ne plus ultra, rambling

Saturday night was the Fashion Forward charity event.  Nadine said we raised close to $6,000 for Safe Haven.  Awesome!  I was pretty disappointed the whole thing fizzled pretty fast, and half of what they said was going to happen, didn’t, but…oh well.  Doing the runway was a lot of fun.  Someone yelled, “I want you!” while I was posed at the end of the runway, and I’m not sure who it was, cause it wasn’t anyone in my main group of friends that was there…hmm….

I got to meet some new people though, and I learned a lot from all of this, so overall it’s been a crazy, stressful experience!  LOL

Andrew’s birthday was today..well, Monday…I think it’s technically Tuesday.  We had 7 people at our house this past weekend.  I made his birthday cake from scratch.  A dark chocolate raspberry gnache, the cake is made with Godiva mocha liqueur.  Yum!  And it turned out really, really good.

Now all my major projects are done…I think.  I have one more modeling thing to do for a friend.

Oh!  I found out I sold one of my pictures at the tattoo shop.  I have to make a phone call about that…

(Some of the modeling pictures I took on my flickr site…)

Feeling Emotional

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Self-portrait :) I haven’t posted one in a while, so I thought I would. I was up playing with my camera this past weekend. I’m lined up to be in another photography show in Feb. at Zappia Tattoo (downtown Duluth) with a black/low key/dark theme (Noir). Next door is DeKats, and there will be a white/light/high key show at the same time.

So this past weekend I’ve been brainstorming and started taking some shots and getting some noir-esque shots down. I did some self-portraits while I was it. You can check them out on Flickr.

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My model :) …hope she doesn’t mind being on my blog. lol.

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I like the wispy clouds…

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We tried to go to Hartley today, but ended up at Lester. I’m not saying how it happened, it just did.

I still got some good pictures out of it :)

Lily II
Wed. night we had a get-together for my dad’s birthday. This is one of my nieces….I had some free time in Rice Lake so I put some pictures up…

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In Pairs II

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(the rats of Canal Park…but kinda fun to photograph)

The Beginning of Fall

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~rest & relaxation (recovery)~

I don’t know how to do it. I know how to use every ounce of energy I have to get things done because I might not have that energy later. So, recovering from my procedure…yeah, I hung photos, went out and took pictures, got a giant clock and some art hung, scrubbed the shower until it shined (a HUGE apology to anyone who’s stayed here lately, that thing was disgusting), vacuumed floors…

I’m horrible at this resting stuff.

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The classic butterfly shot. From Florida :)

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I got the rest of my trip pictures up on Flickr.  The Chicago set is here.