the miracles of our life seen here through davina's eyes
to the death of my grandfather and the symbolism of a fallen soldier
i want to thank my family and friends for sharing all our life's with us!
family pic
Sunday, March 30, 2008
life ... & death ...
the miracles of our life seen here through davina's eyes
to the death of my grandfather and the symbolism of a fallen soldier
i want to thank my family and friends for sharing all our life's with us!
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
where the good things are ...
i wasnt even going to post this on any of my blogs, but then i realized that all my friends, family and a few blog stalkers would not be so happy with me if they found out in the aftermath ... so this is where i will be tomorrow morning showcasing studio stems in relation to wedding floral design. i dont want any one i know to see my making a fool of myself and i know i will. please just remember that i will look 10 lbs heavier than i really am, which sort of almost defeats the 10 lbs i just lost .... okie dokie.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
paying tribute through my art for old fart who wanted pee weed!
I am fortunate enough to actually be able to do something with myself for the passing of a loved one. its very theraputic and i feel blessed to have the priviledge of creating art in tribute. old fart (what we call the dead man) and i had the opportunity a few weeks ago to discuss his funeral flowers. he told me only a few things, he said pee weed will do just fine, and make it traditional. i was like what the heck is pee weed and he just laughed and told me "ah hell audie just make it beautiful." so there is no casket piece because his children want only the flag and all his medals adorning the top of the casket so the big white spray is for behind the casket to dress it up. its as close to pee weed as i could get ... carnations and a few other fluffs. the urn arrangement is more something i created in a traditional format that may look like something his wife would enjoy and appreciate. i am glad they are together again.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
a FEW of my favorite THINGS!
the best hair product in the whole world ... and i am more familiar with hair product than the average woman. i love this stuff. if you cant get your hair to have volumn or poof or you just cant get it to do what you want you need this product. backcombing is the way of the past. if you want some let me know i can pick you some up on my license and sell it to you for about $12 a bottle. and i will show you how too!
Mac makeup is what i use almost exclusively these days. some of you might not know that i am a macpro .... not cause i am dang good at makeup but mostly cause i have a cosmo license! yeah ... cause i cant get enough of this stuff!
i really like my IPOD especially on days like today and for boarding and for just everything its so handy. i love music so much who knew that one day it could be simply and weightlessly attached to me at all times ....
forum 38 is one of my all time favorite things ... this year may have been the best boarding powder year of my life! yahoooooo!
yes i am one of those mac people
this is one of my fav mags to indulge myself with. its very my style! you wouldnt know it if you have been to my house ... our current house is more about nate and making nates style look great! and it does, i love it! its beautiful its just not quiet me ....
SUSHI yummmm! particularly at Happy Sumo! i would recommend .... vegas, surf n turf, rock n roll, playboy, buffalo (for the weak)oh and so many more!
I loved this movie ... loved loved loved it!
I know this is a weird one ... i like notebooks, particularly cute ones! i have lots of them with no writing in them! you can never have enough!
when it comes to lotion .... bath n body's jap cherry blossom is my all time fav! or anything almost grapefruit scented
This is my fav perfume at the moment .... love it! light blue dolce & gabana or is it cabana? who cares!
what are some of your favorite things?
Mac makeup is what i use almost exclusively these days. some of you might not know that i am a macpro .... not cause i am dang good at makeup but mostly cause i have a cosmo license! yeah ... cause i cant get enough of this stuff!
i really like my IPOD especially on days like today and for boarding and for just everything its so handy. i love music so much who knew that one day it could be simply and weightlessly attached to me at all times ....
forum 38 is one of my all time favorite things ... this year may have been the best boarding powder year of my life! yahoooooo!
yes i am one of those mac people
this is one of my fav mags to indulge myself with. its very my style! you wouldnt know it if you have been to my house ... our current house is more about nate and making nates style look great! and it does, i love it! its beautiful its just not quiet me ....
SUSHI yummmm! particularly at Happy Sumo! i would recommend .... vegas, surf n turf, rock n roll, playboy, buffalo (for the weak)oh and so many more!
I loved this movie ... loved loved loved it!
I know this is a weird one ... i like notebooks, particularly cute ones! i have lots of them with no writing in them! you can never have enough!
when it comes to lotion .... bath n body's jap cherry blossom is my all time fav! or anything almost grapefruit scented
This is my fav perfume at the moment .... love it! light blue dolce & gabana or is it cabana? who cares!
what are some of your favorite things?
Sunday, March 16, 2008
a FEW things i am grateful 4 right now in this moment ... in no particular order
FRIENDS .... so many showed up at the pantywaist launch yesterday! i have really great friends! two of them hung out there all day and spent their whole day supporting pantywaist and being part of the project .. .not to mention their amazing products! so thanks megan & darla! thanks rebekah, megan I, heather D, heather S, cynthia dean, jessie and barb elder, natalie, and a few others ... sorry if i missed you this has been a long post and i work from the bottom up! so happy reading!
a new friend! Liz .... we have just recently come into knowing each other as more than just competition, and really the most real competition for each other there is in this state of utah! she is amazing i really really admire her! she felt inspired to send me this amazing quote ... "Woman was born to create ... in creating she becomes herself, accomplishes her destiny. He whole life is only and initiation into creative power. To create is not merely to produce a work ... it is to give out one's own individuality" Jeanne De Vietinghoff
read it again ... seriously its very profound, powerful, and true! Liz i love you!
this is my brother joey & his girlfriend nadia ... they dont look entirely normal cause this was at nates 80's party. but really (this may get long ... sorry!) i am so grateful for him in my life and his example to me. this may sound funny considering his history ... its no secret that joey has spent most of his adult life in prison. i have always felt close and connected to him even though he is my step bro. i wrote him a lot while he was away and we had a lot of phone convos. last year when he got out he came to live with me, cause lets be honest, the rest of the fam had kind of had it and lost all patience and the hope for him was dwindling. i dont take credit though for where he is today, its been all him! he has been out and clean for 17 months and has become a spiritual giant with strong spiritual goals and ties to the LDS faith. last night he came over and spent a lot of time with me ... we talked about his girlfriend and the obstacles they face with him being mormon and her not. it comes down to in many ways that she is upset that he loves God more than her, that the gospel is first for him! i was so floored by this spiritual giants really unlikely testimony! what an amazing example to me. he loves her but he realizes that it takes more than love to make a marriage work, he gets that its a triangle! wow!
this week was my first week on a new diet and excersize program that strongly consists of yoga! this is all thanks to a good friend of mine, heather delaney, who is so amazing! she teaches yoga @ golds and has a lot of nutrional and excersize knowledge! she comes to my house to yoga me out on tue & thur even though she teaches thur night. she is so positive and loving and such a dang good friend. its only been a week but i feel a thousand times better than i did last week and my gratitude for her is deeper than the ocean! when i feel like crap about myself my life turns upside down.... i have been there for a while, i feel a turn and it feels sooooooooo good!
really the little girl in this car in this commercial should be storie ...
who would you buy a volvo for? what would life be without this typical girl in my life? he spirituality is amazing and her zest for life is overwhelming and inspiring!
"mom i want a pig for my b-day" me "ok saylor." saylor "no mom i mean i really want a pig, a live one!" "what does that mean saylor?" "it means it breaths and stuff!"
check out these darling pics my friend darla sent .. .this pig has been adopted by this sweet pup family .. now i even want one!
continuous heartbreaking moments of realization of what we go and went through .... her finding an article in the friend .... and pointing to the illustration and saying "look mom a baby thats like me!" constant perspective of what life is really about.
what would this post be without gratitude for the man in my life? who just loves me more than i love myself, unconditionally! when i am not even close to good enough for myself i am good enough for him! last night he even did a yoga video with me cause i really wanted and needed a work out. he was so serious about it and really did but he was his typical self. picture this .. .the yoga video lady saying "feel your breath .." now picture nate in mountain pose holding his hand in front of his mouth so he can feel his breath! lol! or at the end instead of saying "namastay" he says "i am not gay" or "have a nice day" LOL
last but not least the events with stock of the last week. this is not stock and this is nothing like what his new mohawk looks like but you would think that this was how i sent him to school on thursday based on the reactions of some of the teachers at his school, the poor principal had to be the bad guy and administer the phone call home instructing me to cut it. to make a long story short he went to school on friday still mohawk in tact. we also had a monumental moment with stock that almost every parent has that owns a son .... that dreaded "your son has been in a fight on the playground call," turned out to be not so big of a deal ... boys are boys! lately i have felt very bonded to this young man and for him in my life i am grateful!
a new friend! Liz .... we have just recently come into knowing each other as more than just competition, and really the most real competition for each other there is in this state of utah! she is amazing i really really admire her! she felt inspired to send me this amazing quote ... "Woman was born to create ... in creating she becomes herself, accomplishes her destiny. He whole life is only and initiation into creative power. To create is not merely to produce a work ... it is to give out one's own individuality" Jeanne De Vietinghoff
read it again ... seriously its very profound, powerful, and true! Liz i love you!
this is my brother joey & his girlfriend nadia ... they dont look entirely normal cause this was at nates 80's party. but really (this may get long ... sorry!) i am so grateful for him in my life and his example to me. this may sound funny considering his history ... its no secret that joey has spent most of his adult life in prison. i have always felt close and connected to him even though he is my step bro. i wrote him a lot while he was away and we had a lot of phone convos. last year when he got out he came to live with me, cause lets be honest, the rest of the fam had kind of had it and lost all patience and the hope for him was dwindling. i dont take credit though for where he is today, its been all him! he has been out and clean for 17 months and has become a spiritual giant with strong spiritual goals and ties to the LDS faith. last night he came over and spent a lot of time with me ... we talked about his girlfriend and the obstacles they face with him being mormon and her not. it comes down to in many ways that she is upset that he loves God more than her, that the gospel is first for him! i was so floored by this spiritual giants really unlikely testimony! what an amazing example to me. he loves her but he realizes that it takes more than love to make a marriage work, he gets that its a triangle! wow!
this week was my first week on a new diet and excersize program that strongly consists of yoga! this is all thanks to a good friend of mine, heather delaney, who is so amazing! she teaches yoga @ golds and has a lot of nutrional and excersize knowledge! she comes to my house to yoga me out on tue & thur even though she teaches thur night. she is so positive and loving and such a dang good friend. its only been a week but i feel a thousand times better than i did last week and my gratitude for her is deeper than the ocean! when i feel like crap about myself my life turns upside down.... i have been there for a while, i feel a turn and it feels sooooooooo good!
really the little girl in this car in this commercial should be storie ...
who would you buy a volvo for? what would life be without this typical girl in my life? he spirituality is amazing and her zest for life is overwhelming and inspiring!
"mom i want a pig for my b-day" me "ok saylor." saylor "no mom i mean i really want a pig, a live one!" "what does that mean saylor?" "it means it breaths and stuff!"
check out these darling pics my friend darla sent .. .this pig has been adopted by this sweet pup family .. now i even want one!
continuous heartbreaking moments of realization of what we go and went through .... her finding an article in the friend .... and pointing to the illustration and saying "look mom a baby thats like me!" constant perspective of what life is really about.
what would this post be without gratitude for the man in my life? who just loves me more than i love myself, unconditionally! when i am not even close to good enough for myself i am good enough for him! last night he even did a yoga video with me cause i really wanted and needed a work out. he was so serious about it and really did but he was his typical self. picture this .. .the yoga video lady saying "feel your breath .." now picture nate in mountain pose holding his hand in front of his mouth so he can feel his breath! lol! or at the end instead of saying "namastay" he says "i am not gay" or "have a nice day" LOL
last but not least the events with stock of the last week. this is not stock and this is nothing like what his new mohawk looks like but you would think that this was how i sent him to school on thursday based on the reactions of some of the teachers at his school, the poor principal had to be the bad guy and administer the phone call home instructing me to cut it. to make a long story short he went to school on friday still mohawk in tact. we also had a monumental moment with stock that almost every parent has that owns a son .... that dreaded "your son has been in a fight on the playground call," turned out to be not so big of a deal ... boys are boys! lately i have felt very bonded to this young man and for him in my life i am grateful!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)