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Happy Friday!!!

kate — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:07:32 +0000

Have a drink for me!

My Marathon

kate — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:47:53 +0000

I am going to run a marathon.

I wanted to run a marathon because It’s something something I never thought I’d do. Before beginning training I’d never run more then a mile in my entire life. I want to be healthy and I want to make sure I’m living my life to the fullest.

There were people in my life that never had a chance to run a marathon and I want to do it for them. In my sophomore year of college I had two friends from High School die in a car accident. It was incredibly shocking and sudden. Two weeks later I lost a very special family friend, William Heaton to leukemia. He was seven years old. There is not a day I don’t think of him. A few weeks after that I lost another friend, Keely Rose, to cancer just before her 19th birthday. Her mom and I got very close, sitting in the ICU with her. We were both holding her hands as she took her last breath. In that moment everything I thought I knew about the world changed.

Both my Grandmother and my Mother SURVIVED cancer, so compared to what they went through 26.2 miles is nothing.

So I’m going to run a marathon. For Jeff and Kyle. For Will. For Keely. For my Grandma. For my Mom. And for me.

Keep me accountable. If you’d like to go for a run sometime, let me know. I’m still pretty slow.

Kate

A walk. With dogs.

kate — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:12:51 +0000

I’ve been dying to try some doggie photography and when is was oh-so-sunny this past Thursday I figured it would be a good day. Kim Charie has the cutest puppy who is sooooo full of energy. I was only able to get a few in focus- he moved super fast. This is an example of 90% of the shots I got

I did manage to get a few cute ones when a stick slowed him down…

He swam in all the puddles along the trail and knew just where each one was. So he got a little muddy

Along the trail we met a few more doggies and I discovered the dog love of my life.

I want!!!

Look at her little pink tongue! It’s perfect! This next one is totally her skeptical face…

More tongue :p

And by far my favorite photo of the day…

So now I just have to convince Dan we can’t live without one

xoxo

kate

I love my cousin!

kate — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:32:38 +0000

My cousin and his friends road tripped over to Seattle to come visit. Before they left I shot a few photos of them on our balcony. Oh how I miss the summer…

My cousin James is studying Musical Theater, he’s an amazing piano player, and has awesome taste in music He and his friend (pictured below) just finished writing their first musical, they are sooo talented!

Etsy Maps!

kate — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:36:04 +0000

I love Etsy! There are so many things you can find on there for weddings, parties, whenever. I found my earrings and bracelet for my wedding there and bought most of my bridesmaids gifts there too.

Earrings (she made mine in silver)

Bracelet (Also made by empressjewel)

Anyway I found a seller that makes custom maps for your invitations on Etsy today!

So stinking cool! I was looking for someone who did this when I was making my own invitations because google maps just doesn’t cut it in stylish wedding invitations. I ended up just having an awesome friend of mine craft one and it turned out great. In case you don’t have any map drawing talented friends here is the link to her Etsy: baumbirdy

Here are the photos she has up of her designs:

Here is a photo of how my map came out:

Happy planning brides!

xoxo kate

California Visit

kate — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:40:26 +0000

I just got home from my two week trip to California for the holidays. Seattle is truly home now and I felt that very strongly on this trip. I’ve always been a California girl, born and raised but the Northwest has really found a place in my heart. I think the biggest change for me is the seasons. It’s hard to be in the Christmas spirit in Southern California when it’s 70 out. Before we moved I was thinking I would dread winters here. It’s actually the opposite! I love winter! I love my winter coat and my winter hats, and scarves, gloves and mittens. I love being so close to the snow! A group of us went up to Snoqualmie for the day a few weekends ago. I’m even going to be brave enough next time to try skiing…

One thing that is very different for me this December is that I wasn’t involved in the Cal Poly Rose Float for the Rose Parade this year. The Rose Parade has always been very special to me- my Mom and I used to always wake up so early on New Years to watch it. She would make sticky buns and I would sit amazed at the beautiful flowers they covered the floats with. When I got the opportunity to lead Decorations week when I joined the Rose Float program at Cal Poly I was ecstatic! I served on the Rose Float Committee for three years before I graduated and it is one of my best college memories. The week between Christmas and New Years is spent decorating the float… and it is one crazy week. Suffering from sleep deprivation and dealing with flower order mix ups- it was all worth it when you saw your float coming down the parade route. Check me out in this video of last year float! I was lucky enough to be an observer on the float- I even a the emergency brake!

So for the first time in three years I will not be attending the Rose Parade. I did get to see this years float when I went down to visit and the team this year did an incredible job! I’m so proud of them and will be getting up reeeeeaaally early to watch all their hard work go down the parade route on January 1st

I was able to visit one of my bff Rose Float alumni (She was the Design Chair) when I was down in beautiful Southern California! She is now living her dream and working at Disneyland. I didn’t get to see her shpiel on the Jungle Cruise Ride this time, but we did spend an awesome day together and ran through California Adventure before she had to go to work. I didn’t bring my big camera with me to California and my little point and shoot broke (Santa has gotten me a new one– yay!). I couldn’t not bring a camera to Disneyland so I went out and bought two disposable cameras. It was so much fun shooting with such a basic format and I think the pictures turned out really great. Lets see what you think…

xoxo kate

Shawna and I <3

Sneak Peak- Modern Day Cinderella

kate — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:45:44 +0000

I’ve been working on a project, inspired by a very fabulous hair dresser. He came up with the idea to style modern day fairy tales and I am so excited to pull all these shoots together! Here is an image I shot of Cinderella for you to enjoy while I work on getting all of these gorgeous photos edited!

Tacoma Glass Museum- Tacoma Photographer

kate — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:37:59 +0000

Before the PUG meeting Kate and I headed into the heart of Tacoma to take a few shots of the glass museum. It was pretty cool there was lots of weird stuff to shoot and keep us busy for a while before the meeting started. Here are some of my favorites…

Chase Jarvis Photowalk- Seattle Photographer

kate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:32:48 +0000

I had the incredible opportunity to meet Chase Jarvis and his many twitter followers on Friday at 7am. It was so great to meet other photographers at this event and it was inspiring listening to Chase talk about his business and journey as an artist. I took this day as a new start for me. I’ve had a hard time finding my footing in Seattle, I’ve been struggling to figure out who I am as an artist and what I want to say with my photography. I realized last week I have had my approach all wrong. So I haven’t figured it all out yet but I feel like I’m getting on the right road. Thanks for coming along for the journey! Here are a few of my favorites from the photowalk…

This morning I found out that this image I took was selected as Chase’s favorite from the photowalk. I was ecstatic- there were some amazing photographers there and I feel honored to be chosen. I hope you like it too…

Thank you to all who commented on his blog and facebook and for those who congratulated me on twitter. Thank you for believing in me when just last week I found a hard time believing in myself.

Weekend Away- Victoria Travel Photographer

kate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:05:46 +0000

Took the Victoria Clipper up to celebrate our 1st anniversary. Got a chance to take a few photos. Here are some digital ones to share right now- I am in the process of scanning the film and then I’ll blog those as well.

my adorable husband…