The JOURNAL

I’ve been pretty absent from my blog the past two weeks…. sorry. But the good news is, we’ve gotten a blog facelift! It’s been a few years since my last revamp and I thought it was about time we get some fresh design and features up in here. What do you think? To celebrate, I […]

 They met through a podcast. He was the podcast personality and she was a dedicated subscriber who thought he was the bee’s knees. Through some connections of connections, they met and became fast friends, enjoying one another’s quick wit and sense of humor. He thought she was gorgeous, she was already smitten…. they started spending […]

This poor cat. I’m sure he’s one of the most photographed kittens of all time…. and I’m quite certain that if Hugo knew every silly thing he does goes on the internet for the world to see, he would hide and never come out. But lucky for me, for you… and for him, he’s unaware […]

I got an email the other evening from my sister’s friend Michaela. I’ve known Michaela since she played waterpolo with my sister back in high school and she’s one of the sweetest and most caring people ever. Her email was buried under my daily pile, but as I scanned it, I had to stop and […]

I was talking with someone recently about living our dreams and about our art. We talked about what our dreams are and were… and we talked about why we’re still hopeful. We talked about the personal liability there is as an artist…. putting our heart and soul into our work and allowing the masses to […]

I am SO excited to share this wedding because… it was amazing…. and well, because I REALLY REALLY enjoyed working with Jonathan and Regina. When we first met, we got some coffee at my favorite Portola Coffee Lab in Costa Mesa. We got to talking, and it turned out that Regina and I had pretty […]

For those of you who’ve been following my Instagram feed, this is old news, but for those of you who aren’t on Instagram…. I wanted to share an update on our little furball, Hugo. I blogged last week about how excited we were to have a little fuzzy kitten in our lives…. well on Friday […]

Christopher and I were reminiscing the other day about the way we were when we first met. I never really realize it, but time changes people. Who I was 5 years ago isn’t who I am today, and even though Kate in 2008 has shaped me, we’re different people. An unspoken sign of adulthood is […]

Every year, my family has the tradition of waking up super early to stand in line at Peltzer Pines to find our Christmas tree together. We run through the pine tree groves searching for the fullest, greenest, best smelling tree we can find, trying to beat out all the other tree-seekers doing the same. Once […]

Braden and Emily are near and dear to my heart for many reasons. For one, we all worked at Forest Home together a while back, and the friendships that we started back then have only grown stronger through the years. We’ve gone through breakups, big trips, new relationships, life’s highs and lows… and I couldn’t […]