This week’s collection is quieter, more real, and much less “manufactured,” I think. I love real images, images that aren’t made but discovered. The more I think about it, the more right it feels to want to photograph life as it is – not life in a tidy box. The deepest emotions and the truest moments always seem to happen when no one is trying to make them happen. And I think that’s why I’m falling more in love with doing so much by hand in my own design work, and documenting some of that work with my camera. It…

Today is another one of those quite, gray, coffee-filled work days. It’s nice to have steady weeks, when work is fun and I can enjoy the quiet. The next couple of days are going to be full of different projects and lots of wonderful people, and I’m looking forward to it. And I’m looking forward to spending my free time later on away from the computer – reading or writing or just listening to music instead. I think it’s going to be a good week. ♥ {all images via pinterest. clockwise, from top left: 1 // 2 // 3 //…

There be none of Beauty’s daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me: When, as if its sound were causing The charmed ocean’s pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull’d winds seem dreaming: And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o’er the deep; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant’s asleep: So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer’s ocean. -Lord Byron, Stanzas for Music {all images via pinterest. clockwise,…

“The mountains are calling, and I must go.” Does it ever feel like nature is calling out to you? Like you have to go out and see the sky and trees and fields, and escape from the endless houses and roads and people? Sometimes when I’m standing outside I can look up and forget the busy life we lead and just see the beauty of nature. The sky is the one place where there is peace – its clouds slip peacefully on as though there is nothing of importance going on here, as if all is quite and at rest….

I miss winter. I miss the excitement that comes with a fresh fall of snow, the sharp cold in the air that wakes everyone up and brings out the color in their faces. It’s warm here, and raining, and as I sit at my desk looking out at the gray sky and dark trees I can’t help but wish that snow would come. But for now I’ll settle for winter in design, and I’ll pretend it’s twenty degrees outside. And maybe snow will come… Happy Monday! =) {all images via pinterest. clockwise, from top left: 1 // 2 // 3…