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To my photographer friends

I've gotten into a situation to which I need some advice.

What do you do when someone takes watermarked proof photos and crops out your watermark and edits your photos after you have asked them to please not to?

I am not the type of person that really gets mad at people for "forgetting" to give me credit for taking the photos. But purposefully cropping out a watermark that says PROOF © Awkward Eye Photography that takes up half the photo then editing it..... I just don't get it.

 Should I just let it go? I haven't even finished editing the final photos yet, now I don't know if I even want to. :/ I hate being in funky situations but I would appreciate advice on how to go about things in the kindest way possible.

Thanks Guys!

tattoo progress ")

I'm already in love I can't WAIT to finish it up!!
One more session to do the color and it's done! yay!!

If you are even in San Antonio, and feel like getting a tattoo,
 I recommend Ethan @ Tiki Tattoo off Austin Highway.
Seriously.
He's awesome.
Seriously.

Cute things...

I was skyping with my sister this morning and she showed me these clay flowers. Aren't they amazing!! I love love LOVE the last one with the orange roses and white hellebore. Now these are flowers I wouldn't mind spending money on!

So I'm pretty excited

Today is my monday, and I'm having a great start to the week.


This past weekend, we did a lot of hanging out at home and relaxing!


 Saturday after Chris got off work we went and hung out with some newish friends, Sarah and Danny Naselli.


{Quick story behind that, when I was 18 I started going to a church, Rise Above. I made some friends there that I loved. I ended up moving to Seguin and loss touch with a lot of them, but my sister had come home from California and started hanging out with them a lot and so I somewhat stayed connected. I knew and hung out with Danny and all the guys in his band. So Sarah started going to rise above, got married to Danny and I added her and started talking to her through facebook. And we finally met in person Saturday. ")}


Anyways, I love this girl! She loves photography, tattoos, and she is one of the sweetest most genuine people I've ever met. I'm super excited that she is in my life and I really am looking forward to our friendship! Oh and Danny is cool too, as always :P So my saturday night was filled with talks about Photoshop, Lightroom, and photography things. It was awesome.


 Sunday Mornings Chris works at a church called Oak Hills. They have satellite churches all over San Antonio even one in Fredericksburg. Any who, he works at one about 10 minutes from our house, and I actually got up and got the kids up in time to make it to church EARLY!! At least to the second service "P That wasn't so relaxing.. since our "campus" is only a year old they only have Bibleland (which is childcare) for the first service. And since my kids usually sleep until 10am waking them up at 8 to make it to the first service the a bit hard. So I sit in the back of the sanctuary with my kids by the sound booth (where Chris is running sound for the service) And Josiah was having a freak out, he was crying and throwing a fit and I couldn't figure out why, Jocelyn wanted to be held then left alone then held etc.. she wasn't very happy either. LOL I think about it now and I laugh. I was so stressed, I hate when people turn around in their seats and look at the "MOM" who can't keep her kids quite and is being a distraction. *sigh* Good thing is it was a great message and I was actually able to somewhat pay attention. After church we came home and had a very relaxing night in. I worked on some editing while we caught up on last weeks American Idol. (Which I'm SOOO glad that Clint guy went home, he was a good singer [I LOVED HIS VOICE] and all but I really didn't like his attitude. Totally ruined it for me. Sorry Clint)


 Monday Chris and I got up early [8am] before the kids and made some breakfast, then headed to Seguin to go to his mom's house. She had bought a embroidery machine like a year or two ago and hasn't used it other than when she first got it and Christ showed her how to hook it up and stuff. She asked Chris to come to the house and set it up again and show her how to use it. It's a super cool machine, its one of those you hook up to the computer and you and tell it what to embroider and it just does it. We plan on using it to embroider some polo's for my photography business, which I got a letter saying that I may now OFFICIALLY conduct business as Awkward Eye Photography. I'M SO PUMPED!!!!
While I was in Seguin, I decided to go check on my aunt, I'll have to go into the background story on her later cause that's a whole other blog. But just briefly, she once was diagnosed as bi-polar, but I'm pretty sure she is like schizophrenic. But she is in good health and I had a really nice two hour visit with her. Other than her telling me people had cameras in her house watching her every move and that when I lived there when my grandmother was alive we had all been drugged and that was the reason for us all fighting, it was a pretty normal visit. lol I love my aunt and it makes me sad to see her so paranoid but she is still family and I will always be there for her.

So that was my weekend. Now today is very relaxing also. The kids are in really good moods, very much enjoying watching Sesame Street and tonight I'm going to get the shading and stuff done on my tattoo!!!

Re-Blog from Kimberly Scott

Please take the time to read this, absorb it and share your thoughts on the matter.

This is from KimberlyScottBlog.com:

Good for her vs. Why not me?

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I can’t even accurately tally how many times I’ve heard women friends of mine speak of how hard it is to find good female friends.

The words caddy, jealous and competitive come to mind. I try and think of a time in my own life when women did not feel the need to compete and I can’t find it.

Grade school was the worst for me…

The mean girls.

Being bullied because my family was poor.

Not understanding why I couldn’t be friends with everyone just because I lived in a trailor park.

I became good at adapting and adjusting. Eventually I got to the point where social status and money did not matter.

Or.so.I.thought.

Why is it impossible for us as women to support each other.

It shouldn’t be.

Why is it so hard for us to be happy for another woman when things turn out well for her

It shouldn’t be. Why do we think “why not me?” instead of “good for her”?
 Why can’t we help one another be the best we can be?

We can be.

Being women who inspire and support means more than just sharing quotes that are deep and written by someone else, more than just the half-hearted compliments we pay each other when we get news our friends dreams are coming true, more than the occasional “cute shoes, pretty profile pic and the ever so flat “oh cool.”

These are things we often times feel we must say, to be nice. Well nice isn’t always genuine.

I think it’s time as women we reach into that place where we love to tuck our insecurities away and give it a stir.

I think it’s time we look in the mirror, not to straighten our mascara, not to make sure we are the best dressed girl at the ball….but to see what part about ourselves we love and face the fears that house our insecurities. Grab them and hold onto them until we are able to naturally overcome them.

Overcome them when your best friend tells you she just got news of being featured in a magazine and you first instinct is jealousy.

Rather than allowing the usual response be one of a half-A attempt to say something nice and retreat back into the fear box, picture how happy you’d be in her shoes and take that positive energy to inspire yourself to do more.

Overcome them when you see others being more successful at something you are still struggling to do.

Use their example to excite you for the future; to give you hope that if dreams can come true for others, they can for you as well. Overcome that age old feminine nature that tells us to judge other women because they are different than us.

Difference is necessary for inspiration, for progression, for us to challenge ourselves. Overcome the mean girl in us who wants to gossip about things we truly do not understand. It always comes back around and we all know what it’s like to be on the other side. Overcome the insane idea that we must be the best at everything.It’s not logical. It’s not healthy. It’s not possible.

As women, we should not only be supporting each other, but we should be giving a little grace as well. I want my daughter to understand the importance of lending a hand to her girlfriends, the importance of not judging things from the outside, the importance of surrounding herself with girls that love her.

I am inspired daily by the struggles and triumphs of the women around me. I could be jealous (and at times I am) of things they do and have happen to them. I could not care if they were successful. I could make assumptions about them when I have no clue what they are going through. I could, and I have, but I want to be different. I want to do my best to help and share and accept.

My daughter will not be a good person just because I tell her to be. She will not be a hard worker if she believes beauty is the only way to get something. She will not trust anyone, if those close to her are not happy for her.

She will however be the product of what surrounds her. “We” will be the products of what surrounds us. I say we all work on what surrounds us;) I would love to hear your thoughts… so leave me a comment or send me an email!

KS

This is something that touches my heart deeply. I finally figured I can't force anyone to be my friend, to love me and support me. I can only control what I do, so even if it becomes exhausting I will give love and support to those in my life and just hope that some comes back my way. I think that a lot of women struggle with finding just the right "girl friends" to support them and encourage them. It's definitely something that needs to change in women. 

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March 4

March 3

My Kitchen Dream

So I am beginning the process of collection "mushroom" things to use in my kitchen. I want to have a retro mushroom styled kitchen. And I'm finding TONS of stuff I like.

These mugs are my inspiration. I want to do bright colors, with a vintage twist. I'm liking the color pallet of these mugs.

Cute things...

This is one of the cutest DIY projects I've seen in a while. I can not wait to try this out!!! You can find all the instructions at CraftedLove.com. She also has some other really cute projects I recommend checking her out!

March 1

Oh for the love of Ketchup

Genius, pure genius.

Free FryDay! Yum!

On Friday, if you show up at a Chick-fil-A between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. and ask for Heinz Dip & Squeeze ketchup, you'll receive a free medium order of waffle fries, one limit per customer. What is this special ketchup? It's the same old Heinz ketchup you're likely used to, just in packaging that allows you to dip into its contents or squeeze out onto the fries.

SXSW

South By Southwest Festival is right around the corner! 

I have actually never been. Which totally bums me out. Every year I want to go but it seems I'm always broke this time a year.  For those of you who don't know what SXSW is go to their website and check it out. Here is a little intro from their website:

"The SXSW® Music and Media Conference celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2011. Reaching a quarter of a century of being the biggest and most anticipated convergence of all things music, SXSW is ready to keep the reputation alive by programming the best event yet.

By day, thousands of conference registrants network in the halls of the Austin Convention Center on their way to do business at the SXSW Trade Show: The Exhibition for Creative Industries, sit in on informative panel discussions featuring some of the industry's key players, gain insight from legendary keynote speakers or plan out their abundant party schedules. At night, SXSW showcases hundreds upon hundreds of musical acts from around the globe on over eighty stages in downtown Austin. All this and so much more, combine to make SXSW one of the most revered music events, year after year."

(Quick little distraction, I'm sitting here blogging while the kids are watching Blue's Clues and it was ending, so Steve was saying bye see you later and Jocelyn started waving at the tv. Too cute!)

Any way, I really want to try to make it this year, and I'm working on getting a press pass. Man, if I can pull this off it will be awesome!