of course, is that…
An intuitive told me last summer that I have a tendency to close up and bind into myself as a form of protection and defense. At first I was like, "Are you crazy?! I'm so open! I'll tell anyone anything!" and then I watched myself for a few months after that and saw exactly what she was referencing. It's passive. It's unnoticeable. Probably even indescribable to anyone in my inner inner circl…
Every couple of months a new mantra pops into my head. It's not something I have to work too hard to hear, it's something that floats into my head and generally I'm listening. In the past my mantras have been:
restbreathehealgrievelearnlistenlaugh joyadventureLately, my intuition has been telling me to "let go" and "expand," which has morphed into "let go to expand." Like I cannot do on…
