Revisions

I love to give gifts. I love to get gifts. Let me rephrase that..I love to give meaningful gifts.  I hate to give gifts just for the sake of gift giving.  I hate the mad scramble before Christmas or birthdays when you haven't found the perfect gift and you will feel like a jerk if you show up empty handed. That makes me  insane. But there are those times when you find something that makes your heart jump a  little for joy because you know the recipient is going to just love it.I have received a few of those gifts in my time. Gifts that you know required thought and knowledge of the one on whom the gift would be bestowed.  Case in point. I once received a beautiful Tiffany bracelet from my ex husband. Now every girl loves to get that blue box once in her life but it wasn't so much that it was from Tiffany that made it special. It was the fact that the  collection the bracelet came from was called Atlas. It was a greek numeral motif that he thought was cool because I had gone to ...

T minus three days and counting. My assistant/friend, her sister, my roomie and a co-worker are taking a sojourn out to Salton Sea this weekend. We have both been itching for a creative ventilator after shooting product on white for months in the studio. Our first glimpse of inspiration came when we got to go on a field trip to LA with our boss for a photoshop conference. That was when the idea for a weekend road trip came to fruition. We were giggling like two little girls with idea after idea of where to go, what to do. I have never been to Salton Sea and although Laurel has, it has been some time and we decided it would be the perfect time before it gets too hot and unbearable. So on Good Friday after we go to church at noon we are packing ourselves in the car and heading east young woman. We have a care package all ready for Leonard at Salvation Mountain, cameras ready for whatever catches our fancy and imaginations ready for unlimited expansion.