I'm working on getting out of the winter funk -- adding color to my life.

Is anyone else wondering the same thing? I can't believe I've been in school 6 weeks, time is flying. I've been a busy bee lately -- juggling 8 classes, photo shoots with the hub, keeping up (trying to at least) this little blog, and squeezing in a few hours a week to intern. Trust me, I'm not complaining, I'm actually pretty ecstatic -- things feel like they are moving in the right direction. 

I wish I had more exciting things to share from my classes. Right now I'm learning to drape, draw the fashion figure, etc, etc...so nothing blog-worthy :) I did, however, do an Annie Hall inspired image book for a recent assignment -- a little peak of the opening spread below.

I'm signing off early this week to tend to my packed schedule. Be sure to enter in the Highland and Ponce giveaway that ends tonight!

The snow is pouring down sideways -- which is a good indication that I need to stay inside for the day. I did, however, make a trip before the blizzard to pick up tulips for a Joyce Tenneson inspired mini photo shoot this morning.

I'm ready to ditch my puffy coat and not dodge piles of snow during walks with the pup. Have a lovely weekend :)

After plenty of family get-togethers, and southern food goodness, the holidays have come to a close and the hub and I are now preparing for our move to NYC in less than two weeks.

I try to make personal resolutions for the year, tuck them away in my mind and revisit them when I remember but here are a few I'd like to share ...

1. Learn more complicated clothing construction and design. I started out 2009 with a similar resolution, to learn to sew better, which led me to discover my passion for clothing design and here I am headed back to fashion school. I'm excited to see where this next year takes me in my studies, I'm so eager to learn new techniques and push myself in new directions.

2. Grow and develop our little family photography business. I feel so fortunate to have found a passion and business that I can share with my hub. I can't wait to see how we grow as photographers in the next year and the many people and projects we get to photograph and be a part of in 2010.

3. Disconnect every once and awhile. Can you remember a decade ago when the internet was a smaller and fairly unexplored land. It's definitely an amazing tool but I often forget to turn it off and experience life in the physical.

4. And lastly, just live. I'm a creature of comfort, fairly shy, and not one to step out of my bubble. But by the end of this year I hoped to have tried a few more foods, made new friends, and take more risks. 

(photo by courtneydawn)

Moving day turned into a snow day. When I left Savannah I wasn't even wearing a coat!

We're packing up our Savannah home and leaving town this weekend. The mental and physical process is such a strange roller coaster - I'm completely ecstatic about moving but when you look at the empty walls of a house you've lived...gosh, that can get ya. I've had a love/hate relationship with our historic home:

The backyard with so much promise yet infested with mosquitos.

Our serene and light-flooded bedroom that housed our bed, and that was it. 

The fact that we were in a duplex really limited the natural light we could get in our living room. It felt like a dungeon even on the brightest days.

But our kitchen was the absolute best place for me to shoot.

Any-who. Everything is in boxes now but it was such a treat to decorate this place and make it our home. If you'd like to see more photos of the way it was, you can see more here.

Without a doubt, the thing I'll miss most about Savannah is taking walks downtown with the hub and pup in the early evening. Everything you've ever heard about Savannah, the charm, the homes, the moss, it's true and it's so nice to wander street to street.

Savannah it's been swell, but we're moving north. In January, the hub and I are packing up our things again and moving back to NYC. That's something I've wanted to say for months, but now that things have fallen in place and are official, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

I came to Savannah to pursue photography and I'm heading to New York to pursue fashion. When I decided last January it would be a resolution of mine to learn to sew better, I had no idea where it would take me. So alongside studying photography at school, I banged on the sewing machine at night and quickly realized I had a passion. The work I've done as photographer and as a graphic designer never fully satisfied my desire to create, what I long for is the tangible -- to transform and create with materials and with my hands.  Long story short, I'm headed to Parsons The New School for Design to pursue fashion design. 

I've already heard this from family and I know it's a question I'll continue to get, "I thought you wanted to do photography" and the answer is of course I still do! I have many loves and many ways I like to create. I love to take photos and I love the places our little photography business has taken us. Is it so crazy so say I want to do both? 

So that's my story. No time like the present. We're completely thrilled and terrified to move back to the city. And we would love for a magical apartment fairy to come show us the apartment of our dreams at an even more amazing price, ha :)  In all seriousness, I welcome any apartment hunting tips from NYC dwellers or any other advice you'd like to send my way. We're heading up to scope out the city during the week of Thanksgiving. Our move will be here before we know it and of course I'll share the journey here, with all of you :)

(image: when we lived in NYC in 07-- we were taking a ride on the staten island ferry)

I have been saying for months I would attempt to make the hub a collared-shirt and this weekend I finally did! It was so nice to be able to fit someone besides myself -- I'm pretty happy with the results and so is the hub. I used the Simplicity 5366 pattern, and by the way, just like the men's section is smaller in retail stores so is the sewing pattern section.

The hub and I made a trip out to the Savannah Fair tonight (on free admission night of course). The weather was amazing, clear skies at 73 degrees. Lovely. We didn't actually ride the rides, just watching them scares the bejesus out of me - but they are a lot of fun to photograph. See more fair favorites on our Oh, Darling! blog.