move westward, son.....

So, I haven’t posted in a while and I have to apologize for that. Life has gotten a little more hectic than usual. About two weeks about Marc went down to Phoenix, AZ for his company and when he came back he had some news. My husband was offered an awesome opportunity to work in Arizona. BIG DESISION! We talked, we argued, we laughed, we cried, we got excited, and we have finally made our decision; we’re moving.

Now 2,000 miles seems like such a long ways away, but really with the technology we have now it’s not. It’s about a five hours plane ride and I talk to most everyone on facebook anyways so that’s not going to be that huge of a difference. I think the hardest part will be leaving our families. I still have to tell my parents, argh. Marc dicussed it with his family last night and it went okay. I think that mostly they are excited for us; sad and a little scared, but mostly excited. I hope everyone else can be too! I’ll miss the ‘Burgh but I’m excited to take a new adventure head on!

I’ve spent most of my life not taking chances and missing opportunities but I have a terrible fear of failure, but I’m not going to let the dictate mine or my families’ lives anymore. We could go out there and fall flat on our faces but I know we have people that love us that can help us put back the pieces.

Have I said I’m excited yet? Because I am! I’ll be keeping a log on what’s going down here on my blog so stay tuned!

creativeapples photography

P.S. My Etsy shop opening has obviously been postponed until further notice – I will keep you informed for when I’m going to give it a go! I’m not giving up on that yet!

things that make me smile.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that people are not all bad and just because you run into a grumpy sour puss do not mean it has to ruin your day, or your week even. Maybe, just maybe, if you are super nice to those sour pusses they'll realize they are bringing a downer to everyone around them. Even if that work 1 out of ever 1, 000 times, at least I can say I tried!

I just rediscovered a blog I found a long time ago that I love! It just kind of gives you that warm fuzzy feeling all over.

It's a great place to find printable cards and other free paper gift ideas and just daily inspirations that make me smile and I'm sure will make you smile too! So be kind.............

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trying to not be so lazy

i've been a little lazy about doing any work but here are two paintings i've been working on!

'little black dress'

'pretty in pink'

I haven't decided weither or not I'm going to sell this or not but I'm considering it. At this rate I'll have way more paintings then we'll have wall space for them. Oh well.....

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sweet stuff

So I’ve been thinking about baking here for a little bit because one of my friends has been going to school to be a pastry chef. I'm not very good in the kitchen but between her and my mother being the queen of cookies I started looking up some recipes and found some cool stuff:

candy sushi: strumpet scrumpets

wild cupcakes: 52cupcakes

cupcake back shop

I've jumped on the cupcake band wagon!

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digital painting

With some help from a fellow blogger elycia I was able to create my very first digital 'painting.' It's pretty cheesey, but you should have seen some of the other stuff I did... wow, talk about TERRIBLE! I'm going to keep trying though!

Thank you elycia! Go visit her blog! She rocks!

passion

On Saturday night Marc and I got to do something we don’t often get to do; go out to a concert. Marc’s sister and brother-in-law bought us tickets to go see Dave Mathews Band and Zac Brown Band play at PNC Park with them. Aurora was safely at her Granny’s house and we got to spend an evening out, it was great!

Now I must say I love the Zac Brown Band and they did put on an awesome show, but there was something about the Dave Matthews performance that just blew all other performers out of the water. I have never seen a group of people with such passion rock out like that before. I am an avid music lover. Not just listening either, I wanted to be a song writer in the worst way for a very long time. I don’t think I would ever have the ability to move people like those guys did Saturday night. We were seated in the stadium so we were kind of far back but I could still feel the pumping passion coming out of every beat on the drum, every sound that come out of the horn’s and every word sang from Dave Matthews mouth. Wow, just looking into that man’s eyes on the big screen was like “Dang that man has something that not a lot of people do.” Marc always says he thinks Dave has some great muse, and now I completely agree with him.

Dave and those men up there can do something that I’ve never seen done before and I can’t even describe it. I hope they around for a long, long, long, time.

starting a journey.

As I posted yesterday I was unsure if I was actually starting art school on Monday. Well a few e-mails later from said school and some help from my husband, I found out that yes I do start on Monday! I’m extremely excited to start this exciting journey to further my education. If it pays off or not doesn’t matter to me as much as if I actually finish! Don’t ask my why it’s such a big deal to me because I know tons of successful people never even finish high school but it’s just my goal and I’m shooting for the stars! I guess it has something to do with my dyslexia, when I was young no one though I was even going to finish high school because of my learning disability but I graduated with a great GPA and I did go on to college but dropped out. So, I kind of want to rub it in peoples faces just a little like “na na na na I did it and you said I couldn’t!” And to prove it to myself that I’m not dumb I just learn differently, no biggie!

Well enough of my rant! In honor of classes starting I made a treasury on etsy.com celebrating photographers and photos that inspire me…..



see it here.

Thanks for reading!