I have a brand new blog and url for Green Vintage. You can now find me here at www.greenvintagephotographyblog.com. If you have me on your reader or are subscribed to this blog, please update because I won’t be posting here any longer. I’m still working out the kinks, but the new blog is hopefully a lot more functional, and well, prettier.

 Come on over and tell me what you think of the new look!

In the meantime, Merry Christmas from my home to yours!

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My holiday decorations are featured today on one of my favorite local mid-century decor sites, Mimomito!

I read this blog everyday and love everything they post, it’s so right up my alley. Those who have been my friends since way back know that whenever they ask me to help find second-hand furniture for their houses they are immediately bombarded with approximately 1,502,994 emails of craigslist finds. I’ve since stopped doing this, mostly because no one ever takes my advice unless I have time to take over the entire project, and then I’m left unsatisfied with carpel tunnel. So from now on, if you ask me for help looking for local deals I’ll send you to Mimomito because they’re fabulous- unless you want to pay me, of course.

I’m about to start a series of posts on the re-dec of my house after “new-flooring-gate-2011″, so here’s a little snippet of my hallway and dining room. I’m also getting ready to launch a newly designed blog that will have a new home at www.greenvintagephotographyblog.com, which has been quite the undertaking itself.

Yay for new beginnings!

I think we did a good job of that!

There was a lot of hiding under trees and not too much time to get a whole lot of variety in our shots, but thankfully, they had a colorful and lush backyard. Love it when that happens!

When I was uploading the photos from the shoot, these below absolutely cracked me up. I barely told her to do any of these poses- she would just turn around and grab her lapel or stick her hand out and look over her shoulder- I think it was the beret that brought out her inner diva.

I think this one below is my favorite. She looks like such a little doll!

I love all of the Fall colors in these.

* Don’t be embarrassed about your obsessions. I’m an obsessive person which I’ve always considered a good thing- it’s how I’ve become a jack of all creative trades, and I really don’t know how else I’d ever have achieved anything without this part of my personality. But to the non-creatives in my life I’ve never really felt understood, because if you’re not an obsessive-creative type, maybe I just seem like a weirdo. I can’t explain how great it felt to be among people who’s eyes lit up when I talked about my vision, told me I was awesome, and gave me tips on how to further my goals.

* I’m more than a little bit obsessed with OWN, and became an Oprah convert only in the last year she was on the air. I know, a little late to the game, but the positivity and message about good energy and living with intentions has been something that has transformed me in the last year. There was an Oprah producer who spoke that weekend a lot about intentions and energy and it’s something that I was extremely excited to be there for.

* I’m certainly not a well-known blogger, but I am a big blog reader. So many of the people at Camp Mighty were those who I’ve read for years, who’s lives I know so much about, and who I feel like are my close group of creative/badass/interesting/awesome friends. It was surreal to be in a place that felt like a big party with a bunch of my friends, except, none of them knew who I was. Plus, I was all up in their grills taking their photos. Weird/kinda cool/voyeuristic/trippy.

* I was really in need of an adventure. A road trip with Amy, walking into an event I had no idea would be about, exploring an environment that is so different from most places I’ve ever been- it was just the getaway I needed.

Amy wrote some great things that I totally agree with here. I love how she said:

“I think I realized that you can never underestimate the power of a lot of really kind, smart people in one place”.

My experience was a bit different since I was working the event, but I got to take in all of the messages from the speakers and during the life-list readings, and I was kind of blown away by how much I got out of it. Here are some of the photos I snapped in Palm Springs, and go here for the full event photo stream with all my photos from the weekend.