My latest faves...

I will admit to being slightly fickle. I think that is why I fell in love (in that I-must-have-this-now kind of way) with Butter by Nadia.

Emily invited me to the Butter by Nadia trunk show last night at Pink November in Georgetown. Emily has been raving about Pink November for months and it definitely my new favorite place to shop. I chose the short jersey version of the wrap dress in a gorgeous brown - do not be surprised if you see it on me all summer long!

Another favorite, which Emily also introduced me too, is Queen Bee Designs. Talk about gorgeous... and addicting! You really can't have just one Queen Bee!

Little me...

When I was in Ohio last week, my mom and I went through some old pictures. What is about a new baby coming into the world that makes us look back to when we were little?

So, I thought it would be fun to share some of my first baby pictures.

My crazy hair in this picture just cracks me up!


These aren't little red bugs - just something that happened to the picture from being carried in my mom's wallet for 30+ years!


I've been working on scanning and cataloging all of my family pictures for years. It's a fun project to look through all the old images. Should I share more?

Blog Tag!

I was tagged by the fun and fabulous Amanda of Orchard Cove Photography. The rules of the game are simple - if you get tagged, you have to list 8 facts about yourself that people might otherwise not know... So, here I go, although it's kind of hard to think of 8 things that most people don't know... I'm kind of an open book, so here are 8 things that I know for sure I haven't shared on this blog. Sorry if they are things you already know about me!

1. I'm a huge football fan. I play co-ed flag football on Saturday mornings (when I don't have a wedding or portrait session scheduled!) with my team, La Resistance. My favorite college team is the Ohio State Buckeyes and my favorite pro team is, of course, the Cleveland Browns.

2. In case number 1 didn't give it away, I'm originally from Cleveland, Ohio. And since it's baseball season, must give a big shout out to the #1 Cleveland Indians!!

3. I love shoes. and shopping. and shopping for shoes.

4. I have been known to eat ice cream for dinner. More than once. More than once a week. And my mom told me to. My favorite is anything Haagen-Daz, but if I had to pick only one, it'd be HD's Light Dutch Chocolate. Yummm!

5. I watch Jon Stewart on the Daily Show EVERY night. I can't go to bed without him. In fact, I am watching him right now as I type these answers. I think it is the smartest television around.

6. I love going to museums. I guess it's great for me that I live in DC! My favorite is the Corcoran Gallery of Art and I'm very excited that the Corcoran's fall exhibitions are of 2 of my favorite photographers - Ansel Adams and Annie Liebowitz.

7. Favorites - red wine and chocolate.... really, do I need to say any more?

8. My brother called me Yuck-ca-ca when we were kids and my niece calls me Ca-Ca. Who knew Jessica was so hard to say? I wonder what my brand new baby nephew Tate will call me (more on him soon - I'm going to visit in a couple of weeks, so there will be lots of pictures to share!).

Phew! I'm done!

Who I'm tagging... 5 fabulous and fun photographers!

Sarah Hodzic
Jennifer Grigg
Kimberly Reed
Karen Mikols
Kirstie Tweed

Tag! You're It!!

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Fun with Emily & Henriette

My friend Emily is a fabulous make-up artist, so I enlisted her assistance to get some new pictures for the "about" section of my website. Henriette came along to hang out and have Emily work some magic on her as well. Of course, I ended up turning the camera on Emily and Henriette!

Emily gave Henriette fabulous smoke eyes - isn't she gorgeous!

And of course Em was quite the ham in her cute J-Lo hat!

Oh, and those pictures Emily took of me, well, you'll have to check out the about section on my website to see them!