You hear in Texas, everything is bigger and its true, the hair, the bling, the trucks, the houses, yep pretty much everything. I never really appreciated Texas, or Houston for that matter, until I moved to Oklahoma. Oklahoma is an odd place, land locked but rumored to have more shoreline than any other state (I…

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  I recently had the honor of creating this custom invitation for one of my loyal etsy clients. I love doing custom work, it gives me a chance to be completely creative and artsy. I’m very happy with how this one turned out, I was going for a 1950s “wish you were here” postcard type feel.…

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I’m more excited for the holidays this year than I have ever been. I’m pretty sure the excitement started in July, yes, July. I’ve been doing a bit of Christmas shopping here and there. I’ve been planning holiday craft projects and gathering materials. I’ve also been testing out new cookie and brownie recipes (much to…

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Early this morning, before the sun was up Kristen, Josh and baby Riann (and their little dog Ellie too) met up with me at one of my favorite locations for Riann’s 6 month photo session as well as a few family shots. This was my third shoot with little Riann, but only the second one…

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I’ve never understood the traditional guestbook, a small 5×7 book that a bunch of people sign. What do you do with that? I don’t imagine people look through it years later and say, “Look at Aunt Sue’s signature, OH the memories!” Its not something you’d set on your coffee table for guests to flip through.…

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House. Of. Pies. Go there. This is the paper menu that sits under your food on top of brown diner tables. The waitresses still wear those diner dresses. And they have the best food and pie ever. Its a Houston icon. But I’ve never gone there during the day, only late at night or the…

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My mom and step-dad have taken it upon themselves to personally assist in the cat over population we have here in Houston. Over the past few months they have become friends of three female neighborhood cats in an effort to capture them and find good homes and/or get them fixed. In the process all three…

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Last weekend on the way out of a day at Mom and Mike’s (my step dad) house I raided her fig tree. Bill had gone to help with some construction on their house and Sam Dog and I went along for the ride (I also got to go to Ikea, more on that later). Mom…

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Today I went with a good friend and her kids/niece/kid’s friend to the World’s Largest Sprinkler at Discovery Green in Houston, TX. This was all sponsored by Target and the marketer/advertising person in my gets really jealous when big brands do really crazy cool promotional stunts in other cities like New York, Chicago, London etc.…

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Attention Houston, Spring, and surrounding areas…it’s our new model search time! All the details are below but I want to share with you my insane excitement about the 2012 seniors. Senior year is like entering a brand new era of life, the apex is graduation day. There is a TON to figure out college applications,…

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