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these summer days.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

it has been rather hot and humid here these summer days. i’m sure it is rather hot and humid where you are too. we’ve been trying to get outside during the evenings but after a few minutes, we are ready to come into the a/c. (praise Jesus for air conditioning!) we took these few pictures a week or two ago….we were at a park filled with beautiful wildflowers. i could have stayed at the park with those flowers & read and written in a journal for hours (minus the bees and bugs.) i love being outside, enjoying God’s creation and taking it all in. this weekend we are going to hike in the smokey mountains and i am so excited (for the mountain part…not the hiking part necessarily.) ;)

anywho, i’ve been updating my photography blog so feel free to visit. oh and i must not forget…the winners for the persimmon&pink giveaway are: jenny, kristin, and morgann. congrats! i will be emailing you lovely ladies soon. hope you are having a lovely week….

love,
arielle

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Anna- Cincinnati Portrait Photographer

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

I feel as though I have quite a few sessions to blog and they will be posted in the next few…months ;) Just kidding…hopefully in the upcoming weeks. A couple weeks ago, Anna asked me to take a few portraits of her. It was a lot of fun and a blessing to spend some time with her. We shot at a great location (but I did manage to go home with some poison oak…oops!)

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the house that built me.

Monday, July 25, 2011

i’m not sure if you have heard miranda lambert’s song “the house that built me” but today, the lyrics of that song keep going through my head over and over. today is a little bittersweet for me. my parents are moving out of the house that i spent most of my life growing up in.

…it’s where i spent hours and hours in my room…praying, seeking the Lord, writing songs, and playing my guitar.

…it’s where i watched my younger brother and sister grow up year after year.

…it was our home when our family went through different trials…both good times and bad.

…it was there that i spent the summers outside all day long under the sun and the winters inside with my mom’s candles lit through out the house.

…it was where i spent time in my little yellow room, praying for my future husband.

…it was were i brought jay  to meet my parents. it’s where i planned our wedding and anxiously counted down the days.

…many christmas memories were made there, many birthdays were celebrated.

i will miss the good ole apple and pear trees in the yard, sitting out on the deck, and going back to visit that old room of mine :) but time moves on and i’m excited for my parent’s move and to see what the Lord has in store. here’s to memories….and the lovely house that built me.

love,
arielle

Posted inHome Sweet Home,Me, In Real Life

july sponsors.

Thursday, July 21, 2011

hello, i’m lauren: photography student, expert napper, openminded sweet tea connoisseur. lover of all things beautiful, creative, and good. i love taking candid, natural light, journalistic photos. i hope you stop by!

be sure to visit her blog.

brandon just released an EP- “a love better than life.” talk about good worship music. his full length album comes out this fall!

be sure to check out the EP here. you can buy the EPhereon itunes. and his website.

you won’t find a lot of “words” on my blog… i want my photography to take center stage-no frills or flashing buttons here! i love photos that capture the outdoors, natural light, everyday happenings, and simplicity, with a bit of a vintage feel. my “hope” is that my photography will emulate these things. so grab a cuppa joe, some green tea, a coke, h2o…whatever fancies your tastebuds, and stay a while.

be sure to visit her blog.

this ‘road called vida‘ is the story of my life as it unravels: i’m a housewife, newlywed and former new yorker now living in the san francisco bay area with my spectacular husband, jon, and our soon-to-arrive baby girl. i live for Jesus, love to write, love to eat (thank you, pregnancy) and love to share my sometimes quirky, sometimes deep, sometimes funny, always honest life stories with my reader friends!

be sure to stop by her lovely blog.

just a girl deeply in love with her savior, striving to live by faith. my blog reflects my relationship with God, the blessings of life & the random wackiness in between that fills up my time.

be sure to visit her blog.

i’m kaylan, the owner, blogger, and photographer for kaylan buteyn photography. my blog is a combination of posts from my portrait and wedding sessions as well as photographs from my every day life. i love working with people, i love art, love my family, love the outdoors, love to travel, love connecting with people and learning about faith, love great food, gardening, canning, and cooking. i spend my days editing photos, working with amazing couples and families, shopping at thrift stores and snuggling with my 3 cats.

be sure to visit her blog.

hello, my name is liv and i am a free-spirited, new experience craving, music loving, peace seeking, soul singing butterfly.  my blog is a special place where i store away all of my treasures, a place where i record our daily adventures and reflect on the simple blessings in life.  i love writing, learning new ideas, making music, taking photos, and collecting sentimental pieces.   i spend my days balancing my time between working as a nurse and building a career i am passionate about while also being a wife and mama to my precious family.  together, we spend our days striving for peace in our hearts, kindness in our words, and adventure in our souls. so nice to meet you all, feel free to stay a while…

be sure to stop by her blog.

aspire is my journal about faith, life, photography, and celebrating the little things. all our lives, we are living out our story, writing our words on the pages of today. chapters intermingle and characters mix, but in the end, it’s the same. we all have a story to tell. we all have a voice. my name is hannah, and this is my story.

be sure to visit her lovely blog!

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i’m going to turn off the comments so you can visit these lovelies’ sites. hope y’all are having a great week…i’m so excited that the weekend is almost here! much love…

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persimmon&pink giveaway!

Monday, July 18, 2011

quite some time ago i found a store on etsy called persimmon&pink. i absolutely love their prints and i know you will too :) i have the “did you think to pray” print in my little office room and i love it. they are a sponsor of ours this month and will be giving away three various 8 X 10 prints! i will choose three separate winners. they are giving away one “i am a child of God” print, “charity never faileth” print, and a brown “did you think to pray” print.

become a follower of this blog via google friend connect or bloglovin’. leave a comment with which print you would like to win.

i’ll draw the three winners via random.org one week from today, and email you! good luck! xo.

for extra entries: tweet/facebook/blog about this giveaway and be sure to leave a comment with a link. (make a separate comment for each one.)

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a photography update.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

hello friends! hope you are having a wonderful weekend and staying cool! i don’t know about you- but it is so hot (and humid) here! we have been in the a/c and eating a lot of ice cream :) anywho, i’ve decided that anytime i post on my photography blog i am also going to do a small post here to give a link to it. (i will be posting over there quite frequently.) i posted a new session today…click here to see it.

i’ve also made a little facebook page for my photography! feel free to check it out and “like” it to see updates. click here for the page.

enjoy your sunday!

love,
arielle

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