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Velvet Valentine

February 13, 2015

Gypsies & Artisans

Black lace & plush red velvet. As far as Valentine’s Day goes, I’ll take this any day over powder pink hearts and chocolates. Well, maybe if they’re little dark chocolate vegan nuggets I’d have to reconsider. I’ve always loved decadent and ornate boutique interiors and The Artisan Hotel in Las Vegas was the perfect fit for a mysterious, dark gypsy shoot. Piles of jewels, head chains, and a sheer maxi from Gypsy Junkies made me feel like I was just another part of the Artisan’s lavish lobby. Take me here for a Valentine’s Day getaway any day!Continue reading…

Mountain Music

February 8, 2015

Play me some mountain music…

It’s fun to be king of the hill. Err, I guess queen of the hill. I love driving through the Hollywood hills or the streets of Laurel Canyon and picking out my next amazing dream home. There are so many hidden gems built right into the mountainside that I would have never known about had we not gone exploring for photo locations. On a clear day you can see the entire city, the mountains AND the ocean. It really can’t get much better than that. The natural stones of these gorgeous jewels from Genuine June Designs are so fitting for a mountaintop view.Continue reading…

Good Times at Davey Waynes

February 4, 2015

“If you can’t be good, make sure you’re good at being bad.”

This has gotta be the best parting statement I’ve heard in a while. After a full day of session work (I just recorded on an ammmmazing ablum by a pretty big artist that’s about to be released, eeeee!) Justin and I grabbed some veggie sushi from our fave sushi joint in the valley. We struck up a conversation with the couple at the table across the way and after an exchange of a few Boho Bunnie stickers and why it’s always cool to wear cowboy boots, we were left with the awesome advice above. Perfect inspiration for a 70’s bad girl vibe complete with groupie band tees, tight flares, gypsy jewels, cowboy boots and of course whiskey cocktails.Continue reading…

Purple Haze

January 30, 2015

Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.

Layers and layers of gypsy jewels. I’m a bracelet junkie and have fallen head over heels for all these amazing pieces. From the silk wrap and hammered copper beauties of Schalrausch, to tasseled malas of Gypsy Junkies and vintage beads from Johnny Loves June, I was in arm candy heaven in the red rock canyons of Vegas. I’m a sucker for anything purple and love this bright vibrant jewel tone in Gypsy Junkies new line that couldn’t be more dead on with the hand dyed silk pieces from German designer, Schalrausch.Continue reading…

Runaway Train

January 26, 2015

Wrong way on a one-way track…

The beginning of this year has been a fun start to blogging adventures. Justin and I always try to find new places to shoot…sometimes spending a few hours searching photo locations before we even leave the house. Finding this little gem in the valley was definitely one of our favorite recent discoveries. We don’t always get it right. There have been some times where I’m hair and make-up ready, we start driving without a plan, and miss the sunset completely. But it’s all about the adventure and the process. Sometimes we return home with three shoots under our belt and sometimes we figure it’s better to call it quits for the day and grab a beer. Head to toe in Free People, we set out to explore some Los Angeles Americana.Continue reading…

Embrace The Face

January 23, 2015

Fare Thee Well…

It’s been a huge week for Grateful Dead and Phish fans alike. The announcement of Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary reunion concert over Fourth of July weekend featuring Trey Anastasio just took everyone’s summer concert expectations through the roof. And to give it even more hype, pre-order tickets had to be purchased old-school style with decorated mail-order envelopes and money orders. Who’s even used a money order before? With an overwhelming number of submissions, the mail-order officially closed today a 10 am, just two days after it began. With Instagram and Twitter, Dead art has been plastered all over social media the past couple days giving fans a chance to see instantly what everyone else had created. What happens if you don’t get those “I need a miracle” mail-order tickets? CashorTrade.org. I’ve been a huge fan of CashorTrade.org since we discovered each other over social media. It’s really unbelievable what ticket scalpers can get away with for selling tickets. Take for instance $1300 Fleetwood Mac tickets at the Forum in Los Angeles just this past November. CashorTrade.org is the world’s first social ticketing platform where fans buy, sell, & trade tickets for face value.Continue reading…

We Came to Play

January 18, 2015

Moonlight Rollerway

There’s something about girls in roller skates. Not this girl though…I can barely make it across the room without holding onto railings, walls, or the nearest arm. Nothing screams Venice, California like a bikini clad roller girl on the boardwalk and since these little crop tees were created by local Venice designer Pacific & Driftwood, I couldn’t think of anything more fitting than lacing up a pair of skates. Even if I didn’t even attempt to enter the actual rink. It’s no fun to play by yourself so of course I invited honorary boho bunnie and actual roller girl, Devon Elora, to the Moonlight Rollerway. Continue reading…

Secret Garden Baby Shower

January 14, 2015

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

In early December I had the honor of throwing a baby shower for one of my closest friends, Mandy. It’s crazy how our lives crossed paths so many times and it wasn’t until our professional careers that we became such good friends. It started when we were 12 in youth orchestras, then summer music camps in Interlochen, Michigan, then college, then as a touring string quartet and finally our most recent gig as members of Shania Twain’s band. You may have seen this gorgeous and uber talented cellist in our String Chix music video. Over the past 4 years we’ve probably played over 200 shows together, rehearsed countless hours, toured across the country and Canada and put in over 400 hours of hair and make-up gossip time. What was discussed in those 400 hours? Luckily that remains in the walls of all those dressing rooms. I was sooooo excited to help throw this amazing woman her first baby shower, all while she was performing during our last Caesar’s run with Shania Twain, just two weeks before her baby boy arrived! Oh, and did I mention she ran a marathon in October? My idol!Continue reading…

Rock This Country

January 9, 2015

Kickin’ up dust.

Surviving below freezing temperatures during my Ohio photo shoots to returning back to my perfect little bubble of 75 degrees and sunny January days in Los Angeles, is well, kinda awesome. I know it’s dead of winter but I’m a summer child at heart. Shorts in January? Why not. Driving through the farms of Bakersfield, California with Unbuttoned Boudoir photographer, Karen Stewart, we came across an amazing junk yard of American Picker’s approved vintage truck collection. It couldn’t be more fitting to wear my mom’s vintage leather vest from the 70’s and ripped up Guess daisy dukes that Karen found while thrifting. Stepping over tires, used car parts and trails of peacock feathers (how random is that to have roaming peacocks?) we found some true vintage gems to prop up against.Continue reading…

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