Display Thursday: Easy as 1, 2, 3!

This week several people came to my house when I was not expecting them and had to bear witness to the slob that I am... It was severely embarrassing but at the same time, eh. I go through crazy cleaning phases and then I just can't bring myself to put away the paper towels that I bought at the store last week. One such friend asked me what I was planning on doing with the two giant frames that are sitting on the floor against the chevron wall. And since they've been sitting there since Christmas and will probably continue to do so I thought I'd show you an EASY way to get stuff up on those walls of yours. 

New start my friends, new start.

ONE, although it may be the loneliest number that you ever knew is often all you need to brighten up a bland office wall or hallway. This room is likely anything but bland. This is the seating area of a bedroom. The image is perfect for the space and being the one lone piece for the large wall the scale of the image had to be huge as well. Keep that in mind when deciding to put one photograph on your wall. The bigger the empty space the bigger that one image should be. A tip: cut out newspaper to the size you think you want and tape it up on the wall. If the scale looks right you're good to go, if not, try, try again!

Image via So Haute

It take TWO to make a thing go riiiiight! Do you see where I'm going with this now? Pairs of images are really great on a wall together, especially when they play off one another. I really think if you only have two images on a wall they do need to tie in together. Whether it be from the same shoot, or the same person or the same color (or black and white!). I would also tend to do as is done in this image and keep the scale and shape consistent. 

Image via Emily Henderson

THREE's company too! I love how, in this attic space, they use the  wainscoting to align all the photographs. It's clean and simple and still makes a great statement on the wall. Plus I love that it creates some streamlined structure to the oddly shaped attic room.

Image via Houz

See! How easy was that?! 1, 2, 3! (The first time I typed that it was 1, 2, 4! Mrs. May would be so sad to hear I forgot how to count!) Get those pictures up on your walls my friends. Go on, do it!

Seeing Love: LaVey and Tyson Just Because Photos

I met LaVey for the first time at Katie and Ryan's wedding last year. She and Janine, of Your Beauty Call fame, did such fantastic work on the bride and her bridal party and were such fantastic girls that I had to know them for realz. I love them both dearly.

LaVey married her beau, Tyson, on 9-10-11 (cute!) and I totally missed out on the affair because I was photographing tractors and listening to two hours of polka music. Just normal stuff like that. I've been trying to photograph these two beautiful people for ages. And when I say ages I mean since last May. That's nearly a year my friends (in case the math escaped you). After some hemming and hawing over where our location would be, we went to quaint little Main St. in Boulder City. A-DOR-A-BLE. Seriously the cutest street ever.

Two words.

Candy Shoppe!!!

These two are seriously adorable. Plus they bought me a chocolate covered banana. So they can stay.

Can't wait for our next shoot! Yep, we've already got another in the works. Hopefully this time it will take less than nine months to do it!

Steampunk

I only recently learned what a steampunk is after I saw a feature on Ruffled Blog of a Victorian Steampunk wedding. Apparently it's been around since the 90s, but I wasn't in the know. Which isn't really that surprising...

I'm part of a little photo Facebook group and the fantastic Heather Baldwin found a local Steampunk Group called the Las Vegas Steampunk Tea Society and they were totally up for a photo shoot. There were a lot of us photographers there but there were even more steampunks, if you can believe that!

This is a serious hobby. They make their own props and clothes or combine their own creations with different finds from thrift stores or ebay. They'll build up outfits overtime. The clothing is unreal. But the real gems were their guns or hats or goggles or, yes, even the monocle. So awesome! I think I know what I'm going to be for Halloween this year.

See More Love

Vegas Fun

I don't often get down to the strip. But when a wonderful friend comes to town and says she'll carve out a wedge of time for me to share a meal with her, I am there like white of rice. Capree is a one of my dearest friends from college. We've known each other a long time (if I try and crunch the numbers it makes me feel old, so don't push it). She has an amazing blog about all things modern in design land. It's awesome, My Adventure is Your Advantage (MAIYA, for short). She's like a little sprite of joy and laughter.

I took her to the Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan. She'd never been inside and I knew it was totally up her alley. As soon as she saw The Chandelier she was sold. Four stories of sparkling crystals? Um, yes please.

We had a great time. I was sad when I had to take her to the airport. But she's coming back, she promised.


When I heard about the Gourmet Food Truck Festival at South Pointe I wasn't too sure about how good the food would be. But upon arriving and seeing the endless lines of people at each of the twenty some trucks I decided I had made the right decision in dragging my friends out there. After making a lap around the trucks and waiting in two lines and deciding against the food we settled on Devilicious and got some seriously gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. Take a look at the menu! I'm salivating again. I really should not be posting this on an empty stomach.

And what's a week without a walk with Ripley-dog? Because my community is still building (it was a ten year plan before the housing crash and I'm pretty sure at this point it's about 30 years). The farthest edge of our walk is an area that will one day be a giant park. Right now it's just rocks and and dirt. But someone in my neighborhood has taken to stacking rocks out in the wasteland. There's several sculptures. I love seeing them sprout up.

Have a wunderbar weekend!!

Display Thursday: Mix and Match

If you haven't caught on by now I'm kind of a mix and matcher. I have an eclectic style that doesn't really fit into most people's idea or "normal." But that's just fine with me! I've always been the type to want to be different. I struck out of my own in high school and took my first photography class even thought none of my friends were. Which was kind of a big deal since I'm pretty wimpy at doing things without my comfort posse around me. But I do like to go against the grain. And today's display thursday is no exception.

I LOVE to mix and match frames and this idea has me all hot and bothered. It makes me a little miffed at myself that I didn't pick up a giant sweet-ace filigreed frame at the Rose Bowl Flea Market last month. I love love love the idea of putting more contemporary framed images inside a larger ornate one. Totally genius. Plus I'm pretty sure this frame is made of recycled cardboard, which means it's that much cooler. Who comes up with this stuff?!

Image via Nesting Place

I don't see any reason to follow any kind of "rules" that say you have to put an unframed canvas on the wall with other unframed canvas. You can totally mix them with framed pieces, mirrors or like this space, framed words. Would be great in a child's room or use your last name or the first letter of your last name in the living room with your wedding photos. Gorgeous. My gears are turning my new red "S."

Image via House of Rose

You can keep a look consistent even with different frames by keeping the matting similar. Here they used different colors and shapes of thin profiled frames with very wide mats. It would be easy to do and allow you to collect frames over time from thrift stores or the sale aisle. Just keep in mind your style and look while hunting for the perfect fit.

Image via Bra Bourne Farm

Stand out from the crowd! Be different and bold! Break them rules!