happy valentine's day!

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happy anniversary!

seven years ago today, i married the boy that i fell in love with when i was seventeen.

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{me + my mister at our wedding dinner} 

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steed - fine hoarding + tack {my obsessions}

horses have always been my passion, i love design and i'm basically obsessed with everything that my wickedly talented friend, dione carston, conjures up, so when she called to ask if i would be interested in shooting her space the answer was, "um, yeah!"

steed is the perfect marriage of practical products for the equestrian and original awesomeness for the collector. dione's barn is filled with one cool, distinctive item after another ranging from a zebra rug that i coveted for ages, to a fine pair of gucci english riding boots.  mixed in-between you'll find things like a boar tooth necklace, a skull and cross bone belt buckle, or a chair that dione fabricated herself from an old metal frame that she fashioned with stirrup leathers to create that seat and back...this i covet as well.  you don't need to be a horse person to admire and appreciate dione's fine hoarding, you just need to have good taste, a sense of style, and a sense of humor. 

to read more about dione and steed, check out this newspaper article here. 

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taking a short break...be back soon!

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{found here}

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quote of the day | thomas babington macaulay

the measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.  

- thomas babington macaulay

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quote of the day | soren kierkegaard

life must be understood backwards, but...it must be lived forward.

 - soren kierkegaard

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quote of the day | jack kerouac

great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

 - jack kerouac 

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quote of the day | ayn rand

the question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

 - ayn rand 

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quote of the day | elmer davis

the first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.

- elmer davis

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quote of the day | cecil beaton

be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

 - cecil beaton

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quote of the day | sarah napthali

i had previously decided that i would only post the quotes of the day on monday through friday, but i love this one and was compelled to post today!  

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we are what we think. all that we are arises with our thoughts. with our thoughts, we make our world. speak or act with an unenlightened mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart...in this world hate never yet dispelled hate. only love dispels hate. this is the law, ancient and inexhaustible.

- from the book, "buddhism for mothers" by sarah napthali

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quote of the day | robert louis stevenson

don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant

 - robert louis stevenson 

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little darlings {children's portraiture}

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le mystère du jour

capture create consume...drop a line, say hello.

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quote of the day | socrates

false words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

- socrates 

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quote of the day | henri cartier-bresson

in photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. the little, human detail can become a leitmotiv.

 - henri cartier-bresson 

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quote of the day | charles caleb colton

imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. 
- charles caleb colton 

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quote of the day | thomas jefferson

good wine is a necessity of life for me

- thomas jefferson

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quote of the day | oliver wendell holmes

take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  you will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.  

- oliver wendell holmes

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snow {my obsessions}

the first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. you go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

- j. b. priestley

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