there was this one time…
i had 2 pretty packaging instances the other day and they made me smile.
one of my favorite stores, dots cupcakes, started carrying some love and toast goodies! mmmm 🙂
prettying up client disc files with cute supplies.
and i made a layout that i can't share yet, but here's some of my latest from 2peas! 
yes that is a page of everyone in my family. yay me! 🙂
we wanted to go on a little getaway while the kids were on spring break. we looked at the local weather and chose palm springs because it was the warmest temperature wise than the rest 🙂 i had shot a wedding there just a year ago during the same time and thought the hotels were rather pleasant! and then we shot a wedding at the viceroy in santa monica and remembered there was one in palm springs as well! score!
happy the bigs carved out some family time from their busy social lives 🙂
our bookworm relaxes:
hotel room card:
stunning!
my love for stripes appeared all over the hotel 🙂
mandarin season makes us very happy:
eating out usually makes me very happy but i got homesick for my own kitchen on this trip. weird!
i am aware that time together is so refreshing and rewarding. and that our time together as a whole family is slowly coming to an end as the big kids get older. already now, every weekend the big kids are scarcely around as their social lives expand. i want to keep these little getaways in my heart as it's focused time where we are in each other's faces 24 hours a day. it seems like it was just yesterday when i was a mother with 3 under five. when my days seemed so long and i couldn't fill them with enough activities. now we are trying to please all 4 who are sooo entirely different.. trying to keep their attention for a bit longer before they are off on their own little getaways.
my crew. spring break 2011. xooxoxox
the other day i had a desire to frame a bunch of chris' polaroids that he's taken for us. i meant to do it streamlined and neatly. the result was a little this and that, much like my scrapbooking pages end up. i wanted to hang it somewhere in the main part of the house but then i thought, uh, it looks too high schooly. but i still loved it. so it went on top of my bedroom dresser. i love it. 🙂 
i was definitely the kind of girl that covered every inch of her bulletin board with pictures and memorabilia. pages torn out of magazines covered my walls. cute to see that kira has done the same- mag pages starting to creep up her walls. 🙂
happy friday! 🙂
i have this large empty kitchen wall that i plan on printing and framing some pics.. since i haven't started the steps to get this done, i strung up some twine and added some of our favorite polaroids.
good enough for now!
also, the winner for the kelly purkey sketchbook 3 giveaway is rachael!
email me!
happy monday people! the kids are off today, a great way to start our rainy week:)
hi! just wanted to share with you this upcoming class info, i am so excited to be a tiny part of it! 🙂
here's some info:
Join Kelly Purkey and friends for Sketchbook 3! This is a self-paced four week class filled with fresh sketches, easy instructions, beautiful examples, and lots of fun. From April 4th to April 29th a PDF will be delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. By the end of the class, you'll have a complete sketchbook of 12 original sketches, 38 layouts, and an additional 38 sketches based on those creative pages. All of the examples are brand new layouts, exclusive to this class… you won't see them anywhere else. The best part is that you will be receiving an example layout from Kelly for each of the sketches, along with two (or more) example layouts from a very talented contributor. Each PDF for Sketchbook 3 will also include a card designed by the amazing Jennifer McGuire based on the daily sketch.
The class will also include a private message board for questions and sharing ideas on the Studio Calico website. Visit Kelly's blog for more information and to see the full list of contributors.
i have one spot to giveaway in this class! if you sign up and win, kelly will refund your money. leave a comment here by saturday midnight. 🙂
this was the morning after. morning after presents, cupcakes and happiness galore. love her little butterfly slippers and handmedown paul frank jammie shirt from kira and sleepy eyes…
she actually said that to me the other day and of course i thought, layout title! this is what five and elsie look like. 
growing her hair out. american girl. the dolls and the movies. baking. reading or being read to. crafts galore. the more colors the more patterns the better. just recently has become a picky eater. more noodles in the last few months than in the 5 years she's been alive. loves her BFF kili so very much. would go to the park, go for walks, have picnics every day if possible. her best literary friends are ladybug girl, fancy nancy, pinkalicious and eloise. 🙂
finally five and fabulous!
chris and i are heading to the bay area in june. we are offering film and polaroid portrait sessions at a discounted one hour session rate. email me infoatjacshootdotcom for details. 
our gorgeous 2 weeks of amazing weather came to an end when the grey clouds and rain came arrived. wah wah wah. with it, also came sickies…. these 2 were home with me all last week.
thankfully, a tiny break in feeling not so great came when she got happy mail from my aunt. she loved these cute little hair coils. 🙂 she's not a fan of putting things in her hair (no matter how much we plead with her) but she loved that these barely tugged at her scalp.
she was also so sad to miss her valentine's day party at school, after working on her valentine's for weeks! 😦 i ran and delivered them at the start of class, then returned after class to pick up her stash. the tattoo came with it and we quickly put it on. funny what a little bit of sprucing does to the spirit!
i spend a lot of time here 🙂
get lost print here. stay in bed print here. compassion print here. family photo by jonathan. cool print husband took from here. calendar by snow and graham, given to me by my lovely friend at dots. other small drawings/paintings/lego construction by elsie. 🙂 and even chris' high school graduation pic of him and i there too 🙂 the fabric covers all my extra harddrives and airport box and all that fun computer stuff 🙂
watersix 